Jedi Texts

Companion leaf · not of the eight

Learn Tesn

chanut tesn

The short path · marks before grammar

Owns. The carved hand, simplified. Not particles, not cases, not the eight.

Kas Veran, Keeper of Holocron Tesn

Reconstruction sits on this leaf. Named lives are kept. Invented structures are marked.

Romanization under Tesn is on.

Title leaf

Reconstruction

chanut tesn

Ko-Lasha is the tongue. The grammar is Ko-Lasha. Tesn is how it is cut — mute, never spoken. You are not choosing between two languages. I keep both. This leaf is the knife: thirty marks, five determinatives, a line you can carve. How to Read is the tongue: particles, cases, the walk — built here so the eight can be read. The eight are the tongue, already cut. Tionese is the curve; Tesn refuses it. Insight, not feeling. Tesn has no mouth.

Kas Veran · Keeper of Holocron Tesn

well · sun · cut

1 · What Tesn is

Reconstruction

Tesn means behold. It is not a second grammar. The grammar is Ko-Lasha. Tesn is the mute knife of Classical Ko-Lasha — stave in uneti, wedge in clay. Never spoken. No curves. Native writing runs down the spine. This leaf is written across so a gloss can sit under the marks. Ko-Lasha has its own grain: stress the last full vowel of the stem; clusters hold — tsarr, kyb, sxal. That mouth is not Tesn. Mortis kept this knife. They did not speak it.

Kas Veran · Keeper of Holocron Tesn

tesn

behold / reveal — t · e · s · n. Four marks. The last is n, not the known-banner.

Kas Veran · Keeper of Holocron Tesn

vowels · hand · known-banner · first words · drill

2 · The short walk

Reconstruction

Walk the steps below. Well, sun, cut — why the marks look like they do. Then the known-banner. Then a- the living subject. Then a line you can carve. Do not skip the banner. kol is all. ko- is the. They are not the same mark.

Kas Veran · Keeper of Holocron Tesn

Three primitives

Every Tesn mark is well, sun, or cut — or a small composition of those three. That is why the hand looks like a family, not a pile of pictures. Light leans on the sun. Weight leans on the well. The stave is the path.

  • Well

    Down-wedge or diamond. Potential, water, the Padawan. Weight leans here. Nail-head — the stylus pressing clay.

  • Sun

    Up-wedge. Mas. The pressure of the stylus, light. A rising cut.

  • Cut

    Straight stave. Path, will, uneti grain. Knife down the wood. No curves.

Across the leaf

Howell’s assembly. Left to right, so Basic can sit under the line.

Down the spine

Native sacred writing. Top to bottom — the canticle as a tree of marks.

Five vowels

a e i o u. One mark each. Stress the last vowel of the stem.

  • aawell-sun
  • eefront-press
  • iirising sun
  • ooclosed well
  • uudouble fall

Marks you will meet first

The rest of the hand lives in How to Read. These nine open the first sealed line — including g and r, or girkan will not carve.

  • lltongue
  • sstriple press
  • shshbalance-beam
  • kkknown-cut
  • mmtwin wells
  • nncut well
  • ttreveal
  • rrwound-hook
  • ggweighted known

The known-banner is not kol

ko- is a crowned stave with a well. It means the. It only appears when the romanization writes a hyphen: ko-ash, ko-girkan. kol is three letters: k · o · l. It means all. tesn ends in n — a stave with a small well off the side — not the banner.

The known

ko-

ko-ash

the light-flow

All

kol

k · o · l — not the banner

Canticle line two

ash tesn kol vorak

light-flow reveals all world-order. After tesn comes kol. No banner.

  1. awell-suna
  2. shbalance-beamsh
  3. trevealt
  4. efront-presse
  5. striple presss
  6. ncut welln
  7. kknown-cutk
  8. oclosed wello
  9. ltonguel
  10. vwell-mouthv
  11. oclosed wello
  12. rwound-hookr
  13. awell-suna
  14. kknown-cutk

a- is living. na is not

a- crowns a living subject: a-liv, a-mas, a-nol, a-pad, a-jed. It is a determinative, like ko-. na stands free before the thing denied. It is not a banner. You will see both on the first leaf.

Living subject

a-

a-liv

the living one

Not

na gor

do not hunger-without-leave

First words, mark by mark

lasha

tongue — l · a · sh · a. sh is one mark.

  1. ltonguel
  2. awell-suna
  3. shbalance-beamsh
  4. awell-suna

ko-ash

the light-flow — determinative ko- (not k+o), then a · sh.

  1. ko-the knownko-
  2. awell-suna
  3. shbalance-beamsh

mas

sun / Master — m · a · s. Twin wells under a sun.

  1. mtwin wellsm
  2. awell-suna
  3. striple presss

padawan

light well — p · a · d · a · w · a · n.

  1. psingle pressp
  2. awell-suna
  3. dweighted reveald
  4. awell-suna
  5. wdouble wellw
  6. awell-suna
  7. ncut welln

a-liv

the living one — determinative a- (living subject), then l · i · v.

  1. a-the living subjecta-
  2. ltonguel
  3. irising suni
  4. vwell-mouthv

na gor

do not hunger-without-leave — na stands free. Not a banner.

  1. ncut welln
  2. awell-suna
  3. gweighted knowng
  4. oclosed wello
  5. rwound-hookr

lasha kem ko-girkan

the first sealed line of Aionomicum I.

  1. ltonguel
  2. awell-suna
  3. shbalance-beamsh
  4. awell-suna
  5. kknown-cutk
  6. efront-presse
  7. mtwin wellsm
  8. ko-the knownko-
  9. gweighted knowng
  10. irising suni
  11. rwound-hookr
  12. kknown-cutk
  13. awell-suna
  14. ncut welln

Write Tesn

Type Classical romanization. The desk carves the marks. Determinatives light in the accent when you write ko-, a-, ra-, nu-, ve-. Prime (starred) is not Tesn — strip the stars; you will get the mouth, not the carving. Copy a line. Then type it yourself.

  1. ltonguel
  2. awell-suna
  3. shbalance-beamsh
  4. awell-suna
  5. kknown-cutk
  6. efront-presse
  7. mtwin wellsm
  8. ko-the knownko-
  9. gweighted knowng
  10. irising suni
  11. rwound-hookr
  12. kknown-cutk
  13. awell-suna
  14. ncut welln

lasha kem ko-girkan

Drill

Nine questions. The Force does not grade you. The banner does.

  1. Which mark is the known-banner — ko-, the?

  2. Which mark is n — the last of tesn?

  3. kol means —

  4. sha is —

  5. Native Tesn on a spine runs —

  6. The well-primitive is —

  7. a-liv uses a- because —

  8. Tesn is —

  9. girkan needs which extra marks besides k a n?

the long leaf

3 · After this

When the marks sit, walk Five lessons — real lines from Aionomicum I and the Tesn Path. Then open How to Read Ko-Lasha. That is the tongue. This was the knife. You already have one sentence: lasha kem ko-girkan. That is enough to begin a leaf. The eight wait on the right of the plank.

Kas Veran · Keeper of Holocron Tesn

lasha kem ko-girkan

tongue keeps the book

Kas Veran · Keeper of Holocron Tesn

dafim na-sof

kosim kos dafim · kosim shi ash