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▼▼ヒュムノス語の成り立ち
詩魔法…といいますか、言葉によって発生する超常現象が見つかったのは、第一紀の遙か前、紀元前の時代です。
その頃はまだ「ヒュムノス語」という体系は無く、何となく「いーーーやっ！」と言えばこの効果、「やはっ」でこの効果、などという曖昧な約束事があった程度でした。そしてテクノロジの結晶であるレーヴァテイルが生まれる遙か昔ですから、「月奏」という祈祷師が、この体系化されていない詩魔法の前身を発音し、自然界から力をもらっていました。
その後、なぜ「いーーーやっ」が「この効果」なのか、の研究がなされ、「い」「ー」「や」「っ」にそれぞれどんな効能があるかが体系化されました。この1文字単位の意味の時代を「律史前月読（りっしぜんつくよみ）」と言いまして、この頃はまだヒュムノスとは言っていません。律史前月読は、例えば「z」なら「神」、「y」なら「光」という風に、1文字ごとに意味が付けられ、それを法則に従って並べていくという単純なものでした。その為、その並べ方によって効果効率が全然違い、更には術者一人一人の熟練と経験に大きく左右されるものだったのです。
その後、更にその配列を吟味し、ある一定の配列を1ブロックとして見るような技術が発生します。それこそが「ヒュムノス」の原点です。例えば「hymme（謳う）」は英単語のようですが、実際は律史前月読の「h」「y」「m」「e」の組み合わせ法則であり、ヒュムノスとしての意味は意訳で「謳う」となっていますが、直訳では「神の愛による大いなる救い」という意味配列なのです。
このようにして、何百、何千の意味配列が出来、「ヒュムノス語」という単語群の体系が確立しました。月奏達は、これにより効率よく、誰もがそれなりに大きな力を出すことが出来るようになったのです。
そしてその後、生まれたのがレーヴァテイルです。巨大なスーパーコンピューターでもある塔「アルトネリコ」には、このヒュムノス語という体系をそのまま、プログラム言語として登録されています。レーヴァテイルが謳うとき、その詩はアルトネリコによって増幅され、月奏が謳う何百倍もの力となって放出されるようになりました。
こうして、レーヴァテイル全盛の時代が到来し、「ヒュムノス語」といえばレーヴァテイルの言語、と言われるようになったのです。
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▼▼How the Hymmnos Language came to be
What we call Song Magic... or better said, provoking paranormal phenomena by pronouncing words, was discovered far before the First Era, during the period we call BC.
Back then, the system we know as "Hymmnos Language" didn't exist, and instead there were very ambiguous conventions about an uttering like "iiiiya!" having a effect, other like "yahaa" having its own effect, and such. And since this was long before the crystallization of technology we call Reyvateils were born, some shamans called the "Moon Chanters" were the ones who could receive power from mother nature by pronouncing this non-standardized predecessor to the current Song Magic.
Later on, they began wondering why "iiiya" had "the effects it had", and upon researching it, they made up a system in which "i", "y" and "a" had their own effects. This was when the era of "Carmena Foreluna", in which each letter has a specific meaning, began; although we couldn't call this "Hymmnos" just yet. As mentioned previously, each letter had a meaning in Carmena Foreluna, such as for example, "y" meaning "Light" and "z" meaning "God", and by following these rules, you could simply line them up to make up words. Therefore, the order in which you put them would completely change their effects, and furthermore, this also caused large differences in ability and experience from a practitioner to other.
Much later on, they began carefully researching the ordering of the letters, and discovered they could put them in a block with a specific order. That was the actual point of origin for "Hymmnos". For example, while the word "hymme (to sing)" looks like this written in Latin characters, in Carmena Foreluna it is actually composed of the combination of the letters "h", "y", "m" and "e", so while in Hymmnos it means "to sing", a more rough translation of the letters and the order in which they are put would be something to the effect of "great salvation with the love of the Gods".
It was in this way that the vocabulary system for the "Hymmnos language" was established several centuries, even millennia ago. And this allowed the Moon Chanters to display a power greater than anyone else and with much better efficiency.
And later on, the Reyvateils were born and the Hymmnos language was registered as a programming language in the great super computer located in the Tower of "Ar tonelico". Thus, when the Reyvateils Sing, their Songs are amplified by Ar tonelico, allowing them to release a power a hundred times greater than that the Moon Chanters had when they Sang their own Songs.
And in this way, when the golden era of the Reyvateils came, the "Hymmnos language" came to be known as the language of the Reyvateils.
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