AYIN.
When the book was registered, we had to choose a publishing name - we DID it based on A letter, A SOUND, without borders.
“there is never ‘stability’,
movement is our actual participation in the world.”
— James Low, psycotherapist, translator & buddhist teacher
The choice of AYIN was born of both happenstance and serendipity.
Initially, we were drawn to the symbol [ ᴥ ] and used it as a separator throughout the book’s text.
We later discovered that this is the latin keyboard symbol for a sound, a letter, ‘Ayin’, which has travelled through time, cultures, and geographies. A letter with no borders.
‘Ayin’ features in many Semitic/ancient scripts: Phoenician, Hebrew, Aramaic, Syriac, Arabic, and more. Its continuity and underlying grounding/commonality is what drew us to it.
The letter’s name is derived from Proto-Semitic *ʿayn- "eye", and the Phoenician letter had the shape of a circle or oval, representing an eye, perhaps derived from the ı͗r hieroglyph 𓁹.
In turn, the Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek Ο, Latin O, and Cyrillic О, all representing vowels. It is also gave rise to the Greek letter omega as well as its Cyrillic counterpart.
(Thank you to WIkipedia for some of the above material)
In short, ‘AYIN’ ᴥ is a letter that connects.
we like to think of ayin as a house where everybody is welcome.
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