Just really started reading it, so yeah...let's do this.

The whole "breathing" thing made me think khundakar was Kynareth, but I doubt it after another glance at the text. So who is khundakar? The world? Space?

Also, it may or may not be a given, but I feel the "zero to be discovered" is how the Dwemer supposedly divided by 0?

I wouldn't look for too much meaning, if I remember correctly the poem was written to give an impression of how the Dwemer thought.

Ah crap, that's really it? We can't really discern any of the names like "suchi-el" or nothing like that?

What is the difference between a "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null_%28mathematics%29" and a "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero"?


More specifically, The mythopoeic ramifications of the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empty_set

Yeah, I did some reading of a BBC article a while back about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Anderson_%28computer_scientist%29 who essetially said that 0/0 equals nullity instead of zero, which weirded me out because I don't fully get what he was talking about concerning the new possibilities it could bring for math and computing and whatnot.

Okay little math lesson:

n * 0 = 0 for any value of n

so if we reverse that we get:

0/0 = n, but for which value of n?

hence 0/0 is undefined, just as every other division by zero.

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This all hooks back into the metaphyscis because the answers to be discovered is : "each and every one possible n all at the sametime", which isn't a number but that's besides the point.

Oh that's really it? ....I always overthink crap...

Thanks for clearing it up anyway.

edit: This somewhat reminds me of the idea of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_dimension being All Possibility, which in turn made me think of what C0DA could potentially be and why it has a zero in it.

Could they somehow be related?

What is "C0DA"?

Is this like the new "CHIM", in that it's tossed about but few know what it means?

Predominately mentioned http://www.imperial-library.info/obscure_text/5th_era_loveletter.shtml, as far as I know. And it's not a new CHIM.

I was thinking about something similar recently. The passge on Kynareth in http://www.imperial-library.info/mwbooks/varietiesoffaith.shtml:

Kynareth (Goddess of Air): Kynareth is a member of the Nine Divines, the strongest of the Sky spirits. In some legends, she is the first to agree to Lorkhan's plan to invent the mortal plane, and provides the space for its creation in the void. She is also associated with rain, a phenomenon said not to occur before the removal of Lorkhan's divine spark.

My first thought that it was void and therefore had a lot of space already, but then I realized void doesn't exist. Zero does exist (as an abstraction, but that's irrelevant), has no substance (so it can be created by nothing) and can be added to. My conclusion was that Kynareth created zero for Mundus.

Just a conglomeration of related thoughts, I'm not sure where I'm going with this.

The way you say it, it seems the other way around: Lorkhan created Zero, but Kyne added to it.