#sleep token runes

[toobluebirdie]

The Apparition Creature Runes

This post is to organize the thought process the Eden’s Rest discord server went through trying to figure out what the runes in the Apparition drawing really mean.

I hope my explanation is clear enough to follow!

We went from casually wondering what the runes meant to realizing they spelled nothing, to trying to flip them upside down and realizing they still spelled nothing, to finding a tik tok that led down a new rabbit hole entirely.

The person in this tik tok talks about an article they found about medieval language. SMCEN was written as smœn (which is also written as smoen). 

Here’s the link to the article they were talking about in the tik tok: https://www.jstor.org/stable/43628078 You can only access the article if you have a subscription to jstor, whether through your school or otherwise, but the sample page here has the passage the tik tok is talking about. Trying to figure out the literary jargon hurt my head. It talks about “mamorian” and “mamra” (which come from the same root word) meaning “to be deep in thought about something” or “sleep.” Trying to clear up what the article was saying about “smoen” after that and connect it all together was hard but here’s what i got:

It seems to say that smœn is linked to the word smean, which is a variation of the Old English word smeagan.

From the Wikipedia entry for smeagan ( https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/smeagan#Old_English ):

Verb

smēaġan

consider, think about 

meditate

examine, scrutinize, question 

These definitions line up with the definition assigned to mamorian. I hope you can follow how my brain made this leap, but this made me feel confident enough to say the jstor article is saying both mamra and smoen mean sleep or at least something similar to it. 

So we have our translation of SMCEN:

SLEEP

The rest is far less confusing. I think.

Now that I knew I should use Smoen as a search term and that it was a medieval word, google helped me a lot more.

I found this book about the Magical Treatise of Solomon:

You can search the book for the word “smoen” and that’s how I found a lot more I could use to find answers.

I found some alternate versions of smoen that helped with searching: Skonin and Skoen

I found that Smoen was a demon linked to the angel Patiel (or Pathiel)

This book also has a whole page of runes, some of which are similar to the Sundowning runes. It’s page 323 of the book if you want to see.

This book has a lot to it, but for the purposes of this rune translation attempt, I moved on.

The book mentioned lots of Greek words and names so I applied that to my search for the meanings of the other runes.

In Greek and Latin the letter j did not exist. “I” was used in place of “J.” So I switched the j in the remaining runes to an i. (AJR -> AIR)

I searched for info on ESIO maybe being a medieval latin word and I found this source: 

(which is from the Dictionary of Medieval Latin from Celtic Sources)

It said this: 

estio --> esio

esto (adv.)

esto (adv.)

so i searched for Esto and found this: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/esto 

And that said…

Etymology 1

Form of the verb edō (“I eat”).

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA: /ˈeːs.toː/, [ˈeːs̠t̪oː]

(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈes.to/, [ˈɛst̪o]

Verb

ēstō

second/third-person singular future active imperative of edō

So I think ESIO could mean EAT.

At this point my brain was leaking out of my ears so I gave up thinking. I decided AIR just meant AIR.

Air = Breathe???

And that’s the story of how the discord chat decided it said...

EAT BREATHE SLEEP

The end?

Eden's Rest friends involved in the making of this monster: @ccsven and @r-e-dax-t-e-d

Here’s @ccsven's drawing where we started trying to figure out wtf that said. And oh man, did we. Did we? I still don’t know.

[monstrouscrew]

hello!

for your ST alphabet practice may I ask:

I’m coiled up like the venomous serpent

or if you are up for another one:

The truth is, I am ugly, I am inadequate, I am lost

I am no god

The truth is, I want, to want, to live

And so do you

I hope you have a lovely day. 🐍✨

here, both word sequences. with a gel pen which seems not to embrace the idea of drying completely, and one wrong word (chaos is glitching, may as well rewrite it) ...sorry for that 🌑

(ID in the alt text)

[that-unfortunate-crow]

Yo, may I request a source for the last four letters in the Sleep Token Cipher?

I am hella into ciphers and symbols, and want to be sure before I update my cipher that it's like. Legit.

Not to call you a liar or anything, I just like to cross reference before fucking with my codes.

I found this by scouring through old music videos, reddit, and Google! I'm honestly not sure if these are *absolutely* Canon but it's what other people are using!

Sleep Token Rune Translator

[vesselandmoon]

This didn't go the way I planned.

I mean that twofold between this project and this account.

For this art piece, I wanted to take an 18x24 canvas and use the lyrics from Euclid in runes for the background. But I couldn't make the math work out. Still spent well over ten hours working on it only for it to fail before I could get it off my laptop. Now I'm starting over, trying to find another idea that works. I'm anxious about sharing the painting as I work on it. Trying to hide behind the anonymity of this page.

Which is why the page isn't as I intended either and it's only been a few days. I needed a place to dump emotions about people and experiences in my life as well as this strangling obsession with Sleep Token, again anonymously, so I don't feel like I'm being judged. But now I know that if I post the art I wish to share, I might be compromising all of that immediately.

I guess I could only post traditional art here. Paintings and whatnot... I don't think my style is likely to be recognized, but there's a paranoia about it. While I paint I'll think. Consider my options. Take advice if anyone wants to give it.

[a-s-levynn]

"A sacred guardian" A Series of Small Offerings - IV/1 - day33

[wingedinsect]

them. if you even care

[dumbbullet]

I am hunting something, and in return, that same thing is hunting me. The beholder, the void beyond, I am the Line Between I am the Teeth of God

[infernaldisciple]

i present: cat boy maid vessel ... worship, or something

[venus-lou]

It’s 3am when I wrote this

All I can think about is Pokémon evolution but it’s vessel.

[monstrouscrew]

if anyone following the tag needs a good affirmation, we share.

(ID in the alt text)

[thesleeptokenarchive]

On This Day: June 14 2019

So soon after updating the collective's Facebook, Twitter, and likely Instagram profile photos, they chose to update again on this day in 2019. This time to the iconic, well known and well beloved complete and final sigil/symbol.

While theories and speculation abound, it is not truly known what this sigil stands for, and what runes make up the whole. This curator does have a favorite of those read so far in the archiving journey, and it is the theory linked here.

As always with the intentions of the vessel, it is perhaps another part of knowing Sleep Token and embracing the meanings of the imagery and songs as our own.

Once again should you, fellow follower, have further information, please reach out and educate. As always, it is appreciated.

Email: sleeptokenarchive@gmail.com || IG: thesleeptokenarchive

[blue-lollipops-and-ice-clouds]

(Source - the incredible tatert_tiana)

[a-s-levynn]

Tiny Token 10

[kaddyssammlung]

Wembley 16.12.23

[moonchild-in-blue]

Another over-share because I think you guys will appreciate it 💙🐳

I painted my notebook with some whales, because it was very boring plain black, and also Telomeres is beautiful and it's been on my mind lately.

The inside covers are not that great BUT I kinda like the sketchy look? idk.

[tpwbyt]

(X) the dancers also had runes on their bodies!