By Christopher Fulkerson
This is the syllabary of a language I began to create in 1985. It takes a number of sounds I determined to be basic to the names and words created or borrowed by Edgar Rice Burroughs in his popular Mars novels, and uses them in patterns created in a systematic way, meant to suggest mathematics: the 7x7 and symmetries are quite intended. Each symbol has both a linguistic and an archetypal meaning.
The sounds I chose to notate encourage certain sounds to have iconic consistency. This will become clearer as I have time to post more of my work.
This syllabary is entirely original. None of the Burroughs names or words are preserved in it, except the syllables of the name of the goddess Issus, whose name Burroughs did not invent, thought he change her primary attributes away from the traditional Egyptian ones. The meanings of each symbol are certainly of my own assignation. There is nothing in the Burroughs text to indicate any of these particular shapes.
Shortly after creating it I sent this chart and some of my work to the Burroughs Estate and to Disney Films, but received no reply. To my knowledge there is no evidence at all that the work has ever been used by anybody but myself.
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