SLÁINE - pronunciation question

[AURIKALKO]

Hi:

How do you pronounce

Cyth,

Cythron?

:roll:

Thanks!
Aurik
alko

 

[tarkhan bey]

Don't know for definate. I have, until recently been using a hard sounding C-Kythron.
I now think that it might be a soft C-Sythron.
There are a number of Faerie races from other sources named the "Sith" and the "Sidhe" who are the Unseelie and Seelie courts respectively.

 

[superc0ntra]

In Scottish Gaelic, c in the beginning of a word is pronounced k.

 

[tarkhan bey]

Thats why I am not sure SupercOntra. My surname is Kirk (which is the Scottish Church) and I do know about the K-Ch sound in Scots Gaelic.
It's the obvious similarity between Cyth and Sith that has clouded the issue for me.
Kith and Kin are extended family and friends.Pronouncing it this way(now that I think about it) makes them sound positively friendly. Sith seems to sound that little more insidious(as in Darth Sidious).:roll: :lol:

 

[Standing-Stone]

One of my favorite topics of conversation , but maniy on the old 2000AD Online forum....

http://2000adonline.com/forum/index.php/topic,25047.0.html

The truth is that I don't know or understand pronouciation of Celtic words enough.

But, I have always pronouced Cythron

The same way I pronouce Sith from the Star Wars univerce. It may not be correct, but it works for me.

I also pronounce Cyth (As in Cyth Gods presumrably something not quite the same as Cythron) the same way.

I think some other people pronouce Cythron/Cyth emphasing the the C as a K instead of a S.

Rereading you question and the other replies. It would seem that the latter is probably correcrt, but I have been doing this the other way for so long, that I know no better.

 

[AURIKALKO]

Thanks for the input!

I am also torn betwixt Kithron or Sithron!

Might as well ask th original writer, eh?


Aurik
Alko

 

[superc0ntra]

Seems Irish Gaelic is the same as Scottish Gaelic
http://www.standingstones.com/gaelpron.html#Cons

 

[Standing-Stone]

I'm quite satisfied with Tarkhan Bey's explanation.

it seems to make all the more sence.

Would like to know about the Cyth/Cythrons myself.

I would love to have a Runequest manual on these Cyth/Cythron.

Though, I have neever really been certain about what they are exactly. That was until somebody on the 2000AD Online forum address me.

They wanted me to explain what was going on with Cyth/Cythron in The Grail War story. Somthing I haven't read properly & understood myself.

I was impressed with their own explanation of what the Cyth/Cythron are exactly.

Their words......

I always thought the Cyth represented "God" and "religion", imposing order on humans so they could control them and feed off their fears etc etc. Then the Goddess was Mother Nature, representing anarchy and chaos and our base animal instinct which was being enslaved by religion and rules and civilisation etc. And Slaine was the warrior for that side of things, fighting against the system, order. In this tale though, there is now talk of another "God" - the Trinity - who cast out "Lucifer and his angels" from "heaven"...and Lucifer and these Angels are the Cyth. So the Cyth are the Devil? But the Goddess is someone else. And all these faerie folk that used to live in happiness ended up turning to the dark side because of humans becoming all religious and losing the magic from their lives?

So theres the Cyth and theres Mother Nature and they are at war. The Cyth try to restrain humans with religion and order, Mother Nature tries to free them using Slaine as her tool.

On that note I would like to read more about them and I think a source book would be very much in order.