# Chrasmological Writings *The Whorl list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 03 Apr 1997* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Jim Jordan *03 Apr 1997, 23:38* > At 06:52 PM 4/3/97 -0500, alga wrote: > > Nutria, could you track down a root for Chrasmology? I'm sure you're right, > though. Oh, well good ole Mantis has it as one option in his Q&DGTTLSW. I just want to assure him that this is certainly the correct option. Khresmos - oracle. The "e" is the long "e", the "eta," which has a bright "ay" sound and can become the broad "a" sound as in "cat, bat, rat." The final "s" drops off in compounds, as in khresmodoteo, "give an oracular response." BTW, a related word, "khrisma," means "anointing," and is the root for "Christos," the Anointed One. But here it is khresmo-, "oracular." Logos - word, speech. Khresmologia - oracular word. Chrasmologic Writings would really just mean Oracular Writings, or more complexly, Writings of Oracular Messages. Nutria, the Big, Big Rat Questions or problems to whorl-owner at lists.best.com ---