Voices from Space

Space Language

Languages on Philip's tapes
Some of Philip's language material
Solexmal Glossary
Ms Aniya Ray - Bernard Byron's Space Song
Musical score of song

Languages on Philip's tapes
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One of the clearest and most informative of Philip's tapes shows that the space people were keen to listen to the BBC's first broadcast performance of An Overture by Lennox Berkeley. A few days earlier his tapes had picked up the fragment: "n'overture, he only wrote one", so he tuned in on his radio and set the microphone to sake the recording the round-about way. Throughout the overture there is not a murmur, but in the religious talk preceding it there is a lot of intrusive comment, ending up with "Quiet now, it's on!" Then, in the item following, one hears two fascinating orders going out to listeners unseen, in a mixture of English and some other lingo: "Use short wave. Change to 1.2 siddybolarius" and "Take part in air arm yava nyanna donava ionosphere". Cheers for the Spatial Navy!

That's very like some of the words occurring in Bernard Byron's song Ms. Anya Ray. In fact mee-see-mar occurs on some of Philip's other tapes; he said it was a greeting in solexmar. He also had tapes on which these solexmar words followed an interlingual word like sputnik... anya pardoo.
(From Heptics. a 7-point Inquiry, published in Tony's magazine The Crow, January 1979.)

Some of Philip's language material
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These recordings are either in English or in a totally unknown language; there are no recognisable phrases from other Earth languages among them; thus refuting the suggestion that their origin is in freak radio transmissions. In any case, the microphone is not sensitive to radio signals but to sounds.

I seem to have received two translations, if I may so designate the rapid follow up of an English word by one in an unknown language. These were given in the recording of the Children's Party. The first is "sputnik: an-ya-par-doo" and the second "Hallelujah: Nyanna Podo". In this sequence I also recorded one of the boys shouting Yaba Hoosita. Some months after this I recorded my "laughing lady" saying "Nyanna puisee" Thus the word nyanna has appeared in three different contexts.

Early one morning in 1958 I recorded a deep-voiced man saying "herashidoo" and again a few months later saying "hereshidoo check". Early in l959 there was the friendly voice of another man saying "Debom sera", with a stress on the second ayllable. In December 1960 there came a variant, in the voice of a different man: "Debom sior". The Laughing Lady says "Mee-see-mar" in June 1958, with a highly feminine and embarrassed giggle. Six weeks later one of several men says, without the giggle,"Mee-see-see". These recordings are certainly very fragmentary, sometimes being unmistakably clipped short.

From Philip's contribution to Earth Men, Space Men, Tony Wedd's unpublished contact book.

Two weeks after the ‘Children’s Party’, I picked up the same young boy shouting, ‘ya-ba-huseta’. Following that came a very amorous sounding lady saying,’Mee-see-mah’, followed by a self-conscious giggle. Later I got a man saying, ,Mee-see-see’. The syllable ‘Nya’ (as in piano) occurs in at least three words recorded. In addition to ‘Nyanna-poddo’ we have ‘Nyanna-puizee’ and ‘Ya-va-nyanna-donnava’. Early one morning we picked up a man saying ‘Hiroshidu’.

About three months later, when in Shrewsbury, Shropshire (about 80 miles from home) when staying with a friend – UFO author Gavin Gibbons – came the voice of possibly the same man, saying, ‘Hirashidu-check’! Apparently the change of vowel alters the meaning of the word. On another occasion a group of boys and girls shouted, ‘Driota’, followed by a female giggle. There are a great many more words on my tapes. Easter 1958 was a time I remember when it seemed that on each occasion I switched on my machine something new and exciting was recorded.

From Norman Oliver, New BUFORA Journal 9 August 2003

Solexmal Glossary
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The tapes of Philip Rodgers contain many words in a seemingly unknown language, and a number of instances in which they seem to be paired with English words, seemingly giving a translation. Communications from several sources seem to indicate that the language is Solexmal, the apparent interlingua of the Solar System, and some of the words on the tapes have corroborations in words others have had from other sources. The list below is of all the Solexmal words I am reasonably sure of. The sources are the writings of George Hunt Williamson, the tape recordings of Philip Rodgers, the song "Ms Anya Ray'' by Bernard Byron (entirley in Solexmal, partly translated), and my own thought communications. There are also contextual deductions.

Some major corroborations are:

I) Anna, translated as 'sound". Occurs on its own in the song, as part of Nyannapoda in Philip Rodgers' recording. If Nyanna means God, could be an equivalent of "The Word". Also corroborated by the Sanskrit 'vimana" (a sound-propelled craft?), and "nirvana" (the Buddhist "roaring silence").

2) Si, translated as "greet". Occurs in the two greetings recorded by Philip Rodgers, which are logically compatible, and also occurs in the song. The greetings are "misimar" (my tongue greets - mar or mal being tongue according to Hunt Williamson) and "ya ba hoo si ta" (with love we greet you - translated by Bernard Byron earlier as "we greet you with love").

3) Ba, translated as "love" or "loving". Occurs in "barraga" ("friends" according to George Hunt Williamson) and "ya ba hoo si ta" mentioned above.

4) Anya or aniya, translated as "spaceship". Occurs in Philip Rodgers' tape as "anya pardoo - sputnik" and many times in the song. The assumption was that "anya pardoo" meant 'orbiting spaceship'.

5) Solexmal - the name of the language itself - was received independently by Hunt Williamson as Solexmal and Philip Rodgers as Solexmar.

There are also seeming corroborations with terrestrial languages - notably "akash", "nyanna poda", "baston", "ben", "homma", 'ray kye", "murra', "anna', etc.

Key to abbreviations: GHW - the writings of George Hunt Williamson. PR - the tape reoordings of Philip Rodgers. BB - Bernard Byron (mainly the song 'Ms Anya Ray', entirely in Solexmal but partly translated). TC - my own thought communications. C - logical contextual deductions.

ADONAI Farewell. Miller - see Baraga
AKASH Memory of other lives. GHW. (Sanskrit "Akasa", "Akashic Record'). The final syllable probably the same word as the first in "Ashtar".
AMMA Forces, energies. GHW. See "plamma", "aramma".
AMSKAYA Little star. PR. (Identified with the seven-point star emblem - received by Tony Wedd to be the high seal of the Solar Confederation) See "yonskaler".
ANNA Sound/word. C "nyanna". ("Vimana" - sound-propelled craft? "Nirvana" - Buddhist "roaring silence") ANYA Spaceship. PR, BB, C. See "anya pardoo".
ANYA PARDOO Sputnik, satellite, orbiting spacecraft. PR (tape translation - word given followed by English word). See "anya", "pardoo".
AR Upward (physical or spiritual)/high (as in rank). GHW. See "aramma", "kadar", "ashtar".
ARAMMA Force or forces aiding progression upward. GHW. See 'ar", "amma". ASHTAR Spiritual leader. GHW. See "ar".
AWA A contact. GHW.
BA Love/loving. PR, BB, TC, C. See "ya ba hoo si ta", "bara".
BARA Friend (lit. "loving person"). GHW, TC, C. See "ba", "ra', "baraga". BARAGA Friends. GHW. ("Ga" makes the word plural) See "ba", "ra", "bara". Also occurs in "Adonai vasu barragas" mentioned by Mr. Miller on Farewell Good Brothers TV programme, transmitted 1993. This was said to mean "Farewell Good Brothers". Also something similar in "Klaatu barada niktow" in the film The Day the Earth Stood Still.
BASTON Enough. TC. (Similar to Italian "basta").
BEN Good. GHW, TC. See "sento ben", "ben toron".
BEN TORON Thank you. TC. See "ben".
DAWN When. BB, C. Deduced from ''dawn o muz uzza" (when these instructions used).
DEK Silver. GHW, C. See "maldek"
DOO Flight/flying. PR, BB, C. See ''pardoo", "mungadoo".
DOOZHYA Combined with. BB, C. Deduced from final syllable "ya" (with) and presence in phrase "Nana Gara doozhya Nana Ree" (Energy magnetic combined with energy universal).
ETONYA Jupiter. GHW.
GARA Magnetic. BB with TC, but translation not certain.
GIMBAL Sorry. TC.
HOMMA Man, mankind. BB, C As Latin, but not certain.
HOO We/us/our. PR, BB, C See 'ya ba hoo si ta".
ISTRAN! Stop it! TC. (May also be the verb "to stop")
KADAR Temporal leader. GHW. ' See ''ar".
KALADRIN Respected. TC.
KERAD Unimportant. TC See "sento kerad".
LINUS Unit of measurement, 2 centimetres. PR. MAL See "mar".
MALDEK Silver tongue (name of planet between Mars and Jupiter, now asteroids). GHW. See "mal", "dek".
MAR (or MAL - confusion between l and r in Solexmal mentioned by Tony Wedd in other communications). Tongue. GHW. (can mean physical tongue, language or speech). See "Solexmal", "misimar".
MASAR The planet Mars. GHW.
MERVIN Unit of time, 45 days. PR. MI I/me/my. PR, TC, BB, C. See "misimar".
MISIMAR Greeting (lit. "my tongue greets). PR, BB.
MUNGA Straight, in a straight line. BB, C. See 'mungadoo'.
MUNGADOO Straight flight (as opposed to "pardoo", orbiting). BB, C. See "pardoo", "par", "munga", "doo"
MURRA Field (as forcefield). BB, C, but not certain - deduced from being adjacent to "gara" in one place, and being similar to a word for wall.
MUZZA Instructions ("my use"?) BB (twice in logical contexts). See "mi", "uzza'.
NA He/him/his/she/her/hers. A guess from "naga" (they) and knowledge of ga as pluralising component.
NAGA They. BB.
NANA Energy (general). BB (Not certain, but seems to have contextual corroborations).
NY The. C 'nyanna". See "nyanna", "nyanna poda", "yava nyanna donava".
NYANNA God. PR, BB. (Pali "nyanna" - knowledge, intelligence, insight, Yoruba "nyame" God). (If "anna" is ''sound" or "word" could correspond to the Biblical "the Word"). See "nyanna poda", "yava nyanna donava". "ny", 'anna", "poda".
NYANNA PODA Halleluya/God be praised/praise God. PR (tape translation as with Anya Pardoo).See "nyanna", "ny", "anna", "poda".
PARDOO Orbiting. PR, C. See "anya pardoo". PAR Circular. PR, BB, C. See pardoo", "mungadoo".
PLAMMA Forces active at night (new experiences discovered or past lives remembered in dreams). GHW. See "amma''.
PODA Praise (verb). C "nyanna poda". See 'nyanna poda".
PORSWALL Amber. PR.
RA Person See "baraga". GHW.
RAY, REE Universal BB. (Similar to Japanese "Reiki", universal energy (ki is same as the Chinese ch'i, which means breath). Occurs as "ray kye" in first part of Byron song.
SARAS Earth (the planet). GHW.
SENTO It is/that is. TC. See "sento kerad'', "sento ben".
SENTO BEN It is good/that's all right (as response to "gimbal". TC. See "sento', "ben".
SENTO KERAD It is unimportant. TC. See "sento", "kerad", "sento ben".
SHEO-SHEOI To the apples we salt, we return. GHW. (Extraterrestrial saying referring to returning to extraterrestrials reincarnated on earth. May be a kind of pun - possibly "apples" and the verb "to return" are similar sounding words in Solexmal).
SI Greet/greets. PR, BB, TC, C. See "misimar", "ya ba hoo si ta".
SIDEBOLARIUS Sidereal? (Just a guess). PR.
SKALER Sky. PR, C. See "yonskaler".
SOLAS The Sun. GHW.
SOLEX Solar See "Solexmal".
SOLEXMAL Interplanetary language of the Solar System - Solar Tongue. GHW, BB, PR. See "mar", "solex".
TA You, your. See 'ya ba hoo si ta'.
TONAS Musical instruments. GHW.
UZZA Use, uses, used. BB (twice in logical contexts).
VASU Good. Miller, see Baraga.
VEC Space. GHW.
WOVOOSTYN Free energy. PR.
YA With. PR, BB, C. See "ya ba hoo si ta", "ya ba nyanna donava".
YA BA HOO SI TA We greet you with love (BB's translation to PR) (lit. "with love we greet you"). PR, BB, C. See "ya", "ba'', "hoo", "si", "ta".
YASA Have/has. BB. Deduced from "homma yasa nana ray, nana yasa rer, nana yasa aniya" (man has energy universal, he has......he has spaceship".
YAVA (YA BA?) NYANNA DONAVA With love God...(final word not translated) Possibly something like "God be with you". PR. See "Ya ba hoo si ta", "nyanna poda".
YON Earth (in "ground" rather than "planet" sense? The planet name is "Saras"). PR, C. See "yonskaler".
YON SKALER Earth-sky. PR. (Is "skaler" same as "skaya" in Amskaya? This would make a star a "sky force". See "yon", "skaler.
ZOSTO Calm , or calm yourself. TC.
The above words have varying levels of corroboration. Some which are simply my own thought communications, have none. Others include a lot of guesswork. But there seems to be a central core of items which have some interesting confirmations from various sources.

Ms Aniya Ray - The Space Song of Bernard Byron
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Although not completely done, a fair amount of this song seems to be consistently translated from fragments of Solex Mal language derived from various communications. The word Anya, or Aniya, which occurs in the title and frequently in the song, has been translated as "spaceship" from the Philip Rodgers taped communication "aniya pardoo - sputnik, thought to be a translation, and meaning "orbiting spaceship" ("aniya mungadoo" possibly one which flies straight). So the song seems to be about the construction of a spaceship.

Colour codes for translation origin: words confirmed elsewhere, blue; words guessed from similarity to a terrestrial word, green; words guessed from context and repeated with similar context in the song, orange; words just guessed from context, red.

 
Muz An'ya Ray kye uzza nye-a o-vanyi ooya gaba yesto vay Nana and I, Anna ada
Instructions spaceship universal ch'i uses the energy sound
guini ara zingabat ar-ya .... Eeman uzza Nana guina zaya rem a loo Zen I-er
circuit high with Eeman used energy circuit path to
Rumba: zedda derra Rer eddada Rem! h'Anya m'Anya razza na ara nye-a Yah! Yaba
health: propulsion your spaceship my spaceship high the with With love
Yasta Gara murra da nye uz do. Hamma det d'Anya yeryer rer nye-a, Hamma
magnetic field the use flight. Your force of spaceship propulsion the your force
Nana Gara doozhya Nana Ree... hiya murra ruz na-rag ky-aro zee... ee... nuv!
energy magnetic combined with energy universal field
Mye...(hum) Nya-a ada Rer zer nye-a Ra... ...! Masa dee nye a-ra
(Hum) The propulsion the person the person
yoongi naga yara abba zam! Yaba hozhya murra mada Anna Nana yamma do ya-sa...!
they with person With love field sound energy with force has!
Hunny I nira ava Zen ya Ree! Yah A-ni-i-ya! Yamma naga zee...!
path with universal! Our spaceship! With force they
An'ya Ree la nye-a Emma senna m'Anna Anna Anna Anna and I yet o ree! Homma
Spaceship universal the my sound sound sound sound universal! Man
rug kuz yora murra nye-a rug kuz Ann, Dora An'ya amah uz-zee misi mar Anyor...!
field the   spaceship force uses my tongue greets spaceship
Me see my in-imi..i..na Zimi-i-ni... ... Dawn o' muzz ... uzza
My greeting When these instructions used
Homma yasa Nana Ray! Naga yasa Rer! Naga yasa Ani-ya... ...! Ulla zye urra

man

 has energy universal they have propulsion! they have spaceship ...!
Burrh..! Nuzza Ra..! Me see An-ya garruzda mung-a-do-oo ...
(sound of engine) person! My greeting spaceship straight flight

Musical score of song
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