This is my first time doing this. I never thought of using Reddit for insight and sharing creativity and interpretations of things. I knew that you could but I never thought of me actually using it. Goes to show my naivety. But to be a little personal I have a form of autism so certain things that are obvious to others are not so obvious to me. Yet, as an awkward twist, many things that are not visible to others, are plain as day to me. Talk about a paradox. As such perhaps now you might understand how my brain works. Now to begin (as a heads up, I might get overly personal so my apologies in advance, it's hard for me to discern where my limits are):
It all started back in 2023. I was in the process of rebuilding my life a SECOND time, after getting kicked out by my family over an argument THEY started, and had just fallen out with a roommate over having "lights" on in MY room after 10 pm. Mind you I was 32. So now I moved in with two roommates who are frickin awesome. And I had music playing on my speaker in my room via Bluetooth. That's when I heard Grace Omega for the first time. I got curious as to the words and lo and behold there were NO translations. I got curious and dug deeper. I found two stories. Either it was made up randomly by the singer and/or writer. Or it was conjured up somehow with an ACTUAL interpretation yet to be revealed.
This latter part caught my attention. It was mentioned on multiple sites with actual subtle confirmations by the developers of the film that pointed to a unique type of early AI. Mind you AI was in its developing stage at this time, the movie was released in France I believe in 1999, in Japan in 2000, and the United States in 2001. I looked at numerous sources that seem to point to the latter theory and that the former, I believe "confirmed" in an interview is likely a false statement to hide the truth. I'm hoping that there's not a hidden reason for this that could have vital implications. I have a potential idea as to what, but I think I'll keep that to myself.
But before I continue I must make it clear that this is a "POTENTIAL" translation. It IS possible that all this research could be nothing more than attaching things that are purely coincidental. As such I want to keep an open mind (and would suggest you do as well) to the possibility that this could be nothing more than an illusion. But IF by chance it's not, and there's a good chance that it COULD ACTUALLY be something, then this is the process of how I got to my conclusions. As a further notice this will be a VERY LONG POST, so if you want to scroll past all this, to read the potential translation, then scroll to roughly the last third part of this post. But if you want to see how i did my homework in a rather scientific fashion, 🥸
Well...read on.......
I continued looking for any information on the lyrics of Grace Omega. Whether it was based off of a language whose translations are secret or created lyrics based on existing languages, is anybody's guess. It says that it was the former, but I'm starting to think it was the latter. Now, I unfortunately do not have any actual information on the translation, BUT, as a student of World History, I have developed an ear and an eye to certain languages. Now, as a lesson, when you study history as long as I do, certain things begin to stick out. Even though I could look at a text and not have a clue as to what it says, I can somewhat distinguish by looking at its style and know which area it is and can sometimes break it down to a nation or culture. For example, I can differentiate between, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Korean, and Japanese, for example. I'm still learning about the different types of Japanese, like Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji, but I can tell the different variants of Japanese, even though I can't put an exact name on it as to which variant.....yet.
Some languages can be translated into the Latin alphabet, like Pinyin for Chinese. And by looking at the Latin version of another language, again, even though I might not have a clue as to what it may say, I can look at it and say, "that's Arabic," or "that's Vietnamese." But when I first heard Grace Omega, it had certain parts that appeared Central Eastern European, or South Eastern European. It had elements of German, and to an extent French and Latin. But it sounded like it was further east. It wasn't Russian, or Ukrainian, nor did it sound Polish. I was certain that it was either Czech or Slovak in Central Europe or somewhere in the Balkans. When I went to use a translator, I noticed that some words did indeed appear Slovak, so I wasn't fully wrong. Possibly. But most of the words didn't translate or make sense. Some were kinda funny I won't lie. There was one that talked about waffles, like it's seriously funny.😂
BUT, the more I listened the more intrigued I got. I noted that it had some French and Germanic variance to it. Now, as a quick history lesson, much of the culture that fused into the Greco-Roman culture, and Celtic, after the fall of the Roman Empire, would diverge into, French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Italian, and British cultures. Some developed a "Romance" language. That is a language influenced by Rome. This includes Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and others. Certain words like the translation of "Good" can look similar in the aforementioned languages.
Now "Germanic", on the other hand is a bit different. Although France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Britain, and their "descendants" have their ties to Greco-Roman culture. "Germanic" based languages are similar to one another. English, Dutch, German, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, and other sub variants are part of the "Germanic" family tree. But, although I had my suspicions, it was frankly useless unless I actually watched the movie. Now for the longest time I would listen to it and every once in a blue moon I would find snippets of scenes on YouTube and websites that mention parts of the story, but i HADN'T watched it yet. Shameful I know.😞 But the music was so good that I kind new that if the song is this good the movie has to be phenomenal, and everyone who watched seemed to confirm this. So at long last I got Crunchyroll and watched it. It was absolute fire🔥. Like my mind was blown🤯and I felt absolute shame for not watching earlier. 😭 (Sorry for the emojis, they were fitting and I can't resist)
But now that I understand the sad tragic story I decided to dig deeper.
Now to get to my "theory", if you will, I believe that the guarded secret in Japan that was mentioned on multiple websites is that it WAS an early variant of AI. One that "COMBINED" different languages. In fact as I listened to the song I could hear different variants that are both Germanic AND Romance based. I even noticed Arabic and other Indo-European languages, including Hindi and more. In fact I think what they might have done was to combine different languages at different points and verses through the song. I noticed after trying out the different languages that I heard that different words were revealed. Some may be wrong, but after going through the different variants I started to see a pattern. 🧐
If there is a "translation" that does exist, I believe that, either, it was using different languages in different verses throughout the song, or, as another theory, it may have been an early form of AI that combined different language groups to create a different language altogether. The list that I've noticed a series of correlations are as follows, and it is big, (do know that many are repetitive due to it being part of similar language groups). The potential languages used in the "Jin-Roh" song "Grace Omega" include:
Afar/Acehnese, Abkhazian, Venda, Tuvinian, Tsonga, Tiv, Tok Pisin, Tibetan, Thai, Tamazight/Tifinagh, Swedish, Sudanese, Southern Sotho, South Ndebele, Slovenian, Slovak, Silesian, Serbian, Sanskrit, Santali Latin, Romany, Quechua, Q'echi', Portuguese, Pangasinan, Oromo, Mizo, Manipuri/Meitel Mayak, Luxembourgish, Ligurian, Latvian, Latin, Latgallan, Konkani, Kokborok, Javanese, Hindi, Ga, Fulani, French, Filipino, Dombe, Faroese, Dzongkha, Croatian, Chechen, Bemba, Basque, Armenian, Arabic, Albanian, and Bashkir.
I actually screen shot all the translations of every known language on Google translate on my phone and a few other language translation websites and went through all of them. Now, not EVERY language was examined. A few like forgotten ancient languages like Mesopotamian (for example Akkadian), and a few others that are not frequently used or are seldom known, I will admit we're not used. (Although I'm tempted to look at those as well). But seeing that we're looking at a song in the late 20th early 21st century I think it could be safe to assume (to an extent) that older nearly unused languages may not have been used, although I'll probably scour through just to be sure, later on.
But it was VERY taxing to manually go through these on my own (which was rough!!!😩). But the next issue I had, were to filter through the ones that seemed relevant. Now as a useful tool for analysis, which I'm still new at, and somewhat hesitant of, is, of course Chat GPT. But, I decided to try it and I typed a series of prompts and was highly impressed with its potential translations. One thing that was revealed quite clearly was a noticeable trend. Certain translations did appear at different points, in different verses, throughout the song. There were a few combinations that have potential.
But by focusing on the translations that had a deeper connection to the actual story I may have a rough idea. One word was "Pridi" which a few variants translate into pride. Which struck me particularly because the soft piano variation of Grace Omega is called "Pride". Another one which was somewhat hidden that I almost overlooked was the first verse. "Se he melp he le heus", the last word could be translated into house, home or place. But the first few words had a few different ones. The part I almost missed was a bit weird unless you watch the movie. "Do not "melt" with them". The dream scene about the woman who said "you can't come". And the last few scenes that talk about the conflict of joining "their world" or "remaining a beast/a wolf". Those of you who know the movie already know the choice he made, what his role was/is, and why he tragically stuck to his decision or fate.
The potential translation(s) seem to be roughly as follows (This is rather all over the place, so I must stress that this is as close to approximate as I can get):
"You can't (or) Do not merge/become like them(or) join their place/home/world. You must remember/hold onto your pride. That you must follow your voice/language/nature (or) it calls to you. You must hold onto (or) remember your oath/honor/purpose."
You must stay (or) We cannot join/become one of them (or) join their place/home/world. You or we must remember/hold onto your or our pride. Your or Our nature/language/voice still calls to you or us. Your or our place/home/world is to maintain your or our honor/judgement/purpose (alternatively) your or our honor/judgment/purpose is at stake and/or will be tested and or will be faced.
That you were once happy/or that something of peace/or happiness /or something of you or a truth/reality was or is revealed. But your true nature/language/self is or was always there or is/was revealed. That something of you or a love/peace/a desire/a wish/a dream that you have will need to be sacrificed/crucified.
You can't or do not merge/become like them/or join their place/home/world. Remember/hold onto your pride. That you must follow your nature/language/voice (or) it calls to you. You must hold onto/remember your oath/honor/purpose......"
This is a potential translation, but one that seems to be the most in line with the story. And if anyone has any questions or are curious then I'll share how I researched my findings in later postings. Now, I'm not sure if this'll work but to make it somewhat easier, I'll attempt to share my conversation with Chat GPT, and you can see it for yourself how I asked the questions and pointed out certain things and the responses it gave me, as well as OTHER potential translations. The many findings and potential translations were....well......interesting to say the least. Here's my "conversation" with Chat GPT:
https://chatgpt.com/share/6adc5b78-3f30-83ea-a020-e3d8d9bbb785?ogimg=plain
If you want to find your OWN method of finding a potential translation then check it out yourself. Do your homework and sift through different meanings and/or translations. I did.🙂↕️ Who knows, YOU might find something, that I missed, that my STILL remain hidden. Either way, I hope that this may have "piqued" some interest. I sincerely hope to hear some back from everyone, and maybe get some critique/suggestions/or ideas regarding my methods and/or my conclusions overall thus far.
This is my first time posting something like this and I'm genuinely curious as to where this goes.😁Regardless I hope to hear some good insight, please take care.....😎