143. Notes - swarm of souls / grammar of souls /

143. 7 June 2019

       Morning. You woke up early thinking how it was unfair to not include the 'Out of Africa' segment because they were just as important to mention as ayl the others; and, no you were not thinking of yourself, you were thinking of how it is for all of you to remind yourselves of all your ancestors once in a while. - Amorella

       1039 hours. We are all DNA related. We are all cousins (some are just closer than others) that's the way I look at us.

       Drop the "Out of Africa" segment in today, then reference to it in yesterday's blog. Any reader anywhere and anytime can surely see a little DNA of themselves somewhere in the National Geographic Geno II mix. - Amorella

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Note, this information is taken from Orndorff's DNA from the National Geographic. Geno II: Out of Africa. The rest of my information is in Note 143. The point is this is a demonstration of how we human beings on the planet and their ancestors are essentially cousins.

Out of Africa

Introduction to Orndorff's Story 

We will now take you back through the stories of your distant ancestors and show how the movements of their descendants gave rise to your lineage. 

Each segment on the map above represents the migratory path of successive groups that eventually coalesced to form your branch of the tree. We start with the marker for your oldest ancestor, and walk forward to more recent times, showing at each step the line of your ancestors who lived up to that point. 

What is a marker? Each of us carries DNA that is a combination of genes passed from both our mother and father, giving us traits that range from eye color and height to athleticism and disease susceptibility. As part of this process, the Y-chromosome is passed directly from father to son, unchanged, from generation to generation down a purely male line. Mitochondrial DNA, on the other hand, is passed from mothers to their children, but only their daughters pass it on to the next generation. It traces a purely maternal line. 

The DNA is passed on unchanged, unless a mutation—a random, naturally occurring, usually harmless change—occurs. The mutation, known as a marker, acts as a beacon; it can be mapped through generations because it will be passed down for thousands of years. 

When geneticists identify such a marker, they try to figure out when it first occurred, and in which geographic region of the world. Each marker is essentially the beginning of a new lineage on the family tree of the human race. Tracking the lineages provides a picture of how small tribes of modern humans in Africa tens of thousands of years ago diversified and spread to populate the world. 

Branch: L3
Age: 67,000 Years Ago 

Location of Origin: East Africa

This woman’s descendants would eventually account for both out-of-Africa maternal lineages, significant population migrations in Africa, and even take part in the Atlantic Slave Trade related dispersals from Africa. 

The common direct maternal ancestor to all women alive today was born in East Africa around 180,000 years ago. Dubbed “Mitochondrial Eve” by the popular press, she represents the root of the human family tree. Eve gave rise to two descendant lineages known as L0 and L1’2’3’4’5’6, characterized by a different set of genetic mutations their members carry. 

Current genetic data indicates that indigenous people belonging to these groups are found exclusively in Africa. This means that, because all humans have a common female ancestor, and because the genetic data shows that Africans are the oldest groups on the planet, we know our species originated there. 

Eventually, L1’2’3’4’5’6 gave rise to L3 in East Africa. It is a similar story: an individual underwent a mutation to her mitochondrial DNA, which was passed onto her children. The children were successful, and their descendants ultimately broke away from L1’2’3’4’5’6, eventually separating into a new group called L3.

While L3 individuals are found all over Africa, L3 is important for its movements north. Your L3 ancestors were significant because they are the first modern humans to have left Africa, representing the deepest branches of the tree found outside of that continent. 

From there, members of this group went in a few different directions. Many stayed on in Africa, dispersing to the west and south. Some L3 lineages are predominant in many Bantu-speaking groups who originated in west-central Africa, later dispersing throughout the continent and spreading this L3 lineage from Mali to South Africa. Today, L3 is also found in many African-Americans. 

Other L3 individuals, your ancestors, kept moving northward, eventually leaving the African continent completely. These people gave rise to two important macro-haplogroups (M and N) that went on to populate the rest of the world. 

Why would humans have first ventured out of the familiar African hunting grounds and into unexplored lands? It is likely that a fluctuation in climate may have provided the impetus for your ancestors’ exodus out of Africa. 

The African Ice Age was characterized by drought rather than by cold. Around 50,000 years ago the ice sheets of northern Europe began to melt, introducing a period of warmer temperatures and moister climate in Africa. Parts of the inhospitable Sahara briefly became habitable. As the drought-ridden desert changed to savanna, the animals your ancestors hunted expanded their range and began moving through the newly emerging green corridor of grasslands. Your nomadic ancestors followed the good weather and plentiful game northward across this Saharan Gateway, although the exact route they followed remains to be determined.

Point of Interest 

The L branch is shared by all women alive today, both in Africa and around the world. The L3 branch is the major maternal branch from which all mitochondrial DNA lineages outside of Africa arose. 

Branch: N 
Age: About 60,000 Years Ago 

Location of Origin: East Africa or Asia

Your next ancestor is the woman whose descendants formed haplogroup N. Haplogroup N comprises one of two groups that were created by the descendants of L3. 

One of these two groups of individuals moved north rather than east and left the African continent across the Sinai Peninsula, in present-day Egypt. Also faced with the harsh desert conditions of the Sahara, these people likely followed the Nile basin, which would have proved a reliable water and food supply in spite of the surrounding desert and its frequent sandstorms. 

Descendants of these migrants eventually formed haplogroup N. Early members of this group lived in the eastern Mediterranean region and western Asia, where they likely coexisted for a time with other hominids such as Neanderthals. Excavations in Israel’s Kebara Cave (Mount Carmel) have unearthed Neanderthal skeletons as recent as 60,000 years old, indicating that there was both geographic and temporal overlap of these two hominids. This likely accounts for the presence of Neanderthal DNA in people living outside of Africa. 

Some members bearing mutations specific to haplogroup N formed many groups of their own which went on to populate much of the rest of the globe. These descendants are found throughout Asia, Europe, India, and the Americas. However, because almost all of the mitochondrial lineages found in the Near East and Europe descend from N, it is considered a western Eurasian haplogroup. 

After several thousand years in the Near East, members of your group began moving into unexplored nearby territories, following large herds of migrating game across vast plains. These groups broke into several directions and made their way into territories surrounding the Near East. 

Today, haplogroup N individuals who headed west are prevalent in Turkey and the eastern Mediterranean, they are found further east in parts of Central Asia and the Indus Valley of Pakistan and India. And members of your haplogroup who headed north out of the Levant across the Caucasus Mountains have remained in southeastern Europe and the Balkans. Importantly, descendants of these people eventually went on to populate the rest of Europe, and today comprise the most frequent mitochondrial lineages found there. 

Branch: R Age: 
About 55,000 Years Ago 

Location of Origin: West Asia 

After several thousand years in the Near East, individuals belonging to a new group called haplogroup R began to move out and explore the surrounding areas. Some moved south, migrating back into northern Africa. Others went west across Anatolia (present-day Turkey) and north across the Caucasus Mountains of Georgia and southern Russia. Still others headed east into the Middle East, and on to Central Asia. All of these individuals had one thing in common: they shared a female ancestor from the N clan, a recent descendant of the migration out of Africa. 

The story of haplogroup R is complicated, however, because these individuals can be found almost everywhere, and because their origin is quite ancient. In fact, the ancestor of haplogroup R lived relatively soon after humans moved out of Africa during the second wave, and her descendants undertook many of the same migrations as her own group, N. 

Because the two groups lived side by side for thousands of years, it is likely that the migrations radiating out from the Near East comprised individuals from both of these groups. They simply moved together, bringing their N and R lineages to the same places around the same times. The tapestry of genetic lines became quickly entangled, and geneticists are currently working to unravel the different stories of haplogroups N and R, since they are found in many of the same far-reaching places. 

Branch: T Age: 
About 25,000 Years Ago 

Location of Origin: West Asia

Haplogroup T was a group of individuals who descended from a woman in the R branch of the tree. The divergent genetic lineage that constitutes haplogroup T indicates that these ancestors lived sometime around 25,000 years ago. 

Haplogroup T has a very wide distribution, and is present as far east as the Indus Valley bordering India and Pakistan and as far south as the Arabian Peninsula. It is also common in eastern and northern Europe. Although your haplogroup was present during the early and middle Upper Paleolithic, T is largely considered one of the main genetic signatures of the Neolithic expansions. 

While groups of hunter-gatherers and subsistence fishermen had been occupying much of Eurasia for tens of thousands of years, around ten thousand years ago a group of modern humans living in the Fertile Crescent—present-day eastern Turkey and northern Syria —began domesticating the plants, nuts, and seeds they had been collecting. What resulted were the world’s first agriculturalists, and this new cultural era is typically referred to as the Neolithic. 

Groups of individuals able to support larger populations with this reliable food source began migrating out of the Middle East, bringing their new technology with them. By then, humans had already settled much of the surrounding areas, but this new agricultural technology proved too successful to ignore, and the surrounding groups quickly copied these new immigrants. Interestingly, DNA data indicate that while these new agriculturalists were incredibly successful at planting their technology in the surrounding groups, they were far less successful at planting their own genetic seed. Agriculture was quickly and widely adopted, but the lineages carried by these Neolithic expansions are found today at frequencies seldom greater than 20 percent in Europe, the Middle East, and Central Asia.

  

Branch: T2 
Age: About 19,000 Years Ago 

Location of Origin: West Asia 

This point in your maternal ancestors’ journey began in West Asia. The woman who had the genetic markers for this point was born about 20,000 years ago at the end of the Paleolithic period. From West Asia, her descendants spread across Anatolia and into much of Europe. 

Today, this line is present most often in Iraq, where it is around 21 percent of maternal lineages. It is 16 percent of the population in Croatia and about 11 percent of the population in Greece. It is around 15 percent of the population in Belgium, around 13 percent of the population in Denmark, and around 11 percent of the population in Switzerland. It is between 9 and 10 percent of maternal lineages in Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Wales, and Tunisia. 

Branch: T2b 
Age: 10,100 ± 1,610 Years Ago 

Location of Origin: West Asia

Born at the beginning of the Neolithic Revolution, this lineage likely originated in West Asia. 

Today, it is present at the highest frequencies in Croatia (12 percent), Tunisia (9 percent), and Greece (5 percent). In Iran, it is about 4 percent of maternal lineages, and it is about 3 percent of maternal lineages in Armenia. It is also part of some Jewish Diaspora population groups. It is about 7 percent of the population in Bulgaria. Elsewhere in Europe, this line is around 6 percent of the population in Germany and around 5 percent of the population in the British Isles, France, and the Netherlands. 

Branch: P305 

Age: More than 100,000 years old 
Location of Origin: Africa 

The common direct paternal ancestor of all men alive today was born in Africa between 300,000 and 150,000 years ago. Dubbed “Y- chromosome Adam” by the popular press, he was neither the first human male nor the only man alive in his time. He was, though, the only male whose Y-chromosome lineage is still around today. All men, including your direct paternal ancestors, trace their ancestry to one of this man’s descendants. The oldest Y-chromosome lineages in existence, belonging to the A00 branch of the tree, are found only in African populations. 

Around 100,000 years ago the mutation named P305 occurred in the Y chromosome of a man in Africa. This is one of the oldest known mutations that is not shared by all men. Therefore, it marks one of the early splits in the human Y-chromosome tree, which itself marks one of the earliest branching points in modern human evolution. The man who first carried this mutation lived in Africa and is the ancestor to more than 99.9% of paternal lineages today. In fact, men who do not carry this mutation are so rare that its importance in human history was discovered only in the past two years. 

As P305-bearing populations migrated around the globe, they picked up additional markers on their Y chromosomes. Today, there are no known P305-bearing individuals without these additional markers. 

Branch: M42
Age: About 80,000 Years Ago 

Location of Origin: East Africa 

Around 80,000 years ago, the BT branch of the Y-chromosome tree was born, defined by many genetic markers, including M42. The common ancestor of most men living today, some of this man’s descendants would begin the journey out of Africa to the Middle East and India. Some small groups from this line would eventually reach the Americas, while other groups would settle in Europe, and some would remain near their ancestral homeland in Africa. 

Individuals from this line whose ancestors stayed in Africa often practice cultural traditions that resemble those of the distant past. For example, they often live in traditional hunter-gatherer societies. These include the Mbuti and Biaka Pygmies of central Africa, as well as Tanzania’s Hadza. 

Location of Origin: East Africa

When humans left Africa, they migrated across the globe in a web of paths that spread out like the branches of a tree, each limb of migration identifiable by a marker in our DNA. For male lineages, the M168 branch was one of the first to leave the African homeland. 

The man who gave rise to the first genetic marker in your lineage probably lived in northeast Africa in the region of the Rift Valley, perhaps in present-day Ethiopia, Kenya, or Tanzania. Scientists put the most likely date for when he lived at around 70,000 years ago. His descendants became the only lineage to survive outside of Africa, making him the common ancestor of every non-African man living today. 

Your nomadic ancestors would have followed the good weather and the animals they hunted, although the exact route they followed remains to be determined. In addition to a favorable change in climate, around this same time there was a great leap forward in modern humans’ intellectual capacity. Many scientists believe that the emergence of language gave us a huge advantage over other early humanlike species. Improved tools and weapons, the ability to plan ahead and cooperate with one another, and an increased capacity to exploit resources in ways we hadn’t been able to earlier allowed modern humans to rapidly migrate to new territories, exploit new resources, and replace other hominids such as the Neanderthals.  

Branch: P143
Age: About 60,000 years old 

Location of Origin: Southwest Asia 

This mutation is one of the oldest thought to have occurred outside of Africa and therefore marks a pivotal moment in the evolution of modern humans. Moving along the coastline, members of this lineage were some of the earliest settlers in Asia, Southeast Asia, and Australia. 

But why would man have first ventured out of the familiar African hunting grounds and into unexplored lands? The first migrants likely ventured across the Bab-al Mandeb strait, a narrow body of water at the southern end of the Red Sea, crossing into the Arabian Peninsula and soon after developing mutation P143—perhaps 60,000 years ago. These beachcombers would make their way rapidly to India and Southeast Asia, following the coastline in a gradual march eastward. By 50,000 years ago, they had reached Australia. These were the ancestors of some of today’s Australian Aborigines. 

It is also likely that a fluctuation in climate may have contributed to your ancestors’ exodus out of Africa. The African ice age was characterized by drought rather than by cold. Around 50,000 years ago, though, the ice sheets of the Northern Hemisphere began to melt, introducing a short period of warmer temperatures and moister climate in Africa and the Middle East. Parts of the inhospitable Sahara briefly became habitable. As the drought-ridden desert changed to a savanna, the animals hunted by your ancestors expanded their range and began moving through the newly emerging green corridor of grasslands. 

Branch: M89
Age: About 55,000 Years Old 

Location of Origin: Southwest Asia

The next male ancestor in your ancestral lineage is the man who gave rise to M89, a marker found in 90 to 95 percent of all non- Africans. This man was likely born around 55,000 years ago in Middle East. While many of the descendants of M89 remained in the Middle East, others continued to follow the great herds of wild game through what is now modern-day Iran, then north to the Caucasus and the steppes of Central Asia. These semiarid, grass-covered plains would eventually form an ancient “superhighway” stretching from France to Korea. A smaller group continued moving north from the Middle East to Anatolia and the Balkans, trading familiar grasslands for forests and high country. 

Branch: M578
Age: About 50,000 Years Old 

Location of Origin: Southwest Asia 

After settling in Southwest Asia for several millennia, humans began to expand in various directions, including east and south around the Indian Ocean, but also north toward Anatolia and the Black and Caspian Seas. The first man to acquire mutation M578 was among those that stayed in Southwest Asia before moving on. 

Fast-forwarding to about 40,000 years ago, the climate shifted once again and became colder and more arid. Drought hit Africa and the Middle East and the grasslands reverted to desert, and for the next 20,000 years, the Saharan Gateway was effectively closed. With the desert impassable, your ancestors had two options: remain in the Middle East, or move on. Retreat back to the home continent was not an option.  

Branch: P128
Age: About 45,000 years ago 

Location of Origin: South Asia 

The next male ancestor in your ancestral lineage is the man who gave rise to P128, a marker found in more than half of all non-Africans alive today. This man was born around 45,000 years ago in south Central Asia and was likely part of the second wave of migrants to move east from Southwest Asia. 

Some of the descendants of P128 migrated to the southeast and northeast, picking up additional markers on their Y chromosomes. This lineage is the parent of several major branches on the Y-chromosome tree: O, the most common lineage in East Asia; R, the major European and Central Asian Y-chromosome lineage; and Q, the major Y-chromosome lineage in the Americas. These descendant  branches went on to settle the rest of Asia, the Americas, and Europe. Still many others traveled to Southeast Asia, and some descendants of P128 individuals moved across the waters south and east and are most commonly seen in Oceanian and Australian Aboriginal populations. 

Branch: M526
Age: About 42,000 Years Old 

Location of Origin: South or Southeast Asia 

The man who first carried mutation M526 was part of the second wave of settlers that migrated around the Indian Ocean and settled in Southeast Asia. This mutation is shared by men from haplogroups M, N, O, P, Q, R, and S; these are groups common in East Asia, Southeast Asia, Oceania, and the Americas.  

Branch: M45
Age: Around 35,000 Years Ago 

Location of Origin: Central Asia or South Asia 

This paternal ancestor traveled with groups to the open savannas between Central and South Asia during the Paleolithic. These big- game hunters were the parents to two of the most widespread male lineages in modern populations, one that is responsible for the majority of pre-Columbian lineages in the Americas (haplogroup Q)—among others from Asia and Europe—and one that spread farther north and west into Asia and produced the highest frequency lineages in European populations (haplogroup R).

Today, members of this lineage who do not belong to a descendant branch (haplogroups Q or R) are rare, and geneticists have found them most often in India. These populations include such diverse groups as the Saora (23 percent), the Bhumij (13 percent), and Muslims from Manipur (33 percent). 

Point of Interest 

Known as the Central Asian Clan, this branch gave rise to many distinct lineages that spent the next 30,000 years gradually populating much of the planet.  

Branch: M207
Age: About 30,000 Years Ago 

Location of Origin: Central Asia 

M207 was born in Central Asia around 30,000 years ago. His descendants would go on to settle in Europe, South Asia and the Middle East over the following 20,000 years. Today, most western European men belong to one branch—R-M342—that descended from this lineage. While it appears to have been one of the earliest lineages to settle in Europe more than 25,000 years ago, more recent population expansions associated with the post-glacial repopulation of northern Europe after the end of the last ice age, as well as the spread of agriculture during the Neolithic, also contributed to its high frequency in Ireland, the UK, France and Spain. 

One descendant lineage—R-L62—is common in Eastern Europe and India, and was likely spread in part through the migration of Indo-European steppe nomads over the past 5,000 years.  

Branch: P231
Age: 25,000 – 30,000 Years Ago 

Location of Origin: Central Asia 

The Paleolithic ancestor who founded this lineage lived a nomadic lifestyle. His descendants include two major descendant branches that today account for most European men and many others from Central Asia, West Asia, and South Asia.  

Branch: M343
Age: 17,000 – 22,000 Years Ago 

Location of Origin: South Asia or West Asia

The first members of this lineage lived as hunter-gatherers on the open savannas that stretched from Korea to Central Europe. They took part in the advances in hunting technology that allowed for population growth and expansions. 

When the Earth entered a cooling phase, most from this line sheltered in refugia to the southeast of Europe and in West Asia. It was from these refugia that their populations rapidly expanded when the ice once more receded. Some traveled west across Europe. Others moved back toward their distant ancestors’ homelands in Africa, passing through the Levant region. Through these movements and the population boom triggered by the Neolithic Revolution, this lineage and its descendant lineages came to dominate Europe.  

Today, it has a wide distribution. In Africa, geneticists have found this lineage in Northern Africa (6 percent) and central Sahel (23 percent). Its frequency in Europe is at times high and at other times moderate. It represents about 7 percent of Russian male lineages, about 13 percent of male lineages in the Balkans, about 21 percent of Eastern European male lineages, 55 to 58 percent of Western European lineages, and about 43 percent of Central European male lineages. In Asia, most men of this lineage are found in West Asia (6 percent) and South Asia (5 percent). However, trace frequencies of around half a percent from this lineage are present in East Asia.  

Branch: M269
Age: 6,500 – 15,000 Years Ago 

Location of Origin: West Asia 

Groups containing this branch spread west toward Europe and east to Central Asia, then south into the Levant region. From the Levant and East Europe, your ancestors took part in the Neolithic Revolution. The population boom that resulted from the move from a hunter- gatherer lifestyle to settled agricultural communities helped push this line to dominance. 

Today, this lineage accounts for the majority of the male population in Europe. In Wales, it is about 85 percent of male lineages. In Ireland, the frequency peaks along the eastern coast at over 90 percent. It is about 32 percent of the male population in Germany. Toward the southeast, it is 13 to 14 percent of the male populations in Greece and Turkey. It is 6 to 8 percent of male lineages in Iran and about 9 percent of male lineages in Iraq. It is about 5 percent of the male population in Kazakhstan. 

Branch: P310
Age: To Be Determined 

Location of Origin: West Asia 

Members of this lineage have traveled to Central Asia, Europe, and the Levant region. One descendant branch has the highest frequency of any male line in Western Europe. However, rather than a single movement across Europe, this lineage’s branches may represent many simultaneous and successive waves of migration. 

Today, it is 48 to 52 percent of male lineages in Ireland. It is 45 percent of those in France. It is about 38 percent of the male population in Spain. It is about 8 percent of male lineages in Italy. It is about 5 percent of male lineages in Oman. It is 1 to 2 percent of the male population in Iraq and Lebanon. It is also 1 to 2 percent of the male population in Kazakhstan. 

Branch: U106  

Age: 4,250 – 14,000 Years Ago      
Location of Origin: Europe 

Members of this lineage have expanded into the rest of Europe and back into parts of West Asia in the last 10,000 years. 

Today, geneticists have found it and its descendant branches at moderate to high frequencies throughout Europe and occasionally in West Asia. The highest frequencies are in the Netherlands (14 percent), Luxembourg (13 percent), and Belgium (12 percent). In the British Isles, it is between 6 and 9 percent of the male population. It is about 5 percent of male lineages in Oman. It is 4 to 5 percent of the male population in Cyprus. It is 1 to 2 percent of male lineages in Italy and Spain. 

Distantly, yes—we are all connected through our ancient ancestry.

*Selected and edited from Orndorff's Geno II DNA report. 

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       1352 hours. This and yesterday's material pretty much covers the Richard Henry Orndorff DNA via the Geno II Project. It is amazing how little paper space is needed to show the scientific background of most of the human ancestry on planet Earth. (Actually, no paper is needed.)

       Miss Havisham finds the above material from today and yesterday to better demonstrate the holistic value of the human spirit, each person's heartansoulanmind in spiritual forms. How would this be, to imagine your own soul in such a conceptual swarm with all human souls past and present? - mh

       Post. - Amorella   

      You are facing east in the north Westerville Kroger lot waiting for Carol. The plan: take food home and decide where to go for an early supper. Cathy is busy and Kim and Owen are down with sore throats, plus Paul's on call. - Amorella 

       1534 hours. Miss Havisham, I like the use of 'swarm' of souls. At first, I conjured 'movement' then I settled on a spiritual swarm as a 'body', a spiritual sun or light, with the bright souls on and those not so bright in the mix or having little to no 'glow' at all. With no space or mass involved and no real purpose for a spiritual human glow or sun I ran out of metaphors. Also, in my head, there is a mix of the conclusion to Arthur Clarkes' Childhood's End where the humans lose their bodies and move their immaterial selves on to other climes, save the few humans not ready to leave; still at larvae or caterpillar stage, not ready to become butterflies. So, with curiosity, why did you choose "swarm of souls" and not something else? 

       Alliteration. - mh

       1549 hours. That makes good poetic sense; you show more intelligence than I usually have. Simple and elegant response, Miss Havisham. Simple and elegant. 

       You had an early supper at Potbelly's and presently you are sitting in the south lot at Macy's at Polaris Fashion Center waiting for Carol. Pleasant cool breeze from the west; still Spring-like in June. - Amorella

       1738 hours. I still like Miss Havisham's "swarm of souls". It is easy to picture the swarm of course, but not the souls. There is little to go on in the spiritual world. Shape and color come to mind. The Living move about. The Dead, not so much. The mind doesn't move either though. 

The heart metaphors with the pumper. Passion suggests movement, objective and goals. Thoughts are about the closest abstract with the spiritual, and thoughts move through grammatical devices or we wouldn't understand the message or thought. (1746) What allows a soul to remember the content of a heartanmind? What is an analogy for spiritual understanding not a factual-like comparison? (1747)

       You are looking for a design, an architecture of the soul. - mh

       1751 hours. A plausible spiritual-like schematic. 

       Think of a flavor of poetic devices that might show this. For instance, you automatically used alliteration to hurry the thought along. Alliteration is as rounding the edge of a plane wing to cause lift and more efficient flow of the thought. 

       

       Alone, alone, all, all alone,

       Alone on a wide, wide sea!

       And never a saint took pity on

       My soul in agony.

       You had Coleridge's "Rime of the Ancient Mariner", memorized in the ninth grade for Miss Harley's English I class. You understood and still understand the spiritual aspects of these lines and the others in the poem. The poetic device is as an example of the spiritual architecture of the soul. - mh

       1812 hours. Excellent, Miss Havisham. Poetic devices move the thought as a soul moves through Nothing. 

       Absolutely Nothing. - mh

       1816 hours. Poetic devices move the thought as a soul moves through Absolutely Nothing.

       Yes, you have it. - mh

       1839 hours. In this case there is no redundancy adding absolutely?

       Absolutely-Nothing is a single noun. mh 

       1843 hours. All spiritual nouns are Capitalized.

       Absolutely. mh

       1845 hours. Wow. This grammar translation moves the heartanmind at once and equally. 

       Yes. When you feel or sense this in your person you are thinking in Soul while writing in English. 

       Post. - Amorella