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What does it mean?
Two specific sounds or words are repeated often. They likely represent a forbidden name or chant.
In plain terms
Certain sounds are said again and again.
What can you take from it?
Repetition gives words power.

Where it applies

  • storytelling
  • linguistic study

Putting it to work

  • analyze repeated motifs
  • study sound symbolism

Questions to consider

  • Why are these words repeated?
  • What do the sounds mean?

Another view

Too short to determine full meaning.

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