Peace pole
A Peace Pole is a monument that displays the message "May Peace Prevail on Earth” in the language of the country where it has been placed, and usually 3 to 13 additional translations. The message often is referred to as a peace prayer, but sometimes it is not in order to avoid peace poles from being regarded as religious objects that violate zoning restrictions. A Quaker group in New York City ran into that problem year after year and never got permission to plant a peace pole in a park. At least one site refers to the phrase only as a Peace Message in order for there to be a reference to point to in such cases.[1]
The idea of Peace Poles was first thought up by Masahisa Goi in 1955 in Japan. The Peace Pole Project today is promoted by The World Peace Prayer Society as well as other groups and individuals. The first Peace Poles outside Japan were constructed in 1983.[2] Since then, more than 100,000 have been placed around the world in over 180 countries.[2]
Peace Poles are made of many materials. Most are made of wood. Others are made of limestone or copper or plastic or stainless steel. The text might be painted, carved, etched, welded, pasted, or riveted on. In some cases it merely is a plastic plaque attached with screws. In other cases it is the careful work of an artist or sculptor.
Peace Poles have been placed in such notable locations as the North Magnetic Pole, the Hiroshima Peace Memorial, and the site of the Egyptian Pyramids in Giza, the Aiki Shrine in Iwama, Japan,[3] as well as numerous community parks. Frequently they are placed near the entrances of churches or schools. In one case, a garden, created for a wedding, was designed around the Peace Pole that was its center piece. The Republic of Molossia, a micronation, has a Peace Pole in eight languages.[4] The University of California, Los Angeles has a limestone peace pole with 14 languages directly in front of Kerckhoff Hall.
Perhaps the world's largest Peace Pole, at 52 feet (16 m), is located in Janesville, Wisconsin at the site of a KKK rally. The initial inspiration for planting Peace Poles often is as a response to a local issue like a KKK rally. Another of the largest Peace Poles in the world, as measured in tons, is the granite Peace Pole[5] in Beech Acres Park[6] near Cincinnati, Ohio. The original inspiration for it was hate literature left in the driveways of Jewish residents.
The message in each language[7]
The multilingual inscription of a peace pole constitutes a parallel text with top-to-bottom sentences. Each one is usually shown:
- rotated clockwise in languages using RTL scripts (English, Latin, ...)
- rotated counterclockwise in languages using LTR scripts (Arabic, Hebrew, ...)
- arranged vertically in languages using East Asian scripts (Japanese, Chinese, ...)
They can be set in different case styles (sentence case, title case all caps, small caps), even on a single pole.
Language | Inscription (description) |
---|---|
Afrikaans | Mag Vrede Seëvier Op Aarde |
Albanian | |
Algonquin | Quenohteau Ohke woh aquené omskauau[8] |
Amharic | ?[9] |
Anishinaabe | Gidaa Awiibaa Mashkawisi Dakiiminan |
Arabic | ?[8] ?[9] السلام للعالم أجمع |
Armenian | ?[9] |
Aymara | Aka uraqinxa suma jakaña utjpa[9] Chukiago marca sumalaca ken sisiñani |
Azerbaijani (Latin) | |
Bambara | Nyesuma ka ladamu dukukolo kokan[9] |
Belarusian | ?[9] |
Bengali | ?[9] |
Bislama | |
Bulgarian | ?[9] |
Burmese | ?[9] |
Cambodian | ?[9] |
Cape Verdean / Kabuverdianu | Pa pas ka kaba na mundu[9] |
Catalan / Valencian | Que la Pau Prevalgui a la Terra Que la pau prevalgui a la terra[9] |
Cherokee | |
Chichewa / Nyanja | Mtendere ukhale pa dziko la pansi[8] Mtendere ukhale padziko la pansi[9] |
Chinese | ?[8] 我們祝應世界人美的和平 但願世界永遠和平[15] 可能和平在地球上占上风 [Kěnéng hépíng zài dìqiú shàng zhàn shàngfēng] |
Chinese (Traditional) | 我們祈願世界人類的和平[16] |
Chinese, Mandarin | |
Chinese, Mandarin (Latin)? | keyi xia gan wu shi le zai diqiu shang |
Comorian | Amani oharimwa ye duniya kamili[9] |
Creole (Haitian) | Pou lapè simaye dan lemond antye[9] |
Creole (Seychellois) | Ki lape i rennyen dan lemonn[9] |
Croatian | Neka mir zavlada na zemlji |
Czech | Ať mír vždy vládne na Zemi[9] |
Dakota | Makasitomniya wodakota ni[8] Makȟasitoniya wodakȟota ni[8] |
Danish | |
Dari / Afghan Persian | ?[9] |
Divehi / Dhivehi / Maldivian | ?[9] |
Douala / Duala | Ese̱le̱ musango mu be̱ O wase[8] |
Dutch / Flemish | |
Dzongkha | ?[9] |
English | May Peace Prevail On Earth[8][12] (title case) May peace prevail on earth[10][9] (sentence case) MAY PEACE PREVAIL ON EARTH[18] (all caps) May peace prevail on earth (small caps) |
Esperanto |
Paco regu sur la tero |
Estonian | Olgu maailmas rahu[9] |
Filipino / Pilipino | Sana'y Manatili ang Kapayapáan sa Mundo[8] Kapayapaan sa mundo[8] (shorter) |
Finnish | Vallitkoon Rauha Maailmassa Vallitkoon rauha maailmassa[8][9] Vallitkoon rauha maailmas[8] |
French | Puisse la Paix régner dans le Monde Puisse la paix régner dans le monde[8][9] Paix sur la terre![19] (abbr.) |
Georgian | ?[9] |
German | Möge Friede auf Erden sein[8][12][9] Friede auf Erden![20] (abbr.) |
Greek | Εύχομαι να Επικρατήσει η Ειρήνη στον Κόσμο |
Guarani | Toiko Py'aguapy Tenondete Ko Arapy Rehe Toiko py'aguapy tenondete ko arapy rehe[9] |
Hausa | Zaman lafiya ta tabbata a duniya[9] |
Hawaiian | E Ho'omaluhia Me Ka Honua[8] |
Hebrew | |
Hmong | KOM KEV THAJ YEEB MAUJ RAU NTIAJ TEB NO[8] |
Hopi | TUWA KWATSI ES LOOMA EYESNI[8] |
Hungarian | |
Icelandic | |
Igbo | Ka udo diri n'uwa[9] |
Ikiribati | Ke e teimatoa te rau i aonnaba[9] |
Indonesian | |
Irish (Gaelic) | Go raibh síocháin ar domhain[8][9] [Go raibh síocháin ar domhain] |
Italian | |
Japanese | (as Masahisa Goi's handwritting) |
Kazakh | ?[9] |
Kikongo | Nbota luvuvamo luakala mu nsy ya wonssono[8] |
Kikuyu | Thayú v́iyv́re thiine wa thi yothe[8] THAYU UIYURE THIINE WA THI YOTHE[8] |
Kituba | Ngemba kuvanda na n'toto[9] |
Korean | |
Kurdish (Iraq) | ?[9] |
Kyrgyz | ?[9] |
Lakota | Makasitomniya wolakota ni[8] Makȟasitoniya wolakȟota ni[8] Unci Maka akan wolakota unkagapi kte[8] |
Lao | ?[9] |
Latin | Regnet Pax Omnem Per Terram[8] Pax in orbem praevaleat[8] Et in terra pax hominibus[16] |
Latvian | Lai būtu miers pasaulē[9] |
Lingala | Kimia ezala na mokili[9] |
Lithuanian | |
Luxebourgish | Fridden op de Äerd[8] Fridden mat allen Mënschen op der Welt[8] |
Macedonian | ?[9] |
Malay | |
Malgasy | Enga anie hanjaka eran'izao tontolo izao ny fandriampahalemana[9] |
Maltese | Jalla l-paċi ssaltan fid-dinja[9] JALLA L-PACI SSALTAN FID-DINJA[21] |
Maori | He maungārongo ki runga i te whenua[8][9] Kia tau te rangimarie kei te whenua |
Marshallese | Ainemon en bed ion lol in[9] |
Miami | PEH-KO-KI-A A-KIN-KE-KWA-CI[8] |
Mohawk | SKÉN:NEN KENHAK NÉ OHWENTSÁ:KE[8] |
Romanian, Moldovan | Fie pace pe Pământ[9] |
Mongolian | ?[9] |
Mongolian (Cyrillic) | ?[9] |
Mungaka | Mboni Ma Cie[8] |
Nauruan | Enim mek iow eat eb[9] |
Navajo | Nahasdzáán Bikáági Táá axtsogóó Hózhǫ́ǫ́ dooleex[8] |
Nepali | ?[9] |
Norwegian | Måtte det være fred på jorden[8] |
Ojibwe, Odawa | MAH NOH TAH BISON TAM GOT-EMAH AHKEENG KOGNIK[8] Mah Noh Tah Bison Tam Got-e-mah Ahkeeng Kognik |
Palauan | A budech bol mesisiich era belulachad[9] |
Pashto | ?[9] |
Persian | ?[9] برقرار باد صلح در سراسر جهان |
Pidgin | Pis mas istap long wol[9] |
Polish | Niech będzie pokój na Ziemi[9] Niech ludzkość świata żyje w pokoju[8] Pokoj na ziemi![22] (abbr.) |
Portuguese | Que a Paz Prevaleça na Terra Que a Paz Prevaleça no Mundo |
Potawatomi | Nojma jag gégo gdokmeshen edjedéyag[8] |
Quechua | Kusi Kausay Kachun Kay Pachapi |
Quechua (Bolivia) | Kay pachapi allin kawsay kachun[9] |
Quechua (Peru) | Tiqsimuyupi allin kawsay kachun[9] |
Romansch | Possia la pasch reger en il mund[9] |
Russian | Да Будет Мир Человечеству во всем Мире Да будет мир человечеству во всем мире[8][12][9] Да будет мир на земле![8] (shorter) |
Rwanda-Rundi:
|
Amahoro n'aganze kw'isi hose[8] |
Kinyarwanda | |
Kirundi | Amahoro yosasagara mw'isi yose[9] |
Samoan | |
Sangho | Siriri a douti na ndo ti sesse[9] |
Sanskrit??? | पृथिव्यां शांति अस्तु |
Scottish Gaelic | Gum buadhaich sìth anns gach ceàrn dhe 'n t-saoghal[8] |
Seminole | Hee-łom cho-bee po-baa-nom[8] |
Seneca | Ja-wë-on Tha-yö-jeoK Yoë-dza-geh[8] |
Serbo-Croatian:
|
Neka mirzavlada na zemliji[8] |
Serbo-Croatian:
|
Neka mir zavlada na zemliji[9] |
Serbian (Cyrillic) | ?[9] |
Serbian (Latin) | ? |
Sesotho | Khotso e be teng lefatšeng[9] |
Setswana | A kagiso e nne teng mo lefatsheng[9] |
Shona | |
Northern Ndebele | |
Sinhalese | ?[9] රී ලංකාවේ සාමය පවතීවා |
Sioux | Wo' wa'hwa la ma'ka a'kan u'num'we[8] |
siSwati | Kuthula akube semhlabeni[9] |
Slovak | Nech pokoj vždy vládne na Zemi[9] |
Slovene | Naj mir zavlada svetu[9] Naj mir zevlda svetu |
Somali | |
Spanish | Que la Paz Prevalezca En La Tierra[12] |
Swahili | |
Swedish | |
Tagalog | Sana'y manatili ang kapayapáan sa daigdig[8] Sana'y manatili ang kapayapaan sa daigdig[9] Kapayapaan ay maghari sa daigdig[8] (shorter) Kapayapaan sa mundo[8] (shorter, with Spanish loanwords) |
Tajik | ?[9] |
Tamil??? | ?[9] இலங்கையில் சமாதானம் நிலவட்டும் |
Tetum | Dame ba mundu tomak[9] |
Thai | ?[9] |
Tigrinya | ?[9] |
Tongan | Fakatauange ke toka 'a e melino 'i mamani kotoa[9] |
Tshiluba | Bupole buikale pa buloba[9] |
Turkish | Dünyada Barış Daim Olsun Dünyada barış daim olsun[8][9] Yurtta Bariş Dünyada Bariş[8] (motto of Turkey) |
Turkmen | ?[9] |
Tuscororan | Rih Wharaku Ahske-ne Ticunuwehne[8] |
Tuvaluan | |
Twi | Asomdwoe nka wiasefo[9] |
Ukrainian | ?[9] |
Urdu | ?[9] |
Uzbek | Dunyoda tinchlik bo'lsin[9] |
Vietnamese | Nguyện xin hòa bình đến với toàn thể nhân loại trên thế giới[8] Cầu chúc hòa bình cho toàn nhân loại trên thế giới[9] Cầu hoà bình cho toàn nhân loai tren thế giới |
Welsh | Mai Dangnefedd Prevail acha Briddo Tangnefedd ar y ddaear[8] |
Wolof | Na jàmm yàgg ci aduna[9] |
Yoruba | Alàáfíà fún gbogbo àgbáyé[9] |
(Language labels) | [English, French, ...][23] |
Music (score) | (from "Let There Be Peace on Earth" song)[24]
(from "Imagine" song)[24] |
(Animal tracks / Paw prints) | [][25][26] (alligator, badger, bear, beaver, bison, bobcat, caribou, deer, dog, elephant, grasshopper, heron, kangaroo, mountain goat, opossum, otter, penguin, skunk, turkey, turtle, wild boar)[8] |
(Human feet prints) | [][27][28] |
(Leaf prints) | [][27] |
(Dove with olive branch) | [][25] |
(Earth) | [][23][25] |
(Voice recordings / Audio) | (audio in many languages)[29] |
(Audiovisual) | (video in many languages)[30] |
See also
References
- ↑ "Peace Poles made by an Artist".
- 1 2 The World Peace Prayer Society
- ↑ Aikido Hawaii
- ↑ molossia.org
- ↑ the granite Peace Pole
- ↑ Beech Acres Park
- ↑ Translation sources:
- http://www.peace-pole.com/translations_for_peace_poles.htm
- http://www-peace.sakura.ne.jp/pages/_Earth.htm
- http://nedv.net/village/peace/inanylanguage.php
- http://www.waymarking.com/cat/details.aspx?f=1&guid=5fd76818-c3b2-49d6-952a-c599e7fe8c53&st=2
- https://abbiestreehouse.wordpress.com/2015/01/14/may-peace-prevail-on-earth/
- http://web500.com.br/Valquiria/Dados/Sabedoria,do,novo,tempo/Infos-Port/Paz,Varios,Idioma.html
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 Peace Pole Translations of "May Peace Prevail on Earth", by Joel Selmeier, 2017.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 "Prayer for World Peace in various languages", www-peace.sakura.ne.jp, 2017
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Prayer for World Peace: The Prayer May Peace Prevail on Earth in many of the World's languages" (section "Spread the Message"), The World Peace Prayer Society
- 1 2 3 4 5 "Peace Poles & Flags for Peace Path", www-peace.sakura.ne.jp
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "Molossia's Peace Pole", Republic of Molossia, 2017
- ↑ http://blog.xuite.net/penny37322/twblog/147794019
- ↑ http://blog.xuite.net/vickie657/travel/23691084-%E6%B2%92%E4%BA%8B%E5%B9%B9%E5%AE%B6%E6%97%8F%E3%80%82%E9%98%BF%E9%87%8C%E5%B1%B1%E8%B3%9E%E6%AB%BB%E4%B9%8B%E6%97%85
- ↑ http://blog.udn.com/jennytsenginseattle/2208659
- 1 2 3 4 "Other Languages", www-peace.sakura.ne.jp, 2017
- ↑ "About" ("Twitter" section), The World Peace Prayer Society (Japan)
- ↑ File:PeacePole.jpg
- ↑ File:Neuenrade_Küntrop_-_Küntroper_Straße_-_Sankt_Georg_03_ies.jpg
- ↑ File:Dortmund_-_Deusener_Straße_-_St._Stephanus_05_ies.jpg File:Neuenrade_Küntrop_-_Küntroper_Straße_-_Sankt_Georg_03_ies.jpg
- ↑ File:Malta_-_Floriana_-_Triq_Vincenzo_Bugeja_-_Argotti_Botanic_Gardens_07_ies.jpg
- ↑ File:Dortmund_-_Deusener_Straße_-_St._Stephanus_05_ies.jpg File:Neuenrade_Küntrop_-_Küntroper_Straße_-_Sankt_Georg_03_ies.jpg
- 1 2 "Large Round Peace Pole", by Joel Selmeier, 2011
- 1 2 "Music Notes", by Joel Selmeier, 2013
- 1 2 3 "Resin Peace Pole 1" (and ["2"), by Joel Selmeier, 2014
- ↑ https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/6d/93/03/6d9303b5285e0840c90935f1b45666d4.jpg
- 1 2 "Garden Pole – 4-Sided", Peace Poles Makers USA, 2017
- ↑ https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/b8/6c/0c/b86c0c7a108e89eeee8a65be34c81ce5.jpg
- ↑ "Voice recordings", by Joel Selmeier, 2015
"Prayer for World Peace in various languages" (QuickTime audios), www-peace.sakura.ne.jp, 2017 - ↑ "Sequentially Voiced 'May Peace Prevail on Earth' with Earth Image", www-peace.sakura.ne.jp, 2017
External links
- http://www.worldpeace-uk.org/peacepoles/
- The World Peace Prayer Society page on Peace Poles
- The Global Heart page on Peace Poles
- The Peace Pole Makers USA
- Peace Poles Made by a Sculptor
- Janesville Public Parks
- Mapping Peace Poles around the World
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