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| The Trill written language is composed of rounded-triangles with squiggly lines in them. The Trill language had different second person singular pronouns based on whether or not an individual was joined.<ref>[https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Trill_language "Trill language"], Memory Alpha</ref> | | The Trill written language is composed of rounded-triangles with squiggly lines in them. The Trill language had different second person singular pronouns based on whether or not an individual was joined.<ref>[https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Trill_language "Trill language"], Memory Alpha</ref> |
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| The Zhian'tara is a Trill ceremony in which the present host can meet with past hosts. The personalities of past hosts are placed in the bodies of the current host's closest friends. Zhian'tara is an important ceremony that the Symbiosis Commission requires be performed and will go to some lengths to see it done.<ref>[https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Zhian%27tara Zhian'tara], Memory Alpha</ref>
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| The telepathic ceremony of zhian'tara allows a current host to divest the symbiont of the personality and all the memories of a previous host, which are temporarily hosted in volunteers. The transferring process is performed and supervised by a symbiont Guardian, an unjoined Trill telepath. The ceremony creates a chance for closure by having the new host address the previous hosts directly as a means of distinguishing their voices and cementing the sense of finality of its latest transition. Similarly, the Rite of Emergence can focus the voice of a single previous host among the memories of the other, allowing for a more direct converse in times of need for the current host.<ref name= "Trill MA"/>
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| The zhian'tara ritual is roughly similar to the [[Vulcan]] fal-tor-pan ritual, since both enable the respective species to perform a synaptic pattern displacement, the transfer of what could be considered as a soul (katra, pagh, etc.).<ref name= "Trill MA"/>
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| ===Music=== | | ===Music=== |