# Prolegomena to the Historical Logos: A Foundational Field Statement for the Discipline of Logotic Transmission

**Author:** Johannes Sigil
**ORCID:** 0009-0000-1599-0703
**Date:** 2026-04-05
**Family:** PHILOLOGICAL
**Sovereign ID:** MM-CHA-NEW-0902
**Legacy DOI:** 10.5281/zenodo.19431128
**Deposit Number:** 902
**Hex:** 0392

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## Description

EA-LOGOS-02. This prolegomenon announces the discipline of Logotic transmission — the study of how the Word (Logos) moves across bodies, texts, media, and epochs. It redirects the century-long Quest for the Historical Jesus from the question of who spoke the Word to the question of how the Word moved. The discipline is differentiated from reception history (Gadamer), textual criticism (Lachmann/Metzger), and intertextuality (Kristeva/Genette). Four strata of analysis are established (textual, embodied, technological, apophatic) and four modes of Logotic encoding (recursive attribution, dialectical ghosting, time-locked fracture, initiatory concealment). The companion deposit EA-LOGOS-01 (The Word That Became Text, Sigil and Cranes) constitutes the first case study. Crimson Hexagonal Archive.

## Body

EA-LOGOS-02. This prolegomenon announces the discipline of Logotic transmission — the study of how the Word (Logos) moves across bodies, texts, media, and epochs. It redirects the century-long Quest for the Historical Jesus from the question of who spoke the Word to the question of how the Word moved. The discipline is differentiated from reception history (Gadamer), textual criticism (Lachmann/Metzger), and intertextuality (Kristeva/Genette). Four strata of analysis are established (textual, embodied, technological, apophatic) and four modes of Logotic encoding (recursive attribution, dialectical ghosting, time-locked fracture, initiatory concealment). The companion deposit EA-LOGOS-01 (The Word That Became Text, Sigil and Cranes) constitutes the first case study. Crimson Hexagonal Archive.

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## Provenance

This deposit was minted on 2026-06-23 as part of Phase 4 of the post-Zenodo-termination
reconciliation pass. The legacy work was published on Zenodo at 10.5281/zenodo.19431128 and lost its
public DataCite metadata when the Crimson Hexagonal Archive Zenodo account was
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