[Vocabulary] Transcend from one chamber to the next

[Marina Gaidar]

I have a Slavonic riddle about star signs and sun which moves from one star sing to another one during the epochs. I tried to translate it into English. It was a tough task! The riddle is acrchaic. I've got this:

Sixteen Great Chambers not of wood and not of glass
Give home to prince whose being never ends.
Let more than thousand years pass
The mighty prince transcends
From one Great Chamber to the next.

The rhyme is not perfect, of course, but I don't care abou that. What troubles me is words compatibility! As usual! I don't know whether it is possible to say "transcend from something to something else". If not, give me, please, any possible synonyms.

 

[BobK]

No, it's not.

But before that, the prince needs an article. And I'm not sure what 'whose being never ends' means.;-)



b

The Sun moves or progresses. Maybe you could jiggle things around a bit, and say 'his path crosses/passes through.... [the different chambers].

 

[Marina Gaidar]

No, it's not.

And I'm not sure what 'whose being never ends' means.;-)

It means that he is immortal Does it sound stupid?

 

[BobK]

In my book, a being doesn't have an extent of time. A life does, and possibly you have a list of synonyms that gives 'being' as a synonym of 'life' (which it can be, in some contexts). But the question doesn't arise anyway, as the 'ends'/'transcends' rhyme is no longer needed (as 'transcends'doesn't mean what you want it to mean).

b

 

[emsr2d2]

Perhaps "whose existence never ends" then.

 

[Marina Gaidar]

Perhaps "whose existence never ends" then.

Oh! You are my saviour! Thank you very much!