LASCAUX CAVE, an amazing lunisolar calendar practical calendar / a solved
task / Sacred Calendar ,
and a hypothetical reconstruction of the Magdalenian
language spoken in
the Guyenne some 17,000 years ago (83 Usenet
messages, written in freestyle English; the
Usenet, you must know, is the Wild Wild West of the World Wide Web,
nevertheless a great facility, where new ideas can be developed and published)
© 2005 by Franz
Gnaedinger (www.seshat.ch) written in the
spring of 2005 [provisional version]
lascaux01.htm
/ lascaux02.htm / lascaux03.htm
/ lascaux04.htm / lascaux05.htm
midsummer / axial gallery / midwinter // composite animal
/ entrance / rotunda // apse (hall of stags or shamans) / pit
// birdman as map of Guyenne / Lascaux-Laussel
/ Venus from Laussel // Venus-Bison
(Chauvet) / Venus / Bison
// practical calendar / a
solved task / Sacred Calendar // hand - star
Very Early Calendars / Meaning and
Philosophy of KA
Why all the interest
in long bygone times? We archaeologists are hoping that by understanding the
past we may perhaps have a glimpse into the future. And how could we possibly
comprehend signals from another civilization somewhere out there in space when
we don't even understand the 'signals' from the past? the heritage of our
forebears on our own planet? All the ancient and very ancient civilizations I
studied so far reveal the same pattern: simple yet complex. This, I believe, is
the very key for success. Keep it simple and functional, thus you allow
complexity. Google follows that policy, and so, not surprisingly to me, they
are very successful. My humble glimpse into the future: if they stand by their
policy, their success may last. (quote from message
27, below)
1) We
are in the
Our shaman wishes to go further by reconciling
the lunar cycle with the solar one. He observes the sun at midsummer and
midwinter, for many years. He lays out many long lines of yellow and reddish
pebbles. And then, finally, he solves his problem with sets of 40 yellow and 41
reddish pebbles. Nine sets yield a solar year: five yellow and four reddish
sets a regular year of 365 days, six yellow and three reddish sets an
occasional leap year of 366 days.
As you have seen above, 11 lunations yield 325
days. Add a solar period of 40 yellow pebbles and you obtain a year of 365
days; add a solar period of 41 reddish pebbles and you get a leap year of 366
days.
Now the shaman draws a large square grid of 3 x
3 houses a b c d e f g h i, and presses 40 and 41 holes into the nine clay
fields, according to a symmetrical pattern:
h i b
41 40 41
g a c
40 41 40
f e d
41 40 41
Start a calendar cycle with a full moon marking
the begin of the first solar period a in the center of the grid 3x3. The moon will
move erratically across the houses of this calendar, however, it will again be
full at the begin of period i, and in the following years at the begin of the
solar periods h, g, f, e ...
2) The
lunar calendar of
I I
I I 30 29
30 29 30 29
I I I
I I 29I30
29 30 29 30
Begin at the top left corner and count cycles
of twelve lunations in counter-clockwise direction. 30 29 30 29 30 29 30 29 30
29 30 29 plus 30 29 30 29 30 ... days yield 30 59 89 118 148 177 207 236 266
295 325 354 384 413 443 472 502 ... days for 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
15 16 17 ... lunations. If you stop at the line that halves the bottom left
field you get 11 lunations yielding 325 days.
The solar calendar of
h 41
i 40 b 41
g 40
a 41 c 40
f 41
e 40 d 41
The nine houses a b c d e f g h i represent
nine solar periods and yield a regular year of 365 days. If the first period in
the center of the grid, solar period a, begins with a full moon, it will again
be full moon at the begin of the solar period i, and in the following
years at the begin of the solar periods h g f e
...
30 29 30 29 30 ... 325 ... 649 ... 974 ...
year 1)
41 41 40 41 40 41 40 41 - 325 - 40
year 2)
41 41 40 41 40 41 40 - 649 - 41 40
year 3)
41 41 40 41 40 41 - 974 - 40 41 40
and so on
Those familiar with the
3) The
stag, I believe, was the symbol of the shaman, while the giant stag Megaceros giganteus
was a symbol of the arch shaman. In the axial gallery of the
(In this view of the axial gallery you can just
recognize the head of the megaceros in the top right corner: axial gallery)
A grid of 28 times 13 houses yields the best,
namely regular representation of the lunisolar calendar of
- - - - - - - - - - - - -
- - - - - - - - - - - - -
- - - - - - - - - - S - - 82
- - - - - - - - - - - - -
- - - - - - - - - - - - -
- - - - - - - S - - - - - 163
- - - - - - - - - - - - -
- - - - - - - - - - - - -
- - - - S - - - - - - - - 244
- - - - - - - - - - - - -
M - - - - - - - - - - - - 354
- X - - - - - - - - - - - 325 days
- - - - - - - - - - - - -
- - M - - - - - - - - - - 295
- - - M - - - - - - - - - 266
- - - - - - - - - - - S - 41
- - - - M - - - - - - - - 236
- - - - - M - - - - - - - 207
- - - - - - - - S - - - - 122
- - - - - - M - - - - - - 177
- - - - - - - M - - - - - 148
- - - - - S - - - - - - - 231
- - - - - - - - M - - - - 118
- - - - - - - - - M - - - 89
- - S - - - - - - - - - - 284
- - - - - - - - - - M - - 59
- - - - - - - - - - - M - 30
S - - - - - - - - - - - - - 365 days
M
4)
Marie E.P. Koenig sees the horse in Paleolithic art as symbol of the
sun, and the bull as symbol of the moon. The ascending young mares in the
rotunda (hall of bulls) of the Lascaux cave show the morning sun, Marie Koenig
believes, while the descending horses in the small room at the rear end of the
axial gallery symbolize winter; the pair of opposing ibices (ibexes) midwinter;
and the grid of 6 fields in between them 6 winter moons, hence the winter half
year: midwinter
The rotunda leads into the axial gallery, which
ends in a small room. If the ascending mares in the rotunda symbolize the
morning sun, and if the descending horses in the small room at the rear end of
the axial gallery symbolize winter, and the opposing ibices the midwinter
solstice, then the mares in the rotunda, rising above the cave's horizon, symbolize glorious midsummer.
The ascending mares are heading for the left
wall of the axial gallery, while the Chinese
horses on the opposite wall of the axial gallery, and the red horse before
them, are heading for the rotunda. The axial gallery would then represent a
year: between midsummer and midwinter (left wall if viewed from the rotunda),
and between midwinter and midsummer (wall of Chinese horses and red horse before them).
Now for the geometrical figure between the
opposing ibices: a standing rectangle, divided by a horizontal and two vertical
lines into 3 small rectangles at the bottom and 3 tall rectangles on top of the
small ones. Modifying Marie E.P. Koenig's interpretation I propose an
underlying annual calendar:
h41 Apr01-May11 i40 May12-Jun20 b41 Aug01-Sep10
g40 Feb20-Mar31 a41 Jun21-Jul31 c40 Sep11-Oct20
f41 Jan10-Feb19 e40 Dec01-Jan09 d41 Oct21-Nov30
The 3 small rectangles of the grid
between the ibices correspond to the winter periods d e f (41 40 41 days). The
winter solstice occurs in the middle of period e, December 20/21. The summer solstice
occurs between the periods i (40 days) and a (41 days), June 20/21.
5)
Along the SW wall of the axial gallery that leads from the small
midwinter room to the wide midsummer hall run a line of ponies in their winter
coat, and ahead of them the pair of Chinese
horses ...
The Chinese
horses (resembling the Przewalski's horse, a wild subspecies discovered in
Hunting magic? I plead for an astronomical
meaning, which is revealed by the other signs that accompany the leading horse:
A twig of nine branchelets appears on the round
belly. Another twig, before the breast, has five branchelets: four under the
stem, plus the one at the end of the stem (while the four upper ones are
missing). The twig of nine branchelets may symbolize a solar year of nine
periods, beginning at midsummer, June 21 of our modern calendar, while the twig
of five branchelets only may symbolize the five cold periods that end on March
31 of our calendar.
Next to the twig of five branchelets and before
the horse's mouth appears a second sign of five elements: two horizontal lines
above; two horizontal lines below; and under the empty space between them a
vertical line. The black lines may again refer to the five cold periods of the
Lascaux calendar: upper lines 40 days each; lower lines 41 days each; vertical
line 40 days, from December 1 till January 9, in between midwinter: December
20/21.
Above the horse appears a red calendar grid,
incomplete as the one between the pair of opposing ibices in the small room of
midwinter at the rear end of the gallery. However, this time the upper side is
emphasized, and the single small square in the upper right corner evokes the
warmest period of the year that begins on the first day of our August.
So the arrows and the spear do not really
menace the Chinese horses but
symbolize the end of the five cold periods in the calendar of
6) The
shaggy ponies in the axial gallery symbolize winter, while the Chinese horses ahead of the ponies mark
the end of the five cold periods: March 31 in our calendar.
Ahead of the Chinese horses appears a jumping red horse, its round, strong and
amazingly plastic body moulded into the curvy line of 28 dots, which ascend
softly, perform a loop that hides the horse's forelegs, and then ascend very
steeply. This would be the
This sign would symbolize the four warm periods
of the year, with midsummer, New Year, in between. Upper long line: a period of
41 days, April 1 - May 11,
every eight years). Lower short line: a period
of 41 days, August 1 - September 10;
The curved dotty line belongs to the geometric
drawing under the proud stag with the antlers of a Megaceros giganteus. The 9
points of the simplified, modified and styled antlers (I compared them with the
antlers of a megaceros from
7) Now
let us have a look at a key scene in the rotunda, or hall of bulls: midsummer
A line of ponies are rising above the horizon (a
dark band of rock), while a red horse has climbed the sky and represents
midsummer.
A long red spear comes from the upper right
side and touches the head of the midsummer horse, as if saying that the solar
horse - or the
There is no hunting magic in the
When the
8) Here
again the small room of midwinter at the rear end of the axial gallery: midwinter Between the pair of opposing ibices a calendar grid pointing out the 3
winter periods (bottom fields), while the calendar grid above the leading Chinese horse denotes the 3 upper
fields, especially period b, warmest time of the year (beginning with August
1):
- - -
h i b 41 40 41 + + b
- - -
g a c 40 41 40 - - -
f e d
f e d 41 40 41 - - -
On the right side of the ibices and their
calendar grid a part of the lunar calendar (on a bulging wall, hardly
recognizable in the above picture). The same calendar, only turned around,
appears before the head of a bull:
I
I I I
30 29 30 29 30 29
I I I
I I 29I30
29 30 29 30
On a natural ledge two meters above the floor
of the nave parade a line of horses overlapped by a large cow, which, as a
bovine, is a lunar symbol. Behind the cow and under her hind legs appear 3
colored calendar grids. As far as I recognize the colors there is bright ocher
(orange), dark brown (or blueish?), and black:
brown ocher ocher ocher brown brown brown brown ocher
brown ocher ocher ocher ocher brown brown brown black
ocher brown brown brown ocher ocher brown ocher brown
The first and second patterns have
complementary colors: bright ocher in one grid turns into dark brown in the
other grid. The large cow places her hind hoofs on the second and third grid;
the left hoof on the right grid: periods h (ocher) and i (brown); and the right
hoof on the left grid: period g (brown), thus marking the solar calendar of the
horse with a bovine influence.
This calendar is a lunisolar calendar.
9)
Astronomically speaking, the lunisolar calendar of
This calendar is amazingly well expressed by
the lunar periods of 30 and 29 days, and the solar periods of 41 and 40 days:
h 41 i
40 b 41 30 29
30 29 30 29
g 40 a
41 c 40 29I30
29I30 29I30
f 41 e
40 d 41
Lunar phases are counted like this: 30 29 30
... days, yielding 30 59 89 118 148 177 207 236 266 295 325 354... days for 1 2
3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 ... lunations.
Solar phases are counted as follows: 41 41 40
41 40 41 40 days, and again 41 41 40 41 40 41 40 41 40 days, and so on,
yielding 41 82 122 163 203 244 284 325 365 days for the first year.
Multiples of 11 lunations and 8 solar periods
yield 325-325 974-974 1298-1298 1947-1947 2272-2272 2596-2596 2921-2920 days.
The lunar and the solar cycle go along for seven years, then the lunar cycle
passes the solar cycle by one day (2921 against 2920 days).
Now let us have a look at the exact multiples
of 11 synodic months and 8/9 tropical years (modern values):
324.836...
649.672... 974.509... 1299.345...
324.659...
649.319... 973.978... 1298.638...
1624.182...
1949.018... 2273.855... 2598.691...
1623.298...
1947.958... 2272.618... 2597.277...
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10)
Having established all the mathematical tools required for calculating
the Lascaux calendar, and having found that over a period of 8 years the lunar
cycle will pass the sun by one day (exactly 1.59073... days), we may have
another look at the key scene in the rotunda: midsummer If a full moon occurs at
midsummer, begin of period a in the lunisolar calendar of Lascaux, it will
again occur at the begin of period h, while the following years will see a full
at the begin of the periods h g f e d c b a -- within 8 years we are back to
the original constellation, a midsummer full moon.
However, not really, for the lunar cycle has
advanced by one day according to the Lascaux numbers (exactly 1.59073... days),
and this very situation, I believe, is shown in the midsummer hall or New
Year's hall: behind the red horse appears a white bull, going along with the
horse, but also passing the horse ...
Going along with the midsummer horse means: the
knew that the lunar cycle is slightly swifter
than the solar one.
Before the head of the bull appears a sign of 3
times 3 elements, which evoke the calendar of 3 times 3 fields or periods, and
may say that the solar calendar does also belong to the moon.
If you are so lucky to own a copy of the 1988
issue of the National Geographic, you may look up the beautiful panorama on the
pages 482-3-4. On the upper left side you see the big head of the midsummer
bull; below him a black horse; before him a red horse and an opposing bull; and
in the free space of that meaningful scene three small stags with proud
antlers, looking toward the midsummer bull and midsummer horse: these would be
astronomer shamans observing the sun and moon in midsummer - throughout the
whole year, but especially during midsummer. And the megaceros in the gallery
might honor the astronomer genius who had discovered that marvelous lunisolar
calendar ...
11)
Paleontology relies on bones, for example in the case of Sahelanthropus
or Toumai, Child of Hope, a hominid (now confirmed), seven million years old
(twice as old as Lucy, who, presumably, was a Lucian). Archaeology relies on
artifacts, for example in the case of the some 400,000 years old spears of Homo
heidelbergensis. And history relies on documents we can read. When we can read
the signs and pictures in the
For the fun of it: let me look out for the
language that might have been spoken by the
A first Guyan word or word-root is easily
found: ac. Richard Fester drew a map of
12).. Etymology is fun, so let me go on looking
out for words in the Old Magdalenian language I call Guyan (ghi-an).
The first word ac means a large area of land with
water, where animals are grazing, especially horses, cows and bulls. The
largest ac is the
Have a look at a pair of drawings that place
the birdman into a map of the rivers of the Guyenne, whereby the Gironde forms
the beak (the colors of the first drawing should be a red ocher for the
birdman, a yellow green for the land, and a deep blue for the rivers): birdman as map of Guyenne / Lascaux
Laussel
The world is made of nine ac: the Guyenne in
the center, surrounded by the ac of marshes and sea (W), Britanny (NW),
northern France (N), Switzerland, where mammoths survived until 10,000 years
ago, and where Magdalenian hunters from the Rhone Valley had been spending
summer (NE), Rhone Valley (E), Mediterrannean (SE), Spain (S and SE). The
heavenly counterpart of the 9 earthly ac are the nine ac of the sun horse and
moon bull. So the lunisolar calendar grid of
Richard Fester says that names of places can
persist for a very long time. A hamlet of shacks by the name of Niffer in
southern
If the name of the Guyenne should go back to
Magdalenian times, 'Guy' might originally have imitated the call of a bird:
ghi, sharper ki (seagull?).
The ruler of an ac may have been a sh'ac. The
birdman of the Guyenne would have been the ghi'shac. Later on, ghishac may have
designated every worthy dweller of the Guyenne, simply meaning human being
(perhaps real human being). The word ghi'shac would survive in the French names
Guy and Jacques, and in the Basque word gizaki, man, human. (Yes, Jacques Guy,
I find this very funny.)
13) A
further word in Guyan (ghi-an), the language spoken by the Magdalenian dwellers
of the Guyenne, is provided by a map: Languedoc, a province in southeastern
France. The name Languedoc comes from langue d'oc, a southern form of French
that uses the word oc for eye*, whereas the eye is called oeuil in northern
France. Oc might well have been a Magdalenian word for eye, also for the verb
looking, to look, and for the call: look. *(That mistake will be corrected in
the next message or chapter)
An ac, we have seen, was an expanse of green
land with a hill and water, where horses and bisons have been grazing.
Paleontologists are assuming that a clan or tribe needed 40 to 60 kilometers of
land along a river. Hunting deer, fishing salmon, and gathering herbs and
berries on such an expanse of land requires good eyes. Picture yourself
watching out for deer. When you happen to see one you will alert your hunting
comrades, but of course without alarming the deer. Softly croaking oc oc oc may
well do. In my language it would be a soft: lueg lueg. In English: look look.
And the same word can be shouted out loud, alarming your comrades of a danger:
OC - watch out, careful, attention ..
The word oc for eye would have become oculus in
Rome, from where it returned to Gaul, where it was kept in the southern
province of Langedoc, while it became oeil in northern France, ojo in Spain,
eye in England, Auge in German. The same oc became eg in Basque begi for eye;
ik in Basque ikusi for see (will also be corrected); and ok in Basque osoko for
eye again (apparently a rarer word than begi). The oc root is also present in
English look, German lug, lugen (rarely used, a deer looking out from bushes
does lugen), in Swiss German lueg, luege, a very common word, which turned the
original oc into eg, pronounced ag, looag. And there is the lovely and funny
English word ogle ...
14) Oc,
we have seen, means eye, also: I look, and: look. A further meaning of oc may
be darling (eye apple). My mon mio
mein - the possessive mine could have been, say, ma. Now we need light for to
see. Let me propose lic for light. Latin lux was light; Hittite luk was the
morning light, Hittite luha was the verb to shine. Seeing the sun rise makes
happy, and so does looking into the eyes of one's darling. Well then, let me
propose the same word for luck. Ancient Greek leukos means shining, white,
bringing luck. Richard Fester mentions Nordic lykt for light and lykka for
luck. The German words are Licht and Glueck, close to the English words light
and luck.
Now we have all the words we nee for declaring
our love to a Magdalenian sweetheart: Oc lic ma oc. This means: I see light in
your eyes, my darling, I am happy, I am so very happy, and look, there is light
in my own eyes, meant to make you happy too.
You may convey the same message by giving your
darling a pretty, small, round and shining white pebble as symbol of a shining eye,
and if you give her that sign of your affection secretly, or send it via a
messenger, it would be a Magdalenian love letter ...
15) If
ac was land, ca might have been the sky (s-ca-y). Combine ca for sky with lic
for light and you obtain calic for a bright, luminous sky. The word calic might
have traveled along the Ligurian coast (lig lic, hence a bright shore) into
Italy, where it would have turned into coelus for sky; lic alone into lux; and
into lum in illuminare. The lum form is kept in French lumière.
Indirect evidence comes from archaic caliginous
for misty, dim, dark, going back on Latin caliginosus for misty.
Ca-lig-in-osus. Here you have a ca for sky, and lig for light, yielding bright
sky, followed by in, which would be a negation: no, not a bright sky, a misty
one; a dim or dark sky. In/un is a very common negation in Western European
languages and may thus be very old. If 'calic (stress on ca) or ca'lic (stress
on lic) was a bright sky, calic'in (stress on in) would have been a misty, dim
or dark sky.
Basque zeru for sky goes along with ca and
coelus, while urdin for blue might explain a further part of
"Liguria" on the Côte d'Azur: blue coast, Lig-ur-ia. If -ia should be
a form of ac, we might read: lic-ur-ac, land (shore) of light and blue. The
form ac-ur as name for a stretch of land by the blue sea would have become
azur, a deep and beautiful blue as seen along the Ligurian coast.
Now, in the context of a lunisolar calendar, we
need words for the sun and moon. The word for the sun might have been ca'leq,
leq being a form of lic, namely the brillant light provided by the sun, while
the rump –eq would have become equus, horse, in Latin (and eguzki, sun, in
Basque). The word for the moon might have been ca'lun, lun meaning the light provided
by a full moon. Ca'lun would have become se'lenae in ancient Greek, and 'luna
in Latin. Caleq caleq caleq caleq … for the gallopping sun horse, calun calun
calun calun … for the running moon bull . If the above deductions hold, light
(going along with luck) would be a very old word, since there are so many old
versions: lic lig leq lun lux lum luk (Hittite for morning light, while Greek
leukos means shining white, bringing luck), and so lic might even come from,
say, Dolni Vestonice, and be some 26,000 years old.
16)
Miguel Carrasquer corrected my silly mistake regarding Languedoc. I
should have known that oc means aye, not eye. I learned that in school, a long
time ago. Funny that so many words for yes and eye sound similar: aye ay I
(yes), eye eie ie (eye); oeil uelh (eye), oui(l) (yes). Old English I for aye
allows even three words: yes, eye, and me.
Let me try a modification of my thesis
regarding oc and yes. The early form of saying yes might have been a firm look
into the eyes of the person to whom you make a promise or give an answer. When
a mother asks her child: did you do the homework?, and the child mumbles an
answer, the mother may say: look me in the eye ... A look into the eye, perhaps
going along with a nod, may have been the first yes. When a word was needed,
the situation of one pair of eyes locking with another pair of eyes might have
been imitated by saying oc oc, meaning eye eye; (confirmed from) eye (to) eye.
However, oc oc sounds rather silly. A better word would be a combination of two
words for eye, say, oc-il. This word could have turned into Latin oculus for
eye, and survived in Basque jakile, see, look, also man, human (I am not really
sure about jakile). Oc-il, eye eye, might have given rise to Latin hoc ille for
yes, meaning: this that, maybe: this (pair of eyes and) that (pair of eyes).
When the Romans brought their language to Gaul, hoc ille could easily have been
adopted, since the old meaning was shining through, so hoc became oc in
southern Gaul, the old word for eye, while ille became uelh for eye, keeping a
memory of the old il for eye. And in northern Gaul hoc ille became oui(l) for
yes, and oeuil for eye. The English (or rather Scottish?) aye aye sir would be
another version of eye eye, from eye to eye, from man to man. One might even
muse whether the somewhat mysterious okay combines the old oc with an eye, or
rather doubles the oc, since the Old English forms of eye were ege and eage
(oll/orl korrekt, and O-ld K-inderhook Club, would then be false explanations).
The il-word for eye could have survived as pars
pro toto in French cil, eyelash(es), and oc-il or oc-cil might have turned into
Sanskrit aksi for eye.
17)
Provisional first glossary of Guyan, pronounced ghi-an, hypothetical
language spoken in the Magdalenian Guyenne, on the substratum of a much older
paleolithic language, delivered in three messages
AC - an expanse of green land with water, where
horses and bisons are grazing and drinking, surviving in names of rivers
(Richard Fester), in Galloroman acum-names of villages, also in Latin ager
(agricultura)
SH'AC - ruler of an ac, surviving in the name
Jacques, Jacobus, Giaccobo, Jacob, Jack, Jakob, also in Arabic sheik, Persian
shah, Japanese shogun (titles mentioned by Richard Fester as versions of his
TAG word)
GHI (sharper ki) - call of the seagull, name of
the birdman, surviving in the name of the Guyenne as land of the birdman,
especially the Gironde and Dordogne, and in the French name Guy
GHI SH'AC - birdman, ruler of the Guyenne, over,
say, some 30 clans of some 500 persons each; then the word for human being in
general (perhaps: real human being) used for any worthy dweller of the Guyenne;
surviving in the French names Guy and Jacques, also in Basque gizaki for man,
human (according to Miguel Carrasquer Vidal also for human flesh: giza-ki; then
perhaps a composite: ghi'sh'ac gizak gizak-ki gizaki)
CA (inverse of AC) - sky (s-ca-y), nine
heavenly ac of the solar horse and lunar bull. The grids of 3 times 3 fields in
the Lascaux cave would be a world map of nine large ac, the Guyenne in the
middle; and the same map would represent the nine heavenly ac of the solar
horse and lunar bull above the nine earthly ones ...
18) LIC
- bright, light, luck; a very old word occurring and surviving in many forms,
for example in Latin lux, coe-lum, il-lum-inare, French lumière, Hittite luk
for morning light, Greek leukos for shining, white, bringing luck, in German
Licht and Glueck (the initial g- being a plural according to Richard Fester), in
English light and luck, in Nordic lykt and lykka (Richard Fester)
CA LIC - bright sky, became early Latin
cae-lum, and later coe-lum for sky, while lic alone became lux
CA LIC IN - not a bright sky (negation), a
misty sky, a dim or even dark sky, Latin ca-lig-in-osus for misty sky; negation
surviving in the forms in- un- (a-)
CA LEQ - solar horse, leq meaning the light
coming from the sun; onomatopoiesis: caleq caleq caleq caleq ... for the
gallopping sun horse; rump -eq developed into Latin equus for horse, and Basque
eguzki for sun
CA LUN - lunar bull, lun meaning the light of
the full moon; onomatopoiesis: calun calun calun calun ... for the running moon
bull; ca'lun became Greek se'lenae and Latin 'luna
UR - blue, deep blue of sky and sea, especially
along the Ligurian coast (linguistic bridge between Guyenne and Latium)
AC UR - land blue - land by the blue sea,
especially the Ligurian coastline known as
LIG UR AC - bright blue land - bright land
along the blue sea:
19) OC
- eye, man (a responsible person who can look into your eyes), also darling (eye apple); as a verb: see or look;
imperavtive: look; warning: watch out, careful, attention. Became Latin oculus,
and survives in many forms: Italian occhio, Spanish ojo, English eage ege ie
eie eye, German oug aug Auge, English look, German lugen lug (rare), gucken
guck, Swiss German luege lueg (pronounced looag), English ogle ...
CIL (inverse of LIC for bright, light, luck) -
a second word for eye, survived as pars pro toto in French cil for eyelash(es)
OC (C)IL - eye eye: from eye to eye, from man
to man; an early form of yes. Originally a look into the eyes, perhaps
accompanied by a nod. Became Sanskrit aksi for eye, and Latin hoc ille, this
that, for yes, perhaps meaning: This pair of eyes and That pair of eyes: from
eye to eye, from man to man. Hoc ille became oc for yes and uelh for eye in
southern Gaul (Languedoc), oui(l) for yes and oeil for eye in northern Gaul,
keeping a memory of the old forms oc and cil for eye, oc(c)il for eye eye, from eye to eye, from man to
man. Eye eye might survive in English I ay aye "Aye aye, sir." Yes
goes back to the c/k/g word gese. Okay is explained in two ways: either as
abbreviation of oll/orl korrekt, or as keeping a memory of an O(ld)
K(inderhook) Club. If these explanations should be insufficient, one might
consider a possible old root of ok-ay meaning eye eye: confirmed from eye to
eye; agreed upon from man to man and "sealed" by a firm look into
each other's eyes
MA - mou meus mei mio mia mis mi meu mon ma mes
mijn mine min mit -m mai mein mine my
OC LIC MA OC - eye/see light/luck my/mine
eye/darling, meaning much as I love you:
I see light in your eyes, my darling, I am happy, I am so very happy, and look,
there is light in my eyes, meant to make you happy too!
20) If
the geographical names Liguria and Côte d'Azur go back to very old words, the
original names might have been lic-ur-ac, bright land by the blue sea, and
ac-ur, land by the blue sea.
The Basque word for blue is urdin; the Irish
and Gaelic word grom, pronounced gorom, whereby ac-ur would have become gor- in
the spoken version gorom.
There is also a resemblance between ac-ur and
ocher. So ur may not only mean blue, but a conspicuous color, whether blue or
red: land by the blue sea in the case of Liguria and the Côte d'Azur; red land,
red earth in the case of ocher.
The Irish and Gaelic word for red is deorg,
pronounced d(j)arak. This time ur-ac would have become -arak in the spoken form
d(j)arak.
An older archaeological atlas I have at home
shows me that the Magdalenian culture comprised the Provence and the Ligurian
shoreline. So it could well have been that ocher from Siena was traded along
the Ligurian coast and reached the Guyenne. If so, we may perhaps speak of a
Magdalenian Ocher Road (in analogy to the later Silk Road) from Siena along the
Ligurian shore to the Guyenne and Cantabria, and lic-ur-ac would have had a
double meaning involving the colors red and blue: especially fine and precious
red earth (namely from the region of Siena) transported along the bright land
(shoreline) of the blue sea (namely the Ligurian coast including the Côte
d'Azur).
Picture a Magdalenian dweller of the Côte
d'Azur on an evening, looking across the Ligurian Sea, where a yellow or even
reddish full moon rises above the horizon. How beautiful! Upon rising higher,
the moon turns a silvery white, loosing its colors. Where do they go? They must
fall as a fine shower of dust on Tuscany across the wide Ligurian bay, and this
must be the reason for the yellow and even reddish earth in the region of
Siena.
The name of the moon was calun, and the
original name of Siena was ca-lun-ac, moon earth. When calun became Greek
selenae and Latin luna, calunac became seluna, and then Siena ...
(A phenomenon of red dust occurs in Italy and
rarely even in Switzerland: fine dust of an amazingly strong color from the
Sahara)
21) We
have seen two inversions: ac for land along water, ca for sky; lic for bright,
light, luck, and cil for eye. The first word for eye is oc. Also the inverse
form co might hold meaning. As far as I know, Basque gogoan means reasoning,
thinking. One may also think of Latin cogitare for reasoning, thinking;
actually co-agitare, gathering knowledge together in one's mind. Sapere, to
know, has the meaning of taking in knowledge as if by eating. According to
Miguel Carrasquer Vidal, the same applies to Basque jakile, knower, originally
taster. Comparing seeing with eating has a psychological truth to it: children
have to learn about the world by touching, and if possible by sticking things
into their mouth, only then can they fully develop their visual sense.
Co as Guyan word for reasoning would survive in
co- con- com-, and may even originally have had the meaning of together,
wherein (if true) I see a fine piece of Stone Age philosophy that will be valid
for all times.
Reasoning involves other people. I get precious
help by Miguel Carrasquer Vidal, who explains Basque words to me (thank you very
much, Miguel). I rely on books by other people, for example on a book by
Richard Fester with inspiring explanations and tables of his ACQ KALL TAG BA
words. I am "hunting" words, while the Stone Age people have been
hunting animals, which required cooperation, planning, reasoning. When I
reflect my own situation in life I do it in respect of other people: with whom
can I go along, how shall I behave with this or that person, and so on. I try
to get the best possible for me, and by doing so I support my community, for a
society depends on the ability of a large majority of its members to maintain
their own life; on the other hand I do favors to other people, thus I earn
respect, which helps me leading my own life. You can look at reasoning in any
which way, there is always a co- involved.
22) In
my previous message I argued that Magdalenian co meant reasoning; as inverse of
oc for eye and to see. The word co would survive in the modern prefixes co-
con- com-, implying that reasoning always involves a co, a together - either we
are putting together impressions and experiences for ourselves, or we are
planning common actions, or we consider our own life with regard to our
respective communities, or ponder what we can do for others, either by means of
actual deeds, or then by gathering knowledge that may be useful for our
respective societies.
A wonderful and witty illustration of this can
be found at the entrance of the Lascaux cave. As I shall explain in a later
message, that cave served for initiating aspiring sh'ac (lairds of the some 30
clans in the then Guyenne), and this would have happened at midsummer. The
original entrance allowed daylight to shine into the cave. It would have been
closed during the year, and opened during the midsummer weeks. Now picture
yourself an aspiring sh'ac gazing into that famous cave. The rock resembles an
eye socket, and looking into the cave you see a strange animal running behind a
horse: composite animal / entrance
/ rotunda Let me quote from the October
1988 issue of the National Geographic: Creature
of imagination has the hind end of a bison, the belly of a pregnant mare, the
front legs of a feline, a mottled hide, and two straight horns - although it
was once dubbed the unicorn. Some observers see in the odd head the profile of
a bearded man. Is it a shaman in animal dress? Or a creature drawn from a
verbal description? I think it is a witty illustration of what a sh'ac has
to be: powerful as a bison (a man), caring as a pregnant mare (a woman and
mother), decided as a feline, and making a mindful and reasonable use of
weapons, which is why the lances grow as horns out of the head of this human
animal ... Which, as a meaningful composite, illustrates the sense of the
Magdalenian word co for reasoning, and goes along with oc for eye.
23) By
considering French words beginning with c/k/g-a I stumbled over galet, polished
pebble. If this word should go back to a Magdalenian word, it may have been
ca-let, meaning sky-stone: a perfect word for the walls and ceilings of a
painted cave, especially for Lascaux, where ca-leq horses represent the sun,
and ca-lun bulls the moon on their respective journeys across the sky (Marie
E.P. Koenig; confirmed by the newly discovered lunisolar calendar in the
Lascaux cave).
Now the word ca-let is close to ca-leq. Even
too close. How can we possibly resolve that problem? By trying a different
pronounciation for ca-let. We produce our 't' by placing the tip of the tongue
to the upper front theeth and quickly pulling it back. An other 't' may be
produced by sticking the tip of the tongue to the lips, and then quickly
retiring it. If you have a problem doing this, you may say: these these these
these ..., each time sticking the tongue out a little further.
The impression you get by doing so is one of
spitting, and this would make perfect sense. Michel Lorblanchet has very
covincingly demonstrated that the Paleolithic cave paintings had actually been
_spat_ at the walls. By placing his hands for templates on a wall, or by using
other templates, and spitting colors onto the stone, he produced a really
remarkable copy of the Pech Merle horses, hand negatives, dots, a salmon, a
medusa (Michel Lorblanchet, Les Grottes Ornèes de la Prèhistoire, Nouveaux
regards, Editions Errance, Paris 1995). By spitting colors on the walls, Michel
Lorblanchet believes, the cave painters gave life in form of warm moisture and
breath to their creations. Very plausible to me. So if ca-let means the stone
of a cave's wall and ceiling, the t at the end would be a "spitting"
t, henceforth given as t-: (lip t). And so it came that let-: for stone could
turn both into Greek lithos (a t-form) and Latin lapis (a p-form).
24)
Right hand mhayn, left hand clyn, right foot p'hed, left foot yolg.
Mhayn: man - manus (Latin), hay - cheiros
(Greek), mayn - main (French), han - hand (English) Hand (German); han - handle
(English) handeln (German); man (English) Mann (German); right manner (English)
manière (French)
Clyn: cl - claw (English) Klaue (German) klon
(Tibetic), cyn - kynnae (Finnish); cyn - sinister for left (Latin), (c)lyn -
links for left (German); clyn - cling, clinch (English)
P'hed: ped - pedes for feet (Latin), p(e)d -
podoi for feet (Greek), p'hed - pied for foot (French), ph(e)d - foot (English)
Fuss (German) // preferred by so-called Indo-European languages
Yolg: jalga for foot (Ugric-Altaic) juolge
(Lappish) jalka (Finnish); jog, jolly jollies, jail (English), Schalk for
rogue, prankster (German)
Note a preference for the right hand and foot,
whereas the left hand is rather a claw, meant to hold firmly a piece of work,
while the usually more skilled right hand does the actual work. The form of the
right foot served for both feet in Latin and Greek, while the left foot may
perhaps be associated with a funny behaving - jolly jollies Schalk - which,
however, can bring you in jail. Latin sinister has also a negative connotation.
(Negative aspect may be limited to "Indo-European")
Calling each hand and foot with a name of its
own would have been helpful for hunters. Imagine a group of men lying on the
ground, watching the ac (land) before them. If one of them notes a bull, say, in
the area covered by the left arm, he may simply whisper: clyn. - Picture a
hunter lying on his belly, looking northward. Now one may name astronomical
directions: rising midsummer sun mhayn, setting midsummer sun clyn, rising
midwinter sun
p'hed, setting midwinter sun yolg ...
'Yolg' for the setting midwinter sun and 'yolk'
may be more than a pretty coincidence.
The right hand mhayn would prevail in the
astronomical sense, as it names the rising midsummer sun. And the same word
mhayn could have given rise to the word man - someone who behaves in the right
manner.
25) The
hypothetical names for the left and right hand and foot are mhayn and clyn,
p'hed and yolg. We might use them for numbers: mhayn 5, clyn 10, p'hed 15, yolg
20. Let me propose dig for 1, inspired by Latin digitus for finger; du for 2,
inspired by Latin duo for 2; der for 3, inspired by Latin ter for thrice; and
dag for 4, inspired by Greek daktylos for finger, also by Turkish dag for
mountain: the supreme Hittite god Teshub, god of the Celestial Weather, ruled
from mountain tops, where he overlooked the four regions of the world.
Now for my Magdalenian numbers. Common people
(I claim) learned how to count from 1 to at least 28:
1 dig 2
du 3 der
4 dag 5 mhayn 6 mhay()-dig
7 mhay-du 8 mhay-der 9 mhay-dag
10 clyn 11 clyn-dig 12 clyn-du
13 clyn-der 14 clyn-dag 15 p'hed
16 p'he()-dig 17 p'he-du 18 p'he-der
19 p'he-dag 20 yolg 21 yol()-dig
22 yol-du 23 yol-der 24 yol-dag
25 yol-mhayn 26 yol-mhay-dig 27 yol-mhay-du 28 yol-mhay-der
Tributes to the sh'ac and shaman of a clan were
due every 28 days, for each family on another day, 13 or clyn-der times a year,
from which came Latin calendare, pay tribute, on the calendae, at the begin of
a month, and from this comes our word calendar ...
Higher numbers include multiples of 20 and are
formed in the peculiar way the French are counting from 80 to 99
(quatre-vingt-dix-neuf, 4x20 plus 10 plus 9):
30
29 yol-clyn yol-mhay-dag
(lunar periods)
41
40 du-yol-dig du-yolg
(solar periods)
325 p'he-dig-yol-mhayn (16x20)+5
lunisolar number
13
28 clyn-der yol-mhay-der
rhythm of tributes
364
365 p'he-der-yol-dag p'he-der-yol-mhayn year
26)
- - - - - o o o o o o o o yol-mhay-der
- - - - - o o o o o o o o yol-mhay-du
- - - - - o o o o o o o o yol-mhay-dig
- - o o o o o o o o S o o yol-mhayn
M - - - - o o o o o o o o yol-dag
- M - - - o o S o o o o o yol-der
- - - - - o o o o o o o o yol-du
- - M - - o o o o o o o o yol-dig
- - - M S o o o o o o o o yolg
- - - - - o o o o o o o o p'he-dag
) - - - M o W o o o o o o p'he-der
- X - - - M o o o o o o o p'he-du
- - - - - o o o o o o o o p'he-dig
- - ) - - o M o o o o o o p'hed
- - - ) - o o M o o o o o clyn-dag
- - - - - o o o o o o S o clyn-der
- - - - ) x x o M o o o o clyn-du
- - - - - ) o o o M o o o clyn-dig
- - - - - o o o S o o o o clyn
- - - - - o ) o o o M o o mhay-dag
- - - - - o o ) o o o M o mhay-der
- - - - - S o o o o o o o mhay-du
- - - - - o o o ) o o o M mhay-dig
- - - - - o o o o ) o o o mhayn
- - S - o o o o o o o o o dag
- - - - o o o o o o ) o o der
- - - - o o o o o o o ) o du
S -
- - - o o o o o o o o o dig
)
Picture the above table on a clay bank in a
cave, layed out with small pebbles of various colors. this would be the
practical calendar, as indicated by the geometrical signs under the megaceros
in the axial gallery of the Lascaux cave. - Let us read the record of the
shaman. Before New Year (June 21) occured a waxing moon (small arc at the right
base). The same lunar phase will occur again on the days marked with further
small arcs. A full moon occured mhay-dig (16) days ater New Year, first M. All
the further full moons can be predicted by counting mhay-dig (16) positions
upward from the arcs. We are now in row mhay-dag (9), line dag (4). Since New
Year have passed clyn-dig-yol-mhay-der (228) days; since Midwinter W du-yol-du
(42) days. We have day yol-mhayn (25) of the winter period der (3) in the
Sacred Calendar of mhay-dag (9) ca-leq (solar) periods S (February 1). All
families have payed their tributes, family yol-mhayn even der (3) times in
advance; only the clyn-du family couldn't pay, already du times.
You see, one can actually work on a Mac Lascaux using Magdalenian Windows ... The names of the numbers, derived from
so-called Indo-European and non-Indo-European word fields, are well
pronounceable, distinct (so they won't be confounded), and in most cases
shorter than the English ones.
27) Why
all the interest in long bygone times? We archaeologists are hoping that by
understanding the past we may perhaps have a glimpse into the future. And how
could we possibly comprehend signals from another cilization somewhere out
there ins space when we don't even understand the 'signals' from the past? the
heritage of our forebears on our own planet? All the ancient and very ncient
civilizations I studied so far reveal the same pattern: simple yet complex. This,
I believe, is the very key for success. Keep it simple and functional, thus you
allow complexity. Google follows that policy, and so, not surprisingly to me,
they are very successful. My humble glimpse into the future: if they stand by
their policy, their success may last.
In my previous message I presented the
practical version of the lunisolar calendar of Lascaux, as layed out in a
variety of colored pebbles on a clay bank in a cave, and jokingly dubbed it a
Mac Lascaux using Magdalenian Windows. Upon sending my message I noticed a
resemblance of Mac and Mag-, and on my daily walk, especially nice in spring, a
chain of quick associations led me to a possible poetic explanation for Magdalenian.
Mhay ac dal lun ac, abbreviated to
m'ac-da'-lun-ac - five land valley moonshine land - five expanses of land
belonging to the wide land of the moonshine valley ...
Mhayn ac would have been abbreviated to m'ac,
and may designate five clans that form a larger connumity in a river valley.
The chieftain of such a community of five (up to five) clans might have bee a
mac, which title would survive in the Scottish name Mac, and his wife would
have been a mha'a' or Maja, which title would survive in the name Maya and
Maja, while the name Magdalena would keep a memory of mac-da-lun-ac, meaning a
girl or a woman of the Moonshine Valley. English maid; Old German magdelin (if
memory serves), became Maedchen for girl, also Magd for maid-sevant. A German
Meyer Meier Mayer Mayr was the chief of a farm with manor, houses, workshops,
stables and all, and the same may perhaps be true for Scottish muir (as in Alan
Dunsmuir): once a title, then a name.
He have a new word: dal for valley, surviving
in German Tal, probably also in French val, Italian valle, English valley. Lun
is the light coming from the moon. Ca-lun is the moon (actually moonshine). The
Moonshine Valley would be the valley of the winding river Vézère with Montignac
/ Lascaux, Belcayre, La Madeleine, Les Eyzies, Bara-Bahau.
Girls and women called Magdalena, Madeleine,
Maddalena, have then a name that originally meant a Maya from the Moonshine
Valley in the Dordogne, which has been dubbed Land of Game and Honey in the
October 1988 issue of the National Geographic.
28) As
we have seen last time, m'ac-da'-lun-ac, surviving in Magdalena and
Magdalenian, means five regions of the Moonshine Valley, namely the valley of
the winding river Vézère with Montignac / Lascaux, Belcayre, La Madeleine, Les
Eyzies, and Bara-Bahau. That river valley is really winding, and, funny enough,
a same winding line appears when we note the moon phases 30 29 30 ... in a
different way than before. Regular way: begin at the right bottom corner and
count always upward. Alternative way: begin at the same corner, but count to
the left side, then to the right side, then again to the left side, and so on,
always making horizontal U-turns:
- -
- - - - - - - - - - - I - - o - - - - - - - - - -
- -
- - - - - - - - - - - I - - - - - - - - - - - - -
- -
- - - - - - - - - - - I - - - - - - - - - - - - -
- -
- - - - - - - - - - - I o - - - - - - - - - - - -
- -
- - - - - - - - - - - I - - - - - - - - - - - - -
- -
- - - - - - - - - - - I - - - - o - - - - - - - -
- -
- - - - - - - - - - - I - - - - - - - - - - - - -
- -
- - - - - - - - - - - I - - - - - - - o - - - - -
- -
- - - - - - - - - - - I - - - - - - - - - - - - -
- -
- - - - - - - - - - - I - - - - - - - - - - - o -
o -
- - - - - - - - - - - I - - - - - - - - - - - - -
- o
- - - - - - - - - - - I - - - - - - - - - - - - -
- -
- - - - - - - - - - - I - - - - - - - - - - - o -
- -
o - - - - - - - - - - I - - - - - - - - - - - - -
- -
- o - - - - - - - - - I - - - - - - - o - - - - -
- -
- - - - - - - - - - - I - - - - - - - - - - - - -
- -
- - o - - - - - - - - I - - - - o - - - - - - - -
- -
- - - o - - - - - - - I - - - - - - - - - - - - -
- -
- - - - - - - - - - - I o - - - - - - - - - - - -
- -
- - - - o - - - - - - I - - - - - - - - - - - - -
- -
- - - - - o - - - - - I - - - - - - - - - - - - -
- -
- - - - - - - - - - - I - - o - - - - - - - - - -
- -
- - - - - - o - - - - I - - - - - - - - - - - - -
- -
- - - - - - - o - - - I - - - - - - o - - - - - -
- -
- - - - - - - - - - - I - - - - - - - - - - - - -
- -
- - - - - - - - o - - I - - - - - - - - - o - - -
- -
- - - - - - - - - o - I - - - - - - - - - - - - -
- -
- - - - - - - - - - - I - - - - - - - - - - - - -
29) I
don't know how the rock-shelter La Madeleine got its name, nevertheless I found
a poetic explanation for Madeleine and Magdalenian: m'ac-da'lun-ac, long
version mhayn-ac-da-lun-ac, meaning five regions of the wide land of the
Moonshine Valley, namely the winding river valley of the Vézère in the
Dordogne.
The cave is between the rock-shelter La
Madeleine and Montignac with the Lascaux cave is called Belcayre, which name
sounds rather ancient to me. Let me try to explain it by means of a word root
found by Richard Fester, present for example in Basque beloo for warmth. Other
versions of that common word are e.g. Lappish boaldet and buoll for burn,
Finnish pola and Lappish buella for fire, also Baal and further mythological
names including Volcano, which testify to a very old word meaning warmth, fire,
burn, heat. If so, there would be a very interesting combination: ca-bal, sky
heat, for the red summer sun horse, as in the rotunda or midsummer hall of the
Lascaux cave. Ca-bal would survive in Spanish caballo, Italian cavallo, French
cheval. Onomatopoiesis: cabal cabal cabal cabal ... for a horse running on soft
ground.
So there would be two words for the sun-horse: caleq
and ca-bal, perhaps also ca-bel.
Bal might have meant heat, bel warmth. Belcayre
may go back to a hypothetical composite bel-ca-ur-ac, meaning warm sky blue
land - land under a warm blue summer sky (ca meaning sky; ur a color, often
blue, sometimes also red like sometimes a morning sky or an evening sky; ac
being an expanse of land with water, inhabited by a clan).
30) We
found several inverse forms: ac for land with water, and ca for sky; oc for eye
and to see, co for reasoning; dal for valley, lad for hill.
Bal meant heat and hot, bel warmth and warm.
The inverse of bal would be lab and could have meant cold, coldness. This word
may have survived in Lapland, meaning cold land perhaps also in Greek labros
for wild, stormy, if originally referring to winter storms on a cold northern
coast. The inverse of bel would not have been cool as opposite of warm, but
lips (lèvres in French, labbre in Italian), from which comes warm breath ...
Pesh might have been the word for fish, Latin
pesces, French poisson, and for swim, as in French piscine for swimming pool.
The name of the cave Pech Merle could also refer to pesh, the more so as the
well-known scene of two horses and several hand negatives comprises a salmon
and a medusa.
The river Vézère was teeming with salmon, and
so pesh might have served as name for the number 400, given as a 'school' of 20
by 20 pebbles. If so, we are now living in the year mhay-pesh-mhayn (5 times
400 plus 5) AD.
The inverse of pesh would be sheb, and this
could have been the name of smaller and medium-sized land animals, a word that
would survive in sheep, French chèvre for goat, chevreau for kid, chevreuil for
roe-deer and roebock. It may also be the origin of Latin ibex. Sheb as verb may
have meant run. Shdeb could have been walk, surviving for example in step,
while shdib may have been the word for shoes or boots: leather wound around the
feet and lower legs, filled with moss, a pleasure to walk with, as experimental
archaeology has proved. This word root survives in many forms and languages, no
need to quote them all here. I dare say that this (of course hypothetical) word
goes back to at least Dolni Vestonice, 26,000 BP. For the fun of it, let me
give that number in Guyan: der-yol-mhay-pesh, 3x 20 plus 5 yield 65, and 65 x
400 yields 26,000.
31)
Dal, we found, may have meant valley. The inverse, lad, may then mean
hill. The origin of "ladder" was something that slopes.
Ac was an expanse of land with water, where
horses and bisons were grazing, and which was inhabited by a clan. The inverse,
ca, means sky.
Ur was a consipcuous color, especially a blue
sky, or the deep blue of the river Vézère; also red, the sky on some mornings,
when the su rises, and evenings, when the sun sets (ur survives in French azur
and vermeuil).
Now combine the three words: lad-ca-ur, and you
obtain hill sky color, which may be the origin of Lascaux, meaning hill of the painted sky within ...
The Lascaux cave is found some two kilometers from
the village Montignac on the Vézère, in a limestone massive that forms a flat
round hill. So the name Hill of the Painted Sky Within would be well
appropriate for that marvellous masterwork, which was discovered only in 1940,
der-yol-mhayn (65) years ago, and is already decaying. Our time, the Early
Concrete Age, is very good at destroying the heritage of old. A reason for me
to go on with my interpretations - an act of saving what can be saved, of
extracting the spiritual meaning before the material bsis decays and is lost
forever.
32) Bel
meant warm, warmth, and the inverse leb meant lip, also exhaling warm breath
between the lips: live, life. This may be indicated by signs before the mouth
of an animal, for example the short strokes before the mouth of a hind in the
grotto of Pergouset (dep. Lot). Leb can also been indicated by the sticking out
tongue of bisons, for example in the Lascaux cave. Leb would survive in English
live and life, in German leben and Leben; ()b for the tongue between the lips
may have become bio in Greek, which ma have turned into Latin vita, and French
vie and vivre.
Long strokes before the lips of an ibex in
Jordania, Kilwa, Mount Horsfield, however, mean the contrary: bleeding from the
mouth, bleeding out, die. The word for die could have been ble, persisting in
blood and bleeding, perhaps also in pale, in French blême for getting very
pale, and in German bleich, erbleichen, erblassen for getting pale, verblichen
for deceased (now rare, in former times common).
So we have three words of the same letters: bel
for warm and warmth; leb for live and life; ble for blood, bleeding (out), and
die.
Ur was the word for color, for the blue sky and
water, for a red morning or evening sky. Gol was the word for mouth and throat.
Gol-ur may then have been the word for a painter's color prepared in the mouth,
then blown and spat on the wall of a cave as demonstrated by Michel
Lorblanchet. We may assume that ocher was mixed with fat as binder, and perhaps
the juice of a herb or root for sweetening the bitter ocher. The color would
have been a warm and moist mixture blown on the wall with breath and thus gave
leb / live to the painted animal ...
Col-ur would survive in color, British colour,
French couleur. Gol may also have meant language, gol-ac the Land of Language,
surviving in Gaul, gallic, Gaelic for Welsh, and Welsh in Switzerland means
French.
If gol was the word for mouth and throat, eat
may have been glo, perhaps surviving in glutton, and drink gla, onomatopoietic,
as in our funny gloo gloo.
The inverse of gol is log, which can be
pronounced with a clicking l. This could have been the word for tongue, speak,
argue; it would have become Greek logos for word and reasoning, and would
survive in our logic, also in French langue, which means both tongue and
language.
33) Col
may have been a narrow passage, a word that would survive in French col for
pass, couloir for gangway, and couler for flow. The inverse loc may have been
an enclosure, a lake, an enlocked bay, as in Latin locus for place, lacus for
lake, and in Gaelic loch. English lock would have the same root.
As verbs, col and loc may have been hunting
terms: driving animals into a natural enclosure, which may have been enforced
by adding branches and stones (loc), and then through a narrow passage (col),
where they are easily killed, without too much danger for the Magdalenian
hunters.
A spear could have been a piq, surviving in
French piquer for sting and pierce. A spear-thrower could have been a sh'piq
(man, device, action), surviving in German spicken for lard. The inverse of
piq, namely qib, might perhaps have been a knive, Old English cnif (qib cnib
cnif).
Tap and the inverse bat may have been words for
beating, which would survive in French taper and battre, also in English
battle.
The cave Bara-Bahau on the river Vézère has a
fairly uncommon name, whose original form might have been bar-ac-bhau, meaning
bear water/land cave: a cave near a river, once inhabited by bears, before it
was taken over by Magdalenian hunters. If so, bar would have been a bear,
German Baer; ac an expanse of land with water; and bhau a grotto or cave,
surviving in German Bau for both building and cave of an animal such as a fox
or a dachs, Haus for house, Behausung for shelter.
People lived in the Bara-Bahau cave, but not in
the Lascaux cave, where animals became symbols of heavenly bodies, the horse a
symbol of the sun, and the bison a symbol of the moon (Marie E.P. Koenig),
while hunting events became astronomical or calendar events: spears hitting the
Chinese horse in the axial gallery
mean the end of the five cold solar periods, and the spear hitting the red
midsummer horse in the rotunda or midsummer hall means the end of the old year,
hence New Year. - Man has always projected his technical facilities on the sky.
Newton turned the cosmos into a mechanical clockwork, and physicists of our
days are trying to explain it as a computer ...
34)
Ca-leq, we saw, was the sun horse, a mare, while ca-lun was the moon
bison, a bull. Now let us try to find sense in the inverse forms. Qel-ac is
easily understood as fertile land: Périgord in the Dordogne, a river land of
plenty; land of game; of deer, ibices, horses, bisons, and salmon galore, of
honey and herbs, and everything a Magdalenian could dream of ... According to
Richard Fester, kell and its many variants were and still are a very frequent
word having to do with women, sexuality, fertility, and giving birth. You may
also consider German Quelle for well, spring, source. Ca-lun was the moon bull,
the moon, lun alone moonshine, especially coming from a full moon, so the
inverse would suggest a new moon, and nul-ac the land under an new moon hence a
real dark night. Nul would have became Latin nihil for nothing, English nul,
German Null for zero, and Nacht for night, close to null-ac for a really dark
land under a new moon, or rather empty moon, as in German Leermond.
Ca-bal for the summer horse; inverse lab-ac for
cold land, Lapland. Ca-bel for warm summer sky, inverse leb-ac for land of
life, providing the Magdalenian hunters with plenty of meat ...
One may look out for syllables and their
inverse forms and consider their possible meaning. One such pair is dib and
bid. Dib may have been a spoon and a vessel, a dipper, verb dip, while bid may
have been a cooking pit layed out with leather, filled with meat or salmon,
herbs and water, whereupon a hot stone was taken from the fire and rolled into
the water in order to make it boil and the meal cook. Bid would survive in
English pit, in French bidon for bucket, also in familiar bide and bidon for
belly ... Manger et boire "comme Dieu en France" - eat like God in
France, and drink a fine Bordeaux, in my opinion the best wine in the world
(which, by the way, was the gift of an Englishman who told the dwellers of the
Guyenne how to make a real good wine).
35) Ac,
we saw, was the word for land with water. Was there also a word for just water?
If so, it may have been vad. Latin aqua would then have combined ac-vad into aqua.
Vad for water may survive in English wade, water, wet, while the inverse dav
may have been the word for moist air, mist, fog, surviving in English dew and
German Tau.
Dra may have been the word for dry. Dra-ac
would have meant dry land, and may have become Latin terra. It would have
survived in English dry, German trocken. A permutation of dra, ard, may have
been the origin of German Erde, also present in irden, made of clay, and
Kartoffel for potato, ard-appel (or so), earth apple (also Grundbirne, ground
pear); Swiss German Haerdoepfel. English version earth, French terre. Dra-ac
may have become dra'c and would survive in dragon, German Drachen, as symbol of
a really dry, even fiery hot ground - a dragon lived in a cave, hence inside
the earth, and most dragons are known from Asia, where draughts are a severe
menace.
Ca was the sky, ca-vad would have been the wet
sky, rain, a cloudy sky, ca-vad cvad cloud. French ouatte for cotton wool may
have the same origin: of a cloudy appearance, soft and fuzzy (and able to soak
up drops of body liquids).
Ca-leq was the sun-horse, or simply the sun,
also the word for day (when the sun shines), whereby the combination of both
meanings survives in our Sunday, German Sonntag. Ca-lun was the moon bull, also
the word for a moonlit night, while the inverse nul-ac was a real dark land
under a new moon, hence night, in German Nacht. Ca-bal was the red summer
horse, or summer; the inverse lab-ac was cold land, winter, (Lap-land). Ca was
the sky, ac-ur was the land under a blue sky, surviving in azur. Ca-vad was a
cloudy sky, meaning rain. Vad-ur means blue water, and may well have been the
original name of the blue river Vézère in the moonshine valley of the five
clans m'ac-da'-lun-ac. You may also remember ca-lig for a bright sky, and the
negation ca-lic-in for a caliginous or misty sky.
36)
Meanwhile we found explanations for several local names. Lad-ca-ur, hill
sky color, hill of the painted sky within, Lascaux. Vad-ur, water blue, blue
river Vézère. Mhayn-ac-dal-lun-ac, m'ac-da'lun-ac, five land valley moon land,
moonshine valley of the five clan-regions, rock-shelter La Madeleine,
Magdalenian. Bel-ca-ur-ac, warm sky blue land, land under a warm blue sky, cave
Belcayre. Pesh, fish, rock-shelter Le Poisson, between Haute-Laugerie and Les
Eyzies. Bar-ac-bhau, bear land cave, cave of the bear land, cave Bara-Bahau.
The five clans of the Moonshine valley of the
river Vézère would have been the ones of 1) Montignac and Lascaux, 2) Belcayre,
3) La Madeleine, 4) Le Poisson, 5) Bara-Bahau.
I still have no explanation for Les Eyzies, but
I found a pretty one for Montignac. The original name might have been
mon-dig-lun-ac, mountain one moon land. This would mean: mountain or large hill,
on whose top the aspiring shamans were spending the midsummer moon (a month
around June 21), studying the starry sky in the warm nights, taught by the
arch-shaman of the lad-ca-ur (Lascaux) university, whose portrait is seen in
the axial gallery of the Lascaux cave, given as a roaring megaceros, and he had to shout when he was teaching all
those young men on top of mon-dig-lun, Mount One Moon, high above dal-lun-ac,
the Moonshine Valley of vad-ur, of the beautiful deep blue river Vézère ...
The inverse of mon is nom, French for name.
This could mean that the names of the important astronomer shamans, the roaring
megaceroi, were remembered on mon-dig-lun, perhaps by means of wooden statues
bearing inscriptions?
Gallic means both French and wit. The roaring
megaceros in the axial gallery of the Lascaux cave as portrait of a teaching
shaman would surely be witty. If you happen to visit Paris, don't miss climbing
on top of Notre Dame and have a look at the grotesque figures along the lofty
balustrades: these, my first big love found, caricated the preachers in the
church below ... Gallic wit.
37)
Lovely midsummer has come. Over der-yolg (3x20) young men and some yolg
(20) young women have gathered on mon-dig-lun (Mount One Moon) near lad-ca-ur
(hill of a painted sky within, Lascaux). The aspiring shamans are wearing a
piece of an antler on a fine leather string around their neck, while the
aspiring rulers of their respective clan are wearing a feather in their hair.
Each one prepared an area of clay, empties a bag of pesh (400) small pebbles,
lays out the regular calendar of yol-mhay-der (28) by clyn-der (13) pebbles,
with a full moon marking the night before New Year. Now the arch-shaman poses a
problem. He has to shout in order to be heard by all: CA-LUN (a full moon)
CLYN-DIG (occurs eleven days after New Year), CA-LUN, CA-LEQ, NUL-AC DER (lay
out the calendar for such a year, give the full moons, the solar periods, and
the new moons of three nights each). Below on the left side the regular calendar;
on the right side the solution to the above task; m stays for a full moon, s
for the end of a solar period, x for a coincidence of a full moon and a solar
period, n for a new moon, W for midwinter. A full moon coincides with
Midwinter, marked w, the begin of a new moon period of 3 nights with the end of
a solar period,marked z. The dots and letters replace small pebbles of various
colors:
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . m . . . . . . . . . n n
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . m . . . . . . . . n n
. . . . . . . . . . s . . . . . . . . . . . . s . n
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . m . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . m . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . s . . . . . . . . . . . . s . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . m . . . . . . .
. . . . . . W . . . . . . . . . . . . w . . . . . .
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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . m . . . . .
m . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . m . . . .
. x . . . . . . . . . . . . s . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . n . . . . . . . . m . . .
. . m . . . . . . . . . . n n . . . . . . . . m . .
. . . m . . . . . . . . . n n . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . s . . n n . . . . . . . . x .
. . . . m . . . . . . . . . . n n . . . . . . . . m
. . . . . m . . . . . . . . . n n . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . s . . . . . . . n n . . . s . . . .
. . . . . . m . . . . . . . . . . n n . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . m . . . . . . . . . n n . . . . . . .
. . . . . s . . . . . . . . . . . . z n . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . m . . . . . . . . . . n n . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . m . . . . . . . . . n n . . . . .
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. . . . n n . . . .
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m
regular calendar / solved task
38) A
further lesson for aspiring shamans and rulers, given on top of mon-dig-lun,
lad-ca-ur university, free for Usenet members
Lay out squares of small pebbles and count the
pebbles, 1 or 1x1, 2x2 are 4, 3x3 are 9, 4x4 are 16, and so on:
1
dig 4 dag 9 mhay-dag
16 p'he-dig 25 yol-mhayn 36 yol-clyn-mhay-dig 49 du-yol-mhay-dig 64 der-yol-dag 81 dag-yol-dig 100 mhay-yolg
121 mhay-dig-yol-dig 144
mhay-du-yol-dag 169
mhay-der-yol-mhay-dag 196
mhay-dag-yol-mhay-dig 225
clyn-dig-yol-mhayn 256 clyn-du-yol-mhay-dig 289 clyn-dag-yol-mhay-dag 324 p'he-dig-yol-dag 361 p'he-der-yol-dig 400 (yo-yolg) pesh
Do you notice a regularity? Answer: there is a
pattern emerging, dig dag dag dig (-) dig dag dag dig (-) ..., while no square
numbers end on -du or -der.
Give the lunar periods of 30 and 29 days, and
the solar periods of 41 and 40 days, as sums of squares. Solution: 5x5 plus 2x2
(plus 1x1) and 6x6 plus 2x2 (plus 1x1)
Do the same for the lunisolar number 325, and
for the year of 365 days. Solutions: 18x18 plus 1x1, 17x17 plus 6x6, 15x15 plus
10x10; 19x19 plus 2x2, 14x14 plus 13x13.
Now consider the Sacred Lunisolar Calendar and
find a square number:
(h) 41 days (i) 40 days (b) 41 days
(g) 40 days (a) 41 days (c) 40 days
(f) 41 days (e) 40 days (d) 41 days
Solution: the row i-a-e and the line g-a-c
yield mhay-dig-yol-dig days or pebbles each that can be given as squares of
clyn-dig by clyn-dig pebbles.
Well, the lesson is over, but you got some
homework. Consider the above calendar. Neither 40 days nor 41 days nor the sum
of all nine solar periods, 365 days, are square numbers. Nevertheless, the
numbers 40, 41 and 365 can be given as nine small squares in one big square.
Find out how this can be done (a puzzle of Lascaux mathematics, 17,000 years
old, still rather demanding, and worth trying, since the solution is beautiful
and elegant).
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40) The
Lascaux cave, I believe, was used for initiating aspiring rulers of the clans
that populated the Guyenne in the Magdalenian period of time. The composite
animal seen from the entrance told a young man how a ruler must be: strong as a
bull, caring as a pregnant mare, decided as a feline, and making a mindful use
of weapons, which is why the lances grow as horns out of the head of that
bearded human animal ...
The glory of the rotunda promised a young ruler
fame. However, he was then lead to the room of stags, which, I believe, were
the symbol of shamans, and then to a four meters deep pit, wherein are shown a
wounded bull, a falling birdman, and a bird on a pole that points downward into
the ground. Their eyes, according to Michael Rappenglueck, symbolize the stars
of the summer triangle. Left of them a running rhinoceros, behind her a line of
3 dots above, and a parallel line of 3 dots below. Marie E.P. Koenig sees in
the rhinoceros the goddess of life, and in the dots behind her 3 earthly and 3
heavenly lives for the each the bison, the birdman and the bird: apse (hall of stags or shamans) / pit
In my opinion, the birdman is the ruler of the
Gironde and Dordogne, the bull the ruler of the French Alps, and the bird the
ruler of the Pyrenees, while the upper line of 3 dots are a heavenly life for a
worthy ruler of either region, whereas the lower dots mean that an unworthy
ruler will just be dropped. And even the fame of a worthy ruler will fade in
time, as the glory of the rising midsummer sun eclipses the brilliant stars of
the magnificent summer triangle ...
A good lesson for the young men who wish to
rule their clan. The task of a ruler is demanding, even dangerous, and fame can
easily be eclipsed, so what really counts is to life for the community of the
Guyenne, whose glory may persist for a very long time - as it really does.
41)
Marie E.P. Koenig believes that the rhinoceros in the Lascaux cave was
the goddess of life. I agree. Have a look at the so-called Venus from nearby
Laussel: “Venus” from Laussel
The woman holds a horn before her round empty
face, evoking the rhinoceros from Lascaux. She lays one hand on her womb,
promising a new life to a good ruler, presumably among the stars of the summer
sky.
Her first name may have been ma-dra, meaning my
earth, the earth is mine ... Ma, we have seen earlier on, was a most common
possessive pronoun, while dra was the earth, dry earth, matter - the Biblical dust
of which we are made and to which we shall return. There would have been many
emanations of that goddess, including the rhinoceros, a powerful animal
thundering across the earth as if owning it ... Now the second name of the
goddess of Laussel may have been leb-ac, a word we encountered before, as
inverse of ca-bel warm sky, leb-ac fertile land. Note the difference between ac
and dra; dra was dry, dry earth, matter, earth per se, while ac was land with
water.
Now these hypothetical names are fascinating.
Ma-dra would have become both matter and mater, Magna Mater, mother, while the
inverse ard-am would have become Adam, the one who was made of clay ... Leb-ac
may have become leb-a eba Eva Eve, also live life leben Leben, and the inverse
of leb-a is, yes, a-bel Abel ...
Even the names in the Bible could go back to
ancient words and early ideas.
In my humble understanding, truth is an eternal
task, engaging every generation, and all ages.
42) Ma dra, says the goddess of earth and
life: the earth is mine; dry earth, matter itself, from which comes every life,
and into which returns every life. The inverse of dra, namely ard, would
survive in earth, Erde, irden, and many other forms. The inverse of ma-dra,
namely ard-am, would survive in Adam, the one who was made of clay. Ard may
have become ars in Latin, art in English - as the first works of art presumably
were sculpted in clay, but survived very rarely, as for example the pair of
bison deep in a subterranean recess of the French Pyrenees, Tuc d'Audoubert,
Magdalenian, 14,000 years old. A permutation of dra and ard is dar, which
became Latin terra, ma-dar mater, English mother, German Mutter, while Italian
madre returned to the original ma-dra form, madra madre.
Ca-bel was the warm sky, the inverse leb-ac,
life land, was the fertile land, second name of the goddess, which became leb-a
eba Eva Eve, while the inverse of her leba name became the name of her son
Abel.
Her other son was Cain, easily understood as
ca-in: ca s-ca-y sky, followed by the negation in. The inverse of ca-in would
be ni-ac, whereby ac is land with water, Ni might be another negation, as in
Latin nihil, and survive in the French double negation ni ni for neither nor;
also Italian no, French non, English no, German nein, Russian njet. A
confirmation comes from the cave of Niaux, which name can be read as ni-ac-ur,
no ocher, and really are the animals in that cave drawn in black.
Cain slew Abel, which is why he got no place in
heaven, among the stars, ca-in. The inverse ni-ac says that there is neither a
place on land for a felon.
Old Irish cain means statute, law, rent,
confirming the aspect of law. The original form of the law would have been a
list of what makes one a criminal or even a felon and lose ones right of a
place in heaven (ca-in) and on land (inverse ni-ac). "Thou shalt not"
was the old law.
43) The
hand negatives on cave walls, I believe, were from rulers, claiming a place
among the stars of the summer triangle - first symbolically on a stone sky
ca-let-: (as explained in an earlier message), then for real on the actual sky
(consider that an Egyptian star had five rays, corresponding to the five
fingers of a hand hand - star ).
Cain murdered his brother Abel. So there is no
place for him in heaven (ca-in), nor on land (inverse ni-ac).
In the cave Cosquer near Marseille appear many
hands. A few of them have been wiped out. These may be cases of bad rulers who
lost their right of a place among the stars of the summer triangle, in heaven.
Now for the so-called blessed men on cave
walls. The one at Le Gabillou, Dordogne, a man with a bull's head, is hit by
three lances, two of which aim at his eye. The bullman, I believe, was a ruler
of an eastern clan. Hence a ruler of such a clan had either been attacked - or
had been executed for having committed a felony.
Above the blessed man of Pech Merle is a large
bird: this might be the ghi'shac, supreme ruler of all clans in the Guyenne, inflicting
death on a felon by touching him with the tip of his left wing - a black
feather?
In the Cougnac cave is shown a megaceros, which
animal, I believe, symbolized the arch-shaman, ruler of all shamans in the
Guyenne. On his flank appear in clock-wise direction: on the left side, near
the neck of the megaceros, a stag, probably a local shaman; above the mane and
back line of a horse, probably a weak sun; on the right side a fat, fully drawn
out ibex, probably indicating midwinter (remember the opposing ibices at the
rear end of the axial gallery of the Lascaux cave); at the bottom a blessed man
(head omitted) who is hit by three lances - a felon, whose life was sacrificed
at midwinter in order to reinstall order and reinforce the weak winter sun and make
it ascend again?
Another male megaceros in the Cougnac cave is
followed by a female megaceros - the arch-shaman's wife? or an arc-shamaness in
her own right?
44) Oc vad-ur? pesh, pesh pesh pesh, bhau shde'
piq, ca-bel pesh, log / Shdeb-in, ble yolg / Oy, oc-cil, sheb vad, vad vad dra
-: ac-ur shdib / Oc lic ...
Did you see (oc) the blue river? (vad-ur,
Vézère). The fish are coming. Salmon galore (pesh pesh pesh, 400 400 400 fish).
Go (shdeb) to the cave (bhau) and get your harpoon (piq); the weather is fine
(ca-bel, sky warm), so let us go fishing (pesh), I propose, I say, I have
spoken (log). / I can't walk (shdeb-in), my left foot (yolg) is wounded (ble).
/ Oy, I see (oc), I see (cil). I run (sheb) to get water (vad). Then I wash
your wound, thoroughly and carefully (vad vad). Then I dry your foot (dra).
Then I chew the herb the shaman gave me and spit the juice as a blood-stilling
disinfectant on your wound (-:) and then I place a layer of medicinal ocher as
further disinfectant on it (ac-ur), may the red color give you back the blood
you lost! (implicit in ac-ur for red ocher), and then I wind a protecting strip
of soft leather around your foot (shdib as noun and verb). / I see (oc) light
(lic), I am glad (lic also means luck), thank you ...
When I use Guyan (ghi-an) for inventing
dialogues I see that many words are still missing, for example for wait, lay
down, herb.
Guyan may have had some pesh or du-pesh (400 or
2 x 400) basic words, such as ca for sky and bel for warm (both adjective and verb)
and warmth; or pesh for fish, swimming and fishing, and as number 400, or
simply meaning plenty; allowing many composites: ca-bel for warm sky, fine
weather; and whole sentences: ca-bel pesh - the weather is fine, so let us go
fishing. Bal means hot, so ca-bal pesh means: it is so very hot, let us go
swimming …
Why did Homo sapiens sapiens (Cro Magnon)
prevail over Homo sapiens (Neanderthal)? One theory says the reason was a
higher manual and mental skill; another theory proposes a better communication
among the Cro Magnons. I guess both theories are right, and communication was
playing a crucial role.
Magdalenian might have sounded something like
the above dialogue - although a then dweller of the Périgord might roll on the
floor laughing if he could hear me babble in such a way. But, who knows, he
might understand me.
45) The
stag, I believe, symbolized the shaman, while the giant stag megaceros was the
symbol of the arch-shaman, and the female megaceros following a male in the
cave of Cougnac may either be his wife, or an arch-shamaness in her own right.
In the apse of the Lascaux cave are drawn many
stags. Especially nice are the swimming stags, which might keep a memory of the
shamans who gathered at Lascaux and had to cross the vad-ur, the blue river
Vézère ...
Such a meeting may have happened once in eight
years, when the lunisolar calendar was re-adjusted by adding two leap days, and
when the young rulers were initiated. The cave would have been opened one
single day once in eight years. This would make 125 days in 1,000 years. The
very rare visits could explain why the paintings were so well conserved when
discovered in 1940. And why they were so quickly growing funghi since then,
what with all the many visitors that came every day.
Looking out for a word for the shaman stag I
found C'HER NOT-: (ending on a "spitting" t, produced by touching the
lips with the tip of the tongue). C'her would mean stag, not-: would be mind,
reason, together stag with a human mind (while a real stag was a most common
prey of the Magdalenian hunters).
C'her-not-: allows many derivations: Greek noos
or nous for mind, reason, will, opinion; Latin notare, English note, notch,
notion; French cerf and German Hirsch for stag; English horn and German Horn;
and Cernunnos, name of the oldest Celtic god who was wearing horns, most often
antlers of a stag, as for example on the silver cauldron from Gundestrop,
Denmark.
The spitting t-: refers to the shaman as
painter, who blew and spat his colors on the wall, and to the shaman as healer,
who chew the herbs and spat them on a wound. You may know that saliva is a
natural disinfectant.
If ble means wound, blessed, blood, bleeding,
pale, and die, the inverse elb means help and heal.
Erb may have meant grass, herb; Italian erba
for grass, erbe for herbs and vegetables. Bre may have been a tree, French
arbre; also branch. Reb may have been a bush or a tree bearing fruit; German
Rebe for vine. Ber may have been a berry, German Beere; as fruit pear, German
Birne.
46) Dig
was a finger, as verb touch, also poke, poke a hole, and this may have been the
origin of ancient Greek dia, through.
A shaman was a stag C'HER with a human mind
NOT-: ending on a spitting t (tip of the tongue touching the lips). This would
have a humorous aspect, for the shaman was chewing herbs like a deer, and then
spitting them on a wound, while a painter shaman was preparing his colors in
the mouth and then blowing and spitting them on the wall of a cave (see Michel
Lorblanchet).
DIG NOT-: may be the origin of diagnosis,
meaning touch know - as children have
to touch everything in order to really know it. A shaman takes the hand of a
pale man lying on the ground: is there a pulse? if yes, the man is still alive;
if not, the man is probably dead. By touching his patient, a shaman can see
through (dia) the skin, learn and know and have an idea (not-:) of what is
going on inside a human being.
The inverse of DIG would be GID and may mean
give, take, surviving in give, gift, and get.
47)
Magdalenian lic for light, shine, luck, would have become the name of
the Celtic sun-god Lugh, meaning 'the shining one.' In Gaul he was known as
Lugus and gave his name to the city of Lugdunum / Lyon. Lugh's festival
Lughnasadh (Loo-neseh) was held on August 1. This is the National Day of
Switzerland; we celebrate it by means of fires on hills, lanterns, and
fireworks. Interestingly, the second solar period in the lunisolar calendar of
Lascaux began also on August 1:
h41 Apr01-May11 / i40 May12-Jun20 / b41
Aug01-Sep10
g40 Feb20-Mar31 / a41 Jun21-Jul31 / c40
Sep11-Oct20
f41 Jan10-Feb19 / e40 Dec01-Jan09 / d41
Oct21-Nov30
The other festivals of the Celtic year refer to
pastoral events and therefore do not fit into the above calendar, which, I
claim, was the calendar of the Magdalenian hunters in the Guyenne.
The Magdalenian festival celebrated on August 1
would have been CA-LIC, sky bright, perhaps represented by the second red horse
in the rotunda or midsummer hall in the Lascaux cave, ahead of the red
midsummer horse. Might also have been called CA-BAL, sky hot.
We may assume that the begin of every solar
period of the above calendar was celebrated. For example the end of period g and
begin of period h would have been the end of the five cold periods, symbolized
by one of the "Chinese" horses in the axial gallery (the one ahead).
April 1 is our fool's day; might originally have been a day when everybody was
overjoyed by the final end of winter and begin of the warm season, and thus in
the mood of making silly jokes ... The name of the spring festival could have
been CA-BEL, marking the begin of the warm season, inverse leb-ac meaning life
land, name of the goddess of land and life, the Venus from Laussel, whose son
was ca-bel, surviving in 'a-bel Abel.
48) Ghi
may have been the name of a birdman, a ruler of a clan in the Magdalenian
Guyenne, surviving in the French name Guy, and in English guy for man. His wife
might have been a ghyn. Ghi ghi ghi - ghyn ghyn ghyn ... may pass for a male
bird and female bird calling each other.
Ghyn would have become Greek gynae for woman;
Nordic kvinna and kvinde for woman; Old German kinden for woman (Kind for
child.); Anglo-Saxon cwen for woman; Scottish quean for a single woman; ghyn as
wife of a ruler ghi survives in queen; the old Celtic form cyning goes back to
cyn for tribe, clan; Norwegian kona means wife; Anglo-Saxon cund means birth,
gennan give birth; Latin genus means kind in one sense of the word, while the
other sense of kind as friendly also applies to women, says Richard Fester, in
whose book on the Ice Age I find all those words. Scottish kin means a cleft,
while Latin vagina, also mentioned by Richard Fester, may, in the light of Guyan
or Ghyan as reinvented until now, combine vad for water and ghyn for woman: vad
ghyn - water woman, amniotic fluid in a woman's womb; while vad not-: (ending
on a kissing t, tip of tongue softly touching the lips) means water mind,
surviving in Venus, the goddess of love emerging from the water ...
3 very small figurines of a Magdalenian bird
goddess, 15,000 years old, had been found in western Switzerland (neck, womb,
upper leg), in the steatopygic form Marija Gimbutas explained as a birdwoman
carrying an egg.
Mammoths survived in Switzerland until some
10,000 years ago, which was a reason for Magdalenian hunters to life here. Also
the Region of the Three Lakes in western Switzerland can be seen as a birdland,
which is a main idea of the menhirs at Yverdon-Clendy. (You may look up the
illustrations in the menhir chapters on my website www.seshat.ch, or my lost
thread Chauvet Lascaux Laussel Willendorf)
49)
Water is a vital element, so we may look out for further words
concerning water.
What we found until know: vad means water wade
wet wash, while the inverse dav may survive in English dew, German Tau. Vad
ghyn, water woman, refers to the amniotic fluid, and may survive in vagina, and
in the name of the Sabine harvest goddess Vacuna. Ac means land with water. Ac
vad enforces the aspect of water and would have become Latin aqua. Dra ac
enforces the aspect of earth, of dry land, and would survive in draught, in
German trocken for dry, also in English dragon and German Drache, for a dry
land 'burning' under a fiery sun, and really burning in the case of a
forest-fire. Ca vad, sky water, rain, would survive in cloud; ac vad, land with
water water, could also have been a flood, while oc vad, eye water, would
survive in German Augenwasser, poetic for tears …
Combine bal for hot with lit-: for pebble and
you get a hot stone. Roll it into a pid (cooking pit) filled with vad (water)
and you heat the water, bal vad. Both combinations, bal lit-: and bal vad, may
survive in English boil, French bouillir, and Italian bollare.
Vid may be drained water, surviving in French
vide for empty, while the inverse div may survive in dive.
Val may mean water in motion, also a waving
motion. This word may survive in vale and valley, French val, Italian valle, in
German Welle for wave, in wallen for the wave-like motion of a cloth, also in
English well, well up. The combination ac val would survive in German Quelle
for a well, a spring.
The inverse lav would mean remove by means of a
liquid, as in French laver and Italian lavare for wash, also the effect a
moving liquid can have, a meaning that may survive in lava, a fiery liquid
removing everything in its way. The first syllable vol of volcano may have come
from bal (hot) and val (liquid in motion) and may have been combined into bal
val, Baal. Bal val as indication of a volcano reminds of Humbaba, Sumerian god
of the volcanoes. Hum may then be a sound, especially a remote rumble, while
the inverse muh reminds of a snorting bull or a lowing cow, as in German Muh.
So Humbaba would have been an abbreviation of hum-bal-val: rumbling (mountain)
hot liquid in motion.
50) Dra
means dry, earth per se, materia, matter, while dar may have been a flash
followed by a thunder, surviving in the name of the Celtic god Taranis and the
nordic god Thor. Consider Welsh taran and Irish torran for thunder. Rad,
inverse of dar, may have been a flash, surviving in radiare, radiate. Rad
(pronounced quickly, r’d, rshd) dar (long, rolling) would be onomatopoetic for
flash and thunder.
Dar would have become da, de ... De-ac as
god-land became dea for goddess. De-oc as god-eye became deus theos for god.
The name of the supreme Celtic god was Dagda,
meaning good (dag) da (god), actually able god, for he can all the other gods
can. Magdalenian dag was four, and its religious and ethical implication may
have been: Four (Main) Commandements for rulers who wish to become a star in
the region of the summer triangle in their next life (or simply go to heaven,
as we say): Being strong, caring, decided, and wise. This ca-dag-log /
sky-four-sayings / four heavenly commandments are well illustrated by the
composite animal near the entrance of the Lascaux cave. That animal combines a
bull with the round belly of a pregnant mare, the mottled hide of a feline, and
a bearded (male) head with a pair of horns growing out of his front and ending
in blades, hence representing lances, of which a wise use must be made rotunda / composite animal
If you wish to become
a ruler, and to be a good ruler who can hope to be reborn as a star in the
region of the summer triangle, you must be STRONG as a bull, CARING as a
pregnant mare, DECIDED as a feline, and making a WISE use of your lances, which
is why they grow out of the head of that bearded human animal.
Greek kata means from above, down, completely,
going along with ca-dag-log as four heavenly commandments. Dag is the name of
an Anatolian mountain. The supreme Hittite god Teshub, God of the Heavenly
Weather (note Te- as variant of de) resided on mountain tops, where he
overlooked the four heavenly regions, and, we may assume, embodied the four
commandments (log) which came down (kata) from his mountain. Zeus, originally a
sun- and weather-god, resided on Mount Olympus, from where his word (log)
spread.
Log would have been pronounced with a clicking
l, which l or ) might once have been a hunter's call that warned of a feline.
Clicking ) would have turned into lys leo leone leon lion Loewe, leopard, and
lykos lupus for wolf, also into log or )og for word, speak, rule, one who has
the say, a possible title for a ruler in very early times, when the man with
the lion head from Hohlenstein was carved from a piece of ivory, some 32,000
years ago.
51) MA
was my, mine, and could also have been the word for me, myself (I), French moi
(je). The inverse AM could then have been the word for be, have: (I) am, have.
MA AM, abbreviated MA'M would have been: I am, I have.
TA might have been the word for you, your, and
yours; French tu for you, ton (masculine), ta (feminine), tes (plural) for
your. The inverse AT may then have been the word for be and have in the second
form. TA AT or TA'T would have meant: you are, you have; French tu est,
abbreviated t'est, pronounced t'e for you are; tu as, abbreviated t'as,
pronounced t'a for you have.
SA might have been the word for he, she, it,
while the inverse AS would have been the word for be and have in the third
form. SA AS or SA'S would have meant: he or she or it is or has; French il est,
elle est, c'est, and il a, elle a, ça a (sa a, that has).
The plurals may simply have been ME for we, and
EM for be, have in the first form plural, ME EM or ME'M for we are, we have; TE
for you and ET for be and have in the second form plural, TE ET or TE'T for you
are, you have; SE for you, ES for be and have in the third form plural, SE ES
or SE'S for they are, they have.
Picture a Magdalenian making a fire in the cave
and asking his darling: MA OC TA'T BEL? This means: My darling (actually eye),
are you warm? do you have warm? She shudders and replies: MA'M LAB, I am or
have cold; so you lay some more DRA BRE (dry wood) in the fire, and then you
hug her, in oder to give her more warm, whereupon she may reply: MA'M BEL, OC
LIC, yes, I have warm now, I see light, the fire is burning brightly, I see the
light reflecting in your eyes, see the light shine in mine eyes, and you will
see I am happy ...
Someone else might visit a shamen and say MA'M
BAL, I am hot, I have hot, I catched a fever, whereupon the shaman will DIG
(touch) him, and find out (NOT-:) what he has (making a DIG NOT-: or
diagnosis), and give him a blend of ERB (herbs) to chew. Pronounce ERB in the
English way and you get a notion of chewing ...
52)
Here you are with a couple of words I deduced in a more synthetic way
and then looked out for evidence: mas sam ams sma, dov vod ovd dvo, cal lac alc
cla.
MAS might survive in mass, much, in German Mass
for size and Masse for mass, a great number of people or goods. Further meanings:
many, more, multiply, grow in number and size, a lot, plenty, more and more.
The inverse SAM may survive in some, lonesome.
Further meanings: few, little, less; all words on some have a negative aspect,
troublesome, cumbersome, German einsam for lonely, muehsam for cumbersome and
tiresome.
AMS may survive in ample, big, wide, plenty;
French ample for wide, spacious, comprising, embracing; amphi as ancient Greek
adverb means on both sides, all around.
The inverse SMA would survive in small, in German
schmal for narrow. Interestingly, French smala means family, hence unit of a
society (I found smala in a dictionary and am not really sure whether I can
subsume it here). One may also think of smart in the meaning of achieving a lot
(mas) by means of a small (sma) effort.
DOV may have meant toward, in German zu (zur
zum); the inverse VOD may have meant from, in German von (vom). OVD may have
meant often, grow in number, size, weight and effect, as in over, overflow,
overload, oversize. Ancient Greek ophello means increase, amplify, multiply,
magnify, enlarge, extend, enhance, raise, heighten ... The inverse DVO may have
meant decrease in number, size, weight and effect, as in dwindle, or in dwarf
(German Zwerg). Ancient Greek duae has the meaning of misery.
Ma shdeb dov lad-ca-ur: I go to Lascaux, to the hill of
the painted sky within. Ta vod bar-bhau
shdeb: You came from the Bear Cave Bara-Bahau. Dov lad-ca-ur shdeb me? Shall we go to Lascaux together?
(Magdalenian me translates to English we, together)
CAL - head, skull. Inverse LAC - standing
firmly on the feet; ancient Greek lax, with the foot, laxis for a plot or
parcel of land. ALC - strong, daring, brave; ancient Greek alkimos. CLA -
making noise while attacking, getting fame as a hunter, being the founder of a
clan; ancient Greek klazo klaggae kleinos klados.
53)
Combine cal for head, holding the head up high, with lac for feet, or
rather standing on the ground, and you obtain CALAC. This may be a pun, as it
also combines ca for sky, with a clicking l for a leader, one who has the say
log, a lys-leo-leone-leon-lion-Loewe-man, a leopard-man, a
lykos/lupus(wolf)-man, and ac for land with water.
Calac reminds of galaxy. The Milky Way might
have been considered a lic vad, bright water, surviving in liquid, some kind of
river that leads from a far horizon to the stars of the summer triangle, where
a leader of a clan hoped to spend his next life.
The idea of the Milky Way as a jet of milk
released by a goddess may be very ancient, even of Aurignacian origin. Water
dropping from the ceiling of a limestone cave generates columns of stalactites
and stalagmites, which, when meeting, connect the ceiling ca as heaven (or cal
as head), and the ground ac (or lac as feet on the ground, or as ground whereupon
one stands).
White sinter on cave walls may have reminded of
dropping milk, and as the animals are painted on sinter, they are perhaps shown
traversing the Milky Way, their lic vad, their nourishing milk provided by the
goddess ...
The word for milk may have been gal, the word
for drop lag, their combination galag. Ancient Greek gala means milk, stalagma
a drop. Gla may then have been the verb drink, as found before, while the
inverse alg may have been the word for full, onomatopoetic for the belch and
overflowing milk of a satisfied baby. In the case of an adult, alg would have
meant release a liquid from the mouth, vomit, caused by a sickness or injury,
and this meaning of alg would have been the origin of ancient Greek algos for
pain, grief, sorrow.
Now there is a problem. Gal cal, lag lac, gla
cla, alg alc sound too similar, so I propose that the c-forms cal lac cla alc
were pronounced with a clicking l, from now on given as an arc ) which may
indicate the curved tongue whose tip moves along the palate: ca), )ac, c)a,
a)c. The last word a)c for strong, daring, brave, would have become ancient
Greek arkos for defense, protection, as verb arkeo, and may survive in German
stark for strong.
The binder for colors might well have been breast
milk gal, while a worthy leader of a clan, reborn on the sky, will be nourished
by the milk of the goddess, and become a)c, a strong man, able to climb the sky
along the calac or galaxy.
Ala might have been the word for white, may
have become Latin albus for white, surviving in albino.
A)a might be a call, surviving in hullo hello
hallo alo, while ca)a might have been a prayer, calling the goddess and the
former leaders of the clan who now live among the stars of the summer triangle
on the Milky Way ...
54) Ca)
with a clicking l indicated by the arc ) was the word for head, for holding the
head up high, while the inverse )ac was the word for standing firmly on the
feet, for standing his man, and for the place one stands upon, origin of
ancient Greek laxis for a plot or parcel of land. )ac may also be read as ) ac,
now meaning the ruler, the former lion-leopard-lykos/lupus-man and his ac, the
land with water his clan dwells on. Ca) may have been used for the head of a
ruler, and would survive in skull, perhaps testifying to a special worship of a
dead ruler's head or skull. The skulls from Jericho come to mind, covered with
clay, and sculpted in order to make the deceased appear living again.
Looking out for other words I found cap and
pac, hed and deh.
Cap may have been the body, especially the top
of the head. Cap became Latin caput for head, corpus for body, in German Kopf
and Koerper, while ancient Greek kephalos may combine cap and ca) to capca),
perhaps the word for a human clad in the costume of an animal. The ruler of an
eastern clan, I believe, more specifically of a clan in the Rhone Valley, was a
bullman; the ruler of a western clan, Gironde and Dordogne, was a birdman; and
the ruler of a southern clan in the Pyrenees was a bird; hence the rulers of
these tribes may have worn masks of their animals on special occasions. Ca)
would then be the head of a ruler, cap the mask of his animal worn on the head,
and this meaning of cap as something worn on top of the head would survive in
English cap, German Kappe. Cap as a group of animals may survive in cattle.
The inverse pac would have been the body again,
but now the bulk of the body, also a group of people or animals. Pac would have
become Latin pectus for breast, and bestia for animal. It survives in many
variants, perhaps in bulk and body itself, in German Backe English cheek, in
English back German Ruecken, in German Bauch and Becken, English pelvis and
belly, in French pacage English pasture, also in English bacon German Speck.
French pechtel means live-stock, bétail cattle. Pac as group of people would
survive in English pack. A further version of pac was ancient Greek pachys for
fat, broad, dense, obese, full, strong, powerful, noble, compact, coarse,
stupid, plump. The many variants and meanings of pac testify to a very old and
important word.
Hed was the top of a human being, surviving in
head and German Haupt, while the inverse deh marks the other end of the human
body, toe, German Zeh.
55)
Clicking l, given as ) for the curving tongue whose tip moves along the
palate, would have became l and r and t.
)AC was the ruler of a clan ) on his land with
water AC; as verb stand firmly on one’s ground, rule one’s land. The l-form
became ancient Greek lax, with the feet, and laxis for a plot or parcel of
land. The t-form became tagos, ruler; tagma, legion; tageia, supreme command;
tacheuo, I lead, rule; taxis, order, marching formation; tachys quick. The
r-form became ancient Greek raka for: you moron, and rakos for rascal
CA) was the first ruler of a clan, its founding
father. The r-form became ancient Greek kar for head, kara for head and face,
kardia for heart, soul, mood, mind, reason, in Italian caro for dear, while the
l-form became kalos for beautiful, brave, good, successful, favorable, useful,
noble, honorable, lucky, and survives in English call, the t-form perhaps in
cat as a reminder of the lion-man of old (man with the head of a lion from
Hohlenstein, 32,000 years old)
A)C for strong, daring, brave, became ancient
Greek arkos, and survives in German stark for strong. The l-form alc became
ancient Greek alkar for protection, defense, alkae for defense, protection,
rescue, power, braveness, courage. The t-form atc is hardly pronounceable, but
may survive in the permutation act, from ancient Greek ago, I lead and move,
with many more meanings, agogos for leader, aktis for ray, light, sunshine.
C)A, as inverse of a)c, was making noise while
attacking animals, being a famous hunter, being the founder of a Magdalenian
clan. The l-form became ancient Greek klazo klaggae kleinos klados. The r-form
survives in croak and crow, in German Krach for noise, in kraehen and kraechzen
for croak, and Kraehe for crow (Latin corvus and ancient Greek koronae for
crow, raven). You may look up the menhir-chapters on my website for the
raven-man of Yverdon-Clendy.
56) A)A
with a clicking l was a call, as in hullo, hello, hallo, ala. The t-form became
ata, patros, patriarch, pater, father, Vater; while the r-form became ancient Greek
ara for prayer and request, also for curse, thus indicating the power of a
patriarch who can either help or reject.
CA)A was a prayer to the goddess and the
founding father of a clan who live among the stars of the summer triangle,
which can be seen as the vad-ghyn or vagina of the the goddess, or as the head
of the bison-man, as indicated by a painting in the rear hall of the Chauvet
cave in the Ardèche Valley close to the Rhone Valley, on a limestone outcrop of
the ceiling in the shape of a cone ending 110 cm above the floor of the cave,
showing the vulva and legs of the goddess, while a male bison shares one leg
with her, and places his head on her womb - as if he had been reborn by her in
the sky, presumably in the region of the summer triangle on the Milky Way;
photograph National Geography, drawings by the author: Venus-Bison / Venus / Bison. The t-form of ca)a became ancient Greek kata, from above, down. The r-form
survives in Italian cara, dear (female form).
)OG was the word, speak, having the say, and
became ancient Greek logos for word and reason. The l-form survives in French
langue and langage, in English language, also in logic. The t-form became
ancient Greek toge, just because, here, that’s why, used in a logical argument.
The r-form became roger for begging vagabond, then rogue (the r-forms can
either be very positive, as in ara for prayer and in caro and cara for dear; or
negative, as in ara for curse, in raka for: you moron, in rakos for rogue, in
roger for begging vagabond, and in rogue).
57)
Mhayn was the word for the right hand, clyn for the left hand, p'hed for
the right foot, yolg for the left foot. Now arb may have been the right arm,
inverse bra the left arm, bar the right leg, rab the left leg. The hand belongs
to the arm, the foot belongs to the leg, so the complete forms are arm-hand and
leg-foot. Let us combine the new words for the arms and the legs with the old
ones for the hands and the feet:
Arb-mhayn, pronounced ar'mhayn for the right
arm and hand. From this word would have come Latin arma for weapon, as most
hunters and soldiers threw their lances with the right arm and hand. The same
ar'mhayn survives in English arm and hand, German Arm and Hand. Mhayn was the
origin of Latin manus and French main for hand.
Bra-clyn for the left arm and hand. This word
would have become ancient Greek brachion for arm, Italian braccio and French
bras for arm; also bracelet, more often worn on the left wrist. Clyn survives
in English claw, German Klaue, Finnish kynnae, all three words meaning the
same.
Bar-p'hed for the right leg and foot. This word
would have become ancient Greek pous for leg, Latin per pedes, meaning on feet,
walk; furthermore English barefeet and German barfuss; in analogy to mhayn
perhaps also German Bein for leg, English bone and German Gebein
Rab-yolg for the left leg and foot. Rather
difficult to pronounce therefore modified. The inverse order, yolg-rab, might
have been the root of Old Netherlandish and Middle English leggr, further
simplified into leg. If the opening r was modified into sh / g, rab would have
became shab / gab, and may be the root of French jambe and Italian gamba for
leg. Modify the opening r into l and you get a possible explanation for Finnish
lahje for leg, while Finnish yalka, Lappish juolge and Old Ugric-Altaic jalga
are words for foot, close to the hypothetical Magdalenian yolg for the left
foot. Ancient Greek rabdos means rod, staff, scepter; rabdalos lean; radinos
lean, tender, agile, swift. German Rappe is a black horse. Rab might also be
the oldest form of run, along the line of rab rad radinos rinna renna rinnan
rennen run …
If bar was the right leg and rab the left leg,
we get a new explanation for bear: bar-rab barrab barra arra bara bar – the
animal that rears and stands on the hind legs bar and rab. The short form arra
might have been the root of ancient Greek arktos, Latin ursus, Italian orso,
French ours for bear. Rab-bar may then have been the word for a rearing horse
and would survive in German Rappe for a black horse.
58) The
special sound produced by the tip of the tongue touching the lips would have
survived in English th, and would have become s (c z) / p (b ph f) / t (d th).
I -: O became iso ipo ito. O -: I became osi
opi oti. -: I O became sio pio tio. O I -: became ois oip oit. I O -: became
ios iop iot. -: O I became soi poi toi.
Looking up ancient Greek words for these and further
variants I found: Isos for equal; hippo for horse; istaemi for stand, hold up,
weigh, resist, arrange, dispose (and many more meanings); eido for look, form,
opinion, picture, idea. Osia for divine right, pious duty and obligation; opis
for observance, obligation, followance; oti for because. Sio for god; bio for
life, Latin pius pia Italian pio pia for pious; tio tino for pay, award, atone,
revenge. Oios for lonely; hoiper for where to?; oitos for lot, destiny, fate,
ill-luck, misfortune, death. Ios for one and the same; also ios for arrow and
poison; io (omega) for an exclamation, when calling a god, or when being hurt;
iotaes for wish, will, order. Hoi soi for your kinfolk; poi for where to?,
poieo for do, make, produce, organize a feast, induce fear, do a favor, make a
poem (poesy), represent, accept, appoint, estimate, respect, poiaeis for grown
over with grass, poimaen for herdsman, ruler, poimnion for herd, poinae for
penance, revenge, compensation, reparation, satisfaction; toi for certainly, really.
These words evoke an arch-shaman:
I -: O -- arch-shaman: the firm one; equal to
his forerunners, thus warranting a long tradition; maker of opinions, ideas and
pictures; voice of the divine
O -: I -- awe inspiring divine law, ultimate
reason
-: I O -- judge in the name of the divine,
requiting good with good, bad with bad
O I -: -- one exluded by the arch-shaman: where
can he go now? his fate is misfortune, even death
I O -: -- plead: help me, One and the Same,
arch-shaman in a long line of arch-shamans, have mercy with a pious believer
-: O I -- plead: do me the favor, maker of
ideas and pictures, let me safely return to my kinfolk ...
59)
Magdalenian as spoken in the Guyenne some 17,000 years ago may have had
some pesh (400) or du-pesh (2 x 400) words. A two-year-old child in our time
comprehends already some 400 words, a four-year-old 1,600 words, while an
American student knows an average of some 14,200 words. My estimation for the
number of Magdalenian words might even be on the conservative side.
Here are some more words which I found in the
synthetic manner: mel lem elm mle.
Mel could have been something sweet, as ancient
Greek meli for honey, French miel for honey, and something edible in general,
as in ancient Greek melinae for millet. Also a sweet melody, ancient Greek
melos.
Lem would have meant collect, either berries or
herbs or honey ... Ancient Greek lambano means touch, take, seize, chase,
conquer, get, also comprehend, perceive; (with many more meanings).
Elm would have been a shrub or a tree bearing
sweet fruit. One of the oldest and most venerable shrubs or trees of humankind
is the hackberry, belonging to the genus Celtis of the elm family, bearing
cherrylike fruit, so "elm" could even go back to Africa, where, as far
as I am informed, the hackberry was also known. Old English elm means noble and
survives in the given name Elmer.
Mle could then have been the contrary of elm,
ignoble. Hindi Mlechi means barbarian, untouchable, not Indian.
So the word field mel lem elm mle could be very
ancient, having spread from Africa to Europe and Asia ... By the way, ancient
Greek melas melaina melan means black. Richard Fester muses whether the
Paleolithic dwellers of the Guyenne were black, did come from northern Africa,
and lost their skin color during the Ice Age. Homo sapiens sapiens came from
Africa, and the oldest rock painting due to Homo sapiens sapiens found so far
is an oblong trapezoid with a regular rhomboid pattern on a rock wall in Africa,
some 70,000 years old.
Bon may have been the word for good, Latin
bonus bona bonum, Italian buono buona bene, French bon bonne bien, while the
inverse nob would have kept the positive meaning of good, as in noble, Latin
nobilis, nobilitas; a variant may be ancient Greek nomos for custom, manners,
morals, principle, rule, law, regulation, melody (!), song, a musical key.
60) The
hypothetical words bar for the right leg and rab for the left leg deserve some
more consideration. Hebrew bar means son, perhaps the one walking at the right
side of his father. Hebrew rabbi means master, perhaps the one who walks on the
side of the father, by a son's or pupil’s or client’s left leg.
Ancient Greek para may have had the same
origin, surviving for example in parallel.
Bar-rab barrab barra arra bara bar might have
been the word for bear as animal that can rear and stand on the hind legs bar
and rab. Also the inverse form may hold: rab-bar. A short form of barrab,
namely arra, might have been the root of ancient Greek arktos - perhaps in
combination with a)c for strong -, Latin ursus, Italian orso, French ours for
bear, while rab-bar might have been a stealing bear, a robber. Rab-bar could
have been the origin of Old French robber for rob, steal. Barabbas in the Bible
was a robber.
If ancient Greek barbaros came from bar bar, it
might have held a satirical meaning: someone who is so very righteous that he
got two right legs (remember the preference for the right hand) and can't walk
anymore but hops around … Hoi barbaroi were the Persians, but also other
foreigners, who certainly cherished their own religious belief - also the Celts
were fighting in the name of their religion, and might, moreover, have worn
bear hides … Sanskrit barbara meant stammering, not Aryan. So we have: not
walking properly, not talking properly, not going properly (as go means both
walk and talk).
Also bar as noun for a relatively long, evenly shaped object of some solid substance ...
used as a guard or obstruction ... (Webster's), and as verb, bar barred
barring, of obscure, perhaps pre-Latin origin, might have come from Magdalenian
bar for the right leg. French barrière means a bar that holds up. There are
places in Switzerland called Bar and Barra, designating woods that serve for
protection, also horse pastures, confirming rab-bar as rearing horse, surviving
in German Rappe for a black horse. Interestingly, Baer (bear) was also used for
bulls, going along with the strong hind leg(s) of a leaping bull. A robe might
originally have been a hide covering the legs rab and bar. Aramaic abba for
father may be an abbreviation of rabbar, ‘abba’ abba, meaning a man who stands
there for his family. Much as a bear: female bears are known for their fierce
will to protect their young ones. Abba was also a female day name for Thursday.
61)
Glossary of Guyan (ghi-an), Old Magdalenian spoken in the Guyenne,
continuation, delivered in 19 messages (for the first part of the glossary
please look up the messages or chapters 17-18-19). A t-: stays for a stronger spitting or softer kissing t, produced with the tip of the tongue touching the lips, a
milder form of t-: survives in the English th, and the arc ) stays for an
especially strong clicking l, symbolizing the curved tongue whose tip moves
along the palate pa)ate …
CA LUN AC - moon earth; became seluna (when
calun for moon turned into Greek selenae and Latin luna) and then Siena; ocher
of Siena, understood as dust falling from a yellow or reddish moon rising above
Tuscany, as seen from the Ligurian coast and Côte d'Azur. This idea would rely
on the observation of red dust falling on Tuscany, which dust, however, comes
from the Sahara)
LIC UR AC / AC UR - Liguria, Côte d'Azur; Ocher
Road, leading from Siena to the Guyenne and Cantabria
CA LET-: (t produced with tip of tongue
touching lips) - sky stone, painted cave walls and ceilings.
"Spitting" t refers to the technique of spitting colors on stone
(Michel Lorblanchet). Surviving in French galet. Let-: for stone became Greek
lithos (th) and Latin lapis (p)
CO inverse of OC, eye, see, look - mind,
reasoning; surviving in co- con- com-, thus involving a together, which is
elementary for any form of reasoning; Latin co(a)gitare means gathering
knowledge in one's mind. An exemplary and witty illustration occurs in the
composite animal seen in the entrance of the Lascaux cave, which human animal,
I believe, tells an aspiring ruler of a clan that he has to be strong as a
bison, caring as a pregnant mare, decided as a feline, and has to make a
mindful use of his weapons, which is why lances grow as horns out of the head
of this bearded human animal
MHAYN CLYN P'HED YOLG - r/l hand, r/l foot.
Numbers 5 10 15 20. Heavenly sector N-E mhayn, rising midsummer sun; sector N-E
clyn, setting midsummer sun; sector S-E p'hed, rising midwinter sun; sector S-W
yolg, setting midwinter sun (yolg 'yellow' yolk)
DIG DU DER DAG - 1 2 3 4
PESH - as noun fish, as verb swim and fish, as
number 400
62) 1
to 28: dig du
der dag mhayn
mhay-dig mhay-du mhay-der
mhay-dag clyn clyn-dig
clyn-du clyn-der clyn-dag
p'hed p'he-dig p'he-du
p'he-der p'he-dag yolg
yol-dig yol-du yol-der
yol-dag yol-mhayn yol-mhay-dig
yol-mhay-du yol-mhay-der
CLYN-DER - 13, nickname for the practical
version of the lunisolar calendar, grid 28 by 13 pebbles, as indicated by the
geometrical drawing under the megaceros in the axial gallery of the Lascaux
cave; name relying on the obligation to pay tribute to the ruler and the shaman
of a clan, and this 13 times per year, every 28 days, for each family on
another day. Latin calendare: to pay tribute; on the calendae: at the begin of
a month. Would be the origin of our calendar
Key numbers of the lunisolar and tributary
calendar: 30 yol-clyn, 29 yol-mhay-dag, 41 du-yol-dig, 40 du-yolg, 325
p'he-di(g)-yol-mhayn; 13 clyn-der, 28 yol-mhay-der, 364 p'he-der-yol-dag; 365
p'he-der-yol-mhayn (18x20)+5. A cylce of 8 years are 2,920 or mhayn-du-pesh
mhay-yolg (5+2 x 400 plus 5x20) days and require du (2) leap days
M'AC-DA'-LUN-AC from MHAYN-AC-DAL-LUN-AC - five
land valley moonshine land: five regions of the Moonshine Valley. This would be
the valley of the winding river Vézère, with Montignac/Lascaux, Belcayre, La
Madeleine, Les Eyzies, Bara-Bahau; m'ac-da-lun-ac Magdalena Maddalena Madeleine
DAL - valley, val, valle, Tal
MHAYN-AC - five ac: a community of five (or up
to some five) ac, each inhabited by a clan
M'AC - an abbreviation of mhayn-ac: chieftain
of such a community of five (some five, or up to five) clans; surviving in
Scottish name Mac
MAYA - another abbreviation of mhayn-ac:
chieftain's wife, surviving in the name Maya or Maja
CA AC – sky land: possible root of kyklos,
cercle and cycle, circle and cycle, also of comos and cosmic
63) BAL
and BEL - heat and hot, warmth and warm; surviving for example in Basque bello
for warmth, Lappish boaldet and buoll for burn, Finnish pola and Lappish buella
for fire (Richard Fester)
CA BAL - sky heat, red summer sun-horse;
survives in Spanish caballo, Italian cavallo, French cheval for horse; a horse
running on soft ground: cabal cabal cabal cabal ...
LEB inverse of bel for warmth and warm - lip or
lips, from which comes warm breath; surviving in lip, Lippe, labbra, lèvres
(more in the next chapter)
BEL CA UR AC - warm sky blue ac: land under the
warm blue summer sky; cave Belcayre between rock shelter La Madeleine and
Montagnac with the Lascaux cave (bel warm; ca sky; ur a color, mainly blue,
sometimes red, as the sky; ac an expanse of land with water, inhabited by a
clan)
LAD inverse of dal for valley - hill; surviving
in ladder, originally something that slopes
LAD CA UR - hill sky color: name for Lascaux,
hill of a painted sky within; the Lascaux cave is found some two kilometers
from Montignac, in a limestone massive, which forms a flat round hill; ur means
a conspicuous color, mainly the colors of the sky and its reflection in the
water, the blue sky, or a red morning sky, or the red sky of a sunset
CA BEL – sky warm, yellow spring sun-horse;
cabel cabel cabel cabel …
LAB inverse of bal for heat and hot - coldness,
cold; may survive in Lap-land, and perhaps in ancient Greek labros for stormy,
if that word originally referred to cold and stormy northern shores
CA LAB – sky cold, winter sun-horse; calab
calab calab calab …
BAL and LAB – hot and cold
ALB and BLA – active and inactive, dawn and
dusk, stand up and go to sleep; Italian alba for dawn, English black; ancient
Greek alphaestaes for industrious, energetic, blakeuo for I am lazy
SHEB inverse of pesh for fish - small and
medium sized land animals (sheep chèvre chevreau chevreuil), as verb run
SHDEB – as verb walk, as noun step (accentuated
form of sheb)
SHDIB - boot, leather wound around foot and lower
leg, filled with moss; survived in many forms and languages; also dressing,
bandage
64) LEB
inverse of bel for warm - lips, warm breath exhaled between the lips, live and
life; German leben and Leben; indicated by a sign before the mouth of an animal,
for example by the short strokes before the mouth of a hind in the grotto of
Pergouset (dep. Lot); also by the sticking out tongue of a bison, e.g. in the
Lascaux cave; leb ()b b bh as root of ancient Greek bios, Latin vita, French
vie
BLE permutation of bel and leb - bleed, bleed
out, die; indicated by long strokes before the mouth of an ibex in Jordania,
Kilwa, Mount Hirsfeld; English bleed, French blessé for wounded, blême for
getting very pale, German bleich for pale, erbleichen and erblassen for getting
pale, verblichen for deceased (rare, once common)
GOL or GO) with a clicking l - mouth and
throat, also language; Italian gola, French geule and geuler (inferior)
GOL UR - ocher prepared in the mouth, mixed
with fat (or breast milk?) as binder, and perhaps the juice of a herb or root
for sweetening the bitter ocher, then blown and spat on the wall of a cave, as
demonstrated by Michel Lorblanchet, giving the painted animal leb / life, as
the color is blended with warm moisture and blown with warm breath; survives in
color, British colour, French couleur
GOL AC - land of language; survives in Gaul for
France, in gallic for the French language and wit, in Gaelic for Welsh (Welsh,
in Switzerland, means French)
G)O – eat, survives in glutton
G)A - drink (onomatopoetic, as our funny gloo
gloo)
)OG - tongue, move the tongue, speak, argue,
word, say, have the say, language, argument, reason, explanation; ancient Greek
logos for word and reason; survives in logic, in French langue for both tongue
and language, and in English language that keeps French langue instead of
building a proper English form tonguage
65) COL
- a narrow passage; survives in French col for pass, couloir for gangway,
couler for flow
LOC inverse of col - a natural enclosure, perhaps
strengthened by means of added branches and stones, also a lake, and an
enlocked bay; became Latin locus for place and lacus for lake; survives in
Gaelic loch for lake, and enlocked bay, in English lock and lake
COL and LOC - hunting terms: driving animals
into an enclosure (loc as verb and noun), then through a narrow passage (col as
verb and noun) so they can easily be more easily killed, without too much risk
for the Magdalenian hunters
PIQ – spear; survives in French piquer for
stab, sting, pierce
SH'PIQ - spear-thrower; German spicken for lard
QIP inverse of piq - knive and cut; Old English
cnif
TAP and inverse PAT - beat; survives in French
taper and battre, in English pat and battle
BAR - bear; German Baer (more in the chapters 60
and 79)
BHAU - shelter, grotto, cave; German Bau for
building, also for the cave of an animal such as a fox or a dachs, Behausung
for shelter, Haus for house
BAR AC BHAU - bear / land with water / cave:
original name of the cave Bara-Bahau on the blue river Vézère, meaning a former
bear cave on an expanse of land with water (the cave Bara-Bahau was inhabited
by hunters from Magdalenian times onward, while nobody lived in the Lascaux
cave)
QEL AC inverse of the sun-horse ca-leq -
fertile land
NUL AC inverse of the moon bull ca-lun - land
under a new moon, a really dark night
LAB AC inverse of ca-bal for the red summer
sun-horse - cold land;
LEB AC inverse of ca-bel for warm sky, yellow
spring sun-horse - land of life, providing the Magdalenian hunters with plenty
of meat and fresh herbs
DIB – spoon, vessel, dipper, dip
BID - cooking pit, layed out with leather,
filled with meat or fish, herbs and water, whereupon a stone heated in the fire
was rolled into the water, made it boil and the meal cook; survives in English
pit and in French bidon for bucket, also (familiar) bide and bidon for belly -
manger comme Dieu en France ...
66) CA
LEQ – sun-horse, sun, day
CA BAL - red summer sun-horse, summer
LAB AC inverse of ca-bal - cold land, winter;
CA LUN – moon-bull, moonlit night
NUL AC inverse of ca-lun - land under a new
moon, dark land, night
VAD - water, also English wade, wet, wash
DAV inverse of vad - moist air, fog; dew,
German Tau
CA VAD - sky water: rain, clouds (cavad cvad
cloud)
VAD UR - water blue: beautiful deep blue river
Vézère
DRA - dry, German trocken
DRA AC - dry land, earth; became Latin terra,
French terre; permutation ARD became German Erde, irden, Kartoffel (ard appel,
Erdapfel); another reminiscence of dra-ac might have been dra'c dragon Drache
as symbol of fiery hot earth, hence a draught, also of a forest-fire
MON - larger hill, mountain; Latin mons,
English Mount
MON DIG LUN - mountain one moon: top of a
mountain or larger hill where the aspiring shamans spent midsummer, a midsummer
month, 30 days around June 21, where they studied the starry sky, advised by
the arch-shaman of lad-ca-ur (Lascaux), whose "portrait" is shown in
the axial gallery of the Lascaux cave: a roaring megaceros, shouting, in order
to reach all the young men on top of mon-dig-lun ...
NOM inverse of mon - the important arch-shamans
may have been remembered on mon-dig-lun, perhaps by means of wooden statues
bearing inscriptions
67)
MA-DRA - the goddess of earth and life saying: my earth; the earth is mine; I am the earth, from which comes all life,
and into which every life is bound to return ... Dra would be the earth
itself, dust, matter, whereas ac would be land with water; ma-dra materia
'Magna Mater' mater madre mother Mutter ... Dar as a permutation of dra became
Latin terra; ma-dar again mater mother, while Italian madre returned to the
ma-dra form
ARD-AM inverse of ma-dra - survived in Adam,
the one made of clay; ard became earth Erde, also Latin ars, English art, for
the first sculptures were presumably made of clay
LEB-AC inverse of ca-bel, warm sky - life land,
fertile land, name of the goddess of earth and life; became leb-a eba Eva Eve
...
A-BEL inverse of leb-a - Abel, son of Eve
CA-IN and inverse NI-AC - double negation:
neither sky nor land; Cain, a son of Eve, murdered his brother Abel, and so, we
may assume, he was driven from his land ac, and lost his right on a place in
heaven ca, among the stars of the summer triangle; ca-in would have been the
word for felon and committing a felony; Old Irish cain means statute, law,
rent, confirming the legal aspect of that word and Biblical name; the first law
would have been a list of crimes and felonies, thou shalt not ...
-IN NUL NI - three forms of negations, for
example ca-lic-in for a caliginous or misty sky; nul-ac as the land under a new
moon, or rather empty moon, no moon; and ni-ac no land for a felon ca-in no
place in heaven; ni became Latin nihil; survives in the French double
negation ni ni for neither nor; in French non, Italian no, German Nein, English
no, Russian njet
NI AC UR - no ac-ur, no ocher, name for the
cave of Niaux, where the animals are drawn in black, without colors
68)
C'HER - stag; French cerf, German Hirsch
NOT-: (ending on a spitting t, produced by the
tip of the tongue touching the lips) - human mind, reason, think, know; became
ancient Greek noos nous, English note notch notion know
C'HER NOT-: (spitting t) - stag mind: a shaman
wearing antlers, a stag with a human mind, as a painter blowing and spitting
colors on the walls of a cave, as a healer chewing herbs and spitting them as
disinfectants on a wound; giant stag Megaceros giganteus an arch-shaman, female
megaceros in cave Cougnac behind a male either his wife, or an arch-shamaness
in her own right. English horn German Horn; Cernunnos, oldest Celtic god, was
wearing horns, usually antlers
DIG - finger, touch, poke a hole; as number one
GID inverse of dig – give and take; survives in
give, gift, get
DIG NOT-: (spitting t) - touch know: possible
origin of ancient Greek dia, diagnosis, gnosis
ELB inverse of ble – if ble means wound, blood,
bleeding, blessé for wounded in French (English bless for a last blessing a
wounded and dying man ble received?), pale, blême for very pale in French,
bleich in German, and die, then the inverse elb means help and heal
ERB - grass, herb; Italian erba for grass, erbe
for herbs and vegetables
BRE inverse of erb - tree, French arbre; also
branch, as verb break, German brechen, (break off a branch)
REB - bush or tree bearing fruit; German Rebe
for vine
BER inverse of reb - berry, fruit; English
berry pear, German Beere Birne, French baie poire, Italian bacca pera
LIC - light, bright, shine, luck, also present
in the name of the Celtic sun-god Lugh
GHI - imitating a bird's call; surviving in
French name Guy, and in English guy for man
GHYN - woman, wife of ghi; survives in many
words and languages, for example in Greek gynae for woman, or in queen as ruler
or wife of a ruler
VAD GHYN - water (inside) woman, amniotic
fluid, became va'ghyn vagina, also Vacuna, Sabine goddess of harvest
(confirming the equation of woman and fertile land as found in leb-ac leb-a eba
Eva Eve)
VAD NOT-: (ending on a kissing t, tip of tongue
softly touching lips) - water mind; became Venus, goddess of love emerging from
the sea ...
GHYN or variants - birth, give birth, child;
also kind, kinship, kinfolk, tribe, clan, mother of a clan; as queen ruler of a
clan, either on her own, or at the side of her ghi, birdman, male ruler
69) VAD
and combinations - water wade wet wash. Inverse dav survives in English dew and
German Tau. Vad ghyn, water (amniotic fluid) woman, survives in vagina, and in
the name of the Sabine harvest goddess Vacuna. Ac means land with water. Ac vad
enforces the aspect of water and became Latin aqua. Dra ac enforces the aspect
of earth, dry land; survives in draught, German trocken for dry, also English
dragon German Drache for a land 'burning' under a fiery sun, and really burning
in the case of a forest-fire. Ca vad, sky water, rain, survives in cloud. Ac
vad, land with water water, could also mean flood, and survives in German
Augenwasser, poetic for tears …
BAL LIT-: and BAL VAD - heat a stone and roll
it into a cooking pit (bid); survives in English boil, French bouillir, Italian
bollare
VID - drained, dried up; French vide for empty
DIV inverse of vid - full of water; survives in
dive
VAL - water in motion, moving and winding like
water; survives in vale and valley, French val, Italian valle, in German Welle
for wave, and wallen for a cloth moving in a wave-like manner, also in English
well, well up
AC VAL - land with water moving water: well, spring;
German Quelle
LAV inverse of val - remove by means of a
liquid, also the effect a moving liquid can have; French laver and Italian
lavare for wash; lava, a fiery liquid removing everything in its way
BAL VAL - fiery hot liquid; combined to vol in
Volcano, and to Baal, originally a god of volcanoes
HUM - sound, especially for a remote rumble;
English hum, rumble, tumble; German grumbeln, rumpeln
MUH inverse of hum - snorting bull, lowing cow;
as in German Muh (onomatopoetic)
HUM BAL VAL – rumbling (mountain) fiery hot
liquid in motion: became the Sumerian volcano god Humbaba (onomatopoetic)
70) DRA
- earth, dry earth, matter, earth per se, reign of the earth goddess of many
shapes, among them the mammoth and rhinoceros; inverse ard became earth Erde
irden ... Ma-dra was the name of the goddess of earth and life, of giving life
and taking life; inverse ard-am Adam as the one made of clay
DAR - (flash and) thunder, weather-god, consort
of the thundering rhincoceros; Celtic god Taranis, nordic god Thor; Welsh taran
Irish torran for thunder
RAD inverse of dar - flash; surviving in
radiare, radiate
RAD (pronounced quickly, r’d, rshd) DAR (long
and rolling) – flash thunder (onomatopoetic)
DAR, DA, DE, TE-, SSE-, ZE-, THE-, THO-, JU-, …
- originally weather-god, then supreme god, as for example Zeus
DE AC - god land; became dea for goddess
DE OC - god eye; became deus theos for god
CA DAG LOG - sky four sayings: enumeration of
the four main qualities a good ruler needed, namely being strong as a bull, caring
as a pregnant mare, decided as a
feline, and making a wise use of his
weapons. These main qualities are shown in the composite animal near the
entrance of the Lascaux cave: a bison with the round belly of a pregnant mare,
the mottled hide of a feline, and the head of a bearded man, out of whose front
grow a pair of horns that end in blades and thus mean lances. Ca-da'-log would
have become ancient Greek kata, from above, down, completely; catalogue as
list; and Dag as word for an Anatolian mountain, where the supreme Hittite god
Teshub resided, the God of the Heavenly Weather, whose name begins with Te- as
a variant of dar de ... Zeus resided on Mount Olympus and was in the origin a
sun- and weather-god. Log would have been pronounced with a clicking l, which,
in very early times, may have been a hunter's call that warned of a feline, and
which, later on, became lys leo leone lion leon Loewe, leopard, lynx, and
lykos/lupus for wolf. Then also log for word, speak, say, reason, rule, the one
who has the say, ruler. A memory of this very early ruler may be kept by the
man with the head of a lion from Hohlenstein, carved from mammoth ivory some
32,000 years ago
71) MA -
me, myself (I), my, mine; French moi (je), mon, ma, mes, le mien, la mienne,
les miens, les miennes
AM inverse of ma - be and have, first form
singular
MA AM or MA'M - I am, I have
TA - you, your, yours; French tu, ton, ta, tes,
le tien, la tienne, les tiens, les tiennes
AT inverse of ta - be and have, second form
singular
TA AT or TA'T - you are, you have; French tu
est or t'est (t'e), and tu as or t'as (t'a)
SA - he, she, it, his, hers; its; French lui,
elle, çela or ça (sa), son, le sien, sa, la sienne
AS inverse of sa - be and have, third form
singular
SA AS or SA'S - he or she or it is / has;
French il / elle / ça est (c'est, s'e), and il / elle / ça a
(sa’a)
ME - we, ours, plural of MA
EM inverse of me - be and have, first form
plural
ME EM or ME'M - we are, we have
TE - you, yours, plural of ta
ET - be and have, second form plural
TE ET or TE'T - you are, you have (plural)
SE - they, theirs, plural of sa
ES inverse of se - be and have, third form
plural
SE ES or SE'S - they are, they have
72) MAS
- many, mass, much, more, multiply, increase in number and size; German Mass
for size, Masse for mass
SAM - some, few, little, less, lonesome,
cumbersome; diminish, lessen, decrease, getting hard and tiresome; German
einsam for lonely, muehsam for tiresome and cumbersome
AMS - ample, wide, spacious, embracing, on both
sides, all around; English ample, French ample, ancient Greek amphi as adverb;
Latin amplificare, English amplify
SMA - small, German schmal for narrow, French
smala for family as the unit of the society (?), smart for achieving a lot
(mas) by means of a small (sma) effort
DOV – toward; German zu (zur zum)
VOD – from; German von (vom)
OVD - often, over, overflow, overload,
oversized ..., gaining in number, size, weight, and effect; ancient Greek
ophello means (I) increase, amplify, multiply, magnify, enlarge, extend,
enhance, raise, heighten …
DVO - dwindle, dwarf, German Zwerg; loosing in
number, size, weight, and effect; ancient Greek duae for misery
CA) with a clicking l - head, skull
)AC inverse of ca) - standing on the feet,
standing his man, standing ground; ancient Greek lax, with the foot, laxis for
plot or parcel of land
A)C - strong, daring, brave; ancient Greek
alkimos
C)A inverse of a)c - make noise while
attacking, being a famous hunter, being the founder of a Magdalenian clan;
ancient Greek klazo klaggae kleinos klados.
73)
CA)AC - a pun, combining ca) for head, or rather holding the head up
high, with )ac for standing ground, but also ca for sky and ac for land with
water, and in between the leader of a clan ) who has the say )og, the former
lion-leopard-lykos/lupus-man; columns of stalactites and stalagmites in a cave;
Milky Way, galaxy
LIC VAD - bright water, also used for the Milky
Way; surviving in liquid
GAL - milk
LAG inverse of gal - drop
GALAG - combination of milk and drop, sinter on
the wall of a cave; ancient Greek gala milk, stalagma a drop
GLA - drink (as found before, in a different
context)
ALG - full, satisfied, belch of a baby; in the
case of an adult a liquid released from the mouth, vomit, caused by a sickness
or injury; Greek algos for pain
ALA - white; may have become Latin albus for
white, surviving in albino
CA)A - prayer, calling the goddess, also the
former leaders of a clan who now live among the stars of the summer triangle on
the Milky Way (Atair in Aquila, Deneb in Cygnus, Vega in Lyra), also the voice
that comes from the head ca), especially when pronounced by a ruler; survives in
English call
A)A - any call; survives in hello hullo hallo
alo ...
)OG – may have been the origin of langue, as in
language, and of tongue (clicking l as l and t)
74) CA)
with a clicking l, especially used with the ruler of a clan – head, face, beautiful,
noble, good, honorable, lucky; as verb holding the head up high - an
illustration of this would be the head carved from mammoth ivory, allegedly
found in a field near Dolni Vestonice, and, if not faked, 26,000 years old, see
the cover of the October 1988 issue of the National Geographic (more in the
next chapter)
)AC inverse of ca) - standing firmly on the
feet, standing his man, also the ground one stands upon
) AC -
the ruler, former lion-leopard-lykos/lupus-man, and the land and water of his
clan
CAP - body, especially the top of the head,
also a group of people or animals; became Latin caput for head and corpus for
body, German Kopf and Koerper, while ancient Greek kephalos combines cap and
ca) to capca), perhaps the word for a human clad in the costume of an animal;
cap as something worn on the head survives in English cap and German Kappe,
while cap in the meaning of herd survives in English cattle
CAP CA) - double head, a ruler wearing a mask
of an animal's head, namely a cap, over his own head ca); became ancient Greek
kephalos for head
PAC inverse of cap – bulk of the body, also a
group of people or animals; became Latin pectus for breast, and bestia for
animal; survives in many forms, perhaps in bulk and body, in German Backe
English cheek, in English back German Ruecken, in German Bauch and Becken,
English belly and pelvis; also in French pacage English pasture, English bacon
German Speck; French pechtel means live-stock, bétail cattle; pac as group of
people would survive in English pack; a further version of pac was ancient
Greek pachys for fat, broad, dense, obese, full, strong, powerful, noble,
compact, coarse, stupid, plump. The many variants and meanings of pac testify
to a very ancient and important word
HED - top of a human being, head, also height;
German Haupt for head (old usage, for important people)
DEH inverse of hed - marking the other end of
the human body, namely the toe, German Zeh
75)
Clicking l, here given as an arc for the curving tongue whose tip moves
along the palate, became l, r, and t:
CA) - first ruler of a clan, founding father;
r-form became ancient Greek kar for head, kara for head and face, kardia for
heart, soul, mood, mind, reason, Italian caro for dear; l-form in ancient Greek
kalos for beautiful, brave, good, successful, favorable, useful, noble,
honorable, lucky; survives in English call, t-form perhaps in cat as reminder
of the lion-man of old (man with lion-head, Hohlenstein, 32000 BP)
)AC - ruler ) of a clan on his land with water
ac; as verb stand firmly on the ground, rule the land; l-form became ancient
Greek lax, with the foot or feet, and laxis for a plot or parcel of land;
t-form became tagos, ruler; tagma, legion; tageia, supreme command; tacheuo, I
lead, rule; taxis, order, marching formation; tachys quick; r-form became
ancient Greek raka for: you moron, and rakos for rascal
A)C - strong, daring, brave; became ancient
Greek arkos; survives in German stark for strong; l-form alc became ancient Greek
alkar for protection, defense, alkae for defense, protection, rescue, power,
braveness, courage; t-form atc hardly pronounceable, but may have survived in
the permutation act, from ancient Greek ago, I lead and move, with many more
meanings, agogos for leader, aktis for ray, light, sunshine.
C)A inverse of alc or a)c - make noise while
attacking, being a famous hunter, being the founder of a clan, having class;
l-form became ancient Greek klazo klaggae kleinos klados, and survives in clan
and class; r-form in croak and crow, in German Krach for noise, in kraehen and
kraechzen for croak, in Kraehe for crow (Latin corvus, ancient Greek koronae
for crow), raven-man was the leader of a later clan (Yverdon-Clendy in Western
Switzerland, and on Celtic coins)
A)A - a call, as in hullo, hello, hallo, alo;
t-form became ata, patros, patriarch, pater, father, Vater; r-form became
ancient Greek ara for prayer, request, also for curse, indicating the power of
a patriarch who can either help or reject
CA)A - prayer to the goddess and founding
father of a clan, both living among the stars of the summer triangle, which can
either be seen as the vad-ghyn (vagina) of the the goddess, or as the head of
the bison-man, as indicated by the painting on the natural column in the rear
hall of the Chauvet Cave in the Rhone Valley, some 30,000 years old; as verb
pray; t-form became ancient Greek kata, from above, down; r-form survives in
Italian cara, dear (female form)
)OG - word, speak, having the say; became
ancient Greek logos for word and reason; l-form survives in French langue and
langage, English language, also in logic; t-form became ancient Greek toge,
just because, here, that’s why, used in a logical argument; r-form became roger
for begging vagabond, then rogue (r-form can either be very positive, as in ara
for prayer and in caro and cara for dear; or negative, as in raka for: you
moron, rakos for rogue, in ara for curse, in roger for begging vagabond, and in
rogue)
76) ARB
and inverse BRA - right and left arm
BAR and inverse RAB - right and left leg
MHAYN - right hand; Latin manus, French main,
English hand, German Hand
ARB - right arm
ARB MHAYN, pronounced AR'MHAYN - right arm and
hand; became Latin arma for weapon, as most hunters and soldiers were throwing
their lances with the right arm and hand; became English arm and hand, German
Arm and Hand
CLYN - left hand; became English claw, German
Klaue, Finnish kynnae, all three words meaning the same
BRA CLYN - left arm and hand; became ancient
Greek brachion, Italian braccio, and French bras for arm; also bracelet, more
often worn on the left wrist
P'HED - right foot; became ancient Greek podoi
and Latin pedes for feet, English foot feet, German Fuss Fuesse
BAR P'HED - right leg and foot; became ancient
Greek pous for both foot and leg; Latin per pedes, on foot (walking); English
barefeet and German barfuss; in analogy to mhayn bhayn perhaps also German Bein
for leg, English bone and German Gebein, ancient Greek baino for I go (also go
away, die)
YOLG - left foot; became Old Ugric-Altaic
jalga, Lappish juolge and Finnish jalka for foot
RAB YOLG - left leg and foot; difficult to
proncounce, therefore modified; inverse order yolg-rab may be the root of Old
Netherlandish and Middle English leggr for leg; modify r into sh, and rab turns
into shab, which may be the origin of French jambe and Italian gamba for leg;
modify r into l and you obtain lab-yolg, which may be the origin of Finnish
lahje for leg and jalka for foot. Ancient Greek rabdos means rod, staff,
scepter; rabdalos lean; radinos lean, tender, agile, swift. German Rappe is a
black horse. Rab might also be the oldest form of run, along the line of rab
rad radinos rinna renna rinnan rennen run … The many variations indicate again
a very ancient word
77) I
-: O (iso ipo ito) - arch-shaman: the firm one; equal to his forerunners, thus
warranting a long tradition; maker of opinions, ideas, pictures; voice of the
divine (ancient Greek isos for equal; hippo for horse, here the one who speaks
in the name of the sun-horse; istaemi for stand, hold up, weigh, resist,
arrange, dispose, and many more meanings; eido for look, form, opinion,
picture, idea)
O -: I (osi opi oti) - awe inspiring divine
law, ultimate reason (ancient Greek osia for divine right, pious duty,
obligation; opis for observance, obligation, followance; oti for because)
-: I O (sio pio tio) - judge in the name of the
divine; requiting good with good, bad with bad (ancient Greek sio for god; bios
for life, Latin pius pia Italian pio pia for pious; ancient Greek tio tino for
pay, award, atone, revenge)
O I -: (ois oip oit) - one exluded by the
arch-shaman: where can he go now? his fate is misfortune, even death (ancient
Greek oios for lonely; hoiper for where to?; oitos for lot, destiny, fate,
ill-luck, misfortune, death)
I O -: (ios iop iot) - plead: help me, one and
the same, arch-shaman in a long line of arch-shamans, have mercy with a pious
believer (ancient Greek ios for one and the same; also ios for arrow and
poison; io with omega for an exclamation, when calling a god, or when being
hurt; iotaes for wish, will, order)
-: O I (soi poi toi) - plead: do me the favor,
maker of ideas and pictures, let me safely return to my kinfolk (ancient Greek
hoi soi for your kinfolk; poi for where to?, poieo for do, make, produce,
organize a feast, induce fear, do a favor, make a poem, represent, accept,
appoint, estimate, respect; poiaeis for grown over with grass, poimaen for
herdsman, ruler, poimnion for herd; poinae for penance, revenge, compensation,
reparation, satisfaction; toi for certainly, really)
78) MEL
- sweet, something edible, also sweet for the ears; ancient Greek meli for
honey, and melinae for millet; French miel for honey; ancient Greek melos for
melody
LEM inverse of mel - collect, either berries or
herbs or honey ... Ancient Greek lambano means touch, take, seize, chase,
conquer, get, also comprehend, perceive; (with many more meanings)
ELM - a shrub or a tree bearing sweet fruit;
hackberry, one of the oldest and most venerable shrubs or trees of humankind,
belonging to the genus Celtis of the elm family, bearing cherrylike fruit, so
"elm" could even go back to Africa, where, as far as I am informed,
the hackberry was also known; Old English elm means noble and survives in the
given name Elmer
MLE inverse of elm - bad, ignoble; Hindi Mlechi
means barbarian, untouchable, not Indian
BON - good; Latin bonus, Italian bene, French
bon, bien
NOB inverse of bon - keeps the positive meaning,
another word for noble, together with elm; Latin nobilis, nobilitas; a variant
may be ancient Greek nomos for custom, manners, morals, principle, rule, law,
regulation, melody, song, (musical)
key.
79)
BAR and RAB - right leg and left leg; Hebrew bar means son, perhaps the
one who walks by the right leg of his father; Hebrew rabbi means master,
perhaps the one who walks on the side of a father, by a son's or pupil’s or
client’s left leg. Ancient Greek para could have had the same root, surviving
for example in parallel
BAR RAB, BARRAB, BARRA, ARRA; BARA, BAR, also
RAB BAR, RABBA - bear, as a rearing animal standing on the hind legs bar and
rab; arra perhaps the root of ancient Greek arktos – combined with a)c for
strong? –, Latin ursus, Italian orso, French ours for bear, German Baer; also
rearing horse, surviving in German Rappe for black horse. English bar, noun and
verb, and French barière may also come from bar for leg. Swiss places called
Bar and Barra serve as protecting woods, also as horse pastures, while Baer was
not only used for the bear but also for the bull, going along with a leaping
bull's strong hind legs. Rabbar may have been the origin of Old French robber
for rob, steal, and English rob, robber, robbery, perhaps referring to a
stealing bear. Barabbas in the Bible was a robber. If ancient Greek barbaros
came from bar bar, it might have held satirical meaning: someone who is so very
righteous that he got two right legs (remember the reference for the right
hand) and can't walk anymore but hops around; hoi barbaroi were the Persians,
but also other foreigners who certainly cherished their own belief - also the
Celts were fighting in the name of their gods, and might, moreover, have worn
bear hides … Sanskrit barbara meant stammering, not Aryan. So we have: not
walking properly, not talking properly, not going properly (as go means both
walk and talk). A robe may once have been a hide covering the legs rab and bar.
Aramaic abba for father may be an abbreviation of rabbar, ‘abba’ abba, meaning
a man who stands there for his family. Much as a bear: female bears are known
for their fierce will to protect their young ones, Abba was also a female day
name for Thursday
80) An
idea from the morning of Pentecost, the festival of the Holy Spirit who came
down from the sky to earth and taught people how to speak in every tongue ...
The Hebrew word for spirit, wind, breath, was
ru-ach, ancient Greek pneuma, Latin spiritus. In ach we may recognize
Magdalenian ac for land with water, while the inverse of ru-, namely ur, were
the colors of the sky, blue, also red. Now so many words had meaningful inverse
forms that we may ponder a possible meaning of ru as inverse of ur. Ancient
Greek rheo comes to mind, flow, drip; a form of rheo was ruae; Rhaeno was the
river Rhine; rhaema was the word, also conversation, talk, order, message, a
lesson, a topic, a verb. If all these words should come from Magdalenian ru, it
might have meant what comes from the sky, namely wind, from a whispering to a
howling wind, and rain, from a drizzle to a thundering downpour. Ur as what
comes from the sky would have been a symbol for what comes from the mouth of a
living being: moist breath, and sounds. Marie E.P. Koenig says that the skull
was considered a tiny sky, and she might well be right. And also this idea
would have survived in antiquity, namely in the Greek understanding of the
living being as a micro-cosmos in analogy to the macro-cosmos. An idea which
was revived in the Renaissance, and which may get actual again in a modern
form, since we have learned about fractal geometry, which explains that similar
patterns occur at every scale, in the very large and in the very small alike
... All ancient civilizations considered the cosmos, or the forces that rule
the cosmos, living and intelligent beings. We may hope to find some
confirmation for this belief in the future, when physics will not only unite
mass and energy, but also intelligence or information and energy. I formulated
such a principle at age fourteen: when I do a work in a clever way, I save
energy, so intelligence and energy should correspond to each other in some way,
and if I had more lives than just one I would study physics and ponder that
question. In this life I only achieved a position as a Usenet professor,
perhaps the silliest profession one can possibly excert in this outer region of
a minor spiral arm of the Milky Way, but still, I enjoy it very much, and I
wish to thank Google for the good work they are doing, keeping the Usenet
alive, improving it, and maintaining the archive. Silly me still believes that
the scientific part of the Usenet could evolve into a free and open university,
and when I see the good work done by Google I find my old hope not so very
silly anymore.
81)
Readers versed in biology will have noticed that my synthetical way of
reinventing Magdalenian words goes along with the evolution of the brain, whose
areas doubled and took over new tasks. Even the nod of the early brain itself
doubled into a pair of hemispheres. Also genes double and are then integrated
into other parts of a chromosome where they serve a new purpose.
Mel was the hypothetical word for sweet. Now
you may double it, and you get mel again. Mel mel, sweet sweet, very sweet.
Thus you have a word mel, and a second word mel. One word mel is enough, so you
can play with the second one. How about inverting the order of letters? Mel
lem. Lem can take over a new function, preferably in the context of mel. Say:
gather berries, herbs, honey. So mel is sweet, and lem gather something sweet,
then gather anything. Using mel and lem and changing the order of letters you
may find elm and inverse mle. Elm may be the word for fine, noble, and the
inverse mle for eech, ignoble. There are two more permutations of these letters,
lme and eml, but these are rather difficult to pronounce.
As a further step you may combine the words you
found. Mel mel would be sweet sweet. Melmel, melmel, melmel, melmel ... Within
millenia, melmel could have become meli, ancient Greek for honey. Combine mel
and mle, then you have a word for sweet eech, looking fine but being ignoble;
this berry appears to be ripe and sweet, but taste it, horrible. Mel mle,
melmle, melmle melmle ... Within a couple of millennia this word could have
become ancient Greek meleos for in vain, worthless, useless, careless,
unreasonable, unhappy, miserable.
So far, no language genes have been found, and
I doubt very much in their existence, while I believe that genes themselves are
using a form of language that is mirrored in the evolution of human language,
word language. As the law of fractal geometry tells: similar patterns emerge at
every scale. So early language could be a magnifying glass hold over the
genetic process ...
82) Another
quadruple of hypothetical Magdalenian words are bal and lab, alb and bla. Bal
means hot, ca-bal sky-hot, summer sun-horse, cabal cabal cabal cabal ...,
Spanish caballo Italian cavallo French cheval for horse. Lab was cold, winter,
Lapland a cold land, ca-lab sky-cold, winter sun-horse, calab calab calab calab
...
Alb was the dawn, alba in Italian, Albania the
region were the sun rises for Italians, alb meant also morning, standing up,
being active, ancient Greek alphaestaes for laborious, industrious, energetic.
Bla was dusk, English black, ancient Greek blakeuo meant I am lazy, hence bla
was the evening, the end of activity, go to sleep, night, when the sky darkens
and gets black.
Interestingly, the alphabet begins with alpha.
This would be a form of Magdalenian alb. So the begin of the alphabet was not
casual but well chosen: dawn, morning, wake up, be active ... The sign for
alpha was the head of a bull or a cow. This refers to the old activities of
chasing bisons and herding cattle.
Phoenician alpha was aleph, also recognizable
as a variant of alb: alb aleb aleph, whereas Greek alpha kept or returned to
the alb form: alb alpha alphaetaes, also alphano for I acquire, gain, bring in,
furthermore alphitopoiia for the preparation of barley flour – in oder to bake
a flat loaf of bread for breakfast, we may assume.
83) LET US JOIN THE SUMMER FESTIVAL OF MONTIGNAC,
number 1 Magdalenian hit in the summer of 14,385 BC; you hear first a man sing,
then a woman reply, then their voices join in the refrain; accompanied by
flutes and drums:
CA LAB
CA LAB CA LAB CA LAB ...
TA'T
LAB, MA OC
CA BEL
CA BEL CA BEL CA BEL ...
TA'T
BEL, MA OC
CA BAL
CA BAL CA BAL CA BAL ...
TA'T
BAL, MEL OC
MAJA
VOD MAC-DA'-LUN-AC
CA LAB
CA LAB CA LAB CA LAB ...
MA'M
LAB, MA OC
CA BEL
CA BEL CA BEL CA BEL ...
MA'M
BEL, MA OC
CA BAL
CA BAL CA BAL CA BAL ...
MA'M
BAL, MA OC
ELM
MAC VOD BEL-CA-UR-AC
PESH
VAD
SHDEB
MON DIG LUN AC
PESH
VAD
SHDEB
MON DIG LUN AC
Free translation:
Do you hear the winter sun-horse?
You have cold, apple of my eye.
Do you hear the spring sun-horse?
You have warm, my darling.
Do you hear the summer sun-horse?
You have hot, honey,
Daughter of a chief of the
I hear the winter sun-horse,
I have cold, apple of my eye.
I hear the spring sun-horse,
I have warm, my darling.
I hear the summer sun-horse,
I have hot, my love,
Noble son of a chief from the land of the warm
blue sky
Let us swim in the deep blue river Vézère,
And then join the summer festival of Montignac
Let us swim in the beautiful deep blue river
Vézère,
And then happily join the summer festival of
Montignac
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