Lascaux 21
– coming around
full circle / © 2019
Franz Gnaedinger
writing for brave
young readers / young Ferdinand de Saussure and Richard Fester / a word on
apperception and 'fulguration' / Arnaud again / answering a question about Damascus
and Saytan / Czech visoky 'high' again / Nostratic / Stone Age cosmology /
Magdalenian song / hypothesis and theory / briefest possible summary of HomerÕs
Odyssey / dream logic / Kadesh Barnea / ark of the covenant, mercy seat, lunar
and solar aspect / 'molten sea' / qodesh formula / fair history of civilization
/ mother of all life
--- writing for brave young readers
Believers in the ruling paradigm
can't be convinced of a new
approach (Thomas S. Kuhn). I write for brave young readers who might find my
messages in an archive.
You can train the Magdalenian look
on language by compiling a list of derivatives of a Magdalenian word, for
example DhAG meaning able, good in the sense of able, with a wide range of
derivatives
(1) from Greek theos and Latin deus
(well compatible in Magdalenian), Sumerian dingir announcing a deity (with a
nasal infix), and the supreme Celtic god Dagda, the good god in the sense of
the able god (Barry Cunliffe), DhAG DhAG able able ...
(2) via Old Latin dingua 'tongue,
language', English tongue and think, Latin dux 'leader' and facere 'make,
produce', German taugen 'be fit, able' ...
(3) to German zeugen 'beget' Middle
German focken 'copulate' and English ...
Over the years I found many dozens,
maybe even one hundred derivatives of DhAG. Abilities must have been of
paramount importance for the survival of the human species in the Ice Age. I
long gave up compiling the list (but mention Nostratic *tek ÔearthÕ –
also the earth might have been seen as an able deity). Now you can take over.
By assembling such a list you get a feeling for Magdalenian and might even be
rewarded by one or another anthropological insight.
When reading The Selfish Gene by
Richard Dawkins, edition from 1986, the way he describes the genes reminded me
of the Greek pantheon. Later on Magdalenian revealed a deep connection: deities
are able ones, and genes our inner enablers ... We can then regard religion as
an 'extended phenotype'. (Ironically, RD, by fighting religion is fighting his
own theory.)
Zeus * was a big lover, genes care
about replication, and the third group of derivatives above belongs in the same
context.
Or maybe you are more interested in
the powerful triple goddess of the fire giver PIR GID and fur giver BIR GID and
fertility giver BRI GID ?
* Careful, young readers. The name
of Zeus does not derive from DhAG but from TYR for the one who overcomes in the
double sense of rule and give, Magdalenian TYR emphatic Middle Helladic Sseyr
(Phaistos Disc, Derk Ohlenroth) Doric Sseus (Wilhelm Larfeld) Homeric Zeus.
While the genitive Dios does derive from DhAG, also Dis in Dis pater, byname of
Jupiter, Zeus of Rome, Romani from REO for the river goddess and MAN for the
right hand, Greek Rhea the mother of Zeus, and Latin manus 'hand': they who
carry out the will of the goddess with their right hand. ERO as a variant of
REO named Eros, once the power that held the world together. DhAG is also
present in English daughter Greek thygataer, DhAG TYR, able overcomer. If you
happen to be a young man falling under the charm of someone's daughter you may
understand. Romantic feelings had once been the tender arms of a cosmic power.
--- young Ferdinand de Saussure and Richard Fester
Young Ferdinand de Saussure, aged sixteen
years and eight months, wrote a linguistic paper of forty-two pages (published
by David H. Boyd in 1978) wherein he proposed several 'ur-words' in the sense
of Richard Fester. Having seen but a small excerpt I can confirm three of them
in the light of Magdalenian
KAL tout ce qui est creux et resonne bien
Richard Fester proposed KALL with a
wide range of meanings including German Hhle 'cave' hohl 'hollow' Hall Schall
'sound'. Magdalenian has KAL for cave, Underworld, accounting for many derivatives.
KAR la tte, la force, etc.
Magdalenian offers ARC for the cave
bear, wherefrom Greek arktos 'bear; the permutation CRA for power, strength (as
of a bear) German Kraft; and the permutation CAR for the head of a cave bear
deposited in a cult cave, as emblem of the cave (Marie E.P. Knig), for example
in a chamber of the Chauvet cave, with a derivative in Greek kar 'head'.
TAK l'art, l'industrie, etc.
Magdalenian has DhAG meaning able,
good in the sense of able, the word of the most and most varied derivatives,
possibly of an onomatopoeic origin, as it inspires the dry sound of stone
hitting stone in the first industry there was, the fabrication of stone tools.
Among the five ur-words Richard
Fester proposed is TAG with another wide range of meanings (in brackets my
explanations), among them mountain Turkish Daghi Dag, stone in Amerindian,
think, teach, say (talk, Old Latin dingua 'tongue, language'), sex (German
zeugen 'beget'), Zeug in the sense of woven cloth (Circe weaving her cloth in a
cave is weaving the fabric of time and life), Zeug in the sense of Werkzeug
'tool, device', to give orders (and lead) duc (Latin ducere 'lead', Italian
Duce French Duc English Duke), God (Greek theos, Latin deus, Sumerian dingir,
and the name of the supreme Celtic god Dagda, according to Barry Cunliffe the
good god in the sense of the able god, German taugen for being able, emphatic
DhAG DhAG able able), and German Tag 'day' (in the sense of the day given to us
by the able one, God).
Young Ferdinand had been talked out
of his experiment.
If I could find his paper (the book
of Boyd) I shall check it for further anticipations of Magdalenian.
(I am very pleased that young
Ferdinand de Saussure with TAK, and independently from him Richard Fester with
TAG of a wide semantic range, both anticipated Magdalenian DhAG meaning able,
good in the sense of able, the word of the most and most varied derivatives,
which I consider of anthropological significance. My advantage is that I can
look on the work of thousands of brilliant PIE and Nostratic scholars and
archaeological marvels like Lascaux (unknown to de Saussure) and Chauvet Cave
and the Gbekli Tepe. If they were in my position they'd achieve way more.
Brian Greene: "Therein lies the singular beauty of science. As we struggle
toward deeper understanding, we must give our creative imagination ample room
to explore. We must step outside conventional ideas and and established
frameworks."
--- a word on apperception and 'fulguration'
I learned several languages, among
them Latin and Ancient Greek, for years, intensively, and studied (on my own)
cave art and rock art and mobile art, modern art and Renaissance art and Greek
art and Egyptian art and Celtic art, for decades, also early literature,
Homer's Odyssey and the Bible.
If you learn a lot, not only from
textbooks but also along ideas and experiments of your own, you can acquire
what is called apperception, a higher form being 'fulguration' – a deep
insight seemingly coming out of nowhere.
Such a moment linked a stunning
piece of rock art and word language. Late Klaus Schmidt, excavator of the
Gbekli Tepe, showed the big limestone ring from there in his book, saying its
meaning is not known. Well, I saw a male head ex negativo, the sky shining
through, the face consisting of nothing else than air and light – and
this made the spark fly. I thought of Ouranos read as AAR RAA NOS, he of air
AAR (poetic German has Aar for eagle, Knig der Lfte, king of the airs
(plural) and light RAA (the supreme Egyptian god Ra made his appearance in the
solar disc) and a mind NOS of his own (Greek nous 'mind), so the Greek sky god
Ouranos would originally have been AAR RAA NOS, he of air AAR and light RAA and
a mind NOS of his own, personifying the sky ouranos.JPG
Ouranos was the only Greek god who
had no temple and no shrine. Instead he had the most glorious natural
sanctuary, valleys, hollows between hills and mountains filled with air and
light, for example the Val d'Hrens in the western Swiss Alps, leading up to a
heavenly throne flanked by shining white snow covered mountains
AAR RAA NOS ARANS Hrens herens.jpg
Other apperceptions and
'fulgurations' linked cave art and language, again visual language and word
language.
--- Arnaud again
AAR RAA NOS DhAG means: the ancient
sky god of the Gbekli Tepe, he of air AAR and light RAA with a mind NOS of his
own is able DhAG. He had a descendant in the Egyptian Horus falcon whose eyes
were moon and sun. A stone tablet from Jerf el-Ahmar, area and era of the
Gbekli Tepe, already indicates that the eyes of the old sky god were moon and
sun.
In the forests of Middle Europe he
would have been worshipped in the guises of a bull and an eagle. German has
Aar, Knig der Lfte, eagle, king of the airs (plural). In Switzerland we have
the Canton of Aargau, capital Aarau, and the river Aare, filled with water sent
as rain by the god. Then we have the Val d'Hrens in the western Alps
AAR RAA NOS ARANS Hrens
and the Canton of Uri, Italian
Urano, in the Central Alps, emblem a bull. DhAG was widened to POL DhAG,
fortified settlement POL of the able one DhAG, the able ruler governing his
Bollwerk 'bulwark' in the name of the god, DhAG Italian duce French duc English
duke and -zog in German Herzog, then DhAG theos deus dingir divine ... POL DhAG
would account for German wald Gewalt 'power, force, might' Verwalter
'administrator'. In the context of an eagle, his stronghold was on a hill, an
acropolis overlooking a wide area, compared to an eyrie, an eagle's nest. We
have now
AAR RAA NOS POL DhAG AR N (w)OL D Arnold Arnaud
Once again a nodal point in a web of
cultural relations, archaeology (Gbekli Tepe) and mythology (sky god) and
geography (toponyms) and anthropology (social strata) supporting each other
– somehow like a table standing firmly on four legs.
--- answering a question about Damascus and Saytan
(part 1)
Speculative etymology of Damascus:
DOM ASh KOS, camp DOM tree ASh heavenly vault KOS, home of fruit trees whose
foliage form a canopy, pleasant to walk under. If so, Damascus had been named
for a famous orchard. So famous that a delicious plum from there kept a shifted
form of the place name in remote Europe, German Zwetsch(k)e Austrian Zwetschge
Swiss Zwtschge. The very ancient metropolis may have been a counterpart of the
garden Eden, located by the Bible in northern Syria, with Gozan, Haran, and
Reseph (2 Kings 19:12). Consider also the Rosa damascena, a fragrant pink rose,
and the surname of Damascus as the City of Jasmine. Damascus may have prided
itself as New Paradise. The center could have been a royal garden, since ASh
for tree is the inverse of ShA meaning ruler. Germanic mythology knows a
central tree, the World Ash, Welt-Esche, its roots the Underworld, its crown
the sky. Damascus might have had a Tree of Life, a tree from where young Ba'al
rose as golden calf in the morning, symbol of the morning sun. Canaanite
mythology had Asherah, often represented as a stylized Tree of Life, while the
Egyptian sky goddess Nut dwelt in a sycamore, a fig tree. The modern name of
the city, ash-Sh:am, refers to Ba'al as Lord of the heavens. And a stele from a
nearby Tell, now a suburb of Damascus, from around 1000 BC, shows an Aramaean
king holding a tulip. A tulip? Normally a king holds a scepter or a weapon. The
tulip must have a meaning, might indicate a garden region.
Turkish Saytan is a loan from Arabic
Shaytan, and the Arabic word is considered a loan from Hebrew.
Luke 10:18 in the Bible, Jesus
speaking: "I saw Satan falling like lightning from heaven." A flash
is followed by thunder, so the deep etymology of Satan may be SA TON, downward
SA to make oneself heard TON – he who fell from the sky and caused a
thundering noise. If you pronounce SA TON in a theatrical manner you can evoke
a flash (sa) and thunder (ton). SA TON might perhaps account for Hebrew 'sa'an
'noise' and Arabic zajjata (velarized t) 'to make noise', also for Arabic
shadan (dark first a) 'echo, reverberation'. A further derivative may be Hebrew sadan
'anvil' – the sledgehammer comes down SA and hits the anvil with a loud
noise TON.
TON is present in French tonnre
German Donner English thunder, in the names of Wotan / Odin, in German Ton
'sound' and English din, also in Turkish dan for bang!
Satan turned the Tree of Life into
the Tree of Death. Lightning can wreck a tree and make it look as a symbol of
death (mythology relies on observations of nature). The myth became sad reality
in Syria, once a region of blooming and fertile river oases like Mari and Ebla
(where the Minoans came from) and DOM ASh KOS t-m-sh-q Dimoshq Damascus.
(part 2)
If there was an older word
accounting for Satan Shaytan Saytan, then the ligated compound SA TON, downward
SA to make oneself heard TON, naming a flash that comes down SA and makes
itself heard TON as thunder. We don't fear lightning very much anymore, but in
earlier times it was considered a message from the divine sphere. Derivatives
of SA TON may be Hebrew sa'an 'to make noise', Arabic zajjata (velarized t) 'to
make noise' and shatan (dark first a) 'echo, reverberation'. A further
derivative may be Hebrew sadan 'anvil' – the sledgehammer comes down SA
and hits the anvil with a loud noise TON.
The compound would also have named
Satan falling down SA from heaven and hitting the Earth with a thundering noise
TON – Lucifer had such an impact that he reached the center of the Earth
in Dante. 'Satan' is closest to hypothetical SA TON, which is why I agree on
the opinion of Korpel & De Moor 2015 who rely on numerous linguists and say
that Shaytan is with "no doubt" a loan from Hebrew. Although also the
Arabic word could have been derived directly from SA TON – consider the
parallel SA zajj(a)- and SA Shay-.
(part 3)
Korpel & De Moor 2015 focus on
the devil in the form of Horanu, prominent in Ugarit, where his emblem was the
highly poisonous horned viper that lives in water and marshes along sea shores.
Horanu might once have been the
antagonist of the Gbekli Tepe sky god AAR RAA NOS, he of air AAR and light RAA
with a mind NOS of his own. The sky god was implored for rain with prayers and
the rising smoke of sacrificial fires, represented by snakes heading upward.
Falling rain rewarding the sacrificial fires was represented by snakes heading
downward, and a river by snakes undulating horizontally.
We can imagine a myth from the
beginnings of agriculture. Horanu elevated himself above the sky god, even
stole his name, was punished, fell from the sky down SA on the Earth with a
thundering noise TON, turned into a poisonous snake, and made the sweet water
of the primeval sea salty
AAR RAA NOS --
Horanu (stolen name)
friendly snakes --
poisonous serpent
water of life --
venom
sweet water --
salt water
fertile --
deadly
Horanu might have been a ginn. The
ginn had been created from smokeless fire – as if the sacrificial fires
developed no smoke that would have carried the prayers for rain up to the sky
god. Such a myth would explain why not only Horanu but also SA TON Shaytan was
a horned viper.
The friendly snakes of the old sky
god allowed irrigation channels (a grid incised on a stone tablet from Jerf
el-Ahmar, from the region and era of the Gbekli Tepe culture, is marked as
irrigation channels by a snake undulating horizontally). Plantations of
cultivated date palms require huge amounts of water (a Sumerian cylinder seal
shows Adam and Eve seated under a stylized date palm, so the ominous fruit was
originally a date grape).
Over-irrigation deposited minerals,
made the soil salty, infertile, barren (current explanation of why Abraham left
Ur). Anticipating this, the snake of Eden became the devil and was finally
eating dust.
By and by we can piece together a generic
myth of the early farming society.
(part 4)
Seth and Horanu were equated in
Ugarit. Horus of Egypt would have been a descendant of AAR RAA NOS, he of air
AAR and light RAA with a mind NOS of his own whose eyes were moon and sun (as
indicated by another stone tablet from Jerf el-Ahmar). The left eye of the
Horus falcon was the moon, the right eye was the sun. Seth had once been a
falcon too. Apparently he lost his ability of flying, which can be seen as a
metaphorical fall from heaven. His crime was that he destroyed the lunar eye of
Horus. Wise Thoth healed it by assembling the parts 1/2 and 1/4 and 1/8 and
1/16 and 1/32 and 1/64, or simply '2 '4 '8 '16 '32 '64, and called the restored
eye The Whole One. However, the numbers don't really add up to one. Why, then,
the whole one? This term refers to one whole lunation or synodic month.
Multiply a solar month of 30 days by the Horus eye series '2 '4 '8 '16 '32 '64
and you obtain 29 '2 '32 days, or 29 days 12 hours 45 minutes –not even
one minute more than the actual value 29d 12h 44m 2.9s (average from 1989 AD).
The myth of Horus and Seth indicates
a belief in a once perfect world, when a year had a dozen solar and lunar
months of 30 days each, in all 360 days. But Seth, by attacking Horus,
disturbed the primeval cosmic order.
The early farmers tried to
understand why the cycles of moon and sun are incommensurable, why nature is
capricious (from capra 'goat', the devil had hooves of a goat), why a good year
and harvest can be followed by bad ones, in short, how evil came into the world
that was imagined to once have been perfect. In the Bible the primeval harmony
is present in the garden of Eden.
Goethe: Die Welt ist eine Glocke die
einen Sprung hat, sie klappert aber klingt nicht (quoted from the memory), the
world is a bell that has a crack, it clatters but does not ring.
--- Czech visoky 'high' again
Sooner or later some people will
find the meaningful Magdalenian compounds appealing. Magdalenian is pronounceable,
open, allows words and compounds to vary, breathe, and branch.
Even a short word like English eye
goes back to a Magdalenian compound, OC CO, with a close derivative in Czech
oko 'eye', (right) eye OC attentive mind CO – the ancient ones knew that
we don't see with our eyes alone, real seeing involves the mind.
The anthropological dimension is
what interests me in Magdalenian, and will draw in others, I hope.
The naive understanding is that we
open our eyes and just see what lies before us. Actually we produce what we see
with our experience and knowledge (and color it with our feelings – the
world can appear fresh, bright and shining when we are in love, gray when we
are lovesick).
Optical illusions tell us that we
construct what we see, and phonological illusions – for example a new
one, the same sound file heard either as 'yanny' or as 'laurel' – tell us
that we don't just perceive strings of phonemes – yanny and laurel
(pronounced lorel) don't even share a single one of them.
Hearing is a wonderfully complex
process, no less complex than seeing.
My formula 'simple yet complex' made
me choose the simplest notation, capitals (adopted from Richard Fester) and
only two extra signs, the lip lick -: and the smacking L given as ) .
Furthermore, Magdalenian allows to
go behind what I call semantic overformings.
All these advantages make
Magdalenian an ideal complement of PIE and Nostratic.
--- Nostratic
Allan R. Bomhard concludes his paper
on the Proto-Indo-European 'Horse' From a Nostratic Perspective (can be found
online) by saying that the Proto-Altaic and Proto-Indo-European word for the
horse derives from a Proto-Nostratic verbal root *?ekh- (simplified notation)
'to move quickly, to rage, to be furious, raging, violent, spirited, fiery,
wild' ...
In my opinion the (hypothetical)
small pony-like horse of the first Indo-European homeland on the middle course
of the Amu Dary in Central Asia, tamed in the northern foothills of the
Hindukush, was called AS PAC, upward AS horse PAC, and used for transporting
loads up a hill or mountain slope, AS PAC Avestan aspa Sanskrit asva 'horse'
(emphatic PAC AS AS horse up up for the winged horse Pegasos Pegasus).
While the horse of the Eurasian steppes
was named by a phonetically similar but semantically different compound, AC
PAS, expanse of land with water AC everywhere (in a plain) PAS – riding
this animal you can get everywhere in the Eurasian steppes ... AC PAS Greek
hippos Latin equus, the Gallo-Roman horse goddess Epona and the Finnish horse
hevonen ...
Now the Altaic and especially
Mongolian words for the horse may suggest parallel compounds: AC PAD, land AC
activity of feet PAD, land AC walker or padder or pawer PAD, accounting for
Proto-Altaic (especially the Mongolian branch) *ek'a (simplified notation) 'to
paw, to hit with hooves'. AC DAP, land AC activity of hands DAP, here of the
forelegs and -hooves, land AC tapper DAP, accounting for Proto-Tungus *ekte-
'to paw, to hit with hooves (horse) ... AC TYR, land AC to overcome TYR, land
AC overcomer TYR, accounting for Mongolian agsur- (Greek gamma) 'to storm, to
fly into a rage, to be violent or furious, to be fiery'.
My claim: the origin of the horse
named in the Eurasian and Mongolian steppes had been parallel Magdalenian
compounds like AC PAS and AC PAD and AC DAP and AC TYR. Hence also Nostratic
'roots' can be polished compounds of an older language.
Recent DNA studies revealed that
early farmers from the Near East migrated southward into northeast Africa
10,000 years ago, followed by Iranian farmers 7,000 years ago (David Reich, Who
We Are and How We Got Here, Oxford University Press 2018). The region of the
Gbekli Tepe would have been an outpost of Late Magdalenian, and it was the region
where agriculture was invented – southwest Anatolia and northern Syria.
The early farmers who migrated southward would have picked up African words, and the mlange would
have swept back into Mesopotamia. The same would have happened with influences
from Asia.
A Nostratic word is something like
*bet- ÔdivideÕ. It can be derived from PAD for the activity of feet. Imagine a
shaman mediating between two litigating farmers. He walks across their field, stretching
out his arms, giving the land on the left hand side to one farmer, the land on
the other side to the other farmer, marking the border between the divided land
by his steps. Also the word beth for house goes back to PAD – consider
how a cat turns around herself before lying down. In like manner we flatten the
ground by stomping on it before building a tent or hut or house. Derivations
from Magdalenian require phantasy but can also be fun.
--- Stone Age cosmology as possible origin of articles and declensions (highly concise)
The Divine Hind CER -: I -: (pronounce the lip lick -:
by touching both lips with the tip of the tongue) called life into
existence, also moon bulls, thus creating time, lunations or synodic months,
periods of 30 29 30 29 30 29 30 29 30 29 30 ... days. Her main sanctuary was
Altamira, where a large and beautiful hind licks the horns of a small bison
under her hind1.JPG
CER -: I -: accounts for *kerdeh-
'herd, series'; the second part -:
I -: for a call of Celtic herdsmen
to their cattle, surviving in the locally famous lyoba call of herdsmen in the
Swiss Canton of Fribourg; for German Leben Liebe English life love and Latin
libido 'desire'; for Ugaritic dd 'beloved' and Phoenician Dido 'Loved One'; for
the female given names Lily and Libby; for the flower lily; for German Laub
'foliage' and Laube 'arbor' indicating arbors made from fir trees in honor of
the goddess, while some of the compact rounded bisons painted on the ceiling of
Altamira have tails in the form of fir twiglets.
In her emanation of the Hind Woman
the goddess was present in the winter constellation of Orion, while the moon
bulls waiting to go on their heavenly mission gathered in Aldebaran, alpha
Tauri, Taurus from TOR for bull in motion.
A further name of the Divine Hind or
Hind Woman was CER CA, hind CER in the sky CA. This name survived in Hera,
cow-eyed wife of Zeus. Latin circus 'circle' Late Latin circulare 'go around in
circles' Italian cercare French chercher English search might once have
referred to the difficult task of finding the slim sickle of the young moon in
the vastness of the night sky, along the circle of the ecliptic.
Her husband had been the Divine Stag
CER KOS who guarded the exits from the Underworld passed by the moon bull and
sun horse. His proud antlers were seen in the constellations we know as
Sagittarius and Scorpio. The antlers of a stag branch in a similar way as a
Latin quercus 'oak tree', Gaulish erks 'oak forest'. A group of stags can be
seen before the white bull of the full moon and the red mare of midsummer
morning beside him, rising above the horizon of the ledge in the glorious
rotunda of Lascaux. CER also means shaman or shamaness, and so the first stag
might be the Divine Stag while the others can be astronomers, watching with
open eyes OC and focused mind CO, together OC CO for eye, Czech oqo 'eye'.
Further derivations of the
above -: I -: became our articles, while the final -OS
of CER KOS and -A of CER CA and -O of OC CO might have become the declensions
of Nostratic and Proto-Indo-European.
Can there have been a ritual
Magdalenian, generator of words and compounds, memorized and conveyed in
shamanic formulae, most often double formulae? and a variety of everyday
languages with articles and declensions? I care for the former but also
encourage others to ponder the possibility of the latter before a background of
Stone Age cosmology.
--- Magdalenian song
A few grammatical elements turn
Magdalenian from a ritual shamanic language into a practical and functional everyday
language. In the spring of 2005 I wrote a fisherman's complaint; a speech of a
time traveling teacher asking the parents of a Magdalenian belle for her hand;
and on Pentecost 2005 a cheeky assistant of the Holy Ghost helped me retrieve
the summer hit from Montignac in 14 385 BC
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 UR
SHDEB MON
DIG LUN AC
PESH VAD UR
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 Moonshine Valley
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 Vzre,
And then join the
summer festival of Montignac
Let us swim in the
beautiful deep blue river Vzre,
And then happily join
the summer festival of Montignac
PS A tutoree of mine with a serious
dyscalculy but a wonderful singing voice interpreted the song directly from the
sheet. Her beautiful clear voice and the ad hoc melodies inspired by the
special language rang through the whole building. Marvelous. – Esperanto
produced no Beatles and no ABBAs. PIE has but Schleicher's tale, neither a
novel nor a songbook. Magdalenian passed the singing test with flying colors.
--- hypothesis and theory
If a hypothesis can be compared to a
board, a theory to a piece of furniture, cleverly and carefully assembled from
several boards.
Magdalenian has reached the status
of a theory that proves its worth and usefulness in an array of hermeneutic
interpretations.
More than half a century ago we read
large parts of Homer's Odyssey in the original Greek in school. I liked the
language, and the dramatic arrival at pleasant Scherie, followed by an idyllic
morning. But what is all about?
A first idea came from Eberhard
Zangger at the beginning of the 1990s. He recognized the journey to Scherie as
a time travel 'avant la lettre' to an early Troy, while regarding the report of
the other stories as mere sailor's yarn.
I made the next step, interpreting
all those travels as dreams, a long series of dreams that bring Odysseus back
to Troy, Troy in disguise and blended with other places and periods of time,
beginning with Polyphem, a most famous Cyclops, one-eyed giant, Homeric symbol
of Troy, his eye the acropolis overlooking the wide river plain, his body
downtown Troy VIIa that provided protected shelter for 5,000 – 10,000
people ...
Magdalenian helped me sort out
several problems, for example the Ithaca riddle – there is absolutely no
archaeological trace linking the island of that name to Homer. Well,
Magdalenian offers ITA CA, young bull ITA sky CA, under the sky of the young
Zeus bull, and ATI CA, mature bull ATI sky CA, under the sky of the mature Zeus
bull. So Ithaca would originally have been the Peloponnese and especially the
Argolis, a name surviving in a relatively small island off the northwestern
peninsula, followed by Attica on the Greek mainland.
Once again, I don't make up words as
I go along but mined them all in the spring of 2005 and mainly in the spring of
2006 with my four laws of Magdalenian.
A good part of my endeavor is to
make things simple, easily understandable for a sympathetic reader. Please
don't confound simple with naive and simplistic.
--- briefest possible summary of HomerÕs Odyssey
Odysseus returned home from Troy,
sleeps on the shore, and has a long series of dreams that bring him back to
– Troy, Troy again, always Troy, Troy in disguise and blended with other
places and periods of time. First he encounters the most famous Cyclops
Polyphem, his one eye the acropolis of Troy overlooking the wide river plain,
his body downtown Troy VIIa that provided protected shelter for 5,000 till
10,000 people É The first encounter tells the war from the Achaean perspective.
The last journey brings Odysseus to pleasant Scherie, according to Eberhard
Zangger an early Troy, and when the hero realizes where he is and what a lovely
place he destroyed – or will destroy in the time perspective from the
time perspective of the Phaeacians – he canÕt help weeping.
On the next morning he is ready to
take it up with the shameless suitors of his faithful wife Penelope, with those
who profit from the land without meeting their obligations. Homer 1 of the
Iliad would have worked in the time of the first Messenian war, Homer 2 of the
Odyssey in the time of the second Messenian war. Both feared for and were
concerned about the coherence of the Greek civilization.
--- dream logic
Dream logic affects a historical report,
from generation to generation, slowly transforming realistic reports into
colorful stories and finally a myth. This process can be observed in Homer's
Odyssey and in the Exodus.
The journeys of Odysseus are dreams
that bring him back to Troy, always Troy, Troy in disguise and blended with
other places and periods of time, while the Exodus condenses a long series of
similar events into one single event, millennia into decades.
Ricardo Mansilla at the Free
University of Mexico run a DNA taxonomy program on the Odyssey and discovered
that it compiles material of a dozen or even sixteen bards. Over centuries
those bards turned the historical events into a legend full of symbols. Two of
the journeys resemble each other: the hero encounters a giant, in the first
case Polyphem, a Cyclops, his one eye the acropolis overlooking the wide river
plain, his body downtown Troy VIIa that provided protected shelter for 5,000
– 10,000 people. The first journey tells the war from the Achaean
perspective, whereas the final journey, arrival in pleasant Scherie, is a time
travel to an early Troy (Eberhard Zangger), and when the hero recognizes where
he is, and what a lovely place he destroyed – or will destroy in the time
perspective of the Phaeacians – he can't help weeping.
What I learned from the epic also
holds for the Exodus, memories of SAP BIR apiru Hebrews, wandering water
finders and water workers employed in Egypt, contracted to one single glorious
event.
Also the Trojan war had been a long
series of incidents, culminating in the shooting of fire arrows over the
'cyclopic' wall into the acropolis, drastically symbolized by the blinding of
Polyphem. And the cause of the Trojan war? Beautiful Helen personifies tin that
came from Central Asia and was bound to pass the Dardanelles, where the Trojans
laid hands on the precious cargo – abducting Helen, as it were.
The Torah is full of symbols. The
great number of Israelites leaving Egypt were many relatively small groups who
had the potential of becoming a whole
people. Moses was a series of Moses figures, and Aaron a series of Aaron
figures. The Egyptian army were soldiers guarding the border over a long time,
centuries, millennia, all taken together. And the parting of the Red Sea means
the water finders and water workers, the SAP BIR apiru Hebrews, knew passable
ways across the swamps, whereas the soldiers on their horse pulled carts sank
into the mud. Emmanuel Anati identified the Har Karkom as Mount Sinai, and
found numerous sanctuaries around it, from an earlier time, testifying to the
Negev as a refuge for different tribes over centuries and millennia.
--- Kadesh Barnea
BIR means fur and named a well as
place where fur bags had been filled with water, accounting for Bar- in Kadesh
Barnea, and for surrounding wells, Bir Seida, Bir el-Beida, Bir Main, Beer
Karkom, Beerot Oded, Borot Loz, Bir Nizana, Beer Horeshe, Beer Hafir, Beer
Resisim, Beerotaim (from a map compiled by Emmanuel Anati).
Kadesh derives from KOD DhAG, tent
or hut KOD of the able one DhAG
ShA.CA DhAG.CA JHWH (rider of clouds)
ruler ShA in the sky
CA, able one DhAG in the sky CA
in the given case the tent of JHWH
in the desert of Zin which named the place, Kadesh Barnea, and has a cognate in
qodesh 'holy'.
The final -nea in Kadesh Barnea
derives from NAI for to find a good place for a camp, and from the permutation
NIA, an exclamation of joy: Really, we found a good place for a camp! since we
hit on a well (miracle of the well at Kadesh Barnea, commemorated by the 'molten
sea' on the Temple Mount of
Jerusalem, and by the precious qodesh bowl from Hazor, in my opinion the
most enthralling find made by the team of Yigael Yadin, see his book Excavating
Hazor qodesh.jpg ).
SAP means everywhere (in space),
here, south and north of me, east and west of me, in all seven places,
wherefrom words for seven in many languages.
BIR SAP named Beersheba in the
northern Negev, literally Seven Wells, and inverse SAP BIR named the apiru
Hebrews, they who found wells in all seven places, not only in the plain (here,
south and north of me, east and west of me), also in the valley below and on
the hills above. The mysterious dwellers in the region of Beersheba in the Late
Chalcolithic chiseled subterranean galleries into the ground at Safada near
Beersheba.
The SAP BIR would have been
wandering water workers, finding wells, digging channels and cisterns, employed
also in Lower Egypt.
Aaron was their leader, his name
indicating a worshipper of the old sky god AAR RAA NOS from the Gbekli Tepe,
implored for rain by prayers and the smoke of sacrificial fires represented by
snakes heading upward, falling rain by snakes heading downward, and rivers by
snakes undulating horizontally.
Aaron's rod turned into a snake,
which devoured the snakes of the Egyptian magicians, meaning Aaron surpassed
even the water engineers of mighty Egypt.
--- ark of the covenant, mercy seat, lunar and solar aspect
The ark of the covenant was 2.5
cubits long, 1.5 cubits high, and 1.5 cubits broad. If a cubit had 6 palms or
24 fingerbreadths or simply fingers, we obtain 15 by 9 by 9 palms or 60 by 36
by 36 fingers. And if we assume that the boards were 2 fingers thick, the inner
space measured 56 by 32 by 32 fingers, or 14 by 8 by 8 palms, while the
diagonal of the volume measured exactly 72 fingers or 18 palms or 3 cubits, and
the inner surface exactly 4 by 4 cubits. Pleasing numbers. A chest of such
strong boards, nearly four centimeters thick, was destined for keeping more than
scrolls, namely stone tablets.
The ancient ones loved complex
relations enfolded in simple numbers from where they can be unfolded again.
And the mercy seat placed on the ark
of the covenant encoded the tetragram JHWH of the numbers 10 5 6 5 via its proportions
length 2.5 cubits or
10 units
wings of one cherub
1.25 cubits or 5 units
breadth 1.5 cubits or
6 units
wings of other cherub
1.25 cubits or 5 units
inviting the Lord to come down from
the heavens and take place in the holy of holies of his tent at Kadesh Barnea,
later of the Solomonic temple on the Mount of Jerusalem.
The sum of the JHWH numbers 10 5 6 5
is 26. A period of 26 days has both a lunar and solar aspect.
Count lunations or synodic months in
the 30 29 30 mode. 15 and 17 lunations yield 443 and 502 days respectively. 17
15 17 15 17 or 17 32 49 64 81 lunations yield 502 945 1447 1890 2392 days.
2,392 days for 81 lunations are 92
periods of 26 days.
Count days in years as follows
365/1 (plus 1461/4) 1826/5 ...
7670/21 9131/25
7,670 days for 21 years are 295
periods of 26 days.
The mistakes are in both cases very
small.
--- 'molten sea'
The 'molten sea' on the Temple Mount
of Jerusalem – in my opinion a stone basin decorated with brass –
vanished long ago, but we have the numbers, and the precious fragments of the
qodesh bowl from Hazor whose value has not yet been recognized (more later).
Also the ark of the covenant is lost, but again, we have the numbers: 2.5 cubits
long, 1.5 cubits high, 1.5 cubits broad.
Solomon developed a most ingenious
geometric system by combining a pair of cubits, a 'black' cubit measuring
45.9375 cm, and a 'red' cubit measuring
48.125 cm, bc/rc = 21/22. They allow simple formulae for the
calculations of the circumference and area of the circle, surface and volume of
the sphere, diagonal of the square and height of the equilateral triangle, and
a set of cylindrical capacities including the molten sea. Diameter of the
molten sea 10 black cubits or ca. 4.59 m, circumference 30 red cubits or ca.
14.44 m, implicit value of pi 22/7. The royal cubit of the New Kingdom of Egypt
measured 52.5 cm, the black cubit 7/8 thereof, and the red cubit 11/12
thereof.
The cubit of 45.9375 cm might already
have been used for the ark of the covenant and the mercy seat placed on it in
the tent of JHWH at Kadesh Barnea in the desert of Zin. If we divide this cubit
into 6 palms or 24 fingerbreadths or simply fingers, we get for the ark of the
covenant 15 by 9 by 9 palms or 60 by 36 by 36 fingers. And if we choose boards
2 fingers thick, a little short of four centimeters, the hollow inside the
chest measured 56 by 32 by 32 fingers or 14 by 8 by 8 palms, while the diagonal
of the hollow volume measured exactly
72 fingers or 18 palms or 3 cubits. A very pleasing mathematical solution! And
it can tell us something about the content of the ark of the covenant: such a
strong chest was not only keeping scrolls but also stone tablets.
Ark of the covenant, outer measurements
ca. 115 by 69 by 69 cm, inner measurements ca. 107 by 61 by 61 cm.
A finger(breadth) of the New Kingdom
of Egypt measured 18.7 mm, the Hebrew one ca. 19.14 mm, a little more, speaking
for hard workers engaged in digging water channels and cisterns, in the
ambitious Pharaonic building program at Pi Ramesse in Lower Egypt, and in the
ore mines of the Sinai.
Sinai inscription from the second
half of the 19th century BC (my translation from Haarmann / H. Jensen)
I am
Hatsepshumosh
administrator of the ore mines and of the
sacred
district (of
Sinai?)
scribe of the statute
laborers in the Sinai.
They (one) had
assumed: look,
his soul is
desperate,
you seized me out of
the
Nile (?) and
I relied on
someone who was my
enemy.
Among the statute workers in the
Sinai could also have been SAP BIR apiru Hebrews, wandering water finders and
water workers.
--- qodesh formula
The JHWH formula* and the q-d-sh
algorithm** work also in Phoenician and Arabic, so the correspondence of
letters and numbers have been part of the original Semitic alphabet, in my
opinion developed in the Negev around the Har Karkom, identified by Emmanuel
Anati as Mount Sinai, the Negev a refuge for various people during millennia,
maybe forty 'long years' or centuries, Moses a series of Moses figures, Aaron a
series of Aaron figures, and the huge number of Israelites who left Egypt
relatively small groups of people with a potential of multiplying and becoming a
whole people.
Also the Ionian alphabet is based on
an idea. The Ionian Greeks dropped their Digamma, Qoppa and Sadhe, close to
their Phi, Kappa and Sigma respectively, and thus achieved an alphabet of 24
letters, corresponding to the 24 hours in a midsummer day from sunrise to
sunrise.
* JHWH formula, 10 5 6 5, encoded in
the proportions of the mercy seat on the ark of the covenant, unit 1/4 cubit:
length 10 units, wings of one cherub 5 units, breath 6 units, wings of other
cherub 5 units.
The sum of the JHWH numbers, 26,
allows an excellent lunar calendar: 92 periods of 26 days are 2,392 days and
correspond to 81 lunations or synodic months, mistake not even half a minute
per lunation.
Count 15 and 17 lunations in the
Stone Age mode 30 29 30 days. 15 lunations yield 443 days. 17 lunations yield
502 days. 17 15 17 15 17 or 17 32 49 64 81 lunations yield 502 945 1447 1890
2392 days.
Sin in Sinai named the moon god from
Haran, perhaps from GEN for the three days of the young moon.
Jod 10 is the intial letter of JHWH
and the number of commandments Moses received on Mount Sinai (Har Karkom). 10
can be arranged as triangle 1 2 3 4, sacred figure of the Pythagoreans. (A
funny detail aside, heard on the radio: having encountered God made Moses beam for
the rest of his life, even in his tomb, a legend goes. But then a Bible
translator misread qaran 'to radiate' as 'qeren 'horn', and so it came that
Moses grows horns, most impressively the Moses of Michelangelo.)
** q-d-sh algorithm, the letters q d
sh arranged as equilateral triangle
on the rim of the Hazor bowl
qodesh.jpg
ca. 840 BC (excavation Yadin, supported by the Hebrew University), read
as letters in clockwise direction yield q-d-sh qodesh 'holy', and read as
numbers in counter-clockwise direction yield q 100 sh 300 d 4 and the
formula (q + sh) / 4 = q --- begin with q 100 and you will always
get q 100, begin with any other number, for example k 20, and the iterated
algorithm will approach q 100
20 + 300 = 320 320 : 4 = 80
80 + 300 = 380 380 : 4 = 95
95 + 300 = 395 and so on
The algorithm symbolizes the
fluctuation of water: we have little (100), then plenty (300), then little
again, and plenty again, so let us make a wise use of what we have, prepare
ourselves for times of need, and trust in God ... If the minimum should once
drop to a low level (20), it will
return to the normal level (100) owing to the magic of the sacred formula.
Moreover, the q-d-sh triangle widens
the Solomonic geometry centered in the molten sea on the Temple Mount of
Jerusalem (in my opinion a stone basin with applied decorations of brass),
which commemorated the miracle of the well at Kadesh Barnea in the desert of
Zin. And so did the qodesh bowl from Hazor.
The molten sea is long gone. But we
have two fragments of the Hazor bowl.
Take good care of them!
--- fair history of civilization
Imagination is a precious tool of
the mind. With imagination we combine the fleeting impressions we get from the senses
to a stable and coherent picture of the world. Where are you just now? Maybe in
your office? Then you probably can't see your loved ones, but knowing them so
well, and the places they frequent, you can almost see them before the inner
eye.
Gal de Guichen: Archaeology is not
an exact science but a speculative one, a science of imagination.
Archaeological imagination combines
isolated fragments of a remote past. My studies in art and early literature are
complemented by the study of early mathematics that reveal a phenomenon: the
ancient ones encoded complex relations in simple numbers and telling problems
from which they can be unfolded again by playing with the numbers.
The Rhind Mathematical Papyrus from
Ancient Egypt, ca. 1650 BC, is the copy of a lost scroll from around 1850 BC.
Ahmose (the copist) announces all secrets, but then follow dry arithmetical
calculations, disappointing scholars.
Where are the promised secrets? On
hidden levels! Take for example RMP 32.
Ahmose divides 2 by 1 + 1/3 + 1/4 or
simply 1 '3 '4 and obtains 1 '6 '12 '114 '228.
1, apparent level) Beginners learn how to operate with unit
fraction series.
2, hidden level) Advanced learners are given a more
demanding task. Imagine a right parallelepiped measuring 2 by 1 '3 '4 by 1 '6
'12 '114 '228 units. How long is the diagonal of the volume? Impossible to
calculate!, exclaim the pupils. Easily done, smiles Ahmose
1 '3 '4 plus 1 '6 '12 '114 '228
1 1 plus '3 '6 plus '114 '228
2 '2 '3 '76 units
3, hidden level) Divide 2 by any number A and you obtain
B. Let a right parallelepiped measure 2 by A by B units, and the diagonal will
measure exactly A+B units. Use this theorem for calculating rectangular granaries
of the inner height 10 royal cubits or 2 units, and the capacity 500 cubic
cubits ...
Play with the numbers of the RMP and
free yourself from the dogma of the Greek invention of real mathematics.
Imagination will overcome the cultural bias, obstacle on the way to a fair
history of civilization, which is the sine qua non of a prospering global
society.
--- mother of all life
Richard Fester proposed five
ur-words, among them AC or ACQ in reference to the many village names ending on
-ac and -acq in the Guyenne, indicating places with water.
AC for an expanse of land with water
became my first Magdalenian word. Inverse CA may then mean heaven, Old Latin
caelum 'sky', combining CA and LIC for light and luck, Italian lux lumen
'light', English light and luck, telling us how much they loved light in those
times of pitch black moonless nights.
AC and CA deciphered a Gbekli Tepe
hieroglyph, the lying H, two longer horizontal bars representing the earth
(lower bar) and sky (upper bar), and the short vertical bar exchanges between them
– prayers for rain and the rising smoke of sacrificial fires imploring
rain (symbolized by snakes heading upward) and falling rain rewarding them
(snakes heading downward) filling river beds and irrigation channels (snakes
undulating horizontally).
AC CA as a deity personified the
Gbekli Tepe as mythological place where earth and sky are meeting, or where
they had been separated from each other in the beginning, accounting for the
Indo-European earth goddess akka (a stammered name according to Julius Pokorny,
a meaningful name in the light of Magdalenian), for Hebrew Hawwa 'mother of all
life' English Eve, for the Egyptian earth god Aker, for German Acker 'field',
for the English field measure acre, and inverse CA AC for the Greek earth
goddess Gaia. AC CA is also present in Latin aqua 'water' – once
'obtained' via ceremonial exchanges between earth and sky.
Not very difficult if you got a
sense for visual language.
Brian Greene: "Therein lies the
singular beauty of science. As we struggle toward deeper understanding, we must
give our creative imagination ample room to explore. We must step outside
conventional ideas and established frameworks."
