Re: what is etymology? (linguistics and biology)

Ovals B C D of Goebekli Tepe as lunisolar calendars
part 1, Halaf, Egypt, Crete and Greece

This here is preliminary work for a long fable I will tell
in my Lascaux thread, presumably. I have to add a word
on the name of Abraham, explained in the Genesis as
"father of nations." The actual meaning of the name is
something like this: He is great in connection to God.
This goes along with my explanation "God's right arm."
Carrying out God's will, being God's right arm, raising
his club, making it tower over the head of the Lord,
so to speak, makes him really great ...

Now for the Halafian lunisolar calendar I reconstructed
one year ago. A month has 30 days, 12 months plus 5
and occasionally 6 days yield a solar year of 365 and
sometimes 366 days. From the numbers of a beautiful
dish from Tell Arpachiyah I derived the following ratio of
regular and leap years: 6 leap years of 366 days on 25
normal years of 365 days (6 leap years plus 19 regular
years in a period of 25 years i.e.), yielding a solar year
of 365.24 days, actual value 365.242... days.

A month in ancient Egypt had 30 days. Horus was
the Celestial Falcon, his one eye the sun, his other
eye the moon. Seth destroyed the lunar eye. Thoth
healed it, and called the restored eye the Whole One.
It consists of six parts with numerical values: 1/2, 1/4,
1/8, 1/16, 1/32, 1/64, or simply '2 '4 '8 '16 '32 '64. Add
them, and you get 63/64 - a little less than 1, not a
whole number. Why, then, was the restored eye called
the Whole One? My explanation: multiply the 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 single minute longer than the actual duration
of a lunation (for example from one to the next full moon)
which lasts 29 days 12 hours 44 minutes 2.9 seconds
(modern value from 1989). The Whole One meant not the
moon as celestial body, but a whole cycle, a lunar year,
a completed lunar cycle. Year, in early times, had the
meaning of a completed cylce, Latin annus for year,
annulus for ring.

A variation of that calendar is found in Middle Minoan
Crete and in the Middle Helladic Argolis: a flower of
8 petals with a small circle in the center, one petal
representing a period of 45 days, 8 petals yielding 360
days, the small circle representing 5 and occasionally
6 days, while 21 periods of 45 days correspond to 32
lunations (same numerical definition as above).

Now I have reasons to assume that my Halafian calendar
was already known to the people of Goebekli Tepe, 11600
to 9500 BP. How could they possibly have established
such a calendar, with very simple methods? That will be
answered in my next message, but first my killrater must
shoot off this message.

Regards to the other ones, Franz Gnaedinger,
www.seshat.ch



Abraham, from God's right arm to exalted
father and father of nations

One year ago I undertook an attempt at
reconstructing Magdalenian in my Lascaux
thread. One of the words I proposed was BRA
for right arm, only for the right arm. In a previous
message here in this thread I assumed that
Abram might contain Magdalenian BRA and
would then mean much as God's right arm.
Then I looked up the Bible, and found evidence
for my bold assumption. Abram was the leader
of a tribe, a soldier, a warlord. Genesis XV,
14-17, tells how he frees his brother in the
"slaughter of Chedoriaomer." Then he returns
home, is blessed by the Lord, and in Genesis
XV, 1, the Lord appears to him in a vision and
says: "Fear not, Abram; I _am_ thy shield,
_and_ thy exceeding great reward."

The shield is usually worn on the left arm,
so the weapon can be hold in the right hand.
If the Lord was Abram's shield covering his
right arm and side, then Abram was in a way
the Lord's right arm, inasmuch as he carried
out the Lord's will with his armed right arm.
His original name might then have been
a combination of ABA for father, Lord,
and BRA for right arm: ABA BRA, ABBRA,
ABRA. His great reward for being the Lord's
right arm and carrying out the Lord's will
was the late come son Isaac, and now the
name became Abram, Hebrew for exalted
father, and later on the Lord called him
Abraham, Hebrew for father of nations.
When the Bible indicates a change of
name, there might as well have been two
changes: from ABRA, God's right arm, to
Abram, exalted father, and Abraham, father
of nations.

Next time: interpreting the pillar ovals of
Goebekli Tepe as lunisolar calendars

Regards Franz Gnaedinger www.seshat.ch



Ark of the Covenant
rediscovered, and never really lost

One week ago I wrote a long e-mail to professor
Klaus Schmidt, explaining how the ovals B C D
of Goebekli Tepe can be interpreted as lunisolar
calendars of the Halafian type, and yesterday
I sent him the four messages "Jacob's ladder
and Goebekli Tepe" (just for the record).

Now for the Ark of the Covenant, which, I believe,
was a book case measuring 2.5 by 1.5 by 1.5
Egyptian royal cubits, a measure that was also
used by the Jews, about 131 by 79 by 79 cm,
divided into five departments of 0.5 by 1.5 by 1.5
royal cubits or 26 by 79 by 79 centimeters each,
containing scrolls and other documents which
were later to become the five vessels Pentateuch:
Genesis Exodus Leviticus Numbers Deuteronomy
- the five first books of the Bible.

I find wisdom in the Bible, and records that go
along with the insights of present day archaeology.
The first lines of the first book, Genesis, convey
the idea of evolution: God created the world in
six days, whereby one day for God is like a year,
and one year like an eon. God could have created
the world at once, but no, it happened step by step,
which is the very idea of evolution. Eve invented
agriculture 9,000 years ago in the Harran plain,
just south of Goebekli Tepe, and irrigation of the
date groves in Sumer, which was a catalysator
of technology and the sciences from Egypt to
China. Noah's Ark were the Sumerian tells,
especially Unug / Uruk of the cattle enclosure,
where people and cattle found protection from
both floodings of the river plain and attacking
enemies. Abraham came from Ur to Harran,
went to Egypt, and finally ruled Canaa. Isaac
was a supreme ruler of Upper Mesopotamia,
and Jacob a provincial ruler of Judaea. Rolf
Krauss identified Moses with Masesaya,
Amun-Masesa, an ostracized Pharaoh,
however, he considers the Moses in the Bible
a fictitious character, invented by the Yahwist
after the Babylonian exile. I agree on Masesa,
but consider him the historical Moses, or at
least the main figure of a series of Egyptian
emigrants who left the Nile Valley for the
Sinai and the Dead Sea, as Abraham, Isaac
and Jacob represent a series of people each,
who accomplished similar deeds. Now the
Egyptian emigrants would have insisted on
the utmost importance of keeping historical
records, as far back as ever possible, the
writings and other documents would have
been kept in the Ark, in the book case of
five departments, which, later on, had been
compiled into a narrative and became the
Five Vessels Pentateuch, in a similar way
as Homer or the Homers compiled Greek
and pre-Greek history into the Iliad and
Odyssey. Why Ark of the Covenant? It was
the Word that hold the Jewish tribes together,
despite all the centrifugal historical forces,
even in the diaspora. And what about the gold,
silver and ivory of the Ark? They are the beauty
and shine of words that made the simple ark
of wood, or the many wooden book cases
that contained copies and copies of copies,
appear as if in a special light, as if golden,
of a silver shine, smooth as ivory.

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