Re: what is etymology? (linguistics and biology)

From CER AC to Herakles and Hera,
part 1, divine hind-woman CER (ker)

Marie E.P. Koenig identified the Lascaux horse with the
sun, the bull with the moon, and the pair of opposing ibices
with midwinter. One year ago I proposed CA LAB, sky cold,
for the winter sun horse, CA BEL, sky warm, for the spring
sun horse, and CA BAL, sky hot, for the summer sun horse.
Now let me go for the permutations of B A L and B E L.

Pronounce the following six Magdalenian words with an
L-click (indicated by an exclamation mark):

B A !L or BAL --- hot; from a word field given by Richard
Fester, consider for example that Baal was originally
a volcano god

!L A B or LAB --- cold; inverse of bal, consider Lappland,
or the ice water stream Labrador

A !L B or ALB --- summer dawn; Latin alba for white,
Albania seen from Italy the land of the rising sun

B !L A or BLA --- winter dusk; black

A B !L or ABL --- rising midsummer sun; ancient Greek
ablaes for new (...), ablabaes for intact, not injured, hence
the fresh morning sun horse (negative form a-)

!L B A or LBA --- setting midwinter horse; ancient Greek
labae for weak spot (...), hence the sun horse hit by a
lance, the sinking and setting sun, weak as in midwinter

Pronounce the following six Magdalenian words with a
lip lick (produce the sound given as -: by touching both
lips with the tip of the tongue):

-: EB or LEB --- female, woman; Leben life

BE -: or BEL --- pretty, warm, lovely; belle

E -: B or ELB --- hind, hind-woman; ancient Greek elphae
for hind

B -: E or BLE --- offspring, all the animals licked into life
by the divine hind, the human species given birth to by
the goddess of life; Latin pleps for a multitude of people

-: BE or LBE --- tongue by which the divine hind licks
animals into life; Latin labia for tongue

EB -: or EBL --- a new moon or lunar bull licked into life
by the divine hind, a new sun climbing the sky from
midwinter onward, a new ruler; ancient Greek epilampos
for to light up, dawn (eb- as origin of epi?)

The divine hind CER (ker) is seen in the Altamira cave
as a beautiful very large hind licking the horns of a small
bison under her head and neck, while the tongue of another
hind (just the head of a hind drawn on a ledge) is formed
by a crack in the wall --- animals were believed to come out
of such cracks in rock. The marvelous bisons in the Altamira
cave are moons, ready to climb the sky, also lunations,
periods of time between 29 and 30 days or nights; the divine
hind was not only generating life but also time.

The heavenly emanation of the divine hind-woman CER (ker)
was Orion, flanked by a pair of opposing ibices, whose heads
and horns shape the sides of the hind-woman: Saiph - Alnitak
- Betelgeuse (left side), Rigel - Mintaka - Bellatrix (right side).
The horns of the young bison licked into life by the divine hind-
woman can be seen in the Hyads with Aldebaran (constellation
of Taurus), while the human race born by the goddess can be
seen in the bright star of Sirius ...

Coming next: Sacred calendar of Lascaux / male CER (ker)
present in Sagittarius and Scorpio, antlers of the divine stag /
divine stag ensuring the journey of the sun horse and moon
bull across the sky and the cavern of the Underworld, whose
entrances he protected with fires that are seen in an evening
red and morning red / divine stag ensuring the ascension of
the soul of a worthy ruler to the heavenly abode of the
Summer Triangle / divine stag CER protector of the shaman
CER AC, stag-man and hind-woman on an expanse of land
with water; shamans wearing stag antlers when performing
a cer-emony / tasks and duties of a shaman CER AC, for
example to teach aspiring rulers, to advice rulers, and to
oppose bad rulers / worthy shamans got a second life in the
summer and winter constellations of CER, wherefrom they
helped shamans on earth / AS CER, upward stag, became
ancient Greek hieros for sacred, and heros for hero / SA CER,
donward stag, became Latin sacer for sacred /// Later on,
CER AC became Indo-European Herakles and Hera / how the
labors of Herakles tell indirectly about the tasks and duties
of a Magdalenian shaman / how Herakles coped with a lion,
tamed dogs and horses / how he counted bulls, kept the
calendar running / how the divine guard of the Underworld
CER PIR, stag fire, became the helhound Kerberos guarding
the entrance to the Hades with fiery breath / how the male
and female arch-shaman CER MAS, the megaceros who
had stolen fire from KER PIR and given it to the humans,
became Hermaes ...

Regards Franz Gnaedinger www.seshat.ch



CA LAB, CA BEL, CA BAL // PAC (Magdalenian horse)

The contribution by Martin E. Huld, "An Albanian Reflex
of Proto-Indo-European *Eekuo-s 'Horse' " (in: Proceedings
of the Fifteenth Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference,
Los Angeles, November 7-8, 2003; Journal of Indo-European
Monograph Series, No. 49; Institute for the Study of Man,
Washington, DC, 2004) made me have another go at the
Magdalenian words for horse. Last year I proposed

CA LAB --- sky cold, winter sun horse
CA BEL --- sky warm, sun horse of spring and fall
CA BAL --- sky hot, summer sun horse

CA LAB CA LAB CA LAB CA LAB ...
CA BEL CA BEL CA BEL CA BEL ...
CA BAL CA BAL CA BAL CA BAL ...

wherefrom gallop, and Latin caballus for horse (the
Latin dictionary Bianca kindly lent me says that the
etymology of caballus has not yet been established).

This year I proposed PAC for horse. Now for the group
of six permutations, words around _horse hunting_:

PAC --- horse

CAP --- a group of horse hunters; Latin capio for
I capture

APC --- to divert, deroute and separate horses in order
to drive them into an enclosure, or over a cliff; several
ancient Greek words of the form ap(o)-k-, for example
apokineo for I move away (...), apokleo for I derive,
deroute (...), apokrineo for I separate (...)

CPA --- to attack and kill horses; ancient Greek kopae
for beating, slaughter, defeat, submission

ACP --- infatigable; ancient Greek akopos for infatigable

PCA --- to end a horse hunt; Latin pacatus for quieted,
peaceful

In these words we find the negatives A- and AP- (apo),
furthermore the possible origin of Latin pax for peace,
namely the end of a horse hunt, the end of the melée
of a horse slaughter in an enclosure.

My way of following Magdalenian words into our
languages: I pronounce them silently, without giving
voice, over and over again, and consider what happens:

pac pac pac pac pac ...

... pac opap opec epec ec

Latin equus for horse, Old Irish ech for horse

... pac apac opac ipoc hipos

Ancient Greek hippos for horse, Gaulish Epo, Epona
the horse goddess; Greek hippos a merger with IPR
hyper Hyperion, the sun ascending and traversing the
sky (IPR originally for ascending smoke)

... pac apac aspec aspa asva

Old Persian Aspacanah (Aspa-canah) for he who loves
horses, Old Indian Asavasena for he who has an army
of horses, Bhradasva for he who has mighty horses

... pac apagd apard paard Pferd

Dutch paard for horse, German Pferd for horse

... pac opac ospac hospa hosa horse aros Ross

German Ross, English horse

Horses retired from the Guyenne and survived in the
Eurasian steppes. Magdalenian hunters followed them,
and Indo-Europeans domesticated them. The original
word PAC meant the wild horse, while our words name
domesticated and breeded horses, which allows for
some distance between the hypothetical Magdalenian
PAC and the words we use nowadays.

The Magdalenians were hunters, they killed horses,
bisons, stags --- and honored them by placing them
on the sky, the horse as the sun horse CA LAB, CA BEL,
CA BAL, the bison as the moon bull CA LUN (inverse NUL
for the new moon, or rather emtpy moon), the stag as the
constellation of CER (ker, combining our Sagittarius and
Scorpio into a pair of stag antlers).

Next time: the divine stag CER (Sagittarius + Scorpio),
the pair of opposing ibices (Orion), and how the shaman
CER AC became Herakles ...

Regards Franz Gnaedinger www.seshat.ch



ROP POR, PRO ORP, OPR RPO

When I am in a Magdalenian mood I pick three letters,
do the six permutations, arrange them in three pairs
of inverses, consult my rather small but very fine
Langenscheidt dictionary of ancient Greek, and look
whether I can find six words around the same meme,
whereby inverse forms must be closely related to each
other. In the case of R - I - P the meme is fire. PIR fire,
inverse RIP wind fanning the flames, fan, bellows, to fan,
while the remaining four words denote the way the smoke
behaves: IRP creeping smoke, inverse PRI turning smoke
(peri), RPI sinking smoke, inverse IPR ascending smoke
(hyper).

Yesterday I considered the permutations of R - O - P
and found club for the meme of the six words. ROP club,
inverse POR handle, while the four remaining words tell
how to move a club:

ROP --- club; ancient Greek ropalon for club, cudgel, stick,
throwing stick of a herdsman, knocker on a door

POR --- handle of a club; ancient Greek porpax for the
handle of a shield, porkaes for pincers, ring, Latin porto
for I carry, French porter for to carry

PRO --- to raise a club and hit a target in front; ancient
Greek pro for forward

ORP --- to move a club sideward, swing it around, spin
and move a club round about; ancient Greek orpaea for
branch - not just forward, in one direction, but in another
direction, branching off from the main direction, sideward;
Latin orbus for circle

OPR --- to move a club in every which way; ancient Greek
oper osper for whichever, Latin opera for work, effort,
activity (...), operosus for active, effective, laborius, artful

RPO --- to let a club sink; ancient Greek rhepo for I incline,
bow; French repos for rest comes to mind, Latin re-pono
for I lay back

May the initial R- of RPO be an early form of re, as in re-ply?
Let us look at the case of fire, PIR. There we have RPI for
sinking smoke: smoke ascending and then returning to the
ground. So may there be a further rule? R + consonant being
Re, as in re-turn? Will check this.

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