Re: what is etymology? (linguistics and biology)

-- From CER AC to Herakles and Hera, part 5,
lunisolar calendar of Goebekli Tepe

The lunisolar calendar of Lascaux was based on the
practical equivalence of 8 solar years (2921.937 days)
and 99 lunations (2923.528 days, difference less than
two days).

The Magdalenian lunisolar calendar, a marvellous
achievement, gave way to the Azilian lunisolar calendar,
for which I found evidence in the temples of Goebekli Tepe
(as explained in an earlier series of messages).

The basic idea is the following. Count periods of 30 days.
12 such periods yield 360 days. Add 5 and sometimes 6
days and you obtain a solar year of 365 and occasionally
366 days. Now count continuous periods of 30 days. 63
periods yield 1,890 days and equal 64 lunations. The
lunation obtained by means of this relation lasts 29 days
12 hours 45 minutes, actual lunation of 29 days 12 hours
44 minutes 2.9 seconds (modern value from 1989).

This calendar, and variations from it, were used in wide
parts of the ancient world, in Mesopotamia, China, Egypt,
Crete and the Argolis.

The calendar of ancient Egypt is especially interesting.
A month had 30 days. Horus was the celestial falcon,
his one eye was the sun, his other eye was the moon.
Seth destroyed the moon eye, whereupon Thoth healed
it. The restored eye was called The Whole One. It was
made up of six parts that had numerical values to them,
1/2 1/4 1/8 1/16 1/32 1/64, or simply '2 '4 '8 '16 '32 '64.
Add these fractions, and you get a little less than one.
So why the whole one? The numbers don't refer to the
moon itself, but to a lunation. Multiply a month of 30
days by the series of the Horus eye and you obtain
29 '2 '32 days, or 29 days 12 hours 45 minutes, not
even a minute longer than the actual lunation.

In Crete and the Argolis a variation of this lunisolar
calendar was given by a rosette of eight petals. One
petal stands for a period of 45 days, together 360 days.
Add 5 and sometimes 6 days for the small central circle
and you get a solar year of 365 and sometimes 366 days,
while 21 continuous periods of 45 days yield 945 days
and correspond to 32 lunations.

Regards Franz Gnaedinger www.seshat.ch



From CER AC to Herakles and Hera, part 4,
origin of 'origin'

Yesterday morning I wondered about the origin of gen-
in gene, genetics, Genesis, and pondered the problem
by applying my law of the inverse forms that must be
directly related to each other, and my law of the six
permutations that must be grouped around the same
meme. One hour later I had the answer, and a fairly
surprising one. The six Magdalenian words denote
the moon phases:

GEN --- sickle of the new moon, 3 days or nights
NGE --- waxing moon, 6 days or nights
GNE --- full moon, 9 days or nights
EGN --- waning moon, 6 days or nights
NEG --- sickle of the old moon, 3 days or nights

ENG --- invisible moon, phase when the old moon
bull disappears in a crack of the rock, while a new
moon bull is licked into life by the divine hind CER,
alternately 3 days or nights and 2 days or nights,
yielding a lunation of alternately 30 and 29 days or
nights

This morning I wondered about the origin of the word
origin. May it be a -gen word? What may ORI mean?
So I pondered the six permutations, and within half
an hour I found the relevant meme: the young moon
bull released from the rock like a swallow from her
nest under a roof, ascending the sky like a bird,
following a trajectory resembling a rainbow:

ORI --- horizon; ancient Greek horizon for horizon,
oreinos for mountaneous, horeion for region, land,
border

IRO --- to raise, go, a young moon bull released from
the rock like a swallow leaving her nest under the roof,
gaining the sky like a bird, following a trajectory that
resembles a rainbow; Latin ire for to go, hirunda (French
hirondelle) for swallow, ancient Greek iris for rainbow

RIO --- rocks of the sacred hind CER, wherefrom the
lunar bulls are licked into life (hinds in the Altamira cave);
ancient Greek rhion for mountain top, premontory, foothills

OIR --- place wherefrom a young moon bull raises into
the sky; ancient Greek moira for alloted land, fate

IOR --- exclamation of joy, hurrah; ancient Greek iou

ROI --- imagined sound a young lunar bull makes when
leaving a crack in a rock like a swallow her nest under
the roof and gaining the sky; ancient Greek rhoizeo for
I rust, whiz, whistle

The sickle of the new moon is hard to find on the horizon,
even for an experienced astronomer, so the O R I words
are grouped around the meme of finding the sickle of the
young moon, that 'swallow' of a moon, the first hint at a
growing moon, begin of a new lunation. The bull was not
an animal, but a period of time, a lunation of alternately
30 and 29 days. The sickle of the new moon is hard to
find, and the joy to have it found is expressed via the
exclamation IOR, ancient Greek iou, English hurrah ...

Now for the origin of the word origin, a combination of
ORI for horizon, and GEN for the sickle of the new moon
in the first three days, together the origin of a new moon,
the begin of a new lunation, and the place where the thin
birdlike sickle of a new moon raises from the horizon ...

Next time: the lunisolar calendar of Goebekli Tepe,
Mesopotamia, Egypt, China, Crete and the Argolis




From CER AC to Herakles and Hera, part 3,
the lunisolar calendar of Lascaux

Marie E.P. Koenig identified the Lascaux horse with
the sun, the bull with the moon, and the descending
horse in the niche at the far end of the axial gallery,
giving way to a pair of opposing ibices, with midwinter.
From this I concluded that the glorious rotunda of the
Lascaux cave represents midsummer, the red horse
midsummer morning, and the white bull running along
with the red horse a full moon occurring on June 21
of our calendar (an assumption of last year for which
I found evidence yesterday: the white bull is actually
the full moon, indicated by the sign of nine elements
before him).

Lunations are calculated as follows: 30 29 30 29 30
29 30 29 30 29 30 .... 30 59 89 118 148 177 207 236
266 295 325 ... days or nights for 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
11 ... lunations.

The sacred lunisolar calendar of Lascaux is given by
a grid of 3 by 3 squares:

h 41 i 40 b 41

g 40 a 41 c 40

f 41 e 40 d 41

Let period 'a' begin on midsummer, June 21 of our
calendar, and let a full moon occur at the same time.
The eight periods a b c d e f g h last 41 41 40 41 40
41 40 41 days, all in all 325 days, which equals the
duration of 11 lunations. If a full moon occurs at the
begin of period a, it will again be full moon at the
end of period h and begin of period i. This goes on
over the next years. A full moon will occur at the
begin of the periods h g f e ...

8 continuous solar periods 11 lunations 325 days
16 continuous solar periods 22 lunations 649 days
24 continuous solar periods 33 lunations 974 days
32 continuous solar periods 44 lunations 1,298 days
40 continuous solar periods 55 lunations 1,623 days
48 continuous solar periods 66 lunations 1,947 days
56 continuous solar periods 77 lunations 2,272 days
64 continuous solar periods 88 lunations 2,598 days

72 continuous solar periods: 2,920 days. 99 lunations
according to the above algorithm: 2,921 days. 99 actual
lunations: 2,923.528 days. 8 solar years: 2921.937 days.
The margin of error is less than four days in eight years.
So you can run the calendar for eight years, and then
make a readjustion. The lunar phase occurring at the
begin of period a of a new cycle of eight years will then
occur again at the begin of the periods i h g f e ...

Here the opposing ibices in the niche at the far end
of the axial gallery in the Lascaux cave:

www.seshat.ch/home/menhjr89.JPG

Between the animals you see the sacred lunisolar
calendar. Marked are the three fields f 41 e 40 d 41.
These are the three winter periods. Midwinter occurs
in the middle of field e.

For more on the lunisolar calendar of Lascaux in the
sacred and profane form please look up my Lascaux
thread from last year.

Next time: origin of 'origin'

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  • Re: what is etymology? (linguistics and biology)
    ... GEN --- sickle of the new moon, ... moon bull is licked into life by the divine hind CER, ... duration of 11 lunations. ... 16 continuous solar periods 22 lunations 649 days ...
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  • Re: what is etymology? (linguistics and biology)
    ... Here again the basic Azilian lunisolar calendar from Goebekli ... periods of 30 days yield 1,890 days and equal 64 lunations. ... moon NUL, 3 days for the young moon, 6 days for the waxing ...
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