Re: what is etymology? (linguistics and biology)

DIG SIG, GID GIS, DGI SGI, IGD IGS, GDI GSI, IDG ISG
--- words of exchange and human relations, in honor of
Claude Lévy-Strauss who understood language in the
context of exchanging goods and of human relations

DIG --- finger; Latin digitus for finger

SIG --- a sign painted with a finger, for example on the
wall of a cave, on a bag, a container, any good; Latin
signum for sign and signal, ancient Greek sigae for
silent (painted signs are a silent form of language)

GID --- give and get; ancient Greek kaedeia for kin,
giza for treasure room

GIS --- a gesture, for example a blessing; Latin gestus
for gesture, English kiss

DGI --- all fingers, ten, plenty; ancient Greek deka for ten

SGI --- kinship; ancient Greek synggenneia for kinship
(origin of S- before consonant for syn? G as abbreviaton
of GEN, originally the sickle of the new moon, see an
earlier message)

IGD --- plead; ancient Greek eketeia for plead, especially
pleading for protection

IGS --- being able to grant a plead, having plenty, being
magnanimous and powerful; ancient Greek hikanos for
plenty, portly, able (...), eikosi for twenty (see dgi for ten
above, ten for plenty, twenty for plenty plenty)

GDI ---neighbor; ancient Greek geitniao for I am a neighbor

GSI ---sibling; ancient Greek kasis for brother, sister,
gaetheo for I am pleased

IDG --- sensible, intelligent, clever, prudent; ancient Greek
idyia with the same range of meanings

ISG --- strong, powerful, healthy and wealthy, to be someone,
being able and capable; ancient Greek ischyos with the same
range of meanings

Next time: my masterpiece, the twelve permutations of P A D
and P A S --- D-forms denoting how people move (the areas
we can go to), comparative S-forms denoting how water moves
(the areas it can go to, the spaces it can fill)

Regards Franz Gnaedinger www.seshat.ch



LAD LAS, DAL SAL, DLA SLA, ALD ALS, LDA LSA
to be pronounced with a clicking !L --- words denoting
landscapes, D-forms human zones, comparative
S-forms divine zones, while inverse forms are as
always directly related to each other

!LAD or LAD --- hill, slope; ancient Greek lophos for hill,
English ladder

!LAS or LAS --- mountain; ancient Greek laas for stone,
rock, cliff

DA!L or DAL --- valley; German Tal for valley

SA!L or SAL --- water in the fond of a valley, a river,
swamp. pond, lake, also the sea; ancient Greek salos
for swaying, especially of the sea

D!LA or DLA ---flat river bank; ancient Greek delta

S!LA or SLA --- shine and glitter of water; ancient Greek
selas for shine, light, ray, spark

A!LD or ALD --- steep river bank, high from below, deep
from above, and granting a wide view over the river valley;
ancient Greek aldaesko for I grow, Latin altus for high,
deep, wide

A!LS or ALS --- shine from above, from the sun, sky,
moon, stars; ancient Greek alaes for sun shine at noon

!LDA or LDA --- deep water; ancient Greek laitma for
depth, especially of the sea

!LSA or LSA --- river in the Underworld, along which the
sun horse and moon bull are traversing the earth; ancient
Greek Laethae for the fields of forgetting in the Hades,
reached by crossing the river Styx

AD!L or ADL --- hidden; ancient Greek daela for hidden

AS!L or ASL --- pertaining to the Underworld; ancient
Greek aizaelos for irreversible

By the way: Herakles had to traverse the river of the
Underworld in a cup, so we may conclude that also
the shamans of the Magdalenium, CER AC, were
concerned about the Underworld. The arch-shaman
CER MAS became Hermaes and was a psychopomp,
he guided souls to the Elysium and into the Underworld.
The Elysium may be identified with the stars, especially
of the Summer Triangle as the heavenly abode of the
ruler, and the combined constellations of Sagittarius
and Scorpio as heavenly abode of male shamans,
Orion as the divine hind-woman in Orion as heavenly
abode of female shamans..

Next time: the twelve permutations of D I G and S I G,
words of give and take, of human relations, in honor
of Claude Lévi-Strauss




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.

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