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Glossary of the new Magdalenian words, part 33

LIC CIL, CLI ILC, LCI ICL --- fire in an abri; last
year I gave LIC for light, luck, this year I went
for the permutations

LIC --- light, luck

CIL --- fire in a camp, used for cooking, for giving
warm, for warding off animals such as bears and
wolves, light given by the fire, the lucky feeling
of having a good fire burning; Latin culina for
kitchen, English kiln. Last year I mentioned
French cil for eyelash - one may think of an
upshooting flame singeing an eyelash. If also
English kill should come from CIL we may think
of torches that were used as weapons: poles
of green wood coated with birch pitch and set
on fire - an array of flaming spears would certainly
have warded off any animal

CLI --- abri; ancient Greek klisia for hut, tent,
shelter, seat, group of guests, klitius for slope,
hill, klino for I bend, turn, ward off, lean on,
sink down, sit or lie down at a table, perf. to be
situated, live, dwell, English cliff

ILC --- an abri lighted up by camp fires; ancient
Greek alaektor for shining

LCI --- site of an abri, land around an abri; ancient
Greek laxis for a lot of land

ICL --- to choose an abri for a provisional camp;
ancient Greek eklaesis for choice


GRA ARG, RGA AGR, GAR RAG --- rock paintings

GRA --- a cave with painted walls; ancient Greek
chaeronos for cave, German graben for to dig,
Grab for tomb, vault; ancient Greek graphein
for drawing, painting, graphic

ARG --- walls and ceilings of a decorated cave,
shining up in the light of oil lamps, representing
the sky; ancient Greek argos for white, shimmering

RGA --- fissured, craggy, both for the land as hunting
ground and for the walls of a decorated cave as
painting ground; ancient Greek rogos for fissured,
craggy

AGR --- to catch animals, both in natura, when
hunting them, and metaphorically, when drawing
them; ancient Greek agreo for I catch, capture

GAR --- opening, crack, crevice, fissure in rock,
where animals emerge from and disappear into
according to a very ancient belief; ancient Greek
charade for crevice, crack, gorge, river bed,
torrent

RAG --- shape of an animal, especially the line
of the back, according to André Leroy-Gourhan
the first line when animals were drawn, making
them appear as if by a miracle; ancient Greek
rachos for back, also used for hills and mountains

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Glossary of the new Magdalenian words, part 32

COR ROC, CRO ORC, RCO OCR --- how the young
behave

COR --- young people; ancient Greek korae for girl,
young woman, daughter, doll, apple of the eye,
koros for young man, son, youthful, vigorous,
Latin cor for heart, soul, feeling, courage, reason,
insight, individual, person, cor meum for my heart

ROC --- the way young people behave, in puberty,
when falling in love, when quarreling, when fighting
over a woman or a man; ancient Greek rochtheo
for I rustle, roar, buzz, race, effervesce, rogalos
for torn apart (in puberty, then), English ruction
(unexplained until now), ruckus, a rocking boulder,
rock and roll, the pulsating music of my youth ...

CRO --- to beat, knock, a young heart pounding,
a quick pulse; ancient Greek krouo for I beat,
push, knock, krouros for source

ORC --- instinct, impulse, drive, desire, passion,
when the heart is beating fast, when young people
blush, when the sexual organs swell; ancient Greek
orgao for I brim (over), swell, desire vehemently,
organon in the sense of organ

RCO --- being active, youthful and passionate
activities; ancient Greek rhezo for I do

OCR--- arousal, easily being aroused, keen on;
ancient Greek okrioeis for sharp (sharp in English
also has the meaning of keen and eager, German
scharf can also mean horny, juicy, hot), okriaomai
for getting angry, akros for pointed, sharp, upper-
most, supreme, excelling



Glossary of the new Magdalenian words, part 31

GYN NYG, NGY YGN, YNG GNY --- woman;
last year I gave GYN for woman, this year
I went for the permutations

GYN --- woman; ancient Greek gynae for woman

NYG --- night, time one spends with a woman,
when women have the say; ancient Greek nyx
for night, Nyx was a powerful goddess, alter ego
of Gaia, her priestesses gave oracles, Latin niger
for black (color of the night), nectar for something
sweet (a drink, a fragrance)

NGY --- pretty and clean; ancient Greek naegateos
for clean, splendid, nakae for fleece (a fleece one
wears for a cloth, or a fleece one sleeps upon)

YGN --- hygiene; form Greek

YNG --- a pregnant woman; ancient Greek enegkein
for to bear, bring, aorist of phero for I bring, having
brought, a woman who has brought a child into the
world, then, so GYN may have been a woman in
general, but especially a young mother

GNY --- child; ancient Greek gnaesios for a legitimate
child, genuine, true, consider the old saying of truth
being the child of time, German Kind for child seems
to be a variant of GYN, also English kin, kinship



Glossary of the new Magdalenian words, part 30

MAN NAM, MNA ANM, NMA AMN --- hand, man;
last year I gave MHAYN for the right hand, now
I simplify the word into MAN

MAN --- hand, especially the right hand, pars pro
toto for a man; Latin manus for hand, English man,
hand for a worker, German Mann for man

NAM --- name, someone worth being named and
remembered by a name; Latin nomen for name,
German Name

MNA --- virility; ancient Greek menos for a (strong)
desire, eagerness, will, purpose, intention, anger,
vitality, strength

ANM --- to carry out, effect, cause, bring about;
ancient Greek anymi anyo with the same range
of meanings. ANM was the name of the bad
months in the Celtic calendar, perhaps the ones
requiring more effort

AMN --- to sacrifice; ancient Greek amnio for
the sacrificial bowl

NMA --- to make rules; ancient Greek nomaion
for custom, usus


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