Re: why god spells backward of dog?
- From: "Franz Gnaedinger" <frgn@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 3 Nov 2006 00:57:39 -0800
Colin Fine wrote:
What did I tell you?
Yes, you were right. I did it again. The words god and dog
are semantically related. No sacrileg intended. Dog from
hypothetical Azilian DhAG is an epithet meaning able.
It survives in many cognates, for example ancient Greek
tagos for the leader of an army or a nation, Latin doctus
for learned, Greek dokos for tested, apt, also in the name
of the supreme Celtic god Dagda, who was the good one
in the sense of the able one. Dogs, the first domesticated
animals, were a great help to the hunters of the Azilian
and the farmers of the subsequent Neolithic I (Anatolia).
The reliefs of two foxes on the central pillars of temple B
of Göbekli Tepe were certainly gods. Also the word fox
is a derivation of DhAG, as German Dachs (badger).
Foxes must have played a role as guiders of the sun
through the subterranean labyrinth by night. My ideas are
not even new. Richard Fester derived dios deus theos from
his word TAG. Theos would then be the powerful god, also
demon, and even devil Teufel diobal, god of fire (Richard
Fester), able beyond our natural human capabilities, able
in every sense, whether good or bad, helping or harming.
The Christian God would come from inverse GADh meaning
good and marking a difference. For me, God is primarily the
good one, not really the almighty one. As for permutations:
biology loves them, poets are fond of metamorphoses, and
Goethe wrote this line: Gestaltung Umgestaltung / Des ewigen
Sinnes ewige Unterhaltung -- creation alteration, casting
recasting, eternal pleasure of the eternal spirit ...
Consider also what my good friend Ann Elk said before her
sad premature death: It is a lot of fun telling about my theories.
I got a second theory ...
Ahem Franz Gnaedinger
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