Re: why god spells backward of dog?

In no way can dog be associated with god in my view.god,in his
eccentail would be freedom,be independent,while dog can only be
directed by the feeder.
i think its shameful to let god being backward spelt from dog.
thx all replies.

Franz Gnaedinger wrote:
Franz Gnaedinger wrote:
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

Barry Cunliffe, a leading expert on the Celts, explains the
name of the supreme male god Dagda as follows. An Irish
legend tells how the gods met before a battle and announced
their qualifications. Then spoke Dagda and said that everything
which was promised by the other gods he will do alone, on his
own. The gods are amazed and exclaim: You are the good one!
Cunliffe says that the good one can't mean good in the moralic
sense, Dagda is the perfect one, the one who can do all and
everything. I give dag as able. Celtic dag meant good, and
is present in composite names, perhaps also in Dagobert.
Sanskrit daghda means cunning, vi-dagdhata cleverness,
shrewdness. A criminal can be clever, cunning and shrewd
without being a good man. Also those cognates point to dag,
Azilian DhAG, as able, able in a wide sense, of superhuman
capabilities. Inverse GADh would have become PIE *kadh-
'to guard, take care of'. Another form of being good, present
in God.

Colin Fine told us that the word dog appeared in the eleventh
century. So there are nine millennia between DhAG and dog.
DhAG in the form of Celtic dag may well have survived in some
Irish or Scottish glen, and been used by a dog breeder who
tapped his animals appraisingly: good dog, dag dag. Dag might
also have been the praise for a cunning hunting dog. Clever,
cunning and shrewd are appropriate for the fox, a sly animal,
and perhaps for the Dachs (badger) and the dachshund.
A dog that can cope with the sly fox must be clever, cunning
and shrewd himself, so that the word could apply for both prey
(fox) and hunter (dachshund, or another dog).

Now I must run, a killrating hound is following me in the
Google version of sci.lang ...

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