Re: why god spells backward of dog?


Franz Gnaedinger wrote:
Neil Jones wrote:

Seriously though what is the Etymology of "Dog" I can't think of any
cognates.

The etymology of 'dog' is apparently a big problem, so I gave it more
consideration. Dagda was the supreme Celtic god, his name means
the good one, in the sense of the able one. Using that name I found
a permutation group of six words around the meme (idea) of good:

DhAG --- able; Dagda the able one


GADh --- good; English good German gut

AGDh --- noble; ancient Greek agathos for good, noble, brave,
valiant, apt, fit

DhGA --- honorable; ancient Greek doxa for reputation, honor, fame,
splendor, glory, majesty

ADhG --- of integrity; ancient Greek aethikos English ethics ethical
(good in the moral sense)

GDhA --- joyous; ancient Greek gaethosynae for joy

Dh can harden to D or Th, or soften to F or even B; G can become
X or S; vowels are volatile, A can become O EO IO EU ... DhAG
for able could then have become ancient Greek theos for either
a deity or a demon -- any being of superhuman abilities. A doctor,
familiar doc, a halfgod in white, acquired knowledge and skills via
learning, and got almost magical abilities of perception and healing,
so Latin doctus, learned, may also come from DhAG, the same for
Greek dokos, tested, apt. Latin facilis means easy, effortless - the
way one works when being able and competent.

Also animals got abilities beyond our human ones, which is the
reason why the Egyptians and many others represented their gods
and goddesses as people with animal heads. The Iranian believers
in Zarathustra use dogs for finding out whether a seemingly dead
person has really passed away; they place the body in an empty
room, cover it with a blanket, lead a dog into the chamber, and
the animal can somehow smell whether the covered man, woman
or child is dead or still alive. Dogs can even smell cancer (a new
discovery). Anubis, a man with the head of a dog, was the patron
of the ancient Egyptian embalmers, and the helper of Osiris, the
supreme god of the Otherworld. The Greek hellhound Cerberus
protected Hades, realm of Pluto, ruler of the Underworld. Dagda
was a triple god as the brothers Zeus Poseidon Pluto; maybe
the third emanation of Dagda was also accompanied by a dog,
as Pluto in the Underworld Hades. A charming Celtic coin shows
the usual sunhorse, under it the snoot of a fox, looking out a cave,
obviously indicating his role as guider of the sun through the
caverns of the Underworld by night. A pair of foxes decorate the
central pillars of a circular stone pillar temple of Göbekli Tepe,
probably having the same meaning as guiders of the sun, perhaps
also as psychopompoi, guiding and protecting the soul of a worthy
deceased.

The stone pillar temples of Göbekli Tepe were in use from around
11 600 till around 9 500 BP. The largest of the many T-shaped
pillars, lying unfinished in a nearby quarry, is seven meters long
and would weigh fifty tons if freed from the rock. Four temples
have been excavated until now, at least fifteen more are waiting
to see the light. The pillars are richly decorated with all kinds of
reliefs: animals, hieroglyphs, and even some human figures.
Pillar 43, excavated in past summer. is covered with reliefs.
Most striking for me a standing vulture with spread wings,
resembling a priest spreading his arms, balancing a disk on his
left wing / arm. These reliefs tell stories, says Klaus Schmidt,
excavator of Göbekli Tepe since 1994, and this hill will once be
considered more important than even Stonehenge. Those people
certainly had an elaborate language, and would have been able
to develop the above permutation group of words, following the
Magdalenian pattern of language (as explained in my etymological
thread). DhAG could have been their word for the prominent foxes
on the central pillars of temple B. Considering the possible shiftings
Dh - F, A - O and G - X, hypothetical DhAG could well have become
(and survive in) our 'fox'.

Dogs were domesticated in the time of Göbekli Tepe, between
11,000 and 10,000 years ago, probably in Iran. Also the word dog
may come from DhAG, as German Dachs (badger) and Dachshund,
English dachshund. Dogs can trace animals, help hunt, and so
they accompany hunting deities. Dogs can lead a hunting party -
ancient Greek tagos means leader (of an army or a nation). Dogs
are good protectors. They had magic abilities in the eyes of the
Celts. On the silver cauldron from Gundestrup a dog is barking
into the left ear of Lord Cernunnos. Dogs were (and are) helpers
of humans, helpers of gods, and minor deities themselves, which
is why 'theos' and 'dog' would have came from the same root.

Theos from hypothetical DhAG means either a pagan deity or
a demon: beings of supernatural abilities. Even the devil belongs
into this category. Richard Fester explains devil Teufel diobal as
god of fire. While theos deus dagda ... are able ones, the Christian
God, from inverse GADh, marks a difference: God is the good one.

Regards Franz Gnaedinger

DhAG --- able; Dagda the able one Serb. dičan, DIKA

GADh --- good; English good German gut; Serb. 'goditi', 'GODI'
(pleasant, suitable)

AGDh --- noble; ancient Greek agathos for good, noble, brave,
valiant, apt, fit; Serb. 'UGODAN' (pleasant)

DhGA --- honorable; ancient Greek doxa for reputation, honor, fame,
splendor, glory, majesty; Serb. dičan, DIKA; Lat. dux

ADhG --- of integrity; ancient Greek aethikos English ethics ethical
(good in the moral sense); Lat. educo, dux; Serb. DOUKA, pouka, učiti,
poučiti, odučiti, doučiti (learn, teach)

GDhA --- joyous; ancient Greek gaethosynae for joy; Serb. UGODA
(pleasant time)

GOD - Serb. 'to Bogu GODI' to please the God; 'BOGO-UGODNO' god
pleasing

Pers. khodâ (god) ; Hebr. elil, el; Hindu bhagwaan; Russ. бог;
Serb. bog; Bacchus; Latv. dievs; Ita. deo (dio); Fr. Dieu

In order to understand the evolution of all the above names for god we
must go back to the Egyption god Knepf (god of wisdom), known in greek
as Nebo (the god of knowledge!). Mesopotamian Nabu is the son of Bel
and personal god of Nebuchadnezzar wherefrom this babylonian ruler
derived his own name. If we now compare Kneph and Nebo with the Greek
νέφος, νεφέλη (cloud, fog), the German 'Nebel' (fog) and the
Slavic 'nebo' (sky/haeven) we are going to understand that the basis of
the all above-mentioned words is the reversed ancient basis BEL-GON.
The normal basis BEL-GON was the source of the words like German Wolke
(cloud), Russ. облако, Serb. oblak (cloud). It became visible
that sky and cloud are mutualy dependant, because, for instance, the
Serbian 'nebo' (sky) is the gon- prefixed 'oblak' (cloud) - Serb.
naoblačiti (overcloud; NAOBLAKA < GON-BEL-GON). Thousands of different
words in diferent IE languages appeared from the fertile 'belgon'
source; and all of them could be traced historically with the highest
precision possible.

Now to the main question: the Persian khodâ is phonologically very
close to the English 'god' and absolutely the same as the Serbian 'god'
(godina year; Russ. год). In fact, in this case one would say we
have to deal with the geminated GON syllable; likewise the Serbian word
'kucanje' (knocking). Although it seems logical, GON-GON was not the
basis of the Serbian 'godina', because 'godina' sprang out from the
HOR-GON ur-syllables, in the same way as it happened to other Serbian
words, as 'hođenje' (hodanje walking), 'korak' (pace, step) and 'krug'
(circle).

This is a moment where we should point out at the insurmountable
difficulties the modern linguistic science has to deal with in similar
cases. Seemingly, there are little semantic meanings that the Serbian
words 'hodanje' (walking), 'korak' (step) and 'krug' (circle) could
have in common; and one would say that it would be absolutely
impossible to reinstate any kind of the phonological relation between
these two words, 'krug' (circle) and 'hodanje' (walking). Obviously, in
Slavic languages 'god', 'godina' (year) was understood either as
'hodanje' (walking) or 'kruženje' (orbit, circulation, cyclicity). In
addition, there is the Serbian word indicating movement – kretanje
– also the one of those that were derived from the HOR-GON basis.

The most part of the modern etymologists agreed that the words 'god'
and 'good' are not related. Is it so, really? Let us try to see the
history of the other Slavic words, similar to 'god', 'godina' (year),
goditi (please, suit, fit), 'gađati' (to aim, shoot for/at), 'gaditi'
(loath, abhor). Here we must be very careful, because it seems that all
these words might have also been the "products" of the reduplicated
ancient GON syllable.

Now we shall see that Serbian word 'gađenje' (loathing, repugnance)
has been derived from 'uhođenje' (spying, following someone secretely
by walking behind); on the other side is 'ugađanje' (pleasing) derived
from the same 'uhođenje' (waking behind), this time not in sense of
spying but as an immediate help that someone could have been looking
for. The one of the first obligation of the Christian being is
"pleasing the God who made him" (Serb. BOGU UGODITI).

DV

ps
Franz, you said there are excellent linguists on this discussion-list.
I hope they would be able to grasp what I was talking about here.

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