Re: what's the root of 'cross'?what's the origin of letter 'r','R' and 'o'?
- From: "Franz Gnaedinger" <frgn@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 19 Dec 2006 02:08:53 -0800
dabbog@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
i always felt 'r' and 'R' interesting.i wan't to know where did 'cross'
derived from.
tia.
I derive English cross German Kreuz from Magdalenian RiaK
for: subject to bending forces, breakable, vulnerable. The initial
c- or k- is an onomatopoetic enforcement, also present in English
crack, and in German krachen for the sound made when something
cracks and breaks, for example the noise of a felt tree that comes
crashing down. Latin crux is a gory word meaning torture stake,
also a stake, scaffold or cross used in executions. I remember
having read somewhere that Roman soldiers broke the arms or
legs of a victim strapped to a stake, a cross, or, in Jerusalem,
an olive tree, so that he could not free himself, or wouldn't get far
if he could. Italian croce French croix German Kreuz English cross
have a double meaning: either the same as Latin crux, especially
in the Christian religious context, or the one of something traversed,
crossed or "broken" by something else: for example the horizontal
axis by the vertical axis, a straight line by a prependicular line,
or a street by another street. Both meanings are combined in
the Celtic cross that one can find everywhere in Ireland. It shows
an abstraction of a man hanging on a cross, his arms spread out,
and it serves as ideogram of the world: the horizontal bar (arms)
symbolizing human life, the vertical bar (body, head) symbolizing
the realm of divine beings and the deceased, namely Underworld
and heavens -- the horizontal and vertical directions being hold
together by a circle.
My Magdalenian hypothesis claims that we learn more about
the origin of some words when we consider not just single words
but permutation groups that come into focus on the Magdalenian
and Azilian level of time, roughly 15,000 - 10,000 BP. So let us
have a look at the permutation group of RiaK (ia being read as
one vowel. I'd write RIaK, but since I as in India and l as in land
look the same in the Google font, I prefer a small i and give ia).
RiaK --- subject to bending forces, breakable, vulnerable;
ancient Greek rhaektos for something that can be torn apart,
vulnerable
KiaR --- death, a bad fate; ancient Greek kaer for death, fate,
destiny
iaRK --- to ward off an evil or an illness (caused by a spirit
or an adversary god); ancient Greek eryko for I ward off
KRia --- refuge; ancient Greek kraesphygeton for refuge
(Kraetae Crete must have been a refuge for many people)
RKia --- to tremble; ancient Greek rhigeo for I tremble
iaKR --- getting saved and healed, as if by a wonder;
ancient Greek egersis for resurrection, resuscitation
The basic idea of the Celtic cross explained above has
a precursor in the Bird Goddess, for example the one from
ancient Egypt: her body and womb (sometimes in the shape
of a carrot) symbolize the fertile Earth, her breasts symbolize
water and the nourishment we find on the surface of the Earth
were we live and work, her arms symbolize the slopes of the
hills and mountains east and west of the river Nile, her bird's
head symbolizes the lofty sky, her eyes symbolize moon and
sun, her hands symbolize the stars that rise from the eastern
horizon, travel across the sky, and set on the western horizon
(five rays of an Egyptian star, five fingers of a human hand).
Opening her arms she created the world, and she provides
new life for the deceased, which is also indicated by black
eyes with a rim of malachite - black symbolizing death,
green symbolizing life, new life for a worthy deceased.
An early form of a cross is the Egyptian life symbol ankh.
Lines indicate body and arms of the goddess, while a round
form indicates her head and also means the sky. More here:
www.seshat.ch/home/egypt1.htm
Regards Franz Gnaedinger
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