Re: what is etymology? (linguistics and biology)

Appendix to the glossary of the new Magdalenian words,
part 52, a test (twenty-two)

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Furthermore, the Tiryns disk visualizes the principle
of CO OC LOP by the attentively (co) watching (oc)
soldiers along the spiral and along the rim which
symbolizes the wall around the acropolis (lop).

Next to a dozen soldiers you can see a hieroglyph in
the form of a small circle with a central dot and six
dots along the circumference, phonetic value omikron.
Together with the subsequent soldier, phonetic value
sigma, they form the frequent Greek ending -OS. All in
all there are fifteen of these O-signs on the Triyns disk.
I consider them a symbol of the Argos Eye, emblem
of a watchful union of Helladic towns in the Argolis.
The sign goes along with my new interpretation as
CO OC LOP : central dot for the ruler, his mind (co),
surrounding dots for the guards (oc), circumference
for the cyclopic wall around the acropolis (lop).

Then we have the word TRY 'triumph' coming from
the magic ritual concerning a polis one wishes to
conquer by surrounding it three times. Have another
look at the spiral of the Tiryns disk: it revolves three
times around the center. Walking or riding three times
around a polis one wished to conquer must have been
an Indo-European war strategy preserved in TRY for
triumph, root of ancient Greek trochos 'wheel', also
running way in the sense of dromos. Consider also
how a winner of a sport contest absolves a round
of honor in a stadion, celebrating his triumph.

Regards Franz Gnaedinger www.seshat.ch

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Appendix to the glossary of the new Magdalenian words,
part 51, a test (twenty-one)

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Let us have a look at the Tiryns disk. The central rosette,
- phonetic value emphatic sigma, Ss - marks the begin
of Sseyr, Middle Helladic form of Zeus. The rosette
commemorates the enforced basis of the former Circular
Building of the Early Helladic period of time in the shape
of a big rosette. Furthermore, the rosette of eight petals
in the center of the disk is a windrose, indicating N NE
E SE S SW W NW - also the god looking into all these
directions, overlooking the landscape, casting glances,
throwing invisible javelins, protecting Tiryns from top of
the Circular Building, presumably a shining white tower
that (and this we know for certain) housed a Zeus
sanctuary ... So we have RYT 'spear thrower', rhytaer
'archer, protector', radius radii (indicated by the petals
of the central rosette), and rota 'wheel' given by the
shape of the disk.

The rosette, phonetic value Ss, an emphatic sigma,
marks the begin of the name Sseyr Zeus. Along the
spiral we count nine soldiers; along the rim of the disk,
which represents the wall around the acropolis of Tiryns,
we see five more soldiers, phonetic value sigma: these
guards and soldiers perform the function indicated by
the Zeus rosette and the word RYT 'spear thrower'
and ancient Greek rhytaer 'archer, protector': they
watch out in all directions, over the wall, and will throw
javelins and shoot arrows at intruders, protecting Tiryns,
carrying out the will of Zeus.

The central rosette also has a calendaric function:
it isn't only a windrose, also a wheel of time, so to
say. Each petal stays for five weeks of nine days
each, together 45 days. The eight petals represent
a year of 360 days. Count the small central circle
for 5 and occasionally 6 additional days and you get
a solar year of 365 and sometimes 366 days. Now
count periods of 45 days continually; 21 such periods
yield 945 days and correspond to 32 lunations.

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Appendix to the glossary of the new Magdalenian words,
part 50, a test (twenty)

Albert Einstein: Imagination is more important than
knowledge, because knowledge is limited while
imagination embraces the whole world.

I imagine: An Indo-European tribe living near hills
and mountains of Central Asia called themselves
KAL LAD and KAL LAS people, KAL 'Underworld,
womb of the goddess', LAD 'hill', LAS 'mountain',
for the precious metals copper and tin they mined
from those hills and mountains. Some of the KAL
LAD and KAL LAS people wandered westward,
then southward, arrived in the Argolis by the third
millennium BC, conquered the ancient dwelling
on the bay by surrounding it three times, loudly
calling and shouting, whereupon the natives
rendered themselves. The invaders settled on
the shore of the bay, built the House of Tiles at
Lerna, and a white tower on the limestone hill,
calling it by the name of TRY NOS meaning:
built in honor of the supreme mind (nos) of the
one who triumphs (try), and in whose name also
we triumph ... This name subsequently became
Tryns Slryns Tiryns.

The white tower, known as Circular Building,
went up in flames before 2 000 BC, however,
the enforcing rosette of blocks at the basis
persisted and was worshipped as rosette of
Sseyr Zeus.

Eponymus Tiryns from Arcadia ruled the polis around
1 700 BC, Middle Helladic period of time, overcame
a famine by consulting the oracle of Nyx in Elaia's grove
at Phigalia, introduced the edible olive in the Argolis,
saw himself as lion-wolf-dog-bee king, and celebrated
his achievements by a pair of inscribed gold disks he
wore on his shoulders. These disks are lost now, yet
we have a pair of baked together clay copies that were
found in southern Crete. One of the gold disks visualized
the acropolis of Tiryns with the central rosette as symbol
of the former Circular Building that included a Zeus
sanctuary, and the rim as representation of the wall
around the acropolis. The other gold disk visualized
Elaia's grove at Phigalia.

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Appendix to the glossary of the new Magdalenian words,
part 49, a test (nineteen)

Inscription of the Tiryns Disk, Middle Helladic, deciphered
by Derk Ohlenroth; spiral and circular rim, each beginning
with an emphatic sigma indicating the presence of god:

SsEyR KI PhAAiNNOS SsEyR AI YLKIOS
OI KYOySANS GONOS ISOS KA SLRYNS
ISOSLA PhAAiNNOS ISOS KA SLRYNS EiI

SsLGOS EOoN KAI YNOS AiI KOy SAOS
PAN O EN NAOoI OS HII ENIOOo ASKIOS

Translation, basically following Derk Ohlenroth,
with some modifications by me; praise of Tiryns
(both town and king) along the spiral, banning
formula as magic enforcement of the wall
around the acropolis of Tiryns along the rim:

Zeus is the shining one also when Zeus is the
Lycaion one whose women give birth to children
his equal, and if shining Tiryns is a godlike town,
also I, eponymus Tiryns (probably from Arcadia,
at the base of Mount Lycaion), am a godlike ruler
(commemorated as the first lion-wolf-dog-bee king
in line on the gold signet ring from a cache of Tiryns,
worshipping Demeter Elaia, and Zeus in the guise
of an eagle, and as the gardener Lord Laertes
in Homer's Odyssey)

Marked (by god) and lonely forever shall be,
and without hope for salvation, who enters
(without permission) the sanctuary (acropolis
of Tiryns, consecrated to Zeus and Demeter
Elaia), and return without a shadow (live in
eternal darkness)

Derk Ohlenroth explains Middle Helladic Sseyr
for Zeus via Doric Sseys, and Slryns for Tiryns
via Ti- Si- Sl-. I propose TYR 'he who overcomes'
as origin of emphatic Sseyr, and the permutation
TRY 'triumph' as origin of Slryns, via the rare shift
T- Sl- (tempus Schlaefe temple, tabula table slab
Tafel, tapper to tap slap, attack Schlag, to tow
schleppen schlep):

TYR Sseyr Sseys Zeus theos deus Dis Pater
divinus divine Tiwaz Tir (nordic god of justice
and war)

TYR NOS Tryns Slryns Tiryns - built in honor
of the supreme mind (nos) who triumphs (try),
and in whose name also we triumph

Next time: visualizing Tiryns and three roots of words
for wheel: RYT rhytaer radius rota / CO OC LOP
Cyclops kyklos / TRY 'triumph' trochos drehen ...

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