Re: Fr/lat/ru tu-vous/tu-vos/ - : etymology ?

On Oct 2, 3:14 pm, Harlan Messinger
<hmessinger.removet...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

You made this up just to answer my question, didn't you?

The early understanding of the world was guided
by the body. The Egyptian sky goddess Nut
stood with her feet on one horizon, formed a giant
arch, and rested with her hands on the opposite
horizon. Nut appeared also as the heavenly cow,
her legs marking the four corners of the world.
This body-guided understanding of the cosmos
was replaced by an instrumental understanding.
The lunisolar calendar of Göbekli Tepe used
these numbers: a year had 12 months of 30 days
each, plus 5 and occasionally 6 days, while 63
continuous periods of 30 days yield 1,890 days
and correspond to 64 lunations or synodic
months or lunar years. This calendar ruled for
a very long time. In northern Mesopotamia,
in Syria and in Crete this calendar can be
represented by a circle of a dozen poles:
four of them marking the cardinal directions,
the other ones 30-degree angles in between.
Such a sanctuary in a flat river plain allows
to combine the numbers of the Göbekli Tepe
calendar with astronomical observations of
the sunrises and sunsets on the equinoxes
and solstices. This was an ingenious calendar
and became the famous Ashera sanctuary.
It survived in the clock dial of our time,
and although we have now digital watches
we still use the twelve positions (plane at
eleven o'clock ...). This large instrument
- Halaf calendar, Asherah sanctuary -
replaced the body-guided understanding
of the cosmos. Accordingly, the different
names for the extremities lost their former
importance, and as a rule the name of the
right side (right eye, right arm, right hand ...)
became the word for both sides (each eye,
arm, hand, ...) while the name of the left side
(left eye, arm, hand, ...) survived in a smaller
number of languages, and in fewer words
and compounds. The instruments take over,
while the anthropomorphisms disappear.

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