Re: Magdalenian words and compounds 2006/7

Magdalenian words and compounds 2006/7

Part 27

TOM MOT, OTM MTO, OMT TMO --- to work on hides

TOM --- stone knive; ancient Greek tomae for cut

MOT --- to cut and clean a hide with a stone knive;
Latin moto for I move back and forth, English motion

OTM --- hide, so named for the specific smell of
leather and fur; ancient Greek odmae for smell
(see also odm)

MTO --- to knead wet hides in order to make them
soft; ancient Greek matto masso for I kneed,
English massage

OMT --- hides as raw material for making clothes,
belts, baldrics, covers, tent walls, and so on;
ancient Greek omos for raw, crude, fresh (...),
omotaes for roughness

TMO --- treasurer of hides; ancient Greek tamaias
for treasurer

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Magdalenian words and compounds 2006/7

Part 26

ARC CRA, CAR RAC, RCA ACR --- hunting cave bears

ARC --- cave bear Ursus spelaeus (a giant animal,
bigger than a grizzly); ancient Greek arktos Latin
usrus for bear

CRA --- strength, power and skills needed to hunt
a cave bear, rewarded by a successful hunt, and
by the privilege of raising a cranium filled with bear
blood in order to establish a link with the beyond,
thus imploring strength, power and skills from above;
ancient Greek krateo for I am strong, powerful,
I overcome (...), German Kraft for strength, power,
English craft for skill, Greek krataer English crater,
the Ainu of Hokkaido believe that the soul of a ritually
sacrificed bear establishes a link with the beyond

CAR --- head of a bear, deposited in a cult place,
for example in a cave; ancient Greek kar for head

RAC --- fur of a bear; ancient Greek rhagos for rug,
carpet, cover, English rug

RCA --- ritual sacrifice of a bear, raising a cranium
filled with bear blood; ancient Greek rhezo for
I sacrifice

ACR --- depositing a bear head on top of a stone pile
in a cave; ancient Greek akros for top, akrothonion
for depositing a donation on top

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Magdalenian words and compounds 2006/7

Part 25

DAM SAM, MAD MAS, DMA SMA, AMD AMS,
ADM ASM, MDA MSA --- how a group of
Magdalenian hunters can overcome a big and
strong animal such as a bison bull

DAM --- hunting a bison, how a group of
Magdalenian hunters overcomes a bull;
ancient Greek domazo for I overcome

SAM --- to cooperate, work together; Sanskrit sam
for together, ancient Greek syn-, sym-, German
zusammen for together

MAD --- learning how to hunt a bull in a common
effort, as a group; ancient Greek mathaema for
learning, teaching, experience, lesson, science,
art

MAS --- chief bull hunter, he who commands
a hunting expedition, leads the first and all deciding
blow, attacking a weak spot, making the poor animal
raving mad, going blind of rage, whereupon the
lesser hunters attack it from all sides, also the
teacher of young hunters, wearing a bull mask and
bull hides and a bull tail, the boys attack him with
toy spears and lances, whereupon he behaves
as an attacked bull would react; Latin mas for man,
actually little man, perhaps in relation to the big
animal (see the huge bull and tiny man in front
of its head in the cave of Gabillou), masculinus
for virile, English master German Meister

DMA --- knowledge of the body and behaving
of a bison and especially a bull; ancient Greek
demos for the way a body is built

SMA --- to command a bison hunt, giving signals,
leading a group of hunters, being the one who
applies the first and all deciding blow; ancient
Greek saemaino for I give a signal, perhaps also
English small, German schmal for narrow, lanky
(consider again the small master hunter in
comparison with the big animal)

AMD --- lacking the knowledge of a master
hunter, not really knowing where and how to
apply the first blow; ancient Greek amathaes
for ignorant (a- word a later overforming)

AMS --- to overcome a bison in a common effort,
attacking the bull from all sides when the first
blow has been applied by the master hunter;
ancient Greek amothei hamothei for out of
everywhere, out of every direction

ADM --- fearless; ancient Greek adeimatos for
fearless (a- word a later overforming)

MDA --- to consider everything concerning
a bison hunt; ancient Greek medo for I think,
care for, think out, give orders, command, rule

MSA --- being led by intuition and inspiration;
ancient Greek Mousa for muse (consider that
Odysseus who tackled the stronghold of Troy
had been assisted by his muse Athena)

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Magdalenian words and compounds 2006/7

Part 24

MUC --- bull // PAC --- horse // PEC --- game,
boar, ibex // PIC --- bird ?

PAC CAP, APC CPA, ACP PCA --- hunting horses

PAC --- horse, perhaps later also used for a cow;
Italian vacca for cow

CAP --- hunting horses; Latin capere English to capture,
Latin caput for head (when horses were counted by their
heads), Latin habere for to have, German haben for to
have (the Germanic word seems to have taken another
root thatn the Latin one), French chef English chief,
captain

APC --- to deroute a herd of horses and drive them
into an enclosure, or over a cliff; several Greek words
of the form ap(o)-k, for example apokrino for I move
away

CPA --- to beat horses; ancient Greek kopae for beating,
slaughter (...)

ACP --- going on and on; ancient Greek akopos for infatigable
(the a- form would then be a later overforming)

PCA --- to end a horse hunt; Latin pacatus for quieted,
peaceful

The last word would then be the origin of Latin pax for
peace --- ending the melee of a horse hunt. The
Magdalenians were hunters; they needed animals for
to survive, killed them, and then they honored them
by placing them in the sky: the bull as moon, the horse
as sun, a pair of opposing ibices as symbol of midwinter
(Marie E.P. König).

PAC AS --- horse (pac) upward (as), the rising sun horse,
later the sacrificed horse carrying the soul of a dead
Indo-European warrior to his heavenly abode; ancient
Greek Pegasus, a horse symbolizing poetry, thus hinting
at the role bards played on the occasion of a big funeral

AS PAC --- upward (as) horse (pac), same meaning
as above; Sanskrit as'vah for horse

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