Re: Magdalenian words and compounds 2006/7

Magdalenian words and compounds 2006/7

Part 52, for Trond Engen

CO OC LOP --- commander of a fort, gathering
information (co, acitivity of the mind) provided by the
guards who watch out (oc, eye) over the wall (lop);
origin of Cyclops. Consider for example the cyclopic
walls, and the round forteresses in the nation of cities
in the Transural. The cyclopes in Homer's Odyssey
are one-eyed giants living on mountains, their one
eye being the acropolis. The most famous Cyclops
is Polyphem who resembles more a wooded mountain
top than a man who eats bread. Polyphem symbolizes
Troy, and the travels of Odysseus are dreams: the hero
leaves Troy and comes to strange places which are
Troy, Troy in disguise and blended with other places
and periods of time. Co-oc-lop would also be the
origin of ancient Greek cyclops for circle, ring, eye,
ring wall (cyclopic wall), city wall, while the rump form
co-o( )-l( )- co-o-l may account for *kwel 'turn'
www.seshat.ch/home/cyclops.GIF This rendering
of the idea of co-oc-lop or cyclops would have
survived in the Eye of Argos, a similar symbol known
from the Argolis, emblem of a watchful confederation
of fortified dwellings including Tiryns and Mycenae

CO OC NOS --- the mind (nos) who watches out (oc)
and combines the information (co), ruler of a fort;
may survive in Latin cognosco and in the Greek rump
form (co o)cnos gnosis

CO OC --- to look (oc) attentively (co); might survive
in German gucken

OC CO --- looking (oc) reasoning (co); might be the
origin of ancient Greek ego (with omega) Latin ego,
while the common form of saying je in French and
I in English would have been humming Mm, preserved
in French moi and English me

AD TOR OC CO --- toward (ad) bull in motion (tor)
eye (oc) reason, attention (co, a bull fighter facing
the dangerous animal, later the bull leapers of
Crete (perhaps earlier on of Ebla), then for any
situation where humans meet with fate, have to
cope with a dreadful situation; Mycenaean atoroqo
for human being, also for woman (there have been
female bull leapers too) and for slave (many of the
formerly so proud Cretans became slaves under
the Mycenaeans). The word may also be present
in the genitive form of anaer for man, namely andros.
Consider the first line of Homer's Odyssey: Andra
moi ennepe, Mousa, polytropon, whose mala polla
- the first word of the epic denotes the hero who will
face terrible challenges, mala polla, many bad things,
but in the center of the line we find polytropon, he who
traveled widely, also well versed (Douglas G. Kilday),
so the very first line gives us the briefest possible
summary of the epic: a hero faces awful challenges,
but he will survive ...

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Magdalenian words and compounds 2006/7

Part 51

POL LOP, PLO OLP, LPO OPL --- fortified dwellings

POL --- fortified dwelling; ancient Greek polis for town,
fortified dwelling, capital, German Bollwerk English
bulwark

LOP --- hedge or wall around a dwelling; ancient Greek
lopos for rind, shell, husk, English to envelop, French
envelopper enveloppe

PLO --- walls made in the wattle and daub technique;
ancient Greek plokos for texture, wickerwork, tissue,
fabric

OLP --- wealth and power concentrated in a fortified
dwelling; ancient Greek olbos for luck, blessing,
salvation, wealth, power

LPO --- the labyrinth of tents and huts and lanes
in between; ancient Greek labyrinthos

OPL --- protectors of a fortified dwelling; ancient
Greek hoplitaes for soldier

POL PLO --- fortified dwelling (pol) walls made in
the wattle and daube technique (plo); old Latin poplo
Latin populus Italian popolo French peuple English
people, also Latin populus (long o) for poplar tree,
as poplar upshots must have been used for poles,
while more flexible willow twigs were used for whities,
the horizontal interlacing

POL DOK --- fortified dwelling (pol) wooden poles,
beams and rafters (dok), woodhenge; Old English
folc English folk German Volk (originally inhabitants
of woodhenges, then, known in Middle Europe from
around 7 000 BP onward)

POL LAD --- fortified dwelling (pol) hill (lad); may be
the origin of the Roman Palatin

POL LAS --- fortified dwelling (pol) mountain (las);
may be the origin of Pallas, Pallas Athene

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Magdalenian words and compounds 2006/7

Part 50

BAL --- hot; possible origin of Baal, originally a volcano
god (Richard Fester)

BEL TON --- warm (bel) sound (ton); possible origin
of the Etruscan god Veltune, with about this meaning:
the lively one who makes himself heard via thunder,
mainly in the warm season

RAA --- light, ray; possible origin of the Etruscan god
Rath, perhaps in combination with ryt

PE --- near / EP --- far / PE LAS --- near (pe) mountains
(las), mountain people; possible origin of the Pelasgians
who may originally have come from the altiplano of
Armenia

TYR REO and PE LAS and TYR SA NOS and RAA
SA NOS may all have been names of the Etruscans.
The Inscription in Greek letters TYRSANOS from the
agora of Athens may be read as follows: obeying
the mind (nos) of the one who overcomes in the
double sense of rule and give (tyr) from above (sa),
or it may be the god himself, equivalent of Saturn

AAR RAA AC CA --- air (ar) light (raa) earth (ac)
sky (ca); possible origin of Hebrew ruach for spirit,
with the same range of meanings as Greek pneuma
and Latin spiritus, namely wind, breath, spirit

NOS AAR RAA --- following the mind (nos) of the
one composed of air (aar) and light (raa); possible
origin of Noah

AAR RAA MAN --- right hand (man) of the one
composed of air (aar) and light (raa), he who carries
out the will of AAR RAA NOS Ouranos; possible
origin of Armenian Armenia

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Magdalenian words and compounds 2006/7

Part 49

CA NOS --- mind (nos) of the sky (ca); possible origin
of Chaos, god of the primeval universe

AAR RAA NOS --- mind (nos) of the one composed
of air (aar) and light (raa); possible origin of Ouranos.
Consider the limestone rings at Göbekli Tepe that
show a male face ex negativo, composed of air and
light: www.seshat.ch/home/ouranos.JPG, (photograph
from: Klaus Schmidt, Sie bauten die ersten Tempel,
C.H. Beck München 2006)

CA AC --- scy (ca) earth (ac); possible origin of Gaia,
(while the inverse form ac ca would account for the
Indo-European earth goddess akka, a stammered
name according to Pokorny, a meaningful name in
my opinion)

CRE NOS --- ruling (cre) mind (nos); possible origin
of Cronos

REO --- to flow; possible origin of Rhea

TYR --- he who overcomes, in the double sense of
rule and give; possible origin of SsEyR Sseus Zeus

CER --- divine stag, divine hind, also shaman and
shamaness; possible origin of Hera. The divine hind
licked moon bulls into life, thus generating time,
periods of 30 29 30 29 30 ... days or nights (see
the large hind licking the horns of a small bull in
the Altamira cave:www.seshat.ch/home/hind1.JPG
(photograph Michel Lorblanchet). A reference to
bovines is present in the epithet of the cow-eyed
Hera

SA TYR NOS --- mind (nos) of the one who overcomes
in the double sense of rule and give (tyr) from above
(sa); Saturnus Saturn, founder of a golden age

APS --- hide of a tent or hut, where vapors condensate
and trickle and drop down from, as model of the
heavenly canopy where vapors condensate and fall
down from as rain; possible origin of the goddess Ops,
consort of Saturn

A comical and idyllic version of Saturn and Ops may
have been the satyrs and nymphs. The former lived
on wooded mountains, the latter near springs and
wells. The satyrs lusted for the nymphs and overcame
them with carnal love (see the satyr and smiling menad
on a water jar from Cerveteri, sixth century BC)

(end of part 49, to be continued)
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