Ymir
- From: Dušan Vukotić <dusan.vukotic@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 10:51:45 -0700 (PDT)
On Mar 12, 4:05 pm, "Heidi Graw" <hg...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Could you please try to find a Magdalenian
origin for "Audhumla?" To me that word
sounds very mystical and mantric. I could
put myself into a shamanic trance simply
by repeating that word over and over again.
Thanks,
Heidi
Your Gnaben(stein) is of great importance in this case -
Heaven(stone) :-)
It is interesting to compare Audhumla with Hindu mythical cow called
Surabhi. If I remember well, god Krishna became Govinda after he drank
(or was bathed in) the milk of Surabhi cow. This name (Govinda) is
related to Serbian govedo (bull or cow; goveda cattle). According to
my HSF the original basis of the word Govinda is the same as the basis
of -humla - Gon-Bel-Gon. Here are also the names of other animals:
Serb. kobila (mare), Lat. caballus (horse), camelus - all words
related to Serb. gomila (heap), Brygian goddess Zemela, Slavic zemlja
(earth), Arabic jamala (to bear); Hebrew sabal (to bear, laden).
DV
Maybe, it could be interesting to see if the name of Nordic god Ymir
is in any way related to Slavic word mir (Serb. mir peace; Russ. мир
world, peace).
First, there is the Hindu deity of death called Yama, also known as
Yamarāja, who may be related to Ymir. On the other side is the Serbo-
Slavic word umor (death, tiredness, fatigue; Lat. mors, mortis death;
Skt. mṛtya death), wherefrom the other Serbian words as umirati (die),
izumirati (extinct) and smrt (death) are stemming. Slavic word smert
(*sъ-mьrtь) is closely related to Slavic mir (peace) and the verb
smiriti (appease, pacify, placate, moderate; OSlav. съмѣренъ quiet,
pacific); i.e. Slavic *smert- (death) is a direct derivation from the
word mir (peace); smiriti (appease) => smrt (death).
Now, let us try to compare Sanskrit nirvana (extinction) and Serbian
umirivanje (calm someone/something; make quiet). It seems that Slavic
mir comes from nir (n => m phonetic change; unirivanje => umirivanje;
Skt. nirvana).
It is supposed that Slavic word miro is a loanword from Greek μύρον
(sweet oil, unguent, perfume); but it sounds very unusual if we try to
translate the Serbian compound word miro-pomazanje (anointment).
Namely, Serbian miropomazanje is the Christian custom of anointing
with holy oil (Serb. sveti mir = holy oil) used during infant baptism.
Wouldn't it be more logical if we said that Jesus is God's Peace Child
(in Serb. dete Božjeg Mira; Božji Mir = God's Peace) and that
anointment symbolically denoted the parental wish that God would bring
paece to the infant? The most important thing parents would like to
see is that their child is protected by god and raised in peace
(Slavic mir = peace).
Slavic goddess of death, Morena (Morena, Mara) is the same goddess of
death, known in Hindu and Baltic mythology under the name Mara.
Obviously, all the above words are related to the Serbo-Slavic word
umiranje/morenje (dying; Serb. umoren killed).
As we can see, Ymir also was killed (Serb. umor-en) and, on the other
side, Ymir's body was the "starting material" for the creation of the
world (Russian mir /world/).
Ymir was created from the melting ice of Niflheim (misty house/House
of the Heaven; Nebeska Kuća in Serbian; Nebeška Hiša in Slovenian;
Nebel/Nebula Haus!)
DV
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