Re: proof that most etymologies are only fairy-tales

A pregnant mammal bears. A pregnant woman gives
birth to a child. Magdalenians, I claim, placed their
newborns on a fur in order to keep them warm,
preferably a bear fur. Young mothers may have
carried their babies around in a bag made of a bear
hide, bearing the newborn outside her body. And
all these words - to bear (inside and outside the body),
birth, German gebären Geburt, ancient Greek byros
English fur, and a bear as provider of a warm and
soft fur - would have come from Magdalenian BIR
designating the fur whereon a newborn was laid.

In one of my books at home I have an excellent
photograph of the bear in the Lascaux cave.
On the official website of the cave (google for
lascaux) you can find a mediocre picture of
the hidden animal (yet if you click on the image
the bear is outlined in green). The body of the
bear is hidden by the dark painted line of the
ground whereon the bull walks, but you can
see the hind paws under the line and the raised
snout above the line. This may indicate the
bear as winter sleeper: the hind paws the last
one sees of the animal in fall, and the snout
the first one sees in spring. And this again may
symbolize the three phases of the old moon,
of the invisible moon, and of the young moon
www.seshat.ch/home/gen.GIF The lunation
was divided as follows: young moon 3 days,
waxing moon 6 days, full moon 9 days, waning
moon 6 days, old moon 3 days, empty moon
alternatively 3 or 2 days, yielding 30 29 30 29
30 29 30 29 30 29 30 ... days for 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8 9 10 11 ... lunations. The bulls in the rotunda
are marked with signs of 3 and 6 and 9 parts.
The bull above the bear is marked with a triple
sign on his breast. According to Marie E.P.
König, the bull symbolizes the moon, and so
the triple sign identifies the bull above the bear
as old moon (empty moon) young moon, and
this again was the symbol of regeneration:
the moon dies, remains invisible for some time,
and then appears again. May the same happen
to ourselves? We get old, die, and may be born
again ... When newborns were laid in a bear skin,
the same may have been done with old people,
and a chieftain may even have been buried
in a bear skin --- he just goes for some kind of
winter sleep, and with the regenerative magic
of the bear hide he will come to life again and
see a next spring ...



There is only one painted bear in the Lascaux cave,
in the very center of the large panel in the rotunda,
hidden in the ground line, under the belly of the bull
marked with a triple sign I identified as the three
days or nights of the newborn moon and the three
days or nights of the dying moon. I will study the bear
of Lascaux next week, when I return home and can
consult my books again.

I derive bear German Bär from Magdalenian BIR
ancient Greek byros English fur: a bear was the
furry one, the animal growing a precious fur that
was used for giving warm in the harsh Ice Age
winters. The actual word for bear was ARC
wherefrom Latin ursus. ARC TYR --- cave
bear (arc) he who overcomes (tyr), an Ice Age
hero who took it up with a cave bear, a monster
bigger than a grizzly. ARC TYR survives in king
Arthur who fought a dragon for three days and
nights and finally won. The myth of dragons
originated from skulls and other bones of the
long extinct cave bear Ursus spelaeus found
in caves. Being able to cope with a cave bear
was really something. Every young man can
buy a ring for his girl friend, but imagine hunting
a cave bear with the weapons of CroMagnons
in order to present your lovely with a warm fur
and a bear tooth on a sinew for an amulett ...
Magdalenian words are embedded in permutation
groups that provide more information. The one
of BIR is concerned with fertility and offspring.
If you consult my Magdalenian dictionary you'll
find that BIR means the fur wherein a newborn
was laid in order to keep it warm, and this may
preferably have been a bear fur. The feelings
toward bears were ambivalent, they were feared,
of course, but also admired, bear mothers for
their courage in defending their cubs, and so,
in Celtic times, the female bear was worshipped
as a mother goddess. English to bear and birth
and German gebären Geburt may be seen in this
context, while evidence that bears were actually
named for their precious fur comes from the old
German word petz 'bear' petze 'female bear',
surviving as Meister Petz in fables and fairy tales.
A petz can also bristle up, stand on end (Grimm,
Wörterbuch, quote from Hagedorn), so petz must
be akin to German Pelz English pelt, both from
Latin pellis that is also present in German Fell 'fur'.
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