Re: Magdalenian experiment (continuation)

Magdalenian BIR and English bear,
a test case, part 2

Magdalenian BIR means fur, especially the fur
on which a newborn was laid. This particular
meaning suggests an ancient custom, and
really, one Porphyrios described a custom
of laying a newborn on a bear fur in the third
century AD, and the same custom survived
until the twentieth century in eastern Slavic
regions, where a grandmother laid the
newborn on a bear fur. A Vinca figurine
from the early fifth millennium BC shows the
divine mother wearing a bear mask, holding
a baby wearing a small bear mask in her arms.
Another Vinca figurine from the middle of the
fifth millennium BC shows the divine mother
or nurse wearing a bear mask, on her back
a pouch for the baby ... Marija Gimbutas:
"The maternal devotion of the female bear
made such an impression upon Old European
peasants that she was adopted as symbol of
motherhood."

BIR belongs to the permutation group of BRI
meaning fertile. The word survives in the name
of the fertility giver BRI GID, a triple goddess,
whose other emanations are the fur giver
BIR GID and the fire giver PIR GID. Magdalenian
BRI also accounts for Sanskrit priya- Norse Fru
German Frau. English woman Old English wifman
might have meant: weaving hand, perhaps covering
a still older BIR MAN meaning something like:
she handling fur.

(to be continued)

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Magdalenian BIR and English bear,
a test case, part 1

In early 2005 I reconstructed an amazing
lunisolar calendar from ideograms in the
Lascaux cave, looked out for a matching
language, found none in literature, went
for one myself, relying on the approach
by Richard Fester, proceeded first in
a rather intuitive way, found my first
and second Magdalenian law in 2005

1) inverse forms have related meanings

2) permutations yield words around the
same meme

and my third and fourth one in early 2006

3) D-words have comparative forms in
S-words

4) important words can have lateral
associations

From then on I mined permutation groups
and lateral associations using my four laws,
established a Magdalenian dictionary, and
use it now to etymologize words from recent
languages, like for example English bear.

PIE gives *bher- 'brown' as origin of bear.
A bear is explained as the Brown One.
There are six homonyms *bher-, meaning
boil / brown / carry / cure / strike / weave
(Mallory and Adams 2006). Of the six
meanings, *bher- 'brown' fits best for bear.
However, I find this etymology not very
convincing, so I gave it some consideration,
looked up my Magdalenian dictionary and
found

BIR --- fur, especially the fur on which
a newborn was laid; ancient Greek byrsa
for fur

This peculiar meaning, imposed by the other
words in the permutation group of BRI for
fertility, suggests a peculiar custom, and really,
there was a custom of laying a newborn on
a fur, on a bear fur! So I propose Magdalenian
BIR as origin of bear and all the six homonyms
*bher-, and a plethora of further words. The
bear is the Furry One, provider of the best fur,
thick, longhaired, soft and warm.

(to be continued)

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Introduction into my new thread
(and a warning to Panu Petteri Höglund)

I will start my new Magdalenian thread, the third one,
with an improved version of my etymology of English
bear. You may remember: PIE explains bear as the
brown one, Magdalenian as the furry one, provider
of the best fur, thick, longhaired, soft and warm.

Then I will go on in my usual way, discussing in
other threads - answering questions if I can shed light
on a word from my vantage point -, and then publish
a concise version here in this thread. Which is my
publishing thread, and not a chatroom for others.
There is already more than enough chatting going on
in this forum, notabene a scientific forum. I wish to
keep my publishing thread lean, and I hope the
majority of people in here will respect my wish.

(By the end of my former Magdalenian thread, on
September 19, I had to write an open letter to the
Google company regarding Panu Petteri Höglund
alias craoibhi. He does himself harm by harassing
and stalking me. He should just keep away from me.
I know the value of my work. He can't make himself
a name by molesting me, or only a bad one. If he
can't leave me in peace and keep away from this
thread, I will have to write an addendum to my open
letter to the Google company. He once told me that
it was a bad idea to attack me and make fun of me.
Now has come the time to draw the consequences,
or to take the consequences on himself. - I had sent
a copy of my open letter to the Google conmpany
to the Google company, reporting Panu Petteri
Höglund as my online stalker. I will send them also
the addendum, if I really have to write it. In my open
letter from September 19, delivered in two parts,
I also explain my peculiar way of posting and quoting
from my own messages. My open letter can easily
be retrieved from the archive of the groups maintained
by Google.)

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Intermezzo (repeating my message, because it was
cut off from my previous thread and is now floating
in the vast space of the archive. Innovation is also
an issue for other countries than Switzerland,
the only means of coping with the present financial
crisis)

Antonio Marques asked me to write something
in German. Well, I am Swiss, born in Zurich,
and my mother language is Swiss, a language
that has a grammar of its own and a vocabulary
that reaches down to the Magdalenian level -
if I weren't Swiss I could hardly have gone for
my Magdalenian experiment. English is closer
to may way of internal reasoning than German,
but I may write a passage on Switzerland in
this language, a foreign language for me,
as I said.

Sigmund Widmer, vormaliger Stadtpräsident
von Zürich, Anfang der 1980er Jahre Nationalrat,
schrieb in seiner Kolumne im damaligen 'Züri-Leu'
zum Beginn eines Jahres (wenn ich mich recht
erinnere des Jahres 1984): "Die Schweiz kann
nur überleben, wenn aus dem Werkplatz Schweiz
ein Denkplatz wird". Leider hat man seinen Rat
nicht ernst genommen. Die FDP verwandelte
Zürich in eine Bank, die SP verwandelt Zürich in
einen Rummelplatz. Der Zürcher 'Tagesanzeiger'
ruft immer dringlicher nach neuen Ideen, aber
gewährt innovativen Leuten keinen Raum.
Christoph Blocher von der SVP sagte: Wir holen
die besten Fachleute in die Schweiz ... Diese
generieren Geld für uns, womit wir neue Top-
Leute ins Land holen, die noch mehr Geld
generieren, und so weiter. Das erinnert mich
an die Milchmädchenrechnung in einem SJW-
Heftchen meiner Primarschule. Das Milchmädchen
geht mit einem Korb schöner, grosser, frischer
Eier zum Markt und hängt ihren Träumen nach.
Wenn sie alle Eier verkauft, kann sie mit dem
Erlös ein neues Huhn kaufen, mehr Hühner legen
mehr Eier, bringen noch mehr Erlös --- aber da
stolpert sie über einen Stein, der Korb fällt zu
Boden, die Eier zerbrechen, aus der Traum.

(A fable of a daydreaming milk maid has become
the business model of Switzerland, innovative
minds get no chance, our country is being sold
out and will, I fear, sooner or later become
a candiate for a takeover)

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