Re: Etymology da/no venstre

On Feb 26, 10:00 am, f...@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Feb 24, 8:21 pm, Ruud Harmsen <realemailons...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Or maybe it is connected with Italian (and Latin?) sinistra?

Latin sinister 'left' poses more of a problem.
I have to take a deep breath

before I can go for this etymological adventure.
Sinister originally meant fortunate. Facing south
you can see the stars and sun on the left hand
side, in the east, so we may link -ister with east
and Easter and Astarte from AS TYR, upward
AS overcomer TYR. Sin- reminds of sym-
'together' from SAM meaning a group of bull
hunters led by the chief bull hunter MAS and
overcomer TYR, wherefrom MAS TYR master
and even mister as a mock salute that became
an official greeting ... If the sky is involved,
the bull in question is the moon bull = moon.
Who can possibly hunt the moon? Only the sun,
rising and eclipsing the moon, as the red mare
in the rotunda of Lascaux, symbol of the rising
midsummer sun, eclipses the vigorous white
bull of the full moon by her side. The sun is so
very bright, it simply extinguishes the light of the
moon, even of the brightest full moon, overcoming
the moon, as it were, hence TYR. Now for AS
meaning upward: it is the rising sun that overcomes
the moon. Now the sun is accompanied by the
bright Venus, and we have an explanation of SAM,
both Venus and the sun are 'hunting' the moon bull,
and the compound would have been SAM AS TYR.
Venus morning star rises on the eastern horizon,
followed by the sun, and they eclipse the moon
as they rise, make his light vanish. As Venus and
the sun rise in the east, on the left hand side when
facing south as in the old Roman rite, the above
compound became sinister 'left', and fortunate,
bringing luck, from Magdalenian LIC that means
both light and luck, and might perhaps account for
lucht luft left links, words that once had a positive
meaning but were later turned around, also sinister
became a negative term, consider English sinister.

Now I must exhale and take another deep breath.

AS TYR Astarte was the fertility goddess of the
Levant, of the eastern shore where Venus and
the sun rise. A Phoenician Astarte whose picture
I have at home raises both her arms and holds
a half open lotus blossom in her right hand,
symbol of the rising sun in Egypt. Astarte has
an equivalent in our Venus. Another equivalent is
Egyptian As-t better known as Isis, personifying
Sirius (Rolf Krauss), while Venus morning star
was personified by Horus the younger, and Venus
evening star by Horus the older (Rolf Krauss).
Venus is always near the sun. Now Sirius, in the
mythology and year of Egypt, was also linked to
the sun, insofar as the heliakal rise of Sirius in
summer announced the all important rise of the
river Nile. Heliakal rise means: the rise (of Sirius)
on the eastern horizon before the sun comes up,
just like Venus morning star. And now AS TYR
as name of Astarte and Venus and perhaps also
Sirius (As-t 'Isis' personifying Sirius), the brightest
planet and the brightest star on the northern sky,
became the general word for star, Latin aster.

And what about Astor, Waldorf Astoria? In this
name I see the compound AS TOR, upward AS
bull in motion TOR, the moon bull rising, the
rising moon, and a rising full moon is a splendid
sight ,,,

Psychopanu suffers from the illusion that he can
become a scientist by whacking me instead of
saying something of a scientific value and interest.

As for Harlan Messinger, I looked up my Latin
dictionary at home, here are some of the forms:
pasco 'I (let) graze' / pascuus 'belonging to the
pasture' / pascor (pavi pastus) 'to graze, feed,
nourish'. It's pas-co pas-cor pa-vi pas-tus pas-tor
and not past-us past-or.
.

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