Thursday, September 20, 2012

cognates & divergences

co-mo-ni (N) co-motion, (Sp) como/comida, (E) communal, (M) bersama/macam/how done)
do-me-s-ti-cate (enclosed huts/coop)
na-ma-s-te/car-_ (Hindu greeting)
no-ma-_-di-c (transhumant herders)
thal-mu-_-di-c (Hebrew myths)
shlo-me-le-chaim (Hebrew greeting)
sa-wa-_-di-ca/crup (Thai greeting F/M)
hu-wa-_-ka-n-ta-nka (Q+Lak)
sa-wa-s-ti-ca (f/ari(a)n/gi symbol)
_ - va-ti-ca-n (rome)
le-vi-ti-cu-s (meticulous law/lev/leg/reg)
aur-ve-di-c (ayurvedic ancient medica)
da-vi-d
da-o-ui-di (wood/whittle/uitli?) dawei/dao/tao/tsavo
de-r-ui-di-c

huaca (Qech) spiritual temple/shrine
wakkan tanka (Lak) great spirit/mystery ways/life
tanakh (Heb) torah + tales
vatican/leviticus/vedic/ueli  societal authority-tort/law-norms


my comment at Carlos's blog:

hand as antler/dental/talon/tine->(t)entwine(d), tent(l)acle/(s)nag/k(l)e, tentlep|hant (trunk)?
talon/claw/talent/rape/grope/groove/crow/thal/tackle/tacla/rapta/erupt/tack/rappel?
tangle/knuckle/angle/naik(M climb)/knot/mongolu

Neander-tal used raptor/corvid bones/feathers
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0045927
Last night, I dreamed that the great wall of China was a late stone reconstruction of earlier Altai neanderthal mammoth riders ("mobile watchtowers cf India elephants") that used wool-felt colored banners to signal group movements for mass/maz hunts across the steppes.
http://www.easytoursofindia.com/evillage/sites/default/files/images/elephant_amberfort_jaipur_tour.preview.jpg
http://a.abcnews.com/images/Technology/nm_baby_elephant_100211_ssh.jpg

banner/blanket/felt=folded pelt(dyed/tint/paint skin outwards, fur inwards -> rider sat on meshed/mashed/crushed/wetted fur/wool to make felt/fuld
quilt = quill/spind(r)ill/na(i/eed)l + hand tac/touch/tex/tile
filter= wool/weft/wove(n)lt/felt (not skin/hide) used to warm packed snow & filter water under rider which collected along bottom seams into skin bags w(ha)indbag[gua/gourd/gin/gyne/vahine/wanita/womb/umb]=windsock/sac=wineskins/canteen/kantong/pouch/pocket/bucket/bouquet(herb tea/potpouri?)/kettle?
cowl/hood-shovel=snuo-felt-snowmelt: mammoth kneeled down, blanket open, snow was shoveled/packed on top, rider closed blanket, mammoth rose, rider climbed on, settled/squished/soft/loft/elevate/elephant
"flying carpet" origin. flight+sit+fluid+folded+hind
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some more comments:
souk/souq (Arab) merchant huts/booths
sukha/sukhot (Hebrew) harvest shack (English)

(originally round huts, became rectilinear due to population concentration in favorable markets)
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  • ...yeah, DD, sockets before electricity or sprockets
    and rockets and socks and wind socks.
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  • soc-ket, bast-ket (bast = inner string bark of lime/basswood/tilia tree)

    sockets - sox/gaiters (pelt or felt) worn beneath woven fiber sandals/snowshoes long before moccasins invented in NAm per 1 Amerind story.
    Incurved (confined) fossil toes in EurAsia indicate 45ka footware.
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  • sockets for (Neand) axe-head and (Afric) arrow-head?

    ostrog(Yakutsk/Russile)=fort,=ost/ozt(r)oc/g=oztoc/oztotl(N)=cave,= Oztoc(N)=name of a spring near Hill of the Star/Citlaltepetl(N/Mex).

    http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/world/middleeast/article3552845.ece

    "Archaeologists have discovered stone axes & sharp flint arrow-heads of both Homo spp in lime-stone caves of N-Israel. The latest findings have led researchers working on the site of Nahal
    Me'arot (Stream Cave) to believe that the 2 sub-spp may have co-existed peacefully in the coastal mountain range"

    sock't/sack/suck'tion vs blow/bellow
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  • Regarding moon/calender/counting:
    I dimly recall this numerical series as possibly PIE: 3.5.7.9.10 = t(h)rive five seve eleve tweleve
    later "new" 9 & 10 were inserted to make
    ...seve eight nine ten eleve twelve (7-12)
    in a similar manner to the Julian cal. to Greg. cal. inserted months resulting in misnamed months

    tom thumb ~ elf (alif(Arab A=alpha)?) was the early letter A representing not ox but elephant, then later changed to ox? (tusks to horns, just as early steppe tipis were first mammoth bull furskins, then later bison bull defurred skins)

    baby eel = elver

    finger/fist/feet/ped/(s)pade/paddle
    elevate/lift up vs excavate/cave excrete
    convex/vetti-e vs concave
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  • Saturday, September 15, 2012

    Is Ra El - Isa La Mu - Is Ma El - Is La Am

    Question on name:
    http://www.bibleanswerstand.org/QA_Yahweh-2.htm

    "Yahweh is simply a grammatical variation of ehyeh; ehyeh is first person singular, whereas Yahweh is third person singular. Because Yahweh is grammatically noted as third person singular for Yahweh, it means, “He is,” whereas ‘ehyeh,’ being in the first person means, “I am.”

    [Spanish pronunciation of Allah is Ayah which in Malay is Father = Abba (Aramaic: Father)  DD]

    Therefore, when humans discuss God’s name, the usage is Yahweh, meaning, “He is,” whereas when Yahweh Himself speaks, only HE can rightfully claim ownership in the first person singular construction, saying, “I AM.”

    The Septuagint was commonly available and used by Jews during the lifetime of Jesus because the entire Roman Empire used Koine Greek as its primary national language, just as English is fast becoming the global standard today. This major Greek version is called the Septuagint (meaning, ‘seventy’) because of the legend that the Torah was translated in the 3rd century BC by 72 scholars. The legend is probably accurate in several respects: The first Greek translation included only the Torah, and it was done in Alexandria in the 3rd century BC. Eventually the remaining Hebrew Scriptures were translated, but obviously, they were translated by other scholars whose skills and viewpoints differed.

    As a result, the Jews of that period sought after a Hebrew Bible for benefit of everyone in synagogue could understand, due mainly to the decline of spoken Hebrew, then spoken by very few, mostly scribes, rabbis, and pockets of communities of Jews scattered in many places. Consequently, the Septuagint is the Hebrew Old Testament translated in Greek and it played a key role in the changes made to the Hebrew name for God (i.e. – using the Tetragrammaton, YHWH to replace ‘Yahweh’ & omitting Yahweh altogether).

    As a spoken language, ancient Hebrew is much different than in its written form. God revealed himself by His personal Name to Moses as, “I AM THAT I AM,” (ehyeh asher ehyeh); "
    ---

    Jah from where? Jah=Yah=IeshRaEl  Hallelu'jah; (h)Al le lu ya; Al-ilah Leyv, Luv Jah [God/Bog/Got/Judah/Yehuda/Buddha/Kuda/Allah/Yahweh/Jehova/Yeshiva/Shiva]
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jah http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rastafari_movement
    Ra + Jah = Raja/Rasta/RaShDa/Royal/Regnal/Regulate/Ras/Rosh

    In the original text of the Hebrew Bible, the Hebrew letters for "Jah" occurs 50 times, 26 times alone and 24 times in the term "Hallelujah" or the even earlier Hebrew translation of "Hallelu'yah", since the letter "J" was first brought into language around 500 years ago

    Hebrew: Jasher/Yasher = Upright/Just
    Arabic: Shah, Sheikh
    Spanish: Hacer
    English: Church?

    P/Bahana(Zuni/Hopi) perhaps linked to Bwana (Sir in Swahili, from Arabic abūna our father, master)
    -

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibboleth: The term originates from the Hebrew word shibbólet (שִׁבֹּלֶת), which literally means the part of a plant containing grains, such as an ear of corn or a stalk of grain[3] or, in different contexts, "stream, torrent".[4][5] The modern usage derives from an account in the Hebrew Bible, in which pronunciation of this word was used to distinguish Ephraimites, whose dialect lacked a /ʃ/ phoneme (as in shoe), from Gileadites whose dialect did include such a {sh}phoneme.

    lith litho litr let letra/petra/tetra lythe lyze lathe latch lact leche leck
    pile pillar cellar well kadoor equator equine equi kwekwel/wheel

    Jacob poured oil on pillow/pillar stone, Moses got water from split stone, Hindus pour ghee on stone statue

    (Je) Ho Ba Shi Ra

    Jah Oba Lisk  (Oba = king, god, bwana(Sir)=(Arab)abuna, cf Obama, Obelisk) {African}
    Jahweh/Ya-Ha-W(eh)-Ha (note: early O/UB replaced by WV in Medit.) YHWH {Hellene/Roman}
    Jehova lechem {Jewish to European}
    Yeshiva lechaim {Hebrew/hapiru/abiru/abrahm/Chaldean oraha/m}
    Shiva lingam {Hindu/sindh/sinhalanka/brahman/rahman}
    Diva/devas/diviner (see bashira below (Arab seer, ba sheer ah; messiah?)
    Kiva (Pueblo under/g/round chamber/temple w/ dome roof teya cf tepa/cupola & shipapu hole)
    Estuva (Zuni kiva) from Spanish estufa-stove/heater/tletl, shipapu hole, central column
    Qufa/(Tigris round corracle, cf kophar, gopher, gufa, tepa, Quba(Ar round leather tent)
    Kirk (Scottish church)
    Gereja (Malay church)
    Church (English)

    Huaca (Qechua): spirit, wind?
    Wakkan Tanka (Lakota): great spirit (breath container?)
    Ceylon ka/Sri Lanka (Singhala):
    Bengalanka?/Bangla/Benglasdesh
    SaMariTan ka? Samaria, Mari
    Tanakh Heb. bible story 'container'
    Kanak/a
    kantong: pocket, socket (embayment/cave?)
    tong sampah: garbage can

    wind/pocket/piston/basket/kantong
    hazzan(Hebrew/Tepewa/N)=Cantor/Ecat/l olin(N)=holy wind, e.g., gaita(B/sp)=Eca-itoa(N)=Heck talks(E)=duddlesack/bagpipe,=h/th/t/lazzan= tlaza(N) (from tletl)

    sky: Malay langit, Samoan lani, white sailors = papalani ~ pahana(Hopi: older white brother)
    wind: angin

    nauatl terms - breath

    our breathtehcauh
    he is out of breath; he pants; it pantsihcica
    his breath, his spirit; its essenceihiyo
    breath; spiritihiyotl
    his breath; his spiritihiyotzin
    your breath; your spiritmihiyo




    http://tletl.blogspot.com/2012/06/omega.html
    comoni: ? common, como(Sp) how, comment(Fr) how, macam mana  (Malay), how;
    how-many; macam ini (like this), omni directional loco-motion (place-move) locus(location) focus(Ital fire, Latin hearth) ~ hocus pocus, co-motion/cosmos, modus

    Pueblo/Public/Pub/Hub/Apa/Populate/Abode?



    Koshinto: "shin-no-mihashira (sacred central pole)." mitsu (3) bashira 
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mihashira_Torii 3 pillar torii
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torii torii = birds nest on stilts, pillar gateway

    daikoku-bashira is the central pillar of a wooden Japanese-style dwelling. The daikoku-bashira supports the entire structure. http://www.onmarkproductions.com/html/daikoku.shtml Daikoku, a Japanese Buddhist deva god/idol derived from the Hindu war god Mahakala earlier from Shiva  http://www.onmarkproductions.com/html/daikoku.shtml

    Yeshiva-Bashira(Jap.central column of Shiva temple)-Bashira(Ar. seer[messenger] of good news)-Misr(Ar. Egypt)-Messiah

     Within the mythology of the Ancient Near East, the Ugaritic de(u/v)ities are said to dwell in encampments .. these "encampments" are referred to as territories or strongholds. Hence, the deities were said to possess their own dwelling and their own territory which they called [msr).  (masra, mastura, masada = tabernacle, t-apa=camp + ngolu structure-r/boundary)

    cf permit/ssion permit [entry 1] msr~mtr
    Origin: late Middle English (originally in the sense "commit, hand over"): from Latin permittere, from per- "through, around" + mittere/mittō ("send" allow/authorize, mission).

    http://www.theegyptianchronicles.com/CULTURE/MISR.html

    taber/tepe/tipi/teya - te/ti is same as interior/endura/indweller, pe/pi/ya = people/pueblo/public/hub

    Food goddess: Oho-ge-tsu-hime. Remember that aha signifies not only "foam" but "millet"

    22:3 Aha-ji signifies "foam-way," i.e., "the way to Foam (Aha)-Island
    Foam/flue/fire/fuel/plume=bloom/blow=pomum(Turk)/grindmill spindrill, aha-apa/hub/husk
    saho-ki, "pole-trees,"... "The most important mode of divination practised by the primitive Japanese was that of scorching the shoulder-blade of a deer over a clear fire, and finding, omens in the cracks produced by the heat."
    Hi appears to signify "fire" or "sun." Kumaso is properly a compound, Kuma-so, as the district is often mentioned by the simple name of So. Kuma signifies "bear,"

    http://tletl.blogspot.com/2012/09/mum.html Turkish candle 

    bast(inner bark of basswood-lime tree used in basketry) bok/birch/bark/cork, vasru-vessel
    sock(sack, pock) + et = socket, pocket, kwok/(Ir)quaich/(ON)kvench=quench, hassock
    kettle(metal pot), vesl
    candle(wax-fats-gras), canasta(sp basket)
    (Atha)baskan, pastel(wax crayons)

    Waketa - Basque friend
    Wakau - Menominee AmerInd friend

    In the Ramayana, it was also known as Lankadweepa, with dweepa meaning "island". From the Ramayana comes the Javanese name Alengko for Ravana's kingdom. Another traditional Sinhala name for Sri Lanka was Lakdiva, with diva also meaning "island".(maldives)  An alternative etymology for the Greek Taprobanê is from the Sanskrit Tambrapani ("great pond" or "pond covered with red lotus"), most likely in association with the great tanks for which Sri Lanka is famed

    The priests of ancient Egypt who maintained shrines along the Nile regarded ritual purity as essential to their ministry. Many of these priests were devotees of Horus and are called "Horites" in the Bible. The Horites were a caste of ruler-priests who maintained high standards of moral behavior.

    Abba Rabbi(H)Imam AbRaHm Ibrahim Brahmin Brahma Rahman
    Horim/horite/horus/hathor
    AbHorim
    -
    For Abraham's Horite ancestors, the Sun and the scarab spoke to them of their deity, HR (Horus in Greek). He was regarded with his father Ra as the marker of boundaries. Horo (oros in Greek) refers to boundaries. From horo come the English words hour, horizon and horoscope. Today "horoscope" connotes astrology, but the word originally meant observer of the hours, from hora (time or hour) and skopos (observer or watcher). The Horite priests observed the heavens day and night.

    In the time of Abraham's Nilotic ancestors, the priests of Horus (called "Horites" in the Bible) were dedicated to observation of the planets and constellations. They believed that the pattern of the heavens was mirrored on earth. They observed that the planets and the constellations have an orderly clock-like movement and they perceived as that being the same order on earth. They conceived of this order as fixed and established by the generative force that makes existence possible (logos, ruach, wisdom). The Horite priests were the known earliest astronomers and it is likely that horo is a reference to their celestial archetypes surrounding Horus, the son of Ra, born to Hathor-Meri. Hathor-Meri's animal totem was a cow. She is shown at the Dendura (Mbuti endura-spatial inside) Temple holding her newborn son in a manger or stable.

    The Horites were devotees of HR (Hor, Hur, Har or Horus) whose mother Hathor-Meri conceived miraculously by the overshadowing of the Sun (the Creator's emblem).
    Ruach eloyim means spirit, breath, wind, movement of God. The association of wind with Horus is seen also in the word harmattan, referring to the dry wind that seasonally blows across the Sahara.

    Ancient towers and temples reflect the cosmology of their builders. The differing geometric shapes of the temples of the Horite Sabians (Afro-Arabian Dedanites) associated the hexagon with Saturn, the triangle with Jupiter, the rectangle with Mars, the square with the Sun, the octagon with the Moon, and a triangle within a quadrangle with Venus.


    Fixed Boundaries in Genetics

    The word horotely is used to describe the boundaries of evolutionary change for a given group of plants or animals.  (Biblical anthropology)

    Statue is fake, from 20th century:
    http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2012/10/nazi-buddha-from-space-might-be-fake.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheArchaeologyNewsNetwork+%28The+Archaeology+News+Network%29

    http://www.times-standard.com/lifestyle/ci_21660409/buddhist-statue-was-made-from-meteorite






    http://news.yahoo.com/ancient-burial-shroud-made-surprising-material-scientists-134020357.html

    silky nettles from Austria used in Danish burial cloth
    http://news.yahoo.com/ancient-souk-burns-fighting-rages-syrias-aleppo-122301221.html
    Syria souk, Hebrew sukha/sukhot, English dovecote, Saami goati/kota
    Was Silk road originally Souk road? Probably.


    http://news.yahoo.com/buddhist-statue-found-nazis-made-meteorite-213623280.html
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    overlap
    BaMbuti mongolu-endura (dome enclosure-space)
    Nauatl ocelotl cat god/cave lion (Hebrew Ari-El vs i(s)RaEl)
    Hebrew (oc)Elo(hi)m
    English cell, cf cellulose, kell, shell, bell.
    enj/ch/sh/g/cel/u/lo-se

    Tuesday, August 28, 2012

    Hurricane Isaac drenched Miami

    http://www.cnbc.com/id/48808328

    There was a tropical storm Isaac in 2006 that followed the gulf stream, but this Isaac went west of Miami into the Gulf and towards New Orleans, on the anniversary of Katrina.

    http://articles.cnn.com/2012-08-27/us/us_tropical-storm-isaac_1_hurricane-strength-hurricane-center-deputy-director-ed-rappaport

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/26/hurricane-isaac-florida-photos-pictures_n_1831782.html#slide=more246806

    Miami was hit by Hurricane Andrew directly several years ago.
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    Physical fitness & home electrical/hydraulic power production (good for short-term emergencies eg. blizzards when the grid is down.
    http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2011/05/bike-powered-electricity-generators.html
    http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2011/05/history-of-pedal-powered-machines.html

    --- The Limits of Pedal Power
    Of course, pedal power can only make a difference if we drastically reduce energy consumption. While athletes can produce a power output of over 2,000 watts on a bicycle, they can only sustain this over a period of a few seconds. The power that can be delivered by the average person over a sustained period of time is much less impressive than that: 75 watts or 1 "hup". This unit of measurement (short for human power) was proposed in 1984, and tells us that an average person can sustain one hup for all day, 2 hups (150 watts) for roughly two hours, 3 hups (225 watts) for about 30 minutes and 4 hups (300 watts) only momentarily.

    Are modern people "energy slaves" (aka petroleum "addicts")? Do we want to remain so?
    http://www.pbs.org/fmc/book/14business8.htm

    http://www.msichicago.org/whats-here/events/black-creativity-family-day-january/

    Monday, August 20, 2012

    cellulo

    from goddess of chess, tletlt, math etc.

    "the number of the goddess is 5/coatl=snaca/snake/nacatl(N)=flesh. they've found
    the 5th arch at chauvet pont d'arc painted cave where she was worshipped as regent of the tonalamatl/tonatiuh(N)=sun, tonalli(N)=soul(tone/tune). her animal is the ocelotl/
    ocelome/(oc)elo(hi)m=elohim, a hebrew god(in plural), also, cell(E/biology). " by Carlos
    http://goddesschess.blogspot.com/2009/05/tletl-and-mathematics-and-number-of.html

    under=enter=endura=duna=tuna
    endura BaMbuti pygmy congo: mongolu hut structure enc(u)loses space called endu/ra just as forest includes openings!

    ---

    I noticed the overlap of BaMbuti mongolu-endura (dome enclosure-space) and Nauatl ocelotl-Hebrew (oc)elo(hi)m cat-god, and related cell, cf cellulose, kell, shell.

    enj/ch/sh/g/cel/u/lo-se

    Thursday, August 9, 2012

    Timber! From wicker domes to wittle pole tipis to wood box homes

    "Intensive woodworking and tree-felling was a phenomenon that only appeared with the onset of the major changes in human life, including the transition to agriculture and permanent villages," says Dr. Barkai, whose research was published in the journal PLoS One. Prior to the Neolithic period, there is no evidence of tools that were powerful enough to cut and carve wood, let alone fell trees. But new archaeological evidence suggests that as the Neolithic age progressed, sophisticated carpentry developed alongside agriculture.

    http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-08/afot-nmt080912.php

    Evolution of axes

    The use of functional tools in relation to woodworking over the course of the Neolithic period has not been studied in detail until now. Through their work at the archaeological site of Motza, a neighbourhood in the Judean Hills, Dr. Barkai and his fellow researchers, Prof. Rick Yerkes of Ohio State University and Dr. Hamudi Khalaily of the Israel Antiquity Authority, have unearthed evidence that increasing sophistication in terms of carpentry tools corresponds with increased agriculture and permanent settlements.
    The early part of the Neolithic age is divided into two distinct eras — Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (PPNA) and Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (PPNB). Agriculture and domesticated plants and animals appear only in PPNB, so the transition between these two periods is a watershed moment in human history. And these changes can be tracked in the woodworking tools which belong to each period, says Dr. Barkai.
    Within PPNA, humans remained gatherers but lived in more permanent settlements for the first time, he says. Axes associated with this period are small and delicate, used for light carpentry but not suited for felling trees or other massive woodworking tasks. In PPNB, the tools have evolved to much larger and heavier axes, formed by a technique called polishing. The researchers' in-depth analysis of these tools shows that they were used to cut down trees and complete various building projects.
    "We can document step by step the transition from the absence of woodworking tools, to delicate woodworking tools, to heavier woodworking tools," Dr. Barkai says, and this follows the "actual transition from the hunter-gatherer lifestyle to agriculture." He also identifies a trial-and-error phase during which humans tried to create an axe strong enough to undertake larger woodworking tasks. Eventually, they succeeded in creating a massive ground stone axe in PPNB
    .
    Home makeover

    Whether the transition to an agricultural society led to the development of major carpentry tools or vice versa remains to be determined, says Dr. Barkai, who characterizes it as a "circular argument." Whatever the answer, the parallel changes led to a revolution in lifestyle.
    Beyond the change from a hunter-gatherer to an agricultural economy, a new form of architecture also emerged. Not only did people begin to live in permanent villages, but the buildings in which they lived literally took a different shape. The round and oval structures of earlier domiciles were replaced by rectangular structures in PPNB, explains Dr. Barkai. "Evidence tells that us that for each home, approximately 10 wooden beams were needed. Prior to this, there were no homes with wooden beams." In addition, humans began to produce limestone-based plaster floors for their homes — which also represented a growing use of wood, since plaster is manufactured by heating limestone.
    These architectural developments, along with building pens and fences for domesticated animals, also necessitated the felling of trees in large quantities.

    Thursday, August 2, 2012

    20,000 year old pot = Wok

    20,000 year old pottery found in China.
     http://www.eutimes.net/2012/



    06/ancient-chinese-pottery-


    confirmed-as-the-oldest-yet-

    found/
    Also see:

    http://dienekes.blogspot.com/



    2012/06/20000-year-old-


    pottery-from-china.html

    Or:

    http://tinyurl.com/888dnmc

    From the above blog, here's some info on the Science article from which
    the EU Times story was taken:

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    Science 29 June 2012:

    Vol. 336 no. 6089 pp. 1696-1700

    DOI: 10.1126/science.1218643

    Early Pottery at 20,000 Years Ago in Xianrendong Cave, China

    Xiaohong Wu et al.

    ABSTRACT

    The invention of pottery introduced fundamental shifts in human
    subsistence practices and sociosymbolic behaviors. Here, we describe the
    dating of the early pottery from Xianrendong Cave, Jiangxi Province,
    China, and the micromorphology of the stratigraphic contexts of the
    pottery sherds and radiocarbon samples. The radiocarbon ages of the
    archaeological contexts of the earliest sherds are 20,000 to 19,000
    calendar years before the present, 2000 to 3000 years older than other
    pottery found in East Asia and elsewhere. The occupations in the cave
    demonstrate that pottery was produced by mobile foragers who hunted and
    gathered during the Late Glacial Maximum. These vessels may have served
    as cooking devices. The early date shows that pottery was first made and
    used 10 millennia or more before the emergence of agriculture.
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    ---------------
    Here's a link to a short NY Times article on the find:

    http://www.nytimes.com/2012/



    07/03/science/oldest-known-


    pottery-found-in-china.html?_

    r=1

     Oldest Wok. See the pix. Shallow thin-wall pre-metal clay bowl, both for fast frying (oily fish?) and slow-simmering soups (soybeans/millet/wild rice?).

    "The ceramics probably consisted of simple concave vessels that were likely used for cooking food" NYT

    Consider this:
    a) oldest pottery found, So. China 20ka, (bowl form), Glacial maximum period
    b) 20ka China coasts are today submerged post-ice age
    c) Wok is ancient Chinese cooking bowl, fry, boil & steam chopped foods
    d) requires sharp flake/blade; wood/horn spoon/ladle; bamboo/ivory chopsticks
    e) oldest writing: Chinese CHARacters on turtle shell (bowl form)
    f) Before black ink was made from scraped char, bone pen scrawled on charred bowl
    g) cher (Rus black) char (Eng burnt), carve/scarify (Eng), carbon, bakar (Malay burn)

    In Mandarin wok is guo (city walls ~ (mon)golu/bungalo/anglo = enclose), dialects: kwok, wok
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guo
    "The Guo family is one of the well known Hui clans around Quanzhou in Fujian, they are examples of these Hui who identify as Muslim by nationality but do not practice Islam.
    Compare Khan/Cohen/Cohn/Guo/Kwok/

    http://www.heosemys.org/names.php names of turtles in many languages
    Malay, Indonesian: kurakura
    Mali Bambara: koorakaara
    Afrikaans, Dutch, Danish: skilpad
    So. Af. Xhosa: i-sikolopati, ufudo
    So. Af. Tswana: khudu
    Sicilian: tartuca
    Japanese: kame
    Chinese: uguei (cf guo/wok)
    Bulgarian: kostenurka
    Hebrew: zav, tsav
    Iraqi dial: ragga, kashf

    Bow, bagel, bend: [C15: probably from Low German boog ; related to Dutch boeg , Danish bov ship's bow, shoulder; see bough ]


    DDeden

    Thursday, July 26, 2012

    Bull

    AmerIndian plains tipis originated from a bull bison pelt with tail retained on back side of tent with attached female pelts sewn to it and smoke flaps in front representing horns, this derived from ancient mammoth-hide tents framed by debarked willow/wicker poles or defleshed long bones, with a bull mammoth pelt overlaid on top of leaf/rush shingles or rolled woven rush mats, with smoke flaps being skull-socketed tusks draped (perhaps pinned, not sewn) with pelts acting as both smoke hole cover and entryway.

    DDeden

    'reconstructions' of mammoth tents
    http://www.sciencephoto.com/media/173025/enlarge
    http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=ukraine+mammoth&view=detail&id=4AFC28B65F2A8190A76AC5E6449F4A46E24D477C&first=72



    tipi types (imagine if constructed of mammoth pelts, bones, tusks)
    http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=ancient+tipi&view=detail&id=5B18C43DE5F3873B9351F8CC8153A60ECE629D38&first=597
    http://tatonkatradingcompany.com/graphics/Teepee_Erecting.gif

    Friday, July 20, 2012

    Neanderthal & Sapiens: scraping & spinning

    [Some news articles relating to paleo-particle-linguistics speculations of  Carlos @ http://tletl.blogspot.com/ especially in regard to fire starting, bone flutes, etc.]
    Authors suggest habitual animal skin hide scraping as cause for pronounced right forelimb dominance of neanderthals. I would add plant processing (bark/root scraping) for food/medicine/pitch and fire starting by dynamic-right-hand scraping while left-hand held static item securely). A group from Africa (without fire-starting technology, cf Mbuti Congo pygmies) entered Levant/Spain and learned and modified neanderthal fire starting by using both hands to spin the firestick while holding it vertical in a mouthpiece (flue/flame/flute/Lakota peace pipe).

    Update: See article & photos of 44ka Border Cave & San Kalahari bushmen drilling ostrich egg & marine shells to make pendants/beads, this resembles palm-palm spinning (spindle/kindling) of fire drill (possibly also done by neanderthals), while the threading uses the thumb-finger precision grip (which Carlos reports that Neanderthals lacked, thus no thread nor bow/arrow, just atlatl sling). http://news.yahoo.com/photos/compilation-5-photos-supplied-university-witwatersrand-shows-ostrich-photo-182648015.html http://news.yahoo.com/researchers-modern-culture-may-earlier-start-171918659.html Congo Mbuti pygmies do use poison arrows but don't make these beads or use fire drill/spindles. Most likely San copied linear fire starting/scraping from Neandertals and modified it into fire drilling/spinning which was then broadcast to all Hs except Rainforest pygmoidal people. Note that in Borneo, rainforest natives developed the fire piston, an air pump compression fire starter.

    Neanderthal women wore a draping fur pelt (robe/wrap/toga/shawl) over the left shoulder with the corner tucked underarm while carrying an infant in left arm near breast wrapped warmly in fur, with some moss underneath. Neanderthal men draped the (reindeer/bear/buffalo) fur similarly but carried a water bag or tool in left hand while the right hand held a spear-walking stick. Both wore a belt/drawstring/rope to hold the pelt tight or loose (leaving a 'pocket' space above the belt).

    Sapien men and women leaving hot tropical Africa for Spain and the Levant copied this, but modified it by including a woven linen/hemp undergarment (enlarged loincloth/stringskirt) and inserting bone pin/clasp/broach "sewn" through pelt sides allowing both hands to be free when desired, for eg. bimanual spinning of firestick or thread.

     {my interpretation: DDeden}

    Some articles:

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    Neandertal Humeri May Reflect Adaptation to Scraping Tasks, but Not  Spear Thrusting
    Colin N Shaw, Cory L Hofmann, Michael D Petraglia, Jay T  Stock, Jinger S Gottschall
    PLoS ONE 7(7): e40349 doi  10.1371/journal.pone.0040349
    Unique compared with recent &  prehistoric Hs, Hn humeri are characterised by
    - a pronounced  right-dominant bilateral strength asymmetry &
    - an A-P strengthened  diaphyseal shape.

    A) Remodeling in response to asymmetric forces imposed  during regular
    underhanded spear thrusting is the most influential  explanatory hypothesis.
    The core tenet of the "Spear Thrusting Hypothesis"  (underhand thrusting
    requires greater muscle activity on the right side of  the body compared to
    the left) remains untested.
    B) Might alternative  subsistence behaviours (eg, hide processing) better
    explain this  morphology?
    EMG was used to measure muscle activity at the primary movers  of the
    humerus (pectoralis major PM, anterior AD & posterior deltoid PD)  during
    A) 3 distinct spear-thrusting tasks &
    B) 4 separate scraping  tasks.

    A) Maximum muscle activity MAX & total muscle activity TOT  were
    significantly higher at the left (non-dominant) AD, PD & PM compared  to
    the right side of the body during spear thrusting tasks. Thus, the  muscle activity required during underhanded spearing tasks does not lend  itself to explaining the pronounced right dominant strength
    asymmetry found  in Hn humeri.
    B) During the performance of all 3 uni-manual scraping  tasks, right side
    MAX & TOT were significantly greater at the AD & PM  compared to the left.
    The consistency of the results provides evidence that  scraping activities
    (eg, hide preparation) may be a key behaviour in  determining the unusual
    pattern of Hn arm morphology.
    These results  yield important insight into the Hn behavioural repertoire
    that aided  survival throughout Pleistocene Eurasia.
    =============

    Neanderthal medics? Evidence for food, cooking, and medicinal  plants
    entrapped in dental calculus
    Karen Hardy, Stephen Buckley, Matthew  J Collins, Almudena Estalrrich, Don
    Brothwell, Les Copeland, Antonio  Garc¨ªa-Tabernero, Samuel Garc¨ªa-Vargas,
    Marco de la Rasilla, Carles  Lalueza-Fox cs 2012 doi
    10.1007/s00114-012-0942-0
    Neanderthals  disappeared sometime between 30,000 and 24,000 years ago.
    Until recently,  Neanderthals were understood to have been  predominantly
    meat-eaters; however, a growing body of evidence suggests  their diet also included
    plants. We present the results of a study, in  which sequential thermal
    desorption-gas chromatography-mass spectrometry  (TD-GC-MS) and
    pyrolysis-gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (Py-GC-MS) were  combined
    with morphological analysis of plant microfossils, to identify  material
    entrapped in dental calculus from five Neanderthal individuals from  the
    north Spanish site of El Sidr¨®n.
    Our results provide the first  molecular evidence for inhalation of
    wood-fire smoke and bitumen or oil shale  and ingestion of a range of
    cooked plant foods. We also offer the first  evidence for the use of medicinal plants by a
    Neanderthal individual. The  varied use of plants that we have identified suggests that the
    Neanderthal  occupants of El Sidr¨®n had a sophisticated knowledge of their
    natural  surroundings which included the ability to select and use  certain plants.
    _______
    Neanderthals ate their  greens
    Tooth analysis shows that european hominins roasted vegetables and  may
    have used medicinal plants.
    Matt Kaplan 18.7.12
    Hn have long been  viewed as meat-eaters.
    The vision of them as inflexible carnivores has even  been used to suggest
    that they went extinct c 25 ka as a result of food  scarcity, whereas
    omnivorous humans were able to survive.
    But evidence is  mounting that plants were important to Hn diets ¡ª and now
    a study reveals  that those plants were roasted, and may have been used
    medicinally. The  finding comes from the El Sidr¨®n Cave in N-Spain, where the c 50-ka
    skeletal  remains of at least 13 Hn have been discovered.
    Many of these individuals had  calcified layers of plaque on their teeth.
    Karen Hardy wondered whether it  might be possible to use this plaque to
    take a closer look at the Hn  menu.
    Using plaque to work out the diets of ancient animals is not entirely  new,
    but Hardy has gone further by looking for organic compounds in the  plaque.
    They used gas chromatography & mass spectrometry to analyse the  plaque
    collected from 10 teeth belonging to 5 Hn individuals from the  cave.
    The plaque contained a range of carbohydrates & starch granules:  the Hn
    had consumed a variety of plant spp, but there were few lipids or  proteins
    from meat.
    Hardy cs also found, lurking in the plaque of a few  specimens, a range of
    alkyl-phenols, aromatic hydro-carbons & roasted  starch granules: they had
    spent time in smoky areas and eaten cooked  vegetables.
    /www.nature.com/news/neanderthals-ate-their-greens-1.11030#b1
    Richard  Wrangham:
    "The idea that Hn were largely meat-eaters has been hard for me to  accept
    given their membership in a mainly vegetarian clade.
    It is exciting  to see this new set of techniques applied to understanding
    their  palaeo-diet."
    Among the compounds that Hardy found were chemicals from plants  such as
    yarrow & camomile, which taste bitter and have no nutritional  value.
    Genetic analysis has shown that Hn had the ability to detect  bitter
    tastes, raising questions about why they would intentionally eat  such
    plants.
    Michael Chazan suggests that the bitter-tasting plants were  used in
    fire-making, and could have entered the diet as a by-product of  cooking.
    Wrangham, by contrast, proposes that yarrow & camomile were used  as
    seasoning.
    Hardy disagrees with Wrangham:
    "The idea of Hn sitting  down for a bowl of salad stretches my imagination,
    and there is no evidence  of them having cooking pots, so soups seem
    unlikely."
    Hardy theorizes that  the Hn may have used the bitter plants as medicines ¡ª
    modern herbalists use  them as anti-inflamatories & antiseptics:
    "All modern higher primates  make use of medicinal plants, so perhaps
    Neanderthals did too.
    Lawrence  Straus:
    "As exceptional places like El Sidr¨®n reveal just how wise &  flexible Hn
    were, more & more we are having to ask ourselves, why did  they go
    extinct?"
    _______

    Neanderthals in Northern  Spain Had Knowledge of Plants' Healing Qualities,
    Study  Reveals
    17.7.12
    An international team has provided the first molecular  evidence that Hn
    not only ate a range of cooked plant foods, but also  understood its
    nutritional & medicinal qualities.
    Until  recently Hn (disappeared 30-24 ka) were thought to be  predominantly
    meat-eaters.
    However, evidence of dietary breadth is growing  as more sophisticated
    analyses are undertaken.
    Researchers combined  pyrolysis gas-chromatography-mass spectrometry with
    morphological analysis of  plant micro-fossils to identify material trapped
    in dental calculus  (calcified plaque) from 5 Hn from El Sidr¨®n.
    Their results provide another  twist to the story: the first molecular
    evidence for medicinal plants being  used by a Hn individual.
    The researchers say the starch granules &  carbohydrate markers in the
    samples, plus evidence for plant compounds such  as azulenes & coumarins,
    as well as possible evidence for nuts, grasses & even green vegetables,
    argue for a broader use of ingested plants than  is often suggested by
    stable isotope analysis.
    Karen Hardy  (Naturwissenschaften):
    "The varied use of plants we identified suggests that  the Hn occupants of
    El Sidr¨®n had a sophisticated knowledge of their natural  surroundings,
    which included the ability to select & use certain plants  for their
    nutritional value & for self-medication.
    While meat was  clearly important, our research points to an even more
    complex diet than has  previously been supposed."
    Earlier research by this team had shown that the  Hn in El Sidr¨®n had the
    bitter taste perception gene.
    Now trapped within  dental calculus, researchers found molecular evidence
    that one individual had  eaten bitter tasting plants.
    Stephen Buckley:
    "The evidence indicating  this individual was eating bitter-tasting plants
    such as yarrow &  camomile with little nutritional value is surprising.
    We know that Hn would  find these plants bitter, so it is likely these
    plants must have been  selected for reasons other than taste."
    10 samples of dental calculus  from 5 Hn were selected.
    The researchers used thermal desorption &  pyrolysis
    gas-chromatography-mass spectrometry to identify both free/unbound &
    bound/polymeric organic components in the dental calculus.
    By using  this method + the extraction & analysis of plant micro-fossils,
    they  found chemical evidence consistent with
    - wood-fire smoke,
    - a range of  cooked starchy foods,
    - 2 plants known today for their medicinal qualities &
    - bitumen or oil shale trapped in the dental calculus.
    Matthew  Collins:
    "Using mass spectrometry, we were able to identify the building  blocks of
    carbohydrates in the calculus of 2 adults, one individual in  particular
    having apparently eaten several different carbohydrate-rich  foods.
    Combined with the microscopic analysis, it also demonstrates how  dental
    calculus can provide a rich source of information."
    The researchers  say evidence for cooked carbohydrates is confirmed by both
    the  cracked/roasted starch granules observed microscopically, and the
    molecular  evidence for cooking & exposure to wood smoke or smoked food in
    the form  of a range of chemical markers including methyl-esters, phenols &
    polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons found in dental calculus.
    Les  Copeland:
    "Our research confirms the varied & selective use of plants by  Hn."
    The study also provides evidence that the starch granules reported from  El
    Sidr¨®n represent the oldest granules ever to be confirmed using  a
    biochemical test,
    ancient bacteria found embedded in the calculus offers  the potential for
    future studies in oral health.
    The archaeological  cave site of El Sidr¨®n (Asturias) contains the best
    collection of Hn remains  found in Iberia - one of the most important
    active sites in the  world. Discovered in 1994, it contains c 2000 skeletal remains of at least  13
    individuals c 47.3 - 50.6 ka.
    Antonio Rosas:
    "El Sidr¨®n has allowed  us to banish many of the preconceptions we had of Hn.
    Thanks to previous  studies, we know that they looked after the sick,
    buried their dead, and  decorated their bodies.
    Now another dimension has been added relating to  their diet &
    self-medication."
    ...

    Tuesday, June 19, 2012

    Kohau/Kahuna/Kachina/Khan/Kohen: scribe/scriptures

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rongorongo Easter Island script: "kohau rogorogo" = kohan logos (enscribed words) was a mnemonic device of chants/dance, just as all written scripts were initially, a visual memory aid to remember physical gestures/items in a rhythmic manner (shanty/cantos/chant/chart-carta-dart=dhara (Skrt blade, blood)), the same symbols (plus additional local ones) are found in Indus Valley (Brami) script of Harappa. [Rapa nui ~ Harapa]
    resembled Indus valley script & Crete linear A because they commonly used star calendars/charts.
    http://indusbramiscript.com/indus_minoan_culture
    "This is the fundamental Principle for the making of star calendar in the name of star Goddess at the point of Vernal Equinox. The unique star calendar Seal Text in the collection of 600 deciphered Seal Text is the Makiram Star Calendar (Seal depicts two unicorns come out of a pipal tree — Asko Parpola) or mother (Goddess Seal -(www.indusbramiscript.com of the author) . [Note the 7 leaf tree = menora = Mina+Ra]

    The mother Goddess in Cretan Civilization was called as ‘Maka’, the Goddess of snakes and animals.8 The Cretan Mother-Goddess is the same Mother Goddess of indus people. The statue of Cretan mother goddess bears her name ‘Maka’ written in indus brami alphabets on the abdomen part (the form of a complex mixed sign9’. This is a wonderful evidence for the Indus — Minoan culture in Crete founded by Pelesgians (l’ulaha-Pulastyas in lndus Valley)."

    Though at first taken for a Rosetta Stone of rongorongo, it has not led to an understanding of the script. It has been criticized for, among other inadequacies, glossing five glyphs as "porcelain", a material not found on Easter Island. However, this is a mistranslation: Jaussen glossed the five glyphs as porcelaine, French for both "cowrie" and the cowrie-like Chinese ceramic which is called porcelain in English. Jaussen's Rapanui gloss, pure, means specifically "cowrie".[note 5]  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decipherment_of_rongorongo

    Cowrie shells were used widely in group ceremonies and religious rites around the old world, the etymology of cowrie may relate to kohen/coptian/keftiu? Cowries were traded very widely around the world. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowry http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cowrie

    Early writing was done on many surfaces, but only rarely on hard stone tablets, mostly on banana & palm leaves etc.
    Philippines Pala'wan script: http://www.geographical.co.uk/magazine/vanishing_script_-_apr_09.html  
    Tibet scripts on paper and banana leaf, about hand gestures: http://www.maitreyaproject.org/en/relic/gallery-tsogyel.html
    The ceramic Lapita culture of Vanatua had many inscribed figures resembling sea turtles but perhaps representative of human dancing: http://www.australianarchaeologicalassociation.com.au/node/157 note the Author is Jennifer Khan

    http://www.damninteresting.com/the-other-mystery-of-easter-island/ script

    Japan doll: daruma/dharma, spirit, drama
    Zuni doll: kachina, spirit, dance. Kachina must have been named for the "lost" Japanese {Cohen/Koshinto/Guozen/Kahin/Kahuna} male pilgrims that started the Zuni tribe with local Penutian women. The oldest Kachina dolls resemble the painted daruma dolls.

    Tana script of Maldives: "anu?" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C4%81na

    "Thank you", translated:
    Dhivehi (Maldives)
    (shukuriyyaa) ޝުކުރިއްޔާ






    Arabic
    (Egyptian)
    (shukrān) ﺷﻜﺮﺍﹰ
    (mut shakkrān) متشكّرين
    (shukrān gazēlan) ﺷﻜﺮﺍﹰ جزيلاً
    ('afwan)

    Japaneseどうも (dōmo)
    ありがとう (arigatō)
    ありがとうございます (arigatō gozaimasu)
    どうもありがとう (dōmo arigatō)
    どうもありがとうございます (dōmo arigatō gozaimasu)
    どう致しまして
    どういたしまして
    (dō itashimashite

    NahuatlTlazohcamati
    Punjabiਧਨਵਾਦ / مہربانی (tànvād)
    ਸ਼ੁਕਰੀਆ / شکریہ (shukrīā)
    ਤੁਹਾਡਾ ਸੁਆਗਤ ਹੈ। / تہاڈا سواگت ہے۔ جی آیاں نوں (tuhāɖā suāgat he)
    ਕੋਈ ਨਹੀਂ। / کوئی نہیں (kōī nahī̃)

    RapanuiMaururu
    Sinhalaඉස්තුති (istuti)
    බොහොම ස්තුතියි (bohoma stutiyi)
    එකත කමක් න
    YapeseKammagar
    Yiddish(A dank) אַ דאַנק(A sheynem dank) אַ שיינען דאַנק
    YorùbáỌ se / E se


    Saturday, June 2, 2012

    Belts II

    An addition to this April Post on functions of belts & bands among early humans:


    http://the-arc-ddeden.blogspot.com/2012/04/archaic-belts-functions.html

    Belts & bands have played an enormous role in human technology prehistory.

    Quipu of Incas of Peru were knotted strings hanging from a belt, for counting & codes, an alternative to written language. Quipu derived from female's 90 degree hanging string-fringe skirts, as seen on Denmark woman mummy (E. Barber) and here:

    http://www.smith.edu/hsc/museum/ancient_inventions/stringskirt2.html
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quipu



    
    Quipu
    
    string skirt
    


    Wampum were a form of message belt, corded warf threads with colored shells and weft. Wampum derived from 180 degree end-fringed male's loincloth, as seen in Urumchi mummies at Tarim Basin in China's west desert.
    http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/rbm/kislak/print/belt.html
    wampum belt


    Tropical forest people usually used inner bark of tree, tapa cloth, pounded with a club or stone, wetted to lubricate.

    Flax, linen, hemp etc. were first woven as grasses, later retted and splined/twined into threads and woven into cords/ropes/bands/etc.

    Animal skins were pelted (pelleted/beaten) or chewed to soften to physically and chemically loosen the fibers.
    Later, goat hair kemp & sheep wool were felted by wetting and pounding, the word 'walk' originated from foot-stamping felt.

    Biblical Josephs' many colored coat was of bands of cloth (Afghan wool) woven by nomadic women who spun thread/yarn while walking with the flocks, then the bands were sewn together at camp into blankets, clothing etc. Persian banded shirts of silk were sewn the same way.

    http://tletl.blogspot.com/2012/05/figmorarhoa.html

    Tuesday, May 29, 2012

    Forest

    Forest: latin, outside of house (forum, foris)
    Arbor: french, tree
    Silva: latin, forest (cf agri - field acre, arbori - tree), herb/arb
    Endura: mbuti, interior of forest (endu = interior of dome hut)

    So the term for 'the woods' is dependent upon authors' perspective & reference point, "inside/outside" of what? In Rome and London, the forest/woods was outside the city walls/fences and were managed by the kings' forest rangers/guards, while the wooded parklands were inside the city walls/fences and were managed by arborists/gardeners.

    Forest related words From Carlos Lascaux

    ...paa(Th)=woods/forest,=pa(middle chinese)=meadow. also, Bantu(Gens)= B/pan-tu(letra/reversal)=topan(N)=over us(their God, the forest)= paa(thai). the chinese=pa=pan(N)=place, apan(N)=river(water/atl/apan).

    Cuauhnauac(N)=woods4/trees4, and, the city/ciuia(N/verb)=stimulate(E) is surrounded by forest.
    starling:  this bird and its wider species follow the plow, has known man and learned from him since agriculture/forest clearings

    sea age 2ka a continuation of the nomad deer age. even the word, mast(E)=masta(W.Germ)=
    mastr(ONorse/MLG)=mazdos(WIE/West.Indo-Euro), then connects to, mast(E)=fruit of
    forest trees,=mast(OHG)=mazdos(WIE)=meat(E)=maz(OHG)=mazatl(N/7 Tona)=deer.
    with boat mast=mastro(Portugues)=mastil(sp).
    mazatl(N/7) has close relationship to maze(E), to mastr(ONorse)=ma(s)t/l/r
    (letra)=matlatl(N)=net, ah, the mast where the netting hangs, and, the word,
    noma/nomatka/nomatzinco(N)=nomad(Fr/Lat/Gk)=no matlatl(N)=no/my net/matlatl=
    ma(N)=hunt land/sea with net,=atlatl(N)=throwing stick,=at/l/r-at/l/r=arrow=
    dart(E)=d/t/tl-ar/l/tl(letra)=a-tl-atl(N), with the d being the d/t/l-atl/art.
    dart(E)=tart(OHG)=t/l-ar/l/t/l(letra). fool with r/l/t/l, and, t/l/r/l/t/l
    before you tell me Letra doesn't work, por favor. Tlaloc/Rarog, too.

    RDeer. the Mazatlan practice shamanism= chamaua(N)=eulogize/xamani(N)=destroy. their ancestors enter trees= treow(OE)=Teotl(N)upon dying and from there guide the living. deer milk made into cheese tastes like sharp Parmesan. 2004 Mazat/ Dukha herdsman had 97 head, tourism arrived, thousands of $ to see a red deer, but none of that money got to the Dukha/Toca(N). [tocharian?]
    Okhotsk=Ocotl Tochin(N)= Pine(forest)Conejo/Cony=Bobcat
    ...onicma(N)=i knew it, i found it out; i learned it,=aenigma(Lat), -mat-=mati(N)=know,=ainigma(Gk)=enigma(E)=riddle in verse=uta(Japonica)= otli(N)=route/order/vein=in uentli(N)=the offering,=odol(Basque)=(b)lood (E)=idol(E)=Odin/Wodin/Wo(r)ding.

    tzocatl(N)=socket(E)/wrinkle=w(r)i(n)k(letra)= wick(e)=uic(N)=back and forth/row,=uictli(N)=shovel,=ahuictli(N)=oar, uica(N/verb)=vicar/govern/Viking(Norse)=uiquillia(N/rev)=quiller(Teuton). ...lolo(M)=papalotl(N)=butterfly,=m-lulu(Bantu=Topan/N/reversal/= over us, ah, the Forest itself is their Deity.

    http://tlatlatzolteotl.blogspot.com/
    http://tletl.blogspot.com/search?q=forest

    Dukha/Dukkha ...Tsaatan, short for Ma-zatlan(N)=DeerLand, southernmost reindeer/Mazatl (N/7 Tonalamatl)culture, Mongolian taiga, between Siberian Boreal forest to the North and the Steppes of inner-Asia to the South. smallest ethnic minority in Mongolia

     the Mazatlan practice shamanism= chamaua(N)=eulogize/xamani(N)=destroy. their ancestors enter trees= treow(OE)=Teotl(N)upon dying and from there guide the living. [tocharian - toca?]

    dukkha is the unsatisfactoriousness of life due to its clamor notorious, being to-/our being/-ca, not catching up to our imaginations running away with our potential=potli(N)=companion/brother(E), also poa(N)=power/flower/plower(E), which is paired with sukha= tzocatl(N)=socket/wrinkle/fill with tzo/mud(E), supposedly the asukha/azucar(sp)=sugar of life, if one can consider, as Xanthippe had to, Tzocrates, as sweet. the Wiki-etymology of these words is the late Buddhist Etym., atomized into unrecognizable mini-particles. but let's give it a try, as their roots hit paydirt when they mention the ancient Aryans=Airyani=Ailia yani(N)=allied pilgrims of the plain/ llano(sp) with their horse/cattle/oxen-drawn carts/tereg(Mongol)= the Castle/rook in chess(from Arabs), saying that -kha=sky, well the sky is a being, but kha/ca(N)all by itself=being, and is the soul of the Pharoah when he unwraps himself from his tomb for nightwalks when his stars are right. ...sukha=good axle=axictli(N)=waterspout that runs

    Okhotsk=Ocotl Tochin(N)= Pine(forest)Conejo/Cony=Bobcat

    Hodsock=tzocatl(N)=wrinkle/socket(E). ...Matlock=Matlatl tloc(N)=beside the hand/net.

    ...Que(r)cus=Quech/c-ua(Inca)=Oquichtli(N)=O(r)chid. Onions goes all around the forest on this one, avoiding the O, but putting in every other combination of vowel making O, e.g., ac/aec(OE)=eiche(Ger)/ eik(ON)=aiks(CGerm), on the linguistic merry-go-round, even mistaking the name Acton for Oak related, but, Algodon(sp)=Cotton=A(l)c(o)ton, the cotton armor padding in fashion before metals, the cheap version after. in fact all names thought to be Oak, save Oakley and Noke, which could be, Noquia/Noquilia(N)=verter/spill//purge, have other antecedents, e.g., Agden, cf., Acton.

    ...lolo(M)=papalotl(N)=butterfly,=m-lulu(Bantu=Topan/N/reversal/= over us, ah, the Forest itself is their Deity.

    (S)wa/waa/ua(N)h/th/tilinqui(N) ...or, Swahili=owns tongue/tili-nqui(N)=lingua(Lat)=lengua(sp). ...dunia(S)=world=d/Tonia(letra)=Tonatiuh(N)=Anthony, the Sun,= dunya(Arab)=dune(E)=tune(E)=tone(E)=Tonatiuh(N). dunes are solar. ...ulimwengu(S)=Ollin uentli co(N)=comes the (r)olling offering, i.e., the Sun, Tona, the Naui Ollin of the 5th Age. ...udongo(S)=soil=tzotl(N)=sod/sot/mud/soot,=od/oto(n)c/go(letra)= otocac/toca(N)=sow/sembrar y enterrar/bury. ...matope(S)=mud=m/zud(Mongol)=z/sod/soil(E)=s/z/tzotl(N),=ma/hand idol/toptli(N)=attob(Arab)=tob/tub(Egyptian)=adobe(Amerind)= the mud/tzotl for adobe/al-tob(Arab)=the brick=piccatl(N)=vulva (lipped being=renga/Japonica/=r/tentli ca(N)=tenca(N)=t/renga(J)=brick. ...kilima(S)=mountain/hill,=Colima(Mex/state)=Coliman(N)=maritime province on the Pacific vertiente, Mexico,=colli/culli(N)=abuelo/ abuela,=nocolhuan(N)=my ancestors,=ima(N)=his/their hands/ma(N). ancestors had a close relation with Tepetl=Te(m)ple, idented with mountains, e.g., Colima(N)=hands of(the)Grandfather. ...ziwa(S)=lake=tlaca(N)=body,=ciuatl(N)=woman,=Tzintli ua(N)= the Hon./saintly owner(E)=tzo atl(N)=blood water/atl(N). ...ghuba(S)=bay,=gubb/gubba/gubbat(Arab)=gh/g/cov/b(letra)=cove(E). ...mwitu(S)=wood/forest,=witu(OHG)=wood(E)=quauitl(N)=tree=treow(OE)= teotl(N),=kaede(Japonica)=maple,=keadar(Basque)=cedar(E)=(Al)qaeda (Arab)=vithr(ONorse)=withe/with/wide(E).

    topan(N)=over us,=Pan-to(N/reversal)= P/Bantu(Afrikan tribe whose deity=the forest above them).

    tree/ki(J) ...tricky=ticitl(N)=doctor/midwife,=tiger(E/birthing animal of the cave Venus,
    the ocelotl/ocelome(N/plural);

    wood=witu(OHG)=qua-uitl(N)=tree=t(r)eow(OE)=teotl(N)=teo theo deo, ke/keadar(Basque)=smoke/column of smoke,=cedar(E/tree)=kaede(J)=mapletree, =ka/qua-(u)itl/t/de(letra=J/N)=al qaeda(arab)=campfire/HQ,=tlalli quauitl(N)= earth/landtree. ki(J)=chi(N), trees are on top of, over, as the Bantu/Topan(N)= over us, noticed, their deity being the forest itself from which they received
    everything.  it turns out Neander/Neandra swam the strait of Gibralter near Ceuta=


    ceuia(N)=nitla-ceuia(N)=ceui(N)=become cold, apagar el fuego,=Ceutlan(N)=place of
    rest and frío, to get to europe, because the Bantu have a cave horizon, pygmy
    dwarfs=d/t/z(w)a(r)p/f(letra)=zapa/zapatl(N)=dwarf(E)=zapatero(sp)=shoemaker/
    schumacher=s/sh/xotl maca(N)=footmaker,=zapa/zhapa/hapa/japa(N)=Japan, and dwarfs
    have an advantage in cave environs [BUT pygmies don't enter caves in Congo?] , pueden esconderse en lugares muy pequeños.
    al principio, pensé, ki(J), de q(ua)uitl(N)/kitl, pero, si, ke(Basque)=smoke,

    y quemar(sp)=burn=brinnan(OHG)=b/pinaua/opinauah(N)=hacerse rojizo(con verguenza),

    pos, idioma viene del cuerpo mismo, entonces tiene, ki(J)=kaede(J) nexo con,

    quauitl(N), e.g., kae/ki(J).

    "the word string in Nauatl: Toptli/toptia=opt/obey, Tobey/Tobit/Topile/ topilli(N)=truncheon, made of topol(R)=poplarwood, the pruned tree. that Toptia/obey(E)later becomes brick in Egyptian/Arab is telling, as bricks/adobe obey where they are laid, edge to edge" [cf Tarim Basin China, Tocharians/tukhara/twgry/yuezhi/tokharoi toca/dukha? buried kin in poplar trunks or coffin boats of poplar]

    Fire: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fire

    Etymology: From Middle English fier, from Old English fȳr (“fire”), from West Germanic *fuïr, a regularised form of Proto-Germanic *fōr (“fire”) (compare West Frisian fjoer, Dutch vuur, Low German Für, German Feuer, Danish fyr), from Proto-Indo-European *péh₂ur (compare Hittite 𒉺𒀪𒄯 (paḫḫur), Umbrian pir, Tocharian A/B por/puwar, Czech pȳř (“hot ashes”), Ancient Greek πῦρ (pŷr, “fire”), Armenian հուր (hur, “fire”)). This was an inanimate noun whose animate counterpart was Proto-Indo-European *Hn̥gʷnis.


    PIE pehur/pahur (pyre)
    Mbuti apa
    Malay api
    Polynesian ahi
    Ainu ape
    Apalai Brazil apoto
    Hebrew nura
    Avestan atar
    Turk dial. ot, ates
    Latin dial. focu
    Atlas berber afa



    words around world for fire/ignite/oxidize:



    Aché: tata

    Afrikaans: vuur (af)

    Ainu: アペ (ape)

    Akkadian: 𒉈 (išātu) f.

    Albanian: zjarr (sq) m.

    Ama: ta

    Amanayé: tata

    Amharic: እሳት (am) (əsat) m.

    Amundava: tata

    Angaataha: sisɨha

    Apalaí: apoto

    Apiaká: tata

    Arabic: نَارٌ (ar) (nār) f.

    Egyptian Arabic: نار (nar) f.

    Aragonese: fuego (an)

    Aramaic: ܢܘܪܐ

    Hebrew: נורא (nūrā’) f.

    Syriac: ܢܘܪܐ (nūrā’) f.

    Armenian: կրակ (hy) (krak), հուր (hy) (hur)

    Aromanian: foc

    Avestan: ātar

    Aymara: nina (ay)

    Azeri: od (az), atəş (az)

    Baluchi: آس (ás), آچ (ác)

    Bashkir: ут (ut)

    Basque: su (eu)

    Baure: yaki

    Belarusian: агонь (be) (ahónʹ) m.

    Bengali: আগুন (bn) (agun), অগ্নি (bn) (ôgni)

    Borôro: joru

    Breton: tan (br) m.

    Bulgarian: огън (bg) (ógǎn) m.

    Burmese: တေဇော (my) (tei zo)

    Catalan: foc (ca) m.

    Cebuano: kalayo

    Central Atlas Tamazight: ⴰⴼⴰ (afa) m., ⵜⵉⵎⵙⵙⵉ (timssi) f.

    Chamicuro: kajchi

    Chamorro: guafi (ch)

    Chinese:

    Cantonese: 火 (fo2)

    Dungan: хуә

    Mandarin: 火 (zh) (huǒ)

    Min Dong: 火 (huōi)

    Min Nan: 火 (hóe, hé)

    Wu: 火 (hǔ)

    Chuvash: вут (vut)

    Coptic:

    Bohairic: ⲭⲣⲱⲙ (ʔxrōm) m., ⲥⲁϯ (sati) f.

    Sahidic: ⲕⲣⲱⲙ (ʔkrōm) m., ⲥⲁⲧⲉ (sate) f.

    Cornish: tan (kw) m.

    Corsican: focu (co)

    Cree: ᐃᔥᑯᑌᐤ (cr) (ishkuteu)

    Crimean Tatar: ot

    Czech: oheň (cs) m.

    Danish: ild (da) c.

    Dolgan: уот (uot)

    Dutch: vuur (nl) n.

    Egyptian: 𓏴𓏏𓊮 (sdjt) f.

    Esperanto: fajro (eo)

    Estonian: tuli (et)

    Evenki: того (togo)

    Faroese: eldur (fo) m.

    Finnish: tuli (fi)

    French: feu (fr) m.

    Old French: fu m., feu m.

    Friulian: fûc

    Gagauz: ateş

    Galician: lume (gl) m.

    Georgian: ცეცხლი (ka) (c'ec'xli), ალი (ka) (ali)

    German: Feuer (de) n.

    Greek:

    Ancient: πῦρ (pyr) n.

    Modern: φωτιά (el) (fotiá) f.

    Hawaiian: ahi

    Hebrew: אֵשׁ (he) (eš) f.

    Hindi: आग (hi) (āg) f., अग्नि (hi) (agní), आतिश (hi) (ātiś)

    Hittite: 𒉺𒀪𒄯 (paḫḫur) n.

    Hungarian: tűz (hu)

    Icelandic: eldur (is) m., bál (is) n.

    Ido: fairo (io)

    Igbo: ọku

    Indonesian: api (id)

    Irish: tine (ga) m.

    Old Irish: teine m.

    Italian: fuoco (it) m.

    Japanese: 火 (ja) (ひ, hi), 燃焼 (ja) (ねんしょう, nenshō)

    Javanese: geni (jv)

    Kannada: ಬೆಂಕಿ (kn) (benki), ಅಗ್ನಿ (kn) (agni), ಕಿಚ್ಚು (kn) (kiccu)

    Karachay-Balkar: от (ot)

    Karakalpak: ot

    Kazakh: от (kk) (ot)

    Khakas: от (ot)

    Khmer: ភ្លើង (km) (pləəng)

    Korean: 불 (ko) (bul)

    Kumyk: от (ot)

    Kurdish:

    Kurmanji: agir (ku) m., nar (ku) f.

    Sorani: ئاگر (ku) (Agir)

    Kyrgyz: от (ky) (ot)

    Lao: ໄຟ (lo) (fai)

    Latgalian: guņs f.

    Latin: ignis (la) m., focus (la) m., flamma (la) f.

    Latvian: uguns (lv) f.

    Lithuanian: ugnis (lt)

    Lombard: fööch

    Low German: Füer (nds)

    Luxembourgish: Feier (lb)

    Macedonian: оган (mk) (ógan) m.

    Malay: api (ms), pawaka (ms) (in archaic literature, obsolete)

    Malayalam: തീ (ml) (thee), അഗ്നി (ml) (agni)

    Maltese: nar (mt) f.

    Maléku Jaíka: kúe

    Manx: çhenney m.

    Maori: ahi (mi)

    Mapudungun: kütral, kvxal

    Marathi: अग्नि (mr) (agni)

    Middle Persian: ādur

    Miskito: pata

    Mongolian: гал (mn)

    Nanticoke: tunt

    Navajo: kǫʼ

    Neapolitan: ffuoco

    Nepali: आगो (ne) (Āgō)

    Ngarrindjeri: keni

    Nogai: от (ot)

    Norwegian: ild (no) m.

    Nynorsk: eld (no)

    Novial: faire

    Occitan: fuòc (oc)

    Ojibwe: zaka'igewin, ishkode

    Old Church Slavonic: огнь (ognĭ) m.

    Old English: fyr (ang)

    Old Norse: eldr m.

    Old Provençal: fuoc

    Old Prussian: pannu

    Oriya: ଅଗ୍ନି (or) (agni)

    Ossetian: арт (art)

    Ottoman Turkish: آتش (âteş), نار (nâr), آذر (âzer)

    Paumarí: siho

    Pennsylvania German: feier

    Persian: آتش (fa) (âtaš), آذر (fa) (âzar)

    Old Persian: ātar

    Phoenician: 𐤀𐤎 (ʾs)

    Polish: ogień (pl) m.

    Portuguese: fogo (pt) m.

    Quechua: nina (qu)

    Rapa Nui: ahi

    Rohingya: ooin

    Romani: jag

    Romanian: foc (ro) n.

    Romansch: fieu m., fö (rm) m.

    Russian: огонь (ru) (ogónʹ) m.

    Samoan: afi (sm)

    Samogitian: ognis

    Sanskrit: अग्नि (sa) (agní)

    Scots: fire

    Scottish Gaelic: teine (gd) m.

    Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic: ватра (sh) f., огањ (sh) m.

    Roman: vatra (sh) f., oganj (sh) m.

    Shor: от (ot)

    Sicilian: focu (scn)

    Sinhalese: ගින්‍න (si) (ginna)

    Skolt Sami: toll

    Slovak: oheň (sk) m.

    Slovene: ogenj (sl) m.

    Sotho: mollo (st)

    Southern Altai: от (ot)

    Spanish: fuego (es) m.

    Sumerian: 𒉈 (NE)

    Swahili: moto (sw)

    Swedish: eld (sv) c., brand (sv) c.

    Tagalog: apoy (tl)

    Tahitian: please add this translation if you can

    Tajik: оташ (tg) (otaš)

    Tamil: நெருப்பு (ta) (noruppu)

    Taos: phà’áne

    Tatar: ут (tt) (ut), ялкын (tt) (yalqın)

    Telugu: అగ్ని (te) (agni)

    Thai: ไฟ (th) (fai)

    Tibetan: མེ (bo) (me)

    Tocharian A: por

    Tocharian B: puwar

    Turkish: ateş (tr)

    Turkmen: ot (tk)

    Tuvan: от (ot)

    Tzotzil: k'ok'

    Ugaritic: 𐎛𐎌𐎚 (ỉšt)

    Ukrainian: вогонь (uk) (vohónʹ) m.

    Urdu: آگ (ur) (āg) f., آتش (ur) (ātiś) f., اگنی (ur) (agní)

    Uyghur: ئوت (ug) (ot)

    Uzbek: oʻt (uz), otash (uz)

    Venetian: fógo

    Vietnamese: lửa (vi), hoả (vi) (rare) (火 (vi))

    Vilamovian: faojer

    Welsh: tân (cy) m.

    West Frisian: fjoer n.

    Xhosa: umlilo

    !Xóõ: ǀʻàã

    Yakut: уот (uot)

    Yiddish: פֿײַער (yi) (fayer) m. and n.

    Zhuang: feiz (za)


    Thursday, May 24, 2012

    Tuscarora

    Link between tuscarora/skararure, etruscan, euskara/basque, tukhara/tocharian/tushara/yuezhi/gushi/kushan?

    Tuscarora ("hemp gatherers"[1]) are a Native American people of the Iroquoian-language family
    Ska:rù:rę' Skarureh refers to the long shirt worn as part of the men's regalia, hence "long shirt people".
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skarure
    Greenwood:  Amerind branch he calls Keresiouan. Examples of these citations include:

    ku…reh ‘acorn’, in relation to *kul, 'tree'
    nyatar ‘sea’, in relation to *na, 'water'

    Compare *kul, 'tree' to these:

    Greek húlē 'forest, wood; firewood, timber; possibly via Etruscan, from Euroasiatic root  *[z]ilwV 'wood' (Starostin), reflected in Altaic *sjulu (˜ *z-, -l´-) 'conifer, pine tree', [and to silva (forest).]

    1 For example, a proposed link to IE *k´sul-o- 'log' > Greek ksúlos 'wood'.
    http://vasco-caucasian.blogspot.com/2011/09/latin-silva.html

    (parts paraphrased by me DDeden)

    Tusharas (alias Tukharas, Tócharoi) were a Mleccha tribe, with their kingdom located in the north west of India as per the epic Mahabharata. An account in Mahabharata (Mbh 1:85) depicts Mlechchas as the descendants of Anu

    Friday, May 4, 2012

    The Ark was circular

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/jan/01/noahs-ark-was-circular/print

    This agrees with my earlier interpretation of round boats preceding longboats.

    [Note: see bottom for interesting boat coffins & Urumqi mummies of China Tairm Basin]
    The bible mentions rectilinear measurements, but those may have referred to the interior cabins/pens (and perhaps magnified in size and carrying capacity by editors?), not necessarily to the overall circular form.

    Note: Noah may have been titled Atram Hasis, from Ad-iram (adramite of Ptolemy/Chatramotitae of Erasthenos/Hadramaut/Ch'Ad/Akkad) while hasis = aziz (Arabic: "highly valued'), related to Oasis & Hasidic (temple well - flowing spring), compare to (at-Ra)Moses (Nile Hebrew), (at)Ra-M-ses (Nile Pharaoh), also the English word Admiral (via Arabic) while Noah relates to Nao-katu/Navigate/boat maker-user.

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/jan/01/noahs-ark-was-circular/print
    =
    There are dozens of ancient tablets that have been found which describe the flood story but Finkel says this one is the first to describe the vessel's shape. "In all the images ever made people assumed the ark was, in effect, an ocean-going boat, with a pointed stem and stern for riding the waves – so that is how they portrayed it," said Finkel. "But the ark didn't have to go anywhere, it just had to float, and the instructions are for a type of craft which they knew very well. It's still sometimes used in Iran and Iraq today, a type of round coracle which they would have known exactly how to use to transport animals across a river or floods." Finkel's research throws light on the familiar Mesopotamian story, which became the account in Genesis, in the Old Testament, of Noah and the ark that saved his menagerie from the waters which drowned every other living thing on earth. In his translation, the god who has decided to spare one just man speaks to Atram-Hasis, a Sumerian king who lived before the flood and who is the Noah figure in earlier versions of the ark story. "Wall, wall! Reed wall, reed wall! Atram-Hasis, pay heed to my advice, that you may live forever! Destroy your house, build a boat; despise possessions And save life! Draw out the boat that you will built with a circular design; Let its length and breadth be the same." The tablet goes on to command the use of plaited palm fibre (rope), waterproofed with bitumen (kophar), before the construction of cabins (qufa/coop/kytos) for the people and wild animals. It ends with the dramatic command of Atram-Hasis to the unfortunate boat builder whom he leaves behind to meet his fate, about sealing up the door once everyone else is safely inside: "When I shall have gone into the boat, Caulk the frame of the door!"

    How sensible, a woven round boat with rectangular frame interior to divide compartments.

    Note that ancient Egyptian measurements were probably based on the sphere. http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0033895
    An Ancient Relation between Units of Length and Volume Based on a Sphere

    and this note from Chris Tedder: The sun is depicted as a disc rather than a sphere. For example, the sun held between the horns of Hathor in the Dyn 4 ‘Menkaure triad’, is a disc with a slightly curved surface. (pic: [heritage-key.com] ). If they had understood the sun was spherical rather than a disc, we should at least see a hemisphere between the horns.  http://heritage-key.com/egypt/triad-menkaure

    The circular form was obviously important to the AE (circular sun, moon, horizon etc.), and I suspect they incorporated it into the design of the sqd 5 1/2 pyramid with a geometrical / mathematical relationship to the square base.

    For example, the floor level of the sarcophagus chamber and the level of the floor lines of the shafts as they intersected with the face of the pyramid, can be determined graphically using a circle /square combination:
    [sites.google.com]
    -

    Note comparison to my drum-wheel/merkaba theory.
    An interesting sidepoint. The Road to Ubar (by Nicholas Clapp) mentions the Arabian tale The City of Brass, where Emir Musa (famed for invading Spain, and later dying at Al Ula (Dedan kingdom)  Arabia on the way back to Damascus, traveled to a mysterious brass city, and on the way back, found a coastal mountain which fits the Dophar description (dark skin mountain Hamitic people living in caves wearing leather =matches= Shahra people speaking language of birds not Arabic that herded cattle around caves).
    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ancientarcheology/message/455

    In the story: "The men talked about how Solomon had had great powers and was able to put jinns in brass bottles. Solomon had poured melted lead on the bottles and sealed them with his signature..." Lastly in the story "Musa was not sympathetic to Talib; he said, "You acted in a dishonorable way!" The group loaded the riches of the city on their camels. Then they closed the gates before leaving. The party rode along the coast and reached a high mountain next to the sea. It had many caves. People lived in them and Emir Musa said, "Who are those people?" Sheikh Samad said, "They are the people who have the bottles."

    {Note: Frankinsense was transported at Qana port on the So. Arabian coast by animal-skin boats (bottles??) floated downstream from Dophar mtns. I think 'bottles' was originally 'boats', from putti/pot/boat/hut/punt skin round boats, like those used on Tigris River and India. Perhaps bottle was diminutive for boat eg. bo(a)t-le. Anyway, note similarity of Noah/Atram saying to 'caulk the ark door', and the story of Solomon sealing the bottled jinns/genies. DDeden}

    "Only the king of those people could speak Arabic. He came to the group and welcomed Emir Musa, Sheikh Samad, and the others. They learned that the people of that mountain were descended from Ham, who was one of the sons of Noah. The sea was called Al-Karkar. The king gave a banquet for Musa, Samad, and the rest of the party. He presented them with twelve bottles that had been found in the sea. They gave him and his people gifts that included gold and silver. Musa, Samad, and their companions made the trip back to Syria."

    Names-Titles for priests/diviners/fortunetellers/spirits:
    Hebrew: Cohen/Coan/Kohannim (link to Goshen)
    Egyptian: Coptian/Coptician
    Japanese: Koshin-to (ancient shin-to) cf Buddhist Zen-do
    Hawaiian: Kahuna (spirit priest)
    Hopi AmerInd: Kachina (spirit doll/dance)
    So. Arabian: Kahin (soothesayer/fortuneteller)

    Adam - Atram - Abram



    http://wikimapia.org/#lat=26.6666835&lon=37.9069304&z=18&l=0&m=b
    http://mideasttour.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?orderby=updated

    See story & photos of Chinese Turkestan 4ka Mummies & canoe coffins covered with cowhide accompanied by long (male?) paddles & (female?) punt sticks:

    http://blog.hmns.org/tag/xiaohe/


    Of the fifteen burial sites uncovered thus far, Xiaohe remains the oldest. The 167 excavated graves yielded more than a thousand artifacts from the period 2000 to 1450 BCE. Victor Mair notes:

    There were five levels of burials in coffins in the shape of overturned boats. Live oxen were slaughtered at the site and their still-wet hides were used to wrap the coffins. After they had dried, the hides sealed the coffin tight as a drum, so that not even a speck of sand could enter the burial (Mair 2010, 47).

    At the surface, large wooden obelisks were driven into the ground. Those accompanying the tombs of females are pointed in angular fashion, while those over male graves are shaped like paddles. Speculation based on similar grave decorations in northern Europe suggests the possibility that each obelisk is a sexual symbol, perhaps to demonstrate the individual’s virility or fertility.

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