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My reconstruction of Magdalenian KAL and permutations:
> > KAL --- cavity, cave, especially the Underworld traversed
> > by sun horse and moon bull, also painted caves such
> > as Lascaux; ancient Greek koilon for cavity (...), German
> > Hoehle for cave, English hill (many caves are inside hills),
> > Latin calor for warmth, heat (consider the warmth inside
> > a deep cave), ancient Greek kallos for beautiful (caves
> > are beautiful, and especially the painted ones)
> >
> > LAK --- water in the depth of the Underworld; ancient
> > Greek lakkos for hole, ditch, pond, Latin lacus English
> > lake and loch, German Loch for hole
> >
> > KLA --- sound the sun horse and moon bull make when
> > traversing the Underworld; ancient Greek klaggae for
> > sound, singing, noise (...), German Klang for sound,
> > Klappern for the sound hoofs make
> >
> > ALK --- protection of the sun horse and the moon bull
> > in the Underworld, provided by the guiding snake;
> > ancient Greek alkos for protection
> >
> > AKL --- brightness and splendor of the Underworld
> > when traversed by sun or moon; ancient Greek aglaia
> > for shine, splendour, beauty, brightness
> >
> > LKA --- light of the midsummer sunhorse and of the
> > full moon; ancient Greek lyka-genaes for born out of
> > light (byname of Apollon), lyka-bas for year
KAL also means the womb of the Goddess (the Egyptian
goddess Nut swallowed the evening sun and gave birth
to the morning sun - the sun passed through her body).
As womb of the Goddess, KAL also is the source of life
and of regeneration. Also the source of rivers - German
Quelle and Celtic kald for spring, well. Richard Fester
mentions the village name of Kallbrunn as a double form
of his word Kall: well-fountain. Water was always a symbol
of life, hence we have here the meaning of life again. Also
German Huelle for cover and verhuellen for to conceal come
from KAL, since the Underworld and womb of the Goddess
are hidden, concealed. KLA also means wide and spacious
- a spacious and thus sounding, resounding hall.
Heidi Graw:
> What sort of reputation does Fester's work enjoy?
Prof. Dr. Richard Fester is considered a kook, at least
in sci.lang. You know how it goes. Professor A considers
professor B a kook, professor B thinks professor C a kook,
professor C calls professor B a kook and supports professor
A ... (from: ABC of Kookology, a book I shall write in my next
leife ;-) Richard Fester was a pioneer. Pioneers make
mistakes, but they open new alleys. Christopher Columbus
reached the continents we call the Americas but he believed
to have found a seaway to India, which is why the native
Americans are still called Indians. Was Columbus a kook?
Certainly not, we appreciate his achievement and don't
care about his mistakes. Also Richard Fester made
mistakes, he believed that the magnetic north pole was
more to the south until the end of the Magdalenium,
and an ice bridge linked Finnland with Alaska. Certainly
wrong, and he combines too many words, but he made
a worthwhile begin, and in the case of Kall he got it right,
mostly. He also mentions Calypso, ancient Greek and
German Kalypso. Here is a quote from Homer, Odyssey,
translated by E.V.Rieu, book five:
(Hermes) came to the great cavern wheren the Nymph
of the lovely locks was living. / He found her at home.
A large fire was blazing on the hearth and the scent from
burning logs of juniper and cedar was wafted far across
the island. Inside, Calypso was singing with her beautiful
voice as she went to and fro at her loom, weaving with
golden shuttle. The cave was sheltered by a copse of
alders and fragrant cypresses, which was the roosting-
place of wide-winged birds, horned owls and falcons
and cormorants with long tongues, birds of the coast,
whose business takes them down to the sea. Trailing
round the mouth of the cavern was a thriving garden vine,
with great bunches of grapes; from four separate but
neighbouring springs four crystal rivulets were channeled
to run this way and that; and in soft meadows on either
side iris and wild celery flourished. It was indeed a spot
where even an immortal visitor must pause to gaze in
wonder and delight.
Here you encounter the same positive picture of KAL,
personified by Kalypso, as in my reconstruction of the
six Magdalenian words. Whereas German Hoelle
English hell are entirely negative. How come? I guess
the answer is again indicated by language. Ancient
Greek chalkos (pronounced khalkos) means ore.
Athens owed its riches to the silver mines. Working
in those mines was the living hell for the slaves. The
Celts were mining metals including gold. The nobles
had a good life, while the lower classes worked hard
in the mines. Julius Caesar conquered Gallia for gold.
Richard Fester mentions Gallia and Celtic as derivates
of his Urwort Kall. I can claim them as derivates of my
Magdalenian reconstruction KAL. Also German Gold
for gold and Geld for money may have com from KAL.
The Paleolithic caves were magnificient, while the
mines turned the understanding of the Underworld
around, from positive into negative.
> Ah well...as it relates to me, Rydberg made sense.
Rydberg seems okay to me, although I know little
about Norse and Germanic mythology (got me
a classical education, Latin, Greek, Latin, Latin.
Latin and Latin ;-)
Regards Franz Gnaedinger
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