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Just keeping my thread alive
> Glossary of the new Magdalenian words, part 26
>
> TOM MOT, OTM MTO, OMT TMO --- working on
> hides
>
> TOM --- stone kniive; ancient Greek tomae for cut
>
> MOT --- to cut and clean a hide with a stone knive;
> Latin moto for I move back and forth
>
> OTM --- hide, so named for the specific smell of
> leather and fur; ancient Greek odmae osmae
> for smell, fragrance
>
> MTO --- to knead wet hides in order to make them
> soft; ancient Greek matto masso for I kneed, English
> massage
>
> OMT --- hides as raw material for making clothes,
> belts, baldrics, covers, tent walls, and so on; ancient
> Greek omos for raw, crude, fresh (...), omotaes for
> roughness
>
> TMO --- treasurer of hides; ancient Greek tamaias
> for treasurer
>
> Regards Franz Gnaedinger www.seshat.ch
>
>
> > Glossary of the new Magdalenian words, part 25
> >
> > ARC CRA, CAR RAC, RCA ACR / TYR RYT
> > --- hunting a cave bear
> >
> > ARC --- cave bear Ursus spelaeus; ancient Greek
> > arktos Latin ursus for bear
> >
> > CRA --- strength,. power and skills needed to hunt
> > a cave bear, rewarded by a successful hunt, and
> > by the privilege of raising a cranium filled with bear
> > blood in order to sacrifice the soul of the bear and
> > thus establish a link with the beyond, imploring
> > strength, power and skills from above; ancient
> > Greek krateo for I am strong, powerful, I overcome
> > (...), German Kraft for strength, power, English
> > craft for skill, Greek krataer English crater, the
> > Ainu of Hokkaido believe that the soul of a ritually
> > sacrificed bear establishes a link with the beyond
> >
> > CAR --- head of a bear, deposited at a cult place,
> > for example in a cave; ancient Greek kar for head
> >
> > RAC --- fur of a bear; ancient Greek rhagos for rug,
> > carpet, cover, English rug
> >
> > RCA --- ritual sacrifice of the soul of a bear, raising
> > a cranium filled with bear blood; ancient Greek rhezo
> > for I sacrifice
> >
> > ACR --- depositing a bear head on top of a stone pillar;
> > ancient Greek akros for top, akrothonion for depositing
> > a donation on top
> >
> > TYR --- he who overcomes; turned into ancient Greek
> > tyrannos for tyrant, also Norse tyr for the god of law
> > and war
> >
> > RYT --- to throw a spear or lance; ancient Greek rythor
> > for archer, protector
> >
> > ARC TYR --- he who overcomes (tyr) a cave bear (arc);
> > surviving in Arthur, who slained a dragon - bones and
> > skulls of the long extinct cave bears were regarded as
> > remains of dragons
> >
> > CRA L with a clicking L, CRA ) --- the power of the lion
> > man who can also overcome a cave bear and has the
> > privilege to raise the bucranium filled with blood,
> > wherefrom grail
> >
> >
> >
> > > Glossary of the new Magdalenian words, part 24
> > >
> > > DAM SAM, MAD MAS, DMA SMA, AMD AMS, ADM ASM,
> > > MDA MSA --- how a group of Magdalenian hunters can
> > > overcome a big and strong animal such as a bison
> > >
> > > DAM --- hunting a bison, how a group of Magdalenian
> > > hunters can overcome a bull; ancient Greek damazo
> > > for I overcome
> > >
> > > SAM --- to cooperate, work together; Sanskrit sam
> > > for together, ancient Greek syn- sym-, German
> > > zusammen for together
> > >
> > > MAD --- to learn how to hunt a bison in a common
> > > effort, as a group; ancient Greek mathaema for
> > > learning, teaching, experience, lesson, science, art
> > >
> > > MAS --- chief bull hunter, the one who commands
> > > a hunting expedition, leads the first and all deciding
> > > blow, attacking a weak spot, making the poor beast
> > > raving mad, going blind of rage, whereupon the other
> > > hunters attack it from all sides. MAS is also the teacher
> > > of the young hunters, wearing a bull mask and hides,
> > > the boys attack him with toy spears and lances,
> > > whereupon he behaves in the way a bull would. Latin
> > > mas for man, actually little man, perhaps in relation with
> > > the big animal (see the bull and small hunter in the cave
> > > of Gabillou)
> > >
> > > DMA --- knowledge of the body and behaving of a bison;
> > > ancient Greek demos for the way a body is built (gestalt)
> > >
> > > SMA --- to command a bison hunt, giving signals, leading
> > > a group of hunters, being the one who applies the first
> > > and all deciding blow; ancient Greek saemaino for I give
> > > a signal, perhaps also English small, German schmal for
> > > narrow, lanky, denoting the small chief hunter alone in
> > > front of the big animal
> > >
> > > AMD --- lacking the knowledge of a chief hunter, not really
> > > knowing where and how to apply the first blow, being in
> > > the group of hunters that come second; ancient Greek
> > > amathaes for ignorant
> > >
> > > AMS --- to overcome a bison in a common effort, attacking
> > > the bull from all sides when the first blow has been applied
> > > by the chief hunter MAS; ancient Greek amothei hamothei
> > > for out of everywhere, out of every direction
> > >
> > > ADM --- fearless; ancient Greek adeimatos for fearless
> > >
> > > ASM --- so very fearless that one can even sing, or, the
> > > other way round, singing in order to overcome one's fear;
> > > ancient Greek asmae for song
> > >
> > > MDA --- to consider everything concerning a bison hunt;
> > > ancient Greek medo for I think, care for, think out, give
> > > orders, command, rule
> > >
> > > MSA --- being led by intuition and inspiration; ancient
> > > Greek Mousa for muse, consider that Odysseus who
> > > tackled the stronghold of Troy had been assisted by
> > > his muse Athena
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > > Glossary of the new Magdalenian words, part 23
> > > >
> > > > MUC --- bull; Mycenae perhaps the stronghold of the
> > > > Zeus bull
> > > > PAC --- horse
> > > > PEC --- game, boar, ibex
> > > > PIC --- bird?
> > > >
> > > > CUM --- a group of bull hunters; Latin cum for together
> > > > MAS ---chief hunter, leader of a CUM, also a teacher
> > > > of hunting
> > > > MAD --- pupils of a MAS; ancient Greek mathaematha
> > > > for learning, teaching, science
> > > >
> > > > PAC CAP, APC CPA, ACP PCA --- hunting horses
> > > >
> > > > PAC --- horse
> > > >
> > > > CAP --- group of horse hunters; Latin capere for to
> > > > capture
> > > >
> > > > APC --- to deroute a herd of horses and drive them
> > > > into an enclosure, or over a cliff; several Greek words
> > > > of the form ap(o)-k-, for example apokrino for I separate,
> > > > apokino for I move away
> > > >
> > > > CPA --- to beat horses; ancient Greek kopae for beating,
> > > > slaughter (...)
> > > >
> > > > ACP --- infatigable; ancient Greek akopos for infatigable
> > > > (a negative form)
> > > >
> > > > PCA --- to end a horse hunt; Latin pecatus for quieted,
> > > > peaceful
> > > >
> > > > The last word would then be the origin of Latin pax for
> > > > peace - ending the melee of a horse hunt:
> > > >
> > > > The Magdalenians have been hunters, they needed
> > > > the animals they killed, and they honored them by
> > > > placing them on the sky - the bull as moon, the horse
> > > > as sun, a pair of opposing ibices as midwinter symbol
> > > > (Marie E.P. Koenig).
> > > >
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