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> Your favorite etymology of okeanos is okys nao 'I swim fast',
> which Pauly rejects as worthless. Do you know Pauly's lexicon
> of antiquity, over hundred volumes? I consult it frequently. The
> chapter on okeanos comprises about ten pages. Okeanos was
> the spirit of the horizon on sea, and there you have all the four
> elements you ask for: water, namely the stream around the world;
> earth, namely the shore on the other side of the stream that
> encircles the world (possibly the Elysian fields), air: above the
> horizon, and fire: present in light, especially in the sun that rises
> from the eastern horizon and sets on the western horizon. The
> word ruah may be an abbreviation of AAR RAA CA which combines
> air (aar), light as emanation of fire (raa), and sky (ca). - Don't tell
> Peter T. Daniels, he asked me, but he doesn't want to know.
The origin of Hebrew 'spirit' would have been AAR RAA AC CA
--- air (aar) light (raa) earth (ac) sky (ca), naming the substances
a spirit is made of: air (aar) and light (raa); also defining the realm
of a spirit: between earth (ac) and sky (ca); furthermore involving
the four elements: earth (ac), water (implied by the combination
ac ca, rain falling from the sky and filling the river beds on earth,
origin of Latin aqua for water), air (aar), and fire (raa, light as
emanation of fire, radiating from the fiery sun).
Regards Franz Gnaedinger
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