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Franz Gnaedinger wrote:
> > 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).
Except for the simple fact that ruuH 'spirit' is nothing but a
specialization of ruuH 'wind' -- no light, no earth, no sky, no water.
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