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Pentagrams
Joannes Richter
Abstract
According to a comment to the Sefer Yetzirah the letters in the Hebrew alphabet had been
categorized according to 5 categories, which are based on the 5 phonetic sources where the human
voice is generating the phonetic sounds.
The following dictionary lists a number of perfect and imperfect pentagrams. Originally pentagrams
may have been preferred for elementary mechanisms in the historical evolution of societies, such as
the structure of the sky (DIAUS), the divine Names (DIAUS 'PITĀ', TIWAS, Ju-piter (*DJOUS
PITER) and the day ŠIWAZ) and the names (AUGUST, TIBERIUS, CLOVIS or LOUIS) of the
royal and imperial leaders and their free servants: the ERMÏNones, ARMINones, FRANKs,
CEORLs and the CHURLs.
The letters of the PIE-kern *aiw- (*AIW- , resp. *AYU-; symbolizing “always”) may also be
identified as the vowels in the core of the PIE-sky god DYAUS.
Also the transitions of matrimonial partners between families seemed to be symbolized in
pentagrams. Several samples (such as Father and Mother ['PITĀ' and 'MĀTĀ']; [FAÐIR and
MÓÐIR]) are described and explained.
The goal of this dictionary (~100 words) is an experiment, in which new (similar) pentagrams may
be identified and inserted in the list.
Introduction
According to a comment to the Sefer Yetzirah the letters in the Hebrew alphabet had been
categorized according to 5 categories, which are based on the phonetic sources where the human
voice is generating the phonetic sounds.
Based on Rabbi Saadia Gaon's Judeo-Arabic commentary on “Sefer Yetzirah” (chapter
4, paragraph 3), wherein he describes the phonetic sounds of the 22 characters of the
Hebrew alphabet and classifies them in groups based on their individual sounds: “Aleph
( )א, hé ()ה, ḥet ()ח, ‘ayin ( )עare [gutturals sounds] produced from the depth of the
tongue with the opening of the throat, but bet ()ב, waw ()ו, mim ()מ, pé ( )פare [labial
sounds] made by the release of the lips and the end of the tongue; whereas gimel ()ג,
yōd ()י, kaf ()כ, quf ( )קare [palatals] separated by the width of the tongue [against the
palate] with the [emission of] sound. However, daleth ()ד, ṭet ()ט, lamed ()ל, nūn ()נ, tau
( )תare [linguals] separated by the mid-section of the tongue with the [emission of]
sound; whereas zayin ()ז, samekh ()ס, ṣadi ()צ, resh ()ר, shin ( )שare [dental sounds]
produced between the teeth by a tongue that is at rest.1”
Probably these categories may be considered as a universal PIE-concept as most PIE-languages are
using the same tongues, palatals, guttural throats, lips and teeth.
The following dictionary lists a number of perfect and imperfect pentagrams (5-letter words).
The Tetragrammaton (/ˌtɛtrəˈɡræmətɒn/) or Tetragram (from Greek τετραγράμματον,
meaning "[consisting of] four letters") is the four-letter Hebrew word ( יהוהtransliterated
as YHWH), the name of the biblical god of Israel.[1]
In analogy to the 4-letter word Tetragram I chose the 5-letter word Pentagram (or
Pentagrammaton) for the words in the following dictionary. One of the historical pentagrammatons
or Pentagrams is Yahshuah, which is not a perfect pentagram for the lack of a lingual letter:
The pentagrammaton (Greek: πενταγράμματον) or Yahshuah (Hebrew: )יהשוהis a
constructed form of the Hebrew name of Jesus originally found in the works of
Athanasius Kirchner, Johann Baptist Grossschedel (1619) and other late Renaissance
esoteric sources. It is to be distinguished from the name Yahshua found in the works of
the Sacred Name Movement in the 1960s, though there has been some conflation or
confusion between the two. The pentagrammaton YAHShUAH has no support in
archeological findings, such as the Dead Sea scrolls or inscriptions, nor in rabbinical
texts as a form of Joshua. Scholarship generally considers the original form of JESUS to
be Yeshua, a Hebrew Bible form of JOShUA.[1]
The following dictionary lists the perfect and imperfect pentagrams in an alphabetical order.
Perfect pentagrams (5-letter words, in the table marked “P”) contain exactly 5 letter categories
(based on the Hebrew alphabet with the linguals: D4, T9, L12, N14, T22, palatals: G3, I10, Ch11, K19, the
gutturals: Æ1, Ε5, H8, Gh16, labials: B2, V6, M13, Ph17, and the dentals: Z7, S15, Ts18, R20, S21).
• Perfect pentagrams may symbolize elementary subjects, in which a linguistic Master pulls
out all the stops to activate all symbolic registers. These symbols may represent the sky or
sky-god DIAUS, the sun TIWAS and the day ŠIWAZ. In Germanic religions we may
identify the Creator deity TUÏSTO and in Latin the highest sky-god Jupiter as *DJOUS
PATĒR. Kings and emperors chose a similar name such as CLOVIS or LOUIS (LEWIS). As
a group people chose the names FRANKs, ERMÏNones, (ARMINones), etc.
1 Footnote in Modern Hebrew phonology (quoted in The Composition of the Sky-God's Name in PIE-Languages)
• The imperfect pentagrams contain double categories or less categories. Often the number of
letters deviates from 5. Sometimes the words may have been derived from a perfect
pentagram, but lost some letters by deterioration or inserted some extra phonetic signs.
This list is based on a database in the paper “Verbale echo's in de Europese talen – Over de
naamgeving van de Frankenkoningen”, which extended the basic database with divine names and
royal definitions with the symbolism of matrimonial definitions.
In the etymological databases the words in this list often seem to be missing an undefined or unclear
“etymological source”.
The goal of this dictionary (with 86 words) is an experiment, in which new (similar) pentagrams
may be identified and inserted in the list. Up to today the following list is incomplete. Sorting the
list at the 4th column the number (~47) of perfect pentagrams may be separated from the (~39)
imperfect pentagrams. These lists will be added to the paper in 2 extra tables.
The elementary transition FIEND → VRIJEN → FRIEND → EEgade
Originally pentagrams may have been preferred for elementary mechanisms in the historical
evolution of societies, such as the structure of the sky, the divine Names and the names of the royal
and imperial leaders. Also the words for the transitions of matrimonial partners between families
seem to be symbolized in pentagrams. Several samples are described and explained.
The most elementary bonds between Frankish families may have been the bonds of kinship, which
in Latin is genus (GENUS, “kind, sort, ancestry, birth”) and in Proto-Germanic is *kunją (KUNJA,
“race, generation, descent”)2.
The most important bond between Frankish people seemed to be described in four or five words,
which describe the various stages of the transitions between two families.
A stranger (German: FREMDER; Dutch: VREEMDE) or fiend (FIEND) may be described to pass
at least four stages
1. from a fiend (German: FEIND; Dutch: VIJAND; English FIEND)
2. → via the courting phase (German FREIEN; Dutch: VRIJEN); English: to COURT)
3. → to become a family's friend (German: FREUND; Dutch: VRIEND); English FRIEND)
4. → and to reach the final phase as a matrimonial spouse (German: EHE-Gatte; Dutch: EE-
gade, English: SPOUSE).
In these definitions the number of perfect pentagrams is impressive. The English word FIEND
German: FEIND; Dutch: VIJAND) is related to the Proto-Germanic verb *FIJĒN- ‘to hate’3.
The “IE”-sound in the Dutch word “VRIEND” is antipodal to the IJ in VIJAND. The “IE”-sound in
“VRIEND” probably symbolizes the eternity (eternal = “IEUWig”) in the EE-combination in the
Dutch word “Eega” for “Spouse”.
2 From Middle English kin, kyn, ken, kun, from Old English cynn (“kind, sort, rank, quality, family, generation,
offspring, pedigree, kin, race, people, gender, sex, propriety, etiquette”), from Proto-Germanic *kunją (“race,
generation, descent”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵnnh₁yom, from *ǵenh₁- (“to produce”). Cognate with Scots kin
(“relatives, kinfolk”), North Frisian kinn, kenn (“gender, race, family, kinship”), Dutch kunne (“gender, sex”),
Middle Low German kunne (“gender, sex, race, family, lineage”), Danish køn (“gender, sex”), Swedish kön
(“gender, sex”), Icelandic kyn (“gender”), and through Indo-European, with Latin genus (“kind, sort, ancestry,
birth”), Ancient Greek γένος (génos, “kind, race”), Sanskrit जनस (jánas, “kind, race”), Albanian dhen (“(herd of)
small cattle”).
3 vijand (tegenstander) van Proto-Germaans *FIJĒN- ‘haten’
(uit: Sijs, Nicoline van der (samensteller) (2010), op Etymologiebank)
The following sketch describes the transition in 4 stages from as stranger to a kinsman: VIJAND →
VRIJEN → VRIEND → EE-GADE:
A STRANGE(R) Transition phase kin-member Matrimonia phase
in a “FIENDish” from “vrijen” “friend” l partner
position Courting →
“friendship”
IJ-symbol R-symbol IE-symbol EE-symbol Dutch English
0 VREEMD STRANGE(R)
1 IJ VIJAND FIEND
2 IJ R VRIJEN To COURT
(To Court)
3 R IE VRIEND FRIEND
4 EE EE-GADE spouse
Table 1 The elementary transition from “VIJAND” via “VRIJEN” and“VRIEND” to “ EE-gade”
According to the etymological database the verb “to court” is relatively new:
1570s, "endeavor to gain the favor of by amorous attention," also "solicit, seek to win or
attract," from court (n.), based on the sorts of behavior associated with royal courts.
Related: Courted; courting.
Freedom
Apart from the matrimonial transition of the stranger to a friend and matrimonial partner the
symbolism of the words for “free” and “freedom” are also playing a role in the freedom of the
citizens, who had to free themselves from the fetters of the old Lex salica (Salic or Salian law).
The Salian law was the ancient Salian Frankish civil law code compiled around AD 500
by the first Frankish King, Clovis. The written text is in Latin[1] and contains some of
the earliest known instances of Old Dutch.[2] It remained the basis of Frankish law
throughout the early Medieval period, and influenced future European legal systems. 4
The name the first Frankish King, Clovis (Chlodovechus, [Ch]LOUIS respectively CLOVIS), is
based on the pentagram core LOUIS (English: LEWIS), which (in French and in English) belongs to
the perfect pentagrams.
In the Middle Age a ċeorl(e) CEORL of CHURL, Dutch KEREL; German: KERL) ċeorl(e), was
the lowest rank of freemen. The word CHURL belongs to the perfect pentagrams.
In northern linguistic regions the word “free” is translated to FRANK and in southern regions to
LIBER, both of which are composed as perfect pentagrams.
Obviously the composers of the words for basic social elements may have preferred perfect
pentagrams.
# Pentagram P Reference Dutch English Language
C CEORL - In the Middle Age a CEORL of CHURL, KEREL CHURL English
CHURL P Dutch Kerel; German: Kerl) ċeorl(e), the (free (free
lowest rank of freemen . man) man)
F FRANC P Frank - adj., ‘free, independent,’ FRANK FRANK Dutch
FRANK P Middle English (in the sense ‘free’): from Old (vrij) (free)
French franc, from medieval Latin francus ‘free’,
from Francus (see Frank: only Franks had full
freedom in Frankish Gaul). Another Middle
English sense was ‘generous’, which led to the
current sense. (From Oxford Languages)
L LIBER P Liber - free, independent, unrestricted, vrij LIBER Latin
LIURE P unchecked (→ freeman) Free,
LIBRO P (Old Occitan: liure; Provençal: libro ) freeman
Sense shifted in Middle English to denote association, combination, and union, partly
by influence of Old Norse vidh, and also perhaps by Latin cum "with" (as in pugnare
cum "fight with"). In this sense, it replaced Old English mid "with," which survives only
as a prefix (as in midwife). Original sense of "against, in opposition" is retained in
compounds such as withhold, withdraw, withstand.5
In Sanskrit the pattern PITAR for Pitar (father) largely follows the Old Norse pattern of Father
(faðir, FAÐIR). In another Sanskrit database the Father's is translated as 'PITṚ' or 'PITĀ'41 and
Mother 'MĀTĀ'18 6, which largely matches the Old Norse pattern of Mother (Móðir, MÓÐIR).
The rules for association (a labial M) and dissociation (the labials F, P, V, W) seem to be shared by
Old Norse and Sanskrit.
Brother (bróðir)
Compared to the Old-Norse structure of FAÐIR and MÓÐIR the structure of brother
(bróðir) (BRÓÐIR7) is disturbed and looses its perfect pentagram pattern by inserting an R.
In a similar pattern the English structure of BROThER (with FAThER and MOThER) is
disturbed and looses its perfect pentagram pattern by inserting an R.
8 Alfons Lhotsky: A.E.I.O.U. Die „Devise“ Kaiser Friedrichs III und sein Notizbuch. In: Mitteilungen des Instituts
für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung. Band 60, 1952, S. 155–193. Notebook of emperor Frederick III
(1437)
9 Alfons Lhotsky: A.E.I.O.U. Die „Devise“ Kaiser Friedrichs III und sein Notizbuch. In: Mitteilungen des Instituts
für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung. Band 60, 1952, S. 155–193. Notebook of emperor Frederick III
(1437)
The Hornbooks10
In 1912 Flinders Petrie analyses the alphabetical structures, in which he suggests a repetitive pattern
of the letters vowel, labial, guttural, and dental, to be extended to (1) vowels, (2) labials, (3)
gutturals, (4) dentals, (5) liquids11, and (6) sibilants12”.
These extensions may have been performed completely or in a number of alphabets partly:
It had long ago been noticed by Lepsius, Donaldson, and Taylor that, embedded in the
Phoenician, Greek, and Italian alphabets there is a repeated sequence of letters,—vowel,
labial, guttural, and dental.
What has however been ignored is that this system is extended a whole series further in
the Greek than in the Phoenician alphabet, forming a fifth row and the beginning of a
sixth. The liquids (L, M, N) and sibilants (Ś, Ṣ, S) were added later and form no part of
such a scheme. If we follow the Greek alphabet we may put the original series in
capitals, and the additions in minuscules, thus :13
The reason that the signs of the last row soon fell into abeyance may well be that they
were so much alike that they seemed confusing ; and as alphabets tend to diminish by
careless approximations of the sounds, so the last row was dropped from most
alphabets, and the last but one, or fifth, row was also dropped out of the Phoenician.
The previous and the following tables have been composed by Flinders Petrie in 1912. His amazing
concept allows us to understand the composition of the Ugaritic signary and the Greek alphabet.
In “The Formation of the Alphabet” (1912) Flinders Petrie compares these alphabetical structures as
Hornbooks, which have been used at elementary schools to teach children the alphabet.
The Hebrew categorization did not match the categorization system in the periodic tables and the
Hornbooks. Of course the Mothers of Reading allowed to categorize some of the consonants in the
Hebrew alphabet.
In the European languages the semi-vowels caused problems as these elements belonged to the
vowels and consonants and had to be included in the 5 standard categories.
In the Hebrew alphabet most vowels Alef Æ1, Hee Ε5, Chet H8, Ajien Gh16, were categorized as
gutturals19. The 16th letter (Ajien, “Gh”, a glottal stop) often is categorized as an “O”-vowel. In
Flinders Petrie's periodical tables the vowel column contained two vowels I and U, which according
to the Hebrew tradition belonged to other categories. The 10 th letter Yod I10 is a palatal and the 6th
letter Waw V6 is a labial.
18 Footnote in Modern Hebrew phonology (quoted in The Composition of the Sky-God's Name in PIE-Languages)
19 Rabbi Saadia Gaon categorized the Hebrew alphabet as follows: lingualen: D4, T9, L12, N14, T22 , palatalen: G3, I10,
Ch11, K19, gutturalen: Æ1, Ε5, H8, Gh16, labialen: B2, V6, M13, Ph17, en de dentalen: Z7, S15, Ts18, R20, S21.
The alphabet as a 2-dimensional table
If in a table the 5 columns for the categories are sorted according to the name TIΕUS and we fill the
table with the Hebrew letters upward according to the alphabetical order, the second line contains
the Great Name IΕV20. The central axis of the table lists the guttural letters Alef Æ1, Hee Ε5, Chet H8,
Ajien Gh16.
T22 S21
N14 K19 Gh16 Ph17 R20
L12 Ch11 H8 M13 Ts18
TIΕUS → T9 I10 Ε5 V6 S15
D4 G3 Æ1 B2 Z7
Table 3 The word TIΕUS in the Hebrew alphabet with 5 categories
The 5 categories are specified by Rabbi Saadia Gaon in Modern Hebrew phonology
(The reading direction of the Hebrew alphabet may require a horizontal mirroring of the table)
This structure may avoid the publicity of the Great Name IΕV.
Another sorting of the columns displays another divine name TIVΕS (for the European deity Tiw):
T22 S21
N14 K19 Ph17 Gh16 R20
L12 Ch11 M13 H8 Ts18
1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22
k- x- g- c- ç- j- t- θ- d- p- f- b- n- m- y- v- r- l- s- z- š- h-
K X G C Ç J T Θ D P F B N M Y V R L S Z Š H
X C Ç Θ P F B Y L S Z Š H
K- G- J- T- D- N- M- V- R-
-(A) K G J T D N M V R
-Ī — — Ji Ti Di Ni Mi Vi Ri
-Ū Ku Gu — Tu Du Nu Mu — Ru
Table 5 The categorization in the Old Persian cuneiform alphabet
Also the Savoyan dialects correlate the ego-pronouns to their divine Names.
These correlations concentrate on the linguistic borderlines between two large linguistic territories
such as between Savoyan and Sardinian (at the French / Italian-borderline), and Walloon (at the
French / Dutch-borderline).
In order to understand the European concept of “eternity” we will have to analyze the PIE-core
*aiw- and the Greek & Latin words for “eternity”. The concept of “eternity” may have changed in
the course of time. The transition changed the interpretation from “long period” until a genuine
endless “eternity”. Apart from some deterioration the words remained the same, but the
interpretation changed.
Αἰών :From earlier αἰϝών (aiwṓn), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyu- (“vital force, life,
long life, eternity”), whence also ἀεί (aeí, “always”). Cognate with Latin aevum, English
aye. 28
It forms all or part of: age; aught (n.1) "something; anything;" aye (adv.) "always, ever;"
Ayurvedic; coetaneous; coeval; each; eon; eternal; eternity; ever; every; ewigkeit;
hygiene; longevity; medieval; nay; never; no; primeval; sempiternal; tarnation; utopia.
It is the hypothetical source of/evidence for its existence is provided by: Sanskrit AYU-
"life;" Avestan AIIU "age, life(time);" Greek AIŌN "age, vital force; a period of
existence, a lifetime, a generation; a long space of time," in plural, "eternity;" Latin
AEVUM "space of time, eternity;" Gothic AIWS "age, eternity," Old Norse ÆVI
"lifetime," German EWIG "everlasting," Old English A "ever, always."
Although these letters match the core for the name of the PIE-sky-god I wanted to check how far
the letters fit in the numbering concept.
27 'Eternity' Revisited: A Study Of The Greek Word Αἰὠν - Heleen M. Keizer Philosophia Reformata Vol. 65, No. 1
(2000), pp. 53-71 (19 pages)
28 Αἰών
29 *aiw- | Origin and meaning of root *aiw- by Online Etymology ...
In order to shift the letter I in the alphabet to the tenth location the Greeks had to insert an obsolete
letter (digamma Ϝ) into the 6th location of the alphabet:
The present system probably developed around Miletus in Ionia. 19th-century classicists
placed its development in the 3rd century BC, the occasion of its first widespread use.
[3] More thorough modern archaeology has caused the date to be pushed back at least to
the 5th century BC,[4] a little before Athens abandoned its pre-Euclidean alphabet in
favor of Miletus's in 402 BC, and it may predate that by a century or two.[5]
The present system uses the 24 letters adopted by Euclid as well as three Phoenician and
Ionic ones that were not carried over: digamma, koppa, and sampi. The position of those
characters within the numbering system imply that the first two were still in use (or at
least remembered as letters) while the third was not. The exact dating, particularly for
sampi, is problematic since its uncommon value means the first attested representative
near Miletus does not appear until the 2nd century BC[6] and its use is unattested in
Athens until the 2nd century AD.[7] (In general, Athens resisted the use of the new
numerals for the longest of any of the Greek states but had fully adopted them by c. AD
50.[2]) 30
The alpha (αʹ) is the initial number 1. The jota (ιʹ) is the central number 10, from which the
numbering switches to 10-steps and rho is the number 100, from which the system switches to 100-
steps. The omega (ωʹ) is the last regular alphabetical letter and represents 800.
The three letters, the first letter (alfa, αʹ), the central jota (ιʹ) and the last alphabetical letter omega
(ωʹ) form the vowel word aiω. The category of the vowel omega (representing “OO“ or “OU”) is
unknown. It may be guttural or labial.
The Hebrew alphabet attributes of the representative for the O-Mikron vowel as a guttural. The
digamma (F, V, U, W) however is a labial.
As a 6th alphabetical letter the digamma (Ϝʹ) could be located as an F for the number 6 and as a U (at
position 400). The digamma (Ϝʹ) has been inserted as a W in αἰϝών (AIWṒN).
If we remove the digamma W the word AIWṒN is trasnformed into AIṒN, which would modify
the Omega into a labial letter. This interpretation is confirmed in the Latin word: aevum, AEVUM.
Letter Value Letter Value Letter Value
αʹ 1 ιʹ 10 ρʹ 100
βʹ 2 κʹ 20 σʹ 200
γʹ 3 λʹ 30 τʹ 300
δʹ 4 μʹ 40 υʹ 400
εʹ 5 νʹ 50 φʹ 500
Ϝʹ of ςʹ of στʹ 6 ξʹ 60 χʹ 600
ζʹ 7 οʹ 70 ψʹ 700
ηʹ 8 πʹ 80 ωʹ 800
θʹ 9 Ϟʹ 90 Ϡʹ 900
Table 7 Greek numerals
30 Greek numerals
The insertion of the digamma (Ϝ) allowed the Greek word AIOON to position the letter “I” at the
10th location, which attributed the vowels A (1), I (10) and Ω (800) as suitable keys for the
beginning, the center and the end.
Theoretically the word AIOON covers a period of 800 years. The end number sampi (Ϡ) with a
value 900 had to be included to fill the basic decimal range to a maximum of 1000.
The range could be expanded between 1,000 and 999,999 by using diacritic markers at the left-sides
of the numbers. The number 2005 might be expressed as ͵βεʹ (2000 + 5)31.
From Plato (427-347 BCE) and Aristotle (384-322 BCE) the aioon could be extended to “eternity.
Strange as it may seem the 5-letter words (Greek: αἰϝών, AIWṒN, Latin: aevum, AEVUM) may be
interpreted as tiny number sequence, which are encoded as alphabetical letters A, I and ω in the
Greek, respectively A, I and V or U in the Latin alphabets.
This concept however may only be found in the Greek and Latin alphabets, which support the
applied numbering system.
(archaic, poetic or Northern England) Always; ever; continually; for an indefinite time.
From Middle English ai, from Old Norse ei, from Proto-Germanic *aiwaz (“eternity,
age”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyu- (“vitality”); cognate with Old English ā,
Ancient Greek ἀεί (aeí, “always”), and Latin aevum (“an age”). 34
Dieterich's runic dictionary defines the letters A, I and U as the vowels for the .
The Germanic derivatives *aiw-i-z (/*aiw-a-z); *aiw-i-; *aiw-ō-; adv. *aiwi-n; *aiw-īn- f. 35 are
varying between AIWIZ, AIWO and AIWIN. The Saterfriese dictionary lists “eternal” as “äivig”
(ÄIVIG)36, which is based on the PIE-root *AIW- and is spelled as AIFIK.
35 Indo-European etymology : List with all references – https://starling.rinet.ru › cgi-bin › etymology › data › piet
36 In het äivig [Adj.]: ewig: nit äivig: zeitlich, endlich. →ee-uwig. (Saterfriesisches Wörterbuch - Helmut Buske
Verlag)
37 Demetrius, of Phaleron, b. 350 B.C. Spurious and doubtful works
38 The Mystery of the Seven Vowels
39 Demetrius On style, the Greek text of Demetrius De elocutione
40 Notes to the vowels in De Elocutione of Demetrius (Demetrius On style, the Greek text of Demetrius De
elocutione ...
41 Ιαωουηε – Proceedings in the Pronouns' Etymology – Summary - The Vowels' Symbolism in Archaic Hymns
42 The Mystery of the Seven Vowels in Theory and Practice. Grand Rapids: Phanes Press, 1991
Summary of the analysis of the PIE-core “*AIW-”
The PIE-core “*AIW-” correlates to the vowel-triad “IAU“ in the name of the PIE-sky-god DIAUS
PIT(A)ṚṚ. Additionally the vowel-core “IAU“ correlates with the Great Name “IΕV“ (Hebrew:
“IHV”, “Jeve”)43.
The core “*AIU-” may symbolize the size of the sky DIAUS.
The English word “AY” (“always”) may be an abbreviation of AIU (always).
44 Themis (Ancient Greek: Θέμις) is an ancient Greek Titaness. She is described as "[the Lady] of good counsel," and
is the personification of divine order, fairness, law, natural law, and custom.
45 Metis (Ancient Greek: Μῆτις, romanized: Mêtis, lit. 'wisdom', 'skill', or 'craft'), in ancient Greek religion, was a
mythical Titaness belonging to the second generation of Titans.
THEMIS (divine laws)
The name “Themis” ThEMIS is claimed to be untranslatable, although it is a perfect pentagram:
Moses Finley remarked of themis, as the word was used by Homer in the 8th century
BCE, to evoke the social order of the 10th- and 9th-century Greek Dark Ages:
Finley adds, "There was themis—custom, tradition, folk-ways, mores, whatever we may
call it, the enormous power of 'it is (or is not) done.' The world of Odysseus had a
highly developed sense of what was fitting and proper."[3]
In Greek language the correlation between Zeus' first Themis (ΘΈΜΙΣ) and second wife Metis
(ΜΗΗΤΙΣ) a genuine symbolic name-giving act. Both names describe the titans ThEMIS and
METIS as perfect pentagrams. Also the core of Zeus' name (DZEUS, which is derived from
DYEUS) belonged in analogy of DIAUS (Dyáuṣ Pitṛ)Ṛ , to the perfect pentagrams.
The oldest "recorded" appearance of justice in ancient Greece is found in the Iliad and
Odyssey of Homer. Homer uses the Greek words ("dike ") and ("themis ") with which it
is associated, to designate "custom" or "way of behavior" that accords with what is
ordained by law, with emphasis on human decrees46.
The inferior Dike (DIKE, which is not a perfect pentagram for "custom" or "way of behavior") is
not as good as her mother Themis (ΘΈΜΙΣ), who represents the divine will and deserves a a perfect
pentagram.
The similarities between Zeus swallowing Metis and Cronus swallowing his children
have been noted by several scholars. This also caused some controversy in regard to
reproduction myths. [9][10]
46 Donna Marie Giancola, "Justice and the Face of the Great Mother (East and West)"
Of course the swallowing of a (pregnant) wife including the unborn child may have been chosen to
prevent the hiding of the children, which had caused the loss of the reign of his father Kronos.
An epithet of Athena is Τριτογένεια, which is interpreted as a birth from the head. Anyway
ΤΡῘṚΤΟΣ is not a perfect pentagram: TRITOOS or TΡῘṚTΟΣ. The birth of Pallas Athena took place at
the banks of the river TRITO.
But he seized her with his hands and put her in his belly, for fear that she might bring
forth something stronger than his thunderbolt: therefore did Zeus, who sits on high and
dwells in the aether, swallow her down suddenly. But she straightway conceived Pallas
Athene: and the father of men and gods gave her birth by way of his head on the banks
of the river TRITO. And she remained hidden beneath the inward parts of Zeus, even
Metis, Athena's mother, worker of righteousness, who was wiser than gods and mortal
men. There the goddess (Athena) received that[3047] whereby she excelled in strength
all the deathless ones who dwell in Olympus, she who made the host-scaring weapon of
Athena. And with it (Zeus) gave her birth, arrayed in arms of war.48
Apart from the birth of Pallas Athena at the river Trito somewhere else the TRITON was to be born
as “an awful god”:
And of Amphitrite and the loud-i-oaring Earth-Shaker was born great, wide-ruling
TRITON, and he owns the depths of the sea, living with his dear mother and the lord his
father in their golden house, an awful god.
47 sc. the aegis. Line 929s is probably spurious, since it disagrees with 929 q and contains a suspicious reference to
Athens. (Source The Theogony van Hesiodus )
48 The Theogony van Hesiodus
Minos (king of Crete and a son of Zeus and Europa)
Also Minos (Μίνως, with a perfect pentagram ΜΙNΩΣ as name), king of Crete, is a son of Zeus and
Europa. The etymology of the name Minos in Linear A suggests the following interpretation of the
spelling:
• ΜWΙ-NU RO-JA (Minos the king)49
• ΜΙ-NU-TE50 (Minos)
"Minos" (ΜΙNΩΣ) is often interpreted as the Cretan word for "king",[2] or, by a
euhemerist interpretation, the name of a particular king that was subsequently used as a
title.
"We call him Minos (ΜΙNΩΣ), but we do not know his name, probably the word is a
title, like Pharaoh or Caesar, and covers a multitude of kings" (Will Durant, The Life of
Greece [The Story of Civilization Part II), New York: Simon & Schuster), 1939:11).51
49 According to La Marle's reading of Linear A,[3] which has been heavily criticised as arbitrary,[4] we should read
mwi-nu ro-ja (Minos the king) on a Linear A tablet. Source: Etymology (Minos)
50 There is a name in Minoan Linear A mi-nu-te that may be related to Minos. Source: Etymology (Minos)
51 Source: Etymology (Minos)
The names ΜENES, ΜANNUS, ΜANU, ΜEON, ΜAEONΙA, ΜΙZRAΙΜ
I just suggest to consider the number of imperfect pentagrams (ΜΙNΩΣ, ΜENES, ΜANNUS,
ΜANU, ΜEON, ΜAEONΙA, ΜΙZRAΙΜ) as analog patterns for the perfect pentagram Minos
(ΜΙNΩΣ):
Some scholars see a connection between Minos (ΜΙNΩΣ) and the names of other
ancient founder-kings, such as Menes (ΜENES) of Egypt, Mannus (ΜANNUS) of
Germany, and Manu (ΜANU) of India,[6][7] and even with Meon (ΜEON) of Phrygia
and Lydia (after him named Maeonia (ΜAEONΙA)), Mizraim (ΜΙZRAΙΜ) of Egypt in
the Book of Genesis and the Canaanite deity Baal (BAAL).[8] 52
These words correlate with a couple of runic words named “WIT” and “TIW”, which are identified
as cores
52 On the origin and ramifications of the English language: Preceded by an inquiry into the primitive seats, early
migrations, and final settlements of the principal European nations, Henry Welsford, 1845, pp. 11–12.
53 Metis (Ancient Greek: Μῆτις, romanized: Mêtis, lit. 'wisdom', 'skill', or 'craft'), in ancient Greek religion, was a
mythical Titaness belonging to the second generation of Titans.
54 Themis (Ancient Greek: Θέμις) is an ancient Greek Titaness. She is described as "[the Lady] of good counsel," and
is the personification of divine order, fairness, law, natural law, and custom.
55 Source: Metis
56 Source: themis
57 Source: Themistocles
1. for the Sky-god WOTan (w)ODin, symbolizing the verb “to WIT” and the Dutch word
“WETEN”, related to Zeus' 1st wife Metis (METIS), who is responsible for true WISdom.
2. respectively the Sky-god “TIW” (TIWas), symbolizing the verb “to ThINK“ and the Dutch
word “DENKEN” (“to ThINK; core: “ThING” or “TIWES”), related to Zeus' 2nd wife
Themis (ThEMIS), who is responsible for Germanic JUStice and related to the “ThING”.
The sky-god “TIW” is still honored by the day of the week TUESDAY (TIWESday).
Obviously WOTAN or (w)ODIN, and TIWas were both sky-gods, who in analogy of the Greek
METIS and ThEMIS represented the opposite symbols of (1) true WISdom o-o (2) JUStice.
Germanic Greek
Symbol Word Categories Name Relation
to DYEUS
runes sky-god English Dutch
WISdom WIT WOTan TO WIT WETEN Metis Zeus' 1st wife
ᚠᚢᚦ (w)ODin WITNESS METEN METIS
JUStice TIW TIWas TO ThINK DENKEN Themis Zeus' 2nd wife
ᚦᚢᚠ ThING DING ThEMIS
TUESDAY DINSDAG
TIWESday TIWESdag
The oppositions are defined as: WISdom o-o JUStice, WIT (WOTan) o-o TIW (TIWas), to WIT
(WETEN) o-o to ThINK (DENKEN),
In English language the cores WIS in WISdom and JUS in JUStice are based on an opposition “WI
o-o JU“, which also is found in the cores MET o-o ThEM in the Greek words Metis and Themis
and the runic cores WIT o-o TIW.
The same opposition is found in the deities WOTan o-o TIWas. WOTan was the god of WISdom
(WETEN) and in contrast TIWas was responsible for human JUStice of the ThING (justice, Dutch:
DING) related to the tool “to ThINK”.
Obviously the Greek language, English and the runic language use words which put an opposite
symbolism in the topics “human” (in contrast to divine”) JUStice and WISdom.
Maybe the word “TO WIT“ (in Dutch: WETEN) symbolizes the true WISdom of METIS, whereas
the ThING (and “ThINKing”) belonged to TIW and TIWES who were responsible for JUStice
(obviously not based on true WISdom).
The Dutch words METEN (“measure”, maybe related to the exact knowledge of WETEN) may be
the more exact procedure instead of guessing, which is encoded in a proverb METEN is WETEN.
Therefore the opposition in the words for WISdom and JUStice are shared in Germanic and Greek
languages.
• in English “WISdom” contains a core WIT , Dutch WET, German WIS.
• in Greek language “wisdom” contains a core MET, which best matches the Dutch core
WET. Both patterns are matching the sequence labial–guttural–lingual.
• in English “JUStice” contains the cores TIW and ThINK, in Dutch and German DENK.
• in Greek language “JUStice” contains a core ThEMIS, which optimally matches the English
core TIWES in TIWESday. Both patterns are matching the sequence lingual-*-labial–*–
dental (in which the wildcards switch the letter-categories guttural E and palatal I).
Roman justice split up in the definitions of FAS and IUS 58
The Roman philosophy also used different words FAS and IUS (originally maybe: IOUS) to
“know for sure” (WISdom) and for human ThINKing, which could be erroneous. The word
IOUS was integrated in the sky-god's name DIOUS-PITAR. If the word “pitar59” is spelled
with an “I” the original root words for PITAR or alternatively PATIR (both “father”)
represent a perfect pentagram.
Public business, including the official business of the Roman state, had to be transacted on dies
fasti, "allowed days". The word FASTI for the "allowed days" represents a perfect pentagram.
FAS is a central concept in Roman religion. Although translated in some contexts as
"divine law,"[240] fas is more precisely that which is "religiously legitimate,"[241] or
an action that is lawful in the eyes of the gods.[242] In public religion, fas est is
declared before announcing an action required or allowed by Roman religious custom
and by divine law.[243] Fas is thus both distinguished from and linked to ius (IUS,
plural iura IURA), "law, lawfulness, justice," as indicated by Vergil's often-cited phrase
fas et iura sinunt, "fas and iura allow (it)," which Servius explains as "divine and
human laws permit (it), for fas pertains to religion, iura to the human being."[244]
In analogy to the completion of IOU(S)-piter to (D)IOU(S)-piter (Jupiter) the singular for the
contrarian human law ius IOUS may be completed with an initial “D” to DIOUS respectively the
plural IURA to DIURA. The word IOU(S) represents the IU-core in JU-piter.
In Roman calendars, days marked F are dies fasti, when it is fas to attend to the
concerns of everyday life.[245] In non-specialized usage, fas est may mean generally "it
is permissible, it is right."
The etymology of fas is debated. It is more commonly associated with the semantic
field of the verb for, fari, "to speak,"[246] an origin pressed by Varro.[247] In other
sources, both ancient and modern, fas is thought to have its origin in an Indo-European
root meaning "to establish," along with fanum (FANUM) and feriae (FERIAE).[248]
See also Fasti (FASTI)and nefas (NEFAS).
The core SAP of SAPIENS, SAPIO (to know) is related to SAF which is the reversed core (FAS)
of Fasti (FASTI). This SAP-word (including SAPIENS) could have been a negative symbol,
because Eve ate the apple of the sacred Tree of Wisdom.
However there is another word (a verb) COGNITO for “to know”, which is based on (G)NŌSCŌ:
• COGNITUS (cognitus)60 (known , noted) is based on nosco earlier gnōscō, from Proto-Italic
*gnōskō, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵnnh₃sḱéti.
• The derivatives of cognitus are :
◦ Old French: cointe : COINTE,
◦ Middle English: queynte, cwointe, cuinte, cwuinte : QUEYNTE, CWOINTE, CUINTE,
CWUINTE;
◦ English: quaint : QUAINT and
◦ Scots: quent : QUENT (obsolete).61
58 Source: Glossary_of_ancient_Roman_religion#F
59 In analogy to DYÁUṢ PITṚṚ
60 perfect passive participle of cognōscō (“know, recognize”).
61 Source: nosco
The Evidence of Perfect Pentagrams in Greek, Roman and Runic Mythology
The divine names TIWas and DIOUS-PITAR suggest to insert an initial letter D in (D)JUStice, which
allows us to link Jupiter and Justice to the “human” ThINK and DING and DENK-category, which
represents a human activity in thinking. Also Zeus himself belongs to this errors-prone category.
Only Zeus' first wife Metis (METIS) is the Greek deity and the Germanic sky-god WOTan,
respectively (w)ODin is the male representative, which represent the “true wisdom”.
The labial W-words are linked to WISdom, WIT, METIS, WOTan, WETEN and for their labial
categories are also linked to the words FAS and FASTI.
The lingual D- word are linked to (D)JUStice, TIW , TIWas, ThINK, ThING, TIWESday, ThEMIS,
and for their pseudo-lingual categories (D)IOUS and (G)NŌSCŌ are also linked to the words IOUS
and NŌSCŌ (COGNITUS).
These relations are (my) assumptions, which of course need some authorization. In the meantime I
think the following may be helpful to check the links between Germanic, Greek and Latin. I would
not be surprised if any other languages may be added....:
Table 11 The Evidence of Perfect Pentagrams in Greek, Roman and Runic Mythology
Peoples and Divine Names with pentagrams as names (19)
The following list of 19 pentagrams may be extracted from the previous list of all pentagrams:
Table 12 Dictionary with a number (19) of pentagrams for Indo-Euro-European peoples and gods
Religious words with reconstructed letter categories
The imperfect pentagrams for divine names may illustrate the statistics for the concentrations of
perfect pentagrams.
The following list of divine names is composed from the “Religionerna i historia och nutid
(together with Åke V. Ström 1957)62” published by Helmer Ringgren and Åke V.Ström:
69.
70.
"soft, grayish mass filling the cranial cavity of a vertebrate," in the broadest sense,
"organ of consciousness and the mind," Old English brægen "brain," from Proto-
Germanic *bragnan (source also of Middle Low German bregen, Old Frisian and Dutch
brein), of uncertain origin, perhaps from PIE root *mregh-m(n)o- "skull, brain" (source
also of Greek brekhmos "front part of the skull, top of the head").
But Liberman writes that brain "has no established cognates outside West Germanic"
and is not connected to the Greek word. More probably, he writes, its etymon is PIE
*bhragno "something broken."
63 Source: Brain
Imperfect pentagrams (53)
The following table contains 53 imperfect pentagrams:
# Pentagram P Reference Explanation Language
1.
A AEIOU - Motto of emperor Frederik III (1415-1493) AEIOU Duits
2.
A AUGUST – Augustus – the first princeps (vgl. "emperor") August English
AUGUSTUS - of Rome (as a Roman emperor) Latin
3.
A AUSTRALIA - Name of Australia Australia English
4.
A AUSTRALIS - (Latin australis, meaning "southern") southern Latin
5.
B BRANGA - Old-Frisian dictionary To bring Old-Frisian
6.
B BRITAIN - Britain (*PRITANĪ) Britain English
7.
B BRÓÐIR - Bróðir (brother) Brother Old-Norse
8.
B BYZANTIUM - Byzantion (Greek) Constantinople Latin
9.
B BΕRLIJN - Berlin The name Berlin may have been derived Berlin Dutch
from Slavic word 'berl' (English: “moor”) .
10.
C CARLOMAN - Carloman - Brother of Charlemagne Carloman Latin
11.
C CAROLUS - Carolus Magnus (747/748–814) Charlemagne Latin
Karel is a Germanic name which is linked to the
Dutch word Kerel (the lowest rank of freemen).
12.
C CLOVIS - Clovis (Chlodovechus) Clovis French
13.
C CVRIALΕS - Curiales Curiales Latin
14.
D DEIWOS – *DEIWOS Etymology Dyeus PIE
D(E)IUOS -
15.
D DÓTTIR - dóttir (Daughter) Daughter Old-Norse
16.
D DRUIDΕ - druid druid French
17.
F FRIEND - friend friend English
18.
G GAUD - Runen-Sprach-Schatz (Runic dictionary, deity
German)
19.
G GAUTAMA - Gautama Boeddha leader (?) Sanskrit
20.
G GERMAN - German, Arminius, (Slavic form of Herman). German English
(ARMIN)
21.
G GODAN - Godan - the Lombard name for Odin, a god of Godan Lombard
Germanic paganism
22.
H HIRÐA - hirða (thrift, thriftiness) thrift Old-Norse
23.
I INGÆV - Tacitus's Germania (AD 98) – Ingaevones INGOV – Angel (?) Latin
24.
I IOU-piter – Jupiter (D)IOU(S) JOU-piter Latin
*DJOUS P (*DJOUS PATĒR)
25.
I ῚOΎΔΑΣ - Judas ῚOΎΔΑΣ Ὶούδας Greek
26.
J JURSALA - Runen-Sprach-Schatz (Runic dictionary, Jerusalem Old-
German) Swedish
27.
J JΕRUZALΕM - Jerusalem Jerusalem Dutch
28.
K KRAUT P Kraut / cruyt – Gothic *krûþ (genitive *krûdis), kruid Duits
KRUID – neuter, might be taken for krû-da Nederlands
CRUYT - Indo-Europese verwanten zeer onzeker.
29.
L LOUVRE - The origin of the name Louvre is unclear. Castle Louvre (Paris) French
# Pentagram P Reference Explanation Language
30.
M MARCUS - Marcus – (from *mart-kos, the Roman god Marcus Latin
Mars).
31.
M MARCΕL - Marcellus (maybe related to Marcus) Marcel French
32.
M MASSALIA - Massilia (Greek) Marseille Latin
33.
M MENNISKO - man (person) Man (person) Old-Dutch
34.
M MINSChE - man (person) man (person) Mid.-Dutch
35.
N *NEKWT - Night night PIE
36.
N NIEU(W)S - news news Dutch
37.
P PATRICIUS - Patrick (name) Patrick Latin
38.
P PRANGER - Pranger (pillory) pillory German
39.
P PYRΕNΕ - Pyrene (name) Pyrene (city) Greek
40.
P PΕRICLΕS - Pericles (name) Pericles Greek
41.
T TIBERINUS - Tiberinus (name) Tiberinus as a king Latin
42.
T TIBERIUS - Tiberius (name) Tiberius as an emperor Latin
43.
T TUISCO - *Tīwaz deity Latin
44.
T TUÏSTO - *Tīwaz deity Dutch
45.
T TAUROS - Taurros (bull) bull Greek
T TARVOS - Tarvos (bull) Gaulish
46.
V VEChTΕN - Vechten (To fight) To fight Dutch
47.
V VIJAND - vijand (tegenstander) (uit: Etymologiebank) opponent Dutch
van Proto-Germaans *FIJĒN- ‘haten’
48.
V VRIEND - Vriend - Originally the meaning ‘friend’ is “he, friend Dutch
who ritually is installed as a next of kin”. (from:
Etymologiebank)
49.
W (W)ODIN - reconstructed Proto-Germanic masculine Wodan Dutch
*WŌĐANAZ - theonym
*WŌDUNAZ - *Wōđanaz (or *Wōdunaz)
50.
Y YEHÛDÂH - Judah Judah Hebrew
51.
Z ZODÏΑCUS - Zodiac Zodiac Latin
52.
53.
54.