http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/27/national/27CND-PLED.html Browse
this ridiculous URL and say, 'oh, god'.
I suggest that 'cybalist' should not allow the legal pundits of
America to dictate terms.
What is IE for 'god'? I don't think we can say that this is, to use a
Sanskrit grammatical term, non-declinable.
al + ilh, allah = the god. Any link with R.gveda 'il.a_' (say, agnim
i_l.e purohitam...)?
I suggest that the word, 'god' is derived from: kat.avul. = one who
transcends speech and mind; kat.a = to transcend, to cross over
(Tamil)
Did 'godess' precede 'god'? For e.g., early recognition of earth
mother or Sarasvati as godess, fertility godess.
I accept my god as a supernatural being and also the existence of any
other god (and godess).
Does the secular deal only with the 'natural' and cannot countenance
the 'unnatural' or 'supernatural' (i.e. beyond nature or beyond the
material world and phenomena)? Hence the opposition between the
church and the state; between god and the secular; god deals with
phenomena beyond the material; secular deals with things material.
Thus, gos is opposed to na_tus, past participle of na_sci_, to be
born. God is a reference to something 'unborn', 'non-existent'.
There is a R.gvedic reference to gold as amr.tam, that which does not
die. The material fascination for gold leads to its deification;
hence, I suggest the the word, 'god' is derived from 'gold', 'the
imperishable, eternal'.
Gold is derived from ghel- to shine; with derivatives referring to
colors, bright materials, gold (probably "yellow metal"), and bile or
gall. Oldest form *hel-, becoming *ghel- in centum languages (also,
ghel- 'yellow'; no link with ghoul which is from Arabic gu_l, to
seizel, snatch, i.e. a spirit plundering graves and feeding on
corpses).
For the secular, gold is god.