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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, enlil@... wrote:
> Loreto:
> > Arabic tamania, tisa, ashra could be similarly derived if you
> > consider Austronesian influence.
>
> I won't. This is not tenable in the slightest.
>
>
> > In many quasi-Christian Catholic cults in the Philippines
>
> I can see where you're going astray. Do we really want to pursue
> modern cults to give us a reasonable portrayal of ancient religion?
> The ancient source of the divine trinity is clear thanks to not
> only modern Catholicism but ancient Babylonian traditions recorded
> in cuneiform. In contrast, what is your view based on?
>
Agreed, but you seem to be ignoring the fact that modern quasi-
Christian cults have elements of Paganism and Animism within them
from their own indigenous cultures. Christianity also have elements
coming from those forms. And perhaps the drifts or differences are
not too hard to point out. And therefore the associations. Like when
you agreed that perhaps 'four' and 'death' are to be associated
because they sound the same.
And to shock you even further Enlil Gordon, your brother Enki could
have come from "Ingkong". And so perhaps your
English 'uncle', 'angel', Enoch, Anak etc.etc. OOps sorry, these are
tabooed word-connections like shi...
Connections and Associations ad infinitum. Languages and words may
therefore have only come from a few forms uttered by the most
primitive humans (as they developed from apes and as they developed
their language faculties).
At least those are what I see on my readings of these. But I think I
am still leaving out some African and Amerindian. Maybe I'll change
my mind later if I come across them. And perhaps I'll agree that we
all came from outer space.
Or we were fathered by different apes.
Loreto