Re: [tied] Re: The Gaia Hypothesis

What's wrong with Canaanite /gay@?/ construct form /ge:?/? It means "land",
and may well be derived from Sumerian /ki/.

Cheers
Dennis

----- Original Message -----
From: John Croft <jdcroft@...>
To: <cybalist@egroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, 17 August, 2000 9:30 PM
Subject: [tied] Re: The Gaia Hypothesis


> Glen wrote
> > While I'll avoid the Yoruba connection for now, I want to know more
> > about the origin of Gaia. Has this been discussed before? Is there
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> > solution?
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> > Would I be crazy to suggest that it is perhaps from IE? Like maybe
> > *Gwo:u-aya "Aunt Cow"? I know that the Hindus have Go-Mata "Mother
> > Cow" who provides plenty of milk on tap for the universe. (Got
> > milk?)
> >
> > Of course we could go nuts with this title. We got "Aunt Cow",
> > "Mother Cow"... Why not "Grandmother Cow"? In IndoEuropean, that
> > would be *Gwo:u-xanos or *Gwo:u-xanax, or maybe just *Gwxnax for
> > short (cf. Sanskrit gana, Gr. gyno-, etc). Just a thought. Carry on.
>
> Glen, try the following. Cyril suggests *aia comes from IE
> "Grandmother" and we have already had a great deal of discussion on
> this. Ge is the Pelasgian word for the Earth (ultimately derived
> from
> the Great Goddess's Sumerian name Ki (She was also known as Ninhursag
> (Laty Mountain) or Nintu (Lady (Mother) of Life, the origin of the
> West Semitic HWH = Mother of Living, also known as Eve. Nintu was
> also known (via a Sumerian pun as "Lady Rib")). As Cyril suggests Ge
> + aia = Gaia (QED). Try forgetting about mother cows.
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> Regards
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> John
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