Re: Accepted cognates of Arya?

--- In cybalist@..., "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@..., "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
> > Aha!
> >
> > And allow me a dumb question: Does all this seven-ness have
> anything
> > to do with other traditional heptads besides divinities: days of
> the
> > week, the seven metals, the planets?
> >
> > BTW, I came across this site:
> >
> > http://www.ruspublishing.com.au/index.html
> >
> > Some of his etymology does not impress me, but is there something
> to
> > his idea of an Iranian connection to a European pre-Christian
> belief
> > system?
> >
> > Torsten
>
> Typical. If you want something done properly, do it yourself.

Here's

> what I found on seven-stuff:
>
> http://www.zen-forum.com/ForumE/showthread.php3?threadid=909
> http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&q=%2Bopusrex+%2Bcorax
>
> Considering the seven degrees in Mithraism and their ruling gods

and

> planets, it looks like one should modify the standard story of the
> Germanic borrowing of the names of the days of the week from the
> Romans to include at least some Mithraism (Yes, I know, Roman
> soldiers etc...). Anyway, the idea of a Roman 7-pantheon comprising
> also sun and moon always seemed a bit suspect to me.
>
> BTW, re hats,
> the pointed felt hat is the mother of all hats
> http://www.thehatsite.com/felt.html
> and (phenotype and genotype, etc) all hats are pointed felt hats at
> an early stage in their creation.
> (and, for the *very* curious
> http://www.villagehatshop.com/hats_glossary_a.html
> but look for "pileus")
>
> Now if Magi (etc) did wear pointed hats, and if they made them
> themselves, and if felt was treated with mercury then as now (and
> mercury was known at least to the Greeks) they would all have

become

> mad as hatters. Somewhere else on the net I read that the secret of
> the mercury-treating process for felt came to Europe from Turkey

with

> returning crusaders, so there might have been a continued tradition.
>
> Just a thought.
>
> Torsten

A process known as "carroting" since it turned the felt red. Now you
have a red pointed felt hat, which you find in many contexts. Red is
otherwise a difficult color to obtain, this might be an indictaion
that this process was responsible. In French the process is known
as "secretage" since it was kept as a secret.
I wonder if there might be a connection between Latin(?) "pileus" and
English "felt"?

Torsten