Hi I am Maria Katerina, new to list. Great
group, I'm not a linguist but an astrologer
and slavic shaman healer, and all on this list,
from my oservence have clarified things
for me in my mystical studies, and
added to it, by your preciseness,
your passion of the knowledge.
From womens mysteries of the ancient -
Goddesses in the Primal notion that all life
depended on the magic of the 'blood of
the moon' or menses blood, and the life
force of blood that runs through our veins.
Evolved a corresponding notion to create fear
that the Vampire, or the dead craved blood in
order to make them selves alive or reborn again.
Greeks believed the shades of the dead could be
called from the underworld by offerings of blood which
they greatly desired, therefore blood was the essential
ingrediant of necromancy. Thus demonizing the Ancients
understandings of Dreaming and DreamTime or connections
with divinity directly through the emotional bodies
intutive powers or anything connected with embracing
the Yin psyche of the Underworld.
Draco the Constellation in Ursa Minor, genetive of
Draconis was also earths Northern most Polar Star
in Ancient Times. (North Star today). It was called Draconis
because the stars surrounding it had the tail of the
Serpent. Serpent archetypes during the matriarch
or when we used Draco as our north star, followed
with the Myths of the Bear Constellations of the
Shaman Healers, and whom Artemis is a direct
ancestor in diety form. The shamans, who were
primarily women, thus linked the serpent on
the medical staff today. Draconia was thus
in its most ancient form, a Chaos (Creation)
or Primorial Goddes of the Underworld and
the teachings of Dreams and DreamTime
Astral Travel, dimentional travel etc.
Of course anything Yin during the rise
of the Sun or Solar God on earth was
demonized, thus brithed the stories
from fear as the foundation: The Vampire or
Dragon medicine. I would assume too that the
Dragon was an ancient totem for feminine
empowerment.
Please let me know if my type of sharing is
not appropriate for this list. If so, I will become
the great obsever once again.
Blessings and Love... Mary The aquarians aquarian!
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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "cristi mindrut" <cristi_mindrut@...> wro=
te:
> tolgs001 wrote:
> > The question will be then whether the spelling
> > Dragulya reflects the Romanian drãculea (which simply
> > means "li'l devil", i.e. the diminutive to dracul "the devil"),
> > or whether it's to be read as a variant of the name Dragul
> > "the/my/our dear" < (Slavic) adj. drag "dear," that has
> > generated so many (sur)names & nicknames in Romanian.
> > This second possibility is seen as less plausible
> > simply because Vlad Senior had Dracul as a cognomen.
> >
> > So, NandriS's assumption is kinda commonly accepted
> > knowledge in Romania, namely that Dracula should be
> > understood as "Dracul's son" (for, otherwise, the Slavic
> > -a ending means nothing in Romanian, i.e. a Romanian
> > native-speaker does not understand its semantic
> > function, although it plays a considerable role in
> > Romanian onomastics).
> >
> > George
>
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>
> in romanian, the "-lea" from "Draculea" doesn't simply mean "li'l
> devil", and is not a diminutive to "dracul" .the diminutive
> to "dracul" would be "dracusorul" , and "li'l devil" would
> be "dracutul".
> there is no Slavic "-a" ending to "draculea"
> If you have "5(five) men", and you talk about "the fifth one", in
> romanian would be "5(cinci) oameni", and you are talking about "al
> cincilea" , or if you say "dragon" and "the dragon" and "of the
> dragon" and "of the dam' dragon", in romanian would
> be "drac" ,"dracul", "al dracului", "al draculea" but "al draculea"
> doesn't sound well in our days. "al" means "of/of the/son
> of/belonging to" and can be put before or after the word itself
> as "lui" meaning "his/of/of the/". so you can say "al dracu"
> or "dracului" or "al draculea".
> "-a" and "-ul" are the feminine and masculine articles of the neutral
> forms of substantives.
> femeie - femeia = woman - the woman
> barbat - barbatul = man - the man
> the slavic "Drag" meaning "Dear"(english), Drag"(romanian), is
> also "Draga"(magyar).
>
> criztu