Etymology - Research Articles

How a once‑secret magical philosophy slipped into everyday English, from ‘quintessential’ cocktails to the vacuum‑packed peanuts you bought yesterday.

A philological dive into the Hebrew words for “fruit” and “knowledge” in Genesis, how they shift in Greek and Latin, and the later myths they spawned.

How the Middle‑Egyptian verb rḫ (“to know”) permeated temple liturgies, funerary spells, and the secret curriculum of the House of Life.

A philological safari that follows the Hebrew word for “knowledge” from a prehistoric Afroasiatic root through Akkadian, Aramaic, and Egyptian detours all the way to the Nag Hammadi codices.

Exploring the hypothesis of two intertwined Proto-Sapiens roots, *hankwa (breath, life, soul) and *henkwi (snake, dragon), by examining proposed cognates across global language families and their implications for the Snake Cult of Consciousness.

A speculative reconstruction of a proto-word for ‘soul’ or ‘spirit’ dating back 15,000+ years, examining cross-linguistic echoes of ancient life-force terminology.

Explores the speculative Jing hypothesis proposing that a primordial word sounding like ‘jing’ or ‘gen’ once meant soul or spirit across ancient cultures worldwide.

A speculative reconstruction of a Proto-Sapiens root *ŋAN, proposing an ancient global word for ‘breath’ and ‘soul’ and tracing its reflexes across major language families.

El Océano Atlántico y la isla de la Atlántida deben su nombre al Titán Atlas. Descubre cómo la mitología y el lenguaje convergen en su etimología compartida.

O Oceano Atlântico e a ilha de Atlântida devem seus nomes ao Titã Atlas. Descubra como mitologia e linguagem convergem em sua etimologia compartilhada.