Peri & Daʿat — The Hebrew Roots Behind the “Fruit of Knowledge”
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.
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Hermeticism In Everyday Culture
How a once‑secret magical philosophy slipped into everyday English, from ‘quintessential’ cocktails to the vacuum‑packed peanuts you bought yesterday.
Reḫ (rḫ): Ritual Reach of the Egyptian ‘To Know’
How the Middle‑Egyptian verb rḫ (“to know”) permeated temple liturgies, funerary spells, and the secret curriculum of the House of Life.
Rooting Daʿat: From Proto‑Afroasiatic y/w‑d‑ʕ to Gnostic Gnosis
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.
Lifebreath of the Dragon: A Proto-Sapiens Hypothesis
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 …
Proto-Sapiens ŋAN: Charting the Anima Mundi from the First Breath
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.
Jing Hypothesis (Alternative)
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.
Jing Hypothesis Draft
Explores the speculative Jing hypothesis proposing that a primordial word sounding like ‘jing’ or ‘gen’ once meant soul or spirit across ancient cultures worldwide.
In the Shadow of Atlas: Why the Atlantic Ocean and Atlantis Share a Name
Atlantic Ocean and the island of Atlantis both take their name from the Titan Atlas. Discover how mythology and language converge in their shared etymology.
Knower Self And The Gn Erosion Hypotheses
A deep dive into two speculative etymologies linking the global N-pronoun to ‘knowing’—either semantically (knower = self) or phonetically (ǵn- > n-).