Saturday, October 8, 2011

Holos - The Holy

Holos - the holy. Sanctified and whole; the principle of wholeness, which is the principle of health; derivations include healthy, holy, holiday, Hail, German Heil, whole, holistic, holocaust, help and hell. Hell, coming from the Germanic word Hel, meant bright (Modern German Hell - bright), significant of a wholeness like the sun from which radiated light.

Wholeness is the central idea behind the Monad, most important to religious studies both modern and ancient. The oneness of the universe, the All-God, is the supreme principle of being whole, and therefore it is holy. This is how the term holiness came to be used to describe closeness with the divine. What was whole was also what was healthy; this is part of the process of self-realization, or the becoming whole of all the psyche's parts, in Jungian psychology. By the unification of the psyche, the individual achieves wholeness, and therefore a state of supreme health. The word "health" itself is a combination of the h-l root with -t, which literally means "the wholl-ed" or "the thing made whole".

Again, we see the usage of the materialistic -p sound in the word help; to help something means to aid it, usually in a material sense; saving something from (a worldly) danger for instance.

Holos is central to the Proto-Indo-European religion. As a process, it is individuation or the connection with the Monad or the All; as a state, it is supreme health and unity of all parts, an organic whole, functional and perfected. It is a return to the origin; proximity to the center of the universe.

There is a discrepancy whether the root was pronounced Holos or Solos; Latin mutation made Holos into Solos, and then into Solvos, and finally into Salvus, which means "health".

Therefore, respect the whole; principle of the Monad.

Thursday, October 6, 2011

Guide to Primordial Sounds

Quick Primer:

b - soft version of P, growth (like a crystal), emanation, beating, pulsation, period of a cycle; baros - to bear, belos - light/emanation of light

d - soft version of T, the depths, the netherworld, transcendence, subsurface, fluctuation, degeneration into or out of matter; d+r= duros/door - door, gate

g - reflection and projection within the abstract realm, actor, initiation, to go, beget; galos - charged fluid

k/c - reflection, projection, ricochet;

l - gliding, conduit, light (as opposed to heavy); lachos - light

m - the absorptive, the well, the Mother (mater - mother), the infinite ocean (maros - sea), mass generation, the endless absorbing element, darkness, space, buffer; aum - beginning and end

n - material absorption, repository, transfer of power, electric current; namos - designation/name

p - the physical, the mundane, the inanimate, the tool, the vessel, hardness; petros - rock

r - continuance, current, facilitation, transcendence; ratos - wheel, root

s - the existential sound: constant vibration, standing, traversing; os/is - to be

t - the material, hardness, hard version of D, the earthly, physical structure; telos/terra - earth

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Verbs

It is apparent that Indo-Aryan verbs were based in stems consisting of a single syllable, that is a combination of a simple consonant with a coupling vowel that could couple the verb stem with a conjugational ending.

One example is the verb root ska-, meaning "to cut", which carries with it the full implications of "to cut or mold, to shape, create, form or scoop", such as can be read here.

The ending -t and -p are merely noun-making suffixes, which lend a particular material or definite quality to the initial stem; -t is indicative of something somehow having been enacted by ska-,  such as skatos (shadow, shaped), while -p is used for more definite material objects like skapos (shape, vessel). Yet they are both very similar, as we see here.

It should therefore be known that the nouns of the Indo-European language originated from a proto-linguistic expression of active forms of existence, that is, verb-like constructions indicating a certain way of being and a certain nature of existence as emanated by the described thing. The study of such exact sound meanings will be gone over later. Thus, nouns did come from verbs, since verbs were initially stems from which suffixes could be attached to give more definitive forms; these roots were composed of sounds indicating a certain nature (a mode of existence), and therefore a certain active behavior consequent of it's existence. The world was defined by the way in which objects affected each other; based on understanding relationships between things. That was how something was defined; by how it reacted to other things. In the same way these things were described by initially verb-type words.

The roots are all directly descended from the emanations of these particular sounds, such as the sk sound formed as the root ska-, or st being sta- (to stand), and so on.

An example of conjugation:
sta-, to stand, present tense
1st Person       staimi
2nd Person      staisi
3rd Person       staiti

Conversely, there is a variety of forms we can reconstruct for representing these old verbs. One discrepancy is that the vowel coupled to these sounds is relative. It is most certainly a more open vowel, but it ranges between an a, an o and an e in representation. Final decisions in representing these will be done from a careful aesthetic study.