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Who Guards the Vault?
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“There are things you know about,
and things you don’t,
the known and the unknown,
and in between are the doors
–that’s us.
We’re saying that you’re not only spirit,
you’re also this very sensuous being.
That’s not evil, that’s a really beautiful thing.
Hell appears so much more fascinating and bizarre than heaven.
You have to ‘break on through to the other side’
to become the whole being.”
- Ray Manzarek of The Doors
A liminal deity is a god or goddess in mythology
who presides over thresholds, gates, or doorways;
"a crosser of boundaries".
Special types include dying-and-rising deities,
various agricultural deities,
and those who descend into the underworld:
crossing the threshold between life and death
representing the most fundamental of all boundaries.
Vegetation deities in particular mimic the annual dying and returning of plant life,
making them seasonally cyclical liminal deities. In contrast,
the one-time ordeal typical of the dying-and-rising myth,
or legends of those who return from a descent to the underworld,
represent a more narrow scope
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liminal_deity
Their first mistake was letting him in.
Their biggest mistake was letting him out!
- The Spook Who Sat by the Door (Movie 1973)
Yog-Sothoth knows the gate.
Yog-Sothoth is the gate.
Yog-Sothoth is the key
and guardian of the gate.
Past, present, future,
all are one
in
Yog-Sothoth.
He knows where
the Old Ones
- H.P. Lovecraft
The Dunwich Horror
formed
a cult which
had never died.
- H.P. Lovecraft
The Call of Cthulhu
The illuminated Adepts and their esoteric fraternities
witnessed the rising evil and saw that
man was not using his newfound knowledge
for the good of the species.
And so they hid their wisdom
to keep it from the eyes of the unworthy.
- Dan Brown
The Lost Symbol
Not in the spaces we know,
but between them,
- H.P. Lovecraft
The Dunwich Horror
below the threshold of sensation or consciousness;
perceived by or affecting someone's mind
without their being aware of it.
- https://www.lexico.com/definition/subliminal
“I just put him on the Dark Dream.”
- Thomas Pynchon
Gravity’s Rainbow
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The Right Honourable Reverend Doctor Heronimus Jones - founder and Principal Shareholder of the Brew D'Agon Traiding Compagnie, Incorpirated, and captain of The Brew D'Agon – sighed, a resolute exhalation punctuating a long period of silent contemplation. He fixed an unwavering eye on Jung the Elder. The Head of The Think Tank smiled smugly back at him. Thoughts crisscrossed the space between. A conversation transpired in silence. At last, the Captain spoke aloud.
"Aye. Thou art correct. If we are to insure ye desired gate doth open, 'tis time for more information to be revealed unto ye candidate. His subconscious mind willst be directed onto ye Rêverie d’Arche. Pray he hath sufficiently steely nerve to press forward thro’ ye veritable walls o’ obfuscatin’ fog & smoke, therewithin to be tested by ye gate’s guardians, & emerge victorious. D’Agon fhtagn."
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The word ‘ark’ itself is an interesting one
worth investigating.
- Robert Temple
The Sirius Mystery
The names of nearly all the gods came to Greece from Egypt.
I know from the inquiries I have made that they came from abroad,
and it seems most likely that it was from Egypt,
for the names of all the gods have been known in Egypt
from the beginning of time
- Herodotus
Histories II
But what about the Ark?
Does this also have Egyptian origins?
- Philip Gardiner
The Ark, the Shroud, and Mary:
The Untold Truths about the Relics of the Bible
Graham Phillips, in The Templars
and the Ark of the Covenant,
makes it clear that he believes
the Ark originated in Egypt.
- Philip Gardiner
The Ark, the Shroud, and Mary:
The Untold Truths about the Relics of the Bible
Perhaps we should take more seriously
the explanation they themselves offer:
that their ancestors were taught
- Graham Hancock
Fingerprints of the Gods
by a god.
- Graham Hancock
Fingerprints of the Gods
If you are ready for the truth,
if you can honestly say you have an open mind
and are prepared to let go of misconceptions,
then read on. Forget the false interpretations
of myth and religion you have heard so many times,
and know them for what they really are:
the secret language of the shining ones
- Philip Gardiner
Secret Societies
argue (v.)
c. 1300, "to make reasoned statements to prove or refute a proposition,"
from Old French arguer "maintain an opinion or view;
harry, reproach, accuse, blame" (12c.),
ultimately from Latin arguere "make clear, make known,
prove, declare, demonstrate," from PIE *argu-yo-,
suffixed form of root *arg- "to shine; white."
The transmission to French might be via arguere
in a Medieval Latin sense of "to argue,"
or from Latin argutare "to prattle, prate," frequentative of arguere.
De Vaan says arguere is probably "a denominative verb
'to make bright, enlighten' to an adj. *argu-'bright'
as continued in argutus and outside Italic."
He cites a closely similar formation in Hittite arkuuae- "to make a plea."
Meaning "to oppose, dispute, contend in argument" is from late 14c.
- www.etymonline.com/?search=argue
In Sanskrit again arka means ‘belonging or relating to the sun’.
Arkam means “as far as the sun, even to the sun inclusively’.
Arki has become a name for Saturn,
thought at the time to be the most distant planet.
Arc means ‘to shine, be brilliant’,
and can mean ‘to cause to shine’.
Arkin means ‘radiant with light’.
Arka means ‘a ray’ and is also a religious ceremony.
- Robert Temple
The Sirius Mystery
The Egyptian arqi is even more significant.
Note the final determinative
(picture not used as a letter) sign ⊙
which is a circle with a dot in the middle.
The meaning of this word is ‘the end of a period,
the last day of the month’.
- Robert Temple
The Sirius Mystery
[Fr. archaique < Gk. arkhāïkos, old-fashioned < arkhaios, old
< arkhē, beginning < arkhein, to begin.]
- The American Heritage Dictionary
Second College Edition
[Gk. arkhon, ruler, pr. part. of arkhein, to rule.]
- ar’chon*ship’ n.
- The American Heritage Dictionary
Second College Edition
According to legend,
the Lost Word was written in a language so ancient and arcane
that mankind had all but forgotten how to read it.
This mysterious language, Peter had revealed, was in fact
the oldest language on earth.
The language of symbols.
In the idiom of symbology,
there was one symbol that reigned supreme
above all others.
The oldest and most universal,
this symbol fused all
the ancient traditions in a single solitary image
that represented the illumination of the Egyptian sun god,
the triumph of alchemical gold,
the wisdom of the Philosopher’s Stone,
the purity of the Rosicrucian Rose,
the moment of Creation,
the All,
the dominance of the astrological sun,
and even the omniscient all-seeing eye
that hovered atop the unfinished pyramid.
The circumpunct.
The symbol of the Source.
The origin of all things.
- Dan Brown
The Lost Symbol
origin
early 15c., from M.Fr. origine,
from L. originem (nom. Origo)
“rise, beginning, source,”
from stem oriri “to rise, become visible, appear”
- www.etymonline.com/?search=origin
source (n.)
mid-14c., from Old French sourse
"a rising, beginning, fountainhead of a river or stream,"
fem. noun taken from the past participle of sourdre
"to rise, spring up,"
from Latin surgere "to rise" (see surge).
Meaning "written work (later also a person)
supplying information or evidence" is from 1788.
- www.etymonline.com/?search=source
surge (n.)
late 15c., "fountain, stream,"
probably from Middle French sourge-, stem of sourdre
"to rise, swell," from Latin surgere "to rise,
" contraction of surrigere "to rise,"
from sub "up from below" + regere "to keep straight, guide"
(see regal). Meaning "high, rolling swell of water"
is from 1520s; figurative sense of "excited rising up
(as of feelings)
- www.etymonline.com/?search=surge
The Devil is half-sitting on a throne
carved out of a rock that the villagers would all recognize
as a nearby rock known as “The Devil’s Armchair.”
They would also know that beside this rock there is a spring
known as “The Spring of the Circle.”
The Devil seems to be underlining the name
- Colin Wilson
Atlantis and the Kingdom of the Neanderthals
Sauniere is obviously playing games –
or trying to tell us something.
- Colin Wilson
Atlantis and the Kingdom of the Neanderthals
“What does this mean?” The paper said
ET IN ARCADIA EGO.
“It means that time is unreal.
The illuminated mind sees across and beyond time.”
“Suppose I permutate the letters,” Sartines said. “Like this.”
He wrote again:
I TEGO ARCANA DEI.
“Go,” Sigismundo translated.
“I conceal the secrets of God.”
- Robert Anton Wilson
The Widow’s Son
ar·cane (är-kān) adj.
Known or understood only by a few; esoteric.
[Lat. arcānus, secret < arcere, to shut up < arca, chest.]
ar·ca·num (är-kānəm) n., pl. -na (-na) or -nums.
1. A profound secret; mystery.
2. The reputed great secret that alchemists sought to find.
3. An elixir.
[Lat. < arcānus, secret. - see arcane]
- The American Heritage Dictionary
Second College Edition
archives (n.)
c. 1600, from French archif (16c.),
from Late Latin archivum (singular),
from Greek ta arkheia "public records,"
plural of arkheion "town hall,"
from arkhe "government,"
literally "beginning, origin, first place" (see archon).
- www.etymonline.com/?search=archives
Long hours in the past days Thorin had spent in the treasury,
and the lust of it was heavy on him.
Though he had hunted chiefly for the Arkenstone,
yet he had an eye for many
another wonderful thing that was lying there,
about which were wound old memories
of the labours and the sorrows of his race.
- J.R.R. Tolkien
The Hobbit
[Fr. archaique < Gk. arkhāïkos, old-fashioned < arkhaios, old
< arkhē, beginning < arkhein, to begin.]
- The American Heritage Dictionary
Second College Edition
[Gk. arkhon, ruler, pr. part. of arkhein, to rule.]
- ar’chon*ship’ n.
- The American Heritage Dictionary
Second College Edition
arc (n.)
late 14c., originally in reference to the sun’s
apparent motion in the sky,
from O.Fr. arc “bow, arch, vault” (12c.),
- www.etymonline.com/?search=arc
ark (n.)
O.E. earc, mainly meaning Noah’s
but also the Ark of the Covenant,
from L. arca “large box, chest” (see arcane).
Also borrowed in Old High German (arahha, Mod.Ger. Arche).
From the Noachian sense comes extended meaning
“place of refuge” (17c.). As the name of a type of ship or boat,
from late 15c.
- www.etymonline.com/?search=ark
It did not seem overly important for there to be just one sacred ark.
One of the versions, however, was specifically smaller than the other,
and this was carried in procession by the priesthood
using long poles, similar to the biblical Ark.
The second version was floated down the Nile
with the statue of Amun placed amidships
– in the center of the boat –
to maintain balance.
- Philip Gardiner
The Ark, the Shroud, and Mary:
The Untold Truths about the Relics of the Bible
pay closer attention
to the many unmistakably maritime references in the Pyramid texts.
And there could be important new inferences
to draw from ancient Egyptian religious art
in which the gods are shown traveling
in beautiful, high-prowed, stream-lined boats,
built to the same advanced ocean-going specifications
as the pyramid boats at Giza and the mysterious fleet
moored in the desert sands at Abydos.
- Graham Hancock
Fingerprints of the Gods
the shadow ship started to emerge from its shadow.
- A.E. Von Vogt
Earth Factor X
Aken
Chthonic underworld god. Egyptian.
The keeper of the underworld ferry boat.
- Michael Jordan
Encyclopedia of Gods
Aker
Chthonic earth god of passage. Egyptian.
Known from the Old Kingdom (circa 2700 BC onward).
Controls the interface between the eastern
and western horizons of the underworld.
Aker provides a safe course for the craft of the sun god
during its passage through the underworld at night.
He may be seen as the socket holding the boat’s mast.
He is also considered benevolent against snakebites.
- Michael Jordan
Encyclopedia of Gods
Sokar
Chthonic underworld god. Egyptian.
Guardian deity of the necropolis at Memphis
with possible fertility connotations and with strong links to Osiris
beside whom he is also perceived as a restored god of the dead.
He is also syncretized with the Memphis creater god Ptah
in the Old Kingdom (circa 4000 BC), where he may have originated as a god
of various crafts associated with the manufacture of funerary trappings.
- Michael Jordan
Encyclopedia of Gods
90–120kyr BP:
Possible association of rituals using ochre
and/or fire with internment of the dead.
- Paul Pettitt
The Paleolithic Origins of Human Burial
He is depicted either as a hawk on a boat,
or in human form with the head of a hawk
and an elaborate atef crown (see Osiris).
Sokar also enjoyed a major cult at Thebes
where, in an annual festival celebrating
the healthy continuation of the divine kingship,
he was conveyed in an elaborate boat.
- Michael Jordan
Encyclopedia of Gods
Seker was usually depicted as a mummified hawk
and sometimes as a mound from which the head of a hawk appears.
Here he is called “he who is on the sand’.
Sometimes he is shown on his ‘hennu barque’
which was an elaborate sledge for negotiating the sandy necropolis.
One of his titles was ‘he of Restau’
which means the place of ‘openings’ or tomb entrances.
In the New Kingdom Book of the Underworld, the Amduat,
he is shown standing on the back of a serpent between two spread wings,
as an expression of freedom this suggests a connection with resurrection
or perhaps a satisfactory transit of the underworld.
Despite this the region of the underworld associated with Seker
was seen as difficult, sandy terrain called the Imhet
(meaning ‘filled up’ presumably with sand).
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seker
TIME IS A RIVER . . . AND BOOKS ARE BOATS.
MANY VOLUMES START DOWN THAT STREAM,
ONLY TO BE LOST BEYOND RECALL IN ITS SANDS.
ONLY A FEW, A VERY FEW ENDURE THE TESTINGS OF TIME
AND LIVE TO BLESS THE AGES FOLLOWING.
There is a reason these volumes survived,
while others vanished.
- Dan Brown
The Lost Symbol
21 Boat being dragged, Wadi Abu Wasil.
This scene foreshadows similar ones
in the Valley of the Kings, but pre-dates them
by nearly three thousand years.
The clues to the origins of the ancient Egyptian civilization
seem to lie in the Eastern Desert.
22 The bark of the sun god dragged by attendant deities
- from the tomb of Rameses VII in the Valley of the Kings.
The origins of the classic motif can now be traced back
to the prehistoric period, and the rock art of the Eastern Desert.
23 Boat petroglyph, partially defaced
by modern graffiti, in the Wadi Barrimiya.
The standing figure wearing a twin-plumed headdress
is one of the earliest depictions of a god of ancient Egypt.
He points the boat towards the west,
the land of the dead
in Ancient Egyptian Religion.
- Toby Wilkinson
Genesis of the Pharaohs
He's gone to Davy Jones's locker, i.e. he is dead.
Jones is a corruption of Jonah, the prophet,
who was thrown into the sea.
Locker, in seaman's phrase,
means any receptacle for private stores;
and duffy is a ghost or spirit
among the West Indian negroes.
So the whole phrase is,
"He is gone to the place of safe keeping,
where duffy Jonah was sent to."
- E. Cobham Brewer
Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
locker (n.)
small chest that can be locked, late 14c.,
agent noun from Middle English lokken (see lock (v.)).
Earlier "a mechanism for locking" (early 14c.).
- www.etymonline.com/?search=locker
lock (n.1)
"means of fastening," Old English loc "bolt, fastening; barrier, enclosure,'
from Proto-Germanic *lukan (cf. Old Norse lok "fastening, lock,"
Gothic usluks "opening," Old High German loh "dungeon,"
German Loch "opening, hole," Dutch luik "shutter, trapdoor").
"The great diversity of meaning in the Teut. Words seems to indicate
two or more independent but formally identical
substantial formations from the root."
The Old English sense "barrier, enclosure"
led to the specific meaning "barrier on a river" (c.1300),
and the more specific sense "gate and sluice system on a water channel
used as a means of raising and lowering boats" (1570s).
- www.etymonline.com/?search=lock
loch (n.)
Late 14c., from Gaelic loch “lake, lake-like body,”
including the narrow, nearly land-locked arms of the sea
found in the glacier-scoured landscape of west Scotland;
cognate with Old Irish loch “body of water, lake,” Breton lagen,
Anglo-Irish lough, Latin lacus (see lake (n.1)).
“The word was adopted in ONorthumbrian as luh” [OED].
The diminutive form is lochan.
The Loch Ness monster is first attested 1933.
- www.etymonline.com/?search=loch
lake (n.1)
“body of water surrounded by land
and filling a depression or basin,” early 12c.,
from Old French lack (12c., Modern French lac)
and directly from Latin lacus “pond, pool, lake,”
also “basin, tank, reservoir” (related to lacuna “hole, pit”),
from PIE *laku- “body of water, lake, sea”
(source also of Greek lakkos “pit, tank, pond,”
Old Church Slavonic loky ”pool, puddle, cistern,”
Old Irish loch “lake, pond”).
There was a Germanic form of the PIE root which
yielded Old Norse lögr "sea flood, water,”
Old English lacu “stream, pool, pond,”
lagu “sea flood, water, extent of the sea,”
leccan “to moisten” (see leak (v.)).
In Middle English, lake, as a descendent of the Old English word,
also could mean “stream; river gully; ditch; marsh;
grave; pit of hell,”
- www.etymonline.com/?search=lake
ocean (n.)
Late 13c., from Old French occean "ocean"
(late 12c., Modern French ocean),
from Latin oceanus, from Greek okeanos,
the great river or sea surrounding the disk of the Earth
(as opposed to the Mediterranean),
of unknown origin. Personified as Oceanus,
son of Uranus and Gaia and husband of Tethys.
In early times, when the only known land masses were Eurasia and Africa,
the ocean was an endless river that flowed around them.
- www.etymonline.com/?search=ocean
Aegean
sea between Greece and Asia Minor, 1570s,
traditionally named for Aegeus, father of Theseus,
who threw himself to his death in it
when he thought his son had perished;
but perhaps from Greek aiges “waves,”
a word of unknown origin.
- www.etymonline.com/?search=Aegean
I focus on the Greek form Akhaioí,
a name translated as ‘Achaeans’.
Together with the names Argeioi and Danaoi,
translated respectively as ‘Argives’ and ‘Danaans’,
this name Akhaioí refers in Homeric poetry to Greek warriors
who lived and died in the epic world of a heroic age.
- Classical-inquiries.chs.harvard.edu/east-of-the-achaeans-making-up-for-a-missed-opportunity-while-reading-hittite-texts/
Argive
‘of Argos,” hence, especially in Homeric usage,
“the Greeks,” as a byword for Achaean
(he describes Agamemnon as king of Argos), 1520s,
from L. Argivus, from Gk. Argeios “of Argos.”
- www.etymonline.com/?search=Argive
Argo
name of the ship in which Jason and his companions
sought the Fleece in Colchis, in Greek, lit.
“The swift,” from argos “swift’ (adj.),
and epithet, lit. “shining, bright”
- www.etymonline.com/?search=Argo
Athena’s aegis, bearing the Gorgon,
here resembles closely the skin of the huge serpent
who guards the golden fleece
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aegis
Aix (AEX) was an ancient gorgon
slain by Zeus at the start of the Titan war.
He crafted his famous aigis shield
-- a goat-hide arm guard fringed with serpents --
from its skin and set her fearsome visage upon it.
Aix was also memorialised amongst the stars
as the constellation Capra (Greek Aix)
on the arm of Auriga. Capra's rising in late autumn
heralded the onset of seasonal storms.
Aix was the daughter of the sun-god Helios.
Like the aigis-shield herself, she symbolized the storm-cloud.
Her name means both "Terrible Goat" and "Fierce Storm"
for the Greek word aigis contains the double-meaning
of "stormy" and "goatish". An elder Gorgon was also
sometimes referred to as the father of Medousa.
This figure may be the same as Aix,
for the primal Gorgon was a being of indeterminable gender
-- a bearded woman or a man with womanly attributes.
- www.theoi.com/Titan/GorgoAix.html
The goddess has a monstrous head,
and she is sitting in a boat.
A holy tree is depicted, probably related
with the Minoan cult of the tree.
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorgon
While descriptions of Gorgons vary across Greek literature,
the term commonly refers to any of three sisters
who had hair of living, venomous snakes,
and a horrifying visage
that turned those who beheld it to stone.
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorgon
Author Marija Gimbutas (Language of the Goddess)
believed she saw the prototype of the Gorgoneion
in Neolithic art motifs, especially in anthropomorphic vases
and terracotta masks inlaid with gold.
A female figure, probably a sea-goddess is depicted
on a Minoan gold ring from the island Mochlos in Crete.
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorgon
The concept of the Gorgon
is at least as old in mythology as Perseus and Zeus.
The name is Greek, being derived from “gorgos”
and translating as terrible or dreadful.
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorgon
Greek karkinos, which, like
the Modern English word, has three meanings:
a crab, a tumor, and the zodiac constellation
represented by a crab, from PIE *karkro-,
reduplicated form of root *kar- "hard."
- www.etymonline.com/word/cancer
pay closer attention
to the many unmistakably maritime references
- Graham Hancock
Fingerprints of the Gods
In Greek mythology,
Phorcys (also Phorkys, from Greek Φόρκυς)
is a god of the hidden dangers of the deep.
He is a primordial sea god.
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phorcys
The name "Orcus" seems to have been given
to his evil and punishing side,
as the god who tormented evildoers in the afterlife.
Like the name Hades
(or the Norse Hel, for that matter),
"Orcus" could also mean the land of the dead.
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orcus
carcass (n.)
"dead body of an animal," late 13c., from Anglo-French carcois,
from or influenced by Old French charcois
(Modern French carcasse) "trunk of a body, chest, carcass,"
and Anglo-Latin carcosium "dead body,"
all of unknown origin; original form uncertain.
- www.etymonline.com/word/carcass
From Orcus' association with death and the underworld,
his name came to be used for demons and other underworld monsters,
particularly in Italian where orco refers to a kind of monster
found in fairy-tales that feeds on human flesh.
The French word ogre (appearing first in Charles Perrault's fairy-tales)
may have come from variant forms of this word, orgo or ogro;
in any case, the French ogre and the Italian orco
are exactly the same sort of creature.
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orcus
orc
“ogre, devouring monster,” O.E. orcþyrs, orcneas (plural),
perhaps from a Romanic source
akin to ogre, and ultimately fro L. Orcus
“hell,” a word of unknown origin.
Revived by J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973)
as the name of a brutal race in Middle Earth.
But Orcs and Trolls spoke as they would,
without love of words or things;
and their language was actually more degraded
and filthy than I have shown it.
[“Return of the King,” 1955]
- www.etymonline.com/?search=orc
An early example of an orco
appears in Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando Furioso,
as a bestial, blind, tusk-faced monster
inspired by the Cyclops of the Odyssey;
this orco should not be confused with the orca,
a sea-monster also appearing in Ariosto.
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orcus
English-speaking scientists most often use the term "killer whale",
although the term "orca" is increasingly used.
Killer whale advocates point out it has a long heritage.
Indeed, the genus name Orcinus, means "of the kingdom of the dead",
or "belonging to Orcus".
Ancient Romans originally applied orca (plural orcae)
to these animals, possibly borrowing it
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer_whale
ogre (n.)
“man-eating giant,” 1713, hogre
(in a translation of a French version of the Arabian Nights),
from Fr. ogre, first used in Perrault’s “Contes,” 1697,
and perhaps formed by him from It. orco “demon, monster,”
from L. Orcus “Hades,” perhaps via an Italian dialect.
In English, more literary than colloquial.
The conjecture that it is from Byzantine Ogur “Hungarian”
or some other version of that people’s name
(perhaps via confusion with the bloodthirsty Huns),
lacks historical evidence.
- www.etymonline.com/?search=ogre
“When speaking of Ugar, the famous
archaeologist wondered whether
first there was Ugarit and then Ugar, or
the other way round:
which spawned which,
was the question.’
- http://stuartaken.blogspot.com/2011/04/stuarts-daily-word-spot-ugar.html
Yggdrasil
Great tree of the universe, 1770, from O.N. ygdrasil,
apparently from Yggr, a name of Odin + drasill “horse”
- www.etymonline.com/?search=Yggdrasil
Yggdrasill refers to the word yggr (“terror”)
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yggdrasil
‘Bow down and worship Ugar the benevolent,
or else he’ll make sure your crops don’t flourish;
such, apparently, is the nature of these gods.’
- http://stuartaken.blogspot.com/2011/04/stuarts-daily-word-spot-ugar.html
In terms of morphology, I reconstructed the form
Akhaió- as *akhai-wi-ó-,
meaning ‘whose force (*wı̄́-s) has grief (ákhos)’,
where the ‘force’ is possessed
by those who are winners
while the ‘grief’ is afflicting their enemies as losers.
- Classical-inquiries.chs.harvard.edu/east-of-the-achaeans-making-up-for-a-missed-opportunity-while-reading-hittite-texts/
shock (1)
“sudden blow,” 1560s, a military term,
from M.Fr. choc “violent attack,” from O.Fr. choquer “strike against,”
probably from Frankish, from a P.Gmc. imitative base
(cf. M.Du. schokken “to push, jolt,” O.H.G. scoc “jolt, swing”).
Meaning “a sudden and disturbing impression on the mind” is from 1705;
- www.etymonline.com/?search=shock
awe (n.)
c. 1300, earlier aghe, c. 1200, from a Scandanavian source,
cf. O.N. agi “fright,” from P.Gmc. *agiz-
(cf. O.E. ege “fear,” O.H.G. agiso “fright, terror,” Goth. agis “fear, anguish”),
from PIE *agh-es- (cf. Gk. akhos “pain, grief”),
from root *agh- “to be depressed, be afraid” (see ail).
Current sense of “dread mixed with veneration”
is due to biblical use with reference to the Supreme Being.
Awe-inspiring is recorded from 1814. awe (v.) c.1300, from awe (n.);
O.E. had egan (v.).
- www.etymonline.com/?search=awe
there can be no orishas without the dead, the egun.
Thus no ceremony in Santeria can ever be conducted
without first thanking the spirits of the ancestors
or appeasing the egun.
Their permission to use the knowledge
handed down from generation to generation
is required
before any ceremony.
- Miquel A. De La Torre
Santeria
The Akh (meaning '(magically) effective one'),
was a concept of the dead
that varied over the long history of ancient Egyptian belief.
It was associated with thought, but not as an action of the mind;
rather, it was intellect as a living entity.
The Akh also played a role in the afterlife.
Following the death of the Khat, the Ba and Ka were reunited
to reanimate the Akh.
The reanimation of the Akh was only possible
if the proper funeral rites were executed
and followed by constant offerings.
The ritual was termed: se-akh
'to make (a dead person) into an (living) akh.'
In this sense, it even developed into a sort of ghost
or roaming "dead being'
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egyptian_concept_of_the_soul
Have they truly forgotten?
Mal’akh wondered.
- Dan Brown
The Lost Symbol
He who fights with monsters should be careful
lest he thereby become a monster.
And if thou gaze long into an abyss,
the abyss will also gaze into thee.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Beyond Good and Evil
Far far beneath in the abysmal sea,
His ancient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep
The Kraken sleepeth:
faintest sunlight flees
About his shadowy sides;
- Alfred Tennyson
The Kraken
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From his post in the riggings, Black Jacques signaled to Mr. Love below. Large tentacles had been spotted in the water beneath the ship. The first mate nodded in acknowledgment. He had felt the subtle bump and gentle, inter-dimensional, nudging as the sea-monster latched onto the hull.
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Just what does a Kraken look like?
If you think it looks a bit like an uprooted tree trunk,
you’re not alone.
In fact, many people believe the name Kraken to be
an old Scandinavian term that refers to that very object.
Norwegian fisherman from long ago
are credited with giving this name to these
otherworldly,
treelike
creatures
when they encountered them at sea.
(Not everyone agrees with this etymology;
some think that Kraken simply means “sea monster.”)
- Rick Emmer
Kraken: Fact or Fiction?
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The giant sea creature’s arms rasped against the wood. The resulting sound was simultaneously chittering, skittering, and slithering; an unnatural concurrence that would strike a nerve of revulsion in the most ancient part of most mammalian brain that heard it. Luckily for the vast majority of the mammals aboard The Brew D’Agon, they couldn’t hear this; only the most sensitive were aware when the great beasts moved close in the waters around them.
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In Norwegian and Swedish, Kraken is the definite form of krake,
a word designating an unhealthy animal or something twisted
(cognate with the English crook and crank).
In modern German, Krake (plural and declined singular: Kraken)
means octopus, but can also refer to the legendary Kraken.
In Dutch, the verb means breaking
or the sound of cracking.
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kraken
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Asleep in his hammock, One-Eyed Willy sported an erection like nothing he had ever experienced before. He moaned aloud as he succumbed to the tentacular grip of a wet-dream.
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(transitive) To break open (a shell)
(intransitive) To make a creaky sound,
like something being cracked
(transitive) To break up into (chemical) components
(transitive, figuratively) To break someone mentally
(transitive, figuratively) To solve a code
- en.wiktionary.org/wiki/kraken
Wide-eyed, Mal’akh lay gasping for breath . . .
all alone on the great altar.
- Dan Brown
The Lost Symbol
Suddenly time accelerates,
and I am plunging into an abyss
far darker than any I have ever imagined.
Here, in the barren void, I hear a whispering . . .
I sense a gathering force. It strengthens,
mounting at a startling rate, surrounding me.
Ominous and powerful. Dark and commanding.
I am not alone here.
- Dan Brown
The Lost Symbol
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Reading a the grimoire on loan from the surprisingly-extensive library aboard The Brew D’Agon, Arthur Aquino could hear the embrace of the tentacles; he could feel the sound: a singular, fog-like breathing seeping through the water-tight seams of the ship’s hull and also from betwixt the seams of time-space. He feels the shift.
Arthur’s own breathing synchronizes subconsciously. He is far from terrified. He knows the beast. He has befriended the fiend. He now respects it properly, instead of becoming paralyzed by fear. Finding the synchronicity phenomenon reassuring, like the comfort of an old friend, he returns to reading
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you’re not alone.
- Rick Emmer
Kraken: Fact or Fiction?
Oh,
I get by with a little help from my friends
Mm,
I get high with a little help from my friends
Mm,
gonna try with a little help from my friends
- The Beatles
With a Little Help From My Friends
on the other side.
- Dr. Facilier
Friends on the Other Side
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Mr. E. Christian Love’s smile was nigh-immeasurable, as the elated first mate chortled as he called out to anyone who could hear.
“Onward to 'Utopia'!”
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