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Bait the Hook
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I will make you fishers of men.
- Matthew 4:19
King James Bible
God hunt us all,
if we do not hunt
- Captain Ahab in Herman Melville’s
Moby Dick
People who saw the passing hunt and mocked it were cursed
and would mysteriously vanish along with the host;
- www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Hunt
In the wake of the passing storm,
with which the Hunt was often identified,
- www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Hunt
those that joined in sincerity were rewarded
(H.A. Guerber, 1922).
- www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Hunt
Secret rituals in this novel are accurate.
- Dan Brown
The Da Vinci Code
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Louis de Lyon felt a tingling sensation building in his groin. The hair all over his body stood on end, as did the hair on his head. Blue light pooled around his feet before slithering up his legs, caressing his back and chest, and encircling his arms in writhing tentacles of visible energy. He stretched out his hands in front of his face and watched the blue plasma arc between his fingertips. A sudden jolt of awareness shot through him.
He looked around at the ship; the same super-natural energy coursed through every visible part of The Brew D'Agon. There was only one difference... the energy danced amorphously over his own body, whereas within the ship it was focused into interlocking geometric symbols, forming a matrix of pulsating techno-magical sigils. Louis lost himself in the wondrous sight.
Caught up in the ecstatic electriciy, he spun around wildly, arms outstretched – not unlike a whirling dervish lost to madness. Blue plasma streamed from his fingers, his hands leaving spiraling trails in their wake. After a very long minute, giddy and dizzy, but still near bursting with excitement, he slowed and finally stopped spinning altogether. He half-stumbled a step to starboard before catching himself. He laughed and waited for the the ship to stop spinning. It was when it did that Louis noticed the absence of the crew. The rigging and upper decks of The Brew D'Agon were deserted. No one was at the helm.
It is time.
An ancient incantation rode the wind to his ear. The Voices sung the words con spirito. They called him by all the myriad permutations of his primordial name.
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“Ug”, said he,
- Damien O’Brien
If Houses, Why Not Mouses?
“This is my name forever,
The name you shall call me
From generation to generation.”
- Exodus 3:15
In the beginning was the Word
- John 1:1
If there is one sound
generally assumed to have been made by homo sapiens
in the earliest of times, it is ug.
The quintessential caveman grunt
whose deceptive simplicity hints
at the linguistic complexity
the following millennia would bring.
After all, he may have just said u or g.
But, as his gaze fell upon a sleeping mammoth
that could supply a few week’s food,
the caveman combined the two sounds
with a fine sense of euphony to produce ug.
“Ug”, said he, and all around his fellow homines sapientes cooed
with their suddenly unsophisticated single u or lone g sounds
about this flowery new speech. Other cavepeople may have flocked
from several hundred metres away to hear this soundsmith
weave an epic tale with his complex new language.
Think of the
- Damien O’Brien
If Houses, Why Not Mouses?
mystical powers
- www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kotodama
in words and names.
- www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kotodama
The WORD,
therefore, I conceive to be
the symbol of Divine Truth;
and all its modifications
--the loss, the substitution, and the recovery--
are but component parts of the mythical symbol
which represents a search after truth.
- Albert Mackey
The Symbolism of Freemasonry
The ritual re-enactment of the Wild Hunt
was a cultural phenomenon
- www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Hunt
The fundamental premise in all instances is the same:
a phantasmal, spectral group of huntsmen
with the accoutrements of hunting,
with horses and hounds
in mad pursuit across the skies
or along the ground, or just above it.
The hunters may be the dead or fairies
(often in folklore connected with the dead).
The hunter may be an unidentified lost soul,
a deity or spirit of either gender,
or may be a historical or legendary figure
- www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Hunt
logos (n.)
1580s, Logos, "the divine Word,
second person of the Christian Trinity,"
from Greek logos "word, speech, discourse," also "reason,"
from PIE root *leg- "to collect"
(with derivatives meaning, to speak, "
on notion of "to pick out words;" see lecture (n.));
used by neo-Platonists in various metaphysical and theological senses
and picked up by New Testament writers.
- www.etymonline.com/?search=logos
Now, this it is, precisely, that constitutes the myth
of the Lost Word and the search for it.
No matter what was the word,
no matter how it was lost,
nor why a substitute was provided,
nor when nor where it was recovered.
These are all points of subsidiary importance,
necessary, it is true,
for knowing the legendary history,
but not necessary for understanding the symbolism.
The only term of the myth that is to be
regarded in the study of its interpretation, is the abstract idea
of a word lost and afterwards recovered.
This, then, points us to the goal
to which we must direct our steps
in the pursuit of the investigation.
- Albert Mackey
The Symbolism of Freemasonry
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Screaming silent voices chanted a half-forgotten word, calling him by his half-forgotten name. Do you believe in Fate, in Destiny? If you do, then you must believe there will come a moment when your destiny has arrived. How eager will you be to finally meet yours, I wonder? Louis de Lyon, to his great credit, flew up the ladder to meet his fate face to face.
The instant Louis set foot on the poop deck, the mysterious chanting stopped. Three figures stood completely silent and still, awaiting his arrival. On the starboard side, his beloved Phoenix waited, clothed all in white, her love for him obvious in the warm glow of her face. She stood proudly, both statuesque and gorgon-esque: her locks of hair, a crown of snakes twisting and writhing in the wind; her figure-hugging garment, her serpent's tail trailing behind her. She smiled and bowed her head to him, but otherwise she made no movement.
A nightmarish figure stood perfectly still in the center of the trio. His pitch-black cloak whipped about furiously in the storm, its edges disappearing in the shifting shadows. Like the gods of ancient Egypt, no human head sat upon the being’s shoulder. Instead, a giant raven's head stared blindly back at Louis, the avian eye sockets ominously empty.
To the port side of the eerie pair, the red-haired child stood as if entranced, seemingly oblivious to the electro-kinetic power of the storm, the techno-magical power of the ship, or the necro-spiritual power of the occult ritual in which he played a crucial role.
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Kotodama is a central concept
in Japanese mythology, Shinto, and Kokugaku.
For example, the Kojiki describes an ukei (or seiyaku)
誓約 “covenant; trial by pledge”
- www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kotodama
The notion of kotodama
presupposes that sound can magically affect objects,
and that ritual word usages can influence
our environment,
body, mind, and soul.
- www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kotodama
English translations include “soul of language”,
“spirit of language”, “power of language”, “power word”,
“magic word”, and “sacred sound”.
- www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kotodama
The term heku (or hekau), in ancient Egyptian religion,
refers to a type of magic or enchantment
that Egyptian priests, sorcerers, and Pharaohs often performed.
Heku is generally associated to vocalized forms,
such as enchantments, songs, poems, and prayers.
They may be found in the Egyptian book of the dead.
Generally, heku may be regarded as the Ancient Egyptian
reverence for language and knowledge.
That is, words were regarded as sacred,
and thus their utterance was placed under the auspices of divination.
The term can be seen to come up in common translations in Egyptology,
such as in the term Werethekau, which may be translated as
“she who has great magic.”
See Hathor, Sekhmet, and Aset.
Heku may be compared to the Kotodama of Asian cultures.
- www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heku
In Irish mythology, Oengus (Old Irish), Aengus (Middle Irish),
or Aengus or Aonghus (Modern Irish),
is a member of the Tuatha De Danaan
and probably a god of love, youth, and poetic inspiration.
He is also called Aengus Og (“Aengus the young”),
Mac ind Og (“son of the young”), Mac Og (“young son”)
or Maccan.
- www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aengus
Ah Kin Xoc
God of poetry. Mayan (classical Mesoamerican) [Mexico].
Regarded as a great singer
and musician since most Mayan poetry is sung or chanted.
- Michael Jordan
Encyclopedia of Gods
Ah Kin (he of the sun)
Sun god. Mayan (classical Mesoamerican) [Mexico].
A deity of ambivalent personality,
the young suitor of the moon goddess Acna,
also the aged sun god in the sky.
He is feared as the bringer of drought,
but also protects mankind from the powers of evil
associated with darkness.
Said to be carried through the underworld at night
on the shoulders of the god Sucunyum.
- Michael Jordan
Encyclopedia of Gods
Aken
Chthonic underworld god. Egyptian.
The keeper of the underworld ferry boat.
- Michael Jordan
Encyclopedia of Gods
There is in a translation a short 115-line text
entitled ‘Gilgamesh and Agga’ from the Sumerian period.
In line eighty of this text is the mention of a ‘magurru-boat’,
which is referred to in much the same way as the Magan-boat
in ‘Gilgamesh and the Land of the Living’.
- Robert Temple
The Sirius Mystery
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.
- 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 creator god Ptah
- Michael Jordan
Encyclopedia of Gods
Akeru
Pluralistic chthonic earth gods. Egyptian.
Probably stemming from the pre-Dynastic period.
Malevolent deities who can seize and imprison
the souls of the deceased.
- Michael Jordan
Encyclopedia of Gods
Ogiuwu
God of death. Edo [Benin, West Africa].
Believed to own the blood of all living things,
which he smears on the walls of his palace in the otherworld.
Until recent times human sacrifice was made regularly to this deity
in the capital of the Edo region, Benin City.
- Michael Jordan
Encyclopedia of Gods
Val·kyr·ie (văl-kîrē, -kīrē) n.
Myth. Any of the Norse god Odin’s handmaidens
who hover over the battlefield, choosing the heroes to be slain
and then conducting their souls to Valhalla.
[ON Valkyrja, the chooser of the slain
- The American Heritage Dictionary
Second College Edition
In Greek a hunter who catches living animals is called zagreus,
Karl Kerenyi notes, and the Ionian word zagre
signifies a “pit for the capture of live animals”
- www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zagreus
“Why was this great mythical hunter,
who in Greece became a mysterious god of the underworld,
a capturer of wild animals and not a killer?”
Kerenyi links the figure of Zagreus with archaic Dionysiac rites
in which small animals were torn limb from limb
and their flesh devoured raw,
“not as an emanation of the Greek Dionysiac religion,
but rather as a migration
or survival of a prehistoric rite.”
- www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zagreus
The name Zagreus is also an old epithet of Hades.
- www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zagreus
Ach·er·on ((ăkə-rŏn′, -rən) n. Gk. Myth.
1. The river of woe
over which Charon ferried the souls of the dead to Hades.
2. Hades. [Gk. Akheron.]
- The American Heritage Dictionary
Second College Edition
Akelos
River god. Greek. The son of Okeanos and Tethys.
According to mythology he was a rival suitor for Deianeira
who became the wife of Herakles.
He was the consort of Melpomene
and his daughters were allegedly the sirenes.
A river of the same name runs into the Ionian sea.
Attributes include bull horns. Also Achlae (Etrurian).
- Michael Jordan
Encyclopedia of Gods
Achelous was most often depicted as a gray-haired old-man
or a vigorous, bearded man in his prime,
with a horned head and a serpent-like body.
- www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achelous
the river Achelóüs,
who took three forms to ask me of my father:
a rambling bull once,
then a writhing snake of gleaming colors,
then again a man with ox-like face:
and from his beard's dark shadows
stream upon stream of water tumbled down.
- Sophocles
The Trachiniae
In Greek mythology, Achelous ((/ækɪˈloʊ.əs/; Ancient Greek: Ἀχελῷος Achelṓios)
was the patron deity of the "silver-swirling" Achelous River,
which is the largest river of Greece, and thus the chief of all river deities,
every river having its own river spirit. His name is pre-Greek,
its meaning unknown. The Greeks invented etymologies
to associate it with Greek word roots
(one such popular etymology translates the name as
"he who washes away care").
However, these are etymologically unsound
and of much later origin than the name itself.
- www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achelous
Homer placed Achelous above all,
the origin of all the world's fresh water.
By Roman times, Homer's reference was interpreted
as making Achelous "prince of rivers".
Others derived the legends about Achelous from Egypt
- www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achelous
aqua-
Word-forming element meaning "water,'
from Latin aqua "water; the sea; rain,"
cognate with Proto-Germanic *akhwo,
source of Old English ea "river," Gothic ahua "river, waters,"
Old Norse Ægir, name of the sea-god,
Old English ieg "island;"
all from PIE *akwa- "water"
(cf. Sanskrit ap "water," Hittite akwanzi "they drink,"
Lithuanian uppe "a river").
- www.etymonline.com/?search=aqua-
Aegir is also known as the “ale brewer”,
perhaps an allusion to the cauldrons of mead
that were thought to come from under the sea
- Michael Jordan
Encyclopedia of Gods
Aegir is the god of the sea in Norse mythology.
He was both worshipped and feared by sailors,
for they believed that Aegir would occasionally appear on the surface
to take ships, men, and cargo alike, with him to his hall
at the bottom of the ocean.
Sacrifices were made to appease him,
particularly prisoners before setting sail.
- http://thenorsegods.com/aegir/
The difference between Ogun, Sango, and Obatala
is like the difference between
rain water, fresh water, and salt water.
They are different at some point, but
they bleed into each other.
- www.mamiwata.com/ogun.html
I've known rivers:
I've known rivers ancient as the world
and older than the flow of human blood in human veins.
My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
- Langston Hughes
The Negro Speaks of Rivers
We are the music makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers,
And sitting by desolate streams;—
World-losers and world-forsakers,
On whom the pale moon gleams:
Yet we are the movers and shakers
Of the world for ever, it seems.
- Ode
Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy
Makara is the vahana (vehicle) of the Ganga
– the goddess of the river Ganges (Ganga) –
and the sea god Varuna.
It is also the insignia of the love god
- www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makara_(Hindu_mythology)
mackerel (n.)
edible fish, c.1300, from Old French maquerel “mackerel”
(Modern French maquereau), of unknown origin
but apparently identical with Old French maquerel “pimp”,
procurer, broker, agent, intermediary,”
a word from a Germanic source
(compare Middle Dutch makelaer “broker”, from Old Frisian mek “marriage,”
from maken “to make”).
The connection is obscure,
but medieval people had imaginative notions
about the erotic habits of beasts.
The fish approach the shore in shoals in summertime to spawn.
Exclamation holy mackerel is attested from 1876.
- www.etymonline.com/?search=mackerel
'Makara' is a Sanskrit word
which means "sea dragon" or "water-monster"
and in Tibetan language it is called the "chu-srin",
and also denotes a hybrid creature.
It is the origin of the word for crocodile 'mugger' in Hindi.
The English word 'mugger' evolved meaning
one who sneaks up and attacks another.
The name is applied to the Mugger crocodile in India,
and is descriptive of its aggressive feeding behavior.
- www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makara_(Hindu_mythology)
mako (n.)
"large blue shark,"
listed as 1727 in OED from "The History of Japan,"
English translation of Engelbert Kaempfer's German manuscript;
however this is claimed by some to be an error,
and some say Kaempfer's word represents Japanese
makko(-kujira) "sperm whale."
But the description in the text fits neither
the shark nor the whale.
The word is ultimately from Maori
mako "shark, shark's tooth,"
which is of uncertain etymology.
- www.etymonline.com/?search=mako
The movement and settlement of the ancient Maya
around and along the great rivers was accompanied by an awareness
of a dreaded creature that dwelt in their depths.
Though far from common, nevertheless,
the rare occasions and frightful circumstances
in which the creature was encountered were sufficient
to create and sustain a powerful impression
of malignancy and savagery. Lurking unseen
in the muddy waters for twenty or fifty years or more,
the xoc would suddenly strike
to tear at the leg or arm of a woman at her wash,
or seize and devour a child at play.
The rivers came to be spoken of with reference
to their notorious inhabitant, and in time,
xocolha, 'water of the shark' or 'sharky water',
came to mean 'river'.
So familiar did the Maya world become
with the reputation of the xoc
that its image, or even that of the day with which it is associated,
could be incorporated as a rebus into public inscriptions
with full confidence that it would be readily understood.
The xoc itself became mythologized into
Ah Xoc, Ah Kan Xoc, or Chac Uayab Xoc,
an ominous demon that killed
and devoured women, children and animals
- Tom Jones
The Xoc, the Sharke, and the Sea Dogs
Priests of Chaahk Mool became such
after having served as a soldier
and then survived a watery pit of death,
(a VERY deep pit filled with water,
the soldier would wear all his accumulated gold
then jump in the pit,
if he had the wisdom to remove his gold
he would survive and become
- Dr. Frank Tifus
The Phoenicians and The Mayans
a were-shark
whose anthropomorphic tendencies finally,
among the Lacandon, lost all connection with the rarely seen shark
that had been its source and inspiration,
and survived in the almost unrecognizable form of the Chak Xok,
the water-being who carries children into the watery depths
- Tom Jones
The Xoc, the Sharke, and the Sea Dogs
dogfish (n.)
a name for various types of small shark, late 15c.,
dokefyche, from dog (n.) + fish (n.).
Said to be so called because they hunt in packs.
This was the image of sharks in classical antiquity as well.
But in the Mediterranean, among the Greeks and Romans of antiquity,
closer contact with sharks had left an impression
of vicious dogs of the sea. Thus, Pliny's canis marinus.
The metaphor of the dog spread to the North
to dominate the European image of the shark,
from the Italian pescecane and French chien de mer
to the German Meerhund and Hundfisch
and English sea dog and dogfish.
[Tom Jones, "The Xoc, the Sharke and the Sea Dogs
in "Fifth Palengue Round Table, 1983,"
edited by Virginia M. Field, 1985.]
- www.etymonline.com/?search=dogfish
dog (n.)
Old English docga,
a late, rare word used of a powerful breed of canine.
It forced out Old English hund
(the general Germanic and Indo-European word; see canine)
by 16c. and subsequently was picked up in many continental languages
(e.g. French dogue (16c.), Danish dogge),
but the origins remain one of the great mysteries of English etymology.
- www.etymonline.com/?search=dog
hunt (v.)
Old English huntian "chase game" (transitive and intransitive),
perhaps developed from hunta "hunter," and related to hentan "to seize,"
from Proto-Germanic *huntojan (source also of Gothic hinþan "to seize, capture,"
Old High German hunda "booty"), which is of uncertain origin.
Not the usual Germanic word for this,
which is represented by Dutch jagen, German jagen
- www.etymonline.com/?search=hunt
hint (n.)
c.1600, apparently from obsolete hent,
from Middle English hinten "to tell, inform" (c.1400),
from Old English hentan "to seize," from Proto-Germanic *hantijanan
(cf. Gothic hinþan "to seize"), related to hunt (v.).
Modern sense and spelling first attested in Shakespeare.
- www.etymonline.com/?search=hint
hunt (n.)
Early 12c., from hunt (v.).
Meaning "body of persons associated
for the purpose of hunting with a pack of hounds"
is first recorded 1570s.
- www.etymonline.com/?search=hunt
Latin’s canis is cognate with German’s hund
and the English word hound,
all being derived from the proto-Indo-European word
*kwon.
- Nicholas Wade
Before the Dawn
chew
O.E. ceowan “to bite, gnaw, chew,”
from W.Gmc. *keuwwan
(cf. M.L.G. keuwen, Du. kauwen, O.H.G. kiuwan)
- www.etymonline.com/?search=chew
from PIE *keg- "hook, tooth"
- www.etymonline.com/?search=hook
gnaw (v.)
Old English gnagan (past tense *gnog, past participle gnagan) "to gnaw,"
a common Germanic word (cf. Old Saxon gnagan, Old Norse, Swedish gnaga,
Middle Dutch, Dutch knagan, Old High German gnagan, German nagen "to gnaw"),
probably imitative of gnawing.
- www.etymonline.com/?search=gnaw
In Norse mythology, Níðhöggr
(Malice Striker, often anglicized Nidhogg)
is a dragon who gnaws at a root of the World Tree, Yggdrasill.
- www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Níðhöggr
jaguar (n.)
big cat of the Americas (Felis onca), c.1600,
from Portuguese jaguar, from Tupi jaguara,
said to be a name “denoting any larger beast of prey”
- www.etymonline.com/?search=jaguar
tiger (n.)
Old English tigras (plural),
also in part from Old French tigre “tiger” (mid-12c.),
both from Latin tigris “tiger,” from Greek tigris,
possibly from an Iranian source akin to Old Persian tigra- “sharp, pointed,”
Avestan tighri- “arrow,” in reference to its springing on its prey,
“but no application of either word,
or any derivative, to the tiger is known in Zend.” [OED].
Of tiger-like persons from c.1500.
The meaning “shriek or howl at the end of a cheer”
is recorded from 1845, American English,
and is variously explained.
- www.etymonline.com/?search=tiger
from Greek lykanthropia, from lykanthropos “wolf-man,”
from lykos “wolf” (see wolf (n.))
+ anthropos “man” (see anthropo-).
Originally a form of madness (described by ancient writers)
in which the afflicted thought he was a wolf;
applied to actual transformations of persons
(especially witches) into wolves
- www.etymonline.com/?search=lycanthropy
It is a theme that lasted for over 20,000 years.
Why?
Some archaeologists believe that therianthropes represent humans wearing costumes
such as masks, antlers and animal skins. This may be true literally,
but the fact that the practice appears to be so universal
suggests that it is also true figuratively; it is a metaphor
that represents the ancient belief
involving the permeability of boundaries
between the human and animal worlds.
This belief allowed people to pass from one domain to another.
Humans could be endowed with the qualities
and characteristics of a particular animal species.
- http://www.bradshawfoundation.com/news/cave_art_paintings.php?id=Half-Human-Half-Animal-Rock-Art
lycanthropy is reconstructed
as an aspect of the initiation of the warrior class.
- www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werewolf
Jaguar warriors were used at the battlefront in military campaigns.
They were also used to capture prisoners
for sacrifice to the Aztec gods.
- www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaguar_warrior
The life of Aztec warriors was one of constant battle,
as the primary purpose for this continual warfare
was to take prisoners to be sacrificed to their gods.
- www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle_warrior
“curved like an eagle’s beak,” 1640s,
originally in English in reference to long, hooked noses,
from Latin aquilinus “of or like an eagle,”
from aquila “eagle,” of uncertain origin,
usually explained as “the dark bird;” compare aquilus
“blackish, the color of darkness.”
- www.etymonline.com/?search=aquiline
havoc (n.)
early 15c., from Anglo-French havoc
in phrase crier havoc “cry havoc” (late 14c.),
a signal to soldiers to seize plunder,
from Old French havot “pillaging, looting,”
related to haver “to seize, grasp,” hef “hook,”
probably from a Germanic source (see hawk (n.))
- www.etymonline.com/?search=havoc
hook (n.)
Old English hoc, "hook, angle,"
perhaps related to Old English haca "bolt,"
From Proto-Germanic *hokaz/*hakan-
(cf. Old Frisian hok, Middle Dutch hoek,
Dutch haak, German Haken "hook"),
from PIE *keg- "hook, tooth"
- www.etymonline.com/?search=hook
hook (v.)
"to bend like a hook," c.1200; see hook (n.).
Meaning to catch (a fish) with a hook"
is from c.1300. Related: Hooked; hooking.
- www.etymonline.com/?search=hook
angle (v.1)
"to fish with a hook," mid-15c.,
from Old English angel (n.) "angle, hook, fishhook,"
related to anga "hook," from PIE *ang-/*ank- "to bend" (see angle (n.)).
Cf. Old English angul, Old Norse öngull, Old High German angul,
German Angel "fishhook."
- www.etymonline.com/?search=angle
The name belongs to Latin echinus,
Greek ekhinos “sea-urchin,” originally “hedgehog”
(in Greek also “sharp points”),
which Watkins explains as “snake-eater” from ekhis “snake.”
- www.etymonline.com/?search=echidna
Or, more likely, the name refers to Echidna
as the name of a serpent-nymph in Greek mythology,
"a beautiful woman in the upper part of her body;
but instead of legs and feet, she had
from the waist downward, the form of a serpent,"
- www.etymonline.com/?search=echidna
Greek ekhidna "snake, viper"
(also used metaphorically of a treacherous wife or friend),
from ekhis "snake," from PIE *angwhi- "snake, eel"
(cf. Norwegian igle, Old High German egala,
German Egel "leech," Latin anguis "serpent, snake").
- www.etymonline.com/?search=echidna
The first compound member, anguis (“snake”),
is cognate to other Indo-European words for “snake”
(compare Old Irish escung “eel”, Old High German unc “snake”,
Lithuanian angis, Greek ophis, okhis, Vedic Sanskrit áhi,
Avestan aži, Armenian auj, iž, Old Slavonic *ǫžь,
all from Proto-Indo-European *oguhis, ēguhis).
- www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eel
Gong Gong, also known as Kanghui,
is a Chinese water god or sea monster
who is often depicted in Chinese mythology,
folktales, and religious stories
as having red hair and the tail of a serpent (or dragon).
- www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gong_Gong
the great flood was caused by Gong Gong
who was use the water to make havoc on the realm
- www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_Mythology_of_China
Nuwa, also known as Nugua,
is a goddess in ancient Chinese mythology
- www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuwa
Nuwa is also regularly called
the “snake goddess”.
- www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuwa
naga, (Sanskrit: "serpent') in Hinduism and Buddhism,
a member of a class of semidivine beings,
half human and half serpentine.
They are considered to be a strong, handsome race
who can assume either human or wholly serpentine form.
They are regarded as being potentially dangerous
but in some ways are superior to humans.
- www.britannica.com/Ebchecked/topic/401527/naga
snake (n.)
Old English snaca, from Proto-Germanic *snakon
(cf. Old Norse snakr "snake," Swedish snok, German Schnake
- www.etymonline.com/?search=snake
snack (v.)
c.1300, "to bite or snap" (of a dog),
probably from Middle Dutch snacken "to snatch
- www.etymonline.com/?search=snack
bait (n.)
“food put on a hook or trap to attract prey,” c. 1300,
from Old Norse beita “food, bait,”
Especially for fish, from beita “cause to bite,”
from Proto-Germanic *baitjan, causative of *bitan,
from PIE root *bheid- “to split,”
with derivatives in Germanic referring to biting.
The noun is cognate with Old Norse beit “pasture, pasturage,”
Old English bat “food.”
Figurative sense “means of enticement” is from c. 1400.
bait (v.1)
c. 1200, “to torment or persecute (someone);” c. 1300,
“to set a dog to bite and worry
(an animal, especially a confined one, for sport),”
from Old Norse beita “to cause to bite,” from Proto-Germanic *baitjan
(source also of Old English bætan “to cause to bite,”
Old High German beizzen “to bait,” Middle High German beiz “hunting,”
German beizen “to hawk, to cauterize, etch”),
causative of *bitan (see bite (v.)).
The earliest attested use is figurative of the literal one,
which is from the popular medieval entertainment
of setting dogs on some ferocious beast to bite and worry it.
The verb also in Middle English could mean
“put a horse or other domestic beast out to feed or graze,”
and, of persons, “to eat food,” also figuratively “feast the eye” (late 14c.)
Compare bait (n.). Related: Baited; baiting.
bait (v.2)
“to put food on a fishing line or in a trap,” c. 1400,
probably from bait (n.). From 1590s as “to lure by bait.”
Related: Baited; baiting.
- www.etymonline.com/?search=bait
Give a man a fish and he’ll eat for a day
Teach him how to fish and he’ll eat forever
- Arrested Development
Give a Man a Fish,
I will make you fishers of men.
- Matthew 4:19
King James Bible
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A cherubic smile graced Adam's lips. The child's feet remained transfixed, but he reached out to Louis with hands bound by a golden rope. Adam whispered a solitary word, which disappeared soundlessly into the tempest. It didn't matter; Louis could hear the word ringing loud and clear in his head.
Help.
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Please help me.”
“What do you need?”
“Please.”
“You don’t make sense.”
“It’s starting all over again.”
“It’s starting all over again.”
“Who are you?”
“We are one.”
- R.A. Wilson
The Widow’s Son
I am you and you are me
Why’s that such a mystery?
If you want it you got to believe
Who are we?
We’re who we are
- Lenny Kravitz
Believe
“We are one.
Only one.
Forever.”
- R.A. Wilson
The Widow’s Son
Believe in yourself
- Lenny Kravitz
Believe
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