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The Grand High Muckety-Muck
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muck-a-muck (n.)
“(self-)important person,” 1912, from Chinook jargon,
literally “to eat; food.”
Also mucky-muck; muckety-muck.
- www.etymonline.com/search=muck-a-muck
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The gnome matron busied about in her open-air kitchen, waiting until Louis’ appetite seemed appropriately sated. At the proper time, she brought him two earthenware bowls. One bowl was filled with crystal-clear water, and the other with a honey drink – thick, reddish and sweet. Louis drained both bowls quickly. As he finished, he looked up and saw his hostess pointing behind him.
“Apa Apa.”
He turned around to see a wizened gnome, garbed in a coarse tunic and red cap, waiting patiently behind him. Louis recognized him as the leader of the gnomes from the garden, the one who had given him the drug-laced ball of paste. The red capped gnome motioned for Louis to follow him.
"Agan."
The gnome chieftain didn’t wait to see if Louis followed, before he walked straight through the kitchen area. The chef clucked her tongue at the chief, waving him away as if shooing a fly. The chief merely chuckled, and inclined his head in a subtle gesture for Louis to continue following. The woman glared after them, amused, but protective of her delicate realm. Louis stuffed a few last bites of food in his mouth, grabbed a cake to eat as he walked, and followed after the chief. Louis was forced to worm delicately through an area designed for people half his size, feeling like the proverbial bull in a china shop, but he made it without incident. He devoured the last of the cake as he chased after the surprisingly spry old gnome.
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father (n.)
Old English fæder
“he who begets a child, nearest male ancestor;”
also “any lineal male ancestor; the Supreme Being,”
and by late Old English, “one who exercises parental control over another,”
from Proto-Germanic *fader (cognates: Old Saxon fadar, Old Frisian feder,
Dutch vader, Old Norse faðir, Old High German fatar, German Vatar;
in Gothic usually expressed by atta),
from PIE *pəter- “father” (cognates: Sanskrit pitar-,
Greek pater, Latin pater, Old Persian pita, Old Irish athir “father”),
presumably from baby-speak sound “pa.”
- www.etymonline.com/?search=father
fodder (n.)
Old English fodder “food,”
especially “hay, straw, or other bulk food for cattle,”
from Proto-Germanic *fodram (cognate: Old Norse foðr,
Middle Dutch voeder, Old High German fuotar, German Futter),
from PIE *pa-trom, suffixed form of *pa- “to feed”
(see food).
- www.etymonline.com/search=fodder
food (n.)
Middle English foode, fode, from Old English foda
“food, nourishment; fuel,” also figurative, from Proto-Germanic *fodon
(cognates: Swedish föda, Danish föde, Gothic fodeins),
from Germanic *fod- “food,” from PIE *pat-, extended form of root *pa-
“to tend, keep, pasture, to protect, to guard, to feed”
(cognates: Greek pateishai “to feed;” Latin pabulum “food, fodder,”
panis “bread,” pasci “to feed,” pascare “to graze, pasture, feed,”
pastor “shepherd,” literally “feeder;”
Avestan pitu- “food;”
- www.etymonline.com/?search=food
paste (n.)
c. 1300 (mid-12c. as a surname), “dough,”
from Old French paste “dough, pastry”
(13c., Modern French pâte), from Late Latin pasta
“dough, pastry cake, paste”
- www.etymonline.com/?search=paste
eat (v.)
Old English etan (Class V strong verb; past tense æt, past participle eten)
“to consume food, devour, consume,” from Proto-Germanic *etan
(cognates: Old Frisian ita, Old Saxon etan, Middle Dutch eten,
Old High German ezzan, German essan, Old Norse eta, Gothic itan),
from PIE root *ed- “to eat” (see edible).
- www.etymonline.com/?search=eat
(cognates: Sanskrit admi “I eat;” Greek edo “I eat;”
Lithuanian edu “I eat;” Hittite edmi “I eat,” adanna “food;”
Old Irish ithim “I eat;” Gothic itan, Old Swedish and Old English etan,
Old High German essan “to eat;” Avestan ad- “to eat;” Armenian utem “I eat;”
Old Church Slavonic jasti “to eat,” Russian jest “to eat”).
- www.etymonline.com/?search=edible
meat (n.)
Old English mete “food, item of food” (paired with drink),
from Proto-Germanic *mati (cognates: Old Frisian mete,
Old Saxon meti, Old Norse matr,
Old High German maz, Gothic mats “food,”
Middle Dutch, Dutch metworst,
German Mettwurst “type of sausage”),
from PIE *mad-i-, from root *mad- “moist, wet,”
also with reference to food qualities
(cognates: Sanskrit medas- “fat” (n.), Old Irish mat “pig;”
see mast (n.2)).
- www.etymonline.com/?search=meat
mash (n.)
“soft mixture,” late Old English *masc
(in masc-wyrt “mash-wort, infused malt”),
from Proto-Germanic *maisk-
(cognates:Swedish mäsk “grains for pigs,”
German Maisch “crushed grapes, infused malt,”
Old English meox “dung, filth”),
from PIE *meik- “to mix” (see mix (v.)).
Originally a word in brewing;
general sense of “anything reduced to a soft pulpy consistency”
is recorded from 1590s, as is the figurative sense
“confused mixture, muddle.”
- www.etymonline.com/?search=mash
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A mud covered child ran up to the gnome chief. Smiling proudly, the child held up a small woven grass basket with a solitary brown egg-shaped mass inside. Louis took the plate from the child hesitantly.
“Merci?”
The child laughed and skipped away. Louis turned to look at the chief, who was clucking his tongue and chuckling as he reached to take the plate from Louis’ hand.
“Mut.”
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mud (n.)
mid-14c., cognate with and probably from Middle Low German muddle,
Middle Dutch mode “thick mud,” from Proto-Germanic *mud-
from PIE- *(s)meu-/*mu- [Buck],
found in many words denoting “wet” or “dirty”
(cognates: Greek mydos “damp, moisture,”
Old Irish muad “cloud,” Polish mul “slime,”
Sanskrit mutra- “urine,” Avestan muthra- “excrement, filth”);
related to German Schmutz “dirt,”
which also is used for “mud” in roads, etc.,
to avoid dreck, which originally meant “excrement.”
Welsh mwd is from English.
- www.etymonline.com/search=mud
muck (v.)
late 14c., “to dig in the ground,”
also “to remove manure,” early 15c., “to spread manure,
cover with muck,” from muck (n.).
Meaning “to make dirty” is from 1832;
in the figurative sense, “to make a mess of,”
- www.etymonline.com/search=muck
from a Scandinavian source such as Old Norse myki, mykr “cow dung,”
Danish møg; from Proto-Germanic *muk-, *meuk- “soft.”
Meaning “unclean matter generally”
- www.etymonline.com/search=muck
the spirit was filled with love
of its own first principles,
and there was a blending,
this twining was called Desire,
and this was the beginning of the creation of all things,
but it was not conscious of its own production;
and from its intertwining and that of spirit was produced Moch.
This some called Slime,
but others fermentation of watery mixture.
And from this was all the seed of creation, and birth of the whole.
And Moch was found in shape like an egg
- Robert Brown
The Great Dionysiak Myth
a metaphor
or analogue for another plant
that also seemed to grow suddenly
from an egg-like bulb within the cold earth.
This plant may have been the mushroom or mykes,
the untameable fungoid sibling to the ergot of the grain harvest.
Mykes resembles the word mykema,
the roaring of a bull or of thunder,
a pun that perhaps derives from the syllabary of the Mycenaean-Minoan period,
in which the ‘mu’ syllable would have been written
by the pictogram of a bull’s head.
The pun is most explicitly presented in a fragment
of a fifth-century tragedy
where the poet seems to have said,
if the text can be trusted,
that the land ‘roared with mushroom-bellowing.’
- R. Gordon Wasson, Albert Hofmann, Carl A. P. Ruck
The Road to Eleusis: Unveiling the Secret of the Mysteries
We do not know
whether all the initiates at the lesser mystery would have
partaken of this plant
or whether, as seems more probable, they would
merely have assisted in some way
in the hunt
and perhaps in the sacred marriage
of the ‘queen,’ the wife of the sacral head
of the Athenian state,
who ceremoniously united with the god
Dionysus in her royal residence,
a place called the “bull stable”.
- R. Gordon Wasson, Albert Hofmann, Carl A. P. Ruck
The Road to Eleusis: Unveiling the Secret of the Mysteries
The Lesser Mysteries would end
with a water baptism,
while the Greater Mysteries climaxed
with a fire initiation.
- www.ancient-origins.net/ sacred-sex
where the inner meanings of the stories would be revealed
- www.ancient-origins.net/ sacred-sex
it is not lawful, however, for any
but the initiated to hear about
the Mysteries.
- http://www.theoi.com/Georgikos/Kabeiroi.html
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