Sound is always sence, and the same GD sound echoes in Hebrew AKaiD
(bound up together, as in the binding of Isaac) and the word for one, EKHaD.
The most solemn line of Hebrew prayer states that God is EKHaD (one) and
his name is EKHaD. While oneness is divine, isolation is bad. Thus BAD
should be linked to BaDaD (isolate) and leBHaD (alone). God is in the details
united, but never in non-related BITS and BYTES.
Reverse the Bet-Dalet badness to hear something like DIV[INE] goodness
or Hebrew ToV (good). The Old English term Tiw is said to mean the god
of war and sky, traced to the laboratory creation deiw (to shine... sky,
heaven, god). This similarly sunstruck etymology is the recorded source
of English DIVINITY, DEITY, ADIEU, and TUESDAY, as well as the Sanskrit
devah (god). An etymologist is unlikely to care that God is referred to
as ha-ToV (the Good) in Hebrew. Somehow, even the words JUPITER, JULY,
JOVE (chief god of the Indo-European pantheon) and JOVIAL are linked to
the Indo-European root above, rather than to the Yod-Hey-Vav-Hey Hebrew
name of God (as eternal and benificent) favored by the JEHOVAH Witnesses.
Other Deity terms with clearer Hebrew meanings include the Norse chief
god, ODIN. Hebrew liturgy is most often directed to the ADoaN (master)
of the universe, while many Americans worship the spirit of ADONIS in their
health clubs. The Dalet-Nun root of mastery, dominion, law and judgment
may also be seen in words like DEAN (judge), DEEM (to judge), and DOOMSDAY
(judgment day), Latin dominus (lord) in all it's forms, the honorific titles
of DON, DOM or MADONNA in Italian and Spanish and, yes, the deity terms
of nations like Rumania.
The most common root of deity words around the globe appears to be Hebrew
Khet-Mem, as KHaM or HaM connotes warmth, love, passion and, too often,
violence. Hot god terms of the world include the Shinto deity Kami (revealed
in the Japanese KAMIKAZE) and India's Kama (of KAMASUTRA fame). English
speakers will know the Latin descendants of this Edenic root in words like
AMOROUS and AMITY. This KH-M root only finds its way into Hebrew liturgy
as a sub-atomic particle in R-KH-M (womb, mercy), with an appellation of
the good God that would mean "the Merciful One." Whether we pray
to EL, ALLAH or the ALmighty, all human words are echoes of Eden. |
