KGrim
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Post by KGrim on Jun 10, 2020 19:00:45 GMT
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Post by Eugene 2.0 on Jun 11, 2020 17:03:39 GMT
I wonder if KGrim has greek blood?
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Post by joustos on Jul 1, 2020 22:33:07 GMT
I wonder if KGrim has greek blood? The fact that the words of one's language (English in this case) can be derived from another language (Greek) does not imply that the speaker is a descendant of speakers of the original language BECAUSE words can be borrowed rather than learned in one' native family/social milieu. Unfortunately the above YouTube does not go into this distinction. An example of bowing [from Greek literature] was clearly given: Skylla and Karybdis ]< The Odyssey]. Now take what we call Water. It could be spelled differently: Huater, which shows the possible Greek source: Hudor (the Gr. name of Water). Through a lot of research we can say that the ancestors of the Anglo-Saxons had Greek as their native language... (I have not yet found a suitable publisher for my manuscript INDO-EUROPEAN AND ITS SPEAKERS. It has a chapter of etymologies of Anglo-Saxon.)
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Post by jamesskywalker on Jul 2, 2020 1:17:45 GMT
Aren’t the days of the week based off of Greek gods?
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Clovis Merovingian
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Post by Clovis Merovingian on Jul 2, 2020 2:09:27 GMT
Aren’t the days of the week based off of Greek gods? No, they're based off of Anglo Saxon gods, except for Saturday which is based on the Roman god Saturn.
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KGrim
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Coming back to Arktos...for a little while anyways...just to see how things are doing.
Posts: 442
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Country: USA
Region: South East
Location: East Texas
Ancestry: Scotch-Irish
Politics: Conservative
Religion: Eastern Orthodox
Hero: Jesus
Age: 33 soon to be 34
Philosophy: Hesychasm
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Post by KGrim on Jul 2, 2020 2:22:34 GMT
I wonder if KGrim has greek blood? I don't think I do. Its possible.
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Post by thesageofmainstreet on Apr 22, 2021 19:48:03 GMT
Aren’t the days of the week based off of Greek gods? Why aren't the Russian days of the week based on ancient Slavic gods?
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Post by joustos on Jun 26, 2021 21:26:36 GMT
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Clovis Merovingian
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Location: South Carolina
Ancestry: Gaelic (patrilineal), English, Ulster Scots/Scots Irish, Scottish, German, Swiss German, Swedish, Manx, Finnish, Norman French/Quebecois (distantly), Dutch (distantly)
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Post by Clovis Merovingian on Jun 27, 2021 3:56:21 GMT
Didn't uh quite finish your thoughts there did you joustos?
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Post by joustos on Jun 27, 2021 15:49:51 GMT
Aren’t the days of the week based off of Greek gods? No, they're based off of Anglo Saxon gods, except for Saturday which is based on the Roman god Saturn. [I lost the Reply that I had written, essentially: Furthermore, we have "Sunday" which is basically a translation of the Roman/Latin "Solis dies". However, there is a complex Greek history behind this very name. I'll try to make it short. The very ancient Greeks discovered seven planets (wandering stars) or deities, before the Baylonians and the Romans, while they had a lunar calendar; that is, they measured time by lunations (each consisting of 28 days). Now, at the beginning of each month, the seven gods were celebrated, beginning with the Moon and ending with the Sun (in Greek, Helios but, later Apollo as the Sun-god, represented as the colossus of Rhodes occupied by the Peloponnesian Dorians but destroyed by an earthquake). The seven feast-days became what we call the "week" among all Greek-speaking peoples such as the future Romans and the pre-Semitic Hebrews and, of course, in the Romance [Romanesque] languages (Italian, Spanish, French, etc.) and languages influenced by ecclesiastical Latin, such as English. //The Hebrews imagined that their deities (the Elohim) fashioned the world in 6 days and rested on the 7th day, which for the people became the holy-day or Sabath. The Christians followed suit but changed Sun-Day into "Day of the Lord" [Domini-ca], and Satur(ni)-day to Sabat(o), thus virtually reducing the work-days to 5. (The eve of a great Holy Day, such as "all-saints day (Nov. 1)" was considered also important or holy, as in the case of the English Hallow-ween or, in southern Europe, the night when some of the Departed may come back to visit; a table with food and wine is left prepared for them -- which is in the pagan tradition of Hekate's Suppers prepared for her, the Queen of the Night, in case she decided to come.) // A footnote: In a crypt (catacomb) under St. Peter's basilica in Rome there is a second-century mosaic that represents Jesus as Apollo (the sun-god) driving his chariot across the sky, for, after all, he had been conceived (in the Greek Gospels) as the light of the world and, as such, the Soter (Savior)....
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