Etymology — Full Article

In the Beginning — One God and One Tongue

SAYS THE EVIDENCE

In the remote canyons of the Pergatoire River, just south of La Junta, Colorado, researcher Gary Vey was examining some very old petroglyphics. What was soon discovered was that these petroglyphs at Colorado, in the USA, not only demonstrated an ancient alphabet of various symbols but also, amazingly, they were virtually identical to others found in the Negev desert of Israel, in South Australia, in Yemen, in Chile and in the British Isles!

After numerous deciphering attempts, translations were eventually made with success through an old Hebrew dialect. The Colorado alphabet consisted of 22 basic, distinct geometric shapes and some variations. Vey has termed it "The First Tongue". Translations of similar petroglyphs by another team in Australia proved that they originated with the same root culture and ascribed to the same rules of grammar and symbols. Likewise with the petroglyphs in Israel's Negev desert, documented by Dr James Harris, during the Harvard expedition in 1994. These, along with those on other continents, hinted at an original common language. In addition, to this discovery lengthy studies by Irish etymologist John Philip Cohane have established by a study of root words that there were anciently TWO MAJOR DISPERSALS of people from the Middle East. (John Philip Cohane, The Key. New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1970)

Originally there was one global language

Cultural Anthropology can verify this fact as I shall now demonstrate. If we were to trace the footsteps of the first migration wave, we would discover that it has left its traces in just ONE UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE. This fact that the whole world once spoke the same language survives in the racial memory of many peoples. A fragmentary Sumerian tablet copied by the Oxford cuneiformist Oliver Gurney speaks of a time when "the whole universe" spoke "in one tongue."

The epic tale Enmerker and the Lord of Araita, published by Professor S.N. Kramer, of the University of Pennsylvania, records that all mankind spoke one and the same language until Enki, the Sumerian god of wisdom, confounded their speech. The idea that there was a time when all men spoke the same language is found also in ancient Egyptian and Indian writings.

Likewise, the Popul Vuh, a book of the Central American Maya, records that "those who gazed at the rising of the sun \[the ancestors who formerly lived eastward of the Americas\]... had but one language... before going west." And the book of Genesis records that "all the earth was of one language, and of one speech." (Genesis 11:1) Amazing evidence of this "First Tongue" is documented in the book, The Corpse Came Back. Chapter 8.

The second dispersal by contrast, was an apparently a forced dispersal from a central point in the Middle East and this has left its traces in MANY DIFFERENT LANGUAGES. This amazing fact, discovered only in our time, reminds us of an intriguing claim made in the biblical book of Genesis. It states that there were TWO DISPERSALS after the Great Flood.

1. An initial rapid dispersal from what is today eastern Turkey, at a time when there was one language over "the whole earth".

2. Then later, a sudden language disturbance in Mesopotamia which resulted in the inhabitants being scattered "abroad upon the face of all the earth." And this is precisely what archaeology is now discovering!

A Sudden confusion of languages

Numerous ancient traditions concur that:

a\) Everyone spoke a single language at first.

b\) The various languages did not arise capriciously, independently.

c\) In a single dramatic event the one original language became suddenly confused.

d\) Then from one central point the people were scattered to the ends of the earth.

Interestingly, all three branches of humanity recall this. Various peoples, such as the Mexicans, the Chaldeans, the Hindus, the Greeks, the Chiapa of the Americas, Australian Aboriginal tribes, and the Fijians, to name a few, were discovered with a tradition concerning this event in which each tribe received a new language. Evidently, this is not just some so called biblical fairytale. As some may like to siggest. No, this ancient event has been burnt into the racial memory of mankind as a whole. Language did not just "evolve" No society is known at any point in history which did not have a fully developed language? ("Encyclopaedia Brittanica", 15th ed., Macrop., vol.19, p.1033).

We find no support at all for any kind of evolutionary development of language. There is NO EVIDENCE nor any EXPLANATION for such an assumed evolution of language. The fact is, evolution cannot in any meaningful manner account for one language, much less hundreds of languages. In any case, who had time to formulate grammar when we were all supposedly running around simply trying to survive the next few minutes of life? Would it surprise you to learn that the most primitive tribes have been found to possess the most complex languages?

The earliest known and taught civilizations such as Sumeria, Egypt and the Indus Valley arise later and it was as a consequence of the sudden confusion of languages that occurred with the second dispersal. The evidence shows that the Egyptian, Sumerian and other cultures that sprang up in Mesopotamia (close to the language confusion incident) did so soon after the dispersal.

They did not arise until after this language break-up incident. What's important is this: that originally there was one language and it contained a unified alphabet.

Another fascinating feature in this, is that all attempts to translate the "First Tongue" fail, until the key was found in an old Hebrew dialect? Apparently, that "First Tongue" and that old Hebrew tongue shared the same roots! This was incredible! Did that mean that the language that the whole world originally spoke was something akin to old Hebrew?

Now you may be interested to know what other things those earliest people shared on a global scale? There are a many, for example the meanings of the star names and the constellations were almost identical the world over and that they've not changed much since despite the intended meaning changing significantly. see Sting of the Scorpion

What about religion? have you ever heard someone say it just evolved? Or that as man evolved so did his philosophy on life, from magic, to religion, to science? And that from an initial primitive worship of many gods, religion evolved to the idea of just 'one God' (monotheism)?

Truly, this is what many are taught today in places of learning. Sadly, it's a con job, to get evolution theory accepted. The truth is that there is not a shred of evidence for this supposed progression from magic, to religion, to science. On the contrary, archaeology shows us there was science from the very start of human presence on earth. Please see Dead Men's Secrets.

That's the opposite from what the evolution theory propagates. Yes, sound science proves that there was a original culture, with the same language and religion initially

So, what is the truth about religion? Well, researchers on six continents have been discovering script in mankind's "First Tongue" . And that the content of the translations, although not complete, suggests a single culture and religious belief system, worldwide.

What has been discovered is that two common petroglyphs represent the names of deity - "EL" and "YAH". "EL" represents the abstract form of deity - that which cannot be comprehended by man, while "YAH" is the Creator. Both concepts represent a single deity - One God - but recognise the aspects of "knowable" and "unknowable" deity.

A successful translation has been made of the entire top row of the Colorado inscriptions, reading, "YARE HA EL", or "PRAISE THE LORD". Yes Monotheism at first and this indicates a monotheistic religious belief at that early time when there was still a global language. It hints at an original faith inherited from the earliest ancestors.

The evidence shows that MONOtheism lay at the root of all religions, until shortly after 2000 BC -- when monotheism began to degenerate into pantheism, polytheism and animism. Careful archaeologists and historians (Horn, Faber, Rawlinson, Waddell and Budge, to name a few) insist from their discoveries that the earliest Sumerians, Iranians, Phoenicians, Egyptians and Indians were monotheists.

They recognised supremely only one God. They knew also that there was only one Seed, on whom the hopes of the world were founded. In almost all nations, not only was a great god known under the name Zero, or Zer ("the Seed"), and a great goddess under the name of Ashta, or Isha ("the woman"). But the great god Zero is frequently characterised by some epithet which implies that he is "the only One".

Popular theories cannot explain this. Nothing can account for such names and epithets, except the prior knowledge of the original prophecy, the prophecy of the "Seed" to be born of a virgin.

There are aspects of the one God In the early period of Egyptian history, this one God appears under the two aspects, Heru-ur and Set. This was similar to the Old Testament, in which God the Creator appears under two names, Elohim and Yahweh. In the original Egyptian monotheism, Heru-ur was the eternally beneficent aspect of the Creator, and Set was the aspect associated with judgment, correction and death.

The hieroglyphic representation consisted of the face of Heru-ur, and the face of Set, being depicted as two aspects of one being. (Davidson and Aldersmith, The Great Pyramid: Its Divine Message. London: William and Norgate, Ltd, 1936, p. 451)

These two aspects were later separated to form the Egyptian pagan deities, the elder Horus and Set. The Coming One's attributes were stolen or borrowed for others . In the earliest Egyptian texts we are brought face to face with prophecies concerning a Messiah who was to come. It was held that "the teacher awaited since the creation of the world" had not yet been manifested on earth.

His coming was to end in his sacrifice and bring about the regeneration of mankind. The ancient Egyptian messianic prophecies refer to the Messiah as "The Lord of Death and Resurrection". In course of time these prophecies of the Messiah became paganised by the substitution of Osiris, the god of Vegetational Decay and Regeneration, and other deities.

Osiris then usurped the attributes and functions of the promised Messiah that had been known in earlier Egyptian prophecy. Only in the late Egyptian literature from late in the 18th and early in the 19th Dynasty did Osiris and other gods usurp the functions and attributes of the Promised One. (I. Davidson and H. Aldersmith, The Great Pyramid: Its Divine Message. London: Williams and Norgate, Ltd, 1936, p. 526)

That was after religious degeneration had set in well and truly. But originally, the position of Osiris was not messianic. (Ibid.) Osiris was no more than an allegorical figurehead, a patron of corn, a personification of the agricultural seasons. (Stewart The Witness of the Great Pyramid London: The Covenant Publishing Co. Ltd, 1928, pp. 64,65) Much, much later he became "a god who had been originally a mortal and had risen from the dead." (E.A. Wallis Budge, The Book of the Dead London: British Museum Publications, 1920)

And only then were the added attributes of the Promised One given to him. Noted archaeologist Professor Budge points out: The beliefs which were conceived by the Egyptians in their lowest states of civilization were mingled with those which reveal the existence of high spiritual conceptions. (Budge The Gods of the Egyptians. New York: Dover Publications, 1969 (reprint of the 1904 ed.), Vol. I, p.32) Similarly, in the most ancient records of the Aryan language, we find indications that religious thought is higher, simpler, purer, as we go further back in time.

Although modern Hinduism recognises a multitude of gods possessing different influences on human affairs, yet the Indian sacred books show that originally it had been otherwise. Speaking of Brahm, the Supreme God: the following is revealed in VEDA. Of Him whose glory is so great, there is no image. He illumines all, delights all, whence all proceeded; that by which they live when born, and that to which all must return. He whom the mind alone can perceive; whose essence eludes the external organs, who has no visible parts, who exists from eternity.... The soul of all beings, whom no being can comprehend.

In the Institutes of Menu there is a trace of pantheism, but the very language employed bears testimony to the existence among the Hindus at one period of a far purer monotheistic faith. Brahm the one infinite and eternal God is just the original Hebrew Rahm -- with the 'b' prefixed, which is very frequent in Sanscrit words derived from Hebrew or Chaldee.

The Hebrew Rahm means "the merciful, or compassionate One." But Rahm also means "the Womb", or "the Bowels" as the seat of compassion. Now we find such language applied to Brahm, as cannot be accounted for, except by realising that Brahm had the very same meaning as the Hebrew Rahm.

Thus, we find the god Krishna, in one of the Hindu sacred books (when asserting his high dignity as a divinity, and his identity with the Supreme) using these words: "The great Brahm is my Womb, and in it I place my foetus, and from it is the procreation of all nature. The great Brahm is the Womb of all the various forms which are conceived in every natural womb." It is very clear that Brahm comes from Rahm which means Womb or Merciful One. Brahm is just the same as Er Rahman ("the all-merciful One"), a title applied by the Turks to the Most High.

Thus, the Hindus, despite the deep religious deterioration seen today, once knew God as "the God of mercy", that is, "a just God and a rescuer". He was also called in India "the victim-man". And among the Buddhists he was commonly addressed as "Savior of the world". (Mahawanso, xxxi "apud". Pococke's India in Greece, p. 185)

Furthermore, the meaning of Deva the generic name for "God" in India is similar. Deva originally came from the Chaldean Thav "Good". Thav is also legitimately pronounced Thev and in the emphatic form is Theva or Thevo "the Good". "Th" is frequently pronounced "Dh". Hence Deva. The "v" is frequently dropped just as "novus" in Latin is "neos" in Greek. Dheva, or Theva, or Thevo becomes Deva. It also becomes Deo or Devs" ("God" in Latin) and Theos ("God" in Greek), or Theo-s or Thevo-s.

This reflects the passage in the Bible that says, "There is none good but One, that is God \[Theos -- the Good\]." (Matthew 19:17)

All the evidence proves a gradual increase in gods. Ancient textual evidence shows that the trend was to increase the number of gods as time passed, rather than decrease them. (Siegfried H. Horn, Records of the Past Illuminate the Bible Washington, DC.: Review and Herald Publishing Association, 1975, p. 12. Emphasis added)

It was only the later nations who were POLYtheists worshipping many gods. As an example of how far this trend has developed over the past 4,000 years, can be understood by examining the Hindu religion. It is calculated that today the Hindu religion has 600,000 gods!

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