Re: Biblical Hebrew

>From: Dan Sulani <dnsulani@...>
>
>On 15 August, Peter Clark wrote:
> > of "to have compassion" or "cherishing." The specific word for "womb"
>(as
> > opposed to "belly") is rechem. It's not quite clear whether which word
> > derives from which; scholars?
>
>I suppose that leaves me out (not being a scholar of Semitic langs),
>but FWIW, my dictionary has the emotions and the bodily organ
>as being related to different sets of cognates in ancient semitic langs.
>But in each case, the cognate from one set is very similar to the one
>from the other set across all the langs mentioned. Thus, it's quite
>possible that the connection between the emotions and the organ
>dates from proto-Semitic times. _Real_ scholars, please?  ;-)
>
>
It gets even better - there's good anthropological evidence for bodily
correlates to particular emotional / mental states.  The chakra system from
yoga is a good example, but there are other examples ranging from the Hopi,
to the !Kung, to the Australians...  nothing that qualifies as "universal,"
but there are some striking similarities across cultures.  There is probably
some real physiology here...

Andy

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