> ...And if memory serves me correct (that'd be a
> first!) wasn't "ea" the name
> of some primal deity in - I think - Babylonian
> creation myth?
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "andrew" <hobbit@...>
> To: <CONLANG@...>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 5:25 AM
> Subject: Re: Teliya Nevashi Grammar beginnings
>
>
> On Tue, 24 Jul 2007, Amanda Babcock Furrow wrote:
>
> > Curiously, my oldest language started out being
> known as Ea (the verb
> > "to be", shamelessly stolen from Eru Illuvatar's
> world-creating
> > utterance in The Silmarillion), but I ended up
> deciding that was the
> > name of the universe and inventing an ethnonym for
> the language
> > (mrchi - soon maybe to be known as mirexu, I keep
> waffling on the
> > sound change, but really, all those derived nouns
> in -ia are way way
> > too Greek). So maybe this is a pattern?
> >
> I thought that there might be a tradition relating
> to Ea as it also
> appears in Ursula le Guin's Earthsea. It is the
> first piece of land
> created out of the original waters. According to
> Wikipedia,
>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89a , Ea was first
> published in the
> Earthsea books, although Tolkien had coined the
> phrase in the
> unpublished Silmarillion much earlier. Parallel
> creation!
>
> - andrew.
>