> That seems to match my memory. Ea-Oannes, AISTR.
> Wasn't he a creator god, or am I making that up?
>
> Geoff
>
> --- Michael Poxon <mike@...> wrote:
>
>> ...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 unpublished Silmarillion much earlier.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.
>>
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