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Re: Teliya Nevashi Grammar beginnings

From:Michael Poxon <mike@...>
Date:Tuesday, July 24, 2007, 10:53
"Oannes" - wasn't he the god who came from the sea in the form of a fish?
One of the culture bringers common to many mythological systems (cf. Osiris
in Egypt). I have a feeling he was responsible for the invention, among
others, of beer. My sort of deity. :-)
Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: "Geoff Horswood" <geoffhorswood@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 11:24 AM
Subject: Re: Teliya Nevashi Grammar beginnings


> 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 unpublished Silmarillion much earlier.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. >> > > > ===== > > One by one the penguins are stealing my sanity > -Graffitum spotted on a bridge in England > > > ___________________________________________________________ > Yahoo! Answers - Got a question? Someone out there knows the answer. Try > it > now. > http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/ >

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