Re: Genesis Rediscovered

In a message dated 8/14/04 1:12:01 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
joerg_rhiemeier@WEB.DE writes:

<< So `Heaven' is a compund `God'+`Earth'?  That's interesting,
 but it makes sense: Heaven as God's own world, i.e. the world
 God lives in.
  >>
That is absolutely correct.  It is nice to know a reader can reconstruct the
reasoning for this.
<<Darkness' = _en_+`Heaven'?  Or is that just coincidence?>>
That is also correct. "en" is a negative word, originally an early heresy.
One might translate the word for darkness as "unsky" --that is, since (as in
English" "heaven" can be either God's home or the physical (daytime) sky,  the
"unsky" is the dark sky of night.

<<Light' = _na_+`God'+_na_.  An interesting etymology.>>
For this word, I believe the etymology was actually different, but I no
longer recall it.My original dictionary (which I still have) did not give
etymologies, so I now have to reconstruct them from memory, which is foggy after 30
years..

<<It doesn't look like a natlang at all, but one can easily
imagine some weird sect to come up with something like this.>>
I am glad you think so. That was exactly the intent. I was inspired by
reading  about the
(long-discredited) 19th century theory that Sumerian was just an artificial
ritual language
invented by the Akkadians. Natece was supposed to be the artificial sacred
language of an alien race who looked something like teddybears (or SciFi Hokas
or Ewoks) who had been converted to Anglican Christianity by the (imaginary)
Order of St. Clive (named for C.S.Lewis) . Originally it was used for the
scriptures of their own monotheistic but non-Christian religion, but when they
converted they began translating the Bible into it.
John Leland