Hieroglyphs in Indoeuropean Languages

Joannes Richter

Proto-Indo-European Religion
In Proto-Indo-European religion ideal man (Adam Kadmon) has been considered as an androgynous being symbolizing a matrimonial couple. Human beings received the title man as a couple after marriage and bachelors were to be considered as incomplete halves of man. A religion considering man as an image of a Creator God will also consider this deity as an image of a married couple. For this reason the highest priest, the flamen dialis, in the Roman empire had to be married. Germanic and Celtic cultures have been praised for their high standards in matrimonial ethics1. For this reason Indo-European religion supported matrimony by etymological symbols and a creation legend, which has been documented by Plato in Symposium. This way the IndoEuropeans stabilized matrimonial ethics. The married couple and matrimony are to be symbolized by hieroglyphs, which also provide the links to divine powers. The divine name has been generated by placing man as a pronoun2 between the characters D and S. In English and old-German this divine name results in Dis respectively Dis-Pater, which has been defined as the prominent Celtic deity by Julius Caesar3.
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Tactus, Germania a personal pronoun of the 1st person singular, in English: I, in oldGerman Ih. 3 De Bello Gallico, volume VI, 18-21, 53 BC

Unfortunately we cannot identify these formulas for the divine name in all Indo-European languages, but some of the genuine samples have been preserved in remote valleys of the Alps, where people still use the pronouns with their ancient androgynous cores. Wherever these structures occur we may consider the relevant characters as hieroglyphs, as holy tokens, to store the religious wisdom...

Mirio
The Provenal poem Mirio4 is a new Rosetta Stone for etymology, explaining how the personal pronoun iu has been integrated in the divine name Diu. I had identified similar effects in Italian and Spanish before, but in these languages the correspondence had been limited to a couple of only 2 characters. Di does contain the pronoun i and Dios the pronoun yo. In Portuguese the name Deus also contains the pronoun eu and in Sicilian Diu contains the pronoun iu. In Old-German and English languages the previously specified name Dis5 encloses the pronoun I, which will still be found in English and in southern German dialects. The Provenal language however explains the exact method to generate the words. Most of the personal pronouns (e.g. iu) do contain an I and a U, in the middle of which we may often identify one of the other vowels (a, e, o). As a remarkable effect we will also identify similar characters (I, U or V) in the Hebrew and Arabian divine names.
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published 1859 by Frederi Mistral identified by Julius Caesar in De Bello Gallico

The Swadesh-lists reveal 6 the standard rules to derive the personal pronouns from the divine name for a number of languages. This process must have been taking place between 3500 BC and 500 AD.

Supreme justice
Generally the Indo-European core *iou has been used to encode a divine name (e.g. IU-piter), pronouns (e.g. iu) and supreme justice (ius7) and as a joint, especially a matrimonial joint8 (and yoke9). Romance languages may also symbolize the Adam Kadmon-concept inside the personal pronoun of the first person singular (*iou, e.g. iu, iau or iou).

The hieroglyphic characters I, J, Y, U, V

Traditionally the hieroglyphs I, J, Y have been used as male symbols, which used to be depicted as pillars. The characters U and V have been considered as vessels. As a remarkable fact the Iuhark-alphabet, inscribed at the Kylver Runestone does not start with the standard row Fu, but with the most important hieroglyphs I, U and .

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in de appendix derived words are: justice, just, judge, juice, etcetera 8 to join = Latin: iungo 9 yoke = Latin: iugum 3

The hieroglyphs D, Th respectively and s

The divine name (e.g. Dyaus, Deus, Zeus and Theos) will normally start with a character D, Z, Th or will usually be closed by a character S.

In order to generate a divine name we would just insert the personal pronoun of the first person singular between the leading and the trailing character. In Provenal language Diu will be generated by D and iu. In English and German the divine name Dis is to be created by a D, followed by the pronoun i and a a trailing character s. In Italian the procedure is similar: Dio is generated by concatenating a D and the pronoun io. Spanish concatenates D, yo and a trailing character s to generate the divine name Dios.

The vowels O, A and E

Obviously the centre of the personal PIE-pronouns of the 1st person singular may be using any vowel, e.g. e in Provenal ieu, the character a in iau and the vowel o in Aromanian iou. The core ieu itself may be identified in the Provenal name Dieu, the core iau inside the PIE-name Dyaus, the vowel o may be traced a the centre of the Aromanian pronoun iou and will also be found at a central position inside the names Jeh-oVah, Jove, IOU-piter. Iuppiter originated as a vocative compound of the Old Latin vocative *Iou and pater ("father") and came to replace the Old Latin nominative case *Ious.

In a number of languages these central vowels used to be considered as sacred and have been omitted (e.g. Hebrew and Arabian). For these reasons the Matres Lectionis and the characters He had to be applied to define the joint-elements between the male and female symbols. Does the holy in the middle of Jeh-O-Vah, respectively JOV10, really represent the centre of a matrimonial couple, consisting of a male (Jeh) and a female partner (Vah)?
Hosea 11-9

For I am God, and not man; the Holy One in the midst of you; And I will not come in wrath.

The symbolism of the character He

One of the mayor differences between the IU-cores in IU-piter, respectively Tuisco and YHVH is the addition of two remarkable characters H in the divine name YHVH. A number of biblical quotations refers to a character He, which had to be inserted into the name Abram11: Neither will your name any more be called Abram, but your name will be Abraham; for the father of a multitude of nations have I made you.
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JOV Jovis (Der Genitiv des Namens IU-pitter) Genesis 17-5.

In an subsequent quotation the name Sarai has to be modified to Sarah12: God said to Abraham, As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but her name will be Sarah.
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These modifications seem to correlate to the Zohar's explanation for the letter H in the word Naarah (girl)13: In the fifth book of Moses 22,23 the word Naarah (girl) has been written without the character H, because she had not been joined with a man before. As long as the male and female elements have not been united the letter H has to be avoided. As soon as they have been united in the white Light and they have shared all into the One the letter H has to be applied. Obviously the characters H and the corresponding letter U symbolize the matrimonial procedure in which a girl and her husband are to be transformed into an androgynous couple. For Abram the transformation has been documented in his 99th year, shortly before Sarai's pregnancy. In order to commemorate the pregnancy Abram inserts an H into his name and renames himself to Abraham, as well as he renames Sarai to Sarah. Obviously the letter H in the names Abraham and Sarah commemorate the activation of the womb.

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Genesis 17-15. Sohar, I. fol. 51a-b, edited by Ernst Mller Weltbild, page 213

Indo-European languages may also be equipped with similar words. In Dutch language the word huwen (to marry) symbolizes the womb14's activation. In German language the word Ehe (Matrimony), which may also correspond to the special double name Ehejeh for Yahweh. The Sohar15 describes the symbolism for the letter H as follows: The letter He is to be added later to join all elements by adding H-characters and these unifications are to named Du (Atah). As it has been written 'Atah will make all of them alive' (Nehemia 9,6). In both words the character H plays a leading role, but it still remains unclear whether these symbolic elements have been introduced to these languages by Catholicism or by IndoEuropean etymology. Just like the Hebrew language the Indo-European languages also provide us with a Kabbala, in which religious characters have been applied to encode the sacred symbolism. We may easily trace the basic idea of an androgynous YHWH consisting of two individual halves by considering the name Elohim as a plural word and the biblical quotation16 God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.
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In PIE-concept symbolized by the character U The double name Ehejeh has been described in Sohar, I. fol. 15a-16a, edited by Ernst Mller Weltbild edition, page 100 16 Genesis 1:26
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These remarkable contradictions in the Book Genesis could not escape the attention of the Pharisees, to whom the Bible was a subject of close study. In explaining the various views concerning Eve's creation, they taught that Adam was created as a man-woman (androgynous), explaining 7 (Genesis 1:27) as "male and female" instead of "man and woman," and that the separation of the sexes arose from the subsequent operation upon Adam's body, as related in the Scripture.

Summary
This overview considers the characters I, J, Y, U, V, the characters D, Th respectively and S, as well as the vowels O, A and E, along with the joining element H as the main hieroglyphs in the Indo-European languages. By combining these symbols the Indo-Europeans generated their names for the sky-god, for the most important pronouns of the 1st and the 2nd person and some other elementary elements. For the mayor European languages the formula for generating the divine names has been defined as: Romanian: Z + eu = Zeu Provenal: D + iu = Diu Italian: D + i = Di Spanish: D + yo + s = Dios Portuguese: D + eu + s = Deus English: D + i + s = Dis old-German: D + ih + s = Dis

Old High German: Z + i(u) = Ziu, which may related the neighbouring area Sutsilvanic :D + jou = Diu (which is to be located in the Alpes). Old English: T + ich = Tig, which may be related to the German pronoun ich17.

Even if these theses may only be proved in a dozen of dialects from remote alpine valleys, we will have to accept the idea these principles had been invented and defined in prehistoric eras. Romance: D + jau = Diu Sursilvanic : D + jeu = Diu Sutsilvanic :D + jou = Diu Sicilian dialect: D + iu = Diu

A remarkable correlation of the hieroglyphs has been observed between the Hebrew and the Indo-European languages. A common source is to be considered.

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Similar pronouns are gothic-Dutch ik, ags. ic and Icelandic ek

Appendix: List of Pronouns (1st & 2nd person)

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Language

You (sing.) Tu Tu Ti

God

Source Swadesh Swadesh Swadesh Swadesh

Langue d'Oc Tu Romanian Sicilian Romansch Sursilvaans Sutsilvaans Spanish Portuguese Provenal t, usted Tu Tu

ieu , jo Dieu eu iu Zeu Diu (Iu-piter) Dieu Dieu (Diou-piter) Dios Deus Diu Dis, Zui18, Tig19 Di Dieu Dis Tiw21

jau, eau Dieu jeu jou yo eu iu Ih i je I I(w)

Swadesh Swadesh Swadesh

old-German Thu Italian French English old-English Arabian

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Tu Tu Thou (& You20) Thou

Swadesh Swadesh Swadesh

Swadesh

Source: (Wikipedia) List of Germanic deities and heroes Source: (Wikipedia) List of Germanic deities and heroes 20 Thou is the original personal pronoun for the 2nd person singular 21 Source: (Wikipedia) List of Germanic deities and heroes

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Language Hebrew

You (sing.)

God IHVH

Source Swadesh

Table 1: Correlation of pronouns (1st and 2nd person)

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