Sunday, January 1, 2017

Fairy tale origins 1000's of years old... BBC

Found an article I like on the BBC:  'Fairy tale origins thousands of years old, researchers say.'

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-35358487

I want to look into the past to a time when humans maybe lived sustainably.

Another page that I find very interesting:  'Unlocking the Voynich Manuscript: Spinning, Hulda, and the Voynich' by Claudette Cohen

http://voynichbirths.blogspot.nl/2015/09/spinning-hulda-and-voynich.html

Today, I do not have anything really new and exciting to offer.  Maybe I can just write about why I spent most of the past year exploring the Goddess Embroideries.  I decided that I am not a pagan.  But I research pagan stuff because I am an environmentalist.

Oh, I'm bogged down with all the things I want to say.  I'm likely to repeat myself because I can not remember what I wrote before.  If you think that I am excentric, weird, then you need this list of books to see where I am coming from:

Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
The Dancing Goddesses by Elizabeth Wayland Barber
Sacred and Healing Beers by Stephen Harrod Buhner
Pharmakopoeia by Dale Pendell
Ornamental Ironwork by Susan and Michael Southworth

But wait, there's more!  I just found something new.  I'm going to blurt it out before checking to see if it is correct.  Yay!  I found somebody on Pinterest who translated pagan symbols from Lithuanian to English (I should credit them by name here.). So, one of the symbols is called Juma and it translates as Harvest.  I remembered that in Turkiye, one of the days of the week is called Cumartesi.  So I looked up the days of the week in Turkish again.  I found that Friday is Cumar, and Saturday is Cumartesi.  The letter C sounds like J in Turkish.  So, Friday might translate as Harvest Day;  which would give us Saturday as Second Harvest Day.

But I do not have a dictionary that can give word origins in Turkish.  I could ask my Turkish friends, maybe on Facebook.

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