The Lady Odin's Lair

There are many 'layers' to the term God.  From the ineffable Prime Creative Force to  ... beings who create worlds,  ... beings who seed worlds with life,  ... beings who oversee the development of life,  ... beings who foster civilisations,  ... beings who exploit these inhabited and civilised worlds ... and  ... beings who protect these inhabited and civilised worlds from exploitation. So when you write or speak about GOD ... define which you  mean. When others write or speak about GOD ... discern which they mean. It astounds me how commonly people communicate at cross purposes without taking a moment to define their term, GOD. But then ... the Bible does a fantastic job of tangling these layers.

There's a very powerful mind-messing spell that operates in our world and it goes like this ... ✨WE ✨ WE are responsible for the mess we're in WE need to do something about it WE need to lift our game WE are ruining our planet When will WE get over anger, bigotry and hate? When are WE going to learn? Do you get where I'm going with this? WE is a full-on mind-messing word. While even one person is still full of anger, bigotry and hate, the implication is that we have ALL failed. While even one person throws litter from their car, the implication is that we are ALL culpable for the mess. While even one person votes on who shall rule them, the implication is that we are ALL seen to be consenting to oppression. (Ok, well maybe more than one person. How many are needed before a critical mass is reached that commits us all to the same judgment?) Which brings me to the next inevitable question. How do you pull everyone into line to ensure conformity to an elevated set of standard...

The  ancient Hungarian  word for holy  is given as igy  [ source ] Which brought to my mind the word Igigi, a word related to the Anunnaki. So I had a closer look. From Wikipedia  ( which is an unofficially sanctioned source of the desired narrative. Read it with caution.) Igigi are the gods of heaven in the mythology of Mesopotamia. Though sometimes synonymous with the term "Anunnaki", in one myth the Igigi were the younger gods who were servants of the Anunnaki, until they rebelled and were replaced by the creation of humans Etymology: The name has unknown origin. .... Igi means (eye) in the Sumerian language, and it used as logogram in the Akkadian language, gi stands for (penetrate sexually).Therefore, Igigi could be translated to (Eyes in the sky, the watchers, who deflower). [ Loka:  snort! ] Akkadian Paradise is described as a garden in the myth of  Atrahasis  where lower rank deities (the Igigi) are put to work digging a watercourse...

http://www.hunmagyar.org/tor/controve.htm After British, French and German archeologists and linguists discovered and deciphered the oldest known written records in Mesopotamia and its neighbouring regions during the first half of the 19th c., they came to the conclusion that the language of those ancient inscriptions was neither Indo-European nor Semitic , but an agglutinative language which demonstrated significant similarities with the group of agglutinative languages known at the time as the Turanian ethno-linguistic group which included Hungarian, Turkic, Mongolian and Finnic (later referred to as the Ural-Altaic group) (27). The recognition and acceptance of the Sumerian-Turanian ethno-linguistic relationship grew significantly in international orientalist circles until the 1870's (28). However, two factors hampered the further progress of research in this field. First, in Hungary, as a result of the imposition of the Finno-Ugrian theory as official doctrine following the 184...

Here are some of my personal favourites from this amusing list of delightful and surprising word origins 2. Pandemonium was a term invented by John Milton in Paradise Lost. It referred to a great city in Hell, and means "place of all the demons". 6. Noon comes from novem, the Latin for "ninth", and meant the ninth hour of the day – which, by the Roman reckoning, was what we now call 3pm. It's not clear why it moved by three hours. 7. Trivia comes from the plural of the Latin word trivium, meaning a place where three roads come together. Quadrivium meant a crossroads. [ ... but how did it come to mean something inconsequential? Surely this would have made for an important decision affecting one's journey? Hmmm .] 8. Treadmills were once a punishment, not gym equipment: Victorian prisoners powered a huge mill which crushed corn or rocks. 11. Second , as in one-60th of a minute, comes from secunda pars minuta, the second diminished part. Origi...

I really wish I owned or had access to scholarly reference texts on etymology, lexicology, and philology, so I could get as close to the heart of the word origin as possible. It would certainly be easier to find the information I'm searching for this way, than by digging through the obfuscating algorithms of the online search engines. Sure, many of our English words have their origins in old Latin, Greek, and Germanic tongues, but how were those words derived? Oftentimes, it's from what is referred to as PIE, which stands for proto Indian-European. Sanskrit is a strong anchor for many of the PIE sources. (I did study Sanskrit for a few semesters. I found it challenging because I found preposition indicators very confusing. Because it's a 'dead' language - not in current use today, we studied ancient texts. But I never knew if the elephant was in the house, on the house, at the house, or in any other placement regarding the house. Hmmm.) So I really want...

No, I didn't make a spelling error ... Here's the thing guys ... Do you want to be full of greatness, or full of grate, that is, reduced to shreds. Greatful or Grateful. Same letters, different order. In situations like this, I like to zoom in on the etymology of words like gratitude , which of course, is the noun version of the adjective, grateful . The Latin root is gratus , meaning pleasing, thankful. Other words with this root are gracias, grace, gracious, ingrate. So I looked up the etymology of grace, to see how different it is from the etymology of grateful. grace (n.) late 12c., "God's unmerited favor, love, or help," from Old French grace "pardon, divine grace, mercy; favor, thanks; elegance, virtue" (12c., Modern French grâce), from Latin gratia "favor, esteem, regard; pleasing quality, good will, gratitude " (source of Italian grazia, Spanish gracia; in Church use translating Greek kharisma), from gratus "ple...

Concepts, ideas, require language to be brought into being. You cannot make real or interact with something you cannot identify. And to identify something you need to be able to articulate it. And in order to be able to articulate it, you will need words. Make it your business to improve your vocabulary. Skilful use of words is powerful psycho-magic. It shapes not only your own consciousness, but influences the consciousness of others, and of the world around you. You see, my perception is not necessarily better than what others do. But what I strive for is to put it into language that helps me to understand it better. Then when I've processed it to a point where I am satisfied with my knowing of what I've perceived, then I like to share it so that it might also be useful to you. I will keep adding to this list, and try to keep things in alphabetical order. Extrospection The opposite of introspection, extrospection means to look at things outside of yourself, either...