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The voice and hallucinogenic words of Ireland’s preeminent pre-Christian deity, Manannán, come down to us in one of Ireland’s oldest poems the 7th or 8th century of the Common Era (CE) Imram Brain / Voyage of Bran:
“Bran deems it a wondrous beauty/
In his coracle across the clear sea:
While to me in my chariot from afar
It is a flowery steppe on which he rides about…”
Some of the earliest writing we can read in Ireland is in the Ogham script.
It’s written evidence that the Early Irish pre-Christian name for a Deity is cognate with the Indic Deva.
That very early example of readable writing found in Ireland was an Ogham script inscription found in Kilkenny but referring to the Bandon River in Cork thus: Loígde after the Primitive Irish deity *Loigodēvā.
The currency into which these different signs in different languages (together with their meanings) is converted is the word “deity.”
*Deiwos as an ancient Ukrainian / proto-Indo-European word stemming from day/sky/shine is the only theological word that is attested in every Indo-European language family.
The basic word for ‘god’ in Proto-Indo-European appears to have been *deiwo ́s, itself an o-stem derivative of *dyeu- ‘sky, day’ \ “abducted as a teenager and enslaved in the far west of Ireland…Slaves… under constant threat of violence and sexual exploitation. Patrick’s writings are the only first hand account of the experience of slavery to have come down to us from antiquity.”
So given this hitherto invisible immanence and the reason why it came to be (migration and migrant are of course M-N- sounded signifiers too), it’s hardly surprising if we find other hitherto invisible immanences across Indo-European culture; such as this Sacred M-N- sound:
And yet the Ancient Ukrainian / Indo-European immanence inside what used to be called Roman Catholicism but today is more widely known as Christianity is more widespread than many of us think. And in the next episode I’ll set out the evidence of Indo-European migrations into Judea / Canaan for which we have written records - particularly after the Ancient Egyptian Amarna Letters of ~ 1,400 BCE onwards and the first international treaty which we still possess between the Indo-European Mitanni and ancient Egyptians…
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First in series:
Mallory, J. P., and D. Q. Adams. The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World. Oxford: Oxford University Press, UK, 2006. Print.