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LINGUISTICS AND HISTORY OF LANGUAGE
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06/09/2013 found and prepared by Natasha M
Runes (meaning)
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The dictionary reads

Veda ((from the Sanskrit word for `knowledge', ведать, знать) any of the most ancient sacred writings of Hinduism written in early Sanskrit; traditionally believed to comprise the Samhitas, the Brahmanas, the Aranyakas, and the Upanishads)


  1. The Rigveda, containing hymns to be recited by the hotar, or presiding priest;
  2. The Yajurveda, containing formulas to be recited by the adhvaryu or officiating priest;
  3. The Samaveda, containing formulas to be sung by the udgatar or priest that chants;
  4. The Atharvaveda, a collection of spells and incantations, apotropaic charms and speculative hymns.
The individual verses contained in these compilations are known as mantras. Some selected Vedic mantras are still recited at prayers, religious functions and other auspicious occasions in contemporary Hinduism.

I thought also today we can discuss the meaning of a very important sound in Vedas image alphabet:

RA
(Sound Archetype)
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MEANING: Cosmic Mind, Divine Light


The sacred sound archetypes of the Near-Eastern cultures were identified as YA, HU and RA.  In this article we focus on the RA archetype.

RA is the sound archetype symbolizing the light/fire in many languages. In Sanskrit RA is the acoustic root of fire. In the ancient Egyptian lore RA represented an aspect of divinity that can be described as Divine Light. The Sun was only a symbol of this aspect of divinity.

RA in Divine Names

One of the names of God in Sanskrit is Iishvara (Cosmic Consciousness qualified by the Static principle). The word Iishvara contains the words isha and RA. One of the meanings of the word Iishvara is “Controller of the Cosmos”.  Iishvara is the Cosmic Mind, the Manifest Divinity, the Supreme Being.

Ahura Mazda, the name of the Supreme Being in Zoroastrianism contains all three sound archetypes we are examining: YA, HU and RA. The order in which these sounds are combined to form the word Ahura is important.

Islam mentions the 99 names/attributes of Allah. These are the adjectives to express the majesty of the Supreme Being.  The following names/attributes of Allah start with the acoustic root RA: Ar-Rahim (The Merciful), Ar-Rahman (The Gracious), Ar-Razzaq (The Provider), Ar-Rafi (The Exalter), Ar-Rauf (The Compassionate), Ar-Rasheed (The Guide to the Right Path), Ar-Raqib (The Watchful).

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The following names/attributes of Allah end with the acoustic root RA: An-Nur (The Light),  Al-Qadir (The Able), Az-Zahir (The Manifest), Al-Basir (The All Seing), Al-Khabir (The Aware), Al-Jabbar (The Compeller), Al-Ghaffar (The Forgiver), Al-Qahhar (The Subduer), Al-Mutakkabir (The Majestic), Ash-Shakur (The Appreciative), Al-Aakhir (The Last), As-Sabur (The Patient One)

Turkish-Egyptian Connection

In Turkish Tanrı means God. In other Turkic languages it is encountered in the forms of Tenrı and Tengere. It is easy to recognize the root sound RA (RE) in Tan-rı or Tenge-re ( the letter “ı”  in Turkish is closer to “a” than it is to “e” or “i”). In Turkish Tan means the dawn, the sky of crimson dawn. The image is the sacred rays of the dawn, sunrise from the east. This image is also present in the ancient Egyptian religion. TAN-RI is very similar to TEN-RA the Egyptian name for the god of the morning sun in Heliopolis cult center. Ten means the sunrise in ancient Egyptian language. Ancient Egyptians made a distinction between the god of the evening sun (TEM-RA) and the god of the morning sun (TEN-RA). It seems that Turkic tribes living in Central Asia had the same conception of the Creator. Considering the distance between the Central Asian locations where Turkic tribes lived and the Nile valley in Egypt, there is a mysterious connection here.

RA in Sanskrit

In Sanskrit RA is the acoustic root of fire. RA also connotes with light or spiritual light. The following Sanskrit words contain the acoustic root RA and their meaning is strongly dependent on this acoustic root and the concept of light.

RA-GA: In classical Indian music Raga is a modal scale, a series of five or more notes. Raga is similar to Makam in Middle-Eastern (Persian, Turkish, Arabic) classical music. Raga invokes a mood and color. Raga literally means color. Color as we know from the scientific theory of light is a property (frequency) of the light.
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TANT-RA: Spiritual practices developed originally in South India in prehistoric times. Tantric practices were fist systematized by Shiva. This formulation is also known as Tantric Yoga or Shaeva Tantra. In later periods Buddhist and Jain formulations of Tantra emerged. More recently one can speak of Tantra in the context of the New Age movement but this form of Tantra is quite different from Shiva’s teachings. The modern formulation and reinterpretation of Shiva’s teachings were given by Shrii Shrii Anandamurti who tells us that the spirit of Tantra is “fight”: “Tantra is not only a fight, it is an all-round fight”, “Tantra emphasizes the development of Human vigour, both through meditation and through confrontation of difficult external situations, to overcome all fears and weaknesses” [2].

Miscellaneous

We recognize the sound archetype RA in many words and names:
The ancient city Ur has the meaning of light. Ur is derived from the acoustic root RA.
Nur in Arabic means divine light
Arabic name Nuri means brilliant, intelligent
Huri in Arabic (derived from HU-RA) an adjective for beauty, also used as a name to describe beautiful angels in Islamic descriptions of paradise
Many Arabic names such as Sumeira (Sume-i-RA), Humeira (HU-mei-RA) contain the root sound RA.
Sanskrit: Mantra (Mant-RA)
Sanskrit: Rama (RA-ma)
Sanskrit: Suresha (Su-RA-Isha)
Sanskrit: Mudra (Mud-RA)
Sanskrit: Yantra (YA-nt-RA )


Next time we will discuss sound archetypes
YA: Cosmic Creative Principle, Creator, Father
HU: Cosmic Vibrational Expression, Cosmic Life, Divine Word, Divine Sound, Mother, Holy Spirit

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                  Vedas (introduction. about the book)
Vedas. Book 5. Slavic knowledge and understanding of the universe.

In search of the Vedruss civilization. The inexplicable similarities
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The Vedruss civilization, which Anastasia discusses, sank into oblivion in the distant past. It disappeared so long ago that finding traces of its existence is a complicated matter. Because of numerous wars, revolutions, and mass movements of ancient peoples, there remain for us no literary sources regarding the existence of this civilization. But folklore and tales have remained, which transmit ancient histories and traditions in allegorical form. The language also remains. It is the language we shall talk about in this article.

As early as the 19th century, linguists noticed the connection between Sanskrit and the European languages, especially the Slavic languages.

For many centuries, Sanskrit was the official language in India, just as Latin was in Europe. Sanskrit is used as the language of the liturgy, the holy texts - the Vedas. All the mantras that are repeated during yoga exercises are spoken in Sanskrit. As noted by linguists who are familiar with Sanskrit, this language is an ideal, perfect language, capable of expressing any shades of meaning, even the most subtle. For this reason it is called the language of consciousness, or the language of Nature. This most ancient language - today dead - is considered to be the father of all languages of the Indo-European group.

In all European languages are found a great number of words having the same root, but the common ground ends there. But in the Slavic languages, in addition to the coincidence of 60% of word roots, the very structures of the languages, which change the least over time, are identical.

In 1963, Durga Prasad Shastri, an Indian professor of Sanskritology, arrived in Moscow. After several days, he declined to use an interpreter, since the people around him, he claimed, were speaking some form of ancient Sanskrit, and he understood them.

From the lecture "Link Between Russian and Sanskrit" given on Feb 22 1964 in Moscow by Prof. Durga Prasad Shastri at the Indo-Soviet Cultural Society:

"If I were asked what two languages of the world resembled each other most, I would reply without hesitation: 'Russian and Sanskrit.'...

When I went to Moscow, the Manager of my hotel gave me the key for Room No. 234 and said: 'Dwesti tridtsat chetire'. For a moment I could not understand whether I was standing before a pretty girl in Moscow or I was in Banaras or Ujjain of our classical period of some 2,000 years ago. In Sanskrit 234 is 'Dwishat tridasha chatwar.'

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When I was visiting village Kachalovo, 25 km from Moscow I met there a lady in her fifties. She introduced me to her son and daughter-in-law: "On moy seen i ona moya snokha" [Hi is my son and she is my daughter-in-law].

How I wished that Panini, the great Indian grammarian who lived some 2,800 years ago, could listen to the language of his own times so wonderfully preserved with the least possible variations in this part of the world.
The Russian word "seen'[syn] is 'son' in English, and 'soonu' in Sankskrit. Also, 'madiy' of Sanskrit may be compared with 'moy' of Russian and 'my' of English. But it is only Russian and Sanskrit in which the possessive pronoun 'moy' and 'madiy' must be changed to 'moya' and 'madiya' because it qualifies the word 'snokha' [daughter-in-law] which is feminine. The Russian word 'snokha' is 'snukha' in Sanskrit and can be pronounced either way. Here the relationship goes beyond the son on to the wife of the son too by similar words in both languages."

Here is another Russian sentence; 'To vash dom, etot nash dom'. [That is your house, this is our house] In Sanskrit it is: 'tat vas dham, etat nas dham.'

The young languages of the Indo-European group, such as English, French, German, and even Hindi, which directly goes back to Sanskrit, must use the verb 'is,' without which the sentences given above cannot exist in any one of these languages. Only Russian and Sanskrit can manage without the link verb 'is,' while remaining completely correct, both grammatically and idiomatically.

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The word 'is' is also very similar in both, 'est' in Russian and 'asti' in Sanskrit and yet another 'estestvo' in Russian and 'Astitva' in Sanskrit meaning 'existence' in both..."

Further comparative studies of the two languages revealed common laws for the transformation of pronouns into adverbs, of verbal nouns, similar rules for the declension of nouns and the conjugation of verbs, changes of adjectives according to gender and number, etc. Both languages use both prefixes and suffixes in an equivalent manner, prefixes and suffixes that impart to the newly formed words not only a close, but almost identical meaning (not to mention a significant similarity in sound).

But several scholars have gone further. The Indian historian B. G. Tilak analyzed the hymns of the Rig Veda and offered his conclusions in the work The Arctic Home in the Vedas, which was first published in 1903. In this book, Tilak translates and analyzes the hymns of the Rig Veda, which contain a number of indications that their authors were familiar with the natural realities of the Arctic, which were accurately and systematically reflected in the prayers addressed to those gods to whom were attributed the role of manifestations of atmospheric forces and terrestrial phenomena. Moreover, Tilak revealed in the hymns the path of the increase in the duration of the "sun months" corresponding to the movement of the ancient inhabitants of the polar region from north to south. He also suggests that those persons who brought the Vedas to India had blue eyes and light hair. And his most important conclusion is admittedly the suggestion that the distant ancestors of all Indo-Europeans underwent their initial formation in the last interglacial period, which lasted from 100,000 to 35,000 years BCE. The beginning of the last ice age displaced the people to the south, to the mainland, where their further dispersal began.

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Tilak was able to understand and decipher the contents of the priestly texts of all Vedic literature with such thoroughness, perhaps, by virtue of the fact that he was born and grew up in a family of Brahmins, and from his childhood heard the Brahmins' performances in song and their explanations of the hymns. His further education broadened his knowledge of the Vedas, and in addition helped him penetrate the secret meaning of their many allegories and metaphors, penetrate the conventional secret language of magical appeals to the gods, a language beyond the comprehension of Western investigators.

In the 20th century, representatives of all sciences involving the distant past (paleoclimatology, geology, oceanology, glaciology, etc.) confirmed that, until the last glaciation, a warm climate prevailed in the areas of the high northern latitudes. The dry land that once existed there was swallowed by the ocean after the melting of the glaciers, and in our northern seas only islands and extensive areas of shelves and shoals remain of it. On these most ancient lands, the human groups of our common distant ancestors once arose and developed.

It is possible that these northern people, who spoke a "Common Slavic" language, which subsequently became Sanskrit and is preserved as a living language in the Slavic languages, could have been the Vedrusses themselves, and that it is in the Arctic where traces of their vital activities must be sought.


LET'S TALK WORDS AND IMAGES

Russian is a unique de-coder of universe elements. Russian language re-generates all possible images and their meaning. You can manipulate with this language: make it simple, reorganise it, misuse it, change it, forbid it, but you can not destroy the language and its images. Vedas are written in Russian. This is the language that was used to write the genetic codes of the nations. Of course we are talking about the ancient language as it was corrected and changes significantly by Kirill and Mifodi, by lots of laws and restrictions after 1917 and it is changing now dramatically. When you look inside the roots of the language you will find your own God's essence and your own God's origins and your own identity.      

Transferring the images is not an easy task. We do it sub-consciously meaning: we do not think when we do it. We just speak. Lots of literature contains coded images (take Pushkin's tales - they are complete, whole, beautiful, easy to read and you never asked why. When they were written the author followed some laws that were given to him by his ancestors). The old fairy tales are not only life reflections, but they also reflects life's laws, laws of being-ness and life's cycles. If you consider life as a game you can see that the scenario/the stage performance always repeats itself.   

There is no people who are happy without a certain purpose, as there are no people who are happy without a belief system, with out a belief that they can get to the target. The purposes are all different. Sometime a person eats or build ta house and he/she is happy. Sometimes he/she is happy when he/she helps the others. This is the purpose. What is HAPPINESS? And what is the purpose? 

HAPPINESS (or SCHAST'E (SO-CHASTIE) in Russian) - is an action, when all parts get together in one whole picture (like a puzzle) and it happens in the right way. The result of this action - is the target/the purpose. Purpose (CEL' in Russain or SE-AL) - SE means THIS (EATO in Russian) AL - means ALL (VSE in Russian). Absolute target is God. meaning that SE-AL is a sensation of GOD. Happiness is an act to reach God (SE-AL). 


In Russian Vedas it is a whole generation (ROD) that consists of many of your ancestors, your off-springs plus Nature itself. There is no One God and there is No Many. It is one if whole. It is united of all. The purpose is Whole-ness and it is the main belief as we all one and many - the expressions of One Soul in Many of us , in all of us...    

I will tell you more in our next month issue... 
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