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THE SPEECH OF THE GODS
which was uttered from the burning bush, is intuitive, being formed by a double pronunciation of the word for the self or God. Pal, the Assyrian word for "time" or “year," would mean division of light; Pu, mouth should mean a division. Mul, star, means “high light," M being used here to express something extreme. To the Aryan race death had the meaning, the “end of movement" or of the “breath,” Mar, containing the sounds for end and movement. Ur, sky, would mean “ wide air," as "00" means "width" and R, air. The root An, endless, is intuitive, also Pu, threshed or purified, P being used here to express division. Ku, to sharpen, is a word of the same class as. Ak, to pierce. In Kar, to make, there are combined the sounds for hardness and movement; in Taks, to hew, the sounds for, to raise, hardness and number, the S, referring to what is hewn away or divided. In Mak, to pound to macerate, there is the suggestion of ending with someting hard. The united sounds of falling and hardness are in Kad, to fall ; and of division and hardness in Pak, to come, and Pik, to cut. The letters which forın Shap to chop, inean to cut and divide things. Other words of the same class are Sak and Skar. In Sa, to sow the prevailing idea seems to have been number. Swid, to sweat, has the sounds for number, water and rolling down. Possibly the idea of Swa, to toss, was taken from sceing things tossed about upon the waves as Fath, to spread out, may have been from observation of the aerial growth of tree branches. Swal, to boil up, is clearly
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