Iosua Ioane Fānene

Nov 7, 20203 min read

Disorderly Children and Overburdened Mothers

I caught an interesting detail while reading some #Sumerian #proverbs...

#DUMU SI NU-SÁ #AMA-A-NI NA-AN-Ù-TU

DINGIR-RA-NI NA-AN-DÍM-DÍM-E

𒌉 𒍣 𒉡𒊓 𒂼𒀀𒉌 𒈾𒀭𒌋𒌓

𒀭𒊏𒉌 𒈾𒀭𒁶𒁶𒌓𒁺.

Literally:

“Child life not-well, mother-cry-self, to be ill-god-fever, god-to beat-self, ill-god-to bring forth-to rear.”

Translation by #Alster, see reference at end:

“A disorderly child, his mother should not (have) give(n) birth to him, his god should not (have) create(d) him.”

My discovery follows:

𒌉 - #DUMU - “#child”

𒂼 - #AMA / #UMMU - “#mother”, which is a conjunction of #GA (𒂷) and #AN (𒀭), from:

𒂷 - #GA - “#box, “#house”

𒀭 - #DINGIR (also AN / #ANU) - “#heaven”, “#divine”

It probably is the root of the word “#womb”.

As seen in AMA (𒂼), the Sumerian concept of “child” alluded to the divine origin of the first humans. According to the creation myth, humanity was created as a servile race from the flesh and blood of a sacrificed rebel god (or willing volunteer), mingled with the semen of the #God of the #Sea and #Wisdom, #ENKI (𒀭𒂗𒆠, literally “divine lord of the world”), and incubated in the wombs of several divine mother goddesses.

Supposing linguistic drift, across a vast distance from Mesopotamia to Polynesia absent the written system:

D = T

U = A

M = M

U = A

DUMU (“child”) = TAMA (“child”)

Gagana Sāmoa:

TAMA = “child”

‘Ōlelo Hāwai’i:

KAMA = “child”

To test this theory, it is necessary to examine the words for “mother” and “father”.

In Gagana Sāmoa:

AMA = “the outrigger of a canoe”, figuratively A WIFE and therefore A MOTHER as the AMA keeps the ship on a straight course, the creative stabilizer of the family unit, whilst the male principle is the active, destructive power. Creation and Destruction in the fundamental family metaphor.

#TAMĀ “#father” appears to underscore this relationship as one of its morphemes (TA’A) means variously “to hit”, “to knock”, “to smite”, “to strike”. And this action is connoted to do so “repeatedly” towards the AMA, a crude, violent but crystal clear metaphor for the active principle in the sexual relationship between men and women.

Men “#repeatedly #strike the #box”, the #GA (𒂷), which is the enclosure for the divine spark of life (𒀭). As the Jane’s Addiction lyric goes “Sex is violent.”

The word for “#penis” in Sumerian was #ĜEŠ (𒍑) also #UŠ or #US, as in #USO, the Sāmoan word for “#brother of a man”, “#sister of a woman”. It’s usage likely inform the “tubular”, root-like metaphors of the word USO, i.e. “root”, “umbilical cord”. It is like the cuneiform symbol for mother, however with an addition of the symbol #U (𒌋)for “#penetrate”, “#well” (i.e. “a water hole”), “10”, “finger” (probably from the idea of “ten fingers”). U is also BÚR (PŪ), which is a hole, just like Sāmoan #FŪ is a “#vagina”.

BÚR / PŪ / FU - all beginning with bi-labial consonants succeeded by the long vowel Ū.

Note that four instances of U (𒌋) equate to “#40”, (𒌋𒌋𒌋𒌋) the shorthand form of Enki’s name, his magic number, a numerical representation of his relative status in the Sumerian pantheon of gods. Only ANU (60) his father and ENLIL (50) his brother surpassed him.

This connection between FU and “10” is made apparent in in the use of the word #FUA (“fruit”, “seed”, “child”) in counting food stores by the tens, i.e. lau-fua, tolu-GA-fua. #HUA in Hawaiian.

FU+A = FUA = HUA = “fruit” = “descended from” + “the hole”

In Sumerian:

#A (𒀀) means “children”, “descendants”, “of”, “from”, “water”, “semen”, “seed”, “heirs”

/A/ carries the same value in Sāmoan and Hawaiian.

“vagina” + “Semen” + = “child” FUA

“Hole” + “water” = “fruit” FUA

𒀀 as /A/ in Sumerian was adapted to later Semitic /#MÛ/ in #Akkadian, which also means “water”, and is related to the Afro-Asiatic #Middle #Egyptian word for the watery #Abyss /MW/ or #MU (𓈗) symbolized by triple water streams. All traditions say that life #first began in the primordial abyss—the sea.