Images of God

- The Origin of the Ego-Pronouns in God's Name Joannes Richter Hidden in some of our common words languages probably hold some of the oldest historical records we might decipher. Deciphering however suggests that someone must have undertaken the trouble to encrypt a message we may have lost. The message I found is a strange correlation between some European Ego-pronouns1 and the words for the Proto-Indo-European sky-god Dyaus. The correlation seems to be varying over the European continent and may have disappeared in large areas. Still a number of these links may have survived the turbulence in a series of migrations of peoples. This report will be dedicated to the possible impact of the mass migrations on the concentration of the Ego-Pronouns in God's Name.

The Mass Migrations named Vlkerwanderung

In English the migration of peoples may have been defined as a German expression Vlkerwanderung for the massive impact of the mass invasions into the German territories. Indeed German territories opened the door for westward bound peoples' movements and pressure to the western European shores. First of all the area north of the Alps had been hit by the invasions of the Goths (150-400) from the north and the Huns (430-451) from the east.

Fig. 1: Map of the "barbarian" invasions of the Roman Empire showing the major incursions from 100 to 500 CE.
A file from the Wikimedia Commons , published by User:MapMaster

1 The personal pronouns for the first person singular

The mass migrations of the 5th century were triggered by the destruction of the Gothic kingdoms by the Huns in 372-375. The city of Rome was captured and looted by the Visigoths in 410 and by the Vandals in 455. Inspecting the map of migrations only a few areas seem to have escaped the invasions. One of the untouched regions is a central region at the west-side of the Alps, which has been named Savoy2. Another untouched region might be the Alpine area Graubnden (centered around Chur). These untouched areas may have escaped from too much impact on their language. The Alpine mountains probably acted like shields, which deviated the armies from their territories. The remote areas must have been unattractive for ransacking. Why should the take the trouble to conquer a small alpine village if the city of Rome might pay a much higher price to escape destruction. The idea to consider mass migrations as the main cause for linguistic disruptions. Disruptions may explain why linguistic structures (such as the correlations between ego-pronouns and God's name) may have remained intact in remote alpine areas such as Savoy and Graubnden (near Chur). Other areas such as Languedoc, Midi-Pyrnes and Provence and others may have suffered less from intrusions than the northern areas, which were open to the east. Another reason for protections may also be found in the most western coastline, where the migrations did not take the trouble of occupying the last resorts. In these remote or mountainous areas we also might expect a conservation of linguistic niches. Therefore the following categories may be setup for linguistic anomalies, which according to some research reports3 have been identified in European areas. These categories have been illustrated in a Google-map titled Correlations between ego-pronoun and God's Name. Correlations between egopronoun and God's Name high correlation Territory Anomaly

Savoy, Sardinia (Campidanese Similar or identical words for and Logudorese), Graubnden the ego-pronoun and God (Chur) Languedoc, Midi-Pyrnes and Identical vowel-cores of at least Provence 3 vowels in the ego-pronoun and God Mediterranean areas such as Identical 2 vowel-cores in the Spain, Portugal, Italy, Rumania ego-pronoun and God English, Bavarian, Swabian dialects Scandinavia, Poland, Russia 1 vowel-cores in the egopronoun and God No identical vowel-cores of at least 2 vowels in the egopronoun and God

medium correlation

low correlations very low correlations missing correlations

Table 1: Categories of linguistic anomalies

2 It comprises roughly the territory of the Western Alps situated between Lake Geneva in the north and Dauphin in the south. 3 sources: The Ego-Pronouns in the Divine Names, Proceedings in the pronouns' Etymology Analysis of a Linguistic Anomaly in the Alps, and The Hieroglyphs in the Ego-Pronoun

Of course the migrations may have had a serious impact on the correlations between ego-pronouns and the words for God. If the invasion had been followed by immigration the nearly depopulated areas probably lost most of their linguistic roots, including their divine names and the pronouns. If only a subset of words had been altered the correlation had been lost anyway, although sometimes the original divine name have been saved inside the days of the weeks. Example4: In the rather remote Aosta Valley for instance God's name had been conserved as Ziis, stored in the word for Tuesday (Ziischtak). The word for God Ziis is related to the Greek word Zeus, and correlates to the ego-pronoun iich.

4 documented (amongst a great number of examples) in: The Ego-Pronouns in the Divine Names

Highly correlating words

The highly correlating words are identical words for the ego-pronoun and God's name. This suggests to consider the religious concept of a God, who created the ego man as an image of the divine Being itself. The concept might be an Indo-European, a Jewish or a global concept. If the correlation in remote or Alpine areas is strong we should think of a possible reason for the link. I already had identified some languages with identical words for God and for the corresponding ego-pronoun. In November 2012 I also found a great number of Savoyard correlations 5 which indicated similar ego-pronouns which had been based on the same derivations for the word of the sky-god Dyaus as the corresponding divine names. Numerous variants had been found in the Savoyard valleys. The typical anomaly is the initial character D or Z at the beginning of the ego-pronoun. The Sardinian mountains and Savoye probably have not suffered too much from invasions, although the Vandals have invaded Sardinia.

Sardinian dialects6
Ego-Pronoun Divine Name Region Dialect

du deo

Deu Deus, Zessu

Sardinia Sardinia

(southern Sardinian dialect) Campidanese Logudorese

Table 2: Correlations in Sardinian dialects

Savoyard dialects
In The Ego-pronouns and Divine Names in Savoy French Dialects the following correlations have been identified in Dictionnaire Franais Savoyard by Roger Viret
Ego-Pronoun Divine Name Region Dialect

de (deu), dye

Dye, Dju, Dyu, Dyeu, Dyou, Dyo, Dyo, Djou, Dj, D(E)Zhu, D(E)Zhou, Dzou, Dz, Djeu, Dyeu

Savoya

Arches, Aussois, Arvillard, Samons, St-Martin-Porte, Peisey, Saint-Jean-Maurienne?, Chambry south-east (Montagny, Bozel) south-east (Cte-Aime) central-east (Cordon, Chamonix, Tignes, Val-d'Isre, Bessans, Giettaz)

dzeu, dzou

Savoya

ze, zhe,zhou, zou, Dzhyu , Dzu, Djyu, Dyu, Savoya zounh Dezyeu, Dzye

Table 3: Correlations in Savoyard dialects

5 The Ego-pronouns and Divine Names in Savoy French Dialects 6 Hieroglyphs in Indo-European Languages

Medium Correlations
The medium correlations are the correlations, which already have been documented in Etymology for the Pronoun 'I'7 and in Yiou & Dou in the dialect of Nimes 8. Mistral's Provencal dialect had been illustrating the use of the ego-pronoun Ieu correlating to Dieu and Bigot's dialect of Nimes illustrates the correlation between Yiou and Dou. Also in Graubnden a great variety of three vowel-cores ieu, iou, iau may be found in the egopronouns9. Although the divine names vary the correlations to Dieu, respectively Diou-piter and the sky-god Dyaus exist. These are medium correlations because the initial D in the ego-pronoun is missing. It may have been deteriorated or skipped for a special purpose. The similarity is still striking. However it may be considered as a medium correlation because the strong correlations exist in the better protected neighboring areas in Savoy.

Low correlations
The low correlating areas include all areas which had belonged to the Roman Empire, which may have protected these areas against invasions for a while. Low correlations have been documented in The Hermetic Codex II - Bipolar Monotheism, for example all Mediterranean correlations between for instance the ego-pronouns (Italian) io, (Spanish) yo, (French) ie, (Bavarian) ih and Dio, respectively Dios, Dieu and Ziu.

Very Low Correlations

The low correlating areas include English in which the ego-pronoun Y 10 respectively I is found as the center of the divine name Tyr or Tiw 11. Tiw is the Old English form of the ProtoGermanic god *Twaz, or Tr in Norse, a god of war and law12. A similar correlation with identical roots is found in southern German dialects like Bavarian and Swabian, which use the ego-pronoun I or Ih, which is included in Ziu (related to Zeus and preserved in Ziestag -> "Ziu's Day" -> Tuesday). Tiw was equated with Mars in the interpretatio romana, and the name of the day is a translation of Latin dies Martis.

7 8 9 10 11

based on Mirio (English Version) - A Provenal poem by Frdric Mistral see also: Sacred Phonemes - Moulding the sacred words Analysis of a Linguistic Anomaly in the Alps See the Wycliffe Bible in Wycliffe Bible "Tw's Day" -> Tuesday. The English name is derived from Old English Tiwesdg and Middle English Tewesday, meaning "Tw's Day", the day of Tiw or Tr, the god of single combat, victory and heroic glory in Norse mythology. 12 source: Tuesday

Fig. 2: The Norse god Tr, here identified with Mars.

From the 18th century Icelandic manuscript B 299 4to, now in the care of the Icelandic National Library. Wikimedia Commons, public domain 13

Google-map with correlation categories

The Google-map Correlations between ego-pronoun and God's Name illustrates the 5 categories with strong (red), medium (3 vowels, green), low (2 vowels, orange) and very low correlations (1 vowel, blue):

Fig. 3: Google-map Correlations between ego-pronoun and God's Name

13 because its copyright has expired.

Missing correlations
Missing correlations may be identified in a great number of languages, for which the following table will only list some samples. The real reason for missing correlations may be explained by etymological experts and historians. Sometimes it is difficult to identify the correct divine name. In other cases the etymological structure may also belong to a previous etymological layer, which never had been ruled by the correlation between Ego-pronouns and the words for the Proto-Indo-European sky-god Dyaus.
Ego-Pronoun Divine Name Region Dialect

n i pron. mi pron. myfi pron. ja ja jeg

Isten Duw

Hungary Great-Britain

Magyar Welsh

Bg Bog () Gud

Poland Serbia Scandinavia Great-Britain Great-Britain Great-Britain Albania

Polish Serbian Norwegian Irish Manx Scottish Gaelic Albanian

m (mise) Dia (emphatic: mise ) mee (mish) Jee (emphatic: mish ) mi(se) Dia (emphatic: mise ) Un Perndia

Table 4: Missing correlations between ego-pronouns and the Divine Name

Conclusion
Correlations between ego-pronoun and God's Name exist and may be classified in strong, medium, low, very low and missing correlations. The strongest correlation between ego-pronoun (du) and God's Name (Deu) has been found in Sardinia and Savoy. Medium protection has been identified in Provence, Nimes and Graubnden (Chur). Areas with low and missing correlations seem to have been suffering more from mass migrations, in which the population has been diminished, vanished or moved away. The invasions seem to have ruined the correlation in some open areas of the European continent, whereas the genuine correlations have been preserved in the protected alpine areas.

Contents
The Mass Migrations named Vlkerwanderung..................................................................................1 Highly correlating words......................................................................................................................4 Sardinian dialects ............................................................................................................................4 Savoyard dialects.............................................................................................................................4 Medium Correlations............................................................................................................................5 Low correlations...................................................................................................................................5 Very Low Correlations.........................................................................................................................5 Google-map with correlation categories..............................................................................................6 Missing correlations.............................................................................................................................7 Conclusion............................................................................................................................................7 Appendix: European Ego-Pronouns and Divine Names......................................................................8

Appendix: European Ego-Pronouns and Divine Names

A full table14 of correlating ego-pronouns and the corresponding divine names, alphabetically sorted according to the ego-pronouns.

14 derived from: The Ego-Pronouns in the Divine Names

Ego-Pronoun

Z, D Divine Name or T+Egopronoun

Region

Dialect

D(E)Zhu Diou Dj Djou Dyeu, Dyou Dyo, Dyo, D(E)Zhou Iddiou a15 das

Savoya Switzerland Savoya Savoya Savoya Savoya Italy Diews (Diewas, Dievas ) Turkey Savoya Savoya Savoya Savoya Savoya Savoya Sardinia Sardinia Belgium Savoya Savoya

central-east (Samons) Vaudois south-east (St-MartinPorte) south-east (Peisey, SaintJean-Maurienne?) central-east (Arvillard) southern (Chambry) Piedmontese Baltic States

ben de de d de de (deu) d/d deo du dji, mi18 do dye dzeu dzou eau n es es deau

Tanr Deje, Dezye Dyu Dye Dju, Dyu Deus, Zessu Deu Diu

Turkish central-east (Albertville) central (Aix, Annecy) south-east (Aillon-Vieux) Arvillard 16 south-east (Aussois) central-east (Thnes, Messery) Logudorese (Sardinian dialect) Campidanese17 Walloon south-east (Arches) south-east (Montagny, Bozel) south-east (Cte-Aime) Oberengadin Magyar Baltic States Baltic States

Dzou, Dz, Djeu, Dyeu Dieu Isten des des

Savoya Savoya Switzerland Hungary Diws Dievs,

15 Source: Swadesh list for English, Lithuanian, Dingwa, Sambahsa, Prussian 16 Un txte en patou savoyrd, avouc explcacions fontiques. 17 Hieroglyphs in Indo-European Languages 18 given is for the one doing the action (eg: dji magne = I eat), the second, for the one targetof the action (eg: avou mi = with me).

Deews eu eu eu eu ge I I
I (modern)

deu

Deus Zeu, Duninezeu, Dumnedelu19 Zeu, Duninezeu, Dumnedelu20

Switzerland Rumania Rumania Iberia France Alpine

Vallader Rumanian Rumanian Portuguese Old-French Pustertaler Dialect Seislerttsch Great-Britain Welsh Macugnagadeutsch Greschoneititsch Occitan Southern German dialect (Bavarian, Suevian) Isseme in the Aosta Valley region Italian south-east (Villar-StPancrace)21 Sicilian Polish Serbian Macedonian Jauer-Romansh (Grischun) French Norwegian Old-French Sursilvanian dialect Gascony Friulan dialect

deu Dge zi zi

Deus

Zyysch
Ti

Alpine
Tir

i, mi, myfi ich ich iu ih, ich iich, ich io iu m, m iu iu ja ja jac jau je jeg jeo jeu jo jo o Djeo djeu Djo djo o djau dje zich zich diu zih ziich, zich dio diu diu

Duw Ziisch Zisch Diu Ziu Ziis Dio, Iddio Diu Diu Bg Bog () Dumnedelu, cp. Dumnelau 22 Deis Dieu Gud Deus Diu, Idiu, Signr

Great-Britain Alpine Alpine Provence Germany Alpine Italy Provence Italy Poland Serbia Balkan Switzerland France Scandinavia France Switzerland France Italy

19 Domunus Zeus (?) 20 Domunus Zeus (?) 21 from: Patois of Villar-St-Pancrace (this web-site seems to have been closed) : The series of personal pronouns is: (Cas sujet Cas rgime atone tonique direct indirect) Sg. 1p a (l) iu m, m iu 2p t, t t, t t 3p M u(l), al ei(l) s lu ei F eilo la eilo N o, ul, la - lu - Pl. 1p n* n* 2p * v* v* 3p M (z) s l* i F eil (eilaz) l* eil 22 Dominus Dyaus (?)

Jo, je, j', jeo, joe; ge, gi, gie, gi jou me m m (mise)
(emphatic: mise )

deu

Deu, d, dee, deus, deux, Normandy dex; di, diex, dieux, dieuxz, dieu, diez, diu; du Deus Doue Dia, dhia Dia Jee Dia, God Dio Diu Duw Dia Jumala 23 Jumal (sky-God) Uku (god of the sky ) Perndia
Ty

Anglo-Norman Dictionary

djou

Switzerland French Great-Britain Great-Britain

Sutselvic dialect Breton Irish Manx

Great-Britain Irish

mee (mish)
(emphatic: mish )

mi mi mi, fi mi, fi mi(se)

(emphatic: mise )

Great-Britain Scottish Gaelic Italy Belgium Great-Britain Finland Venetian Picard Scottish Gaelic Finnish

Great-Britain Welsh

Min mina, ma Un
Y (Wycliffe Bible)

Baltic States Estonian (eesti keel) Albania

Tyr

Albanian Great-Britain Surmeiran dialect Provencal (dialect of Nmes)24 Spanish central-east (Bessans, Giettaz) central-east (Cordon) central-east (Chamonix) central-east (Tignes, Vald'Isre)

ya, ja yiou yo zde ze zhe zhou zou zounh

dya, dja dyiou dyo Dou Dios Dyu, Dezyeu, Dzye Dzhyu , Dzu Djyu

Switzerland Provence Iberia Savoya Savoya Savoya Savoya Savoya Savoya

Table 5: Correlating ego-pronouns and the corresponding divine names

23 Later on, the sky itself was called taivas (sky or heaven) and the sky-god Ukko. However, when Christianity came to dominate Finnish religious life in the Middle Ages and the old gods were ousted or consolidated away from the pantheon, Jumala became the Finnish name for the Christian God and the Finnish word for "god". 24 from the poems of Antoine Hippolyte Bigot - Yiou & Dou in the dialect of Nimes