The Time-line of Vowel Symbolism

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Intro
From Ancient Egypt The Light of the World1 published 1907 by Gerald Massey we might conclude that vowel symbolism has been initiated (or preserved from earlier evolutionary stages) in Egypt2. According to Massey the religion of Iu or Iao already existed in Egypt thirteen thousand years ago. That god was Atum-Iu, born son of Ptah. He was the earliest father in heaven. This god went forth from Kam by several names and various routes. According to Massey two branches did split up the evolving Atum-Iu-structure, in which the Iubranch also included the Dyaus-root of the Proto-Indo-European peoples. The central yau-root in Dyaus is documented as the root for the Greek Ia and Latin Jupiter and Jove ( Joue): 1. the Edomites, the red men worshipped him as Atum. The Edomites were the descendants of Esau, the firstborn son of Isaac and the twin brother of Jacob. 2. the Jews descending from Jacob (in which Ja in the name Jacob may refer to the Ia in the divine names such as Iao and Iah) worshiped him as Iao, Iah, or Iu. In the end the name of the Jewish god resulted in the Egyptian Iu, Phoenician Iao, Hebrew Iah, Assyrian Iau, Egypto-Gnostic Ieou, Chinese Iaou, Polynesian Iho-Iho, Dyak Iaouh, Nicobar Islands Eewu, Mexican Ao, Toda Au, Hungarian Iao, Manx Iee, Cornish Iau, Welsh Iau, Hebrew Iao-Sabaoth, Chaldean Iao-Heptaktis, Greek Ia, and IE3, Latin Jupiter and Jove. The Greek names Ia, and IE hardly seem to correlate to Zeus, which as an entry is missing in Massey's overview. Instead Ia and Ie seem to be referring to the divine names Dante used in his Divine Commedy, in which Dante explains that God was called I in the language of Adam, and only named El in later Hebrew, but before the confusion of tongues ( Paradiso, 26.134)4. Isn't it possible that the English ego-pronoun might have been designed according to this I in the language of Adam? The vowel-sequences seem to symbolize eternity and eternity-related stabilizing attributes such as law, tradition, marriage. Similarities between Dyaus-related names and pure vowel-based names remain unsolved. The ancient Mediterranean divine names (except Greek) are missing the leading consonants D, T or Z, which will always be found in the Germanic names and the corresponding days of the week. In the modern names however leading D's are found in the Mediterranean divine names Dieu, Dio, Dios, Diu, Deus, etc.

1 which now is in the public domain 2 Detailed documentation in Notes to Gerald Massey's Ancient Egypt 3 This probably correlates to the word EI and the letter E at Apollo's temple as described by Plutarch in Of the word EI engraven over the gate of apollo's temple at delphi . - The Morals, vol. 4 . See the details in Appendix III and the image in : E - of the E-symbol Engraven Over the Gate of Apollos Temple at Delphi 4 A Short History of Language

Intense vowel concentrations

Only the second branch seems to have developed an intense vowel concentration in the divine names, which allows us to sketch the time-line for the name-giving of the divine names5:
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(11,000 BCE Atum-Iu, born son of Ptah documented by Massey in Ancient Egypt6 ) 1,400 BCE 1,100 BCE 900 BCE 900 BCE 600 BCE 539 BCE 500 BCE 300 BCE 50 BCE 50 BCE 200 CE 200 CE 420 CE 500 CE 1195 CE 1200 CE 1278 CE 1303 CE 1455 CE 1474 CE 1509 CE 1555 CE 1490 CE 1480 CE 1535 CE 1568 CE 1901 CE yehua (inscription dated at Amenhotep III - circa 1400 BCE - found at Soleb) Yawhanan (Yhanan) (oldest likely theophoric name, in paleo-Hebrew) Ia-u-a (Ia-u) (in Shalmaneser III's texts - In the Assyrian black obelisk7) YHW (Kuntillet Ajrud's writings, dated from the ninth century BCE) Yah (from the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar, ca. 600 BCE) Jehovah (from: Cyrus, who used the name Jehovah in Ezr 1:2)8. YH (Yah) & Yahu (Hebrew) and Ia & Ia (Greek) (numerous witnesses) - Introduction of the Substitute Adonay (Lord) for the Great Name IA9 (Diodorus Siculus translates the Tetragrammaton to IA10. ) 11' (Supreme Being with seven Greek vowels in 'Treatise on Interpretations' ) Iaoue (explained by Clement of Alexandria as "the one who is and who will be"12. ) IA ( in Greek, [Iah] in Latin) (explained by Irenaeus of Lyons, 130-202) Iabe (for Samaritans) resp. Aa for the Jews13. (by Theodoret of Cyrus) IOA () (by Church Father Severus of Antioch (465-538) and in Codex Coislinianus) Ieue (Translation of the Divine Name by Joachim of Fiore) Ieue (Translation of the Divine Name by Pope Innocent III) Yohoua (Translation of the Divine Name by Ramn Mart) Yohouah (Translation of the Divine Name by Porchetus de Salvaticis) Ieoa, Ihehoua, Jehovah14 (Translation of the Divine Name by Nicholas of Cusa) Hiehouahi (Translation of the Divine Name by Marsilio Ficino) Ihevhe (Translation of the Divine Name by Jacques Lefvres d'taples) Ioua (Translation of the Divine Name by Sbastien Chateillon) Iehoua, (According to John Pic della Mirandola a derivation from Ioua /Ioue - Jupiter) Iohauah (used in Our Father15 by Johannes Wessel Gansfort - 1480) Iehouah (instead of Ioua by the French translator Pierre Robert Olivtan ) Iehue (resp. the verbal form Iehoua or Iihue 16) by Archbishop Gilbert Gnbrard 17 Iaoouee, Iabe, Iouiee18 as a translation for YHWH in Jewish Encyclopedia

Detailed documentation in The Vowels in the Divine Name(s) Atum-Iu may be an undocumented record. Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III The Name Of God Yehowah. Its Story, By Grard Gertoux The Name The Name The Name The Name Of God Yehowah. Its Story, By Grard Gertoux Quaestiones in Exodum cap. XV quoted in The Name Of God Yehowah. Its Story, By Grard Gertoux The Name Of God Yehowah. Its Story, By Grard Gertoux A7 - Is Galatino the first who introduced the name Jehovah in 1518? The Name Of God Yehowah. Its Story, By Grard Gertoux not derived from Ioue (Jupiter!), but from from Aramaic yihweh, respectively Hebrew Iehoua However, there are other equally reputable scholars who can provide evidence that the underlying Greek of Jave is "" and not "". London Papyri. Xlvi, 446-482

An endless stream of vowel-strings for these divine names suggest to assume that the vowels have been playing a mayor role from the very beginning of Egyptian history. The vowel-based cores also correlate to the Babylonian, Greek, Roman, Gnostic wisdom 19 and a great number of medieval translations.

Ego-pronouns
The vowel-based cores also correlate to numerous ego-pronouns 20, such as ieu, iau, iou, io, yo, I and 21. As a strange coincidence the corresponding divine names may be derived from these egopronouns by concatenating a D22 & the ego-pronoun. The word for Thursday or Tuesday often also refers to the ego-pronoun and the divine name: D + ieu = Dieu (in Provencal language), which also related to Thursday (French jeudi ) D + io = Dio (in Italian) referring to Iovis Dies, "Jupiter's Day" respectively Thursday: Italian gioved D + iu = Diu (in Sicilian) D + eu + s = Deus (in Portuguese)23

The English vowel ego-pronoun Y, respectively I, may refer to the deity Tiw (Old high German), Tys (Scots language), Tiis (West-Frisian) or alternatively to a deity similar to Iau (Welsh), Yow (Cornish), Iaou (Breton)24.

19 Abrasax-stones often bear Hebraic names of God: Iao, Sabaoth, Adonai, Eloai. The name , to which is sometimes added, is found with this figure even more frequently than , and they are often combined 20 personal pronouns of the 1st person singular 21 the Greco-Roman tradition of iaeou-based divine names such as Dieu (or Jeu), Diau (or Iau), Diou (respectively Iaou or Yow), Dio. Dios,. , their ego-pronouns, such as ieu, iau, iou, yiou, io, etc. - A Review of Vowel-Symbolism 22 Or alternatively T or Z 23 Portuguese, unlike other Romance languages, uses the word quinta-feira, meaning "fifth day of liturgical celebration", that comes from the Latin "feria quinta" used in religious texts where it was not allowed to consecrate days to pagan gods. From: Wikipedia's Thursday 24 A Review of Vowel-Symbolism

Days of the week

Between the 1st and 3rd centuries the Roman Empire gradually replaced the eight-day Roman nundinal cycle with the seven-day week. At that time the divine names Iaoue, IA and Iabe may have been popular: 200 CE 200 CE 420 CE Iaoue (explained by Clement of Alexandria as "the one who is and who will be"25. ) IA ( in Greek, [Iah] in Latin) (explained by Irenaeus of Lyons, 130-202) Iabe (for Samaritans) resp. Aa for the Jews26. (by Theodoret of Cyrus)

The days of the week often reveal the correct spelling for the divine names, which also have been identified by Massey. The order of the days was Sun, Moon, Ares, Hermes, Zeus, Aphrodite, and Cronos, named after the heavenly bodies that presided over the first daylight hour of each day, according to hellenistic astrology27. In Greek/Roman-traditions the words for the days of the week officially have been chosen according to the names for Jove ( Jupiter), but according to the divine names Iaoue, IA and Iabe as the valid translations for YHWH (specified by Clement of Alexandria, Irenaeus of Lyons, respectively Theodoret of Cyrus) the names for the Thursdays might also have been derived from YHWH (which according to the Church Fathers at that time had to be translated as Iaoue, IA and Iabe).

Thursdays28
Except for ancient Greek the leading D letters are missing in the words for Thursdays. The following samples refer to Thursday, devoted to Jove/Jeu/Jue/Jou/Iau/Youu/Iaou a heavily vowel loaded name: Italian gioved ( Jove) Old Portuguese joves ( Jove) French jeudi ( Jeu) Spanish jueves (from: ieu ?) Catalan dijous (from: Day of Jous) Friulian joibe from Iabe ? (for Samaritans) (by Theodoret of Cyrus) Sardinian giobia from Iabe ? (for Samaritans) (by Theodoret of Cyrus) Welsh dydd Iau ( Iau) (? from Iaoue as explained by Clement of Alexandria 29) Cornish Dy' Yow ( Jove) Breton Diriaou Iaou (? from Iaoue as explained by Clement of Alexandria 30)

The welsh, Cornish and Breton names are also referring to Jove:

In ancient Greek the divine name Dios has been documented, which is the singular name specified with a consonant D: Ancient Greek (hmra Dis) Dios

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The Name Of God Yehowah. Its Story, By Grard Gertoux Quaestiones in Exodum cap. XV quoted in The Name Of God Yehowah. Its Story, By Grard Gertoux Names of the days of the week Names of the days of the week The Name Of God Yehowah. Its Story, By Grard Gertoux The Name Of God Yehowah. Its Story, By Grard Gertoux

Tuesdays31
Tuesdays seem to have been devoted to Tiw/Tyr. In the following samples the leading letter T respectively Z will always be found in the words for Tuesday: Old English Twesdg Old High German Zestag, Ziestag Scots Language Tysday West Frisian Tiisdei Old Norse tysdagr Faroese tsdagur Norwegian (Bokml) tirsdag Norwegian (Nynorsk) tysdag Danish tirsdag Swedish tisdag Finnish tiistai Estonian teisipev

Eternity, law, tradition, marriage

The archaic vowel symbolism seems to interrelate the Jupiter-tradition, the Hebrew tradition and the Germanic, respectively Scandinavian traditions. These vowels seem to reflect religious symbolism such as eternity, law, tradition, marriage.

Summary
The time-line for the evolution of the divine names reveals an intense vowel concentration in some of the divine names, and (in a reduced segment of the time-line) also in the ego-pronouns and days of the weeks. The vowel-sequences seem to symbolize eternity and eternity-related stabilizing attributes such as law, tradition, marriage. Between the 1st and 3rd centuries the Roman Empire gradually replaced the eight-day Roman nundinal cycle with the seven-day week. At that time the divine names Iaoue, IA and Iabe which had been specified by Clement of Alexandria, Irenaeus of Lyons, respectively Theodoret of Cyrus, may have been popular, In Greek/Roman-traditions the words for the days of the week officially have been chosen according to the names for Jove ( Jupiter), but according to the divine names Iaoue, IA and Iabe as the valid translations for YHWH the names for the Thursdays might also have been derived from YHWH (which according to the Church Fathers at that time had to be translated as Iaoue, IA and Iabe).

31 Names of the days of the week

Contents
Intro..................................................................................................................................................1 Intense vowel concentrations...........................................................................................................2 Ego-pronouns...................................................................................................................................3 Days of the week..............................................................................................................................4 Thursdays....................................................................................................................................4 Tuesdays......................................................................................................................................5 Eternity, law, tradition, marriage......................................................................................................5 Summary...............................................................................................................................................5