The Book Genesis Inside of a Single Word

Joannes Richter
From Diéus to iéu

Fig. 1: Ancient History (from the 14th Century)

Are we allowed to imagine the unthinkable?

Are we allowed to dream of a Book Genesis inside of a
singular word?
Yes, we can! It has been done before!
By Frederi Mistral,
In a poem Mirèio (published 1859).
See if you can decode the message by yourself.
The solution will be given at page 3-5....
 The words “I” and “God” in the poem Mirèio

Stanza in Provencal language

iéu la vese , aquelo branqueto ,
E sa frescour me fai lingueto !
iéu vese, i ventoulet, boulega dins lou cèu
Sa ramo e sa frucho inmourtalo...,
Bèu Diéu, Diéu ami, sus lis alo
De nosto lengo prouvençalo ,
Fai que posque avera la branco dis aucèu !

Translation (Provencal → French)

Moi, je la vois, cette branchette , — et sa fraîcheur provoque
mes désirs ! — Je vais, au (souffle des) brises, s'agiter dans le
ciel — son feuillage et ses fruits immortels — Dieu beau, Dieu
ami, sur les ailes — de notre langue provençale , — fais que je
puisse aveindre la branche des oiseaux !

Translation (French → English)1

Methinks I see yon airy little bough :
It mocks me with it's freshness even now ;
The light breeze lifts it, and it waves on high
Fruitage and foliage that cannot die.
Help me, dear God, on our Provençal speech,
To soar until the birds' own home I reach !

1
An English translation by Harriet W. Preston for this poem is found at
Mirèio (translation published in 1885)

2
 Explaining the Book Genesis in a
singular Word2.

Genesis 1-27
God created man in his own image
His own image is Diéu .

In God’s image he created him;

In God’s image (Diéu) he created iéu;

male and female he created them.

male (i) and female (u) he created iéu.

God blessed them. God said to them, “Be

1-28

fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it.

God blessed iéu. God said to iéu, “Be

1-28

fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it.

God saw everything that he had made,

Genesis 1-31

and, behold, it was very good. There was

evening and there was morning, the sixth day.
2
Full details will be explained in the Etymology for the Pronoun 'I'

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 I will not return to destroy Ephraim:
Hosea 11-9

For I am God, and not man; the Holy One in

the midst of you;
And I will not come in wrath.

For I am Diéu, and not iéu; the Holy One (é)

in the midst of iéu;

...and they shall make holy

Exodus 28-4

garments for Aaron your brother, and his

sons, that he may minister to me in the
priest’s office. 5They shall take the gold,
and the blue, and the purple, and the
scarlet, and the fine linen.

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 The poem Mirèio is a new Rosetta Stone for
etymology, explaining the structure of the
personal pronouns I, U and We (UI)
and the colors for the priests' garments.

I never saw any message within singular words

comparable to Diéu, and iéu.

Who needs a full Bible to explain the Genesis

legend?

According to etymologists3 the pronouns I, You

and We are the most important words in any
language.

The English pronouns i , you (u) and we (ui)

(probably?) have been derived
from Diéu and/or iéu...

QED

3
Source: wordlist proposed by Morris Swadesh (quoted by C. Renfrew
1988), and published in BRES, Nr. 149, Augustus/September. 1991.