E for Enigma

Fig. 1: E at Apollo's Temple - Delphi

Backside of a coin (“Faustina Senior”1),

depicting the “E” at the entrance
between the six columns of Apollo's temple at Delphi.

1
died A.D. 141 - the wife of Antoninus Pius.
Contents
Introduction................................................................................4
The Roots for E=Enigma...........................................................5
Genesis..................................................................................5
Antipodes..............................................................................6
Bi-faced Sculptures....................................................................8
The Mediterranean Group................................................8
Gagarino, Ukraine ................................................................8
The Gobi desert.....................................................................9
Hermes of Roquepertuse ......................................................9
The Hermes at Holgerlingen ..............................................10
Androgynous deities............................................................10
Gender specific burial traditions.........................................12
The Kurgan period..........................................................12
The Beaker periods.........................................................12
Corded Ware culture.......................................................13
Left-right differences at the Gogo people...........................13
Antipodes in Colors.................................................................14
Polychrome Art...................................................................15
Egypt...............................................................................15
Greece.............................................................................16
Rome...............................................................................16
Northern Europe.............................................................16
Illuminated manuscripts......................................................17
Bibles .............................................................................17
Other illuminated Manuscripts.......................................18
Flags....................................................................................18
Antipodes in divine names.......................................................19
Personal Pronouns....................................................................20
Swadesh Lists......................................................................20
The symbolic image of the first human being,...................21

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 Rearranging the Swadesh-Lists...........................................22
Man as a pronoun................................................................22
Antipodes and tridpods in Pronouns...................................23
Monotheism vs. polytheism................................................24
Vowels......................................................................................25
Εἶ ἕν, Thou art one..............................................................25
IHVH...................................................................................26
Enigmatic vocalized words.................................................26
Summary..................................................................................28

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Introduction
Animals are considered to be equipped with natural instincts
and seem to be living instinctively correct – never failing to
react the right way and simply finding death as soon as their
lifetime had to come to an end. Mankind fails to be equipped
with instincts and needed guidelines to overcome the
difficulties in life.
A guideline is a rope as a aide to cross a difficult and dangerous
section of a road. We learned to build these ropes for the fords
in lifetime and called them ethics, laws, philosophy or religion.
Ideally the sum of these guidelines may be considered as a
guideline to life.
The extract of purified wisdom, which is still an enigma, may
be named E as a shortcut for Enigma. Although wisdom will
remain to be enigmatic, some of its symbols may be discovered
and unveiled.
This manuscripts documents an overview of discovered topics
in the field of archaic antipodes, which may be considered as
androgynous religious symbols.

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The Roots for E=Enigma
The roots for the E=Enigma2 have been initiated at a very early
stage of human evolution. New ideas may be introduced at any
later time, but the real roots cannot be eliminated completely.
By definition the roots are to be found in the earliest of all
documents and must still be available in later eras. Early
records have been identified in the Bible, in bi-faced
sculptures, in the personal pronouns, in the divine names, in
other PIE3-words and in color symbolism.

Genesis
Genesis starts by several splitting phases for various elements.
Creating may have started as a series of divisions.
• light and darkness
• waters under and waters above the firmament.
• dry lands and the seas
• plants and fruit trees
• day and night
• birds and sea monsters
• male and female

2
1580s, earlier enigmate (mid-15c.), from L. aenigma "riddle," from Gk.
ainigma (pl. ainigmata), from ainissesthai "speak obscurely, speak in
riddles," from ainos "fable, riddle," of unknown origin.
3
Proto-Indo-European

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Antipodes
In Genesis the early splitting phases reveal a basic principle of
splitting fundamental elements into two antipodes.
A split up in male and female belonged to the earliest form of
the creation legends. In school my teachers referred to a
famous legend4 of the great philosopher Plato, who described
the creation of first man, who had been split into a male and
female person. Plato's legend is a bi-phased, symmetrical
process in which a first Man is created who is to be split up in
two individuals: a male and a female person. In contrast to
Plato's legend the biblical creation is an asymmetrical process,
resulting in a male Adam and subsequently in a female Eve.
Symmetrical creation5 legends similar to Plato's legend were
found in the Eddas and have also been reported by Hebrew
scholars: from the Pharisees (ca. 30 AD) 6, Jeremiah ben
Eleazar7, a Palestinian scholar of the 2 nd century, the highly
respected medieval rabbis Rashi (→ 1105) and Rashbam (→
1158) and from the authors of the Zohar8, from alchemists and
various sects. The symmetrical creation legends may be older
than the asymmetrical creation legends. It seems to be unclear
whether the Bible also contains traces of a symmetrical
creation legend in Genesis 2:7.
4
in Symposium
5
Social Initiation and Stabilisation
6
From the Jewish Encyclopedia: Adam Kadmon ( Er. 18a, Gen. R. viii.) -
In explaining the various views concerning Eve's creation, the Pharisees
taught that Adam was created as a man-woman (androgynous).
7
Info from the website: Jewish Encyclopedia.
8
The Zohar first appeared in Spain in the 13th century, and was published
by a Jewish writer named Moses de Leon.

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We may identify equivalent antipodes in several fields of
civilization – in religious concepts, in legends, in names, in
words, in characters, in colors, etc.
Did this Platonic legend belong to the E-concept? I started
searching for some other threads, which may also symbolize
various antipodes.

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Bi-faced Sculptures
Archaic cultures applied several gender-specific traditions and
bi-faced cult-objects9.

The Mediterranean Group10

In northeastern Italy, at the site of Savignano, the Venus of
Savignano reveals “ambiguous sexual character” and may
represent both feminine and masculine organs.
La Belle et la Bete (“the Beauty and the Beast”) is “a small
pendant with a female figurine paired back-to-back with an
animal”. A “yellow steatite figurine” is also included here with
the “Janus” figurine.
Called the “female with two heads” or Bicéphale (“a woman
with a double head”), the feminine figure features a second
head is “slightly larger than the other” head and is “tilted in the
same angle as the first”. Sculptures with slightly larger skulls
may refer to their androgynous nature.

Gagarino, Ukraine
A tiny sculpture in ivory of mammoth, 14.8cm high (5.2cm the
female figurine; and 9.6 cm the male figurine), found in a
Palaeolithic site (evolved Gravettian, dated 21,800 years ago)
at Gagarino, Ukraine, is a rare example of two human beings
joined together by the neck, including the complete body11 .
9
See the overview in The Sky-God Dyaeus
10
Female Figurines of the Upper Paleolithic (2008) - by Karen Diane
Jennett
11
Source: Institute for Ice Ages Studies

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Tarassov went so far as to relate this head-to-head position to
the adolescent double burial at grave of Sungir (near Moscow)
in which two individuals were interred with the tops of their
heads touching, but turned to the opposite directions, probably
symbolizing the mystical concept of the unity of polarity.

The Gobi desert

As a frontispiece of his book12 colonel James Churchward
chose a dual-headed sculpture, coming from the ancient capital
of the Uighurs.

Hermes of Roquepertuse
The Roquepertuse13 sculpture A bi-faced, androgynous idol
(Hermes, 20 cm high). The archeologist Gérin-Ricard calls it
Hermes as an equivalent to the bi-faced Hermes-statues and the
Roman Termini. The sculpture belonged to a site, which had
been destroyed 124 BC.
Other French archaeologist point out a 7 % difference in size
between both heads and claim the statue to be a male-female
portrait, in which a bird’s beak may be interfering.
Several other androgynous and single skulls have been found
in other Celtic towns like Entremont, Mouriès, Nages and
Noves, indicating the head as a centre of venerability.
Sometimes a human-like hand is resting on the top of the head,
while the eyes may be shut or swollen like the eyes of a newly
born baby.

12
The Sacred Symbols of Mu, published 1933 by James
Churchward
13
Museum Borély in Marseilles, France

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The Hermes at Holgerlingen
The Hermeslike statue found at Holzgerlingen 14 is a double
faced Herme, which may be comparable to the Hermes of
Roquepertuse.

Androgynous deities
The following androgynous deities have been identified as bi-
faced and have been documented in The Sky-God Dyaeus:
• The androgynous (hermaphrodite) deity Zurvan15
generates Zoroastric's main Deity Ahura Mazdā and his
counterpart (the devil) Ahriman from its shoulders.
• "the Lusty Man" (the Celtic sculpture at Boa Island)
• Janus (and Jana) – respectively Dianus and Diana.
According to Macrobius and Cicero, Janus16 and Jana
are a pair of divinities, worshipped as the sun and
moon.
• The designation ‘duplex Amathusia’ for Aphrodite of
Amathus17 tems from the double sex of the Cyprian
deity. She was represented in art with a beard 18.
• Hermaphrodite. In Greece we may find Janus-like
heads of gods related to Hermes, perhaps forming a
compound god: Herm-athena (a herme of Athena),
Herm-ares, Herm-aphroditus, Herm-anubis, Herm-
alcibiades, and so on.

14
now exhibited at the Landesmuseum Stuttgart - Germany
15
Information from the Wikipedia-entry Zurvanism
16
Information from: Wikipedia-entry (Janus)
17
Catullus 68. 51
18
A. de Grazia & P. James, ‘Aphrodite - The Moon or Venus’, SIS Review I.
3 (1976): 8-14)

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 • Adam was originally androgynous: Adam and Eve were
created back to back, attached at their shoulders; then
God separated them with an axe, or cut them in two.
• In South-Arabia too Atar probably was a herma-
phroditic god 19.
• Kronos is given the title Man-Woman 20.
• Dyaus, the ancient sky, was androgynous, and so was
Purusha, the primeval man 21.
• Plato’s ‘first man’, who had a spherical body (Plato,
Symposium) is described as an androgynous person to
be split by Zeus 22.
• The Germanic figures of Odin, Loki, Tuisco and
Nerthus all preserve traces of androgyny 23.
• The Chinese knew of a hermaphroditic Supreme
Divinity, who was the god of darkness and light 24.
• Australian and Oceanic aboriginals claim bisexuality
for the first man 25.
• IU-piter is being called "simultaneously father and
mother" 26.

19
U. Oldenburg, ‘Above the stars of El: El in ancient South Arabic religion’,
Zeitschrift für alt-testamentliche Wissenschaft, 82 (1970): 199f., cited in E.
Cochrane, ‘Mars Gods of the New World’, Aeon IV. 1 (1995): 60
20
(->>Great Magical Papyrus of Paris) K. Preisendanz, Papyri Graecae
Magicae; Die Griechischen Zauberpapyri, 1928, I: 64, cited in D. Cardona,
‘Child of Saturn (part III)’, Kronos VII. 3 (1982): 3-14)
21
Rig-Veda X. 90; Patterns in Comparative Religion : 421
22
Patterns in Comparative Religion : 1958: 423
23
Patterns in Comparative Religion : 422f.
24
Patterns in Comparative Religion: 422
25
Patterns in Comparative Religion : 423
26
St. Augustine in Twenty-two books to Theocracy

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Gender specific burial traditions

The Kurgan period

Chris McManus27 clearly depicts the systematic scheme in
burials for several cultures. Obviously the system varied from
culture to culture, but some systematic approach may still be
identified. The earliest left-right symbolism may be found at
the burial pattern of proto-Indo-European peoples, the Kurgans,
who dominated Europe at the fourth millennium BC and
originated from the Black Sea area.
As a general rule most of the burials identified opposite sides
for male and female persons. Man and woman seem to have
been considered as mirrored images. At the Kurgan III-IV
period the bodies of male and female corpses were oriented
east-west, facing to the south. The females were lying on their
left side and the males on their right side.

The Beaker periods

• At the Beaker I and III period females were lying on their
right side and the males on their left side.
• At the Beaker II period females were lying on their right
side and the males on their right side.

27
Right Hand, Left Hand: The Origins of Asymmetry in Brains, Bodies,
Atoms and … by Chris McManus (2002)

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Corded Ware culture
Both the Kurgan period (4th Millenium b. C.) and the "Corded
Ware culture"-period (2880 b. C.-2000 b. C.) buried their
women left sided and their men right sided as mirrored images,
both facing towards the east. Generally the buried bodies are
located to face the dawn's position and/or the sun. Facing the
east and the south may refer to contacting the divine sun and
the sun's birth at dawn.
On the continent males lay on their right side, females on the
left, with the faces of both oriented to the south. However, in
Sweden and also parts of northern Poland the graves were
oriented north-south, men lay on their left side and women on
the right side - both facing east.

Left-right differences at the Gogo people

In Central Tanzania the Gogo people define the right hand as
muwoko wokulume, "the male hand", whereas the left hand is
identified as muwoko wokucekulu, "the female hand".

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Antipodes in Colors
Checking the Bible for some more antipodes I found an
interesting topic in the colors, which have been introduced in
the Book Exodus. In Exodus God gives 25 instructions to
construct the Covenant tent, such as28:
26: “Moreover you shall make the tent with ten
curtains; of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple,
and scarlet, with cherubim. The work of the skillful
workman you shall make them.
Now blue, scarlet and purple may be considered as two
antipodes and one joint-element. Blue and scarlet may be found
at the borderlines of the rainbow, whereas purple cannot be
found in the rainbow, but in fact consists of equal amounts of
both colors red and blue. Red and blue may have been the
antipodal symbols in archaic religions.
Of course I knew purple had been a sacred color to the early
Romans, but did the other peoples also apply purple, red and
blue? And if they did: were these colors to be considered as
religious symbols?
I needed some proofs for these ideas. The Bible itself did not
deliver any explanation, which was strange – as great numbers
of minor divine instructions had been explained in detail. The
missing explanation may result from common archaic wisdom,
which now had been lost completely.

28
See the quotations in the Secret Colour Codes in the Bible

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Polychrome Art
Purple, Red & Blue have been identified as religious symbols
in a number of ancient temples, sculptures, illuminated
manuscripts and similar artwork.

Egypt
In Egypt polychrome art has been identified in the Nefertiti
bust and in the architectural decorations of most of the temples
and sculptures.
According to archeological reports29 even the monumental
Sphinx may also have been painted in red, blue and yellow.
Residues of red pigment are still visible on the face, leading
researchers to conclude that, at some point, the Sphinx's entire
visage was painted red. Traces of blue and yellow paint
elsewhere suggest to Lehner that the Sphinx was once decked
out in bright and elementary colors.
According to Gary Gilligan30 the Egyptians always have
painted the sun as a red disk, except during the 17 years of the
strange Aten-religion in the Amarna era.
Red & blue combinations however fail to have been preferred.
Obvious red & blue combinations may be found in European
civilizations such as Greece.

29
Riddle of the Sphinx
30
Why was Egypt's Re (Ra) RED and not yellow? By Gary Gilligan –
contains numerous examples of red solar discs

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Greece
In ancient Greece red & blue polychrome art has been
identified in the Acropolis temple, in the Temple of Concordia,
at Akragas – Agrigent, in the Treasury of the Athenians at
Delphi , in the Sifnian treasury at Delphi, in the west-front of
the Athena-Aphaia temple at Aegina and in the Peploskore31 .

Rome
In ancient Rome red & blue polychrome symbols have been
identified in Augustus of Prima Porta and in various historical
descriptions such as Plutarch's Parallel Lives32. Purple may be
identified as divine symbol, scarlet as a military symbol for
male power.

Northern Europe
In medieval Europe polychrome art in red & blue or purple, red
& blue has been identified in various churches such as the
Nikolai-church at Nikolai-church at Stralsund33, in Widukind's
tomb34 and other medieval tombs at Fontevraud 35, Roermond36,
etc. .

31
Red and Blue in Architecture and Artwork
32
Symbolism of Purple and Scarlet in Greek and Roman Societies
33
The Indo Europeans - A Ground Zero for Civilisation
34
Widukind's Tomb
35
The Hermetic Codex
36
Blue and Red in Roermond

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Illuminated manuscripts
Blue and red illuminations have been applied on a large scale
basis in medieval manuscripts. Examples of alternating colored
symbols may be inspected in the chronological overview in The
Hermetic Codex

Bibles
• 600 AD: The Viennese Codex - symbolizing a red male
sun as a sky-god and a pale white moon as his wife.
• 600 AD: The Rabbula Gospels - in red, blue and green.
• 800 AD: The Book of Kells - in red, blue, purple, gold
• 850 AD: The Rado-Bible - in green, red and yellow37
• 1130: St. Albans Psalter - basically colored red & blue.
Green may be applied as a background color.
• 1135: The Bury Bible - in red, white and blue garments,
illustrated with green background areas.
• 1175: The Winchester Bible - alternating red & blue.
• 1250: The Morgan Bible - uses border decorations in
red & blue for illustrations in red, blue and green.
• 1300: The Fécamp Bible - Initials alternating in red and
blue in the Book of Psalms.
• 1333: Kremser Bible - alternating red & blue letters.
• 1360: The Neapolitan Bible alternating red and blue.
• 1390: The Wenzel-Bible combining red and blue colors.
• 1390: Wyclif's Bible - The gospel begins at the large,
red & blue decorated character
• 1410: The Korczek-Bible – alternating red & blue

37
Reference: Secret Colour Codes in the Bible

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 • 1460: The Utrechter “historical” Bible - initials
combining blue and red decorations in singular letters.
• 1400: Liber Generationis including a number of blue
and red and yellow (golden) decorations.

Other illuminated Manuscripts

• 1265: Divina Commedia – Dante in blue and red
garments, surrounded by blue and red text lines and
initials.
• 1335: Spieghel Historiael
• 1336: Speculum Humanae Salvationis

Flags
The Dutch or French flag may have inspired other nations to
introduce the same symbolic PIE-colours red, white and blue
for their own national flags: "the British flag" or "the flag of
Britain" (1606), the first Russian flag (1669). the American flag
(1777), the South Korean flag (1882), representing the
Yin/Yang-principle in the taegeuk, and the Flag of the
Philippines (1898). Some of these designs may have been
developed with the help of Templars and Freemasons, who are
known to have conserved parts of the ancient wisdom and
symbolism.

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Antipodes in divine names
Checking divine names we may find various antipodes in
creator and mayor Gods. As in the color system the naming
conventions seemed to have been protected by a veil.
The most important elements in naming may have been the
vowels A, E, I, O and U, probably to be extended with an Y.
The vowels may be extended at any length into eternity, which
may have made them suitable for religious purposes.
From these vowels I, U and A seemed to be the most ancient
elements. E, O and Y may have been added later. Some early
vowels could easily be identified in the name IU-piter, the
father of the IU-antipodes.
After some analysis I identified the I-character as male,
respectively the U-character as female antipodes. In a concept
of two antipodes and one joint-element the remaining A-
character had to represent the joint-element.
It took me a few years to understand and eliminate the
confusion of the color coding. Originally I applied the modern
color convention (“blue” for boys and “red” for girls). Checks
in historical documents however taught me to consider the
modern convention as rather young. The elder convention
(“blue” for female and “red” for male elements) seems to have
been applied from the very beginning until maybe the
beginning of the 20th century.
So far the E-concept had been consistent. The system was
stable and except for a strange shift of color symbolism in the
past century and some translation problems in the Genesis
legend there were no contradictions.

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Personal Pronouns
The personal pronouns belong to the very earliest layer of
Indo-European that can be reached by reconstruction. Their
forms are unlike those of any other paradigms in the language.
They have been called the “Devonian rocks” of Indo-European
languages38.

Swadesh Lists
From a scientific viewpoint the Swadesh lists need to be
corrected at two locations. The Swadesh word list is used in
lexicostatistics and glottochronology to determine the
approximate date of first separation of genetically related
languages. The closeness of the relationship of the languages is
suggested to be roughly proportional to the number of cognate
words present in the list.
A Swadesh list of 207 words in the English language has been
published in Wikipedia. This list, which has been sorted
according to the priority of words suggests to locate the Ego-
pronoun39, the Tu-pronoun40 and the We-pronoun41 at the
principal three places.
A word for God has been omitted. At the positions 36, 37 and
38 the words for woman, man (adult male) and Man (human
being) have been inserted.

38
Indo-European and the Indo-Europeans by Calvert Watkins.
39
The Ego-pronoun is the personal pronoun for the 1st person singular, see
the Map of the Ego-Pronouns in Google-maps.
40
The Tu-pronoun is the personal pronoun for the 2nd person singular
41
The We-pronoun is the personal pronoun for the 1st person plural

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At the archaic time of linguistic definitions the words for God
and the Man-word42 have been significant more important than
today. These words need to be inserted at the first locations to
identify their correlations, which may clearly be demonstrated
by comparing the Provencal words for God (Diéu) and the
Ego-pronoun (iéu)43.

The symbolic image of the first human being 44,

In PIE-religions the divine name has been generated by starting
with a leading consonant “D”, “Th”, “Z”, or “ Þ” to be
followed by the personal pronoun for the first person singular,
to be completed by a trailing symbol (“s”). Sometimes the
leading and/or the trailing character(s) may have been omitted.
Some examples involve45:
• Provençal: “D” + “iéu” = “Diéu”
• Italian: “D” + “ió” = “Dió”
• Spanish: “D” + “yo” + “s” = “Dios”
• Portuguese: “D” + “eu + “s” = “Deus”
• Romanian: “Z” + “eu” = “Zeu”
• old-German: “D” + “ih” + “s” = “Dis”46
• English: “D” + “i” + “s” = “Dis”
• Romansh: “D” + “jau” = “Diéu” (ideally: Djaus)
• Sursilvan : “D” + “jeu” = “Diéu”

42
The Man-word is the word for “human being”
43
The Hermetic Codex
44
The Hermetic Codex
45
Details: The Deity Dis in the Gallic Wars and Hieroglyphs in Indo-
European Languages
46
Dis has 53 BC been described by Julius Caesar in De Bello Gallico,
Book VI- chapter 18

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 • Sutsilvan :“D” + “jou” = “Diéu” (ideally: Djous)
• Sicilian dialect: “D” + “iu” = “Diu”
• Old High German: “Z” + “i(u)” = “Ziu”, which may
related the neighbouring area Sutsilvan :“D” + “jou” =
“Diéu” (which is to be located in the Alpes).
• Old English: “T” + “ich” = “Tig”, which may be related
to the German pronoun “ich”47.

Rearranging the Swadesh-Lists

Obviously the divine name has been equally important as the
Ego-pronoun. Therefore the first ranks of the Swadesh-lists
should be rearranged to begin with the following priorities:
1. the divine Being God
2. the Man-word
3. the Ego-pronoun
4. the Tu-pronoun
5. the We-pronoun
6. ….

Man as a pronoun
The relatively high priority of the Man-word may be
understood from the correlations between the Man-word and
the the Ego-pronouns in Tajik-language.
Tajik is a general designation for a wide range of Persian-
speaking peoples of Iranian origin, with traditional homelands
in present-day Afghanistan, Tajikistan, and southern
Uzbekistan. Smaller numbers also live in Iran and Pakistan;
they are mostly refugees from Afghanistan.

47
Similar pronouns are gothic-Dutch “ik”, ags. “ic and Icelandic “ek”

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According to the Swadesh list the Ego-pronoun is ман
(“Man”), which may correlate to the creation legend of
(androgynous) “man”, Adam Cadmon. In Romanized
Hindi/Urdu the Ego-pronoun is maĩ, in Romanized Kurdish
mɪn and in Romanized Sanskrit aham48.
In an overview of languages the words for God, the Man-word
and the Ego-, Tu- and We-pronouns seem to be correlated.
These words may be considered as the keywords for any
language and for any set of guidelines.

Antipodes and tridpods in Pronouns

In genuine forms the Ego-pronoun as well as the words for
God seem to contain three elements. The Provencal words for
God (Diéu) and the Ego-pronoun (iéu)49 have been equipped
with the symbolic vowels I, E and U, representing respectively
the male, the androgynous and the female components.
Latin seems to have derived its divine name IU-piter from the
Indo-European root *IOU, which still may be observed in the
Villar-St-Pancrace50 in the West Alpes near Briançon where the
inhabitants are using a strange Ego-pronoun iòu më,
respectively m’ iòu 51. Simultaneously they are using a Creator
God's name Diòu52.
48
The Hieroglyphs in the Ego-Pronoun
49
The Hermetic Codex
50
The Hieroglyphs in the Ego-Pronoun
51
Patois of Villar-St-Pancrace : Personal pronouns: Cas sujet Cas régime
atone tonique direct indirect
Sg. 1°p a (l’) iòu më, m’ iòu 2°p tü, t’ të, t’ tü 3°p M u(l), al ei(l) së lu ei F
eilo la eilo N o, ul, la - lu - Pl. 1°p nû* nû* 2°p òû* vû* vû* 3°p M î(z) së
lû* iè F eilâ (eilaz) lâ* eilâ
52
See the dialect's lexicon : Lexique de mots en patois

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Probably the central position in the Ego-pronoun and the words
for God may be equipped with any vowel A, E or O.
Alternatively the central character may even be omitted as in
IU-piter, which originally may have been *IOU-piter.

Monotheism vs. polytheism

The E=Enigma-concept seems to be extremely flexible in
respect to monotheistic conditions.
The two antipodes male and female seem to withstand the
requirements for monotheism. On the other hand the
androgynous component joins both antipodes male-female and
even as a trio they may be understood as a monotheistic
approach.
The Trinity-concept of the Church and the Celto-Germanic
preference for threefold concepts may also be correlated to the
male-androgynous-female core.
In an overview the E=Enigma-concept may be considered as:
• a monotheistic, androgynous concept
• a bipolar male-female concept of antipodes
• a threefold androgynous & male-female concept

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Vowels
The vowels I and U have been applied to symbolize the male,
respectively female elements. The other vowels represent
androgynous concepts.

Εἶ ἕν, Thou art one

The Apollo-cult obviously had been devoted to a sun-symbol,
but simultaneously the Apollo-temple had been decorated with
an E-symbol, which may be related to the archaic expression Εἶ
ἕν, Thou art one53 .
Εἶ ἕν, Thou art one may be compared to the word Ehyeh,
normally translated to I Am that I Am54 as the response God
used in the Hebrew Bible when Moses asked for His name
(Exodus 3:14). It stems from the Hebrew conception of
monotheism that God exists by himself, the uncreated Creator
who does not depend on anything or anyone; therefore I am
who I am. Some scholars[who?] state the Tetragrammaton
itself derives from the same verbal root, but others counter that
it may simply sound similar as intended by God.

53
Of the Word Ei Engraven Over the Gate of Apollo’s Temple At Delphi. -
from Plutarch’s Morals. Translated from the Greek by Several Hands.
Corrected and Revised by William W. Goodwin, with an Introduction by
Ralph Waldo Emerson. 5 Volumes. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1878).
Source: Book V-27. On the EI at Delphi (Περί τού Εί τού έν Δελφοίς - De E
apud Delphos)
54
Source: I Am that I Am

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IHVH55
In the spelling of Hebrew and some other Semitic languages,
Matres Lectionis56, refer to the use of certain consonants to
indicate a vowel. The letters that do this in Hebrew are ‫ א‬aleph,
‫ ה‬he, ‫ ו‬waw (or vav) and ‫ י‬yod (or yud). The yod and waw in
particular are more often vowels than they are consonants.
According to the entry “Tetragrammaton” in the English
Wikipedia the third character "V" must be read as a place-
holder for an "O"/"U" vowel. Most commonly in applying this
rule of the Matres Lectionis, the Yod ‫ י‬indicates I or E, while
Vav ‫ ו‬indicates O or U.

Enigmatic vocalized words

In the following examples some enigmatic words like E, Εἶ,
Ehyeh, A, Ω do contain an overdose of vowels, which may
indicate religious symbolism:
• E (at the entrance portal of Apollo's Temple, Delphi)
• Εἶ ἕν, Thou art one (On the EI at Delphi, Plutarch)
• Ehyeh, I Am that I Am (first occurrence in Gen. 26:3)
• "I am the alpha and the omega" (from the Book of
Revelation verses 1:8, 21:6, and 22:13)
• IHVH, Yahweh (Hebrew: ‫יהוה‬, YHWH - the
unvocalised YHWH is the only form that appeared in
Hebrew before 800 CE. However: the Yod ‫ י‬indicates I
or E, while Vav ‫ ו‬indicates O or U.

55
The Hermetic Codex
56
Latin: "mothers of reading"

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 • IAO - a Greek form of Yahweh, and the purported
secret name or abbreviation of a deity in Gnosticism,
Greek mystery cults, and magic
In this case alpha and omega may symbolize long vowels,
which would emphasize the religious symbolism:
• In Ancient Greek, alpha was pronounced [a] when short
and [aː] when long. Where there is ambiguity, long and
short alpha may be written with a macron and breve:
Ᾱᾱ, Ᾰᾰ.
• Phonetically, the Ancient Greek Ω is a long open-mid o
[ɔː], equal to the vowel of British English raw.

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Summary
Mankind needs guidelines as a tool for survival. Most archaic
guidelines have been based on symbolic antipodes.
To understand the archaic guidelines this manuscripts
documents an overview of bipolar elements in bi-faced
sculptures, historical records, religions, languages, illuminated
manuscripts and symbols.
To identify the correlation between the most important words
(personal pronouns, Man and God) the Swadesh lists need to be
corrected: the words for God and Man (human Being) need to
be inserted, respectively resorted at the highest ranks near to
the Ego-, Tu- and We-pronouns.
Genuine vowel-structures may be identified in the Ego-
pronouns and in divine names, which seem to contain a triple
set of gender information: a male I-, respectively an
androgynous A- and a female U-element. Androgynous
symbols may also have been replaced by other E- or O-vowels
or IU-combinations. These male, androgynous and female
elements may have been considered as the archaic
fundamentals in human society and creation.
The E=Enigma-concept is extremely flexible in respect to
monotheistic conditions. Correctly interpreted the E=Enigma-
concept may be considered as monotheistic, bipolar male-
female or as a threefold androgynous & male-female concept.
In the course of time most of this wisdom have been altered
and veiled to protect the contents from being manipulated,
resulting in an enigmatic and blurred concept. The basic
Enigma-idea however may still be understood by methodically
analyzing the concept.

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