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Jake Stratton-Kent doth schreibble :

> Also, given the quantity of etymological citations you provided, the
> weight of the opposing view should commend itself to you. ;)

Ah, but having cut my teeth on the likes of Godfrey
Higgins, Gerald Massey and < shudder > Laurence Waddell,
I am not certain that mere etymology possesses any sort
of /academic/ weight at all - it seems more in the way
of a ludibrium, or rhetorical jugglery ( and doesn't
Plato refer to Socrates as a /goes/ somewhere or other?).

By-the-way, for a treatment of the idea of the sky as
the /otherworld/ in relatively recent times, see :

Alastair Fowler ~ *Time's Purpled Masquers : Stars*
*and the Afterlife in Renaissance English Literature*
(Preview @GoogleBooks)
http://tinyurl.com/yz5nay9

Cors in Manu Domine,


~ Khem Caigan
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" Heat and Moisture are Active to Generation;
Cold and Dryness are Passive, in and to each Thing;
Fire and Air, Active by Elementation;
Water and Earth, Passive to Generation. "

~ Simon Forman, *Of the Division of Chaos*