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Wendish
in Babylon
I have found several words of Wendish in a number of non-Algonquian native languages in other parts of America, including the Pacific Coast. For example, the Chinook native tribe in Oregon has an ancient goddess with a purely, somewhat garbled, Wendish name, Tsagiglela, she who watches. I found them also in Central and South America. There is the Aztec rain-god, Tlaloc. In Wendish, tla is soil, ground and log refers to something waterlogged. Its other cognates in Europe are the Scottish loch, Italian lago, English lake, French lac. Another curious Wendish word in Mexico is their volcano, Popokatepetl. It looks very much like the Wendish phrase, poka ko t(r)epeta, thunders/roars as it shakes/trembles. Wendish toponyms are always very descriptive.
Wendish words turn up in the Inuit language in the north where, for instance, the word kit refers to a whale - as it does in Wendish - to the Chachapoyas and Incas in the south. In the Andes, I noticed Wendish terms like kot, place, spot, corner, vilka, great, even Baba, the name of an ancient Wendish mother-earth goddess, which I found also in Japanese.
As everybody knows, this Baba appears also in the name of the city of Babylon, the 'New York' of Ancient Mesopotamia, with its sky-scrapers and multi-culturalism, much vilified in the Bible. Babylon is a Wendish name. In Wendish, Baby, to goddess Baba, is the dative of the nominative Baba, Mother-Earth goddess. This shows that even Babylonian conjugation of feminine nouns was the same as it is in today's Wendish. In Wendish, lon means repayment, expressing gratitude. Wends still say, when thanking someone for a kindness done to them, Bog te lony, may God repay you. German, being an Indo-European language - therefore based on Wendish - has also retained this Wendish word, with the same pronunciation, der Lohn, with the meaning of repayment, salary.
The ill-famed Babylonian ruler, Nebuchadnezzar - whose army had brutally punished his disloyal Hebrew subjects by destroying their city and their first temple - also had a Wendish name, actually a nickname. I learned this unexpected fact from the Jewish Torah, written by former Jewish exiles who had spent some 60 years, between 598 and 538 B.C., in Babylon and had, therefore, become well-versed in the Babylonian language. The Torah was composed, as was their Bible and their other sacred writings, after their return to Jerusalem. In it they state that Nebuchadnezzar's name was pronounced in the Babylonian language nebohodne tsar and that this meant in-the-sky walking ruler.
You may be surprised to hear that some 3,000 years later, in today's Wendish, nebohodne tsar still means in-the-sky-walking ruler. Quite an apt name for an emperor whose palace and gardens were high up on one of his sky-scrapers, ziggurats, where he obviously took his walks occasionally. It seems that Babylonians had not only created a mighty empire, they also had a great sense of humour, and not too much reverence for their upper class.
The term ziggurat was probably pronounced za gorat by Babylonians, which in Wendish means a substitute for mountains. In modern Wendish, za means for, in lieu of, and gorat means mountainous, a mountain scape. It is reported that the emperor had in fact built the first ziggurat to cheer up his wife, who had grown up in the mountains, and sorely missed them on the flat Mesopotamian plain.
From these examples, and from the fact that I have discovered an extensive Wendish vocabulary also in the language of the white natives of Japan, whose settlements there reach back into the Ice Age, one can adduce that Wendish is a truly ancient language. Perfected already in the Ice Age, it hardly needed to change since then. Its grammar is amazingly highly evolved, enabling its speakers to express in it the most complicated facts and most sophisticated ideas with utmost precision, lucidity and brevity, surpassing in that respect even Latin. You may have noticed that the first French Jesuits and British missionaries gave similar laudatory descriptions of American native languages. Latin is based on Wendish but has, compared with it, an already substantially simplified grammatical structure, as do Cree and Migmaq. Such simplification of grammar occurs whenever a new language evolves from two or more original languages. Latin is a mixture of at least two languages, that of Wendi and Latini tribes.
I have found several words of Wendish in a number of non-Algonquian native languages in other parts of America, including the Pacific Coast. For example, the Chinook native tribe in Oregon has an ancient goddess with a purely, somewhat garbled, Wendish name, Tsagiglela, she who watches. I found them also in Central and South America. There is the Aztec rain-god, Tlaloc. In Wendish, tla is soil, ground and log refers to something waterlogged. Its other cognates in Europe are the Scottish loch, Italian lago, English lake, French lac. Another curious Wendish word in Mexico is their volcano, Popokatepetl. It looks very much like the Wendish phrase, poka ko t(r)epeta, thunders/roars as it shakes/trembles. Wendish toponyms are always very descriptive.
Wendish words turn up in the Inuit language in the north where, for instance, the word kit refers to a whale - as it does in Wendish - to the Chachapoyas and Incas in the south. In the Andes, I noticed Wendish terms like kot, place, spot, corner, vilka, great, even Baba, the name of an ancient Wendish mother-earth goddess, which I found also in Japanese.
As everybody knows, this Baba appears also in the name of the city of Babylon, the 'New York' of Ancient Mesopotamia, with its sky-scrapers and multi-culturalism, much vilified in the Bible. Babylon is a Wendish name. In Wendish, Baby, to goddess Baba, is the dative of the nominative Baba, Mother-Earth goddess. This shows that even Babylonian conjugation of feminine nouns was the same as it is in today's Wendish. In Wendish, lon means repayment, expressing gratitude. Wends still say, when thanking someone for a kindness done to them, Bog te lony, may God repay you. German, being an Indo-European language - therefore based on Wendish - has also retained this Wendish word, with the same pronunciation, der Lohn, with the meaning of repayment, salary.
The ill-famed Babylonian ruler, Nebuchadnezzar - whose army had brutally punished his disloyal Hebrew subjects by destroying their city and their first temple - also had a Wendish name, actually a nickname. I learned this unexpected fact from the Jewish Torah, written by former Jewish exiles who had spent some 60 years, between 598 and 538 B.C., in Babylon and had, therefore, become well-versed in the Babylonian language. The Torah was composed, as was their Bible and their other sacred writings, after their return to Jerusalem. In it they state that Nebuchadnezzar's name was pronounced in the Babylonian language nebohodne tsar and that this meant in-the-sky walking ruler.
You may be surprised to hear that some 3,000 years later, in today's Wendish, nebohodne tsar still means in-the-sky-walking ruler. Quite an apt name for an emperor whose palace and gardens were high up on one of his sky-scrapers, ziggurats, where he obviously took his walks occasionally. It seems that Babylonians had not only created a mighty empire, they also had a great sense of humour, and not too much reverence for their upper class.
The term ziggurat was probably pronounced za gorat by Babylonians, which in Wendish means a substitute for mountains. In modern Wendish, za means for, in lieu of, and gorat means mountainous, a mountain scape. It is reported that the emperor had in fact built the first ziggurat to cheer up his wife, who had grown up in the mountains, and sorely missed them on the flat Mesopotamian plain.
From these examples, and from the fact that I have discovered an extensive Wendish vocabulary also in the language of the white natives of Japan, whose settlements there reach back into the Ice Age, one can adduce that Wendish is a truly ancient language. Perfected already in the Ice Age, it hardly needed to change since then. Its grammar is amazingly highly evolved, enabling its speakers to express in it the most complicated facts and most sophisticated ideas with utmost precision, lucidity and brevity, surpassing in that respect even Latin. You may have noticed that the first French Jesuits and British missionaries gave similar laudatory descriptions of American native languages. Latin is based on Wendish but has, compared with it, an already substantially simplified grammatical structure, as do Cree and Migmaq. Such simplification of grammar occurs whenever a new language evolves from two or more original languages. Latin is a mixture of at least two languages, that of Wendi and Latini tribes.
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