The Nuclear Pillars of Symbolism

Joannes Richter

The fundamental Symbols

Asked by Alexander the Great what was the thing they, the Celts, most feared they answered:
"We fear no man: there is but one thing that we fear, namely, that the sky should fall on
us; but we regard nothing so much as the friendship of a man such as thou."

This cannot not be seen as an offense as the formula for the traditional Celtic oath also had been
based on a crashing sky:
"May the sky fall on us and crush us, may the earth gape and swallow us up, may the
sea burst out and overwhelm us."1

Obviously the Germans and the Celts had prepared themselves against a falling sky by a cult in
which trees symbolized the pillars of the sky2 and the magic of a destruction of their sacred trees
had been practiced by the conquerors who demoralized their victims by simply ruining their sacred
symbols.
According to the 8th century Vita Bonifatii auctore Willibaldi, Anglo-Saxon missionary
Saint Boniface and his retinue cut down Donar's Oak earlier the same century. Wood
from the oak was then reportedly used to build a church at the site dedicated to Saint
Peter3.

Similar symbols however also had been defined in the laws, traditional scripture, ceremonies, and
customs, including martrimonial traditions, songs and artwork.
Vowels such as in Old-English and color codes have been defined as low-profile symbol, which
could not be destroyed so easily4. Some of these symbols survived the conquest till today, although
we often cannot see the symbolism without being informed where to look for the signs...
In the course of time Donar's Oak and the other trees of the Celtic and Germans' tribes disappeared,
the paintings, the flags and the coats of arms are still filled with color symbols but we do not really
understand their tokens. And of course we are constantly using our language without realizing
where the nuclear vowels are still actively spreading their messages.
Most of these symbols refer to eternity, which as a religious symbol seemed to have overwhelmed
the population.
I am not sure how much fear has been spread by the druids, but the fear for a sudden death or a
flood also may have been around from the very early days, which may have marked Noah's salvage
in the Ark.

1 The Celts in Ancient History in Myths and Legends of the Celtic Race by Thomas Rolleston [1911]
2 Notes (1) to Zeus by A.B. Cook (1925) -Notes (3) to Zeus by A.B. Cook and Retrospect - Notes (6) to Zeus by
Arthur Bernard Cook (1925)
3 Donar's Oak
4 The World's Pillar in the Words
Nuclear Words
Traditionally a language unites a population as if they feel like a large family in which all members
understand each other.
As children we grow up in small circles and we are unaware of the relations between remote family
members. We understand each other perfectly in the dedicated dialects of these circles. Beyond the
circles the words seemed to lose qualities. The words became imprecise and inaccurate. There were
misconceptions and misunderstood treaties.
Most of these problems had to be solved by traveling beyond the inner circles.
Here I learned to study the Annals of Bavaria by Johannes Aventinus in which he designed a
pedigree of Teutonic kings from Great Flood, ruling over Germany and surrounding regions until
the 1st century BC5.
By including the ancestors of the European kings the pedigree became an extension to the Bible's
historical records6 and was responsible for the people's roots. In my home country the Netherlands
the list started with Tuitsch, Mannus Eingeb .
Although these remarkable ideas influenced generations of historians they have been abandoned as
soon as serious historians denied the concept.
Studying the Short Description of Leyden 7 (1672) I noticed the author Simon van Leeuwen also
favored a pedigree from Noah onward. In the Golden Age of Dutch trading the historians had
considered these historical records as important as the Old Testament. Tuitsch had been considered
as Noah's son and even the Church accepted these fantastic stories such as Generations of Noah,
Descents from Antiquity. In his German Mythology8 Jacob Grimm listed the Anglosaxon Pedigree,
which for 8 English tribes starts at Vden and has been documented by Bede (672/3735) .
Across the river Rhine at Cologne there was a small fortress named Tuitsch (now: Deutz), in which
medieval historians located Tuisto's temple. In modern history the name is derived from the Latin
word castrum divitensium.
Deutz was an important centre of learning in medieval Germany. Up into the early Middle
Ages it was known by the Latin name Divitia, from the 10th century as Tuitium. It was
located on the right bank of the Rhine, opposite Cologne, which grew up on the left bank.
In 1002, the old castle in Deutz was made a Benedictine monastery by Heribert, archbishop
of Cologne, and the important abbey was home to many influential theologians, such as
Rupert of Deutz.
I understood these words such as Tuitsch and Mannus must have been nuclear words for centuries.
Nuclear Words are carrying the load of symbolism in any language. In our daily life most of these
words are unimpressive. Originally Tuitsch had been the sky-god, but the divine power seemed to
be lost at the arrival of Roman armies and Christianity. The Germans however saved their pagan
gods by integrating the pedigree of their ancestors in the Biblical extensions. These stories were
legends, but they helped the people to conserve their historical records.

5 Teutonic genealogy
6 A similar concept is found in compendium of world history volume 2 - Origin of Nations - by HL Hoeh - 1969
7 Korte Besgryving van het Lugdunum Batavorum nu Leyden by Simon van Leeuwen published 1672
8 Deutsche Mythologie von Brder Grimm
Vowel-combinations for Eternity
Divine names such as Tuitsch were not the only pillar in European languages. On an European scale
other symbolic cores had been composed from vowel-combinations which symbolized eternity and
could be considered as nuclear element in linguistic symbolism.

In Old English the compact version of a ligature (law, scripture, ceremony, custom, marriage) had
been derived from iw(es)i (always), which still may be heard reverberating in always:
From Proto-Germanic *aiw, *aiwaz (law), from Proto-Indo-European *oiw-
(custom, tradition, law). Cognate with Old Saxon o, Old Frisian ewa, we, , , Old
High German wa, ha, a, (German Ehe).

In old-Norse is derived from Proto-Germanic *aiwi (forever). Cognate with Old English ,
wa, , Old Saxon eo, io, ia, Old High German eo, io.
In the end some Danish and Norwegian dialects even shared the word 9 (the Old-English word for
law, scripture, ceremony, custom, marriage) for their ego-pronoun (I)10.

Eternity in Dutch
In Dutch these vowel-combinations symbolizing eternity had been identified as EE and IE, JO,
but in other languages such as French they may vary to JA, in German to JE and in Norwegian JO:11
ie1 bw., jo 1 altijd, immer 2 ooit, te eniger tijd 2 hoe, des te: ie groener ie mooier Duits
je, Noors jo in ieder, iemand, iets, ietoe, immer, ergens, ooit, eig. verbogen naamval
van eeuw1/ee1 leven, levenskracht; leeftijd; tijdperk; honderd jaar

A lot of Dutch words had been equipped with these EE and EI or JO- vowel-combinations.
I noticed the words for eternity had been chosen close to the vowel-combinations for the river
names Aa - Ae Die - Ee IJ. Some of the East-Frisian names even shared the word Ehe for the
river-names as well as for matrimony.
I returned to the old-Dutch vocabulary Vergeten woorden and discovered the equivalent EE and IE,
which also referred to eternity. Most of these genuine vowel words are now obsolete, but their
traces maybe found in a great number of modern words, such as:
eega (German Ehe-gatte), referring to the word Ehe for the river-names and matrimony.
ieder (every), in which the I en E should be identified as individual symbols (J and E) such
as in German jeder.
iemand (someone), in which the I en E should be identified as individual symbols (J and E)
such as in German jemand.
iets (something)
eed (oath)
eeuw (life, century)

9 - From Proto-Germanic *aiw, *aiwaz (law), from Proto-Indo-European *oiw- (custom, tradition, law).
Cognate with Old Saxon o, Old Frisian ewa, we, , , Old High German wa, ha, a, (German Ehe).
10 I (first-person singular personal pronoun)(dialectal, mostly found in Trndelag, northern Norway, and parts of
western and southern Norway).
And (dialectal, Vil or Fjolde in northern Frisia) I (first-person singular pronoun)
11 Forgotten Words (Vergeten woorden) letter I
Most of these traces are also found in German, but Old Dutch and Old-English.

Isolating the vowels in the vowel-combinations

Originally Dutch words such as eigen had been spelled as eygen. Iemand had been spelled as
yemand and ieder as yder. The original spelling intended to isolate both vowels from each
other and seemed to have forced the speakers to spell each vowel as a long isolated individual
sound. This resulted in a spelling which sounded as German, in which the I is isolated from the E:
ieder = jeder (German),
iemand = jemand (German)

The Yew as a symbol for eternity

The words for Yew (Taxus baccata, German: Eibe; Dutch: ijf) is designed as a vowel-combination.
The word yew is from Proto-Germanic *wa-, possibly originally a loanword from Gaulish *ivos,
compare Irish o, Welsh ywen, French if (see Eihwaz for a discussion).
Eiwaz or Eihaz (reconstructed *haz / *haz or *waz / *waz) was a Proto-Germanic
word for "yew", and the reconstructed name of the rune .

The rune survives in the Anglo-Saxon futhorc as oh "yew" (note that eoh "horse"
has a short diphthong).

It is commonly transliterated as or , or, in reconstructions of Proto-Germanic, 2. Its

phonetic value at the time of the invention of the Futhark (2nd century) was not
necessarily a diphthong, but possibly a long vowel somewhere between [i] and [e] or
[], continuing Proto-Indo-European language *ei.12

Taxus baccata can reach 400 to 600 years of age. It has been suggested that the Sacred Tree at the
Temple at Uppsala was an ancient yew tree. It has also been suggested that yews were planted at
religious sites as their long life was suggestive of eternity, or because being toxic they were seen as
trees of death.[32] 13
In interpretations of Norse cosmology, the tree Yggdrasill has traditionally been interpreted as a
giant ash tree. Some scholars now think that in the past an error has been made in the interpretation
of the ancient writings, and that the tree is most likely a European yew (Taxus baccata).[36] 14

The length of the vowel-combinations

As I extended my research for these nuclear vowel combinations I noticed a strange phenomenon
which concentrated the short nuclear words near the coastlines of the ocean and the seas, whereas
the long nuclear vowel-combinations are found near the high Alpine mountains.
Old English: (law, scripture, ceremony, custom, marriage) and Y15, I (ego-pronoun)
German: je ever and Ih I (ego-pronoun)
Provencal: iu I (ego-pronoun)
In the remote mountain regions the languages seemed to be protected from deteriorating influences,

12 Eihwaz
13 Longevity
14 Religion
15 From Wycliffe's Bible translation
Genesis : 3-10 And Adam seide, Y herde thi vois in paradijs, and Y drede, for Y was nakid, and Y hidde me.
which may have resulted in diminished erosion in the nuclear words.
For this reason the best structures of nuclear words are found in the Alpine areas:
Provencal: D + iu = Diu
Romance: D + jau = Diu (ideally: Djaus)
Sursilvanic : D + jeu = Diu
Sutsilvanic :D + jou = Diu (ideally: Djous)

The nucleus of Provencal Language

The nucleus of Provencal Language is based on first person singular conjugations for some
Provencal verbs, which all seem to cover basic human activities such as to say (dire), to be
(tre/estre), to laugh (rire) and to see (voir/veire).
The first person singular conjugations for these Provencal verbs (to say (dire), to be (tre/estre), to
laugh (rire) and to see (voir/veire) all conjugate according to the pattern *iu in which the wildcard
* is to be replaced by a letter d, s, r, or v.
This formula translates first person singular conjugations for these Provencal verbs to diu (I
say), siu (I am), riu (I laugh), and viu (I see), in which iu represents the ego-pronoun (as
an abbreviation of the first person singular personal pronoun).

Now I noticed the Provencal expression I say is translated as diu, which is equivalent to
Diu (God).
Neighboring languages and dialects do not show such marvelous correlations between the
expressions such as I say (diu), the ego-pronouns such as I (iu) and the corresponding
divine names such as Diu (God).
Nuclear Symbols such as Colors
However the nuclear words were not the only core elements in symbolism. The illiterate people also
needed core symbols they understood without learning the alphabet. Some of these symbols also
caught my attention and in fact my investigations started from the colors red & blue.

Adam & Eve

At the age of seven a priest taught me that Adam and Eve had been created by a Creator God in a
red robe and I remembered to have documented this episode in a notebook, which had managed to
survive all emigrations, cleanups and transports. This is how I remembered the brightly colored
robes the first couple had been supposed to be wearing: red for Adam and blue for Eve.
Initially Adam seemed to have worn a similar colored red robe as the divine Being, but after the sin
Adam and Eve had to be colored purple, which in Dutch is defined as paars.
Our teachers did not explain why this color transformation from red & blue to purple paars had
been caused. Did paars refer to pairs?...16
As an adolescent I did read Plato's Symposion and understood that purple did not refer to the Sin,
but symbolized the reunited Adam and Eve, who now lived as a couple into one single Body,
resembling the Creator God.
Of course our teacher in our 2nd grade class 1954-1955 would not be happy to explain this wisdom
to 7-years aged pupils..

1: Adam & Eve in paradise (before the Sin) 2: Adam & Eve reunited ("after the Sin")

16 Godsdienstles 1954-1955
I also asked myself whether the red & blue colors had been related to the flag's colors and the
strange purple (Dutch: paars) symbolized the imperial power of the emperors such as Nero, who
had declared purple as the divine symbol for his family.
To me this seemed to be a sacred color code for patriotic and/or religious symbolism. And I added
the colors red, blue and purple to the nuclear symbols.

Ancient color codes

In 1672 Leiden had been categorized as the fourth city in the ranking, but also as the oldest city and
the capital of the region Rhineland in Holland.

Purple
In 1672 a room in the ancient city hall of Leiden had been named de Paars17. I investigated the
idea of a symbolic color, but this seemed to be untrue 18. In fact the name Paars, which is the
current Dutch word for purple also may have been used as a loan word for the ancient French title
Pairs and the English word Peers, which both have been derived from Latin par = equal. It
signifies those noblemen and prelates considered to be equal to the monarch in honour (even though
they were his vassals), and it considers the monarch thus to be primus inter pares, or "first among
equals".

Blue
The city of Leiden also had a central big blue stone19, which was used for law enforcement. At the
central blue stone a bankrupt citizen had to be led around three times to see if anyone would bail out
the person. If nobody helped the condemned victim he had to leave the city and lost his city rights20.
A smaller blue stone marked the location where Aleid van Poelgeest and William Cuser had been
murdered.
Aleid van Poelgeest (c. 1370 - The Hague, September 22, 1392) was the daughter of the court official Jan van
Poelgeest and Aleid van Beest Gerbrandsdr. She is traditionally assumed to have served as a maid-of-honour to
the spouse of Albert, Margaret of Brieg, prior to becoming his mistress. She never married.
Van Poelgeest is noted to have been present at court at least since 1386. In June 1388, Albert gave her an
allowance, her own house and maids and installed her as his official mistress. It was noted that she followed
him around on his journeys in his domains. She was reputed to have had great influence over Albert, but
whether this was true is unconfirmed.
In 1392 she was murdered along with the "Meesterknaap" (a high court dignitary), William Cuser in The
Hague by Hook nobles21. Why exactly Aleid was killed, is not certain.
Albrecht saw the murder as a personal attack on his authority and used this event to settle some scores with a
number of political opponents.
For this reason blue probably had been used as a negative symbol, maybe related to the Sin of Eve,
who also had been dressed in blue at the Creation date. In the religious traditions red had been
reserved for the Creator God and Adam.

17 Thomas Salmon by Isaak Tirion, 1742

18 Paars als in Primus inter Pares
19 Located in the middle between the Pieterskerk-Choorsteeg Pieters Choorsteeg and the and the Maarsmansteeg
20 Page 34 in Korte Besgryving van het Lugdunum Batavorum nu Leyden: vervatende een Verhaal van haar
Grondstand, Oudheid, Opkomst, Voort-gang, ende Stadsbestier ...Simon van Leeuwen - Voor Johannes van Gelder,
1672 - 593 Seiten
21 The killing of Aleid van Poelgeest
I also noticed that blue in the Church had not been allowed in the list of liturgical colours, which
usually include: violet, white, green, red, gold, black, rose. The optional use of blue as a liturgical
color for feasts of our Lady is restricted to a few dioceses:
Blue, a color associated with the Virgin Mary, is permitted for the feast of the
Immaculate Conception in Spain and in some dioceses in Portugal, Mexico, and South
America. In the Philippines, it is authorized for all feasts of the Virgin Mary, a practice
followed in some other places without official warrant. There have also been uses of
blue in place of violet for the season of Advent despite the fact that this practice is
prohibited under liturgical law.[6] 22

Therefore I considered blue as a basically negative symbol around 1672. Of course it may have
been in use as a negative symbol earlier and later episodes as well.

Yellow
Other symbols for negativity have been explained from paintings23. Yellow has been defined as the
symbol for traitors such as Judas24 and St. Peter25, whose betrayal obviously may have been
restricted to the episode at garden of Gethsemane.26
Of course the famous painting The Kiss of Judas by Giotto (1304-1306), a fresco in the Capella degli Scrovegni,
Padua, Italy is a fine sample of the symbolism of a yellow robe for both traitors Judas and St. Peter. However St.
Peter is depicted with a halo and Judas is painted without a halo.27
Some paintings all depict three disciples Peter, James and John, who all have been depicted with
classical colors. One of them is wearing a yellow robe. Who could this disciple be?
Agony in the Garden an early painting by the Italian Renaissance master Giovanni Bellini.
It portrays Christ kneeling on the Mount of Olives in prayer, with his disciples Peter, James
and John sleeping near to him.
In the Agony in the Garden a painting by the Italian artist Andrea Mantegna, dating from
14581460 and conserved at the National Gallery in London
Agony in the Garden a painting by Andrea Mantegna, dating from 14571459 and
conserved at the Muse des Beaux-Arts de Tours .
In The Tribute Money (Masaccio), a fresco in the Brancacci Chapel (1420) the role of St. Peter and the tax collector
may have been symbolized in their robes:
The head of Christ is the vanishing point of the painting, drawing the eyes of the
spectator there. Both Christ and Peter then point to the left hand part of the painting,
where the next scene takes place in the middle background: Peter taking the money out
of the mouth of the fish. The final scene where Peter pays the tax collector is at the
right. Traditionally Jesus is dressed in pink and blue. While the holy men except for
St. Peter are dressed almost entirely in robes of pastel pink and blue, the official wears
a shorter tunic of a striking vermilion. The color adds to the impertinence expressed
through his gestures. The colors are contrasting the holy men and the impertinent tax
collector28.

22 liturgical colours
23 The Symbolism of Yellow in Painting the Apostles
24 Yellow for Judas
25 Yellow for Saint Peter
26 Colors - Kleuren - Farben
27 Yellow for Saint Peter
28 Yellow for Saint Peter
The origin of the Dutch heraldic coat of arms
The origin of the Dutch heraldic coat of arms is described in Korte Besgryving van het
Lugdunum Batavorum nu Leyden29 as inherited from Puppijn, king of France and passed
by Diderik of Acquitania and Diderik the frist count of Holland:
a red lion in a gilded field, blue tongued and clawed.
This had been documented by chronicle writers and and copied by Pieter Schrijver in his
Introduction to the counts of Holland30. The heraldic coat of arms is coming from the
French kings who had inherited it from the Trojan flames...

3: a red lion in a gilded field, blue tongued and

clawed(own photo - The Hague)

29 Korte Besgryving van het Lugdunum Batavorum nu Leyden (pag 421)

30 Beschrijvinghe van Out Batavien, mitsgaders d'Afkomst ende historie der graven van Holland, Zeeland ende
Vrieslandt (1612)
Vowel-Combinations in Words
Vowel-Combinations in Rivers

A cradle at the Central Rur Graben

I was born and raised near the fault lines of the Central Rur Graben, which largely is running from
's-Hertogenbosch, Veghel, Eindhoven along Helmond, Roermond up to Aken, where the
earthquakes are mild enough to wake us up at night, but never end up in a mess.
It is a mild, rainy countryside on an infertile, poor sand territory. Virtually none of these Dutch
Lowlands ever have been enriched by the fertile loess deposits, because the hills and mountains all
rise at the borderlines of this country, but the few of these loess areas invariably had been marked
by the words Hell, which later caught my attention...
The richness of poor countrysides however is expressed in the offspring, which is abundant where
the poor people are working by servicing their richer neighbors by raising milk, meat and
vegetables which have to be spared from the mouth of their own children.
No revolution ever sprang from this poorly educated territory of the southern swamp region. They
simply lived by raising the generations of emigrants who were serving their neighbors.
Often the poor countries had been abused as battlefields for the armies of the rich men, who needed
the fields as battlefields for their maneuvers and wars. Lots of the farmers lost their children in
those armies and wars.
But anyway the families were large enough to expand the population and in the end they overcame
the poverty by a clever use of energy such as coal, oil and gas.
At my birth the poor countrysides tended to be catholic and the richer people were protestant, but
soon the religious component vanished and left the population in an indifferent state, which is
named tolerance and neutrality.
I was lucky to have been born between wars and enjoyed more than 70 years eternal freedom in
peace. None of my forefathers ever had been so lucky as our generation was.

The rivers Aa
This country where I grew up is fertilized by small creeks such as the rivers Aa, Ee and IJ. The
name Aa is Old Dutch. It means water and lots of European rivers are carrying this name Aa or in
Dutch generally Aa, Ae, E, Ee, Ie, or IJ.
The river Aa which had accompanied our kin more or less followed the Central Rur Graben which
had laid out the river bed. The river itself wouldn't have done too much work for its bed, which
largely had been formed during the Ice Ages.
In an overview of the large Aa (rivers) we may identify one Aa in France, 8 rivers such as Aa
(Mhne) , Aa (Nethe), Aa (Werre), in Germany, 6 rivers like Aa (Meuse) in the Netherlands, 9
rivers such as the Gross Aa in Switzerland, 2 Aa-rivers in Latvia. In a Dutch overview of the small
rivers I found 34 x Aa- 11 x Ae 6x Die 11 x Ee 5 x IJ, in which
In a special German overview the number of German AA-names outnumbers the Dutch overview
and I guessed the total number of European river names Aa-Ae-Ee-IJ totals a few hundred or up to
1000 names.
Eternity
As a child I didn't really notice these river-names basically consisted of these pure vowels. I learned
the simple vowel names followed a general linguistic law, which never had been told at school.
I kissed my girlfriends along the romantic riverside of the slowly and quietly flowing Aa near the
Meuse and chose one of these as a partner for my lifetime.
I married my partner at the age of 25 without realizing the word marriage had been chosen to
replace the Old-English word 31, which symbolized law, scripture and ceremony, custom,
marriage. Little did I realize these words river names Aa, Ae, E, Ee, Ie, or IJ and the marriage and
represented the same symbol of eternity.
In fact I chose a technical job to feed my family and in 1971 I had to wait one extra year because I
had discovered and surprised a professor with his secretary in an adultery relevant situation at the
university. I was at the brink of my final exam and didn't want to run into troubles, so I just waited a
year to finish the job. In 1972 I received my degree, but in the meantime, in August 1971, the Nixon
shock had upset the economy and I noticed the job market for engineers had been closed. As young
couple we decided to emigrate to southern Germany, where the economy seemed to be quite robust.
I didn't build cars, but those years telecommunication and IT were good enough for a comfortable
life. I noticed the electronic Dutch industry had been brilliant in the valve era and even contributed
to the radar development by transferring a great number of raw materials for the valves EF50 to
Great-Britain at the beginning of world war II. This tube, originally as a concept introduced 1934
1935 and designed in 1938 by Philips32 with its minimized connections to the nine short chromium-
iron pins was extremely suitable as a VHF-pentode. Initially used in television receivers, it quickly
gained a vital role in British radar and great efforts were made to secure a continuing supply of the
device as Holland fell in World War II.
Of course most of my studies around 1960-1970 concentrated on valves as transistors and chips still
were considered to belong to the inferior categories of electronics. However at the end of the valve
era Philips started the semiconductor era by still naming their transistors as valves without a
heating filament, named OC13, OC44, OC.... in which the letter O categorizes the valves
without a heating filament and C refers to the subcategory triode, to which of course the
transistors with their base, collector and emitter belonged. And in retrospect I remember we all
became aware the European king of the valve empire was dying...

The river Rur

As a boy I had been raised in Roermond where the Central Rur Graben crosses the river Meuse and
the borderline to Germany. The borderline clearly demonstrated the bathtub character of the
Lowlands, which in the south ends in a huge 50m tall chain of hills between the Meuse and the
Rhine. At Roermond the river Roer descends from the German mountains and joins the Meuse's
waters. Although the estuary used to be rather tame the name Roer (German Rur) seems to have
been derived either from the turbulence in the river (and the equally turbulent illness dysentery) or
even more the Indo-European root reu/ru to rip up, to dig which also is translated as graben,
which may describe the minor erosion of the Rur to the natural lowering of the Central Rur
Graben33. In fact the Graben's descends is caused by the earth's subterranean subsidence, which
seems to dominate the descending movements.

31 - From Proto-Germanic *aiw, *aiwaz (law), from Proto-Indo-European *oiw- (custom, tradition, law).
Cognate with Old Saxon o, Old Frisian ewa, we, , , Old High German wa, ha, a, (German Ehe).
32 History EF50
33 althochdeutsch Rura (Name der Flsse Ruhr und Rur) geht mglicherweise auf althochdeutsch (h)ruora
heftige, eilige Bewegung, wahrscheinlicher aber auf indogermanisch reu/ru aufreien, graben zurck[1]
As a youngster I didn't really identify these etymological details of the eternally, slowly flowing
rivers like Aa and turbulent, equally eternal rivers like the Rur which seemed to have dug their
valley towards the estuary.
And none of these names seemed to be related to the , in Dutch ee34, and German Ehe. It took
some years to find out the East-Frisian extension for -Aue, -au or a is and Ehe. The name Ehe for
the river is quite common in East-Frisia and this name is identical to the word Ehe for matrimony.35
The first time I became aware of these multi-vowel words was around the year 1989, in which I
remember East- and West-Germany reunited.

34 eega (husband, wife) from ee (matrimony); eega v., + Hgd. ehegatte: voor het tweede lid z. gade; het eerste is het
zelfst.nw. *ee = wet, wettig huwelijk (z. echt 2).
35 Liste der Gewsser namens Aa: Die altfriesische Entsprechung fr die Flussbezeichnung -Aue oder -au lautete , in
Ostfriesland ist daher die Bezeichnung Ehe fr viele Wasserlufe gebruchlich.
Vowel-Combinations in Names

The divine names Dyaus, deus, dios and Dieu

My first studies concentrated on the divine names for the sky-god such as Dyaus, deus, dios and
Dieu in which I had heard the vowels had been chosen to bear some functionality in analogy to the
EF50, in which the E symbolized the heating filament and the F characterized the subcategory HF-
pentode. For valves the categorizing system probably had been defined for the company Philips and
largely had been accepted for the European market. In the US a similar categorizing system had
been in use.
To meet great wartime demand the EF50 was also made by Marconi-Osram (with the name
Z90) and Cossor (their version named 63SPT) in the United Kingdom as well as Mullard
(who were effectively using the Philips production line after it was moved from Holland).
Versions were also made in Canada by Rogers Vacuum Tube Company and in the United
States by Sylvania Electric Products. 36
I was aware such equivalents for valves and transistors also had been in use for Dyaus, deus, dios
and Dieu. The study for these names interested me, because categorizing and naming systems often
revealed characteristics of the mechanisms of things. Of course these symbols were ancient and
probably forgotten or veiled behind a curtain of secrecy.
I identified the names D**s as a sort of cartouche, which in Egypt had been found as a carrier for
the divine names:
An oval figure containing the characters of an important personal name, such as that of
royal or divine people
Initially I had no idea of the functionality of the consonants D and S and for the inner vowels.
Other names consisted of vowels only and obviously seemed to have lost their cartouche, made of
D and S. Others only lacked the trailing S.

IA (Iaw)
There also were suggestions that the Jewish Tetragrammaton (YHVH, IHVH) and IA37 was
related to Jupiter and other parts of the PIE-name Dyaus. Maybe the symbols of IHVH might help
me to unveil the symbolism.
The first translation of the Bible, called the Septuagint, was made by Jews at the beginning of third
century before our era. In most of the translations the divine Name had been left untranslated as the
Hebrew Tetragram YHWH.
There was however one exception, a Jewish translator who preferred to insert it under
the vocalized form Ia (Iaw), which became well-known at this time because the
historians Varro and Diodorus Siculus quoted it in their books (History I:94:2;
Antiquitates Rerum Divinarum). In spite of these precise testimonies, the form of Ia
found limited use, and was very often slandered38.

36 Equivalents
37 Irenaeus of Lyons believed that the word IA (Iaw in Greek, [Iah] in Latin) meant Lord in primitive Hebrew
(Against HeresiesII:24:2) and he esteemed that the use of this Hebrew word IA to denote the Name of the
unknown Father, was intended to impress gullible minds in worship of mysteries (Against Heresies I:21:3).
38 A Historical Record of the Divine Name - Reprinted Translation from Grard Gertoux, Un Nome eccellente
Anyway I identified Ia (Iaw) or in Greek IA als a series of different vowels, which contained the
beginning letter A and the last letter of the alphabet and the initial letter I.
The vocalization of the Tetragram was improved by Pope Innocent III in one of his
sermons written around 1200. Indeed, he noticed that the Hebrew letters of the
Tetragram Ioth, Eth, Vau (that is Y, H, W) were used as vowels, and that the name
IESUS had exactly the same vowels I, E and U as the divine name. He also drew a
parallel between the name written IEVE, pronounced Adonai, and the name written IHS
but pronounced IESUS. These remarks on the Name concerned only a circle very
restricted by medieval intellectuals39.

Iehouah
I also studied the translation by Luther, who more or less unified the German language:
In 1526, Luther wrote in a sermon on Jeremiah 23:1-8: This name Iehouah, Lord,
belongs exclusively to the true God. He will write in 1543, with characteristic
frankness: That they [the Jews] now allege the name Iehouah to be unpronounceable,
they do not know what they are talking about () if it can be written with pen and ink,
why should it not be spoken, which is much better than being written with pen and ink?
Why do they not also call it unwriteable, unreadable or unthinkable? All things
considered, there is something foul. However, when he published in 1534 his complete
translation of the Bible based on the original languages, he did not use Gods name, that
he knew well, but preferred to use the substitute HERR (Lord). 40

Jah-Hovah
Suggestions for the vowels' symbolism had been found in a book The Secret Doctrine, which I had
borrowed from a friend and unveiled the character as I or Y as a male and the U or as a female
symbol.
The compound name of Jehovah, or Jah-Hovah, meaning male life and female life
first androgynous, then separated into sexes is used in this sense in Genesis from ch.
v. onwards.

As the author of The Source of Measures says (p. 159): The two words of which
Jehovah is composed make up the original idea of male-female, as the birth originators
; for the Hebrew letter Jod was the membrum virile and Hovah was Eve, the mother of
all living, or the procreatrix, Earth and Nature. 41

39 A Historical Record of the Divine Name - Reprinted Translation from Grard Gertoux, Un Nome eccellente
40 In Fame Only: A Historical Record of the Divine Name - Reprinted Translation from Grard Gertoux, Un Nome
eccellente
41 The Secret Doctrine by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
I-A-U
There was no proof for the male respectively female characters, but languages such as Old Persian
550 BCE to 400 BCE seemed to have restricted their number of vowels to 3 symbols for A, I and U.
These vowels A, I and U also dominate the name Drayava(h)u resp. Dryu (Darius I, ~550486
BCE).
Darius chose Aramaic as a common language, which soon spread throughout the
empire. However, Darius gathered a group of scholars to create a separate language
system only used for Persis and the Persians, which was called Aryan script which was
only used for official inscriptions.[49] 42

In Old Persian the simplest cuneiform vowel symbol was I, to be followed by a more complex A
and the most complex symbol U. From this complexity the most important and simplest cuneiform
vowel seems to have been the I, to be followed by the A and U.

4: The vowels in
Old Persian

Dio-Dios-Dieu
It took me some years to identify the important role of the vowels 43 and the correlations between the
words for eternity and the personal pronouns for the first person singular (ego-pronouns) and the
dual form for these ego-pronouns.
In order to generate a divine name we would normally have to insert a genuine personal pronoun of
the first person singular between a leading character D, Z, Th or and eventually the trailing
character S. In Provencal language for instance the divine name Diu will be generated by D and
the pronoun iu.
A list of examples explains some of the generating mechanisms44:
Italian: D + i = Di
Spanish: D + yo + s = Dios
Portuguese: D + eu + s = Deus
Romanian: Z + eu = Zeu
old-German: D + ih + s = Dis45
English: D + i + s = Dis (also described by Julius Caesar)
Provencal: D + iu = Diu
Romance: D + jau = Diu (ideally: Djaus)
Sursilvanic : D + jeu = Diu
Sutsilvanic :D + jou = Diu (ideally: Djous)
Sicilian dialect: D + iu = Diu

42 Darius I
43 The Mystery of the Seven Vowels: In Theory and Practice - Joscelyn Godwin - 1991
44 Details: The Deity Dis in the Gallic Wars and Hieroglyphs in Indo-European Languages
45 Dis has 53 BC been described by Julius Caesar in De Bello Gallico, Book VI- chapter 18
 Old English: T + ich = Tig, which may be related to the German pronoun ich46.
Old High German: Z + i(u) = Ziu, which may related the neighboring area
These samples document the basic correlations between divine names and the personal pronouns of
the first person singular (e.g. I). Except for the Slavic languages these samples cover most of the
European areas.
Some Slavic languages (such as Polish, applying the pronoun ja) sometimes refer to the original
divine name dyaus, which in analogy to Romance (D + jau = Diu, ideally: Djaus) would
suggest.
Polish: D + ja(u) + s = Djaus
Slavic languages however mostly changed their divine name to e.g. Bg.
This worked fine for the languages which had been influenced by Roman civilization, but failed in
Dutch and some German dialects, in which the ego-pronoun is defined as ic, respectively ich.
For Dutch I had to find another mechanism, which allowed me to produce a divine name from an
ego-pronoun.

46 Similar pronouns are gothic-Dutch ik, ags. ic and Icelandic ek

Tuw o-o Wut and Tw / Tg o-o it (~Wit) / it (~Git)
Instead of the ego-pronoun however some dialects (such as Frisian and Icelandic) allowed me to
identify a correlation between the sky-god's name and the dual form for the personal pronouns for
the 1st and/or 2nd person.
The dialects which had conserved the dual form for their personal pronouns had not been influenced
by Roman civilization. Most of these dual forms are obsolete, but some have been used up to
modern times...
In most cases the divine name of the sky-god is found by reversing the personal pronoun of the 1 st
or 2nd person in dual form47.
Example: In Old Dutch the sky-god e.g. is defined as Tuw48 (derived from Tiwaz; in English: Tue
( Tuesday) and the personal pronoun of the 1st person dual is Wut49.
In Old-English the analogous word is for the sky-god Tuw is Tw, respectively Tg (derived from
Tiwaz) and the personal pronoun of the 1st person dual is it (~Wit) / it (~Git) 50.

Language / dialect Divine Name God - From pronoun 1e/2e P. ego-Pronoun

(Sky god) Proto-Germanic (dual form) "I" (Singular)
*ansuz
Old Dutch Tuw / Tui Asen Wut / Jut ik
Tiw (Tiwaz) / Tij Asen Wit / Jit
Frisian Tij (in tiisdei)
Northern Frisian wat, wt
English Tue (in Tuesday) God I
51
Old English Tw, Tg s; sbeorn it (Wit) / it (Git) ic, c, Y
Norse Ty, Tvar ss52 , ek
plural sir
Icelandic Tr s vi (see note) g
Lithuanian dievas mudu 53 A
Table 1: The sky-god's name and the pronouns 1st /2nd person dual

In Germanic languages the dual therefore remained only in the first- and second-person pronouns
and their accompanying verb forms. Old English, Old Norse and the other old Germanic languages
had dual marking only in the personal pronouns54, but not in the verbs.

47 The Role of the Dual Form in Symbolism and Linguistics

48 Found in Forgotten Words ( Tuw)
49 wut pronoun., wit 1 we two, both of us (subject) obsolete Northern Frisian wat, wt, Icelandic vi compare to.
onk1 both of us, jut/jit you two (subject), ink1 both of you (object) Forgotten Words (Wut)
50 Pronouns - in Old English grammar
51 Pronouns - in Old English grammar
52 ss -
53 Dualpronomen : mudu ~ both of us as a subject
54 Pronouns
Icelandic vi
The dual words vit we two and pit you two turned into plurals vi we and pi
you, whereas the plurals vr we and pr you have become honorific singulars we
and you. 55

The dual in North Frisian dialects

In North Frisian dialects the loss of the dual may have occurred recently. In the The North Frisian
dialect of Fhr and Amrum (1928)56 it is stated on page 22 that at least in 1928:
In the First and Second Personal Pronouns Frisian still retains the Dual in every-day
speech and use.

The Pronoun
In the second Person, the distinction in number between singular, dual, and plural is still rigidly
observed in speech and writing. The German plural Sie, in addressing one individual, is not found
in Frisian; the 2nd sing, must be used. As a mark of respect very old people are addressed as '', or
'h' = "ye".

55 Pronominal address in Icelandic: from you-two to you-all - Einar Haugen

56 The North Frisian dialect of Fhr and Amrum - Grammar and texts with specimens of other dialects
by Schmidt-Petersen, Jrgen; Craigie, James (1928)
Complex formulas to generate divine names
In the Savoy local dialects often reveal an intense similarity between ego-pronouns and the
corresponding divine names. This feature also had been discovered in Sardinian dialects and the
Walloon dialect. In these regions the divine name seemed to be correlated strongly to the ego-
pronoun. These transition regions always filled the border areas between two mayor linguistic
territories French-Dutch ( Walloon), French-German (Savoy) and French-Italian (Sardinia).
Some notes for these regions have been documented in:
The Ego-pronouns and Divine Names in Savoy French Dialects
Notes to the Walloon Dictionary
An I Which had been Copied from the Word (for the Sardinian dialects)

The Savoyard
The Savoyard dialect is a mystery because it uses so many ego-pronouns beginning with D and
Z. An abundance of consonants in neighboring European areas had not been found before.

The Campidanese & Logudorese dialects and the Belgian dialect Walloon
Only a few cases (in the Sardinian dialects and in Walloon) ego-pronouns had been identified to be
using a consonant D or Z as a first letter:
In Campidanese the Ego-pronoun du is identical to the divine name Deu57.
In the Logudorese dialect the ego-pronoun deo was related to Zessu and Deus.
In the Belgian dialect Walloon I had found another ego-pronoun dji, mi58, relating to the
divine name Diu59.

57 Decoding the Ego-Pronoun (I)

58 given is for the one doing the action (eg: dji magne = I eat), the second, for the one targetof the action (eg: avou
mi = with me).
59 The Hieroglyphs in the Ego-Pronoun
General rules to generate Divine Names
To find out general rules for the ego-pronouns' structure I extended the table to build a database for
the analysis of a correlation between the ego-pronouns and the divine names.
As a general rule:
In South-European dialects (French, Provencal, Italian, Iberian, Swiss) the divine names
(Dieu, Dio, Dios) are generated by concatenating D and the corresponding ego-pronoun.
For a non Latin-based Germanic language the divine name of the sky-god (such as Tuw) is
found by reversing the personal pronoun (such as Wut) of the 1st or 2nd person in dual form60.
In Old-English the analogous word is for the sky-god Tuw is Tw, respectively Tg (derived
from Tiwaz) and the personal pronoun of the 1st person dual is it (~Wit) / it (~Git) 61
In Savoyard dialects the divine names are based on Dieu, Deus, or Zeus with undefined
rules for the correlating ego-pronouns. The Savoy local dialects often reveal an intense
similarity between ego-pronouns and the corresponding divine names. This feature also had
been discovered in Sardinian dialects and in the Walloon dialect.
Other rules may be existent, but need some more investigation.
The general rule for South-European dialects (French, Provencal, Italian, Iberian, Swiss) to generate
the divine names (Dieu, Dio, Dios) by concatenating D and the corresponding ego-pronoun may
have been introduced because the languages lost their dual forms under the civilization .
According to my opinion in PIE the rule has been setup as a Creation Legend in which a divine
Being who may have created a first man (symbolized by a vowel-sequence such as ieu) according
to His Image (such as Dieu). The deities for this rule may vary from Dyaus, Dieu, Dio, Dios,
Zeus, Ziu, Tyr, Tuw and Tir.

60 The Role of the Dual Form in Symbolism and Linguistics

61 Pronouns - in Old English grammar
Abstract
Unimpressive words are carrying the load of symbolism languages. Originally the Tuitsch people
felt committed to the sky-god Tuitsch, but lost the divine power at the arrival of Roman armies and
Christianity. The Germans however saved their pagan gods by integrating the pedigree of their
ancestors in the Biblical extensions. Legends helped the people to conserve their historical records.
Divine names such as Tuitsch were not the only pillar in European languages. On an European scale
other symbolic cores had been composed from vowel-combinations which symbolized eternity and
could be considered as nuclear element in linguistic symbolism.
I noticed the words for eternity had been chosen close to the vowel-combinations for the river
names Aa - Ae Die - Ee IJ. Some of the East-Frisian names even shared the word Ehe for the
river-names and for matrimony.
Originally Dutch words such as eigen had been spelled as eygen. Iemand had been spelled as
yemand and ieder as yder. The original spelling intended to isolate both vowels from each
other and seemed to have forced the speakers to spell each vowel as a long isolated individual
sound.
I also noticed a strange phenomenon which concentrated the short nuclear words such as near the
coastlines of the ocean and the seas, whereas the long nuclear vowel-combinations such as iu are
found near the high Alpine mountains.
In order to generate a divine name for a Latin-based language we would normally have to insert a
genuine personal pronoun of the first person singular between a leading character D, Z, Th or and
eventually the trailing character S. In Provencal language for instance the divine name Diu will be
generated by D and the pronoun iu.
For a non Latin-based Germanic language the name of the sky-god (such as Tuw) is found by
reversing the personal pronoun (such as Wut) of the 1st or 2nd person in dual form62.
Savoy, Sardinian and Walloon dialects often reveal an intense similarity between ego-pronouns and
the corresponding divine names. In these regions the divine name seemed to be correlated intensely
to the ego-pronoun. Obviously these transition regions filled the border areas between two mayor
linguistic territories such as French-Dutch ( Walloon), French-German (Savoy) and French-
Italian (Sardinia).
A rule for South-European dialects (French, Provencal, Italian, Iberian, Swiss) to generate the
divine names (Dieu, Dio, Dios) by concatenating D and the corresponding ego-pronoun may have
been introduced at the time these languages lost their dual forms.

62 The Role of the Dual Form in Symbolism and Linguistics

Contents
The fundamental Symbols....................................................................................................................1
Nuclear Words......................................................................................................................................2
Vowel-combinations for Eternity.....................................................................................................3
.................................................................................................................................................3
Eternity in Dutch.........................................................................................................................3
Isolating the vowels in the vowel-combinations.........................................................................4
The Yew as a symbol for eternity................................................................................................4
The length of the vowel-combinations........................................................................................4
The nucleus of Provencal Language...........................................................................................5
Nuclear Symbols such as Colors..........................................................................................................6
Adam & Eve....................................................................................................................................6
Ancient color codes.........................................................................................................................7
Purple..........................................................................................................................................7
Blue.............................................................................................................................................7
Yellow.........................................................................................................................................8
The origin of the Dutch heraldic coat of arms ..........................................................................9
Vowel-Combinations in Words...........................................................................................................10
Vowel-Combinations in Rivers......................................................................................................10
A cradle at the Central Rur Graben...........................................................................................10
The rivers Aa.............................................................................................................................10
Eternity......................................................................................................................................11
The river Rur.............................................................................................................................11
Vowel-Combinations in Names.....................................................................................................13
The divine names Dyaus, deus, dios and Dieu..........................................................................13
IA (Iaw)..................................................................................................................................13
Iehouah......................................................................................................................................14
Jah-Hovah.................................................................................................................................14
I-A-U.........................................................................................................................................15
Dio-Dios-Dieu...........................................................................................................................15
Tuw o-o Wut and Tw / Tg o-o it (~Wit) / it (~Git).............................................................17
Icelandic vi.........................................................................................................................18
The dual in North Frisian dialects........................................................................................18
The Pronoun.........................................................................................................................18
Complex formulas to generate divine names.................................................................................19
The Savoyard ...........................................................................................................................19
The Campidanese & Logudorese dialects and the Belgian dialect Walloon ...........................19
General rules to generate Divine Names.......................................................................................20
Abstract...............................................................................................................................................21