The Online Etymological Dictionary[OE] states that the word money is from the Latin moneta "place for coining money, mint, money, coinage." And the word mint itself is from Old English mynet "coin, coinage, money." Which is also from the Latin moneta. So both the words "money" and "mint" come from the same Latin word and have to do with "coin, coining and coinage".
There seems to be a connection, then, between the Hebrew moneh, the Latin moneta, and money which is something that is counted, numbered, and appointed with certain values.
In fact, maneh (Hebrew) or mina is a coin of a certain value or weight, like talents and shekels(meaning "weight," from shaqal "to weigh").
1 talent = 60 maneh = 3,000 shekels
Silver Shekel Minted in Jerusalem, AD 68
Of course money, i.e., U.S. paper currency $$$, and mint 🌱, i.e., the plant, are both green.
Wadj is the ancient Egyptian word for the color green, taking its name from the papyrus plant. This would be similar in English to the color orange, being from the fruit orange, in Arabic naranj, Sanskrit naranga-s, "orange tree." So, for example, they might have said that the color of certain frogs or snakes was "papyrus" wadj. Wadjet (called Uto by the Greeks) in fact, was the Egyptian snake goddess. Her name meaning the "green/papyrus colored one," and whose symbol was the rearing cobra.
Wadj is the ancient Egyptian word for the color green, taking its name from the papyrus plant. This would be similar in English to the color orange, being from the fruit orange, in Arabic naranj, Sanskrit naranga-s, "orange tree." So, for example, they might have said that the color of certain frogs or snakes was "papyrus" wadj. Wadjet (called Uto by the Greeks) in fact, was the Egyptian snake goddess. Her name meaning the "green/papyrus colored one," and whose symbol was the rearing cobra.
Cyperus Papyrus
Papyrus comes from Greek papyros πάπυρος a name for the plant of unknown origin. Bublos βύβλος was another word used by the Greeks when referring to papyrus in its use for making items such as cordage, baskets, paper. Biblos / Byblos βίβλος refers to the inner pith used to make paper and also the word used for the Bible/Holy Scripture.
In Latin minuta is "minute, short note." In English minute is from minuta which is from minutus "small, minute." Minutes of a meeting are put down as short notes. They contain the main points of what was done or said at the meeting minus the whole dialogue, or at least minimal. But remember in Old English mynet means "coin, coinage, money." So, a "minute" is both a note and a coin. And today we do have both coin money and paper note money.
Coin comes from Old French coing "a wedge; stamp; piece of money; corner, angle" from Latin cuneus "wedge".
Cuneiform Clay Tablet and Stylus
Thus, we get cuneiform "wedge shaped," writing with a cuneus (wedge) form (i.e., stylus).
Wadj (papyrus) paper is what the Egyptians wrote on with a stylus or "style," an alteration of Latin stilus "stake, instrument for writing, manner of writing, mode of expression"(also related to stalk, from Old English stalu "wooden part" and steala "stalk, support"), the spelling influenced by the Greek stylos / stulos στύλος "pilar," Papyrus is a type of sedge (or reed, grass). Sedges have a triangular shape cross-section of the stem, or, we could say, wedge shape stem cross-section. So, a writing wedge can be made with a sedge, and were, in fact, often made out of reeds. Sometimes the styluses were made from sliced reeds, and therefore had a natural wedge shape.
Canna is "reed" in Latin. It is also connected to words having to do with "knowing". Maybe this is because we get knowledge from what is written with the reeds? Can meaning "know, have power, be able" is form of the Old English cunnan from Proto-Germanic kunnan "to be mentally able, to have learned" Old Frisian kanna "to recognize, admit" German kennan "to know" Old Norse kenna "to know, make known".
The cuneiform writing was written with a reed stylus. Therefore the canna made things known. We read what the ancients wrote with the reeds.
So cuneiform, wedge writing, can have a sedge, or reed(canna) shape.
Can you read, "Canna you reed"?
Can you read, "Canna you reed"?
Wage is from Anglo-French and Old North French wage meaning "pledge." Might this have something to do with being a written agreement or promissory note? In ancient Sumeria a pledge would have been written in "wedge" form, with a wedge shaped stylus.
We don't only pledge to pay back money that we have borrowed from someone, or to pay a person's wages, often we pledge to meet someone at an appointed time.
We might say, using some of the Hebrew words, we could be appointed (yaad) an appointment (moed) to pay the appointed (manah) money (maneh) at a certain time (moneh).
Moed "appointed time, place, or meeting" is from yaad "meet, appointed, gather, designate".
Who would make this appointment for another? Maybe a judge? Dan comes from the word for "judge" in Hebrew, as in, the Tribe of Dan / Dann. Weighing scales are the emblem of the Tribe of Dan. Scales impartially, yet strictly, appoint value by weight.
We might say, using some of the Hebrew words, we could be appointed (yaad) an appointment (moed) to pay the appointed (manah) money (maneh) at a certain time (moneh).
Moed "appointed time, place, or meeting" is from yaad "meet, appointed, gather, designate".
Who would make this appointment for another? Maybe a judge? Dan comes from the word for "judge" in Hebrew, as in, the Tribe of Dan / Dann. Weighing scales are the emblem of the Tribe of Dan. Scales impartially, yet strictly, appoint value by weight.
Adannu in Assyrian means "fixed, appointed, or definite, time [Brown-Driver-Briggs ]"so that is similar to the Hebrew moed ("appointed time, place, or meeting"). An appointment, and indeed time itself, or schedules can rule a person's life. Time can be lord over one's life. Lord is the English rendering of the Hebrew Adonai, Greek Adonis "master, owner," from Phoenician adon "Lord." The base a-d-n has the meaning of "judge, rule[OE]," so we sometimes call the one in charge of a place, the Lord of that place. In Italian the "Don" is the boss of a house.
The LORD God, i.e., YHWH (Adonai) Elohim, is the ruler or master of time and space.
The Lord commanded his people to keep certain moed, such as Passover (Pesach) and the High Holy Days (Yamin Noraim "Days of Awe"). And one of his commandments was about keeping a certain time/day qodesh, that is Hebrew "holy, sacred, or apart" every week. It is the Sabbath.
The Sabbath day is changed to Sunday in Christianity and called "The LORD's Day". "Sabbath" is from the Hebrew shabath / shavat "cease, desist, rest, withhold labor," thus, Sabbath Day is said to have the meaning "day of rest".
The Sabbath is the seventh day, a remembrance of the seventh day of creation when God (Elohim) had finished his work so he "rested" or "ceased" (shabath) from his labors Genesis 2:2. It is the day of completion, from com "with, together"+ plere- "to fill," and therefore, it is an image of the perfect day.
The Sabbath is the seventh day, a remembrance of the seventh day of creation when God (Elohim) had finished his work so he "rested" or "ceased" (shabath) from his labors Genesis 2:2. It is the day of completion, from com "with, together"+ plere- "to fill," and therefore, it is an image of the perfect day.
Perfect is from Old French parfit "finished, completed, ready" and Latin perfectus "completed, excellent, accomplished, exquisite" from per "completely"+ facere "to preform, do".
So what does this mean "to be perfect," and what is the perfect day?
The Sabbath seems to be a day with a lot of constraints and rules. Wouldn't you think the perfect day would be more Hakuna Matata "no worries"? Something more like . . . paradise? A day in Tahiti?
So what does this mean "to be perfect," and what is the perfect day?
The Sabbath seems to be a day with a lot of constraints and rules. Wouldn't you think the perfect day would be more Hakuna Matata "no worries"? Something more like . . . paradise? A day in Tahiti?
This is the life!
In Sumerian the ti ideogram had the meaning "life," and is said to have evolved from the the ti "arrow" glyph which represented the "ti" sound in cuneiform. Tahiti is from the native Polynesian Otahiti, of uncertain meaning. But what is really curious is that, "It [Tahiti] was called in turn Sagittaria (1606, by the Portuguese. . .) [OE]" And sagitta has the meaning arrow in Latin! Why would there be any possible connection between the Sumerian language word for "life" and the native Polynesian name for their island? I don't know! Nevertheless, the similitude exists, and it is certain that the native people of Tahiti did not evolve from the island alone, but came from, or were a remnant of a larger landmass.
So, the Sabbath is a rehearsal for the complete or perfect day, i.e., paradise, the day you cease from your labor, you rest. It's a good thing right? Easy to do, right? Well, maybe not. In order to rest you need to trust that creation will be working for you. The fear is that if you cease in your efforts even for a minute, you will fall/fail. But, it was the fall (from grace in the Garden of Eden) that was the cause of hard labor and toil [Genesis 3:16-17] to begin with. So, wouldn't it stand to reason that when you cease your labor, you would not fall, but rather, you would be in paradise? Are there any takers? Are you willing to try and see what happens when you just cease (sabbath) worrying about your life? It's not easy to have faith in the impossible. However, when creation is complete, it was made in such a way to work for you, so in that Day you rest. Everything comes to you, it flows to you without labor. Everything runs like clockwork. This is the wisdom in the remembrance of "Sabbath". You can't ever get there by running around like a chicken with your head cut off, you have to settle into the zone or vibration of the Sabbath. This seems to be the true point of the ceasing from labor on the Sabbath, to let go and let God. That actually seems like a good exercise.
Let Go and Let God
"Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you shall eat or what you shall drink, nor about your body, what you shall put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them." Mt. 6:25-26
So perfection has to do with completion. Was Jesus Perfect? Jesus was born sinless, but maybe not "perfect" in a certain sense, but was rather moving toward perfection. If Jesus had been born, but had died as a child, would he have been perfect? He would not have been the savior in that case.
God, for whom and through whom everything was made, chose to bring many children into glory. And it was only right that he should make Jesus, through his suffering, a perfect leader, fit to bring them into their salvation. Hebrews 2:10 [NLT]So lack of perfection does not necessarily have to do with sin. Just like the night is not evil when it is part of the day. It would only be evil to stay in the state of darkness, or imperfection (from Latin imperfectus "unfinished, incomplete", without movement toward completing the cycle; toward the sabbath day. However, imperfection does not necessarily equal sin. Just as suffering is not necessarily the result of personal sin, as in Jesus' case.
Sin is just stopping in darkness, an abortion in the creation process, maybe out of fear of pushing on through the night, going deeper. What if morning never comes? What if there is no light when you come to the end?
Salvador Dali, Christ of Saint John of the Cross, 1951
When Jesus had received the vinegar, he said, "It is finished (Tetelestai)"; and he bowed his head and gave up his spirit. John 19:30No one can accuse Jesus of not seeing it though, pushing through the night, having faith in the dawn.
That takes integrity, from Latin integritatem "soundness, wholeness, blamelessness" from integer "whole, complete" figuratively "untainted, upright, literally "untouched", from in "not"+ tangere "to touch." And that wholeness must be a kind of perfection present in Jesus even before his passion, death and resurrection. That is, whatever it took to accomplish his mission was already present in him before he accomplished it, otherwise he would not have been able to accomplish it. It is what and who he was that enabled him to do what he did. That is a kind of destiny from Latin destinare "make firm, establish." So, while he had to actually live his life in time as a man, yet he was always established as the savior of the world from all eternity. Does one's destiny, then, negate free will? No, because, although God has orchestrated the whole creation to be Day, Night, Morning; One Day, and it will certainly turn out the way it was created, we ourselves are not looking from above.
If you are in a maze it may be scary, it is not necessarily clear that there is a way out. You might have to take it on faith. However, if you have the birds eye view, faith is not needed.
If you are in a maze it may be scary, it is not necessarily clear that there is a way out. You might have to take it on faith. However, if you have the birds eye view, faith is not needed.
Imagine a maze that is as big as the universe! It would take eons to get through something like that! You'd need some sort of savior and master of time to help you reach the end.
Aion-Uranus and Tellus(Gaia) surrounded by Eiar (Spring), Theron(Summer), Phthinoporon(Autumn), and Kheimon(Winter) Mosaic, Glyptothek, Munic c. 200-250 A.D.
In mythology Aion Αίών is the god of unbounded time and eternity. He is Aevum or Saeculum in Latin. A Lord of time.
Chronus from Latin, Khronos Χρόνος Greek is the personification of "time," as in, chronological or sequential time. Where we get words like synchronous, chronic, and anachronism.
Chronus from Latin, Khronos Χρόνος Greek is the personification of "time," as in, chronological or sequential time. Where we get words like synchronous, chronic, and anachronism.
Cronus / Kronos Κρόνος was the patron of the harvest. His Roman equivalent is Saturn, the god who carries a sickle / scythe.
The identification of Cronus with Chronus gave rise to the more modern figure we call Father Time, who is portrayed with both a time keeping device and scythe.
Father Time, New Year Vintage 1889
Time pieces, or watches are a type of ruler (measurer) and are also rulers (Lords) of our time, if we allow them to be.
"Im late! I'm late! For a very important date!" -White Rabbit, Disney's Alice in Wonderland 1951
Time is measured or divided into hours (from Latin hora "hour, time, season"), minutes (pars minuta prima "first small part"), and seconds (from Latin secunda pars minuta "second diminished part").
Monas in Greek is "unit", from monos "alone", where we get the term Monad, i.e., the Divinity or first being. However the Monad is the one not divided into units, like time (moneh) and money (mina), but rather is One, is Unity. The One God who is whole (integer).
However, given time (from Proto-Germanic *timon-, from PIE root *di-mon-, from *da- "cut up, divide"), each person can reach a certain "integrity" tom / tome in Hebrew (from tamam "finished" Hebrew), and become integer like God, in the end, when all is "finished" tamam. One is an integer, but so is 2, and, 3 and 4, ... ad infinitum. So each number, though separate and unique is still one whole number.
The devil or dimon "time" (cut up the one) is in the detail, or division, not the wholeness.
Monas in Greek is "unit", from monos "alone", where we get the term Monad, i.e., the Divinity or first being. However the Monad is the one not divided into units, like time (moneh) and money (mina), but rather is One, is Unity. The One God who is whole (integer).
However, given time (from Proto-Germanic *timon-, from PIE root *di-mon-, from *da- "cut up, divide"), each person can reach a certain "integrity" tom / tome in Hebrew (from tamam "finished" Hebrew), and become integer like God, in the end, when all is "finished" tamam. One is an integer, but so is 2, and, 3 and 4, ... ad infinitum. So each number, though separate and unique is still one whole number.
The devil or dimon "time" (cut up the one) is in the detail, or division, not the wholeness.
But when the Pharisees heard it they said, "It is only by Be-el'zebul the prince of demons, that this man casts out demons." Knowing their thoughts, he said to them, "Every kingdom divided against itself will not stand; and if Satan casts out Satan, he is divided against himself; how then will his kingdom stand?" Matthew 12:24-25There is the saying, "Money is the root of all evil," more properly, the original text is, "For the love of money (philargyria φιλαργυρία, "love" + "silver") is the root of all kinds of evil . . . " 1 Tomothy 6:10 However, if it happens to be a root in the sense of, a root of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, then it is also a root of, or takes part in, or is part of the good, or the whole. Things which divide bring lessons of adversity, such as night and darkness, which divide the day, but once resolved in creation, they are pieces of the the one thing, i.e., the good. So, money can be intended for good or evil. And being in time can sometimes seem either good or evil as well.
And what of the saying, "Time is money"? Time is valuable like money, but all the money in the world cannot buy you more more time when the Grim Reaper comes knocking at your door. If your time is divided between pursuing the world, i.e., the world of mammon "money, riches," and the world to come, what will your wages be?
I'll place my wager on paradise. Those other fools can try and outrun the sand.
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