Matt Potter

This is lots of fun. ‘Uncleftish Beholding’ is a 1989 attempt to explain ‘Atomic Theory’ without using words that come to English from Latin, French or Greek roots.

It reimagines English as Germanic: ‘uncleft’ is ‘atom’ etc.

ling.upenn.edu/~beatrice/1100/

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unclef

#science #scicomm #language #linguistics #germanic #englishlanguage #uncleftishbeholding #atoms #atomictheory #physics

Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋

🔴 🗺️ Germanic Tribes in the Roman Imperial Period

“Germanic Tribal World of the Provinical Roman Period between 50 BC to 300 AD”

#Europe #History #Germanic #Tribes #Map

#Image attribution: Arch.-Stud. A.P., CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil

Charles Synyard
12/15 Finished Book Three: The Coming Reich, the third and last part of The Myth of the Twentieth Century, by Alfred Rosenberg. Some highlights.

The other opioid crisis: In surveying conditions in the rising Far East, Rosenberg is sympathetic to the Chinese who have suffered under Anglo-Jewish capitalism, forced to allow opium into their country. Pic, a memorial to Chinese rebels in or anout the Opium Wars, seizing and destroying the East India Company’s cargo.

Then, passage where Rosenberg is optimistic about future cooperation between the European and East Asian powers (he was less enthused about an independent India), with map of the Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis near its greatest extent, and photo from a get-together featuring Hideki Tojo and some Germans.

#AlfredRosenberg #TheMythOfTheTwentiethCentury #ThirdReich #NatSoc #China #opioidcrisis #opium #OpiumWars #BritishEmpire #capitalism #drugabuse #antidrug #AxisPowers #Axis #Japan #HidekiTojo #Aryan #Nordic #Germanic #German #race #philosophy #books
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Charles Synyard
7/15 Finished Book Three: The Coming Reich, the third and last part of The Myth of the Twentieth Century, by Alfred Rosenberg. Some highlights.

“The state will proceed with complete tolerance toward these sects,” but… The Old Testament, so most of the Bible, could no longer be acknowledged as Scripture. Also, depictions of Christ suffering on the Cross, which supposedly render believers subservient, have to go. Effectively, Christianity as traditionally understood would be no more.

I know I’ve seen one of Hitler’s paintings featuring a rustic wayside crucifix, but for some strange reason I cannot find it. Any help? Pic is a more positive use of the Cross, from the famous Third Reich children’s book, The Poisonous Mushroom, which is available in English, by the same translator who did an edition of The Myth of the Twentieth Century. https://www.thomasdaltonphd.com/poisonous-mushroom

#AlfredRosenberg #TheMythOfTheTwentiethCentury #ThirdReich #NatSoc #PositiveChristianity #Christianity #Christian #Crucifixion #ThePoisonousMushroom #Jews #Aryan #Nordic #Germanic #German #race #philosophy #books
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Elizabeth Lee :autism:

I love when I get to tell people that English-language days are named after pagan gods.

Sun
Moon
Týr/Tiw
Woden/Odin
Thor
Frey/a
Saturn*

*the planet was named for the Roman god

#Pagan #Paganism #Etymology #Norse #Germanic

Charles Synyard
It has arrived, and it is a beaut. The Myth of the Twentieth Century, by Alfred Rosenberg. Noontide Press, first English edition, 1982.
Kind of telling? American, Canadian, and British readers, and only the very few in the radical Right circle who got Noontide Press catalogues in the mail, got to learn about the doctrine they defeated from one of its main theorists 37 years after its demise. Imagine if the American intelligentsia only first started reading the major Communist works in 2028, or 37 years after the end of the Soviet Union. We’d still be waiting.
Would post in the Old Books group, but still a ways from 50 years of age. There are newer editions in print, but Noontide’s is by far the loveliest. It was a steal that I paid less than $30. The seller either didn’t know its value, or wanted the stock to move along quickly. #AlfredRosenberg #TheMythOfTheTwentiethCentury #NoontidePress #NationalSocialism #NatSoc #NSDAP #ThirdReich #Aryan #Germanic #race #philosophy #history #books
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Charles Synyard
Ordered something exciting: The Myth of the Twentieth Century, by Alfred Rosenberg. Will have to upload a better image: the 1982 Noontide Press edition, translated by Vivian Bird, is a stamped hardcover meant to emulate the look of the German original, but right now there are no nice pictures of one online.
First really considered reading after viewing the dynamically read, picture-heavy abridgment The Myth, put out by the Sunwheel Society a few years back. https://www.bitchute.com/video/kkDmUggMx9l1/
A tome as essential as it is obscure? If GoodReads is anything to go by, The Myth of the Twentieth Century is less read than Siege. Yet in its day Rosenberg’s famous work apparently sold some million copies in Germany, and was treated as a semi-official elaboration of National Socialist philosophy.
A sequel to or continuation of the themes found in The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century, by Houston Stewart Chamberlain. Chamberlain’s work is still more rarely explored; however, I have read it (also on inspiration from listening to The Myth), and you can find the overview I posted here. https://gab.com/CharlesSynyard/posts/107322529631354430 I anticipate more of the same swelling Germanophilia and grandiose prose, but a more trenchant, immediacy-laden approach, as Rosenberg was not writing in the genial, cooperative century that followed Waterloo, but in the aftermath of a World War that had underscored the divide separating the different programs for the future of Europe. He was also writing to promote a specific party, the same NSDAP that Chamberlain had favored in his final years.
Will it be an enjoyable book? It will be very strange if it’s not. I love all these heavily dated, intensely aspirational pro-White volumes. Even when the reasoning is off or if the moral perspective is somehow wanting, they can be inspiring for the sake of the visions of future greatness the authors strove to make actual.
A helpful note: Currently, The Myth of the Twentieth Century is in print and available from two sources, Clemens and Blair and Ostara Publications.
https://www.clemensandblair.com/product-page/the-myth-of-the-20th-century
https://www.ostarapublications.com/product/the-myth-of-the-twentieth-century/
Frankly, the Noontide hardback was far more attractive, and I simply wanted it for its antiquarian value, but anyone seeking a new copy may be satisfied at one of the links above.
And a query. Does anyone have an original Noontide Press catalogue from the middle 80s, when The Myth of the TwentIeth Century would’ve been on offer? The Internet Archive only has one from 1966 and two from the mid-00s. I would love to read the original publisher blurb, though.
#AlfredRosenberg #TheMythOfTheTwentiethCentury #NoontidePress #ClemensAndBlair #OstaraPublications #NationalSocialism #NatSoc #NSDAP #ThirdReich #Aryan #Germanic #race #philosophy #history #books
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Mark Anthony
Den vise mannen bygger sitt hus på stenar den dåraktiga mannen bygger sitt hus på san. I've just decided that I should learn #Swedish and #Norwegian. Doing so has led me to Old English as well. I know some would view this approach as biting off more than one can chew, however, I see a relationship between all four Languages, that is, #Modern-English, #Old-English, #Swedish and #Norwegian. I find references to any and all these languages, to only be a benefit and a useful reference tool. I'm not planning on any travel at all, as a matter of fact, I hate to travel. I merely want to learn these three extra languages as a means of discovery. I already love #Latin and it's numerous offshoots but I'm suddenly more focused on the #Germanic traits of the aforementioned group. I'd like to hear from speakers and lovers of the #languages just discussed. Thanks.
Mark Anthony

Den vise mannen bygger sitt hus på stenar den dåraktiga mannen bygger sitt hus på san. I've just decided that I should learn #Swedish and #Norwegian. Doing so has led me to Old English as well. I know some would view this approach as biting off more than one can chew, however, I see a relationship between all four Languages, that is, #Modern-English, #Old-English, #Swedish and #Norwegian. I find references to any and all these languages, to only be a benefit and a useful reference tool. I'm not planning on any travel at all, as a matter of fact, I hate to travel. I merely want to learn these three extra languages as a means of discovery. I already love #Latin and it's numerous offshoots but I'm suddenly more focused on the #Germanic traits of the aforementioned group. I'd like to hear from speakers and lovers of the #languages just discussed. Thanks.

FiXato (fallback)

> ❝We know the common #English word "bear" and its less common variant "bruin" (from #Dutch "bruin", meaning #brown. #French "brun" and "brunette", also signify the color brown, [...] The #Germanic speaking peoples, [...], did not use its common name. Instead, they used a circumlocution: "the brown one", and this is reflected in the modern word for bear in all the Germanic languages.❞
charlierussellbears.com/Lingui

#etymology #linguistics #language

The Brown One, The Honey Eater, The Shaggy Coat, The Destroyer

charlierussellbears.com
emacsomancer (has moved to types.pl)

How to (exactly) to slay a dragon in Indo-European

My most Classics-adjacent paper

How (exactly) to slay a dragon in Indo-European? PIE *bheid- {hâégÊ·him, kÊ·á¹Ìmi-}

In this paper I present evidence for a formula associated with the Indo-European dragon-slaying myth, PIE bheid- {hâégÊ·him, kÊ·rmi-} âsplit serpent/wormâ. This formula is robustly attested in Vedic in the form bhid- áhi-, alongside the variant vraÅc- áhi- âtear/split serpentâ, with possible reflexes being found also in Iranian and Germanic. Though not as widely attested as PIE gÊ·hen- hâégÊ·hi- âslay serpentââa formula discussed in great detail by Watkins 1987, 1995â bheid- {hâégÊ·him, kÊ·rmi-} âsplit serpent/wormâ is semantically more specific, and therefore more distinctive, than gÊ·hen- hâégÊ·him, thus lending additional support for Watkinsâ thesis that there exists a distintively Indo-European dragon-slaying myth.

Historische Sprachforschung 121:3â53. 31 December 2008

#dragons #linguistics #philology #Sanskrit #Germanic #Greek #Latin #Avestan #OldIrish #OldEnglish #OldNorse

@greyor

https://slade.jnanam.net/publication/slade2008/