Source: – Joseph T Noony / Twitter.
Did you know?
The ancestors of the Vedics, Greeks, Iranians, Romans, Germanic tribes, Celts, Slavic, Baltics etc once worshipped the same set of Gods.
When they broke away from each other around 6000 years ago, the names of their gods mutated- becoming almost unrecognizable pic.twitter.com/tdiOheRGqO
— Joseph T Noony (@JoeAgneya) August 10, 2018
But ONE of them preserved the original vocabulary, names of gods etc with little or late borrowing from other cultures. All other branches show heavy inflow of loan words from languages like Uralic, Semitic, Old European etc
This branch also has the OLDEST literature of them all
— Joseph T Noony (@JoeAgneya) August 10, 2018
That branch is Vedic. And the above fact shows that it has migrated the LEAST from the original homeland. The more you migrate, the more influences you absorb from outside.
Only with the help of Vedic could colonial linguists compare the highly mutated gods of other branches.
— Joseph T Noony (@JoeAgneya) August 10, 2018
For example, the Norse gods Vanir are related to Greek Hermes & Pan. But you can't connect them, unless you individually compare them to Vedic Saramā & Paṇi, explained in Rigveda in X.108 & Jaiminīya Brāhmaṇa (II.440-442)
Norse & Greek, by themselves, are impossible to connect
— Joseph T Noony (@JoeAgneya) August 10, 2018
The linguists cooking up AIT knew this crucial fact very well. They couldn't explain it, so they simply swept it under the carpet. One of them(McDonel) admitted this-
"Vedic gods are closer to the physical phenomena they represent, than the gods of any other IE mythology" pic.twitter.com/Rgff6OUPGb
— Joseph T Noony (@JoeAgneya) August 10, 2018
Enough of that! Let us start with the basics.
What generic words did they use for 'God' in most ancient times?
Ans- 'Asura, Deva & Bhaga' – (In their Vedic forms at least)How do we know that?
Because all the branches preserve at least one of these forms.— Joseph T Noony (@JoeAgneya) August 10, 2018
1. Deva
This most common(though not the oldest) Vedic term is found preserved in the following branches-Latin deus
Avestan daeva(=demon)
Germanic tiw
Old Norse tivar
Slavic divu
Baltic diev-
Irish dia
Welsh duwAnd the modern English 'deity', 'divine' etc by derivation pic.twitter.com/kTlTAoX55x
— Joseph T Noony (@JoeAgneya) August 10, 2018
2. Asura- Most Indians would give it a -ve connotation. But in Early & pre Rig Vedic times, it was another word for 'God'
Statistically- Asura is used in a positive sense 59 times in the Rig Veda & only 12 times in a negative sense- that too only in late verses(Shendge 1947:49)
— Joseph T Noony (@JoeAgneya) August 10, 2018
The stem as-u means 'Life'.
Asura, as a term for God, is preserved in the following branches-
Avestan Ahura
Norse Aesir , As-gard(city of gods)
Runic ansuR
Hittite hassu
Old Irish eissi pic.twitter.com/gMgE6FTtYP— Joseph T Noony (@JoeAgneya) August 10, 2018
3. Bhaga- A Vedic deity of good fortune & fertility, also an Aditya. The RV does not use it as a word for 'God'. But modern Indians, ironically, use 'Bhagavan'.
It is seen preserved in-
Avestan Baga
Slavic Bogu
Lithuanian bog-
Greek Phoibos
Kassite Bugas
Phrygian Bagaios pic.twitter.com/loLUnR1lB8— Joseph T Noony (@JoeAgneya) August 10, 2018
What about the word 'God' itself?
It comes from Gothic gup & old high Gothic 'got'. They derive from proto-Germanic '*ghu-to-m' which is cognate with Vedic 'húta-m' – 'That which is invoked' or 'huta-m'- 'That which is sacrificed' (Buck 1949: A dictionary of selected synonyms)
— Joseph T Noony (@JoeAgneya) August 10, 2018
