In this picture we see the All Seeing Eye, the Winged Falcon, and the Serpent. The colors of Christmas, red, white, green, blue, gold..
Matthew 6:22-23 (King James Version)
22 The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.
Psalm 17:8
New American Standard Bible (NASB)
8 Keep me as [a]the apple of the eye;
... Hide me in the shadow of Your wings
Footnotes:
Psalm 17:8 Lit. the pupil, the daughter of the eye (seshat: she who scrivens, mistress of the house of books, lady wisdom...see my blog for more)
We commonly think of knowledge, education, or schools when we look at alternate meanings of the term apple. Students symbolically give teachers apples. The "Big Apple", New York, is the seat of America, and also our original capital city. Etymologically Speaking states, "The term, the Big Apple, was first used in the early '20s by stablehands to refer to the New Orleans race track, then the king of race tracks. The name was later borrowed by travelling jazz musicians to refer to Harlem, then the jazz capital of the world. The dance, "The Big Apple," was all the rage in Harlem nightclubs in the '20s and '30s. In 1971, the term "The Big Apple" was revived as part of a publicity campaign to upgrade New York's image and promote tourism." Or perhaps the term apple brings to mind the computer giant, "Apple". For me I think of knowledge, good knowledge-the apple, bad knowledge-the rotten apple. Interesting to note that our nations most renowned city borrows its tag-line from African-Americans from New Orleans.
Lets look at the etymology of the term apple to better understand what the bible was saying in terms of apple of the eye.
According to the online etymology dictionary, "as late as 17c., it was a generic term for all fruit other than berries but including nuts" "Apple of one's eye (O.E.), symbol of what is most cherished, was the pupil, supposed to be a globular solid body. Apple-polisher "one who curries favor" first attested 1928 in student slang. The image of something that upsets the apple cart is attested from 1788."
This is a task of unraveling parables. The anceints used parables to teach concepts. So to understand what the parables meant we have to look to Egypt and the evidence that was not burned or destroyed through time to piece together the lost knowledge from scripts we do have access to in some scrolls and sacred writings cross culturally. This, I believe all relates back to Seshat, the goddess of truth and predicesor/consort of Thoth/Tehuti.
New American Standard Bible (NASB)
8 Keep me as [a]the apple of the eye;
... Hide me in the shadow of Your wings
Footnotes:
Psalm 17:8 Lit. the pupil, the daughter of the eye (seshat: she who scrivens, mistress of the house of books, lady wisdom...see my blog for more)
We commonly think of knowledge, education, or schools when we look at alternate meanings of the term apple. Students symbolically give teachers apples. The "Big Apple", New York, is the seat of America, and also our original capital city. Etymologically Speaking states, "The term, the Big Apple, was first used in the early '20s by stablehands to refer to the New Orleans race track, then the king of race tracks. The name was later borrowed by travelling jazz musicians to refer to Harlem, then the jazz capital of the world. The dance, "The Big Apple," was all the rage in Harlem nightclubs in the '20s and '30s. In 1971, the term "The Big Apple" was revived as part of a publicity campaign to upgrade New York's image and promote tourism." Or perhaps the term apple brings to mind the computer giant, "Apple". For me I think of knowledge, good knowledge-the apple, bad knowledge-the rotten apple. Interesting to note that our nations most renowned city borrows its tag-line from African-Americans from New Orleans.
Lets look at the etymology of the term apple to better understand what the bible was saying in terms of apple of the eye.
According to the online etymology dictionary, "as late as 17c., it was a generic term for all fruit other than berries but including nuts" "Apple of one's eye (O.E.), symbol of what is most cherished, was the pupil, supposed to be a globular solid body. Apple-polisher "one who curries favor" first attested 1928 in student slang. The image of something that upsets the apple cart is attested from 1788."
This is a task of unraveling parables. The anceints used parables to teach concepts. So to understand what the parables meant we have to look to Egypt and the evidence that was not burned or destroyed through time to piece together the lost knowledge from scripts we do have access to in some scrolls and sacred writings cross culturally. This, I believe all relates back to Seshat, the goddess of truth and predicesor/consort of Thoth/Tehuti.
The Edenics dictionary says that apple and pupil are, indeed, related. Another related word is bauble.
ReplyDeleteSusan, can you post a reference to the usage of bauble and how it is related to apple and pupil? A search online yields that it is a trinket on a Christmas tree and a fools scepter. Both interesting connections to Seshat that I have proposed, however not related to pupil or apple. I look forward to seeing your resource.
DeleteSusan, thank you for bringing this dictionary to my awareness. It is very interesting. Do you have a copy of this book? I am would like to know how they break down the word Seshat, sš3t, (with or without the t) and if they have already identified the similarities in the South American and Asian languages.
ReplyDeleteI would like to know more about he connecting biblical terms.
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