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Re: The Alexanders*

By: faul in ALEA | Recommend this post (0)
Sun, 22 Dec 13 12:26 PM | 42 view(s)
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From your link..........
"Radius 1590s, "cross-shaft," from Latin radius "staff, stake, rod; spoke of a wheel; ray of light, beam of light"

"In the Theban Recession of the Book of the Dead, which is based upon Heliopolitan belief, we find Aten mentioned by the deceased thus :--- "Thou, O Ra, shinest from the horizon of heaven, and Aten is adored when he resteth {or setteth} upon this mountain to give life to the two lands. Hunefer says Ra, Hail Aten, thou the lord of beams of light, {when} thou shinest all faces {i.e., everybody} lives."

So RA "thou the lord of beams of light" & Radius
"ray of light, beam of light" is just a coincidence,
a chance?Smile


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Re: The Alexanders*
By: Cactus Flower in ALEA
Sun, 22 Dec 13 11:44 AM 		Msg. 15010 of 54959

I think you were discussing the geometrical use of the word radius.

"The geometric sense first recorded 1610s."

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=radius

I guess the ancients had a different word for it. Or they used the diameter and halved it.

So it's just a radius. Not a Ra-Dius.

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