Delving into the ancient etymology of �oba�
Friday, March 18, 2016
On the contrary, I have steadily unearthed vestiges of a fabled, now-lost universal mother language spoken of in the Tower of Babel incident of Genesis 11, whereby God deliberately scrambled the language so that nations would not understand each other and thus, collectively, be unable to ‘achieve anything they want’. Indeed, I have seen independent corroboration of that incident in mythology – except that it was not ‘God’ but ‘gods’ (an ancient oligarchy of highly advanced humans) who decided to scramble the language so that people “must not be like us, knowing everything”.
Oba gave rise to the term huba: ho (to) + oba (bend, curve, bulge). In a prior article, we examined the root-term huba and associated it with its English cognate (its equivalent) ‘hub’. We noted that dictionary etymologies are unsure of the origins of the term.
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