Inside the foundation of the church
Saturday, March 01, 2014
Indeed, with a little help from the ancient but underestimated protolanguage of Setswana (the closest surviving language to Sumerian), we can determine that the primordial root of keue emanates from the Sumerian term kur (“bulge, swell, curve” – later “mountain”). Kur is the evident root of koro in Setswana (as in le-koro, kor-alla, etc.) as well as “curve”, “corrugated”, etc. (English.) We can thus easily decipher how kyriake (kuru-yaa-ke: his “mountain”; thus his “power-base”) came to be “church”. Kyriakon is also perfectly understandable as kuru-ya-ka (ga)-One (“His Power-base”).
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