Legend of Baloi: the esoteric level (5)
Friday, March 31, 2017
What links both terms is Sumerian – the oldest spoken/written language yet discovered – wherein illu means ‘Shining/ Illuminated One’, thus mo-illu (mollo) in Setswana and illuminate in the English borrowed term.
What further clinches the link’, I showed, is that the ancient Egyptian term Akhu (which in Setswana was ma-Akhu-a ‘(these Akhus”, now ‘Makgoa’) – indeed referred to them as ‘Shining Ones’, which ‘gods’ we evidently knew not as ‘ancestor spirits’ but pale-skinned, flesh-and-blood humans. Other traditions, I revealed, knew them as ‘Angels’ – also based on the Sumerian term AN.EL: AN (sky) and EL (Illu), thus ‘Sky-gods’. I duly linked ‘angels’ with ba-dimo (literally ‘sky-beings’ in Setswana) – a self-explanatory link.
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