When heaven came down to earth
Friday, May 16, 2014
According to my still-expanding Dictionary of Protolanguage Terms (presently boasting 300-plus terms), an ancient, now-forgotten Setswana-like universal protolanguage reveals that “heaven” is ha-va-En (“where the En live”) – a place understood to be somewhere in the vastness of outer space. Indeed, as scholars know, EN is Sumerian for “gods” or “lords”. As such, EN.L’ILLU (Enlil) was “Lord of the Illu (gods)”; his half-brother EN.KI (Enki) was “Lord of Ki (Earth)”; and the Sumerian pre-Flood Kings List duly chronicles a total of eight EN.ME.EN (Lord of Lords) who ruled before the Flood. Indeed, ene in Setswana means “he himself”, i.e. someone we wish to distinguish from others.
March 28 will go down as a day that Batswana will never forget because of the accident that occurred near Mmamatlakala in Limpopo, South Africa. The tragedy affected not only the grieving families but the nation at large. Batswana throughout the process stood behind the grieving families and the governments of Botswana and South Africa need much more than a pat on the back.Last Saturday was a day when family members said their last goodbyes to...