NUMBERS

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田     Chinese field
𓈈     Egyptian irrigated land

In ancient Indo-Iranian culture word for garden was bagh. The gh sound is similar to French pronounciation of r in Paris. The word for god/lord was baga. These are sources of many words in many languages with related meanings: Indian Bhagavad Gita (God's song) and baag (garden), Russian bog (god) and bakhcha (garden), Georgian baghi (garden), city of Baghdad, Turkic baghatur (honorific title).

母     Chinese mother (breasts, nipples)
女     Chinese woman (legs, breast, nipple), ancient forms:



I think bagh is the etymology of Bacchus, god of sex and wine: woman body parts are associated with fruits and flowers and sex with wine. This may be true etymology of baga (god) or at least it was a popular wordplay/reference. I think that's why Persian gardens is where the word paradise comes from.

𑀩     Brahmi ba
ब     Devanagari ba

I think Brahmi script square letter 𑀩 (compare to Chinese 田) for ba is a simplified ideogram for baag which gradually transformed into woman/breast ideogram ब in Devanagari (original unmodified image in Wikipedia, third row from bottom):

This transformation of a letter design might symbolize a transition from fertility worship to sexuality cults in Ancient India.

I think same mother/woman idea is behind Greek/Latin B (compare to Chinese 母), digit 2 (compare to ancient forms of Chinese 女) and these:

𐤁     Phoenician bet
Б     Cyrillic be
В     Cyrillic ve
𐘭     Linear A (meaning unknown)

P.S. Same bagh must be a relative to Latin pagus (farms, countryside) and now that we know bagh/baga reference the hatred of pagans by christian Church starts making much more sense.

P.P.S. Plural of pagus is pagis which, most likely, is also true etymology of Paris the city - it was a village, and it was called accordingly, and that's why French say Paghi. This, in its turn, explains the name of Paris, who gave Aphrodite an apple - it's a French wordplay in a not so authentic "Greek" myth.

4

Negative semantics tied to number 4 observed in several cultures:

I expected to find examples in Greek, Latin, Spanish, German, French, but failed, at least there is nothing obvious. Maybe there was something long ago but languages evolved.

No idea where the correlation between numeric value of 4 and all this negativity came from other than my lost Persian ideograms/alphabet hypothesis where 4th letter was called Dew (demon) expressed via a pictogramm of a sword similar to Phoenician 𐤃 or "Crete Linear A" 𐙢 symbol (which was also origin of digit 4 design).

Arabic/Jewish culture would be the first/most influenced by this, which would explain the ideal fit of arba(a)/harb/hereb into my theory. Dew later became Daud/David. Maybe Bahram became harb/hereb.

5

Both semantic and phonetic connection between numeral 5 and concept of hand/fingers/weapon is observed in many Indo-European languages and, probably, influences of that in Burmese/Thai/Chinese:

  • compare Persian fork/hoof/talon/claw changal (چنگال), dagger khanjar (خَنْجَر), paw panje (پنجه), five panj (پنج), Greek five pente (πέντε), Latin five quinque, English/German finger, hand, hang, Hindi finger ungli, anguli (उंगली, अंगुली), Latin hoof/talon/claw ungula, Persian angosht (اَنگُشت), Burmese five ngar (ငါး), Archaic Thai five ngua (งั่ว), Cantonese (and Old Chinese) five ng 五, Chinese weapon/soldier bing 兵
  • compare Russian five pyat (пять), palm (of a hand) pyaternya (пятерня)
  • compare Russian finger palets (палец) and club (weapon) palitsa (палица)
  • compare English arm (limb) to arms (weapons), army (troops) and Pentagon building
  • Phoenician/Greek/Latin alphabet 5th letters 𐤄/Ε/E look like Chinese claw symbol 爪 or ancient forms of right hand symbol 右, and so does Devanagari alphabet 5th letter u character उ, despite of the fact that the sound it makes and the general order of Devanagari alphabet is very different
  • compare Chinese numeral 5 symbol 五 to current design of right hand 右
  • उ is a first letter in finger word ungli उंगली which is also pronounced as anguli अंगुली and the first a character अं also resembles "claw"
  • original Ancient Indian Brahmi alphabet vowels (u: 𑀉, i: 𑀇, a: 𑀅, e: 𑀏, o: 𑀑) had no "claw"-like look, this is a borrowed concept that was "creatively adapted" to match both finger word variants in Hindi, which also tells us how important this symbolism was
  • उ demonstrates possible transition from "claw"-like 𐤄 to European 5 though the Indian digit 5 looked more like European 4: 𑁫 or ५
  • earliest "5"-like symbol I've found is Avestan e letter 𐬈 - much earlier than Western Arabic (Gobar) "hook" that is believed to be the origin of 5, and looks much more like the modern digit too
  • earliest usage of modern digit 5 is Albrecht Dürer's self portrait date (1500) or, if it's not a later reprint, 1440-1450 Giovanni Bianchini's Tabulae primi mobilis
  • Georgian alphabet 5th letter eni ე looks like Burmese numeral 5 symbol ၅ - one might suggest both are rounded and simplified images of a palm open to grasp something
  • same idea is probably behind the design of Latin lowercase e and Burmese e ဧ

We observe several independent phenomena:

  • common Indo-European root for hand/fingers <vowel>-n-<consonant>, e.g. -anj-, -ung-, -ent-, which was brought by colonists to South-East Asia, probably in pre-historic times
  • weapon is described using hand/finger/claw root + some sounds since it's also alongated and you hold it in a hand
  • when people start counting and a new word/symbol is needed to describe number 5 they just take the existing word/symbol for hand/fingers
  • there has been some unrecorded borrowing of letter/digit designs in medieval and even Renaissance, e.g.:
    • European digit 5 was shaped as late as 1400+
    • despite of Georgia and Myanmar being very far from each other and not related in any way, alphabet styles look similar (both are dated aound year 1000) and t letters of both alphabets look exactly same: တ and თ
    • 五 looks like Phoenitian 5th letter 𐤄 and European 5 glued together
    • modern Chinese digit 8 八 looks like Urdu/Persian/Arabic digit 8 ۸ (rows 2, 3, 4, 6)
6

I think I discovered the origin of six/sex similarity observed in Europe since Latin (sex/sexus):

  • Turkish shish (şiş) has two unrelated meanings - swallen and skewer/needle
  • Sanskrit/Hindi shishna (शिश्न) means penis, which connects both meanings described above
  • Persian shesh (شش) means six (6)
  • Persian shast (شست) means thumb and sounds like Russian 6 shest (шесть)
  • fig sign (click to see) obscene gesture were the thumb is demonstrated stuck between the index and middle fingers is called shish (шиш) in Russia
  • China numeral 6 六 looks like an ancient form of penetration symbol 入 (click to see)
  • planet Saturn is 6th from Sun, sounds like Satan

Given that Persians are placed between Central Asia and India and share common ancestry with Indians, they must have used same shishna or similar word and influenced Turkic culture before switching to kir.

Looks like a very old cultural phenomenon, probably connected to finger counting: single thumb sticking out with rest of fingers collapsed 👍 meant 6 (that's the origin of digit 6 design: "thumbs up"). Given that thumb resembles penis the gesture and thus the number it symbolized were tied to that meaning.

The modern use of the gesture as a positive/agreement sign comes from the same phallic analogy - erection as symbol of I like it.

7

Number 7 is connected to concept of blade/cut in both Middle East and China:

  • Chinese numeral 7 symbol 七 qi looks like 7 upside down
  • 七 is used as part of to cut symbol 切 qie since they sound alike, which is not accidental: 七 was derived from an original to cut symbol
  • Phoenician 7th letter 𐤆, origin of Latin Z is called weapon, that word zayin (זין) is borrowed from Old Persian zen/zyn, both sound like possible origins of English seven, German ziben (sieben) and Slavic sem (семь), but not Hindi, Armenian, Greek or Iranian words for 7
  • Persian word for to do, make, build is kardan (کردن) sounds like kenen in Ossetian and kan in Baluchi (both Iranian languages)
  • 𐤆 looks like Chinese bladed tool symbol 工 gong (kong in Old Chinese) that means work

I can only explain this phonetic/semantic connection of numeral 7 to blade/cut with my lost Persian alphabet hypothesis which placed zyn as the 7th word due to mantra needs. Phoenicians later spread that connection to Europe, Persians spread it to Slavic people and China.

8

Connection between number 8 and concept of speech observed in several cultures:

  • English eight sounds similar to ate (related to mouth)
  • Persian 8 hasht (هشت) sounds similar to Avestan hukht (𐬵𐬏𐬑𐬙𐬀: good words) related to Sanskrit ukta (उक्त: speech)
  • Sanskrit 8 asta (अष्ट) sounds similar to Slavic usta (уста: lips/mouth)
  • Hindi 8 aath (आठ ) sounds similar to arth (अर्थ: sense/wealth)
  • Chinese speech 曰 (pictogram of lips/mouth), considered symbol of luck/wealth, looks like Phoenician letter #8 𐤇, "Crete Linear A" 𐘰, European 8

I expected to find examples in Greek, Latin, Spanish, German, French, but failed, at least there is nothing obvious. Maybe there was something long ago but languages evolved.

THEORY #1: Pictogram for lips was used for number 8 since words for lips/mouth and eight did sound alike at some point in Indo-Iranian. E.g. Chinese character for word very much 太 (tai) is used to write to wash 汰 (also tai) simply because they sound alike. This supports my lost Persian ideograms/alphabet hypothesis.

THEORY #2: The lost Persian alphabet mantra required symbol of speech at 8th position.

P.S. Possible trace of Indo-Iranian influence from Avestan times in Arabic/Hebrew is hikma/hokhma (חׇכְמָה/حِكْمَة: wisdom).

9

Phoenicians worshiped firebird Phoenix and used in their alphabet same "celtic cross" 𐘾 for letter №9 tet, first letter of Persian word for peacock tawus (طاووس). I think Slavic numeral devet (деветь) originated from Phoenician/Persian t'w's. Sounds far-fetched until you remember that English deity came from deus which came from theos which came from ta'os. Design of digit 9 is exactly the opposite of 6 because if man develops an inflammation in genital area the "thumbs-up" causes micro-tears in the inflamed tissue which results in horrible pain and neuropathy. Peacock with his expanding "fiery" tail is also a sympbol of that very unpleasant illness.

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