The Ashkenazi prohibition against eating QiTNiot <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://translate.google.co.il/?hl=en&tab=rT&sl=iw&tl=en&text=**K&op=translate__;16fXmNeg15nXldeq!!KGKeukY!wV5KuJAJRNHoovTnVhVYVJk0EQAhSvStf4UIGSD5TV9tcJRyTAdW4uWDonDVyEHMFOd_CHysLmBMv95hYwb6NsY$ > on Pesach began in FRanCe (a reversal of TZaRFat) in the 1200s. This prohibition constituted a psycholinguistic distancing of oneself from GoSHeN, the bean-shaped kidney (< qitniot) on an anthropomorphic map of Aphrodite (Afro-deity). The ancient shin had a dental D/T-sound, e.g., SHoR = ox was ToR as in Taurus. The gimel often had a K-sound in other languages, e.g., GaMaL = camel. So, GoSHeN sounded like QTN, as in QiTNiot = beans. Cotton (Arabic qutn) was exported from Goshen. The Latin genus for cotton is Gossypium < Goshen. Compare English gossamer = cotton + sea (the foam you see on the beach). Aphrodite (< Greek αφρός aphros = foam) was a goddess in Goshen. The philosophical question is: If one knows the reason for this prohibition, are they more or less duty-bound to observe it? I don't know the answer.
Phoenician anthropomorphic maps covered all of the area involved in the Exodus from Egypt (< Greek hepat- = liver), so they may be an appropriate topic for discussion at the seder table. If you want a more complete description of them, you can download these files from my Dropbox. https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.dropbox.com/s/ksjxfos5myl6e1w/Anthropomorphic_Maps_3.docx?dl=0__;!!KGKeukY!wV5KuJAJRNHoovTnVhVYVJk0EQAhSvStf4UIGSD5TV9tcJRyTAdW4uWDonDVyEHMFOd_CHysLmBMv95h69nVVSk$ https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.dropbox.com/s/yxlvvgdcdadzep3/Anthropomorphic_Maps_3.pptx?dl=0__;!!KGKeukY!wV5KuJAJRNHoovTnVhVYVJk0EQAhSvStf4UIGSD5TV9tcJRyTAdW4uWDonDVyEHMFOd_CHysLmBMv95huxv7Vu4$ Six verse limerick describing the map of Aphrodite in North Africa: https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.dropbox.com/s/c11i51d5ahjyrcs/Aphrodite_Limerick_pics.docx?dl=0__;!!KGKeukY!wV5KuJAJRNHoovTnVhVYVJk0EQAhSvStf4UIGSD5TV9tcJRyTAdW4uWDonDVyEHMFOd_CHysLmBMv95hY5Se1a0$ For unbelievable but genuine folk etymologies for many of the same areas, see this file. https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.dropbox.com/s/g578l4f5ec542cf/CarlMasthay_email_exch.docx?dl=0__;!!KGKeukY!wV5KuJAJRNHoovTnVhVYVJk0EQAhSvStf4UIGSD5TV9tcJRyTAdW4uWDonDVyEHMFOd_CHysLmBMv95hIhc33zo$ Hebrew sometimes reverses a word to produce its antonym. In Genesis 42: <https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt0142.htm__;!!KGKeukY!wV5KuJAJRNHoovTnVhVYVJk0EQAhSvStf4UIGSD5TV9tcJRyTAdW4uWDonDVyEHMFOd_CHysLmBMv95h3dPVq5Y$ >23*, *haMaLiTZ = the interpreter is a *hapax legomenon* <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hapax_legomenon__;!!KGKeukY!wV5KuJAJRNHoovTnVhVYVJk0EQAhSvStf4UIGSD5TV9tcJRyTAdW4uWDonDVyEHMFOd_CHysLmBMv95hUmy7BWU$ >. It is a reversal of TZeLeM = picture, image. To translate Egyptian hieroglyphics to any other language is to un-picture. The sound changes described in *SoundChangeHandOut *file are relevant to the other topics in this email. Utilization of these changes facilitates finding cognates of (Hebrew) words and phrases. https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.dropbox.com/s/woh6n96rgxyswjq/SoundChangeHandOut.docx?dl=0__;!!KGKeukY!wV5KuJAJRNHoovTnVhVYVJk0EQAhSvStf4UIGSD5TV9tcJRyTAdW4uWDonDVyEHMFOd_CHysLmBMv95hcKABwHI$ https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.dropbox.com/s/6hqsldperk35rlk/Sound_Changes.docx?dl=0__;!!KGKeukY!wV5KuJAJRNHoovTnVhVYVJk0EQAhSvStf4UIGSD5TV9tcJRyTAdW4uWDonDVyEHMFOd_CHysLmBMv95hyA3yNe4$ https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.dropbox.com/s/ozx5gico4iqqk9n/Sound_Changes_slides.pptx?dl=0__;!!KGKeukY!wV5KuJAJRNHoovTnVhVYVJk0EQAhSvStf4UIGSD5TV9tcJRyTAdW4uWDonDVyEHMFOd_CHysLmBMv95hT-LqhFo$ https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.dropbox.com/s/s2vk03kdv7r5vsa/het_W_pic2.docx?dl=0__;!!KGKeukY!wV5KuJAJRNHoovTnVhVYVJk0EQAhSvStf4UIGSD5TV9tcJRyTAdW4uWDonDVyEHMFOd_CHysLmBMv95h6BZGRZw$ Best regards, Izzy Israel A. Cohen cohen.i...@gmail.com
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