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The reason the Etics are absolutely clear where the Celtic suffix "taine/tane" comes from [Fire] but get confused when they try and answer were the prefix "Bel" came from is probably decorum. Celtic is an Indo-European Language which is related to English and the rest of the German family of tongues as well as the Latin, Greek, Slovak and the sub-continent languages of India. The American Heritage Dictionary [AHD] which gives Etymological details says that the word Beltane gets its 1st syllable from the Indo-Euro root - "bhel" in its 1st form. That root means: "to shine, flash, burn, shining white, and fire." Over the millennia it has spun out cognate words like: bald, Beltane, bleak, blaze, blemish, blend, blink, blanch, blind, blank and blond. It is also the root form in: blush, burn, blitzkrieg, and black. So this dictionary claims that Beltane could be translated as "Shining Fire." Pooler and Skippy are not convinced. The second form of the Indo-Euro root "bhel" ["bhel 2"] has as its primary root meaning: "to blow, to swell, with derivatives referring to various round objects and to the notion of Tumescent Masculinity." Which means that this root has spun out cognates which give us the words: phallus, bollix, and balls [where bollix and balls mean Testicles.] The 2nd form of the root also gives us the words: bowl, bulk, and boulevard. Boulder, bull, balloon, bold, band and bellows. So Pooler and Skippy are betting that the "Bhel" in Beltane comes from the second root form and not the 1st. Beltane is a Phallic Festival - it's May Day for Christ's sake, it's celebrated with couples dancing withershins around a huge erected pole while they are selected by gender-specific ribbons for the acts of copulation that follow the dance. Beltane means exactly what it says: its a Fire/Dick Festival and the evidence of this is frozen in the shards of our languages. "Bhel" has a 3rd root form ["bhel 3"] which has primary meanings of: "to thrive, to bloom." This form of the verb gives us cognates like: bloom and blossom and in it's Latin form: "flos/flor" the root gives us all our words for flowers. Archetypal Linguistics looks at the company that words keep - their cousins - in order to analyze the "spirit" of the entire family of terms. The 3 forms of the Indo-Euro root "bhel" are not hiding anything. They form a complex which revolve around the semantics of swelling, enlarging, blooming and bursting forth. You would have to be opaque not to see the Dick in all that.




	The reason the Etics are absolutely clear where the Celtic suffix "taine/tane" comes from [Fire] but get confused when they try and answer were the prefix "Bel" came from is probably decorum. Celtic is an Indo-European Language which is related to English and the rest of the German family of tongues as well as the Latin, Greek, Slovak and the sub-continent languages of India. The American Heritage Dictionary [AHD] which gives Etymological details says that the word Beltane gets its 1st syllable from the Indo-Euro root - "bhel" in its 1st form. That root means: "to shine, flash, burn, shining white, and fire." Over the millennia it has spun out cognate words like: bald, Beltane, bleak, blaze, blemish, blend, blink, blanch, blind, blank and blond. It is also the root form in: blush, burn, blitzkrieg, and black. So this dictionary claims that Beltane could be translated as "Shining Fire." Pooler and Skippy are not convinced. The second form of the Indo-Euro root "bhel" ["bhel 2"] has as its primary root meaning: "to blow, to swell, with derivatives referring to various round objects and to the notion of Tumescent Masculinity." Which means that this root has spun out cognates which give us the words: phallus, bollix, and balls [where bollix and balls mean Testicles.] The 2nd form of the root also gives us the words: bowl, bulk, and boulevard. Boulder, bull, balloon, bold, band and bellows. So Pooler and Skippy are betting that the "Bhel" in Beltane comes from the second root form and not the 1st. Beltane is a Phallic Festival - it's May Day for Christ's sake, it's celebrated with couples dancing withershins around a huge erected pole while they are selected by gender-specific ribbons for the acts of copulation that follow the dance. Beltane means exactly what it says: its a Fire/Dick Festival and the evidence of this is frozen in the shards of our languages. "Bhel" has a 3rd root form ["bhel 3"] which has primary meanings of: "to thrive, to bloom." This form of the verb gives us cognates like: bloom and blossom and in it's Latin form: "flos/flor" the root gives us all our words for flowers. Archetypal Linguistics looks at the company that words keep - their cousins - in order to analyze the "spirit" of the entire family of terms. The 3 forms of the Indo-Euro root "bhel" are not hiding anything. They form a complex which revolve around the semantics of swelling, enlarging, blooming and bursting forth. You would have to be opaque not to see the Dick in all that.

			To the left is a photo of the star attraction at the Kawamara Matsuri Festival in Kawasaki Japan, a spring fête to "quicken growth." It glosses as the "Steel Dick" Festival. The japs love it and tourists from all over the world are discovering - or rediscovering - the pull of such Holidays. It looks as if the Japanese version of this kind of celebration revolves around Females pulling the giant Member thru the streets. Take a moment and read about the European tradition of the Feast of Fools and its Phallic character. It is interesting to note that there are no Vaginal Processions or Festivals to speak of - unless you would argue that Christmas and Easter are heavily abstracted forms of Pussy Power Parades. But the Steel Dick to the left is not abstracted; it's flat out descriptive and iconic. It still looks like what it means. But nobody parades thru the streets with huge realistic cunts - probably for the reason which I have advanced earlier - the Female Sex Organ is a Jaw Clapper. It scares the shit out of people. But there are some Vaginas - some Veeayes - which look us right in the face, steganographically.
Symbols gain power when they are combined with other symbols which also have their own power. When you combine the 2 Opposites of a Symbol System - like Male+Female - you Jack the Chi thru the Spheres into the Ogdoatic. Thru the Vessels into Kether, the Crown, where all Opposites Unite. So these cute statuettes which are part penis and part pussy are doubly effective. But symbols move with the times and their Zeitgeist. Today the Steel Dick Festival has morphed into a community effort to fight AIDs and the procession is long on gays and short on greenmen. Transvestites lead the parade and the festival sells dick shaped foods and lamps and statues and bars of soap. You can buy dick water bottles and dick cruets to pour syrup on your pancakes. And there are dick shaped pancakes and cup cakes and candies galore. The crowds think it's great fun when everybody is sucking on a dick shaped lollipop.
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