Amen
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Without any understanding of the linguistics of the situation the article equates the sanskrit origin word Amen (from Aum) with the Egyptian god Amun. And how was this dazzling conclusion made? Why through an apparently accidental discovery in an encyclopaedia of an Egyptian god's name which happens to be similar in sound.
And THAT really is the only basis given.
Astounding that the word should have remained the same over 3000 years despite crossing many nations to arrive in modern English in a practically identicle form to the one it started from (and if anyone knows anything about linguistics that really is astounding).
I think I have one to add to this. I recently came accross the name of an Egyptian god called Anubis. I think there is a strong possibility that the use of Cannabis is an ancient form of veneration to this pagan god. What do you think?
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The story comes accross as simply puritanical overzealous and anti-semetic (there are many words not used in the Quran, and many hebrew loan names & words into Arabic which are, including the name Ishmael itself)
Even if there were a shed of truth in that story there is less point in bringing it up than there is in bringing up the fact that the english word for describing divinities & The Divine istelf "God" is the name of a pagan anglo-saxon deity.
Ok, that is my 2-bits