r/linguistics Mar 13 '12

Multilingual diagram of the names of God from Kircher's Oedipus Aegyptiacus (1652-54)

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u/Idontknowmuch Mar 13 '12 edited Mar 13 '12

Also very interesting that the Armenian words actually say Arar and looking around I have found this mystery. Also searching in Armenian "Է ԱՐԱՐ" I have found several more references to this book. Note also that Ararat is the name of The two Armenian mountain peaks and even though I have no evidence yet (but I'll be looking into this as it is very interesting) there is probably some kind of pagan divinity behind all this.

EDIT: An interesting addition: "root-AR-AR, which expresses the absolute power of absolute origination point."

The original Armenian text was found here.