[[history]] *** [Relation to PIE](http://loanwords.prehistoricmap.com/semitic-interface/) ## Subbranches [[abrahamic]] ## Reconstruction [[baldick]]'s - Deities: - **The Black God**: "He who urinates (rain)". He's old, has no family, is all powerful, is infinitely rich, is associated with darkness, storms/clouds, is violent/terrible. A symbol of harmful quantities of water/deluge - **The Sun Goddess**: young, vulnerable and white, pure, dove (sometimes the daughter of the Black god) - **The Green God**: young, associated with the Moon and the color Green. A Savior figure. A symbol of fertilizing water. - Islam: moon/green - Ritual (obtain water), Myth: There's a drought, so, the people sacrifice the The Sun Goddess to the Black God to bring rain. It works, but then there's too much rain. So, the Green God kills the Black god (which brings a balanced amount of water) and then weds the goddess. - This myth shows up in [Christianity](christianity.md): Christ is "a source of 'living water' which will leave nobody thirsty (John 4:4-30). At the culmination of the Feast of Tabernacles he again offers to quench anyone's thirst, and declares that whoever belives in him will find streams of living water flowing from inside himself (John 7:37)." - Logic: dualistic, linguistic opposition between male and female (no neuter words) - Male: greatness, strength, prestige, energy, large houses, valuable animals (cattle) - Female: small, weak, lacking in prestige, passive. Mice. Inferior. - It's not an 'astral religion' (the sun and mon are really just symbols of light and goodness, and the other stars are absent)   ## Influence on Europe - Baldick asserts that the Greek intellectual focus on polarity/duality [and the Dualism of Iranian Mazdaism] is from Afroasiatic…. - Ex. "Sacrificing an animal instead of one's own daughter" - Ex. "the…idea that a human consists of two elements, spirit of divine origin, and matter, is anticipated in ancient Akkadian epic. Thus the Greek obsession with antithesis, which we have seen in Herodotus and Plutarch…" - Baldick asserts [[plato]] was unaffected. - Baldick asserts that [[freud]]'s thinking is basically afro-asiatic. "The strongest trace of the Afroasiatic inheritance…is to be found in…Freud's work both of these aspects are combined to revive the ancient Afroasiatic myth of the killing of an old male figure by a young rival for his bride….his imaginative reconstruction of a primal horde in which the father kept all the women to himself. The father…would have been killed by his jealous sons, and this killing would have been re-enacted by sacrificing an animal representing him." ## Biblio [[morgenstern1966]] [[giusfredi-pisaniello2019]] [[baldick]] [[mondi1990]] [[jacob1999]]