Sunday, March 1, 2015

A Shark... A Sharia... A Revelation...

As a followup to my previous posts.

The word "shark" breaks down into two cryptic phrases: "sh ark" and "shar k".  The first is "silent Ark"... or in other words "hidden ark"

Note the etymology of "shar":
  • sharia (n.) Islamic religious law, 1855, from Arabic shari'ah "the revealed law," from shar' "revelation."
And then there's "K"-- the 11th letter of the alphabet... so the communication becomes "revelation 11".   Or in other words "Revelation Twins"!!  And what it is that they reveal: the once hidden ark... now revealed.

  • sh (interj.) exclamation used to urge or request silence, 1847. The gesture of putting a finger to the lips to express silence is attested from Roman times. As a transitive verb from 1887; intransitive from 1925.
  • sh- sound represented in Old English by -sc- (fisc "fish"), which originally was pronounced "-sk-" but which by late Old English had softened to "-sh-." Modern English words with -sc- mostly are imports (generally Scandinavian). The "sh" sound did not exist in Old French, therefore French scribes after the Norman conquest often represented it with -ssh- in medial and final positions, and sch- in initial positions (schape, schamful, schaft for shape,shameful, shaft). But the spelling -sh- has been standard since Caxton, probably as a worn-down form of Middle English -sch-. In some East Anglian texts from 14c.-15c., x- is used (xal, xulde for shall, should), which would have given the language a very different look had it prevailed, but the London-based sh- ended up as the standard form. The same Germanic sound has become, by natural evolution, modern German and Dutch sch-, Scandinavian sk-.
So then Shar in origin is "skar"... or "scar".  I'm reminded now of my novel... the first chapter being about a boy with a scar on his face: http://atal-lant.blogspot.ca/2014/12/chapter-1-rite-of-passage.html

There's another "SH" word that I'd like to mention: the TUSSH (the Two United Structure System Home" which now becomes TUSSK)-- the "hidden Ark" that is now revealed... and now proposed by the inner twin world.  

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