Β β beeta (βῆτα) basis pronounce:
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The letter Β means basis.
In Astrology, basis (βάσις) means one’s horoscope, oroskopos (ώροσκόπος), the sign or degree rising at the time of birth, nativity.
Bankon (βανκόν) means one’s fate, destiny.
The astrological definition of basis (βάσις) as “the sign or degree rising at the time of birth” is consistent with the letter Β’s placement as the second letter of the alphabet, directly following the letter Α, “arising.” The letter Β answers the questions, “Arising where? In what context?”
The shape of the letter B shares similarities with the astrological symbol for the ascendant:
Astrological glyph/symbol for the ascendant.
http://www.hellenisticastrology.com/2010/10/07/the-glyph-for-the-ascendant-in-hellenistic-astrology/
The letter Β resembles the buttocks, the seat of the body and the base of the spine.
It should be noted that the name of the letter Β, beeta (βῆτα), contains the phrase eeta (ῆτα) and that eetor (ἦτορ) means the seat of life, the seat of feeling, the seat of reasoning powers.
Three other Greek letter-names include the phrase eeta (ῆτα): Ζ (zeeta (ζῆτα)), Η (eeta (ἧτα)), and Θ (theeta (θῆτα)). The letters Β, Η, and Θ are centrally divided by a horizontal line with top and bottom a mirror image of each other. It is interesting to note that the letter Η was originally written as a squared letter, making it only subtly distinguishable from the letter Β. The letter Θ originally contained a cross within a circle rather than just a horizontal line within a circle as shown in L. H. Jeffery’s Table of Letters.
Table of Letters. (L.H. Jeffery, The Local Scripts of Archaic Greece: A Study of the Origin of the Greek Alphabet and Its Development from the Eighth to the Fifth Centuries B.C.[E.]. (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1961.)
BASIS
Basis (βάσις) means stepping, step, steps; measured step or movement; rhythmic or metrical movement; metrical unit; order, sequence; that with which one steps, a foot; that whereon one stands, base, pedestal (of statues, of a column); foundation, basement; base of a solid or plane figure; position, fixedness; horoscope, oroskopos (ώροσκόπος), the sign or degree rising at the time of birth, the ascendant, nativity.
Webster’s defines basis as “the bottom or base of anything: the part on which something stands or rests; anything upon which something is based; fundamental principle; groundwork . . . a basic fact, amount, standard, etc., used in making computations.”
Note that the word basis pertains to waypoints as well as to a permanent, fixed place.
STEP
Recall that basis (βάσις) means stepping, step, steps; measured step or movement; rhythmic or metrical movement.
Babaksai (βαβάξαι) means dance. It is of interest to note that the name of the letter Β, beeta (βῆτα), is the basis for the word dance, beetarmos (βηταρμός), and dancer, beetarmon (βητάρμων). One of the definitions of basis (βάσις) is “rhythmic or metrical movement,” that is, the beat.
Badhen (βάδην) means step by step; on foot. Badizo (βᾰδίζω) means to walk, march, go, proceed. Badisis (βάδῐσις) means walking, going.
Bados (βάδος) means walk, literally “basis arising directed-trajectory.”
Bagei (βαγαῖ) means go in, enter, come in, come upon the stage, come before the court.
Bageuei (βαγεύει) means wander about.
Baino (βαίνω) and ban (βάν) mean walk, step, motion on foot, on ground; march, dance; come; go on, advance.
Ballizo (βαλλίζω) means dance, jump about.
Bate (βᾶτε) and bebamen (βεβάμεν) mean walk, dance, step.
Bateo (βᾰτέω) means that on which one treads.
Bebhelos (βέβηλος) means allowable to be trodden upon.
Berreuo (βερρεύω) means run away.
Beela (βηλά) are sandals, shoes, boots. Blautee (βλαύτη) means a slipper.
Beema (βῆμα) and bama (βᾶμα) mean step, pace, footfall; seat, base, pedestal.
Blaudes (βλαῦδες) means enter into a procession.
Blosis (βλῶσις) means arrival, presence. Blosko (βλώσκω) means go or come.
Bomis (βωμίς) means a step.
MEASURE
Recall that basis (βάσις) means metrical unit, a measured unit.
Bathmos (βαθμός), basmos (βασμός), and baino (βαίνω) mean step, threshold; an interval in a musical scale; rung of a ladder; degree on the dial; 15 degrees of the 360-degree zodiac; step, degree in rank; steps.
Baion (βαιών) means a measure.
Baios (βαιός) means little, small, few, scanty.
Baideion (βαίδειον) means at hand, ready, prepared; deion (δειον) means that which is needful, necessaries, so that baideion (βαίδειον) translates as “a measure of what is needed.”
Baiessa (βαίεσσα) means a bunch of grapes.
Baitee (βαίτη) means a coat or tent of skins, a covered building in the market-place.
Bakaion (βακάϊον) means that by which anything is measured, a metric, measure, rule.
Banotos (βανωτός) means a kind of vase used as a measure.
Bikas (βῖκας) means bind fast, tie up in a bundle. Bikos (βῖκος) means jar, cask, drinking bowl.
Blethra (βλέθρα) means a measure of length of 100 feet.
Boion (βοιόν) means a cycle of 50 years.
Brebion (βρέβιον) means list, inventory.
BASIS: STARTING-POINT
Balbis (βαλβίς) means the rope drawn across the race-course to mark the starting and finishing point.
Ballai (βάλλαι) means step, threshold.
Beelos (βηλός) means threshold. Beerides (βηρίδες) means enter.
Bela (βέλα) means Helios (the Sun) just arising (Eelios kai augee (Ἣλιος καί αύγή)), the basis of a new day. Babelios (βαβέλιος) means Helios.
Blastano (βλαστάνω) means to shoot forth, come to light, be born; bud, sprout, grow, literally “basis loosened.”
Blastao (βλαστάω) means bring forth; growth, birth from a parent; eruption on the skin; budding, sprouting. A blastos (βλαστός) means a shoot, bud; offspring.
Brephos (βρέφος) means a babe in the womb, fetus, literally “basis outflow.”
Bruchis (βρυχίς) means a twig or branch, especially a vine-twig; a cutting, slip.
Bokaros (βώκαρος) means early spring, the beginning of spring, literally “basis brings-forth core/Kore.”
BASE, PEDESTAL
Recall that basis (βάσις) means that whereon one stands, base, pedestal (of statues, of a column); foundation; basement.
Bakoa (βάκοα) means base, pedestal.
Banon (βανόν) means peeled, husked, taken down to the base.
Basagei (βασαγεῖ) means the ground.
Baskon (βάσκον) means land, a definite space, a piece of ground, place.
Basmiaios (βασμιαῖος) means a flat block used as a base.
Bauria (βαυρία) means building, house, dwelling.
Bebaios (βέβαιος) means firm, steady, steadfast, durable.
Berethron (βέρεθρον) means the underground course of a river.
Bleenai (βλῆναι) means truth, reality (the opposite of a lie or mere appearance).
Bothreuo (βοθρεύω) means to dig a trench or pit; the sockets of the teeth. A bothros (βόθρος) is a hole, trench, or pit dug in the ground.
Bolos (βῶλος) means land, soil, clay.
SEAT OF GOVERNMENT
Basileia (βᾰσιλείᾱ) means hereditary monarchy; kingdom, dominion; queen; reign. Basileia (βᾰσίλείᾰ) means queen, princess; of Goddesses.
Basilikos (βᾰσῐλικός) means royal, kingly; palace.
Basilis (βᾰσῐλίς) means queen, princess, empress; royal; kingdom. Basilissa (βᾰσῐλισσα, βασίλεῐᾰ) means queen; Roman Empress; a title of the immortal Goddess Demeter.
Bistaks (βίσταξ) and basileus (βασιλεύς) mean king, chief; hereditary king; of Roman emperors.
Boulee (Βουλή) means the Senate. Bouleia (Βουλεία) means the office of councilor, membership of the Senate.
BULLS, MALE CATTLE
Male cattle are the largest and most powerful of domesticated animals. A castrated ox can be trained to pull a plough through the fields.
Male cattle held a central role in both the agricultural and religious spheres of ancient Greek and Egyptian life. The slaughter of a bull was a sacred occasion. Below are depictions of sacrificial bulls.
Bull prepared for sacrifice , circa 50 CE. Vienna: Kunsthistorisches Museum. Credits: Ann Raia, 2006. http://www.vroma.org/cgi-bin/mfs/var/www/html/images?link=/raia_images/index6.html&file=/var/www/html/images/raia_images/index6.html&line=135#mfs
Bo- (βο-), boo- (βοο-), and bou- (βου-) are prefixes meaning bull, ox, male cattle.
Bous (βούς) means a bull, ox, cow, or cattle; also, the Spring constellation Taurus (April-May), the second constellation of the Zodiac.
Boubalos (βούβᾰλος) means buffalo. Bison (βίσων) means bison.
Boubeetis (βουβῆτις) means a stream for watering cattle; a cattle-pasture.
Bosaree (βωσαρη) is an Indian word for elephant, a large and powerful animal that can be tamed.
Decorated Indian elephant. http://worlldinformation.blogspot.com/2011/03/decorated-indian-elephant.html
ALTAR
Bames (βᾶμες), bomen (βῶμεν), and bomos (βωμός) mean a base, platform, floor, altar with a base.
Bomios (βώμιος) means of an altar, at the altar, literally “basis meta,” that is, the basis for a connection between the micro and the macro.
Bomiskos (βωμίσκος) means an altar-shaped vessel; in arithmetic, a solid number; the name of a constellation; the base of molar teeth.
Some inscriptions at Eleusis include: “Bomiskos for Iakchos” and “Bomiskos for Kourotrophos.”
(Inscriptions of Eleusis. IEO4OO. “Bomiskos for Iakchos.” Archaeological Museum of Eleusis 1072. Praktika 1956. Image: Cornell University Library.)
(http://www.lunacommons.org/luna/servlet/detail/CORNELL~13~1~423~100160:BOMISKOS-FOR-IAKCHOS). (http://www.lunacommons.org/luna/servlet/detail/CORNELL~13~1~424~100180:BOMISKOS-FOR-KOUROTROPHOS---IG-II²-).
Bomitis (βωμῖτις) means consecrated land.
Bomiskos (βωμίσκος) means altar. Bomistria (βωμίστρια) means priestess.
BOOKS
Written material serves as an official record as well as the basis for communication over space and time.
Biblio- (βιβλιο-) is a prefix meaning book.
Biblion (βιβλίον) means a strip of bublos (βυβλος), paper, a document.
Bublos (βυβλος) means the Egyptian papyrus, Cyperus Papyrus; the rind enclosing the pith of this plant, bark; slices of the pith used as a writing-material; a roll of papyrus.
Bublos (βυβλος) also means book, especially of sacred writings.
Bibliakos (βιβλιακός) means versed in books.
Bibliagraphos (βιβλιαγράφος, βιβλιογράφος) means writer of books; also, a library, collection of books, record-office, registry.
SEX ORGANS
Intercourse is the basis for procreation.
Babalon (βάβαλον) means privy parts, of both men and women.
Beblein (βέβλειν) means puberty.
Bibazo (βιβάζω) means to cause to mount, put the male to the female; stallion.
Bolba (βόλβα) means the vulva, the external female genitalia.
Boubon (Βουβών) means groin, literally “basis entity pure basis.”
LIFE
Bi- (βῐ-) and bio- (βῐο-) are prefixes meaning life. Bios (βίος) means life, lifetime, literally “basis divine-power entity.”
Bio (βίῳ) (βιόω), bioeen (βιῴην), bionai (βιῶναι), and bioto (βιώτω) mean live.
Babion (βάβιον) means child, the beginning or base of life.
A biographia (βῐογρᾰφία) is the written record of one’s life.
Biosis (βίωσις) means a way of life.
BODILY STRENGTH, FORCE
Bia (βία) means bodily strength, force, literally “basis divine-power arising.”
Biaios (βίαιος) means forcible, violent. Biasmos (βῐασμος) means violence. Biatas (βῐᾶτάς) means forceful, mighty.
Briaros (βρῐᾰρος) means strong. Briao (βρῐάω) means to make strong and mighty. Brimee (βρῑμη) means strength, might, literally “basis outflow-of divine-power.”
WEIGHT
Webster’s defines weight as “the force that gravitation exerts upon a body.”
Bareo (βαρέω) means weigh down, depress, heavy, literally “basis outflow.”
Baros (βάρος) means a weight, burden, load, heaviness, the basis for the word barometer.
Bareema (βάρημα) means burden, load, pressure.
Baru- (βᾰρῠ-) is a prefix meaning heavy, strong, grievous. Barutho (βᾰρύθω) means to be weighed down. Barus (βᾰρύς) means heavy in weight.
Brithos (βρῖθος) means weight. Britho (βρίθω) means to be heavy or weighed down; laden with; full of.
Broulos (βρουλός) means to be oppressed by toils, in a sorry plight.
DEPTH, HEIGHT, WIDTH
Recall that basis (βάσις) means metrical unit, something that can be measured.
Depth is a measure of how far something extends from the surface downward (to the base). Height is a measure from the bottom (base) to the top. Width measures from one side to the other. (Webster’s)
Bath- (βάθ-) is a prefix meaning deep, high, wide, thick.
Bathos (βάθος) means depth, height, length, breadth.
Bathistos (βάθιστος), bathion (βαθίων) and bathus (βαθύς) mean deep, high, wide, thick.
Bathrikon (βαθρικόν) means base.
Bathron (βάθρον) means that on which anything steps or stands; base, pedestal; stage, scaffold; solid base; seat, stool, bench.
Bathuno (βᾰθύνω) means to deepen, hollow out, penetrate deeply.
Bathus (βᾰθύς) means deep, high, thick, abundant, profound.
Bathalee (βαθάλη) means a well, spring, or fountain, the basis for the word bathe.
Baisson (βαισσόν) means depth, height.
Bamba (βάμβα) and bamma (βάμμα) mean that in which a thing is dipped, literally “basis meta.”
Bapto (βάπτω) means dip, literally “basis unified (with).”
Baptees (βάπτης) means a dipper or bather. Baptizo (βαπτίζω) means to dip, plunge, the basis for the word baptism.
Baph- (βαφ-) is a prefix meaning dip.
Bapsis (βάψις) means dipping.
Benthos (βένθος) and bussos (βυσσός) mean the depth of the sea. Bussothen (βυσσοθεν) means from the bottom of the sea.
Blothros (βλωθρός) means tall, literally “basis loosened brings-forth.”
Brachea (βράχεα) means shallows, literally “basis outflow foundation.” Brachus (βρᾰχύς) means short. Bradus (βρᾰδύς) means slow.
Bruks (βρύξ) means the depth of the sea.
Bruchios (βρύχιος) means from the depths of the sea, deep.
Buthos (βῠθός) means the depth, the bottom, literally “basis pure divine.”
BOIL, UPHEAVAL, BRING UP
Sucking draws milk out from the breast. Boiling brings bubbles up from the base to the surface. An earthquake is an upheaval from the depths; a cough brings the breath up from the lungs. A fountain or spring of water bubbles up from beneath the surface.
Badelegei (βαδελεγεῖ) means to milk, squeeze out milk, “basis arising directed-trajectory.” Bizia (βίζια) means mammary glands, literally “basis divine-power spark-of-life.”
Beeks (βήξ) means a cough, “basis center detach-from.”
Bluzo (βλύζω) means to bubble, gush forth of liquids. Blusis (βλύσις) means bubbling up of liquids, “basis loosened.”
Buktees (βύκτης) means swelling, blistering; hurricane, “basis pure core tension.”
The following words begin with br- (βρ-), literally “basis outflow.”
Brabeia (βρᾰβεία) means office of arbitration, judgment.
Brazo (βράζω) means boil, froth up, ferment.
Brasis (βράσις) means boiling (of water).
Brasmos (βρασμός) means boiling up.
Brastees (βράστης) and brasso (βράσσω) mean of an earthquake, upheaving the earth vertically.
Brusis (βρύσις) means bubbling up.
Bruazo (βρῠάζω) means to swell; be pregnant.
Brutos (βρῦτος) means fermented liquor made from barley, beer. Bunee (βύνη) means malt for brewing; also, an old name of the immortal sea-Goddess Ino or Leucothea; the sea itself (probably because the sea foams and froths).
Bruo (βρύω) means swell or team with, especially of plants; to be full to bursting, abound, grow luxuriantly; of water, burst forth, gush with.
UPROAR
Babazo (βαβάζω) means to speak inarticulately, or shout. Babizo (βαβίζω), bazo (βάζω), and bagma (βάγμα) mean speak or say.
Babaktees (βαβάκτης) means a reveler (of Pan; of Dionysos).
Baks (βαξ) means an oracular saying, inspired utterance. Babaks (βάβαξ) means chatterer.
Boao (βοάω) means cry aloud, shout.
Boee (βοή) means a loud cry or shout, a battle-cry.
Boeetheia (Βοήθεια) means aid called for (of the Goddess or Goddesses). Boeetheo (βοηθέω) and bathoeemi (βᾱθόημι) mean come to aid, succor, assist, aid, come to the rescue, receive help, resource, remedy.
Bombeo (βομβέω) means to make a booming (βόμβος) noise.
Bombuks (βόμβυξ) means a deep-toned pipe; the lowest note on the flute.
Borborugmos (βορβορυγμός) means intestinal rumbling, belching.
Boreas (βορέας) is the immortal God of the cold and raging north wind.
Borrazon (βορράζων) means noise, full of sound.
Brachein (βρᾰχεῖν) means rattle, clash, ring, mostly of arms and armor.
Bremo (βρέμω) means roar, clamor, rage.
Bront (βροντ) means thunder. Broutao (βρουτάω) means thunder; Zeus.
Brullo (βρύλλω) and brun (βρῦν) mean a child’s cry for drink.
Bruch- (βρῡχ-) is a prefix meaning roar, bellow, death-cry of wounded men, bellowing.
Bukan- (βῡκᾰν-) is a prefix meaning trumpet (βῡκᾰνάω); deep note.
Bukta (βυκτά) means complain loudly of hardship, utter indignant complaints.
BACCHOS
Bakchos (Βάκχος, Βακχεύς) is Bacchos, the immortal God of revelry and wine, literally “basis arising core foundation.”
Entheos (ἕνθεος) means full of a God or Goddess; inspired, possessed, inspired by a God or Goddess, the basis for the word enthusiasm. Celebrations of Bacchos are characterized by enthusiastic--enthousiastikos (ένθουσιαστικός)--song, music, and dance as Bacchantes enter a state of fusion with Bacchos.
Bakchio (Βακχιόω) means fill with divine presence.
Bakcheia (Βακχεία) means Bacchic revelry. Bakcheios (Βακχειος) means belonging to Bacchos and the rites of Bacchos.
Bakchee (Βάκχη) means Bacchante, a female worshiper of Bacchos.
Detail of a Bacchante from a painting of the train of Bacchos/Dionysos. She holds a thyrsos (pine-cone tipped staff).
Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, Florida, USA Catalogue Number: Tampa 86.102. Apulian Red Figure Krater, Name vase of the Maplewood Painter, circa 350 BCE. http://www.theoi.com/Gallery/T62.3.html
Bakchodees (Βακχώδης) and Bakchos (Βάκχος) mean filled with the spirit of Bacchos.
In Orphic Hymn 45. To Liknitus Bacchus (5-6), Orpheus proclaims,
“. . . ‘Tis thine mad footsteps with mad nymphs to beat,
Dancing thro’ groves with lightly leaping feet . . .”
(Orpheus. The Hymns of Orpheus (circa 200 BCE), translated by Thomas Taylor, introductory preface by Manly P. Hall (London: Printed for the Author, 1792. Reprinted Los Angeles, CA: The Philosophical Research Society, 1981) 179.)
Seneca, in Phaedra (753-755), describes Bacchos as having Indian origins:
“Et tu, thyrsigera Liber ab India,
intonsa iuvenis perpetuum coma,
tigres pampinea cuspide territans . . .”
"And thou, Bacchus, from thyrsus-bearing India, with unshorn locks, perpetually young, thou who frightenest tigers with thy vine-clad spear . . ."
(Seneca (circa 41 CE), Phaedra 753-755 in Tragedies, Vol. I, Loeb Classical Library, translated by Frank Justus Miller (London: William Heinemann and New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1917.) http://books.google.com/books?id=S6pM-L1KuD8C&pg=PA379&lpg=PA379&dq=Bacchus,+from+thyrsus-bearing+India,+with+unshorn+locks,+perpetually+young,+thou+who+frightenest+tigers+with+thy+vine-clad+spear.%22&source=bl&ots=6ilm_5P9SD&sig=AgmRfvdq6V8HfCEW_ya1C-UTtKc&hl=en&sa=X&ei=GYSNT_zvMIXg0QGq3KmjDw&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=Bacchus%2C%20from%20thyrsus-bearing%20India%2C%20with%20unshorn%20locks%2C%20perpetually%20young%2C%20thou%20who%20frightenest%20tigers%20with%20thy%20vine-clad%20spear.%22&f=false
The immortal God Bacchos holding a thyrsos (pine-cone tipped staff), draped with a skin, and accompanied by a panther, follows a Satyros with pipes and a Bacchante with cymbals in a Bacchic procession. http://www.theoi.com/Gallery/R12.1.html
British Museum, London, United Kingdom, from the Villa Quintiliana on the Appian Way, south of Rome, circa 100 CE.
The pine-cone tipped staff is a symbol of followers of Bacchos. The staff is a symbol of office or position as well as an aid in walking.
Bakteeria (βακτηρία) means a staff, a wand as a badge of office. Baklon (βάκλον) means stick.
Baktrophoras (βακτροφόρας) means staff-bearer.
FOOD, EATING
Eating is integral to mortal life. Mortals eat other living beings (plants, animals) in order to live.
Bibosko (βιβώσκω) means eat, eat up; decay; devour; worm-eaten.
Bora (βορά) means food.
Bortheia (Βορθεια) is a title of the immortal Goddess Artemis, “Goddess of food.”
Boros (βορός) means gluttonous; inducing appetite.
Bosis (βόσις) means food, fodder.
Food basics in the Mediterranean include, grains, bread, grapes, and fish.
Baburas (Βαβύρας) means the fat of beasts.
Bagos (βάγος) means a morsel of bread; also, any matter of religious awe.
Bekos (βέκος) and beskeroi (βέσκεροι) mean bread.
Bettonikee (βεττονική) means betony, Sideritis purpurea, an herb thought to be a cure-all. Betony is also called anthrakobotanon (άνθρᾰκοβότανον); with anthrak- (άνθρᾰκ-) a prefix meaning charcoal or carbon, so that άνθρᾰκοβότανον translates as “charcoal herb.”
“Betony is very good in pains of the head, convulsions and nervine affections: The dried leaves, cut, and mixed with tobacco, are frequently smoaked (sic) for the head-ach (sic), vertigo, and fore (sic) eyes. Mixed with Wood-sage and Ground-pine, it makes a good diet-drink for the gout, and rheumatick pains.” On p. 142, “Paul’s Betony is reckoned among the vulnerary plants, both used inwardly and outwardly; it is likewise pectoral, and good for coughs and consumptions; and is helpful against the stone or strangury; as also against pestilential distempers. It is used as a tea.”
(John Wilson. A Synopsis of British Plants in Mr. Ray’s Method (Newcastle Upon Tyne: John Gooding, 1744) 91.)http://books.google.com/books?id=a29bAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA91&lpg=PA91&dq=betony+Sideritis+purpurea&source=bl&ots=Rh9IuGe93S&sig=UbLVaRIDBYHjC-hP0cWEKj4oAsA&hl=en&ei=UtlTTqHzB6Xd0QGdooHKCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CCMQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=betony%20Sideritis%20purpurea&f=false
Beerbee (βήρβη) means fruit; bean.
Beereeks (βήρηξ) means a loaf of bread.
Beerus (βῆρυς) means fish, a food staple in the sea-faring Mediterranean; also, the constellation Pisces (Feb.-Mar.), the last sign of the zodiac before the start of the new year marked by Aries (Mar.-Apr.), making Beerus (βῆρυς) (Pisces) the base or launch-pad for the new year.
Boa (βόα) means fish.
Bosmoron (βόσμορον) means an Indian millet, ragi, Eleusine coracana (note the use of “Eleusine.”)
“Ragi is the main food grain for many peoples, especially in dry areas of India and Sri Lanka. Grain is higher in protein, fat and minerals than rice, corn, or sorghum (Reed, 1976). It is usually converted into flour and made into cakes, puddings, or porridge. When consumed as food it provides a sustaining diet, especially for people doing hard work. Straw makes valuable fodder for both working and milking animals. A fermented drink or beer is made from the grain. Grain may also be malted and a flour of the malted grain used as a nourishing food for infants and invalids. Ragi is considered an especially wholesome food for diabetics.”
(James A. Duke. Handbook of Energy Crops (unpublished, 1983). http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/duke_energy/eleusine_coracana.html
Botr- (βοτρ-) is a prefix meaning cluster, bunch of grapes; of berries. Botrus (βότρυς) means a bunch of grapes.
Brakana (βράκανα) means wild herbs.
Briza (βρίζα) means rye.
Bromos (βρόμος) means oats, wild oats. Oddly enough, bromos (βρόμος) also means any loud noise, crackling of fire, roar of thunder, rage, fury.
Bromeo (βρομέω) means buzz, roar, boil. Bromios (Βρόμιος) is a name of Bacchos, the immortal God of wine. Followers of Bacchos are known for causing an uproar.
In Euripides’ play, Bacchae, Bromios is described as inspiring His followers to shout out loud, reveling in the flow of milk, wine, and honey:
ὁ δ᾽ ἔξαρχος Βρόμιος,
εὐοἷ.
ῥεῖ δὲ γάλακτι πέδον, ῥεῖ δ᾽ οἴνῳ, ῥεῖ δὲ μελισσᾶν
νέκταρι.
Συρίας δ᾽ ὡς λιβάνου καπνὸν
ὁ Βακχεὺς ἀνέχων
πυρσώδη φλόγα πεύκας
ἐκ νάρθηκος ἀίσσει
δρόμῳ καὶ χοροῖσιν
πλανάτας ἐρεθίζων
ἰαχαῖς τ᾽ ἀναπάλλων,
τρυφερόν <τε> πλόκαμον εἰς αἰθέρα ῥίπτων. 150
ἅμα δ᾽ εὐάσμασι τοιάδ᾽ ἐπιβρέμει·
Ὦ ἴτε βάκχαι,
ὦ] ἴτε βάκχαι,
(Euripides, Bacchae, ancient Greek text http://www.mikrosapoplous.gr/eyripedes/bakhes/bakhes02.html last update: 4/2012)
“He is Bromius who leads us! Euohe!
--With milk the earth flows! It flows with wine!
It runs with the nectar of bees!
--Like frankincense in its fragrance
is the blaze of the torch he bears.
Flames float out from his trailing wand
as he runs, as he dances,
kindling the stragglers,
spurring with cries,
and his long curls stream to the wind!
--And he cries, as they cry, Euohe!--
On, Bacchae!
On, Bacchae!”
(Note that euoi/euohe (εὐοἷ) means good.)
(Euripedes, Bacchae (141-153), Euripedes V, translated by William Arrowsmith (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1959) 160.)
Brogchos (βρόγχος) means trachea, windpipe, throat. Brochthos (βρόχθος) is another word for throat. Brocho (βρόχω) means to gulp down, swallow, drink up, guzzle. Brochhe (βροχή) means rain; inundation of the Nile; irrigation. Brecho (βρέχω) means wet, rain.
Bruko (βρύκω) means to bite, gnash; eat greedily, gobble up.
Broma (βρῶμα) means that which is eaten, food, meat; a cavity in a tooth (because the tooth is eaten away); moth-eaten. Bromos (βρῶμος) means stink, noisome smell, foul-smelling (describes something decaying, food for maggots/scavengers).
Brosis (βρῶσις) means meat; pasture; eating.
Broteos (βρωτέος) means to be eaten. Broteios (βρότειος) and brotos (βροτός) mean human, mortal, subject to death.
PASTURE, PASTURE ANIMALS
Beekia (βηκία) means sheep, cattle, pasturage, grazing animals.
Boskos (βοσκός) means a herdsman, shepherd. Bosko (βόσκω) means of shepherds; feed, tend; feed, nourish, graze.
Botan- (βοτᾰν-) is a prefix meaning herbs, the basis for the word botany. Botanee (Βοτάνη) means pasture.
Boteios (βότειος) means of a sheep. Boteer (βοτήρ) means herder. Boton (βοτόν) means a beast, a grazing beast.
BASIS LOOSENED
Words that begin with βλ-, literally “basis loosened,” express damage, flight, randomness, lack of energy, foolishness, crookedness, smokiness, loose talk, and launching.
Blabee (βλάβη) means harm, damage, damage done.
Blaburei (βλαβύρει) means to spread wings; flutter.
Blaburia (βλαβυρία) means random talking, “blah blah.”
Blagis (βλαγις) means a stain, spot, defilement.
Bladan (βλαδάν) means heavy sleep; sluggish; leisurely.
Bladaros (βλᾰδᾰρός) means flaccid, soft.
Blazein (βλάζειν) means silly, foolish, folly.
Blais- (βλαισ-) is a prefix meaning crooked, bent, curved, twisted.
Blakeia (βλᾱκεία) means slackness, lazy.
Blaks (βλάξ) means stolid, stupid.
Blapto (βλάπτω) means to disable, hinder, damage, hurt.
Blaskei (βλάσκει) means to make smoke, turn into smoke.
Blasta (βλαστά) means a rattle, clap, cracking sound.
Blaspheemeo (βλασφημέω) means to speak profanely of sacred things; speak ill of, slander, defamation. Note φῆμα means that which is said, word, so that βλασφημέω roughly translates as “baseless words.”
Blacha (βλᾱχά) means bleating of sheeps; the wailing of infants. Bleechazo (βληχάζω) also means bleat, of sheeps.
Blapsis (βλάψις) means harming, damage.
Bleairei (βλεαίρει) means to take pity on, perhaps by setting aside punishments.
Blennos (βλέννος) means slime.
Bletuges (βλέτυγες) means nonsense, futility, foolishness.
Bleedeen (βλήδην) means throwing, hurling. Bleema (βλῆμα) means throw, cast. Blees (βλής) means thrown. Bolee (βολή) means throw. A bolis (βολίς) is a missile or javelin.
Bleer (βλῆρ) means bait, something dangled as an enticement.
Bleetos (βλητός) means stricken by disease.
Bleechon (βλήχων) means pennyroyal, Mentha Pulegium, an herb used to terminate pregnancy.
Blima (βλίμα) means to treat disrespectfully, to treat with contempt.
Blitta (βλίττω) means to cut the honeycomb from the beehive to take the honey.
Blituri (βλίτυρι) means the twang of a harp-string.
Blomos (βλωμός) means a morsel of bread.
Bludion (βλύδιον) means watery, ud- (ύδ-) means water.
Boleo (βολέω) means to be stricken, literally “basis entity loosened.”
EYESIGHT
Eyesight is a sense that profoundly extends the realm of experience.
Blemma (βλέμμα) means a look, glance, eyesight; lemma (λέμμα) means husk, that which is peeled away.
Blepo (βλέπω) means see, have the power of sight, look, lep- (λέπ-) is a prefix meaning husk. Eyes are at the center of the skull, so blepo (βλέπω) and blemma (βλέμμα) could translate as “basis (of the) husk/skull” or “basis of peeling away the husk/skull.”
Blepharon (βλέφᾰρον) are the eyelids; pharos (φάρος) means lighthouse.
Blepsis (βλέψις) is the act of sight; a thing seen, literally “basis loosened essence incorporeal.”
Boroi (βῶροι) means eyes, oro- (ῶρο-) means observation, so “basis of sight.”
BABYLON
Babulon (Βᾰβῠλών) is Babylon, the capital of Babylonia, an ancient empire of Mesopotamia, a major city on the Euphrates River, in what is now southern Iraq.
Babylon is located on the Euphrates River in the ancient Assyrian empire in 834 BCE. Babylon is home to the famous Ishtar Gate, described by Pausanias:
“[8.33.3] “Of the Babylon that was the greatest city of its time under the sun nothing remains but the wall.” (Pausanias 8.33.3), http://www.theoi.com/Text/Pausanias8B.html )
Modern archaeologists attest to the grandeur of the Ishtar Gate of Babylon.
“The magnificent approach by way of the Procession Street corresponds entirely with the importance, the size, and the splendour of the Ishtar Gate. With its walls which still stand 12 metres high, covered with brick reliefs, it is the largest and most striking ruin of Babylon.”
(Robert Koldewey. The Excavations at Babylon, translated by Agnes Sophia Griffith Johns (London, et. al.: MacMillan and Co., 1914) 31-32. http://books.google.com/books?id=NTmFAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false )
An inscription on the Ishtar Gate describes Ishtar as the inspiration for its construction:
Column III.
“Doors of unbarked-cedars (9)
whose odor is sweet in its gates (10)
I caused to stand. That temple like the day (11)
I made brilliant. For Ishtar of Agade, (12)
the great lady, my lady, for the life of my soul, (13)
for the annihilation of mine enemy verily I have made it.”
(S. Langdon, “New Inscriptions of Nabuna’ed,” The American Journal of Semitic Languages, Vol. 32, edited by John Merlin Powis Smith (Chicago: University of Chicago, Dept. of Semitic Languages.) 114.)
http://books.google.com/books?id=PJKe_OlReJ0C&pg=PA114&lpg=PA114&dq=temple+of+ishtar+of+agade&source=bl&ots=bayqwPxL3p&sig=C9pFWiS2Ceu-QacWnAFmchiij9c&hl=en&ei=_EOASqiBFZKyswPawZHvCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7#v=onepage&q=&f=false )
The Ishtar Gate, 575 BCE., Babylon.
The following hymn to Ishtar describes Ishtar as reigning over all as Queen of Heaven and Earth.
“I beseech thee, Lady of Ladies, Goddess of Goddesses, Ishtar, Queen of all cities, leader of all men.
Thou art the light of the world, thou art the light of heaven . . .
Supreme is thy might, O Lady, exalted art thou above all [G]ods.[and Goddesses]
Thou renderest judgment, and thy decision is righteous.
Unto thee are subject the laws of the earth and the laws of heaven,
the laws of the temples and the shrines, the laws of the private apartment and the secret chamber.
Where is the place where thy name is not, and where is the spot where thy commandments are not known?
At thy name the earth and the heavens shake, and the [G]ods [and Goddesses] they tremble . . .
Thou lookest upon the oppressed, and to the down-trodden thou bringest justice every day.
How long, Queen of Heaven and Earth, how long,
How long, Shepherdess of pale-faced men, wilt thou tarry?
How long, O Queen whose feet are not weary, and whose knees make haste?
How long, Lady of Hosts, Lady of Battles?
Glorious one whom all the spirits of heaven fear, who subduest all angry [G]ods [and Goddesses], mighty above all rulers; who holdest the reins of kings.
Opener of the womb of all women, great is thy light.
Shining light of heaven, light of the world, enlightener of all the places where men (sic) dwell, who gatherest together the hosts of the nations.
Goddess of men, Divinity of women, thy counsel passeth understanding.
Where thou glances, the dead come to life, and the sick rise and walk; the mind of the diseased is healed when it looks upon thy face.
How long, O Lady, shall mine enemy triumph over me?
Command, and at thy command the angry [G]od will turn back.
Ishtar is great! Ishtar is Queen! My Lady is exalted, my Lady is Queen, Innini . . .
There is none like unto her.”
(Will Durant, The Story of Civilization: Our Oriental Heritage (New York: MJF Books, 1935) 235-236.)
OTHER LOCALES
Bithuniarchees (Βῑθῦνῐάρχης) means the President of the Provincial Council of Bithynia (Βῑθῦνῐά).
Bithynia is in northern Turkey.
Boiotos (Βοιωτός) means Boeotian.
Boeotia is shown northwest of Attica. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_Band_of_Thebes
A Boeotian coin, circa 387-372 BCE, featuring a Boeotian shield on one side, and the head of the immortal Goddess Hera, wearing stephane (crown), 2.72g (BMC 1; Pozzi 3212; Weber 3222).
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Bosporos (Βόσπορος) is the name of several straits. Note that poros (πορος) means a means of passing through, so that Βόσπορος roughly translates as “basis passage.”
Boubastis (Βούβαςτις), “Bull of Bastet,” is a city on the easternmost distributary of the Nile and the site of a major festival of Bastet, the immortal lion-Goddess.
Boubastis is located on an eastern tributary of the Nile. http://www.nigli.net/akhenaten/egyptm_2.html
OTHER
Bakelas (βᾰκέλας) or bakeelos (βάκηλος) means a eunuch in service of the immortal Mother of the Gods, Kubelee (Κῠβέλη), Kybele.
Barbarikos (βαρβᾰρικός) means non-Greek, the basis for the word barbaric.
Borboroo (βορβορόω) means to make muddy.
Beessa (βῆσσα) means wooded combe, glen; also, a drinking cup that is broader below and narrower above.
Beesalon (βήσαλον) means brick, brick-work.
Bisteenee (βιστήνη) means the heart.
Brenthina (βρενθινά) are roots used to make face-paint. Brenthos (βρένθος) means haughty, arrogant; also, tomb.
Bretanikos (βρετᾰνικός) means British. Bretas (βρέτας) means wooden image.
Brizo (βρίζω) means to be sleepy, nod, slumber, dream.
Britomartis (Βρῐτομαρτις) is a name of the immortal Goddess Artemis in Crete. Brittandra (βριττανδρα) means prevailing over men (ανδρα); the prefix mart- (μαρτ-) means witness, so that Britomartis (Βρῐτομαρτις) translates as “prevailing over witnesses.”
Buzo (βύζω) means to be frequent.
Buo (βύω) means to stuff full of.
The letter Β means basis.
In Astrology, basis (βάσις) means one’s horoscope, oroskopos (ώροσκόπος), the sign or degree rising at the time of birth, nativity.
Bankon (βανκόν) means one’s fate, destiny.
The astrological definition of basis (βάσις) as “the sign or degree rising at the time of birth” is consistent with the letter Β’s placement as the second letter of the alphabet, directly following the letter Α, “arising.” The letter Β answers the questions, “Arising where? In what context?”
The shape of the letter B shares similarities with the astrological symbol for the ascendant:
Astrological glyph/symbol for the ascendant.
http://www.hellenisticastrology.com/2010/10/07/the-glyph-for-the-ascendant-in-hellenistic-astrology/
The letter Β resembles the buttocks, the seat of the body and the base of the spine.
It should be noted that the name of the letter Β, beeta (βῆτα), contains the phrase eeta (ῆτα) and that eetor (ἦτορ) means the seat of life, the seat of feeling, the seat of reasoning powers.
Three other Greek letter-names include the phrase eeta (ῆτα): Ζ (zeeta (ζῆτα)), Η (eeta (ἧτα)), and Θ (theeta (θῆτα)). The letters Β, Η, and Θ are centrally divided by a horizontal line with top and bottom a mirror image of each other. It is interesting to note that the letter Η was originally written as a squared letter, making it only subtly distinguishable from the letter Β. The letter Θ originally contained a cross within a circle rather than just a horizontal line within a circle as shown in L. H. Jeffery’s Table of Letters.
Table of Letters. (L.H. Jeffery, The Local Scripts of Archaic Greece: A Study of the Origin of the Greek Alphabet and Its Development from the Eighth to the Fifth Centuries B.C.[E.]. (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1961.)
BASIS
Basis (βάσις) means stepping, step, steps; measured step or movement; rhythmic or metrical movement; metrical unit; order, sequence; that with which one steps, a foot; that whereon one stands, base, pedestal (of statues, of a column); foundation, basement; base of a solid or plane figure; position, fixedness; horoscope, oroskopos (ώροσκόπος), the sign or degree rising at the time of birth, the ascendant, nativity.
Webster’s defines basis as “the bottom or base of anything: the part on which something stands or rests; anything upon which something is based; fundamental principle; groundwork . . . a basic fact, amount, standard, etc., used in making computations.”
Note that the word basis pertains to waypoints as well as to a permanent, fixed place.
STEP
Recall that basis (βάσις) means stepping, step, steps; measured step or movement; rhythmic or metrical movement.
Babaksai (βαβάξαι) means dance. It is of interest to note that the name of the letter Β, beeta (βῆτα), is the basis for the word dance, beetarmos (βηταρμός), and dancer, beetarmon (βητάρμων). One of the definitions of basis (βάσις) is “rhythmic or metrical movement,” that is, the beat.
Badhen (βάδην) means step by step; on foot. Badizo (βᾰδίζω) means to walk, march, go, proceed. Badisis (βάδῐσις) means walking, going.
Bados (βάδος) means walk, literally “basis arising directed-trajectory.”
Bagei (βαγαῖ) means go in, enter, come in, come upon the stage, come before the court.
Bageuei (βαγεύει) means wander about.
Baino (βαίνω) and ban (βάν) mean walk, step, motion on foot, on ground; march, dance; come; go on, advance.
Ballizo (βαλλίζω) means dance, jump about.
Bate (βᾶτε) and bebamen (βεβάμεν) mean walk, dance, step.
Bateo (βᾰτέω) means that on which one treads.
Bebhelos (βέβηλος) means allowable to be trodden upon.
Berreuo (βερρεύω) means run away.
Beela (βηλά) are sandals, shoes, boots. Blautee (βλαύτη) means a slipper.
Beema (βῆμα) and bama (βᾶμα) mean step, pace, footfall; seat, base, pedestal.
Blaudes (βλαῦδες) means enter into a procession.
Blosis (βλῶσις) means arrival, presence. Blosko (βλώσκω) means go or come.
Bomis (βωμίς) means a step.
MEASURE
Recall that basis (βάσις) means metrical unit, a measured unit.
Bathmos (βαθμός), basmos (βασμός), and baino (βαίνω) mean step, threshold; an interval in a musical scale; rung of a ladder; degree on the dial; 15 degrees of the 360-degree zodiac; step, degree in rank; steps.
Baion (βαιών) means a measure.
Baios (βαιός) means little, small, few, scanty.
Baideion (βαίδειον) means at hand, ready, prepared; deion (δειον) means that which is needful, necessaries, so that baideion (βαίδειον) translates as “a measure of what is needed.”
Baiessa (βαίεσσα) means a bunch of grapes.
Baitee (βαίτη) means a coat or tent of skins, a covered building in the market-place.
Bakaion (βακάϊον) means that by which anything is measured, a metric, measure, rule.
Banotos (βανωτός) means a kind of vase used as a measure.
Bikas (βῖκας) means bind fast, tie up in a bundle. Bikos (βῖκος) means jar, cask, drinking bowl.
Blethra (βλέθρα) means a measure of length of 100 feet.
Boion (βοιόν) means a cycle of 50 years.
Brebion (βρέβιον) means list, inventory.
BASIS: STARTING-POINT
Balbis (βαλβίς) means the rope drawn across the race-course to mark the starting and finishing point.
Ballai (βάλλαι) means step, threshold.
Beelos (βηλός) means threshold. Beerides (βηρίδες) means enter.
Bela (βέλα) means Helios (the Sun) just arising (Eelios kai augee (Ἣλιος καί αύγή)), the basis of a new day. Babelios (βαβέλιος) means Helios.
Blastano (βλαστάνω) means to shoot forth, come to light, be born; bud, sprout, grow, literally “basis loosened.”
Blastao (βλαστάω) means bring forth; growth, birth from a parent; eruption on the skin; budding, sprouting. A blastos (βλαστός) means a shoot, bud; offspring.
Brephos (βρέφος) means a babe in the womb, fetus, literally “basis outflow.”
Bruchis (βρυχίς) means a twig or branch, especially a vine-twig; a cutting, slip.
Bokaros (βώκαρος) means early spring, the beginning of spring, literally “basis brings-forth core/Kore.”
BASE, PEDESTAL
Recall that basis (βάσις) means that whereon one stands, base, pedestal (of statues, of a column); foundation; basement.
Bakoa (βάκοα) means base, pedestal.
Banon (βανόν) means peeled, husked, taken down to the base.
Basagei (βασαγεῖ) means the ground.
Baskon (βάσκον) means land, a definite space, a piece of ground, place.
Basmiaios (βασμιαῖος) means a flat block used as a base.
Bauria (βαυρία) means building, house, dwelling.
Bebaios (βέβαιος) means firm, steady, steadfast, durable.
Berethron (βέρεθρον) means the underground course of a river.
Bleenai (βλῆναι) means truth, reality (the opposite of a lie or mere appearance).
Bothreuo (βοθρεύω) means to dig a trench or pit; the sockets of the teeth. A bothros (βόθρος) is a hole, trench, or pit dug in the ground.
Bolos (βῶλος) means land, soil, clay.
SEAT OF GOVERNMENT
Basileia (βᾰσιλείᾱ) means hereditary monarchy; kingdom, dominion; queen; reign. Basileia (βᾰσίλείᾰ) means queen, princess; of Goddesses.
Basilikos (βᾰσῐλικός) means royal, kingly; palace.
Basilis (βᾰσῐλίς) means queen, princess, empress; royal; kingdom. Basilissa (βᾰσῐλισσα, βασίλεῐᾰ) means queen; Roman Empress; a title of the immortal Goddess Demeter.
Bistaks (βίσταξ) and basileus (βασιλεύς) mean king, chief; hereditary king; of Roman emperors.
Boulee (Βουλή) means the Senate. Bouleia (Βουλεία) means the office of councilor, membership of the Senate.
BULLS, MALE CATTLE
Male cattle are the largest and most powerful of domesticated animals. A castrated ox can be trained to pull a plough through the fields.
Male cattle held a central role in both the agricultural and religious spheres of ancient Greek and Egyptian life. The slaughter of a bull was a sacred occasion. Below are depictions of sacrificial bulls.
Bull prepared for sacrifice , circa 50 CE. Vienna: Kunsthistorisches Museum. Credits: Ann Raia, 2006. http://www.vroma.org/cgi-bin/mfs/var/www/html/images?link=/raia_images/index6.html&file=/var/www/html/images/raia_images/index6.html&line=135#mfs
Bo- (βο-), boo- (βοο-), and bou- (βου-) are prefixes meaning bull, ox, male cattle.
Bous (βούς) means a bull, ox, cow, or cattle; also, the Spring constellation Taurus (April-May), the second constellation of the Zodiac.
Boubalos (βούβᾰλος) means buffalo. Bison (βίσων) means bison.
Boubeetis (βουβῆτις) means a stream for watering cattle; a cattle-pasture.
Bosaree (βωσαρη) is an Indian word for elephant, a large and powerful animal that can be tamed.
Decorated Indian elephant. http://worlldinformation.blogspot.com/2011/03/decorated-indian-elephant.html
ALTAR
Bames (βᾶμες), bomen (βῶμεν), and bomos (βωμός) mean a base, platform, floor, altar with a base.
Bomios (βώμιος) means of an altar, at the altar, literally “basis meta,” that is, the basis for a connection between the micro and the macro.
Bomiskos (βωμίσκος) means an altar-shaped vessel; in arithmetic, a solid number; the name of a constellation; the base of molar teeth.
Some inscriptions at Eleusis include: “Bomiskos for Iakchos” and “Bomiskos for Kourotrophos.”
(Inscriptions of Eleusis. IEO4OO. “Bomiskos for Iakchos.” Archaeological Museum of Eleusis 1072. Praktika 1956. Image: Cornell University Library.)
(http://www.lunacommons.org/luna/servlet/detail/CORNELL~13~1~423~100160:BOMISKOS-FOR-IAKCHOS). (http://www.lunacommons.org/luna/servlet/detail/CORNELL~13~1~424~100180:BOMISKOS-FOR-KOUROTROPHOS---IG-II²-).
Bomitis (βωμῖτις) means consecrated land.
Bomiskos (βωμίσκος) means altar. Bomistria (βωμίστρια) means priestess.
BOOKS
Written material serves as an official record as well as the basis for communication over space and time.
Biblio- (βιβλιο-) is a prefix meaning book.
Biblion (βιβλίον) means a strip of bublos (βυβλος), paper, a document.
Bublos (βυβλος) means the Egyptian papyrus, Cyperus Papyrus; the rind enclosing the pith of this plant, bark; slices of the pith used as a writing-material; a roll of papyrus.
Bublos (βυβλος) also means book, especially of sacred writings.
Bibliakos (βιβλιακός) means versed in books.
Bibliagraphos (βιβλιαγράφος, βιβλιογράφος) means writer of books; also, a library, collection of books, record-office, registry.
SEX ORGANS
Intercourse is the basis for procreation.
Babalon (βάβαλον) means privy parts, of both men and women.
Beblein (βέβλειν) means puberty.
Bibazo (βιβάζω) means to cause to mount, put the male to the female; stallion.
Bolba (βόλβα) means the vulva, the external female genitalia.
Boubon (Βουβών) means groin, literally “basis entity pure basis.”
LIFE
Bi- (βῐ-) and bio- (βῐο-) are prefixes meaning life. Bios (βίος) means life, lifetime, literally “basis divine-power entity.”
Bio (βίῳ) (βιόω), bioeen (βιῴην), bionai (βιῶναι), and bioto (βιώτω) mean live.
Babion (βάβιον) means child, the beginning or base of life.
A biographia (βῐογρᾰφία) is the written record of one’s life.
Biosis (βίωσις) means a way of life.
BODILY STRENGTH, FORCE
Bia (βία) means bodily strength, force, literally “basis divine-power arising.”
Biaios (βίαιος) means forcible, violent. Biasmos (βῐασμος) means violence. Biatas (βῐᾶτάς) means forceful, mighty.
Briaros (βρῐᾰρος) means strong. Briao (βρῐάω) means to make strong and mighty. Brimee (βρῑμη) means strength, might, literally “basis outflow-of divine-power.”
WEIGHT
Webster’s defines weight as “the force that gravitation exerts upon a body.”
Bareo (βαρέω) means weigh down, depress, heavy, literally “basis outflow.”
Baros (βάρος) means a weight, burden, load, heaviness, the basis for the word barometer.
Bareema (βάρημα) means burden, load, pressure.
Baru- (βᾰρῠ-) is a prefix meaning heavy, strong, grievous. Barutho (βᾰρύθω) means to be weighed down. Barus (βᾰρύς) means heavy in weight.
Brithos (βρῖθος) means weight. Britho (βρίθω) means to be heavy or weighed down; laden with; full of.
Broulos (βρουλός) means to be oppressed by toils, in a sorry plight.
DEPTH, HEIGHT, WIDTH
Recall that basis (βάσις) means metrical unit, something that can be measured.
Depth is a measure of how far something extends from the surface downward (to the base). Height is a measure from the bottom (base) to the top. Width measures from one side to the other. (Webster’s)
Bath- (βάθ-) is a prefix meaning deep, high, wide, thick.
Bathos (βάθος) means depth, height, length, breadth.
Bathistos (βάθιστος), bathion (βαθίων) and bathus (βαθύς) mean deep, high, wide, thick.
Bathrikon (βαθρικόν) means base.
Bathron (βάθρον) means that on which anything steps or stands; base, pedestal; stage, scaffold; solid base; seat, stool, bench.
Bathuno (βᾰθύνω) means to deepen, hollow out, penetrate deeply.
Bathus (βᾰθύς) means deep, high, thick, abundant, profound.
Bathalee (βαθάλη) means a well, spring, or fountain, the basis for the word bathe.
Baisson (βαισσόν) means depth, height.
Bamba (βάμβα) and bamma (βάμμα) mean that in which a thing is dipped, literally “basis meta.”
Bapto (βάπτω) means dip, literally “basis unified (with).”
Baptees (βάπτης) means a dipper or bather. Baptizo (βαπτίζω) means to dip, plunge, the basis for the word baptism.
Baph- (βαφ-) is a prefix meaning dip.
Bapsis (βάψις) means dipping.
Benthos (βένθος) and bussos (βυσσός) mean the depth of the sea. Bussothen (βυσσοθεν) means from the bottom of the sea.
Blothros (βλωθρός) means tall, literally “basis loosened brings-forth.”
Brachea (βράχεα) means shallows, literally “basis outflow foundation.” Brachus (βρᾰχύς) means short. Bradus (βρᾰδύς) means slow.
Bruks (βρύξ) means the depth of the sea.
Bruchios (βρύχιος) means from the depths of the sea, deep.
Buthos (βῠθός) means the depth, the bottom, literally “basis pure divine.”
BOIL, UPHEAVAL, BRING UP
Sucking draws milk out from the breast. Boiling brings bubbles up from the base to the surface. An earthquake is an upheaval from the depths; a cough brings the breath up from the lungs. A fountain or spring of water bubbles up from beneath the surface.
Badelegei (βαδελεγεῖ) means to milk, squeeze out milk, “basis arising directed-trajectory.” Bizia (βίζια) means mammary glands, literally “basis divine-power spark-of-life.”
Beeks (βήξ) means a cough, “basis center detach-from.”
Bluzo (βλύζω) means to bubble, gush forth of liquids. Blusis (βλύσις) means bubbling up of liquids, “basis loosened.”
Buktees (βύκτης) means swelling, blistering; hurricane, “basis pure core tension.”
The following words begin with br- (βρ-), literally “basis outflow.”
Brabeia (βρᾰβεία) means office of arbitration, judgment.
Brazo (βράζω) means boil, froth up, ferment.
Brasis (βράσις) means boiling (of water).
Brasmos (βρασμός) means boiling up.
Brastees (βράστης) and brasso (βράσσω) mean of an earthquake, upheaving the earth vertically.
Brusis (βρύσις) means bubbling up.
Bruazo (βρῠάζω) means to swell; be pregnant.
Brutos (βρῦτος) means fermented liquor made from barley, beer. Bunee (βύνη) means malt for brewing; also, an old name of the immortal sea-Goddess Ino or Leucothea; the sea itself (probably because the sea foams and froths).
Bruo (βρύω) means swell or team with, especially of plants; to be full to bursting, abound, grow luxuriantly; of water, burst forth, gush with.
UPROAR
Babazo (βαβάζω) means to speak inarticulately, or shout. Babizo (βαβίζω), bazo (βάζω), and bagma (βάγμα) mean speak or say.
Babaktees (βαβάκτης) means a reveler (of Pan; of Dionysos).
Baks (βαξ) means an oracular saying, inspired utterance. Babaks (βάβαξ) means chatterer.
Boao (βοάω) means cry aloud, shout.
Boee (βοή) means a loud cry or shout, a battle-cry.
Boeetheia (Βοήθεια) means aid called for (of the Goddess or Goddesses). Boeetheo (βοηθέω) and bathoeemi (βᾱθόημι) mean come to aid, succor, assist, aid, come to the rescue, receive help, resource, remedy.
Bombeo (βομβέω) means to make a booming (βόμβος) noise.
Bombuks (βόμβυξ) means a deep-toned pipe; the lowest note on the flute.
Borborugmos (βορβορυγμός) means intestinal rumbling, belching.
Boreas (βορέας) is the immortal God of the cold and raging north wind.
Borrazon (βορράζων) means noise, full of sound.
Brachein (βρᾰχεῖν) means rattle, clash, ring, mostly of arms and armor.
Bremo (βρέμω) means roar, clamor, rage.
Bront (βροντ) means thunder. Broutao (βρουτάω) means thunder; Zeus.
Brullo (βρύλλω) and brun (βρῦν) mean a child’s cry for drink.
Bruch- (βρῡχ-) is a prefix meaning roar, bellow, death-cry of wounded men, bellowing.
Bukan- (βῡκᾰν-) is a prefix meaning trumpet (βῡκᾰνάω); deep note.
Bukta (βυκτά) means complain loudly of hardship, utter indignant complaints.
BACCHOS
Bakchos (Βάκχος, Βακχεύς) is Bacchos, the immortal God of revelry and wine, literally “basis arising core foundation.”
Entheos (ἕνθεος) means full of a God or Goddess; inspired, possessed, inspired by a God or Goddess, the basis for the word enthusiasm. Celebrations of Bacchos are characterized by enthusiastic--enthousiastikos (ένθουσιαστικός)--song, music, and dance as Bacchantes enter a state of fusion with Bacchos.
Bakchio (Βακχιόω) means fill with divine presence.
Bakcheia (Βακχεία) means Bacchic revelry. Bakcheios (Βακχειος) means belonging to Bacchos and the rites of Bacchos.
Bakchee (Βάκχη) means Bacchante, a female worshiper of Bacchos.
Detail of a Bacchante from a painting of the train of Bacchos/Dionysos. She holds a thyrsos (pine-cone tipped staff).
Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, Florida, USA Catalogue Number: Tampa 86.102. Apulian Red Figure Krater, Name vase of the Maplewood Painter, circa 350 BCE. http://www.theoi.com/Gallery/T62.3.html
Bakchodees (Βακχώδης) and Bakchos (Βάκχος) mean filled with the spirit of Bacchos.
In Orphic Hymn 45. To Liknitus Bacchus (5-6), Orpheus proclaims,
“. . . ‘Tis thine mad footsteps with mad nymphs to beat,
Dancing thro’ groves with lightly leaping feet . . .”
(Orpheus. The Hymns of Orpheus (circa 200 BCE), translated by Thomas Taylor, introductory preface by Manly P. Hall (London: Printed for the Author, 1792. Reprinted Los Angeles, CA: The Philosophical Research Society, 1981) 179.)
Seneca, in Phaedra (753-755), describes Bacchos as having Indian origins:
“Et tu, thyrsigera Liber ab India,
intonsa iuvenis perpetuum coma,
tigres pampinea cuspide territans . . .”
"And thou, Bacchus, from thyrsus-bearing India, with unshorn locks, perpetually young, thou who frightenest tigers with thy vine-clad spear . . ."
(Seneca (circa 41 CE), Phaedra 753-755 in Tragedies, Vol. I, Loeb Classical Library, translated by Frank Justus Miller (London: William Heinemann and New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1917.) http://books.google.com/books?id=S6pM-L1KuD8C&pg=PA379&lpg=PA379&dq=Bacchus,+from+thyrsus-bearing+India,+with+unshorn+locks,+perpetually+young,+thou+who+frightenest+tigers+with+thy+vine-clad+spear.%22&source=bl&ots=6ilm_5P9SD&sig=AgmRfvdq6V8HfCEW_ya1C-UTtKc&hl=en&sa=X&ei=GYSNT_zvMIXg0QGq3KmjDw&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=Bacchus%2C%20from%20thyrsus-bearing%20India%2C%20with%20unshorn%20locks%2C%20perpetually%20young%2C%20thou%20who%20frightenest%20tigers%20with%20thy%20vine-clad%20spear.%22&f=false
The immortal God Bacchos holding a thyrsos (pine-cone tipped staff), draped with a skin, and accompanied by a panther, follows a Satyros with pipes and a Bacchante with cymbals in a Bacchic procession. http://www.theoi.com/Gallery/R12.1.html
British Museum, London, United Kingdom, from the Villa Quintiliana on the Appian Way, south of Rome, circa 100 CE.
The pine-cone tipped staff is a symbol of followers of Bacchos. The staff is a symbol of office or position as well as an aid in walking.
Bakteeria (βακτηρία) means a staff, a wand as a badge of office. Baklon (βάκλον) means stick.
Baktrophoras (βακτροφόρας) means staff-bearer.
FOOD, EATING
Eating is integral to mortal life. Mortals eat other living beings (plants, animals) in order to live.
Bibosko (βιβώσκω) means eat, eat up; decay; devour; worm-eaten.
Bora (βορά) means food.
Bortheia (Βορθεια) is a title of the immortal Goddess Artemis, “Goddess of food.”
Boros (βορός) means gluttonous; inducing appetite.
Bosis (βόσις) means food, fodder.
Food basics in the Mediterranean include, grains, bread, grapes, and fish.
Baburas (Βαβύρας) means the fat of beasts.
Bagos (βάγος) means a morsel of bread; also, any matter of religious awe.
Bekos (βέκος) and beskeroi (βέσκεροι) mean bread.
Bettonikee (βεττονική) means betony, Sideritis purpurea, an herb thought to be a cure-all. Betony is also called anthrakobotanon (άνθρᾰκοβότανον); with anthrak- (άνθρᾰκ-) a prefix meaning charcoal or carbon, so that άνθρᾰκοβότανον translates as “charcoal herb.”
“Betony is very good in pains of the head, convulsions and nervine affections: The dried leaves, cut, and mixed with tobacco, are frequently smoaked (sic) for the head-ach (sic), vertigo, and fore (sic) eyes. Mixed with Wood-sage and Ground-pine, it makes a good diet-drink for the gout, and rheumatick pains.” On p. 142, “Paul’s Betony is reckoned among the vulnerary plants, both used inwardly and outwardly; it is likewise pectoral, and good for coughs and consumptions; and is helpful against the stone or strangury; as also against pestilential distempers. It is used as a tea.”
(John Wilson. A Synopsis of British Plants in Mr. Ray’s Method (Newcastle Upon Tyne: John Gooding, 1744) 91.)http://books.google.com/books?id=a29bAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA91&lpg=PA91&dq=betony+Sideritis+purpurea&source=bl&ots=Rh9IuGe93S&sig=UbLVaRIDBYHjC-hP0cWEKj4oAsA&hl=en&ei=UtlTTqHzB6Xd0QGdooHKCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CCMQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=betony%20Sideritis%20purpurea&f=false
Beerbee (βήρβη) means fruit; bean.
Beereeks (βήρηξ) means a loaf of bread.
Beerus (βῆρυς) means fish, a food staple in the sea-faring Mediterranean; also, the constellation Pisces (Feb.-Mar.), the last sign of the zodiac before the start of the new year marked by Aries (Mar.-Apr.), making Beerus (βῆρυς) (Pisces) the base or launch-pad for the new year.
Boa (βόα) means fish.
Bosmoron (βόσμορον) means an Indian millet, ragi, Eleusine coracana (note the use of “Eleusine.”)
“Ragi is the main food grain for many peoples, especially in dry areas of India and Sri Lanka. Grain is higher in protein, fat and minerals than rice, corn, or sorghum (Reed, 1976). It is usually converted into flour and made into cakes, puddings, or porridge. When consumed as food it provides a sustaining diet, especially for people doing hard work. Straw makes valuable fodder for both working and milking animals. A fermented drink or beer is made from the grain. Grain may also be malted and a flour of the malted grain used as a nourishing food for infants and invalids. Ragi is considered an especially wholesome food for diabetics.”
(James A. Duke. Handbook of Energy Crops (unpublished, 1983). http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/duke_energy/eleusine_coracana.html
Botr- (βοτρ-) is a prefix meaning cluster, bunch of grapes; of berries. Botrus (βότρυς) means a bunch of grapes.
Brakana (βράκανα) means wild herbs.
Briza (βρίζα) means rye.
Bromos (βρόμος) means oats, wild oats. Oddly enough, bromos (βρόμος) also means any loud noise, crackling of fire, roar of thunder, rage, fury.
Bromeo (βρομέω) means buzz, roar, boil. Bromios (Βρόμιος) is a name of Bacchos, the immortal God of wine. Followers of Bacchos are known for causing an uproar.
In Euripides’ play, Bacchae, Bromios is described as inspiring His followers to shout out loud, reveling in the flow of milk, wine, and honey:
ὁ δ᾽ ἔξαρχος Βρόμιος,
εὐοἷ.
ῥεῖ δὲ γάλακτι πέδον, ῥεῖ δ᾽ οἴνῳ, ῥεῖ δὲ μελισσᾶν
νέκταρι.
Συρίας δ᾽ ὡς λιβάνου καπνὸν
ὁ Βακχεὺς ἀνέχων
πυρσώδη φλόγα πεύκας
ἐκ νάρθηκος ἀίσσει
δρόμῳ καὶ χοροῖσιν
πλανάτας ἐρεθίζων
ἰαχαῖς τ᾽ ἀναπάλλων,
τρυφερόν <τε> πλόκαμον εἰς αἰθέρα ῥίπτων. 150
ἅμα δ᾽ εὐάσμασι τοιάδ᾽ ἐπιβρέμει·
Ὦ ἴτε βάκχαι,
ὦ] ἴτε βάκχαι,
(Euripides, Bacchae, ancient Greek text http://www.mikrosapoplous.gr/eyripedes/bakhes/bakhes02.html last update: 4/2012)
“He is Bromius who leads us! Euohe!
--With milk the earth flows! It flows with wine!
It runs with the nectar of bees!
--Like frankincense in its fragrance
is the blaze of the torch he bears.
Flames float out from his trailing wand
as he runs, as he dances,
kindling the stragglers,
spurring with cries,
and his long curls stream to the wind!
--And he cries, as they cry, Euohe!--
On, Bacchae!
On, Bacchae!”
(Note that euoi/euohe (εὐοἷ) means good.)
(Euripedes, Bacchae (141-153), Euripedes V, translated by William Arrowsmith (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1959) 160.)
Brogchos (βρόγχος) means trachea, windpipe, throat. Brochthos (βρόχθος) is another word for throat. Brocho (βρόχω) means to gulp down, swallow, drink up, guzzle. Brochhe (βροχή) means rain; inundation of the Nile; irrigation. Brecho (βρέχω) means wet, rain.
Bruko (βρύκω) means to bite, gnash; eat greedily, gobble up.
Broma (βρῶμα) means that which is eaten, food, meat; a cavity in a tooth (because the tooth is eaten away); moth-eaten. Bromos (βρῶμος) means stink, noisome smell, foul-smelling (describes something decaying, food for maggots/scavengers).
Brosis (βρῶσις) means meat; pasture; eating.
Broteos (βρωτέος) means to be eaten. Broteios (βρότειος) and brotos (βροτός) mean human, mortal, subject to death.
PASTURE, PASTURE ANIMALS
Beekia (βηκία) means sheep, cattle, pasturage, grazing animals.
Boskos (βοσκός) means a herdsman, shepherd. Bosko (βόσκω) means of shepherds; feed, tend; feed, nourish, graze.
Botan- (βοτᾰν-) is a prefix meaning herbs, the basis for the word botany. Botanee (Βοτάνη) means pasture.
Boteios (βότειος) means of a sheep. Boteer (βοτήρ) means herder. Boton (βοτόν) means a beast, a grazing beast.
BASIS LOOSENED
Words that begin with βλ-, literally “basis loosened,” express damage, flight, randomness, lack of energy, foolishness, crookedness, smokiness, loose talk, and launching.
Blabee (βλάβη) means harm, damage, damage done.
Blaburei (βλαβύρει) means to spread wings; flutter.
Blaburia (βλαβυρία) means random talking, “blah blah.”
Blagis (βλαγις) means a stain, spot, defilement.
Bladan (βλαδάν) means heavy sleep; sluggish; leisurely.
Bladaros (βλᾰδᾰρός) means flaccid, soft.
Blazein (βλάζειν) means silly, foolish, folly.
Blais- (βλαισ-) is a prefix meaning crooked, bent, curved, twisted.
Blakeia (βλᾱκεία) means slackness, lazy.
Blaks (βλάξ) means stolid, stupid.
Blapto (βλάπτω) means to disable, hinder, damage, hurt.
Blaskei (βλάσκει) means to make smoke, turn into smoke.
Blasta (βλαστά) means a rattle, clap, cracking sound.
Blaspheemeo (βλασφημέω) means to speak profanely of sacred things; speak ill of, slander, defamation. Note φῆμα means that which is said, word, so that βλασφημέω roughly translates as “baseless words.”
Blacha (βλᾱχά) means bleating of sheeps; the wailing of infants. Bleechazo (βληχάζω) also means bleat, of sheeps.
Blapsis (βλάψις) means harming, damage.
Bleairei (βλεαίρει) means to take pity on, perhaps by setting aside punishments.
Blennos (βλέννος) means slime.
Bletuges (βλέτυγες) means nonsense, futility, foolishness.
Bleedeen (βλήδην) means throwing, hurling. Bleema (βλῆμα) means throw, cast. Blees (βλής) means thrown. Bolee (βολή) means throw. A bolis (βολίς) is a missile or javelin.
Bleer (βλῆρ) means bait, something dangled as an enticement.
Bleetos (βλητός) means stricken by disease.
Bleechon (βλήχων) means pennyroyal, Mentha Pulegium, an herb used to terminate pregnancy.
Blima (βλίμα) means to treat disrespectfully, to treat with contempt.
Blitta (βλίττω) means to cut the honeycomb from the beehive to take the honey.
Blituri (βλίτυρι) means the twang of a harp-string.
Blomos (βλωμός) means a morsel of bread.
Bludion (βλύδιον) means watery, ud- (ύδ-) means water.
Boleo (βολέω) means to be stricken, literally “basis entity loosened.”
EYESIGHT
Eyesight is a sense that profoundly extends the realm of experience.
Blemma (βλέμμα) means a look, glance, eyesight; lemma (λέμμα) means husk, that which is peeled away.
Blepo (βλέπω) means see, have the power of sight, look, lep- (λέπ-) is a prefix meaning husk. Eyes are at the center of the skull, so blepo (βλέπω) and blemma (βλέμμα) could translate as “basis (of the) husk/skull” or “basis of peeling away the husk/skull.”
Blepharon (βλέφᾰρον) are the eyelids; pharos (φάρος) means lighthouse.
Blepsis (βλέψις) is the act of sight; a thing seen, literally “basis loosened essence incorporeal.”
Boroi (βῶροι) means eyes, oro- (ῶρο-) means observation, so “basis of sight.”
BABYLON
Babulon (Βᾰβῠλών) is Babylon, the capital of Babylonia, an ancient empire of Mesopotamia, a major city on the Euphrates River, in what is now southern Iraq.
Babylon is located on the Euphrates River in the ancient Assyrian empire in 834 BCE. Babylon is home to the famous Ishtar Gate, described by Pausanias:
“[8.33.3] “Of the Babylon that was the greatest city of its time under the sun nothing remains but the wall.” (Pausanias 8.33.3), http://www.theoi.com/Text/Pausanias8B.html )
Modern archaeologists attest to the grandeur of the Ishtar Gate of Babylon.
“The magnificent approach by way of the Procession Street corresponds entirely with the importance, the size, and the splendour of the Ishtar Gate. With its walls which still stand 12 metres high, covered with brick reliefs, it is the largest and most striking ruin of Babylon.”
(Robert Koldewey. The Excavations at Babylon, translated by Agnes Sophia Griffith Johns (London, et. al.: MacMillan and Co., 1914) 31-32. http://books.google.com/books?id=NTmFAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false )
An inscription on the Ishtar Gate describes Ishtar as the inspiration for its construction:
Column III.
“Doors of unbarked-cedars (9)
whose odor is sweet in its gates (10)
I caused to stand. That temple like the day (11)
I made brilliant. For Ishtar of Agade, (12)
the great lady, my lady, for the life of my soul, (13)
for the annihilation of mine enemy verily I have made it.”
(S. Langdon, “New Inscriptions of Nabuna’ed,” The American Journal of Semitic Languages, Vol. 32, edited by John Merlin Powis Smith (Chicago: University of Chicago, Dept. of Semitic Languages.) 114.)
http://books.google.com/books?id=PJKe_OlReJ0C&pg=PA114&lpg=PA114&dq=temple+of+ishtar+of+agade&source=bl&ots=bayqwPxL3p&sig=C9pFWiS2Ceu-QacWnAFmchiij9c&hl=en&ei=_EOASqiBFZKyswPawZHvCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7#v=onepage&q=&f=false )
The Ishtar Gate, 575 BCE., Babylon.
The following hymn to Ishtar describes Ishtar as reigning over all as Queen of Heaven and Earth.
“I beseech thee, Lady of Ladies, Goddess of Goddesses, Ishtar, Queen of all cities, leader of all men.
Thou art the light of the world, thou art the light of heaven . . .
Supreme is thy might, O Lady, exalted art thou above all [G]ods.[and Goddesses]
Thou renderest judgment, and thy decision is righteous.
Unto thee are subject the laws of the earth and the laws of heaven,
the laws of the temples and the shrines, the laws of the private apartment and the secret chamber.
Where is the place where thy name is not, and where is the spot where thy commandments are not known?
At thy name the earth and the heavens shake, and the [G]ods [and Goddesses] they tremble . . .
Thou lookest upon the oppressed, and to the down-trodden thou bringest justice every day.
How long, Queen of Heaven and Earth, how long,
How long, Shepherdess of pale-faced men, wilt thou tarry?
How long, O Queen whose feet are not weary, and whose knees make haste?
How long, Lady of Hosts, Lady of Battles?
Glorious one whom all the spirits of heaven fear, who subduest all angry [G]ods [and Goddesses], mighty above all rulers; who holdest the reins of kings.
Opener of the womb of all women, great is thy light.
Shining light of heaven, light of the world, enlightener of all the places where men (sic) dwell, who gatherest together the hosts of the nations.
Goddess of men, Divinity of women, thy counsel passeth understanding.
Where thou glances, the dead come to life, and the sick rise and walk; the mind of the diseased is healed when it looks upon thy face.
How long, O Lady, shall mine enemy triumph over me?
Command, and at thy command the angry [G]od will turn back.
Ishtar is great! Ishtar is Queen! My Lady is exalted, my Lady is Queen, Innini . . .
There is none like unto her.”
(Will Durant, The Story of Civilization: Our Oriental Heritage (New York: MJF Books, 1935) 235-236.)
OTHER LOCALES
Bithuniarchees (Βῑθῦνῐάρχης) means the President of the Provincial Council of Bithynia (Βῑθῦνῐά).
Bithynia is in northern Turkey.
Boiotos (Βοιωτός) means Boeotian.
Boeotia is shown northwest of Attica. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_Band_of_Thebes
A Boeotian coin, circa 387-372 BCE, featuring a Boeotian shield on one side, and the head of the immortal Goddess Hera, wearing stephane (crown), 2.72g (BMC 1; Pozzi 3212; Weber 3222).
http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?search=similar%3A87993&view_mode=1#0
Bosporos (Βόσπορος) is the name of several straits. Note that poros (πορος) means a means of passing through, so that Βόσπορος roughly translates as “basis passage.”
Boubastis (Βούβαςτις), “Bull of Bastet,” is a city on the easternmost distributary of the Nile and the site of a major festival of Bastet, the immortal lion-Goddess.
Boubastis is located on an eastern tributary of the Nile. http://www.nigli.net/akhenaten/egyptm_2.html
OTHER
Bakelas (βᾰκέλας) or bakeelos (βάκηλος) means a eunuch in service of the immortal Mother of the Gods, Kubelee (Κῠβέλη), Kybele.
Barbarikos (βαρβᾰρικός) means non-Greek, the basis for the word barbaric.
Borboroo (βορβορόω) means to make muddy.
Beessa (βῆσσα) means wooded combe, glen; also, a drinking cup that is broader below and narrower above.
Beesalon (βήσαλον) means brick, brick-work.
Bisteenee (βιστήνη) means the heart.
Brenthina (βρενθινά) are roots used to make face-paint. Brenthos (βρένθος) means haughty, arrogant; also, tomb.
Bretanikos (βρετᾰνικός) means British. Bretas (βρέτας) means wooden image.
Brizo (βρίζω) means to be sleepy, nod, slumber, dream.
Britomartis (Βρῐτομαρτις) is a name of the immortal Goddess Artemis in Crete. Brittandra (βριττανδρα) means prevailing over men (ανδρα); the prefix mart- (μαρτ-) means witness, so that Britomartis (Βρῐτομαρτις) translates as “prevailing over witnesses.”
Buzo (βύζω) means to be frequent.
Buo (βύω) means to stuff full of.
