Φ φ phei (φεῖ) divinely-animated-entity pronunciation: f
The letter Φ means divinely-animated-entity.
Webster’s defines animate as “to give life to; make alive.”
The letter Ι means divine-power, particularly with regard to electro-magnetic and gravitational energy.
The letter Ο means entity.
The letter Φ is a fusion of the letter Ι (divine-power) with the letter Ο (entity).
Appropriately, a flame in a candle resembles the letter Φ. Fire needs fuel (matter) as well as animating energy to burn.
Candle bearing flame. http://ergostore.eu/candle-flame&page=7
A torch-flame lit within a parabola resembles the letter Φ.
Lighting Olympic torch from power of the sun. (Photo credit: China Photo Press) http://torchrelay.beijing2008.cn/en/news/headlines/n214276143.shtml
BREATH
The presence of breath in humans and animals means the presence of life.
Phus- (φῦσ-) is a prefix meaning blow, breath, literally “divinely-animated-entity pure.”
Phusa (φῦσα) means breath, wind in the body.
Phusao (φῡσάω) means blow, breath.
NATURE
Phuo (φύω) means bring forth, produce, put forth, grow, birth, to be born, to be formed by nature, literally “divinely-animated-entity pure brings-forth.”
Phusis (Φύσις) is the immortal Goddess of Nature.
Aristotle defines nature (phusis) as a principle of inner motion inside each thing. The stoics define phusis as an artistic fire that engenders all things.
(Pierre Hadot. The Veil of Isis: An Essay on the History of the Idea of Nature (Le Voile d’Isis: Essai sur l’histoire de l’idee de Nature (Paris: Gallimard, 2004)), translated by Michael Chase (Harvard University Press, 2006) 23-25.)
“Physics,” according to The New Book of Knowledge Encyclopedia, “is the study of matter and energy.”
(The New Book of Knowledge Volume 15 P, “Physics” (Danbury, Connecticut: Grolier, 2002) 228.)
Physis is defined by Webster’s as “the principle of growth or change in nature; nature as the source of growth or change.”
Phusis (φύσις), also spelled phuseos (φύσεως φῠσεος), means origin, birth, growth, nature, instinct, the regular order of nature, nature as an originating power; the principle of growth in the universe; elementary substance; the creation; Nature; the Pythagorean name for two; sex; genitals, especially the female genitals.
Phusimos (φύσῐμος) means able to produce, productive.
Phusizoos (φῡσίζοος, φῡσίζωος) means producing (φῡσί-) life, zoos (ζοος/ζωος), an epithet of Earth.
Phusiologeo (φῠσιολογέω) means a discourse on nature, physiology, an investigation into natural causes and phenomena.
Lucretius Carus in Of the Nature of Things says that Aphrodite is the source of generation and that Nature determines when something will grow and when it will perish:
“. . . Thou (Venus [Aphrodite]) bringest the eternal generations forth,
Kind after kind. And since 'tis thou alone
Guidest the Cosmos, and without thee naught
Is risen to reach the shining shores of light,
Nor aught of joyful or of lovely born,
Thee do I crave co-partner in that verse
Which I presume on Nature to compose . . .
“. . . by Nature, each
Slowly increases from its lawful seed,
And through that increase shall conserve its kind . . .
“. . . Hence too it comes that Nature all dissolves
Into their primal bodies again, and naught
Perishes ever to annihilation . . .
“. . . Nature ever
Upbuilds one thing from other, suffering naught
To come to birth but through some other's death . . .
“. . . All nature, then, as self-sustained, consists
Of twain of things: of bodies and of void . . .
“. . . all things kind by kind obtain
Fixed bounds of growing and conserving life;
Since Nature hath inviolably decreed
What each can do, what each can never do . . .”
(T. Lucretius Carus (50 BCE). Of the Nature of Things, translated by William Ellery Leonard (London, Paris & Toronto: J. M. Dent & Sons; New York: E. P. Dutton, 1916) 3- 23.) http://books.google.com/books?id=CXJ1AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA10&lpg=PA10&dq=Hence+too+it+comes+that+Nature+all+dissolves++Into+their+primal+bodies+again,+and+naught++Perishes+ever+to+annihilation&source=bl&ots=5BRexTggOd&sig=raq27O_1FdiDK9VmeW0cEpAqzV0&hl=en&sa=X&ei=XbUwUf2POM2L0QH81YDYCw&ved=0CD4Q6AEwAw#v=snippet&q=Fixed%20bounds%20of%20growing&f=false ; (The Internet Classics Archive) http://classics.mit.edu/Carus/nature_things.1.i.html )
Phusikos (φῠσικός) means produced or caused by nature, natural.
Orphic Hymn 9 To Nature says:
“Nature, all parent, ancient, and divine,
O much-mechanic mother, art is thine;
Heav'nly, abundant, venerable queen,
In ev'ry part of thy dominions seen.
Untam'd, all-taming, ever splendid light,
All ruling, honor'd, and supremely bright.
Immortal, first-born, ever still the same,
Nocturnal, starry, shining, glorious dame.
Thy feet's still traces in a circling course,
By thee are turn'd, with unremitting force.
Pure ornament of all the pow'rs divine,
Finite and infinite alike you shine;
To all things common and in all things known,
Yet incommunicable and alone.
Without a father of thy wond'rous frame,
Thyself the father whence thy essence came.
All-flourishing, connecting, mingling soul,
Leader and ruler of this mighty whole.
Life-bearer, all-sustaining, various nam'd,
And for commanding grace and beauty fam'd.
Justice, supreme in might, whose general sway
The waters of the restless deep obey.
Aetherial, earthly, for the pious glad,
Sweet to the good, but bitter to the bad.
All-wife, all bounteous, provident, divine,
A rich increase of nutriment is thine;
Father of all, great nurse, and mother kind,
Abundant, blessed, all-spermatic mind:
Mature, impetuous, from whose fertile seeds
And plastic hand, this changing scene proceeds.
All-parent pow'r, to mortal eyes unseen,
Eternal, moving, all-sagacious queen.
By thee the world, whose parts in rapid flow,
Like swift descending streams, no respite know,
On an eternal hinge, with steady course
Is whirl'd, with matchless, unremitting force.
Thron'd on a circling car, thy mighty hand
Holds and directs, the reins of wide command.
Various thy essence, honor'd, and the best,
Of judgement too, the general end and test.
Intrepid, fatal, all-subduing dame,
Life-everlasting, Parca, breathing flame.
Immortal, Providence, the world is thine,
And thou art all things, architect divine.
O blessed Goddess, hear thy suppliant's pray'r,
And make my future life, thy constant care;
Give plenteous seasons, and sufficient wealth,
And crown my days with lasting, peace and health.”
(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) 126-130.)
Nonnos describes Beirut as the place where Nature/Phusis created the first humans:
"Here [Beirut in Lebanon] dwelt a people agemates with the Dawn, whom Nature by her own breeding, in some unwedded way, begat without bridal, without wedding, fatherless, motherless, unborn: when the atoms were mingled in fourfold combination, and the seedless ooze shaped a clever offspring by comingling water with fiery heat and air, and quickened the teeming mud with the breath of life. To these Nature gave perfect shape . . . now first appeared the golden crop of men [sic] brought forth in the image of the [G]ods [and Goddesses], with the roots of their stock in the earth."
(Nonnos. Dionysiaca 41. 51, translated by W.H.D. Rouse, Loeb Classical Library (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press and London: William Heinemann, 1942.) http://archive.org/stream/dionysiaca03nonnuoft/dionysiaca03nonnuoft_djvu.txt
Phusikleidion (φῠσικλείδιον) is a spell to open the phusis (female genitals); note that kleidion (κλείδιον) means key.
PHERSEPHONE
The immortal Goddess Persephone is often spelled with a Φ: Phersephonee (Φερσεφόνη).
Phersephone is the Goddess of the afterlife and new life in Spring.
GROWTH/FRUITION
Phituma (φίτύμα) means scion; offshoot.
Phituo (φῑτύω) means to sow, plant, beget.
Phuma (φῦμα) means growth, that which grows, “divinely-animated-entity pure meta arising.”
Phuee (φῠή) means stature, flower/prime of age.
Phut- (φῠτ-) is a prefix meaning planting, growth, beget, engender, literally “divinely-animated-entity pure extend.”
Phutios (φύτιος) means generative.
Phuton (φῠτόν) means plant, garden plant or tree.
Phutalia (φῠτᾰλια) means orchard, vineyard.
Phutalmios (φῠτάλμιος) means producing, nourishing, fostering, giving birth to.
FIRE
Phloks (φλόξ) means flame of fire; fire as an element, literally “divinely-animated-entity loosened.”
Phlego (φλέγω) means burn, burn up, kindle, inflame, blaze, “divinely-animated-entity loosened essence generative.”
Phlegma (φλέγμα) means flame, fire, heat, inflammation.
According to Hippocrates, the four chumoi (χυμοί) (Latin: humores), “fluids, juices,” of the body are:
-inflammation (phlegma (φλέγμα))
-blood (aima (αἷμα))
-bile; bowel (choleen (χολήν))
-water (udrops (ὕδρωψ)).
(Hippocrates. De Nature Hominis. (Littré VI. 38 and 40). http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0251%3Atext%3Dintro%3Achapter%3D9
Phlegmaino (φλεγμαίνω) means cause to swell up; to be heated, inflamed, fester.
Phlegraia (φλεγραῖα) means volcanic.
Phlogo (φλογόω) means set on fire.
Phlogeos (φλόγεος) means bright as fire, burning, flaming, inflamed.
FIRE SIGNALS
Phruktos (φρυκτός) means fire-brand, torch.
Phruktoreo (φρυκτωρέω) means make fire signals, make beacon-fires.
Phruktorion (φρυκτωριον) means beacon-fire tower, fire-signal station.
Phournos (φοῦρνος) means furnace; oven.
PHTHIA: LAND OF FIRE
Phthia (Φθία) is Phthiotis, a city-state in southern Thessaly. The revered “oracle” at Delphi was called the Phthia (Φθία).
According to Homer, Herodotus, Pausanias, Strabo and others, Hellen, the common ancestor of the Hellenes, was the king of Phthia (Φθία).
(Hom. Il. ii. 684; Herod. i. 56; Thuc. i. 3; Paus. iii. 20. § 6; Strab. viii. p. 383.)
http://www.mythindex.com/greek-mythology/H/Hellen.html
Eelenee (έλένη), Helen, means torch.
Hellen was the son of Pyrrha (fire) and the grandson of Prometheus.
Prometheus legendarily first formed humans out of water and earth and provided fire to humanity. (Pseudo-Apollodorus. Bibliotheca 1. 7. 2 – 3;1.45 (trans. Frazer and trans. Aldrich)
Phthiotis is located in southern Thessaly.
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Phthiotis in southern Thessaly. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f6/Thessaly.jpg
Thessaly on a map of Greece.
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FIRE AS FIRST PRINCIPLE
Phanos (φᾱνός) means light, bright, torch, literally “divinely-animated-entity arising prevailing.”
Phanee (φᾰνή) means torch or light.
Phaeino (φᾰείνω) means shine, give light.
Phaino (φαίνω) means bring to light, cause to appear, make known; appear, come to light.
Phaneros (φᾰνερός) means visible, manifest.
Phantos (φαντός) means visible.
Phanees (Φάνης) is Phanes, the immortal God of the first principle of life.
In Orphic Hymn 5. To Protogonus, Or the First-born, Orpheus describes Phanes as light:
“Mighty first-begotten, hear my pray’r,
Two-fold, egg-born, and wand’ring thro’ the air,
. . . From eyes obscure thou wip’st the gloom of night,
All-spreading splendour, pure and holy light;
Hence Phanes call’d, the glory of the sky . . .”
(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) 120.)
Guthrie, in Orpheus and the Greek Religion, describes how Time (Chronos) placed within Sky (Aither) an egg, from which emerged Phanes:
“Out of Chronos (Time) are born Aither with Chaos and Erebos . . . Next, Chronos fashions in Aither an egg. The egg splits in two and Phanes, the first-born of the [G]ods [and Goddesses] (Protogonos), springs forth.”
“. . . in the Orpheus of Athenagoras, the two halves of the egg from which Phanes sprang go to make Heaven and Earth.”
(W. K. C. Guthrie. Orpheus and the Greek Religion (New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1952 by Methuen & Co., copyright 1993 by Princeton University Press) 80, 85.)
The Derveni Papyrus describes Phanes as a male/female entity who emerged from an egg:
“First, there was Chronos or Time (Chronology). From Chronos, Aither and Chasma or Chaos were born. Chronos places an egg in Aither. The egg is also called white tunic (argeeta chitona (άργῆτα χιτῶνα)) or cloud (nepheleen (νεφελήν)). The [G]od[/dess] Phanes breaks out from the egg . . . Phanes is a marvellous (sp. sic) creature. He/she is of both sexes . . .”
(Gabor Betegh, The Derveni Papyrus: Cosmology, Theology and Interpretation (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004) 141-142.) http://books.google.com/books?id=5HaKQFeYSBEC&q=egg#v=snippet&q=egg&f=false
Phanes hatched from the world egg & circled by the zodiac. Phanes is winged and enwrapped by a serpent, suggesting both heavenly and earthly qualities. Greco-Roman bas relief circa 150 CE. Image located in Galeriea e Museo Eustense, Modena, Italy. http://www.theoi.com/Protogenos/Phanes.html
LIGHT
Phao (φάω) and phausis (φαῦσις) mean lighting, illumination, shining; heliacal rising of a planet or constellation, literally “divinely-animated-entity arising.”
Phaos (φαός) means light, daylight.
Phaetho (φᾰέθω) means shine, radiant, light-bringing; of the Sun, the Moon.
Pharos (Φάρος) is an island in the bay of Alexandria, Egypt, famous for its lighthouse.
Stamp from Hungary, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, Stamp Number HU2636. http://colnect.com/en/stamps/stamp/174768-Pharos_Lighthouse_Alexandria-Seven_Wonders_of_the_Ancient_World-Hungary
Phaidro- (φαιδρο-) is a prefix meaning bright, shining.
Pheggos (φέγγος) means light, splendor, luster, daylight, moonlight, the light of torches or fire, literally “divinely-animated-entity essence generative.” Note the word “egg” within this word.
Pheggo (φέγγω) means make bright, shine, gleam.
Phos (φῶς) means light, literally “divinely-animated-entity brings-forth.” Note that the letter Ω means egg/brings-forth.
Phos (φόως, φῶς) means to the light, to the light of day.
Phosphoreo (φωσφόρέω) means bear or bring light, phosphorescence; a name given specially to the planet Venus; torch-bearing. Webster’s defines Phosphor as “the morning star, esp. Venus; the light-bringing one.”
Phosteer (φωστήρ) means that which gives light, splendor, radiance; an opening for light such as a door or a window.
Phot- (φωτ-) and photo- (φωτο-) are prefixes meaning illumination, light, the basis for the word photograph.
Photeinos (φωτεινός) means shining, bright.
Photizo (φωτίζω) means shine, give light.
APPEARANCE
Phantasia (φαντᾰσία) means appearance, presentation to the consciousness, whether immediate or in memory; imagery; imagination.
Phantasio (φαντᾰσιοω) means bring images before the mind.
Phantasma (φαντᾰσμα) means apparition, phantom, mental image, phenomena, literally “divinely-animated-entity arising prevailing extend.” Webster’s defines phantom as “an apparition or specter.”
Phasma (φάσμω) means apparition, phantom, images; of shows or mysteries as images or types of realities; a sign from heaven, portent, omen; a monster, prodigy.
PURE; PROPHESY
Phoibao (φοιβάω) means cleanse, purify; prophesy, inspire, literally “divinely-animated-entity entity divine-power basis.”
Phoibos (φοῖβος) means pure, bright, radiant; Phoebus (an epithet of the immortal God Apollo); prophet.
Phoibas (φοιβάς) is a priestess of Phoebus, an inspired woman, a female prophet.
Phoibazo (φοιβάζω) means prophesy; inspire.
Phoibeetria (φοιβήτρια) means purifier.
Phoibeetees (φοιβητής) means prophet.
It is interesting that the word “phobia,” meaning fear, is so similar to the word phoibos, meaning pure, bright, radiant.
Phobeo (φοβέω) means terrify, be alarmed, the basis for the word phobia.
Phobos (φόβος) is panic flight, panic fear, dread.
Phoberos (φοβερός) means fearful, causing fear, formidable, threatening.
KNOWLEDGE
Words beginning with the letters Φ followed by the letter Ρ (outflow) convey the notion of the light of wisdom.
Phradee (φρᾰδή) means understanding, knowledge, wisdom, shrewdness; perceive, observe, literally “divinely-animated-entity outflow.”
Phreno (φρενόω) means make wise, instruct, inform.
Phreen (φρήν) means the mind as the seat of mental faculties, perception, and thought.
Phronis (φρόνις) means prudence, wisdom.
Phreneerees (φρενήρης) means sound of mind, opposite of emmanees (έμμανής) (frantic, raving).
Phroneo (φρονέω) means have understanding, be wise, prudent, sane; think rightly; think; comprehend; consider, ponder.
Phroneema (φρόνημα) means mind, spirit; thought, purpose, will; heart.
Phroneesis (φρόνησις) means purpose, intention; thought; sense; judgment; practical wisdom, prudence in government and affairs; the Pythagorean name for 3.
Phronimos (φρονίμος) means in one’s right mind, in one’s senses; showing presence of mind; sensible, prudent.
Phrontizo (φροντίζω) means consider, reflect, take thought, be thoughtful, consider, ponder.
Phrontis (φροντίς) means thought, care, attention; power of thought, mind.
Phrasis (φράσις) means phrase, speech.
SOUND
Sound is vibration/energy moving from a source through matter and extending outward in relatively generalized (prevailing) directions (compared to light).
Webster’s defines sound as “the sensation produced by stimulation of the organs of hearing by vibrations transmitted through the air or other medium.”
Phono- (φωνο-) is a prefix meaning sound, the basis for the word phonics, literally “divinely-animated-entity brings-forth prevailing entity.”
Phoneo (φωνέω) means produce a sound or tune, give utterance, speak, voice.
LYRE
The lyre conveys sound through vibration.
Phormigks (φόρμιγξ) means lyre, as the instrument of the immortal God Apollo; the constellation Lyra.
Phormizo (φορμίζω) means to play the phormigks/lyre.
Phormiktees (φορμικτής) means lyre-player, of Orpheus, of Apollo.
SPEAK, EXPRESS
Words spoken are considered by Greeks to be divinely inspired.
Phasko (φάσκω) means to say, affirm, assert.
Phateios (φᾰτειός) means speakable.
Phateon (φᾰτέον) means one must say.
Phatees (φάτης) means one who speaks.
Phatizo (φᾰτίζω) means tell of, speak of, express; promise, betroth.
Phatis (φάτις) means a voice from heaven, “oracle.”
Phatos (φᾰτός) means spoken.
Pheemee (φήμη) means utterance prompted by the Gods and Goddesses, significant or prophetic saying; speech, saying, voice, words.
Phtheg- (φθέγ-) is a prefix meaning voice, word, utterance, speech.
Phthogg- (φθογγ-) is a prefix meaning sound, voice; any clear, distinct sound, speech.
Phimos (φῑμός) is any instrument for keeping the mouth closed; a muzzle (for dogs); tightening, constriction; be silent.
STRONG AFFILIATION: PHAMILY, PHRATERNITY, PHILO-
Phamilia (φᾰμῐλία) means family.
Phatnee (φατνη) means manger, crib.
Phratra (φράτρα) means fraternity, political brotherhood, clan, tribe.
Phiditees (φῐδίτης) is the common dining hall at Sparta; dining hall.
According to Empedocles, the two forces that shape the four root-elements (fire, air, water, and earth) are the following:
1) the force that brings things together: Philiee (Φιλίη)
2) the force that pulls things apart: Neikeos (Νείκεος); Eris (Ἓρις).
“Whiles into One do all through Love unite;
Whiles too the same are rent through hate of Strife.
ἄλλοτε μὲν Φιλότητι συνερχόμεν' εἰς ἓν ἅπαντα,
ἄλλοτε δ' αὖ δίχ' ἕκαστα φορεύμενα Νείκεος ἔχθει.”
(Empedocles. The Fragments of Empedocles, translated by William Ellery Leonard
(Chicago: The Open Court Publishing Company, 1908) 22.) http://classicpersuasion.org/pw/empedocles/empunib.htm
(Note that the word iphi (ἷφι) means force or might.)
The letter Φ, a binding agent, is linked with the notion of fire as a binding agent in the theory of Empedocles:
“ . . . (Empedocles) saw in fire a solidifying agency capable of working on the other roots either individually or in combination, as well as a power responsible for the genesis of plants and animals, and necessary for the preservation of life.”
(Empedocles. Empedocles: The Extant Fragments, “Chapter 2. Physics,” translated by M. R. Wright (copyright Yale University, 1981; printed in Ann Arbor, Michigan: Edwards Brothers, Inc.) 25.)
http://books.google.com/books?id=4qtSF3BUbjAC&q=water#v=onepage&q=water&f=false
Phil- (φιλ), phila- (φιλα-), and philo- (φιλο-) are prefixes meaning love, fondness (for).
Phileo (φῐλέω) means to be beloved, love, regard with affection.
Philia (φῐλία) means affectionate regard, friendship.
Philtatos (φίλτᾰτος) are one's nearest and dearest.
A philtron (φίλτρον) is a love-charm.
Philozoos (φῐλοζωος) means delighting to produce life (ζωος).
Philauteo (φῐλαυτέω) means to be fond of self (αυτέω).
Phulee (φῡλή) and phulon (φῦλον) mean race, tribe, union of people, clan, nation.
Phullon (φύλλον) means leaf, foliage, leaves (a means of characterizing a type of tree).
CONTAINER
Phialee (φῐάλη) means bowl or pan used for boiling liquids; urn for funeral ashes; bowl or saucer for pouring libations or administering medicines.
Phiskos (φίσκος) means basket, crate of money/treasures; the Imperial Treasury, the basis for the word fiscal.
Phlaskee (φλάσκη) is a flask, a wine-flask.
Phloios (φλοιός) is the bark of trees; husk/skin of fruits; the membrane enclosing the eggs of certain animals.
Pholeos (φωλεός) means den, lair, especially of bears.
FOOD
Phageema (φᾱγημα) means food, literally "divinely-animated-entity arising generative."
Phagein (φᾰγεῖν) means eat.
It is interesting to note that the prefix puro- (πυρο-) means both wheat and fire, literally “unified pure outflow.” Consistent with this, Demeter, the immortal Goddess of grains, is depicted as the torch-bearing Goddess.
WHITE; PHALLOS; BALD
Phalos (φᾰλος) means white.
Phallos (φαλλός) means phallus. Webster’s defines phallus as “an image of the male reproductive organ, esp. that carried in procession in ancient festivals of Dionysus, or Bacchus, symbolizing the generative power in nature.”
Phalakra (φᾰλάκρα) means bald-headed.
Phalaros (φάλᾱρος) means having a patch of white.
BLOOD-BEARING
Phleb- (φλεβ-) is a prefix meaning vein.
Phlebodees (φλεβώδης) means full of veins, with large veins.
Phleps (φλέψ) means blood-vessel.
PHOENICIAN: BLOOD-RED
Phoinas (φοινάς) means blood-red, deep red, bloody.
Phoinios (φοίνιος) means like blood, blood-red.
Phonaks (φόναξ) means eager for blood, murderous.
Phonos (φόνος) means murder, slaughter, killing, homicide.
Phoinikeos (φοινίκεος) means crimson.
Phoinikinos (φοινίκῐνος) is the date-palm, palm-wood, palm-wine, date fruit; also, the colors purple or crimson.
Date-palm tree with dates. http://depositphotos.com/6573858/stock-photo-Date-palm-trees-with-dates.html
http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-85197526/stock-photo-date-palm-branches-with-ripe-dates-northern-israel.html
Phoinikee (Φοινίκη) is Phoenicia, the region of modern Syria, Lebanon, and Israel. Many Mediterranean people trace their blood-lines to Phoenicia, including Greeks.
Phoenicia is along the shores of Syria, Lebanon, and Israel.
Phoinikee (Φοινίκη) is also a name for the constellation Ursa Minor; the country of Carthage (north Africa); and a title of the immortal Goddess Athena at Corinth.
Phoiniks (Φοῖνιξ) means Phoenician; Carthaginian; the colors purple or crimson (because the discovery and use of this color dye was ascribed to the Phoenicians); the phoenix bird; the date-palm.
PHOENIX
Phoiniks (Φοῖνιξ) is the Phoenix, a bird purported to live for several hundred years, die in a flash of fire, and rise from its own ashes. According to Webster’s, the phoenix is “an emblem of immortality.”
According to Herodotus (Histories 2.73) and Ovid (Metamorphoses 391), the phoenix
bird gives birth at death, and its offspring, when it is strong enough, entombs and carries its parent’s corpse to the sanctuary of the Sun.
“But there is another sacred bird called the phoenix. I myself have not seen it, except in paintings, for it rarely visits Egypt; indeed the people of Heliopolis say that it comes only once every 500 years. [2] They claim that a phoenix visits them when its father has died. The paintings, if they are accurate, depict a bird in shape and size very much like an eagle, with both golden and red feathers. [3] They also say, though it seems incredible to me, that when the phoenix sets out from Arabia toward the sanctuary of Helios, it carries the corpse of its own father plastered in myrrh and buries it there in the sanctuary. Thus it transports its father, but in order to do that, it first shapes some myrrh into an egg as heavy as it can carry. It then attempts to fly with it and keeps adjusting the size of the egg until its weight is just right. Then the phoenix hollows out the egg and places the body of its father inside it. It fills in the gap thus created with additional myrrh, so that when its father is laid within, the egg weighs the same as before. When the egg is completely plastered shut, the phoenix carries it to Egypt to the sanctuary of Helios.”
(Herodotus (circa 450 BCE). The Landmark Herodotus: The Histories 2.73 1-3, edited by Robert. B. Strassler, translated by Andrea L. Purvis (New York: Anchor Books, div. of Random House, 2007) 149.)
Ovid in Metamorphoses describes the life-cycle of the Phoenix:
". . . There is one bird
which reproduces and renews itself:
the Assyrians gave this bird his name—the Phoenix.
He does not live either on grain or herbs,
but only on small drops of frankincense
and juices of amomum. When this bird
completes a full five centuries of life
straightway with talons and with shining beak
he builds a nest among palm branches, where
they join to form the palm tree's waving top.
“As soon as he has strewn in this new nest
the cassia bark and ears of sweet spikenard,
and some bruised cinnamon with yellow myrrh,
he lies down on it and refuses life
among those dreamful odors.—And they say
that from the body of the dying bird
is reproduced a little Phoenix which
is destined to live just as many years.
“When time has given to him sufficient strength
and he is able to sustain the weight,
he lifts the nest up from the lofty tree
and dutifully carries from that place
his cradle and the parent's sepulchre.
As soon as he has reached through yielding air
the city of Hyperion, he will lay
the burden just before the sacred doors
within the temple of Hyperion.
(P. Ovidius Naso (Ovid). Metamorphoses 15.391, translated by Brookes More (Boston: Cornhill Publishing, 1922.)
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0028%3Abook%3D15%3Acard%3D335
Phoenix, Aberdeen Bestiary manuscript, circa 1200 CE, Aberdeen University Library. http://www.theoi.com/Thaumasios/Phoinix.html
PHRYGIA, ROAST, RED CAP
Phrugios (Φρύγιος) and Phruks (Φρύξ) means Phrygia, modern Turkey. Many Greeks trace their roots to Phrygia.
Phrugios (φρῡγιος) means dry.
Phruganon (φρύγᾰνον) and phrygion (φρῡγιον) mean firewood.
Phrug- (φρύγ-) is a prefix meaning to roast. Phrugo (φρῠγω) means roast or parch.
Phrygians, Persians, and Trojans (non-Greek people from the East) are identified in Greek art by red hats which resemble a liver.
The Phrygian cap evolved into a symbol of liberty. The word free is likely derived from the word Phrygia.
Examining the liver of a sacrificial animal is an ancient means of divination called extispicy or haruspicy. believed to have originated from the Near East with the Hittites (ancient Turkey, a civilization predating Phrygia) and Babylonians.
(Oliver Robert Gurney. "Anatolian religion," Encyclopædia Britannica. 2009. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. 01 Feb. 2009.) <http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/22949/Anatolian-religion>.
A Babylonian clay model of a sheep's liver (circa 2050-1750 BCE) housed in the British Museum resembles the shape of a Phrygian cap. Wooden pegs are placed in the holes of the clay tablet to record features found in a sacrificed animal’s liver. The seer then interprets these features to ascertain divine intent.
Clay model of a sheep's liver from circa 2000 BCE inscribed with the significance of marks found on different parts of its surface. © The British Museum.
View large image on the British Museum's website
The Phrygian cap, symbol of liberty, resembles a liver. http://img.webmd.com/dtmcms/live/webmd/consumer_assets/site_images/articles/image_article_collections/anatomy_pages/liver_illustration.jpg
Phrygian cap is a French symbol of Liberty. http://cla.calpoly.edu/~lcall/111/week_five.html
Orpheus wearing the Phrygian cap. http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2l9mapHcU1rrajnno1_1280.jpg
http://www.beyond-the-pale.org.uk/Orpheus.jpg
http://www.atlastours.net/syria/orpheus_mosaic.jpg
The Phrygian cap on the U.S. army seal. http://usarmy.vo.llnwd.net/e2/rv5_downloads/symbols/ArmySealHigh.jpg
The Phrygians worshipped the immortal Goddess Kubelee (Κῠβέλη), Cybele.
According to George Sal:
“. . . the [G]oddess Cybele seems to have been their (Phrygia’s) principal deity. . .
“This [G]oddess was pictured sitting in a chariot drawn by four lions, crowned with towers, holding a key in her hand, and attired with a garment seeded with flowers of different colours. Allegorists, by Cybele mean the earth, taking her crown of towers to be an emblem of the towns and cities built thereon; the key she holds in her hand intimates that the earth, which during winter, is in a certain manner locked up, begins to open in the spring, and the seeds to shoot up; her garment, variegated with flowers of divers colours, is a symbol of the earth beautifully enamelled (sp.sic) with all kinds of flowers; the lions that draw her chariot denote her empire over all sorts of animals, which she both produces and nourishes . . .”
(George Sale, et. al., An Universal History Part 1, Vol. 3 (London: Printed for C. Bathurst, et. al., 1779) 450-451.) http://books.google.com/books?id=_tg-AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA472&lpg=PA472&dq=tros+phrygia&source=bl&ots=dQUYSbNETc&sig=dGqpLhoDnuhDCKQ5LySAuP9G--I&hl=en&sa=X&ei=jV-hUMaiBvKy0AGytICwBw&ved=0CFEQ6AEwBzgK#v=onepage&q&f=false )
Statue of Kubelee (Κῠβέλη)/Cybele, circa 150 CE, Roman, Metropolitan Museum of Art http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/97.22.24
BRING, BEAR
Pher- (φερ-) and phere- (φερε-) are prefixes meaning bringer of, bearer of, literally “divinely-animated-entity essence outflow.”
Phero (φέρω) and pharo (φάρω) mean bear, carry, bring.
Pherenikos (φερένῑκος) means bringing victory (νῑκος).
Pherolbios (φέρόλβιος) means bringing happiness (όλβιος).
Pherbo (φέρβω) means feed, nourish (of the earth).
Pherma (φέρμα) means that which is borne, fruit of the womb; fruit of the earth.
Phora (φορά) means carrying, gestation, load, freight, that which is brought forth, fruit.
Phorimos (φόρῐμος) means fruitful.
Phormos (φορμός) is a basket for carrying corn, etc.; a mat; a measure of corn.
Phoros (φορός) means bearing. Phoros (φόρος) means that which is brought by way of payment, tribute; any payment; the forum, market-place.
Phortos (φόρτος) means load, freight.
Phorinee (φορίνη) is the skin or hide of pachydermatous animals (pach- (πάχ-) is a prefix meaning thick; derma (δέρμα) means skin), especially of swine, of the rhinoceros, of the ox; metaphor “thick-skinned.” Phorinee also means fat.
Phreatia (φρεᾱτία) means tank, cistern, well.
PHARMACY
Phar (φάρ) means spelt, a grain.
Pharmakeia (φαρμᾰκεία) means pharmaceutical, use of drugs, especially purgatives; use of any kind of drugs, potions.
Pharmako (φαρμᾰκόω) means medicate, literally “divinely-animated-entity arising outflow meta arising core.”
Typically, the Greek or Latin word for pharmacist is translated into English as “witch.”
Cassell’s Latin-English Dictionary defines pharmaceutria as “sorceress.”
The Lexicon defines pharmakis (φαρμᾰκίς) as sorceress, witch. It also defines pharmakos (φαρμακός) as one sacrificed or executed as an atonement or purification for others, scapegoat.
In Strabo’s Geographica, Medea is referred to as “Meedeia pharmachis (Μήδεια φαρμαχίς).” This is translated variously into English as “the sorceress Medea” and into Latin as Medeae venefica, “Medea the witch.”
(Strabo. Geography 2.39, translated by H. C. Hamilton (the first six books) (London: Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Convent Garden, 1903.)
http://www.archive.org/stream/geographyofstrab01strarich/geographyofstrab01strarich_djvu.txt
(Strabo. Geographica 2.39, compiled by August Meineke (Lipsiae: Sumptibus et Typis B. G. Teubneri, 1866) 59.)
http://books.google.com/books?id=LfpGAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA59&lpg=PA59&dq=ΜΗΔΕΙΑ+φαρμᾰκίς&source=bl&ots=FIeYkeOERJ&sig=SXU1haXlhHYZF1ShGa8TRXpLoXg&hl=en&sa=X&ei=3I7LUPeHC8W30AGj3ICwDg&ved=0CDIQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=φαρμᾰκίς&f=false
Medicines are derived from herbs and other plants that grow out of the earth. In this context, it is of interest to note that in the word for pharmacy the letter Φ (divinely-animated-entity) is followed by the letters Α (arising) and Ρ (outflow), literally “divinely-animated-entity arising outflow.” In the same vein, the pharmaceutical symbol “RX/PX” may derive from the juxtaposition of the Greek letters Ρ (outflow-of) and Χ (foundation.)
The RX/PX symbol for pharmacy. http://www.ipharmd.net/
MIX
Phur- (φύρ-) is a prefix meaning mix.
Phuro (φύρω) means mix.
Phurmos (φυρμός) means mixture.
SHUDDER
A shudder is a shaking that seems to derive its power from some inexplicable (divine?) source.
Phrik- (φρῑκ-) is a prefix meaning shudder, shiver.
Phrikee (φρῑκη) means shuddering, shivering, especially from religious awe; shivering fear of any kind.
Phriks (φρίξ) means bristling, the hair standing on end, shivering fit; the ruffling of a smooth surface, of Proteus (Πρωτεύς) (immortal God of first principle) coming to the surface.
Phrisso (φρίσσω) means bristle, shiver, shudder, (of the teeth) chatter, the basis of the word frisson.
REFUGE
Temples are often a place of refuge.
Phugee (φῠγή) means a place of refuge; a body of exiles or refugees/fugitives.
Phugodikia (φῠγοδῐκία) means avoidance of a trial, refuge from Dike/Justice (δῐκία).
Phugimon (φύγῐμον) means a place of refuge, asylum.
Phuksion (φύξιον) means place of refuge, place one may flee to.
Phuksios (φύξιος) means banishment, put to flight.
BODY PARTS
Pharugks (φάρυγξ) means pharynx, throat, windpipe.
Phibla (φίβλα) means fibula, a bone connecting the knee with the foot.
Fibula. http://www.mdguidelines.com/fracture-tibia-or-fibula
PHALANX
Phalagks (φάλαγξ) means phalanx, the line of battle, a battle-array.
The Chigi Vase, circa 650 BCE, (National Etruscan Museum, Villa Giulia, Rome (inv. No.22679)) depicts a phalanx formation of overlapping shields. http://www.livius.org/pha-phd/phalanx/phalanx.html
ERUPT
Phlidao (φλῐδάω) means to overflow with moisture, be ready to burst, literally “divinely-animated-entity loosened.”
Phleo (φλέω) means to teem with abundance, abound.
Phloio (φλοίω) means to burst out, swell.
Phluktaina (φλύκταινα) is a blister made by a burn.
Phlusis (φλύσις) means breaking out, eruption.
Phluo (φλύω) means boil over, bubble up, burst out; overflow with words, babble.
Phludao (φλῠδάω) means to have an excess of moisture, become soft or flabby.
PHARTS
Some names of beans begin with the letter Φ, perhaps reflecting their role in causing flatulence, an “energy” within the body. Faba beans and lentils are staples in the Mediterranean diet.
Phaba (φάβα) are faba beans.
Faba beans in the pod. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicia_faba
Phakee, phakea, phakos (φᾰκῆ, φακέα, φᾰκός) means lentils. Phak- (φακ-) is a prefix meaning lentils.
Lentils. http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/legumes/msg0821405411059.html
BEAR ILL-WILL
The letter Φ followed by the letter Θ (divine/immortal/eternal) results in words that mean powerful and lasting feeling; also ultimate destruction and decline.
Phthoneo (φθονέω) means bear ill-will or malice, grudge, envy, jealousness, resent.
Phthonos (φθόνος) means ill-will or malice, envy, jealousy.
Phtheiro (φθείρω) means destroy, waste, perish, corrupt, seduce, ruin.
Phthin (φθῐν) means wasting, waning, consumption; lost fruitfulness; autumnal.
Phthio (φθίω) means waste away, pine, perish, decay; of stars, decline, set; consumptive.
Phthora (φθορά) means destruction, ruin, death, pestilence, deterioration, damage, corruption; thor- (θορ-) means semen; uproar.
OTHER
Pheegos (φῆγός) means oak.
A phledon (φλέδων) is an idle-talker, a babbler, literally “divinely-animated-entity loosened.”
Phluaks (φλύαξ) means jester, comedian.
Phluareo (φλῠᾱρέω) means talk nonsense, play the fool.
Phluaros (φλύᾱρος) means silly talk, foolery, nonsense, babble.
The letter Φ means divinely-animated-entity.
Webster’s defines animate as “to give life to; make alive.”
The letter Ι means divine-power, particularly with regard to electro-magnetic and gravitational energy.
The letter Ο means entity.
The letter Φ is a fusion of the letter Ι (divine-power) with the letter Ο (entity).
Appropriately, a flame in a candle resembles the letter Φ. Fire needs fuel (matter) as well as animating energy to burn.
Candle bearing flame. http://ergostore.eu/candle-flame&page=7
A torch-flame lit within a parabola resembles the letter Φ.
Lighting Olympic torch from power of the sun. (Photo credit: China Photo Press) http://torchrelay.beijing2008.cn/en/news/headlines/n214276143.shtml
BREATH
The presence of breath in humans and animals means the presence of life.
Phus- (φῦσ-) is a prefix meaning blow, breath, literally “divinely-animated-entity pure.”
Phusa (φῦσα) means breath, wind in the body.
Phusao (φῡσάω) means blow, breath.
NATURE
Phuo (φύω) means bring forth, produce, put forth, grow, birth, to be born, to be formed by nature, literally “divinely-animated-entity pure brings-forth.”
Phusis (Φύσις) is the immortal Goddess of Nature.
Aristotle defines nature (phusis) as a principle of inner motion inside each thing. The stoics define phusis as an artistic fire that engenders all things.
(Pierre Hadot. The Veil of Isis: An Essay on the History of the Idea of Nature (Le Voile d’Isis: Essai sur l’histoire de l’idee de Nature (Paris: Gallimard, 2004)), translated by Michael Chase (Harvard University Press, 2006) 23-25.)
“Physics,” according to The New Book of Knowledge Encyclopedia, “is the study of matter and energy.”
(The New Book of Knowledge Volume 15 P, “Physics” (Danbury, Connecticut: Grolier, 2002) 228.)
Physis is defined by Webster’s as “the principle of growth or change in nature; nature as the source of growth or change.”
Phusis (φύσις), also spelled phuseos (φύσεως φῠσεος), means origin, birth, growth, nature, instinct, the regular order of nature, nature as an originating power; the principle of growth in the universe; elementary substance; the creation; Nature; the Pythagorean name for two; sex; genitals, especially the female genitals.
Phusimos (φύσῐμος) means able to produce, productive.
Phusizoos (φῡσίζοος, φῡσίζωος) means producing (φῡσί-) life, zoos (ζοος/ζωος), an epithet of Earth.
Phusiologeo (φῠσιολογέω) means a discourse on nature, physiology, an investigation into natural causes and phenomena.
Lucretius Carus in Of the Nature of Things says that Aphrodite is the source of generation and that Nature determines when something will grow and when it will perish:
“. . . Thou (Venus [Aphrodite]) bringest the eternal generations forth,
Kind after kind. And since 'tis thou alone
Guidest the Cosmos, and without thee naught
Is risen to reach the shining shores of light,
Nor aught of joyful or of lovely born,
Thee do I crave co-partner in that verse
Which I presume on Nature to compose . . .
“. . . by Nature, each
Slowly increases from its lawful seed,
And through that increase shall conserve its kind . . .
“. . . Hence too it comes that Nature all dissolves
Into their primal bodies again, and naught
Perishes ever to annihilation . . .
“. . . Nature ever
Upbuilds one thing from other, suffering naught
To come to birth but through some other's death . . .
“. . . All nature, then, as self-sustained, consists
Of twain of things: of bodies and of void . . .
“. . . all things kind by kind obtain
Fixed bounds of growing and conserving life;
Since Nature hath inviolably decreed
What each can do, what each can never do . . .”
(T. Lucretius Carus (50 BCE). Of the Nature of Things, translated by William Ellery Leonard (London, Paris & Toronto: J. M. Dent & Sons; New York: E. P. Dutton, 1916) 3- 23.) http://books.google.com/books?id=CXJ1AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA10&lpg=PA10&dq=Hence+too+it+comes+that+Nature+all+dissolves++Into+their+primal+bodies+again,+and+naught++Perishes+ever+to+annihilation&source=bl&ots=5BRexTggOd&sig=raq27O_1FdiDK9VmeW0cEpAqzV0&hl=en&sa=X&ei=XbUwUf2POM2L0QH81YDYCw&ved=0CD4Q6AEwAw#v=snippet&q=Fixed%20bounds%20of%20growing&f=false ; (The Internet Classics Archive) http://classics.mit.edu/Carus/nature_things.1.i.html )
Phusikos (φῠσικός) means produced or caused by nature, natural.
Orphic Hymn 9 To Nature says:
“Nature, all parent, ancient, and divine,
O much-mechanic mother, art is thine;
Heav'nly, abundant, venerable queen,
In ev'ry part of thy dominions seen.
Untam'd, all-taming, ever splendid light,
All ruling, honor'd, and supremely bright.
Immortal, first-born, ever still the same,
Nocturnal, starry, shining, glorious dame.
Thy feet's still traces in a circling course,
By thee are turn'd, with unremitting force.
Pure ornament of all the pow'rs divine,
Finite and infinite alike you shine;
To all things common and in all things known,
Yet incommunicable and alone.
Without a father of thy wond'rous frame,
Thyself the father whence thy essence came.
All-flourishing, connecting, mingling soul,
Leader and ruler of this mighty whole.
Life-bearer, all-sustaining, various nam'd,
And for commanding grace and beauty fam'd.
Justice, supreme in might, whose general sway
The waters of the restless deep obey.
Aetherial, earthly, for the pious glad,
Sweet to the good, but bitter to the bad.
All-wife, all bounteous, provident, divine,
A rich increase of nutriment is thine;
Father of all, great nurse, and mother kind,
Abundant, blessed, all-spermatic mind:
Mature, impetuous, from whose fertile seeds
And plastic hand, this changing scene proceeds.
All-parent pow'r, to mortal eyes unseen,
Eternal, moving, all-sagacious queen.
By thee the world, whose parts in rapid flow,
Like swift descending streams, no respite know,
On an eternal hinge, with steady course
Is whirl'd, with matchless, unremitting force.
Thron'd on a circling car, thy mighty hand
Holds and directs, the reins of wide command.
Various thy essence, honor'd, and the best,
Of judgement too, the general end and test.
Intrepid, fatal, all-subduing dame,
Life-everlasting, Parca, breathing flame.
Immortal, Providence, the world is thine,
And thou art all things, architect divine.
O blessed Goddess, hear thy suppliant's pray'r,
And make my future life, thy constant care;
Give plenteous seasons, and sufficient wealth,
And crown my days with lasting, peace and health.”
(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) 126-130.)
Nonnos describes Beirut as the place where Nature/Phusis created the first humans:
"Here [Beirut in Lebanon] dwelt a people agemates with the Dawn, whom Nature by her own breeding, in some unwedded way, begat without bridal, without wedding, fatherless, motherless, unborn: when the atoms were mingled in fourfold combination, and the seedless ooze shaped a clever offspring by comingling water with fiery heat and air, and quickened the teeming mud with the breath of life. To these Nature gave perfect shape . . . now first appeared the golden crop of men [sic] brought forth in the image of the [G]ods [and Goddesses], with the roots of their stock in the earth."
(Nonnos. Dionysiaca 41. 51, translated by W.H.D. Rouse, Loeb Classical Library (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press and London: William Heinemann, 1942.) http://archive.org/stream/dionysiaca03nonnuoft/dionysiaca03nonnuoft_djvu.txt
Phusikleidion (φῠσικλείδιον) is a spell to open the phusis (female genitals); note that kleidion (κλείδιον) means key.
PHERSEPHONE
The immortal Goddess Persephone is often spelled with a Φ: Phersephonee (Φερσεφόνη).
Phersephone is the Goddess of the afterlife and new life in Spring.
GROWTH/FRUITION
Phituma (φίτύμα) means scion; offshoot.
Phituo (φῑτύω) means to sow, plant, beget.
Phuma (φῦμα) means growth, that which grows, “divinely-animated-entity pure meta arising.”
Phuee (φῠή) means stature, flower/prime of age.
Phut- (φῠτ-) is a prefix meaning planting, growth, beget, engender, literally “divinely-animated-entity pure extend.”
Phutios (φύτιος) means generative.
Phuton (φῠτόν) means plant, garden plant or tree.
Phutalia (φῠτᾰλια) means orchard, vineyard.
Phutalmios (φῠτάλμιος) means producing, nourishing, fostering, giving birth to.
FIRE
Phloks (φλόξ) means flame of fire; fire as an element, literally “divinely-animated-entity loosened.”
Phlego (φλέγω) means burn, burn up, kindle, inflame, blaze, “divinely-animated-entity loosened essence generative.”
Phlegma (φλέγμα) means flame, fire, heat, inflammation.
According to Hippocrates, the four chumoi (χυμοί) (Latin: humores), “fluids, juices,” of the body are:
-inflammation (phlegma (φλέγμα))
-blood (aima (αἷμα))
-bile; bowel (choleen (χολήν))
-water (udrops (ὕδρωψ)).
(Hippocrates. De Nature Hominis. (Littré VI. 38 and 40). http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0251%3Atext%3Dintro%3Achapter%3D9
Phlegmaino (φλεγμαίνω) means cause to swell up; to be heated, inflamed, fester.
Phlegraia (φλεγραῖα) means volcanic.
Phlogo (φλογόω) means set on fire.
Phlogeos (φλόγεος) means bright as fire, burning, flaming, inflamed.
FIRE SIGNALS
Phruktos (φρυκτός) means fire-brand, torch.
Phruktoreo (φρυκτωρέω) means make fire signals, make beacon-fires.
Phruktorion (φρυκτωριον) means beacon-fire tower, fire-signal station.
Phournos (φοῦρνος) means furnace; oven.
PHTHIA: LAND OF FIRE
Phthia (Φθία) is Phthiotis, a city-state in southern Thessaly. The revered “oracle” at Delphi was called the Phthia (Φθία).
According to Homer, Herodotus, Pausanias, Strabo and others, Hellen, the common ancestor of the Hellenes, was the king of Phthia (Φθία).
(Hom. Il. ii. 684; Herod. i. 56; Thuc. i. 3; Paus. iii. 20. § 6; Strab. viii. p. 383.)
http://www.mythindex.com/greek-mythology/H/Hellen.html
Eelenee (έλένη), Helen, means torch.
Hellen was the son of Pyrrha (fire) and the grandson of Prometheus.
Prometheus legendarily first formed humans out of water and earth and provided fire to humanity. (Pseudo-Apollodorus. Bibliotheca 1. 7. 2 – 3;1.45 (trans. Frazer and trans. Aldrich)
Phthiotis is located in southern Thessaly.
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Phthiotis in southern Thessaly. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f6/Thessaly.jpg
Thessaly on a map of Greece.
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FIRE AS FIRST PRINCIPLE
Phanos (φᾱνός) means light, bright, torch, literally “divinely-animated-entity arising prevailing.”
Phanee (φᾰνή) means torch or light.
Phaeino (φᾰείνω) means shine, give light.
Phaino (φαίνω) means bring to light, cause to appear, make known; appear, come to light.
Phaneros (φᾰνερός) means visible, manifest.
Phantos (φαντός) means visible.
Phanees (Φάνης) is Phanes, the immortal God of the first principle of life.
In Orphic Hymn 5. To Protogonus, Or the First-born, Orpheus describes Phanes as light:
“Mighty first-begotten, hear my pray’r,
Two-fold, egg-born, and wand’ring thro’ the air,
. . . From eyes obscure thou wip’st the gloom of night,
All-spreading splendour, pure and holy light;
Hence Phanes call’d, the glory of the sky . . .”
(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) 120.)
Guthrie, in Orpheus and the Greek Religion, describes how Time (Chronos) placed within Sky (Aither) an egg, from which emerged Phanes:
“Out of Chronos (Time) are born Aither with Chaos and Erebos . . . Next, Chronos fashions in Aither an egg. The egg splits in two and Phanes, the first-born of the [G]ods [and Goddesses] (Protogonos), springs forth.”
“. . . in the Orpheus of Athenagoras, the two halves of the egg from which Phanes sprang go to make Heaven and Earth.”
(W. K. C. Guthrie. Orpheus and the Greek Religion (New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1952 by Methuen & Co., copyright 1993 by Princeton University Press) 80, 85.)
The Derveni Papyrus describes Phanes as a male/female entity who emerged from an egg:
“First, there was Chronos or Time (Chronology). From Chronos, Aither and Chasma or Chaos were born. Chronos places an egg in Aither. The egg is also called white tunic (argeeta chitona (άργῆτα χιτῶνα)) or cloud (nepheleen (νεφελήν)). The [G]od[/dess] Phanes breaks out from the egg . . . Phanes is a marvellous (sp. sic) creature. He/she is of both sexes . . .”
(Gabor Betegh, The Derveni Papyrus: Cosmology, Theology and Interpretation (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004) 141-142.) http://books.google.com/books?id=5HaKQFeYSBEC&q=egg#v=snippet&q=egg&f=false
Phanes hatched from the world egg & circled by the zodiac. Phanes is winged and enwrapped by a serpent, suggesting both heavenly and earthly qualities. Greco-Roman bas relief circa 150 CE. Image located in Galeriea e Museo Eustense, Modena, Italy. http://www.theoi.com/Protogenos/Phanes.html
LIGHT
Phao (φάω) and phausis (φαῦσις) mean lighting, illumination, shining; heliacal rising of a planet or constellation, literally “divinely-animated-entity arising.”
Phaos (φαός) means light, daylight.
Phaetho (φᾰέθω) means shine, radiant, light-bringing; of the Sun, the Moon.
Pharos (Φάρος) is an island in the bay of Alexandria, Egypt, famous for its lighthouse.
Stamp from Hungary, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, Stamp Number HU2636. http://colnect.com/en/stamps/stamp/174768-Pharos_Lighthouse_Alexandria-Seven_Wonders_of_the_Ancient_World-Hungary
Phaidro- (φαιδρο-) is a prefix meaning bright, shining.
Pheggos (φέγγος) means light, splendor, luster, daylight, moonlight, the light of torches or fire, literally “divinely-animated-entity essence generative.” Note the word “egg” within this word.
Pheggo (φέγγω) means make bright, shine, gleam.
Phos (φῶς) means light, literally “divinely-animated-entity brings-forth.” Note that the letter Ω means egg/brings-forth.
Phos (φόως, φῶς) means to the light, to the light of day.
Phosphoreo (φωσφόρέω) means bear or bring light, phosphorescence; a name given specially to the planet Venus; torch-bearing. Webster’s defines Phosphor as “the morning star, esp. Venus; the light-bringing one.”
Phosteer (φωστήρ) means that which gives light, splendor, radiance; an opening for light such as a door or a window.
Phot- (φωτ-) and photo- (φωτο-) are prefixes meaning illumination, light, the basis for the word photograph.
Photeinos (φωτεινός) means shining, bright.
Photizo (φωτίζω) means shine, give light.
APPEARANCE
Phantasia (φαντᾰσία) means appearance, presentation to the consciousness, whether immediate or in memory; imagery; imagination.
Phantasio (φαντᾰσιοω) means bring images before the mind.
Phantasma (φαντᾰσμα) means apparition, phantom, mental image, phenomena, literally “divinely-animated-entity arising prevailing extend.” Webster’s defines phantom as “an apparition or specter.”
Phasma (φάσμω) means apparition, phantom, images; of shows or mysteries as images or types of realities; a sign from heaven, portent, omen; a monster, prodigy.
PURE; PROPHESY
Phoibao (φοιβάω) means cleanse, purify; prophesy, inspire, literally “divinely-animated-entity entity divine-power basis.”
Phoibos (φοῖβος) means pure, bright, radiant; Phoebus (an epithet of the immortal God Apollo); prophet.
Phoibas (φοιβάς) is a priestess of Phoebus, an inspired woman, a female prophet.
Phoibazo (φοιβάζω) means prophesy; inspire.
Phoibeetria (φοιβήτρια) means purifier.
Phoibeetees (φοιβητής) means prophet.
It is interesting that the word “phobia,” meaning fear, is so similar to the word phoibos, meaning pure, bright, radiant.
Phobeo (φοβέω) means terrify, be alarmed, the basis for the word phobia.
Phobos (φόβος) is panic flight, panic fear, dread.
Phoberos (φοβερός) means fearful, causing fear, formidable, threatening.
KNOWLEDGE
Words beginning with the letters Φ followed by the letter Ρ (outflow) convey the notion of the light of wisdom.
Phradee (φρᾰδή) means understanding, knowledge, wisdom, shrewdness; perceive, observe, literally “divinely-animated-entity outflow.”
Phreno (φρενόω) means make wise, instruct, inform.
Phreen (φρήν) means the mind as the seat of mental faculties, perception, and thought.
Phronis (φρόνις) means prudence, wisdom.
Phreneerees (φρενήρης) means sound of mind, opposite of emmanees (έμμανής) (frantic, raving).
Phroneo (φρονέω) means have understanding, be wise, prudent, sane; think rightly; think; comprehend; consider, ponder.
Phroneema (φρόνημα) means mind, spirit; thought, purpose, will; heart.
Phroneesis (φρόνησις) means purpose, intention; thought; sense; judgment; practical wisdom, prudence in government and affairs; the Pythagorean name for 3.
Phronimos (φρονίμος) means in one’s right mind, in one’s senses; showing presence of mind; sensible, prudent.
Phrontizo (φροντίζω) means consider, reflect, take thought, be thoughtful, consider, ponder.
Phrontis (φροντίς) means thought, care, attention; power of thought, mind.
Phrasis (φράσις) means phrase, speech.
SOUND
Sound is vibration/energy moving from a source through matter and extending outward in relatively generalized (prevailing) directions (compared to light).
Webster’s defines sound as “the sensation produced by stimulation of the organs of hearing by vibrations transmitted through the air or other medium.”
Phono- (φωνο-) is a prefix meaning sound, the basis for the word phonics, literally “divinely-animated-entity brings-forth prevailing entity.”
Phoneo (φωνέω) means produce a sound or tune, give utterance, speak, voice.
LYRE
The lyre conveys sound through vibration.
Phormigks (φόρμιγξ) means lyre, as the instrument of the immortal God Apollo; the constellation Lyra.
Phormizo (φορμίζω) means to play the phormigks/lyre.
Phormiktees (φορμικτής) means lyre-player, of Orpheus, of Apollo.
SPEAK, EXPRESS
Words spoken are considered by Greeks to be divinely inspired.
Phasko (φάσκω) means to say, affirm, assert.
Phateios (φᾰτειός) means speakable.
Phateon (φᾰτέον) means one must say.
Phatees (φάτης) means one who speaks.
Phatizo (φᾰτίζω) means tell of, speak of, express; promise, betroth.
Phatis (φάτις) means a voice from heaven, “oracle.”
Phatos (φᾰτός) means spoken.
Pheemee (φήμη) means utterance prompted by the Gods and Goddesses, significant or prophetic saying; speech, saying, voice, words.
Phtheg- (φθέγ-) is a prefix meaning voice, word, utterance, speech.
Phthogg- (φθογγ-) is a prefix meaning sound, voice; any clear, distinct sound, speech.
Phimos (φῑμός) is any instrument for keeping the mouth closed; a muzzle (for dogs); tightening, constriction; be silent.
STRONG AFFILIATION: PHAMILY, PHRATERNITY, PHILO-
Phamilia (φᾰμῐλία) means family.
Phatnee (φατνη) means manger, crib.
Phratra (φράτρα) means fraternity, political brotherhood, clan, tribe.
Phiditees (φῐδίτης) is the common dining hall at Sparta; dining hall.
According to Empedocles, the two forces that shape the four root-elements (fire, air, water, and earth) are the following:
1) the force that brings things together: Philiee (Φιλίη)
2) the force that pulls things apart: Neikeos (Νείκεος); Eris (Ἓρις).
“Whiles into One do all through Love unite;
Whiles too the same are rent through hate of Strife.
ἄλλοτε μὲν Φιλότητι συνερχόμεν' εἰς ἓν ἅπαντα,
ἄλλοτε δ' αὖ δίχ' ἕκαστα φορεύμενα Νείκεος ἔχθει.”
(Empedocles. The Fragments of Empedocles, translated by William Ellery Leonard
(Chicago: The Open Court Publishing Company, 1908) 22.) http://classicpersuasion.org/pw/empedocles/empunib.htm
(Note that the word iphi (ἷφι) means force or might.)
The letter Φ, a binding agent, is linked with the notion of fire as a binding agent in the theory of Empedocles:
“ . . . (Empedocles) saw in fire a solidifying agency capable of working on the other roots either individually or in combination, as well as a power responsible for the genesis of plants and animals, and necessary for the preservation of life.”
(Empedocles. Empedocles: The Extant Fragments, “Chapter 2. Physics,” translated by M. R. Wright (copyright Yale University, 1981; printed in Ann Arbor, Michigan: Edwards Brothers, Inc.) 25.)
http://books.google.com/books?id=4qtSF3BUbjAC&q=water#v=onepage&q=water&f=false
Phil- (φιλ), phila- (φιλα-), and philo- (φιλο-) are prefixes meaning love, fondness (for).
Phileo (φῐλέω) means to be beloved, love, regard with affection.
Philia (φῐλία) means affectionate regard, friendship.
Philtatos (φίλτᾰτος) are one's nearest and dearest.
A philtron (φίλτρον) is a love-charm.
Philozoos (φῐλοζωος) means delighting to produce life (ζωος).
Philauteo (φῐλαυτέω) means to be fond of self (αυτέω).
Phulee (φῡλή) and phulon (φῦλον) mean race, tribe, union of people, clan, nation.
Phullon (φύλλον) means leaf, foliage, leaves (a means of characterizing a type of tree).
CONTAINER
Phialee (φῐάλη) means bowl or pan used for boiling liquids; urn for funeral ashes; bowl or saucer for pouring libations or administering medicines.
Phiskos (φίσκος) means basket, crate of money/treasures; the Imperial Treasury, the basis for the word fiscal.
Phlaskee (φλάσκη) is a flask, a wine-flask.
Phloios (φλοιός) is the bark of trees; husk/skin of fruits; the membrane enclosing the eggs of certain animals.
Pholeos (φωλεός) means den, lair, especially of bears.
FOOD
Phageema (φᾱγημα) means food, literally "divinely-animated-entity arising generative."
Phagein (φᾰγεῖν) means eat.
It is interesting to note that the prefix puro- (πυρο-) means both wheat and fire, literally “unified pure outflow.” Consistent with this, Demeter, the immortal Goddess of grains, is depicted as the torch-bearing Goddess.
WHITE; PHALLOS; BALD
Phalos (φᾰλος) means white.
Phallos (φαλλός) means phallus. Webster’s defines phallus as “an image of the male reproductive organ, esp. that carried in procession in ancient festivals of Dionysus, or Bacchus, symbolizing the generative power in nature.”
Phalakra (φᾰλάκρα) means bald-headed.
Phalaros (φάλᾱρος) means having a patch of white.
BLOOD-BEARING
Phleb- (φλεβ-) is a prefix meaning vein.
Phlebodees (φλεβώδης) means full of veins, with large veins.
Phleps (φλέψ) means blood-vessel.
PHOENICIAN: BLOOD-RED
Phoinas (φοινάς) means blood-red, deep red, bloody.
Phoinios (φοίνιος) means like blood, blood-red.
Phonaks (φόναξ) means eager for blood, murderous.
Phonos (φόνος) means murder, slaughter, killing, homicide.
Phoinikeos (φοινίκεος) means crimson.
Phoinikinos (φοινίκῐνος) is the date-palm, palm-wood, palm-wine, date fruit; also, the colors purple or crimson.
Date-palm tree with dates. http://depositphotos.com/6573858/stock-photo-Date-palm-trees-with-dates.html
http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-85197526/stock-photo-date-palm-branches-with-ripe-dates-northern-israel.html
Phoinikee (Φοινίκη) is Phoenicia, the region of modern Syria, Lebanon, and Israel. Many Mediterranean people trace their blood-lines to Phoenicia, including Greeks.
Phoenicia is along the shores of Syria, Lebanon, and Israel.
Phoinikee (Φοινίκη) is also a name for the constellation Ursa Minor; the country of Carthage (north Africa); and a title of the immortal Goddess Athena at Corinth.
Phoiniks (Φοῖνιξ) means Phoenician; Carthaginian; the colors purple or crimson (because the discovery and use of this color dye was ascribed to the Phoenicians); the phoenix bird; the date-palm.
PHOENIX
Phoiniks (Φοῖνιξ) is the Phoenix, a bird purported to live for several hundred years, die in a flash of fire, and rise from its own ashes. According to Webster’s, the phoenix is “an emblem of immortality.”
According to Herodotus (Histories 2.73) and Ovid (Metamorphoses 391), the phoenix
bird gives birth at death, and its offspring, when it is strong enough, entombs and carries its parent’s corpse to the sanctuary of the Sun.
“But there is another sacred bird called the phoenix. I myself have not seen it, except in paintings, for it rarely visits Egypt; indeed the people of Heliopolis say that it comes only once every 500 years. [2] They claim that a phoenix visits them when its father has died. The paintings, if they are accurate, depict a bird in shape and size very much like an eagle, with both golden and red feathers. [3] They also say, though it seems incredible to me, that when the phoenix sets out from Arabia toward the sanctuary of Helios, it carries the corpse of its own father plastered in myrrh and buries it there in the sanctuary. Thus it transports its father, but in order to do that, it first shapes some myrrh into an egg as heavy as it can carry. It then attempts to fly with it and keeps adjusting the size of the egg until its weight is just right. Then the phoenix hollows out the egg and places the body of its father inside it. It fills in the gap thus created with additional myrrh, so that when its father is laid within, the egg weighs the same as before. When the egg is completely plastered shut, the phoenix carries it to Egypt to the sanctuary of Helios.”
(Herodotus (circa 450 BCE). The Landmark Herodotus: The Histories 2.73 1-3, edited by Robert. B. Strassler, translated by Andrea L. Purvis (New York: Anchor Books, div. of Random House, 2007) 149.)
Ovid in Metamorphoses describes the life-cycle of the Phoenix:
". . . There is one bird
which reproduces and renews itself:
the Assyrians gave this bird his name—the Phoenix.
He does not live either on grain or herbs,
but only on small drops of frankincense
and juices of amomum. When this bird
completes a full five centuries of life
straightway with talons and with shining beak
he builds a nest among palm branches, where
they join to form the palm tree's waving top.
“As soon as he has strewn in this new nest
the cassia bark and ears of sweet spikenard,
and some bruised cinnamon with yellow myrrh,
he lies down on it and refuses life
among those dreamful odors.—And they say
that from the body of the dying bird
is reproduced a little Phoenix which
is destined to live just as many years.
“When time has given to him sufficient strength
and he is able to sustain the weight,
he lifts the nest up from the lofty tree
and dutifully carries from that place
his cradle and the parent's sepulchre.
As soon as he has reached through yielding air
the city of Hyperion, he will lay
the burden just before the sacred doors
within the temple of Hyperion.
(P. Ovidius Naso (Ovid). Metamorphoses 15.391, translated by Brookes More (Boston: Cornhill Publishing, 1922.)
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0028%3Abook%3D15%3Acard%3D335
Phoenix, Aberdeen Bestiary manuscript, circa 1200 CE, Aberdeen University Library. http://www.theoi.com/Thaumasios/Phoinix.html
PHRYGIA, ROAST, RED CAP
Phrugios (Φρύγιος) and Phruks (Φρύξ) means Phrygia, modern Turkey. Many Greeks trace their roots to Phrygia.
Phrugios (φρῡγιος) means dry.
Phruganon (φρύγᾰνον) and phrygion (φρῡγιον) mean firewood.
Phrug- (φρύγ-) is a prefix meaning to roast. Phrugo (φρῠγω) means roast or parch.
Phrygians, Persians, and Trojans (non-Greek people from the East) are identified in Greek art by red hats which resemble a liver.
The Phrygian cap evolved into a symbol of liberty. The word free is likely derived from the word Phrygia.
Examining the liver of a sacrificial animal is an ancient means of divination called extispicy or haruspicy. believed to have originated from the Near East with the Hittites (ancient Turkey, a civilization predating Phrygia) and Babylonians.
(Oliver Robert Gurney. "Anatolian religion," Encyclopædia Britannica. 2009. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. 01 Feb. 2009.) <http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/22949/Anatolian-religion>.
A Babylonian clay model of a sheep's liver (circa 2050-1750 BCE) housed in the British Museum resembles the shape of a Phrygian cap. Wooden pegs are placed in the holes of the clay tablet to record features found in a sacrificed animal’s liver. The seer then interprets these features to ascertain divine intent.
Clay model of a sheep's liver from circa 2000 BCE inscribed with the significance of marks found on different parts of its surface. © The British Museum.
View large image on the British Museum's website
The Phrygian cap, symbol of liberty, resembles a liver. http://img.webmd.com/dtmcms/live/webmd/consumer_assets/site_images/articles/image_article_collections/anatomy_pages/liver_illustration.jpg
Phrygian cap is a French symbol of Liberty. http://cla.calpoly.edu/~lcall/111/week_five.html
Orpheus wearing the Phrygian cap. http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2l9mapHcU1rrajnno1_1280.jpg
http://www.beyond-the-pale.org.uk/Orpheus.jpg
http://www.atlastours.net/syria/orpheus_mosaic.jpg
The Phrygian cap on the U.S. army seal. http://usarmy.vo.llnwd.net/e2/rv5_downloads/symbols/ArmySealHigh.jpg
The Phrygians worshipped the immortal Goddess Kubelee (Κῠβέλη), Cybele.
According to George Sal:
“. . . the [G]oddess Cybele seems to have been their (Phrygia’s) principal deity. . .
“This [G]oddess was pictured sitting in a chariot drawn by four lions, crowned with towers, holding a key in her hand, and attired with a garment seeded with flowers of different colours. Allegorists, by Cybele mean the earth, taking her crown of towers to be an emblem of the towns and cities built thereon; the key she holds in her hand intimates that the earth, which during winter, is in a certain manner locked up, begins to open in the spring, and the seeds to shoot up; her garment, variegated with flowers of divers colours, is a symbol of the earth beautifully enamelled (sp.sic) with all kinds of flowers; the lions that draw her chariot denote her empire over all sorts of animals, which she both produces and nourishes . . .”
(George Sale, et. al., An Universal History Part 1, Vol. 3 (London: Printed for C. Bathurst, et. al., 1779) 450-451.) http://books.google.com/books?id=_tg-AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA472&lpg=PA472&dq=tros+phrygia&source=bl&ots=dQUYSbNETc&sig=dGqpLhoDnuhDCKQ5LySAuP9G--I&hl=en&sa=X&ei=jV-hUMaiBvKy0AGytICwBw&ved=0CFEQ6AEwBzgK#v=onepage&q&f=false )
Statue of Kubelee (Κῠβέλη)/Cybele, circa 150 CE, Roman, Metropolitan Museum of Art http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/97.22.24
BRING, BEAR
Pher- (φερ-) and phere- (φερε-) are prefixes meaning bringer of, bearer of, literally “divinely-animated-entity essence outflow.”
Phero (φέρω) and pharo (φάρω) mean bear, carry, bring.
Pherenikos (φερένῑκος) means bringing victory (νῑκος).
Pherolbios (φέρόλβιος) means bringing happiness (όλβιος).
Pherbo (φέρβω) means feed, nourish (of the earth).
Pherma (φέρμα) means that which is borne, fruit of the womb; fruit of the earth.
Phora (φορά) means carrying, gestation, load, freight, that which is brought forth, fruit.
Phorimos (φόρῐμος) means fruitful.
Phormos (φορμός) is a basket for carrying corn, etc.; a mat; a measure of corn.
Phoros (φορός) means bearing. Phoros (φόρος) means that which is brought by way of payment, tribute; any payment; the forum, market-place.
Phortos (φόρτος) means load, freight.
Phorinee (φορίνη) is the skin or hide of pachydermatous animals (pach- (πάχ-) is a prefix meaning thick; derma (δέρμα) means skin), especially of swine, of the rhinoceros, of the ox; metaphor “thick-skinned.” Phorinee also means fat.
Phreatia (φρεᾱτία) means tank, cistern, well.
PHARMACY
Phar (φάρ) means spelt, a grain.
Pharmakeia (φαρμᾰκεία) means pharmaceutical, use of drugs, especially purgatives; use of any kind of drugs, potions.
Pharmako (φαρμᾰκόω) means medicate, literally “divinely-animated-entity arising outflow meta arising core.”
Typically, the Greek or Latin word for pharmacist is translated into English as “witch.”
Cassell’s Latin-English Dictionary defines pharmaceutria as “sorceress.”
The Lexicon defines pharmakis (φαρμᾰκίς) as sorceress, witch. It also defines pharmakos (φαρμακός) as one sacrificed or executed as an atonement or purification for others, scapegoat.
In Strabo’s Geographica, Medea is referred to as “Meedeia pharmachis (Μήδεια φαρμαχίς).” This is translated variously into English as “the sorceress Medea” and into Latin as Medeae venefica, “Medea the witch.”
(Strabo. Geography 2.39, translated by H. C. Hamilton (the first six books) (London: Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Convent Garden, 1903.)
http://www.archive.org/stream/geographyofstrab01strarich/geographyofstrab01strarich_djvu.txt
(Strabo. Geographica 2.39, compiled by August Meineke (Lipsiae: Sumptibus et Typis B. G. Teubneri, 1866) 59.)
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Medicines are derived from herbs and other plants that grow out of the earth. In this context, it is of interest to note that in the word for pharmacy the letter Φ (divinely-animated-entity) is followed by the letters Α (arising) and Ρ (outflow), literally “divinely-animated-entity arising outflow.” In the same vein, the pharmaceutical symbol “RX/PX” may derive from the juxtaposition of the Greek letters Ρ (outflow-of) and Χ (foundation.)
The RX/PX symbol for pharmacy. http://www.ipharmd.net/
MIX
Phur- (φύρ-) is a prefix meaning mix.
Phuro (φύρω) means mix.
Phurmos (φυρμός) means mixture.
SHUDDER
A shudder is a shaking that seems to derive its power from some inexplicable (divine?) source.
Phrik- (φρῑκ-) is a prefix meaning shudder, shiver.
Phrikee (φρῑκη) means shuddering, shivering, especially from religious awe; shivering fear of any kind.
Phriks (φρίξ) means bristling, the hair standing on end, shivering fit; the ruffling of a smooth surface, of Proteus (Πρωτεύς) (immortal God of first principle) coming to the surface.
Phrisso (φρίσσω) means bristle, shiver, shudder, (of the teeth) chatter, the basis of the word frisson.
REFUGE
Temples are often a place of refuge.
Phugee (φῠγή) means a place of refuge; a body of exiles or refugees/fugitives.
Phugodikia (φῠγοδῐκία) means avoidance of a trial, refuge from Dike/Justice (δῐκία).
Phugimon (φύγῐμον) means a place of refuge, asylum.
Phuksion (φύξιον) means place of refuge, place one may flee to.
Phuksios (φύξιος) means banishment, put to flight.
BODY PARTS
Pharugks (φάρυγξ) means pharynx, throat, windpipe.
Phibla (φίβλα) means fibula, a bone connecting the knee with the foot.
Fibula. http://www.mdguidelines.com/fracture-tibia-or-fibula
PHALANX
Phalagks (φάλαγξ) means phalanx, the line of battle, a battle-array.
The Chigi Vase, circa 650 BCE, (National Etruscan Museum, Villa Giulia, Rome (inv. No.22679)) depicts a phalanx formation of overlapping shields. http://www.livius.org/pha-phd/phalanx/phalanx.html
ERUPT
Phlidao (φλῐδάω) means to overflow with moisture, be ready to burst, literally “divinely-animated-entity loosened.”
Phleo (φλέω) means to teem with abundance, abound.
Phloio (φλοίω) means to burst out, swell.
Phluktaina (φλύκταινα) is a blister made by a burn.
Phlusis (φλύσις) means breaking out, eruption.
Phluo (φλύω) means boil over, bubble up, burst out; overflow with words, babble.
Phludao (φλῠδάω) means to have an excess of moisture, become soft or flabby.
PHARTS
Some names of beans begin with the letter Φ, perhaps reflecting their role in causing flatulence, an “energy” within the body. Faba beans and lentils are staples in the Mediterranean diet.
Phaba (φάβα) are faba beans.
Faba beans in the pod. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicia_faba
Phakee, phakea, phakos (φᾰκῆ, φακέα, φᾰκός) means lentils. Phak- (φακ-) is a prefix meaning lentils.
Lentils. http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/legumes/msg0821405411059.html
BEAR ILL-WILL
The letter Φ followed by the letter Θ (divine/immortal/eternal) results in words that mean powerful and lasting feeling; also ultimate destruction and decline.
Phthoneo (φθονέω) means bear ill-will or malice, grudge, envy, jealousness, resent.
Phthonos (φθόνος) means ill-will or malice, envy, jealousy.
Phtheiro (φθείρω) means destroy, waste, perish, corrupt, seduce, ruin.
Phthin (φθῐν) means wasting, waning, consumption; lost fruitfulness; autumnal.
Phthio (φθίω) means waste away, pine, perish, decay; of stars, decline, set; consumptive.
Phthora (φθορά) means destruction, ruin, death, pestilence, deterioration, damage, corruption; thor- (θορ-) means semen; uproar.
OTHER
Pheegos (φῆγός) means oak.
A phledon (φλέδων) is an idle-talker, a babbler, literally “divinely-animated-entity loosened.”
Phluaks (φλύαξ) means jester, comedian.
Phluareo (φλῠᾱρέω) means talk nonsense, play the fool.
Phluaros (φλύᾱρος) means silly talk, foolery, nonsense, babble.