Posted on September 17, 2005 at 22:44:46.
In Reply to: |Desire| posted by ***collapse_subcommittee-etymology_division
Sidus
By RN
Your remark is very interesting. Could you check the origin of desire with a word encyclopedia (not a dictionary) or a work concerning such etymologies? Personally, I came across it during my researches on ancient Persian culture and studying Pahlavanic language (Pahlavi) of ancient Persia (during Sasanian); Pahlavi unilike Indo-European languages has vowelless alphabet so it shares a mysterious origin with Hebrew; it's a composition of ancient Greek, Sanskrit, Farsi and Hebrew (I should add, I have not succeeded to tame this beast yet; it's so difficult, creepy and rich) ... in one of those books, I suddenly ran into an endnote explaining the origin of the word desire (sidus-based background of the word) very brilliantly. I don't remember where that endnote was.
It seems as you suggested about Consider and its sidus part, both have a common origin in the horizon of 'templum' (your intelligent suggestion) – templum more loyal to capacity than space -- which returns to Ptolemiac examinations (The Almagest and all the later examinations to this book) on uni-verse and mainly, a Pythagorean metronic philosophy bound to Greek Cosmogony. A very complex economy of pseudo-fluxes triggered and (re)animated by metron ('specially marked out for' which you suggested). Metron is actually the dynamic grund of Sidus. I've a somehow boring essay on all the above subjects, Pestis Solidus.
We can suck a good discussion out of what you just mentioned.