Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2017 18:48:36 GMT -5
In his book “Worlds In Collision,” Immanuel Velikovsky writes of “manna” (referred to in the seventy-eighth chapter of Psalms, “had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven.”) that, he claims, fell to earth following the close passage of a comet in time of Moses. Velikovsky writes that, “The manna fell from the clouds.” Velikovsky also writes that, “The Greeks called the heavenly bread ambrosia.” In comparison the Lakota word for “comet” contains three elements, Wičháȟpi (star), Siŋté (tail), and Tȟúŋ (sacred suppuration), that have a literal meaning of “a star with a tail exuding sacred suppurations.” Is the resemblance of “sacred suppurations” from the tail of a comet to Velikovsky’s interpretation of “manna” and “ambrosia” from the close approach of a comet in the time of Moses more than mere coincidence? To demonstrate that the Lakota understood the difference between comets and meteors, the latter are named by the words Wakȟáŋ (sacred) and Woȟpá (something falling down). Thus, to the Lakota a meteor is “something sacred falling down” and a comet is “a star with a tail exuding sacred suppurations.” They are clearly not the same idea at all and the Lakota differentiated between the two by internalizing the separate concepts into their very descriptive language.