¶ Naga (1)
Index Entry
Naga:
"Goldy then introduces Naga, the sea serpent: god of the oceanic world of the ancients. Naga is the wave. Naga is a live tetrahelix. At sea the wavilinear profile of Naga’s back always rims the horizon.
"Influenced by the language of previous millenniums of long distance ocean-traveling sailors coming originally from the atolls of the South Pacific and Indian Oceans into the Arabian Sea to reach Mesopotamia, and by the subsequent tracing of those world-encircling, deep sea routes by the Phoenicians, the ancient Hebraic language of the earliest Biblical scripture came to contain the word nachash, which means ‘serpent,’ or ‘whisper,’ or ‘divine,’ (the ch being a guttural or ‘g’ sound); i.e., naga and nachashol (or nagashol) means the sea, and the root verb Nacha (=naga) means to lead, conduct, guide, and Nacha (pronounced naga) is also the name of the ancient seafarer N (O) (A) (CH-- Noah.
“‘Nachan’ (pronounced nagan) is the word for copper or bronze alloy, the latter being the high-strength form of the nonrustable metal with which all ship fastenings, fittings and instruments have of necessity been fashioned since copper’s first discovery,”
¶ Citations
- GOLDYLOCKS, pp. I1,I2, 30 May’75
