reinterpretations of the ankh symbol part 2 - Asar Imhotep

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In the Passion of the Christ or Passion of Osiris book, I demonstrated how linguistically the concept of
“life” is conveyed using terms that are based in the s/j, s-r or s-l root in many African languages
(including ciKam/Egyptian) and how this is embedded in the name Wsr/Jsr (Osiris). The essence of
Wsr is based off the -s- root which essentially means “to activate, the power to cause to be.” This /s/
alternates with /j/. Given these two things, I believe we can associate the Yorùbá terms Òjè “life”
(after death) and èjè “blood” (êjë “vow,” blood oath?) 9 as related to our -s- root in Wsr. This root can
be seen in Yorùbá Ò jé “He was/He is – He happened to be,” jí “Wake up from sleep” (back into
consciousness and life). Compare with Westermann’s Proto-Niger-Congo reconstruction *za/dza
“blood.” Nupe has e-dza, Guang obu-dza, Lefana ubu-dza, Ahlo obi-dza, Ewe ku-dze, Kilimonjaro
(Caga) samu, sau, Sumerian sa, Yorùbá e-dze “blood.” Blood is life, the blood is soul. In Yorùbá we
have sí “to be” which is cognate with Hebrew yesh “there is” (=Assyrian su “to be, to have”). 10 We
should also note that among the ancient Greeks the term zoe (s>z) is “life personified” (usually
paired with logos “the word”). In Kiswahili eshe also means “life.” In part one of this series, we noted
the anx sign represented a master teacher or healer and in Africa this healer is called nganga which
is anx reduplicated. If the anx also was pronounced za, then we may have another correlation as a
doctor or priest in Egyptian was called sA, sAw, swnw.
As we can see above, blood is related to life and is captured in various cognate terms: sa, za, dza,
dze, etc. The support for the association between the anx and blood comes from the thorax once
again. The following image displays the blood supply to the thoracic wall.
The thoracic wall is supplied by three sources of blood
supply:
� axillary
o supreme thoracic (2)
o lateral thoracic (3)
� subclavian
o internal thoracic (or mammary) artery
(1)
� anterior intercostal branches
� aorta
intercostal arteries (4)
9 It should be noted that the word anx in Egyptian also means “oath.” This could be further proof that the anx symbol
could carry more than one sound value.
10 This -s- root is found in the Yorùbá phrase dá wa sí “Keep us alive” (Preserve us); Kúda yi si “Death kept this one
alive.” The term sí means to have “life,” to “exist;” in other words, “to be.”