[Buddha-l] Brahma & Abraham

[Erik Hoogcarspel]

Op 3-3-2010 20:38, Dan Lusthaus schreef:
> Artur, there is always room for poetry.
>
>    
>> Poetic imagination, though, thrives on such equivalences.
>>      
> For instance, originally Abraham's name was Avram (Abram in typical
> transcription).
>
> אברם Avram
>
> God changes his name to AvraHAm, adding the letter he ה so that the name
> becomes אַבְרָהָם. The h is supposed to be borrowed from YHVH, so the
> renaming is a way that God sanctifies Avram =>  Avraham.
>
> אֵבֶר (pronounced ai-ver, the ai in raise) means limb, organ ; (literary)
> wing ; (colloquial) organ (penis).
>
> That seems fitting, given he is the one who enters into the covenant (Brith)
> with God, which is marked on the body by circumcision.
>
> If one adds a he ה to that root -- Alef-Bet-Resh אבר -- so A-V-R-H, that
> makes the noun feminine, and gives it a new meaning:  אֶבְרָה (pronounced
> evrah) plumes, pinion ; (Biblical) wing
>
> Also poetically fitting.
>
> Shiva is a linga, but is Brahma(n) a penis?
>
>    
Ask Dr. Freud :-)

Is 'buddy' a derivation from Little Buddha?

erik