(#024) “Cho of… II – Root of Religion is Dah”

One of the first things Little Choky did, was to start singing rhythmically in his own bizarre way.
“…tsk……tsk… …ta,ta,ta… … tsk……tsk… …ta,ta,ta …”

Immediately Manqui tunes his bass tone, but soon will drop, stand quiet and then rise again. “…Wahwouh, Wahwahwouh… …Wahwouh, Wahwahwouh…!” And let Cho answer in the most harmonic way back. “I am waaa…lking, with my taaaa..il up …hiii…igh, I don’t caaa…re where I maaa..ke my pooo…ah! Round the cooo..rners, I will le..ak the pooo..onds. Forever friiii…endly, the diiii…rty, I’ll ..beeee!” “Heh Choky! You yell at me, and for what? If anything, you turn away? Well since you ask, the first people I know of that existed in the most delicate linguistic way formed the word religion by two other words, Theos, meaning God and Re, meaning to say.

And since you turn away, Theos may come from running away too, because surely the first gods for humans were the runners Sun and the Moon. Others might say Zeus or Deus is the source of God, and there exactly lay the additions and the divisions.
Ultimately, the excitement of people, and even my own excitement about the subject, makes me think that it is associated with awe because one of the meanings of the closely related root verb ‘δείδω’ (deido), which produces ‘δέκομαι’ (dekome), means that I am afraid to do something or care a lot about something.

“…Wahwouh, Wahwahwouh… …Wahwouh, Wahwahwouh…!”

“I mean, it seems that the fear of punishment is implied for something wrongly done or for something that needs to be done but no one does. It more implies fear from ignorance, doubt, which distresses the bearer and incites anxiety for knowledge of what is to come, but it also means persecution. Fear, that is, of condemnation, punishment, revenge. Also, another meaning of ‘δέκομαι’ is to respect and be reverent, implying fear of provoking the vengeance of a god.

“…Wahwouh, Wahwahwouh… …Wahwouh, Wahwahwouh…!”

“Alright, let’s get carried away a bit more. Let’s say, a guard, someone like that whom nobody wants to name, perhaps rightly fears even suspicion of evil, with terror, like empty and cowardly. So, ‘δείδω’, therefore, comes from ‘δίεμαι’ and produces ‘δέκομαι’, and ‘δίεμαι’ springs from ‘δάω’, so that the root ends up being ‘δα’.

“Now listen carefully! As if you’re hearing me for the first time! As if you were a once upon a time human child. Then one of the first syllables, you would say, after ‘μα’ and ‘πα’, would be ‘ντα’.”

“…tsk……tsk… …ta,ta,ta… … tsk……tsk… …ta,ta,ta …”

“You’re right, It seems that ‘ντα’ is the first thing you hear, and from the sound ‘tatata,’ something is knocking on you. ‘Ντα-ντά,’ however, I will tell you, when I slightly hit you on the palm, in cases of misbehavior. Do you understand? ‘What did daddy do to you? I will ask you,’ ‘ντα-ντά’ you will answer me, because as a child, that’s what you can do. Until you grow up, I will make you learn, inform you, and interpret. I will nanny you in the singular as a teacher, teachings.

“In this way, you will receive all the free duplications of your ideas. As ‘δάω’ suffers, surely, in the same way you will suffer the duplication that is due to you. And since many students end up better than their teachers, so you too, my little Tsoky, will also end up! Better and wiser, as long as you listen carefully to what some prominent people of antiquity said about the meaning of all this that you just learned. Euclid, the father of geometry before division, said to remember that those among people who can imitate, learn the best things and teach the best!”

“…Wahwouh, Wahwahwouh… …Wahwouh, Wahwahwouh…!”

“Aristotle, an ancient Greek philosopher, said that all people by nature had the desire for learning.”

“So, only with effort does one acquire such a thing, so I think people ultimately had the desire for effort. How strange.”

“…tsk……tsk… …ta,ta,ta… … tsk……tsk… …ta,ta,ta …”

“But the last and most important thing was seen by Euripides, another ancient Greek philosopher. Learn to see happy whoever has studied and learned history. He has not even lost the time that has passed but lives for the future, he lives for the future…”

“…Wahwouh, Wahwahwouh… …Wahwouh, Wahwahwouh…!”

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