Comments on: From The Library Of Dr London https://spitalfieldslife.com/2012/09/06/from-the-library-of-dr-london/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Mon, 29 Apr 2013 10:22:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Israel "izzy" Cohen https://spitalfieldslife.com/2012/09/06/from-the-library-of-dr-london/#comment-105909 Mon, 29 Apr 2013 10:22:00 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=70107#comment-105909 My comment on The Economist article “Fun with place-names: A map’s a map for a’ that”
contains a 6-verse limerick with footnotes that describe an ancient anthropomorphic map of Aphrodite (Afro-deity) in north Africa. You can see it at
http://www.economist.com/comment/1374544

For a partial description of a similar map of Hermes, whose navel was at Mt Hermon near Lebanon (a reversal of Sanskrit nabhila = navel), see
http://historicalcartography.wordpress.com/2008/12/08/anthropomorphic-maps/

The drawing at
http://www.henry-davis.com/MAPS/LMwebpages/230A.html
includes a map that is similar, if not identical, to the one described at
http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/french/as-sa/ASSA-No8/NF3.html

To quote Noam Flinker at http://french.chass.utoronto.ca/as-sa/ASSA-No8/NF3.html
“One sees ‘the woman’, mulier, whose head and nose constitute the coastline of North Africa (present Morocco and the Cape of Tanger), thrusting her nose toward the ear of ‘the man’, vir, whose head is constituted by Spain and whose armed hands correspond to the Italian peninsula and Greece. …”

The weapon in Neptune/Poseidon’s right hand was Trinacria (now Sicily) from tri = 3 + Semitic NaQaR = pierce, that is, a trident. His left hand held a woven (Semitic S’RoG) net which reverses to Greece and a small shield (TaRGe) which reverses to Crete. The Triskele flag of Trinacria & Sicily, a woman’s face surrounded by 3 running legs, was a graphic pun on Poseidon, that is, Semitic PoS = female pudenda + SHeN = teeth (at a time when the letter shin had a dental T-sound), rather scary from a Freudian viewpoint.

Ciao,
Izzy
cohen.izzy@gmail.com

]]> By: joan https://spitalfieldslife.com/2012/09/06/from-the-library-of-dr-london/#comment-62868 Thu, 06 Sep 2012 15:51:11 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=70107#comment-62868 My daughter starts secondary school in Stratford next week. In preparation she has had to write something about three places of significance in the locality. She seriously wanted to write about the bin in Westfield which Adam has christened the heart of the East End and which we always comment on whenever we pass it. I’m afraid I was a spoilsport and stopped her! Didn’t know how it would go down with her new teachers.

Best wishes,

Joan

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