[HPforGrownups] Re: The female founders and Latin

[Laura Ingalls Huntley]

No: HPFGUIDX 40679

Me:
> which would show even greater connections between wizards and the
> early Christian church.

Jen replied:
>I'm not sure I'm following you here, Laura.  Latin was around long
>before the early Christian Church (even being generous and suggesting
>753 BCE, the founding date, traditionally, of Rome as the terminus ante
>quem).  Nor would I associate the origins of Christianity with the Latin
>language, though clearly Christianity did establish itself at Rome, but
>rather with the eastern, Greek-speaking half of the Empire.

^_~ I was not trying to say that the Christian church created/predates/etc. Latin.  Heavens, no.  In light of the fact that some listies were trying out theories that a number of witches may have been nuns.(They had excellent backup for these theories, BTW..I just can't manage to think of any) my proposed connections sort of went as follows:

- Latin is (partially) derived from the sacred spell-speaking of the wizards
- when the church (with heavy wizard participation) wanted to claim a language for their very own, they chose Latin because of the connections it had with the sacred spell-speak.

*shrugs* that's it.  Nothing fancy.  I'm not even sure it works out that well in terms of history...

Anyway..that was sort of a side note to begin with.  My *real* problem (the one I was trying to answer with this theory) is that What About These Sounds Makes Magic Happen?  Not only that...but how did these particular sounds just *happen* to make words in a specific language...words that were directly related to the outcome of the magic.

Again, it isn't just the idea behind the word in the wizards' mind is it?  Because pronunciation matters.  My only idea of how this could work out is if the spell-words predate and contributed to Latin.

laura

  


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