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If I ask you what the origin of the Christian Trinity is, you might say God. I on the other hand would say you are wrong and afterwards reply that it was created by people who were influenced by the ideas of other people back in time who were influenced by other people further back in time. However, no one kept a record of the encounters as they transitioned over time... at least not in the sense as one might keep a ledger detailing the minutes of a board meeting. Nonetheless, there are some basic reference characteristics which provide a tell-tale indication of an influence in centuries past, which one might say reads like an ancient observer of Nature:
- God is three distinct persons. Father- Son- Holy Spirit/Ghost
- Each of the distinct persons are representative of god.
- The three persons are one god.
Now, take the same ideas and apply them to an early Nature worship system of observing the Sun, even though worship of the Sun may be categorized as a separate entity and interest from other Nature Worship declarations from some authors who may use the headings of Solar cults, Lunar cults, Fertility cults, Harvesting cults, etc...:
- The Sun has three distinct phases. (Dawn- Noon- Dusk)
- Each of the distinct phases are representative of the Sun.
- The three phases are one Sun.
Please do not misunderstand me. I am not saying that someone looked at the Sun and then deliberately copied it to create the (transformational) doctrine of the Trinity, or establish a belief in the Trimurti, or fashion any of the multitude examples of triads in ancient Egypt, mythology, etc... Let's be honest and look at the Sun as a source of light and humans as sensitive receptors of light-emitting objects. For example, the Sun's characteristics appears to effect the dynamic assertion of an after-image. Much like the physiologically generating psychic occurrence called a Phantom limb phenomena, we apparently have a similar phenomena occurrence for vision, if not other senses as well. Though in some instances it might be referred to as palinopsia, let us not overlook that a medically cited condition may well have lesser models of exposure lasting through decades, or centuries, though such experiences (even by lots of people) may not be consciously identified, even though some measure of influence is very real.
On the other hand, since the Trinity doctrine was formerly initiated by the Christian church in a series of councils and individual proponents, let us first take a sampling of the record before making another statement concerning the adoption of the idea: (History of the Trinity Doctrine)
Tertullian, who converted to Christianity just before AD 200 and defended Christianity prolifically until he died around AD 220, initiated the use of the Latin words Trinitas, persona, and substantia (Trinity, person, and substance or essence) to express the biblical teaching that the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are one in divine essence but distinguished in relationship as persons within the inner life of God himself.
The three major ecumenical councils are worth noting in order to trace the development of the doctrine of the Trinity. These gatherings of church leaders discussed major theological issues for the purpose of recognizing what the church believed. One reason the councils were called was to respond to heretical teaching. The Council of Nicaea (AD 325) included some three hundred bishops, many of whom bore the scars of persecution, and was convened primarily to resolve the debate over Arianism, the false teaching that Christ was a creature, an angel who was the highest created being, but not God. The Council of Nicaea concluded that the Son was one substance (homoousios) with the Father. The Logos, who was incarnate in Jesus of Nazareth, is God himself. He is not like God, but is fully and eternally God.
With the deity of Christ officially recognized, the Council of Constantinople (AD 381) extended the discussion to the identification of the Holy Spirit within the Godhead. Constantinople expanded the Nicene Creed, making the creed fully Trinitarian, and officially condemned Arianism. It solidified the orthodox doctrine of the full humanity of Jesus Christ. The Council of Chalcedon (AD 451) focused on the relationship of Christ's humanity to his divinity (known as hypostatic union) and issued the formula of Chalcedon, which became the orthodox statement on the person of Christ. Hypostatic union means that Jesus is one person with two natures and therefore simultaneously fully God and fully human....
While different sources give slightly different variations which nonetheless overall agree with a similar time-line of events, the point I want to make is that we do not know whether or not there were one or more influential speakers who had knowledge of the Sun as a powerful object of so-called Pagan Nature worship, and sought to apply this same level of reverent tenacity in terms of a Christian doctrine. Hence, the aspects of the Sun from Pagan sources of Nature worship were reconfigured into a powerful Christian ethic of worship to rival that of Nature worshipers who largely focused on solar or lunar events. While such a scenario could have taken place, one might prefer to rely on the "after-image" hypothesis. My own view is that while church members can be quite cunning and devious, I don't read anything in the early writings to suggest they were intellectually capable of making the connection between the Sun and their adoption of a Trinitarian conceptualization. Like many writers in the past such as the forefathers of the U.S. government, early church leaders were not that smart. Some were clearly as dumb as a bag of rocks (like many early philosophers, politicians, police officers, etc...) knocking about making noise like a leather string-secured bag of coins affixed to one's belt and bouncing off one's leg as they walk.
For example, analogously, one can sometimes see the after-image of a computer or television screen once they are turned off in a dark room, though some people need only a small variation of ambient light to experience the effect. In some situations, both television and computer screens have been known to flicker for different reasons. I have even seen the after-image glow of street lights just after they have been turned off in the early dusk. The light continues to emit heat(?) rays which I can sometimes see in a triangular configuration. As a child in grade school, I was sometimes distracted by the flicker of fluorescent lamps, but they never gave me headaches and I was able to concentrate on tasks at hand. Another image of flickering light comes to mind when I recall riding a bus to a Day Camp. While riding beneath a line of trees alongside the road, the Sun would intermittently flash through clumps of limbs and leaves. causing a strobe-light effect. I can also see the path of the Sun (and Moon) exhibiting a triangular image that I tried to identify when I was very young. I even set up a piece of string from a portion of one side of a backyard to another side as a representative illustration. A neighbor looking out of a window thought I was quite weird. And no matter who I told it to, no one else could see what I was describing. Thus, some people are more physiologically sensitive to environmental patterns than others, often referring to them as subtle energies. In any respect, while ancient Nature worshipers may have produced a solar or lunar cult, this does not mean they acknowledged either the triple dawn- noon- dusk of the Sun or the Moon's full moon- half moon- quarter moon episodes, to the extent of having developed an associated philosophy or ritualized practice. Granted their were multiple different types of cults which used one or another natural phenomena
Nonetheless, impressions which loom large in one's life need not be consciously acknowledged to have an impact. And while psychology typically describes childhood trauma as having the ability to create lingering situations in later life, so can Natural events... both on an individual as well as collective basis. In fact, the triplet code of DNA can be the product of a lingering after-image effect of the Sun's three phases (dawn- noon- dusk) when the Earth was spinning faster and early building blocks of life were (maybe) more photo-sensitive, and like goslings who followed Konrad Lorenz around due to what has been termed imprinting behavior. However, with respect to the development of a triplet code as an expressed imprint, biological processes need to be primed to accept such an imprint, or variations may well occur. And since we are dealing with early photogenic biological processes, let me stress the operative word found in imprinting, which is movement. And while it is common for someone to say that the Sun moves, it is actually the Earth. Nonetheless, we find life forms entrained to the Sun and others entrained to the moon. The basic terms we deal with are Trophism and Taxis. And while there are several noted kinds today, we do not know which were absent in the past, with respect to the development of life beginning billions of years ago.
A person can be entrained on a stimulus and not be aware that they are. The Trinity can easily be seen (at least by me) to have been the result of the Sun's three phases, yet be referenced by others as a foolish idea who do not have the means to deductively reason for basic originations, using the tools of biology, physiology and multiple others. Their tool box is limited to those tools one might find in a kitchen drawer, vehicle glove box, or nail file case. Because they can not make the stepwise interconnections which even specialists overlook, the origin of the Trinity like the origin of the triplet code in genetics will always remain illusive and defined as an act of some god, needing no further explanation... though the idea of a god is but another type of crude cognitive tool that has been sharpened by a maze of intellectual minutia.
Let me say again, the idea of the Christian Trinity, Hindu Trimurti, Ancient Egyptian and later triads have an ancestral connection to the Sun's movements. Though sometimes overlapped with impressions of the apparent movements of the Moon, there were no other consistent movements unless we care to discuss the momentums of the ocean (where many think life began) due to a moon that was closer billions of years ago, and the clouds, though it is well noted that stars and meteorites have played a role in influencing cognitive behavior. The gradient mixtures of minerals billions of years ago may well have initiated the diffusability of cell membranes with their environment, from which has sprang up the bottled water and electrolyte industries.
Because it has taken centuries for the concepts of the Trinity, Trimurti and other triads to form... even though historians may give the impression that such ideas sprang up over night (relatively speaking in historical terms), applied connections with Natural events such as the Sun and Moon would seem to suggest there's some sort of delay taking place between impression and illustration, as well as a process of distortion that may never achieve a referential closeness in appearance, as the Christian Trinity's appearance to that of the Sun. Either by way of a series of filters or sine switch requiring the necessity of further cognitive development by way of an altered physiology... we are confronted by a delay in the ability of humans being able to assess impressions and alter course in a refined direction... yet, even though there is a remarkable closeness being exhibited, most people retain a learned deniability.
However, this brings us to an examination of the "three" as a cognitive construct resembling what? The triple genetic code? The Three germ layers? Is it a crude illustration of a three-part Natural event which has influenced multiple types of three-patterned ideas? And if Nature is the primary source of influence, what then happens as Nature changes? Here are three considerations that will alter human conceptualization as physiology is affected by dwindling resources:
- The Sun is burning out as it expands.
- The Sun's three phases are fusing as seen from a slowing Earth, creating a 3-in-1 ratio.
- Th Moon is moving away, altering the ocean tides.
- Adaptations illustrating the changes may be delayed for some.
If you supply the second reference first and than add the analogy to the Trinity, the reaction of the listeners might be quite different. The belief in the Christian Trinity has its roots in Nature worship, just as does the Hindu Trimurti and the Triads of ancient Egypt. To understand the link, we must take a short look at where solar worship was practiced. We find it in those cultures where adoptions of a threesome occurred within or alongside, just as Georges Dumezil found a Tripartite Ideology among Indo-Europeans, but not exclusively so. For me, the main point about Dumezil's tripartite idea to be drawn out of his research is that yet another person used a tripartite organizational tool of dissection. If more complex State social structures were inclined to adopt a tripartite scheme, we should not be surprised to see the use of a bipartite scheme of organization in less complex social settings and a singular or "mono-partite" pattern in more primitive settings. And beyond the complexity of social design from which arises a tripartite theme, may well be found a multiplicity following an addition model, that may be interspersed with division and subtraction... or some other mathematically described order of operations.(PEDMAS: parenthesis- exponent- division- multiplication- addition- subtraction)... or humanistically described something such as the positions of paternal (clan leader)- explorative (nomadic organization)- divination (shamanism)- maternal/matriarchal- advisory (consultations, politics/diplomacy)- subjects/use of spirituality as a social control measure; etc... (Different models of taxonomic social ordering can be thought of, whether one uses a triangle/pyramid, circle, square, or other geometric form to illustrate a before/after, top-middle-bottom), etc...
Like Georges Dumezil (Mar. 4, 1898- Oct. 11, 1986) and his study of Indo-European Languages, we find that there were three theories exercised great influence on nineteenth and early twentieth century mythography:
- The "solar mythology" of Alvin Boyd, Kuhn (Sept. 22, 1880- Sept. 14, 1963), and Max Müller (Dec. 3, 1823- Cct. 28, 1900).
- The tree worship of Wilhelm Mannhardt (Mar. 26, 1831- Dec. 25, 1880).
- The totemism of J. F. McLennan (Oct. 14, 1827- June 16, 1881).
Three characteristics of Totemism:
- Symbolism: Totems represent a clan or a group and serve as its symbol.
- Ancestral Connection: Totems are often thought of as ancestors, guiding spirits, or protectors.
- Taboos: There are certain restrictions and customs associated with totems in various cultures.
Note: One might view a totem pole (statue) as an early model of a taxonomy... (A categorized listing in a linear and not circular, square pyramidal or other geometric form.)
Sun worship: veneration of the sun or a representation of the sun as a deity, as in Atonism in Egypt in the 14th century bce.
Although sun worship has been used frequently as a term for "pagan" religion, it is, in fact, relatively rare. Though almost every culture uses solar motifs, only a relatively few cultures (Egyptian, Indo-European, and Meso-American) developed solar religions. All of these groups had in common a well-developed urban civilization with a strong ideology of sacred kingship. In all of them the imagery of the sun as the ruler of both the upper and the lower worlds that he majestically visits on his daily round is prominent.
Nature Worship:Generally, the sun is worshiped more in colder regions and the moon in warm regions. Also, the sun is usually considered as male and the moon as female. Exceptions to these generalizations, however, are notable: the prevalent worship of the sun in hot, arid ancient Egypt and in parts of western Asia; the conception of the moon as a man (who frequently is believed to be the cause of menstruation) among many hunting and gathering societies as well as certain pastoral and royal cultures of Africa; and the conception of the female sun ruling northern Eurasia eastward to Japan and... (100 of 8865 words)
The sun is the bestower of light and life to the totality of the cosmos; with his unblinking, all-seeing eye, he is the stern guarantor of justice; with the almost universal connection of light with enlightenment or illumination, the sun is the source of wisdom. These qualities—sovereignty, power of beneficence, justice, and wisdom—are central to any elite religious group, and it is within these contexts that a highly developed solar ideology is found. Kings ruled by the power of the sun and claimed descent from the sun. Solar deities, gods personifying the sun, are sovereign and all-seeing. The sun is often a prime attribute of or is identified with the Supreme Deity.
In ancient Egypt the sun god Re was the dominant figure among the high gods and retained this position from early in that civilization’s history. In the myth relating the voyage of the sun god over the heavenly ocean, the sun sets out as the young god Kheper; appears at noon in the zenith as the full-grown sun, Re; and arrives in the evening at the western region in the shape of the old sun god, Atum. When the pharaoh Ikhnaton reformed Egyptian religion, he took up the cult of the ancient deity Re-Horakhte under the name of Aton, an older designation of the Sun’s disk. Under Akhenaton, the sun’s qualities as creator and nourisher of the Earth and its inhabitants are glorified.
The sun god occupied a central position in both Sumerian and Akkadian religion, but neither the Sumerian Utu nor the Semitic Shamash was included among the three highest gods of the pantheon. The sun was one of the most popular deities, however, among the Indo-European peoples and was a symbol of divine power to them. Surya is glorified in the Vedas of ancient India as an all-seeing god who observes both good and evil actions. He expels not only darkness but also evil dreams and diseases. Sun heroes and sun kings also occupy a central position in Indian mythology, where Vivasvant, the father of Yama, corresponds to the Iranian Vivahvant, the father of Yima. There is a dynasty of sun kings, characteristically peaceful, that is quite distinct from the warlike moon kings. In medieval Iran, sun festivals were celebrated as a heritage from pre-Islamic times. The Indo-European character of sun worship is also seen in the conception of the solar deity, drawn in his carriage, generally by four white horses, common to many Indo-European peoples, and recurring in Indo-Iranian, Greco-Roman, and Scandinavian mythology.
During the later periods of Roman history, sun worship gained in importance and ultimately led to what has been called a “solar monotheism." Nearly all the gods of the period were possessed of solar qualities, and both Christ and Mithra acquired the traits of solar deities. The feast of Sol Invictus (Unconquered Sun) on December 25 was celebrated with great joy, and eventually this date was taken over by the Christians as Christmas, the birthday of Christ.
The most famous type of solar cult is the Sun Dance of the Plains Indians of North America. In the pre-Columbian civilizations of Mexico and Peru, sun worship was a prominent feature. In Aztec religion extensive human sacrifice was demanded by the sun gods Huitzilopochtli and Tezcatlipoca. In both Mexican and Peruvian ancient religion, the Sun occupied an important place in myth and ritual. The ruler in Peru was an incarnation of the sun god, Inti. In Japan the sun goddess, Amaterasu, who played an important role in ancient mythology and was considered to be the supreme ruler of the world, was the tutelary deity of the imperial clan, and to this day the sun symbols represent the Japanese state.
Please note the presence of Solar worship in those regions where there were later developments of Triadic religious structures, and the absence of solar worship in those areas where there were either no civilizations as yet, or exhibited A "monopartite", bipartite, or alternative (crude/fledgling) triadic mental formulas were expressed alternatively, such as in the proposed I-Ching Triads. In other words, the human brain could display basic cognitive patterns in alternative ways, but those ways seem to have been Conserved. For example, the materials by which triangular structures were built (pyramids, mounds, tepees) was due not only to lifestyle (pastoral, farming, nomadic, etc.,), but also what materials were most available in a given environment that a given people had the knowledge and skills to take advantage of. And for those familiar with patterns-of-three occurring in Buddhism, one must look at earlier views compared to later views in order to see an increased usage of 3-patterned ideas. It is but one example of an expressed developmental trend in human cognitive activity that may well culminate in the -upbringing of a New Species... in either mind and/or body and or spirit... or altogether alternatively.
While some Native American Totem poles exhibit a top figure with wings (symbolically (unknowingly?) suggesting a flight of ideas or a higher consciousness?), other totem poles don't. If you have an Architect's penchant for viewing the world, then the application of the word Totem to one's sketches might be referred to as Totem Architecture, which can be seen in multiple forms and models, many of which are drawn up and constructed by Nature. It should be noted that we tend to overlook that the making of totem poles was a Northern Native American exercise and was not practiced by Indo-Europeans, Africans nor Asians, though some vestige of the idea might be inferred. For example, the 4 Presidential heads at Mount Rushmore might be called a Totem, as well as the Monolithic Heads of Easter Island being inferred to represent a type of totemic expression.
Examples of singular Megalithic structures with a similar pose:
Pre-Historic Megalithic Giants found in Indonesia, Laos & India
The Sun has been and is used by different life forms as a type of compass. While typical compasses have a single dial, a clock also is a later version of a Sun dial using three dials. This is the case for the Trinity, Hindu Trimurti, and various triads such as those of ancient Egypt and in Mythology. The compass and clock, as instruments for navigation, are mechanized models of the Sun where primitive and internalized variants are used by bees, birds and crustaceans. The notion of Sun Compass Orientation and Heliotropism in Sunflowers (with a biological limit of rotation rate specificity); as well as differentiating Heliotropism and Phototropism. These labels are overlooked as defining terms of behavior for humans, since humans also use alternative light sources which affect behavior, such as starlight, moonlight, firefly light, campfire light, candlelight, torchlight, lantern light, flashlight, match light, etc... And though it is not customary to view the Christian Trinity, Hindu Trimurti, Egyptian and Mythological triads as clocks or compasses, they are in fact points of intellectual and emotional orientation, with many directly linked to some type of light, be it the Sun, Moon, Stars, or Lightning.
But... with regard to the use of the Sun, Moon, and stars being described as sources of light which have influenced multiple figures found in religion and other types of mythology with accompanying literary narratives; those who took up this model of interpretation were later subjected to ridicule because almost anything and everything became associated with such preoccupations. Hence, I can remember encountering several decades ago the idea of "The Eclipse of Solar Mythology", which was intended to deliver the death knell to those who interpreted most or all ancient stories in terms of a reference to the Sun, with or without a connection to or confluence with the Moon and stars. Nonetheless, in this short article: An archaeological reconsideration of solar mythology by Karlene Jones-Bley, we find the assertion of how prominent the use of the Sun was to Indo-European peoples. And while I do not know if a prehistory of solar worship or solar cultism is a prerequisite for the later adoption of a three-part ideology (Egyptian triads, Mythological threesomes, Buddhist tripartite ideas, Christian Trinity, Hindu Trimurti), the correlation is a rather stark one we must examine, particularly when we find Natural groupings of "threes" that I will list a few paragraphs hence.
While the importance of the Sun in Mythology may be thought to be fanciful, not so is the case when it is used in a county's flag:
The situation with religions is that they are run like businesses and governments with spies who try to find out what secrets are being told by supposed competitors and rivals. If someone comes up with a good idea or has a good idea in the beginning, a religion will try to usurp the interest in order to promote what it believes to be a better, typically more complex idea, like those in the present computer age who compete for the public's attention by producing and promoting a better app (application to a given problem or situation). Such is the case for all religious and mythological triads, threesomes, Triunities, the Trimurti and the Christian Trinity. Nature worshipers in the deep past had a large following as attested to by the use of fertility rites, planting festivals, and named gods aligned with this or that pattern seen in Nature, be it an eclipse, weather patterns, star alignments, movement of animals, growing seasons, as well as the Moon and the Sun. Correlations with human behavior and bodily functions to events in Nature were signified as being preeminently important. No doubt the repeated observations of simple pairings of Natural events to human sensations created a science... of sorts, though it may have involved notions of spirituality and gods, if not demons as well. Such pairings took on a manifest ideology in the hands of some Chinese, from whom came the idea of the Yin and Yang, at first describing only a small list of a few opposites, that has since garnered more attention and been given multiple other contrasts in our present era. Like earlier notions of counting based on a one-to-one correspondence of pairs, the "2" was a big deal, though the enumeration may not have been acknowledged in the same terms we do today. Nonetheless, it had and held reverence from many.
In short, and more to the point, later religions confiscated ideas from earlier religions which were later described with the term of "paganism" by later researchers as a contrast to the views of those wanting their ideas to be viewed in a more favorable light by its practitioners. If peasants (or pagans, or whatever term of Redneck or Hillbilly was used in ancient times) did not readily comply with the ruling elite's belief in gods, goddesses, spirituality, etc., laws were put into effect which forced compliance, much in the manner that some families and communities do today to get the young to follow in the footsteps of belief of the older generations. In several cases we find that older ideas were confiscated and relabeled so that the ignorant country folk would more easily be persuaded to adopt the new system of beliefs. Such is the case for the Trinity, Trimurti and Egyptian Triads. The step-wise fashioning of older Nature ideas has since been lost to antiquity, but the final result has not been. The Egyptian Triads, Indian Trimurti, and Christian Trinity are the resulting affects of commercializing the previous "pagan" attentiveness given to the Sun's three phases subjected to the efforts of what amounts to be different advertisement schemes. While the underlying "three theme" ("threme") has been retained, multiple cultural embellishments coupled to philosophical twists and turns are part of the long process of concealing the origination of the "threme". However, the more intellectual traditions try to persist in the effort of concealment, the more clarity is revealed.
Let us take for example the "three persons" idea being promoted by some Christian thinkers. It is much like the stupidity of the American Supreme Court which went along with the Corporate argument of defining a business as a "person", thus submitting to accepting the nonsense of "personhood". While we all know this is ludicrous, it permitted those in the business to eschew personal responsibility when the company advanced damaging policies put into practice. Without facing personal liability for the company defined as a "person" whose policies they helped to create but can not be held responsible for... except in terms of gaining a portion of any and all rewards for good policies put into practice; we see this same sort of thinking being used by those arguing about the personalities of the three "persons" of a made-up entity called the Trinity. It is a corporate strategy of thinking that theologians have adopted and pursued as if they are engaged in an intellectually persuasive ideological consideration they want to reap whatever reward they can from the philosophical entity, but not be held personally responsible for any errors in judgment they make. The Trinity, the Trimurti, and the ancient Triads of Egypt as well as mythology, are like named corporations given a personhood. However, many intellectual trinities abound in different philosophical orientations and given the titles of laws, or observances, or pathways. The many three-patterned orientations found in Buddhism is a testament to this intellectual tradition which has been increasing over time. The "three" has been expanded into many vagaries of consideration. Not all statues become illustrate with three erect entities with different names. Instead of statues, we have written statutes, both of which refer to something put in place to stand and be commonly recognized, referenced and revered.
And though we of today can see the "3" as having its own qualitative and quantitative appeal, it is a transcendent position which is not easily acknowledged by the primitive mind, since there are fewer Natural "threes" events on the Macroscopic level that are visible. While we do have the "triads/Trinities" of:
- Stars- Moon- Sun
- Earth- Water- Air
- Hot- Warm- Cold
- Solids- Liquids- Gases
- Flying- Walking- Crawling
- Urine- Feces- Spit
- Trees- Bushes- Grass
- Birth- Life- Death
The Sun with its three phases (dawn- noon- dusk) appears to have been acknowledged as an impression inducing phenomenon, but not initially as 3 separate entities such as one might describe a set of triplets by individual names. While later religious ideologies did pay tribute by associating a particular god to each of the phases, they were routinely addressed in terms of an overlapping or integrative composite, that we can label as a 3-in-1 entity. Whether intuitive or not to the general mind of distant Nature worshipers, it can not be said, and the modern of of calling an ancient Nature worshiper as Sun worshiper, is most likely a contrivance of early scholarship based on misunderstanding, if not simply a copycat reference used by others. While the Sun loomed large in the cognitive landscape of ancient Nature worshipers, as did the Moon and stars, they were most likely not foremost in the early stages of Nature worship. There were far too many distractions being defined as signs and signals that they needed to attend to in order for their group to sustain itself as a viable and legitimate social gathering to support and protect. To do anything to anger Nature was a serious offense... perhaps quite similar to perceived indiscretions of street gang members, prison gangs, and others of this ilk.
Whereas we can see the eventual trend of counting proceeding beyond the "2" to "3" in ancient systems of enumeration, this does not actually tell us how long the human mind was progressing between the conceptual establishment and usage of each one. We don't know how long the gap... if any, there was between the numbers 1, then 2, then 3, though we do recognize there was a repetition established when the value of ten was reached. We see this in the "teen" numbers, of which there are seven by the way, to the the extent the "teen" is said to be reminiscent of the the "ten" spelled with two "es". Hence, while we say "teen" for 13, we do not say "eleventeen" nor "twelveteen", but we do see a recurrence in the values of multiple tens such as twenty, thirty, etc., which are to be read as "two tens" for twenty, "three tens for thirty", etc... In the case of the "teens" we have 3 plus ten, 4 plus ten, 5 plus ten, etc... Granted these ideas are attested to by numerous historians of number development, the point to be made is the fact that the human mind is not a stranger to embellishment.
Date of Origination: Aug. 9th, 2024... 4:30 AMInitial Posting: Oct. 17th, 2024... 11:06 AM