Phoenicians and Panis

We play the same game: (1) Follow rules of Sanskrit Grammar, (2) Approximate alphabet sounds with known linguistic rules and (3) if the meaning comes to English equivalent.

The Panis (Paanis, Paaniis), in the Vedas and later classical literature were the merchant class who were the pioneers and who dared to set their course from unknown lands and succeeded in throwing bridges between many and diverse nations. The Phoenicians were no other than the Panis of the Rig Veda. They were called Phoeni in Latin which is very similar to the Sanskrit Pani.

Surprisingly, I felt the same thing as the above text, which I read at the Hindu Wisdom site - but before I read the text - only to reinforce the thinking. Please see my posting Common Brahmi And Phoenician Script. This commonness is also explained by the fact that the two words are related.

Please also see the article on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-Aryan_superstrate_in_Mitanni where Vedic Gods, Indra, Mitra, Varun and Mahesh are mentioned in the peace treaty between Hittites and Mitannis. The area of Phoenicia, Hittites and Mitannis has overlapped with each other and is today's Syria, Lebanon and Western Turkey area.

So Paanis became Phoenicia? "ia" is same as "ya" or "ay", "ic" is for the adjective. "Pa" is same as "Pha" or "Pho". "o" and "oe" are same. English is one language, were the syllable sounds are completely screwed up, and a word is not written as it is spoken!

So what does Paanis mean? "s" is most probably plural, like 'Muni' becoming 'Munih' or 'Munis'.

And Paa-Nii means "To Get + To Go or To Lead", so someone who wants "to go and get something".

There are rules where without any modifications, the same word serves as verb as well as noun. And sometimes "a' is added and sometimes more rules are followed.

So the ocean water in Sanskrit is Paanii, which is an "instrument noun", meaning that takes you somewhere to get something.

Paanii-ic becomes adjective like "King-ly", and later to make some other adjective like "King-ly-ness", they added "ic". So the word becomes "Paa-nii-ic-ya" which is same as "Ph-oe-ni-ic-ia".

Isis, Jesus, Isha, Isha Masi

People often say "J" as "Y", like Yamuna and Jamuna. Jews and Greeks very often did this.

The siblants, dental "s", palatal "sh", and cerbral "sh" and even comound sibilant, "ksh", are often mixed up, the last one with "k" and "ch" or "sh". My other postings talk about this.

Isis - Egyptian God, son of Solar God Horous, where in first posting I have shown Horous is nothing but same as Chorus and Suresh. He is depicted as black as I recall from my readings.

Jesus - Christ

Isha - Sanskrit word for Lord, someone desired, worshiped, beloved or to be given a sacrifice.


Isha Masi - Name for Jesus in India and among Gnostics and ancients Jews.

Vedic Names in Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, South America

Note names of places and people beginning with word "Ram"

1. Ram-allah - Place in Israel

2. Rameshe - Male name in Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, like Navaye Rameshe.

3. Ramzi - Male name like Ramzi Yunus, Ramzi bin al-Shibh

4. Ramzu - Male name like Ramzu Munshir, Amr Ramzu, Ramzu Yunus,

4. Ramadi - Place in Iraq

5. Ramdiyah - Place in Iraq

6. Ramirej - Spanish/Latin name.

7. Rami - Jew name

7. Ramesys

8. Shah-raam

9. Baah-raam


The word "ram" is an epithet of qualities like pleasing , pleasant , charming , lovely , beautifu, etc. - and an epithet for God Principle.

How many Christian names you can see beginning with Chris, Kris, Christian, Kristian, Kristy, Chisty, and the history behind the word and the logic of etymology can change?

How many Islamic names you can see beginning with Mohammad, which is a very new religion compared to the Vedic religion, and so is Christianity?

Now go to this Bible site and see how many words repeat with "Ram"
Bible List of Words Beginning with 'Ram'

Why is a place in Isreal called "Ramathiam", which is nothing but a corruption of "Ramadhaam", meaning place of Ram, like Akshaydhaam. Dental 'th' can become dental "dh", and in transliterating sounds, "a" can become "i" or "ai".

So you can see what we know of our history is very limited and there is a lot of bias in the world against the history of Hinduism, thanks to the propaganda by zealots of modern religions.

Now why a famous person like Sir William Jones would say this some 200 years back, when a lot on History was being written by the colonist powers?

He said, "It is very remarkable that Peruvians, whose Incas boasted of the same descent, styled their greatest festival Rama-Sitva; whence we may take it that South America was peopled by the same race who imported into the farthest of parts of Asia the rites and the fabulous history of Rama." (source: Asiatic Researches Volume I. p. 426

Christ (Krist) and Krishna (Chrisna)

The sound "Ch" can be "K" as well as "Sh" (see my first posting).

The verb root is "Kri", which means to attract.

If you want to make a past participle, which acts like a noun, adjective, and verbal, it would be
"Krisht", as dental "s" after "i" would become cerebral "sh".

So "Krisht" means something that attracted. Now if you have any westerner, even Indian child brought up in the west, he or she would say the sound "K" as "Kh". And there are "Sanskrit Sandhi" rules were Guttural can become Palatals and vice-versa. To cut the whole story short, it can be written as "Christ" as well.

If we take the root "Kri" and make itr a present participle, which acts like a noun, adjective, and verbal, it would have forms like "Krishan(a)", "Krishant(a)", "Krishat(a)", which are Subjective Singular, and general base words for strong and weak forms to decline the word into different cases for Singular, Dual and Plural.

So "Kirshna" means someone who is attracting. So does "Krishta" means, or "Christ"!

Krishna also means something that is black and the God which had a dark complexion.

Is is not weird that we know that the color black attracts or absorbs most radiation and white attracts or absorbs the least radiation!

This gives a clue in the mindset of the ancients, that were also aware of the basic sciences.

In another article, I would show how Christ and Christna have similar stories!

Who - Whom

My daughter came to me and asked me, "What is the difference between 'who' and 'whom'?"

I started with some usage example, "She is a girl, who likes to ....", and "She was awarded, on whom there was .."

It is clear that one conveys the "active" principle denoting as a "subject", and the other "passive" principle, denoting as an "object".

In Sanskrit, for example, there is a rule that adds "am" or "m" to make a Male/Female "Subjective" into "Objective". Like "Baalak(ah)" to "Baalakam", and "Baalikaa" to "Baalikaam".

Ramaadaan - Rama-adaan

Our family was just mentioning about Ramaadan, which is going on now-a-days.

Saint Mohammad got his divine revelation when he was in a cave meditating during the months of Ramaadaan, a practice much before Islam was introduced by him. This is yet another sign of Arabia practising Vedic beliefs. His nephew's wife name was Hindooja, which is a common Sindhi last surname.

Rama - as noun it means one who is "relished in the Self" with full delights. It is also an epithet for Lord Rama.

Daan - is noun for giving from the root "da", which means "to give".

A-daan - means "not daan", and it means opposite of "giving", which is "accepting".

So the word means "accepting of Rama" or "acceptance of God".

Persians for some reasons, made it "Ramaajaan".

Janus and Ganes (Ganesh, Ganesa) - Weird Coincidence

Janus is depicted as 2-headed or 4-headed Roman God. Somewhere I had read that she was the Goddess of Learning, but when I went to Wikipedia to confirm, I could not find it. Then why they have it as a girl's name?

Back of my mind, I have always associated "Janus" with God of Knowledge and Learning, and am not sure why exactly, unless the subconscious mind is playing tricks!

The connection with Ganesa just happened to me now when I reading another book, where his depiction is mentioned, when talking about a certain iconography of Gnostics.


So lord Ganesh in India is associated with Knowledge and Learning and he is depicted to be the one who transcribed the 4 Vedas, the most ancient and the earliest known books of knowledge from India, and declared by United Nations to be an Inheritance of Humanity.

Ganes can be written as "Gna" + "Ish", which means, Lord or God of Knowledge. Some people say "Gana" + "Ish", meaning Lord of Masses or Leader of Masses. But who can be the Lord of Masses unless he is Intellect, Knowledge and Wisdom wise wiser than the Masses?

Now why Janus would be depicted with 4 or 2 heads? Is it to show his possession of more knowledge and intelligence? Or his lordship over knowledge and intelligence? He is portrait as someone who can go forward and backward in Time.

Now they say the true knowledge is that knowledge that takes you across space and time, and makes you eternal, e.g. the knowledge of Brahman (Super Soul) or Atman (Individual) Soul. The rest of the knowledge is a subjective and man-made knowledge. The true knowledge makes you transcend the cycle of Birth and Death, and free yourself from the shackles of Life and its associated Sorrows and Joys, which is rare and subjective anyway. It is about the identification of oneself to what essence of the Self. Is it Body, Senses, Mind, Ego, or Intellect? All these identifications and anchoring oneself only makes one subject to the travesties of Death and Life, and of Joy and Sorrows. But the identification that you are "Atama", Atom, or part and parcel of the Supreme Self, and because He is always there, you are always living! Alas, you have conquered Death and gained Immortality!

It is for that reason why an intelligent person like Ravana of Ramayana is shown with 10 Heads.
So maybe Janus is shown for the same reasons having 2 or 4 heads.

"J" and "G" are interchangeable, and "gna", "jan" and "gno" are same.