List of Ancient Words (universal)

LIST OF ANCIENT WORDS

Paleo-Philologists have accumulated a list of ultra-conserved words, projecting an ancestral language, extended well into 15,000 years of usage.  

Certain core concepts have been with us, always: Resonant, blunt, unadorned, concrete, descriptive. And see if you are surprised by any of them, especially the last one.

I,

not,

That,

We,

To give,

Who,

This,

What,

Man/male,

Ye /you

old,

mother,

To hear,

Hand,

Fire,

to pull,

Black,

To flow,

Bark,

Ashes,

To spit,

Worm  - surprised? Clue that we used to eat them.

Grubs are more delicious than beetles

Which are abundant and everywhere.

EXERCISE: 

Write poem, using these 23 words.

EXAMPLE:

Who gives not to old Mother,

That hears the hand of fire

Pulled black flowing from the flame

That men spit into?

The crab sitting on the horse

The interconnectedness of things is underlined by the living. The spinal chord is but the tail of the shelled crab of the brain which sits atop the great horse of the body. What was once the gill of the floating fish is now the voice-box, pulsing the laryngeal linguistics of gloating expression. It was the trees that taught the brachiating primate the advantages of an opposed thumb. And the elegant earthworm continues to crawl over all the bones of the world.