The Enigmatic Translator

By Dennis Theron Lewis

This book is my search for the archaic which are derived from ancient written texts
by the use of my enigmatic methods, where I examine ancient written texts to
discover archaic knowledge.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Dec 27, 2017
• ISBN: 9781543462722

Dennis Theron Lewis

Mr. Lewis is a writer and artist and lives in Boise, Idaho.

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CONTENTS

Acknowledgment

Preface

Essay I: The Ancient Anglo-Saxon Beowulf Poem

Introduction

Texts of Essay I

Additional Text III

Additional Incomplete Text IV

Additional Incomplete Text V

Additional Incomplete Text VI

Additional Incomplete Text VII

Additional Incomplete Text VIII

Main Text

Conclusion

Essay II: The Ancient Greek Septuagint Text of Genesis

Introduction

Main Text

Main Transcripted text

Greek Old Testament.

Additional Text I

Additional Text II

Conclusion

Essay III: Vergil’s Aeneid

Introduction

Main Enigmatic Text

The Aeneid by Vergil

Conclusion

Essay IV: Homer’s Iliad

Introduction

A Prose Version of Homer’s Iliad:

Conclusion

Essay V: James Joyce’s Finnigan Wake:

Introduction

Conclusion

Main Conclusion

APPENDICES

Appendix A: Justification of Enigmatic Methods

Main Conclusion

Appendix B: Enigmatic Conjectures

Appendix C: Analysis of some English words

Appendix D:

An empirical basis of divination

Afterword

Appendix E: I found the

Archaic in an Indirect Manner

References

To The Loving Memory of

Alan Keith Lewis

Mr. Lewis is also the author of A New Limit Mechanics and Philosophic Research, also published by Xlibris.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

I WISH TO THANK Seamus Heaney, of Farrar, Stroas, Giroux, 1999, for my 150 lines of the original Beowulf Poem, in his bilingual version. I wish to thank E.V. Riev, of Penguin Books, for quoting 55 lines of his translation of the original Iliaid of Homer. I wish to thank Charles Knapp, of Scott, Foresmen, and company, 1951, for my quoting 68 lines of the original Latin Aeneid poem by Vergil. I wish to thank the publishers of the original Greek and English book, of the Septuagint, Genesis, of the first six verses.

PREFACE

T HIS BOOK IS my search for the archaic which are derived from ancient written texts by the use of my enigmatic methods, where I examine ancient written texts to discover archaic knowledge. My enigmatic methods consist of the following procedures.

Procedure 1:

To correct the spellings of the words of these ancient texts, in order to find a modern American English words where there is a match be- tween the corrected ancient words to the modern words we use in our daily life. It may be thought that our use of common words American-English we would destroy our search for the archaic: since we use common American-

English words, which are not archaic words. Unfortunately this is true.

Although we will still gather some of the geist, or spirit of these ancient written texts. And we must be satisfied with this procedure 1.

This is because there is no other ways or procedure that will give us some of the inking of a small portion of the archaic words, and their sentences.

It may be objected that instead of using enigmatic methods to acquire knowledge of the archaic texts—we should use the established traditional methods I of translations to give us archaic knowledge. these traditional translators are not interested in the archaic for itself. But we are.

Procedure 2:

I also use the method of pronunciation in of these ancient words, to find the most common match, in our use of common American-

English words with respect to these ancient textual words. The traditional translators do not do this. They instead, because of their training only

read the ancient texts in order to do their translations. Their translations are only the method of paraphrasing these ancient texts into modern American-

English words. I instead use enigmatic methods of trnslations, word by word, sentence by sentence of translating these ancient written texts.

Procedure 3

My quest is for the archaic of these ancient written texts—I then make a intuitive guess, or an insight at what some of these ancient written texts signifies into modern American-English words, and their lines or sentences.

In my enigmatic methods, I use the method of intuition, I put my self into a day-dreaming frame of mind in which where I would see these ancient archaic words, and thus be inspired to arrive at the most primitive

American-Engish words. This process is not easy. The definition of enigma means mysterious, primitive. The readers of this book may find other steps to help them, and to arrive other kinds of enigmatic translations of these ancient written texts. I would like to hear from them.

Procedure 4

How do we seek the archaic? By using our own language to discover the archaic meanings of these ancient words and their texts. When we view ancient written texts by use of our own personal language it seems that we know and under- stand these ancient texts, as if we reading our own personal language. It is a fact that our own personal language also has mysterious aspects, when we look, and scan our own personal languages. Our desire is to find, in this volume the archaic unknown, the hidden, the strange, the mysterious, the forgotten, the rituals, customs, thoughts, behaviours, the thoughts, and much more as is given in these ancient texts. My enigmatic methods of translations attempts to find, to discover, these archaic aspects of these ancient texts, and of the people who wrote these texts, and of the other peoples who lived in these archaic cultures. Our methods is the archaeology of ancient texts. To find the archaic. That our mission.

Procedure 5

Some words in modern American-English words are compounded words, and hey can be analyzed, by our enigmatic methods, to discover their archaic aspects of these compounded words. The same is true for all European language words.

The same is true for all non-European languages words. It is true that all or some of the non-compounded European words, by our enigmatic methods, be analyzed into archaic words. The name Washington breaks up as washing, to clean a person, to clean objects. And ton, a Norwegian word meaning

town or villa . Hence we have the word: washing-town. And we have the name New-town, from Newton. The ancient Dames invaded England.

And there were many Danish words added to the Old English language. I should note that I have discovered a new method to achieve the archaic, the ancient by using etymology methods to find the archaic, the ancient.

See Procedure: 6 for an outline of these methods.

Procedure 6

On June 6, 2014, in the evening, I was looking up a word in the Oxford dictionary of the English language, which also had the ‘archaic’ origin of of each modern English words. Suddently, a light flashed in my mind, I had found the ‘archaic’, the ‘ancient’. By using the etymological dictionaries of the English language, we could find the ‘archaic’, and the ‘ancient’ words.

After I found this information, in two days later, the 8th of June, 2014,

I went over to the university library, and got two books on the etymological of modern English words. And in appendix E, of this volume, I will give the the retranslation of the first chapter of Genesis of the King James version of the Holy Bible.

Other Comments:

I carne up with my methods of enigmatic translations by using the concepts of ‘intuition’, ‘pronunciation’, ‘spelling’, ‘conjectures’, ‘guesses’, ‘comparative languages’, and my ‘inner states of being’, to decipher these ancient written texts. I tried to bring into my being, by my methods, to actually live into the world of these ancient times, when these archaic, or ancient texts were written. I attempted to go beyond our current languages into a ‘archaicness’ of these ancient peoples, and of their ancient times.

The origin of our verbal sounds was invented by the sounds that our distant ancestors, the homo-erectus, had made and used. Modern humans had evolved for our brains to be hard-driven for verbal sounds. Homo-erectus had made use of stones, and used ‘signs’, ‘marks’, ‘pictures’, on stone by-itself, and also on sands, mud, wood, and so on, to refer to the meanings they gave to these abstract signs. This was the beginning, by our homo-erectus ancestors, to our modern written languages. And these tribes of homo-erectus ancestors, would then have a common writing system, for all of their kind, to have and to learn. A primitive system, but still a ‘system’.

All microscopic life can communicate with each other, of their own kind, by using chemical scents. Such as the amoeba communicates with other amoeba by using their chemical scents. The amoeba responses to its limited environment by sensing other chemical elements. All life may have some kinds of communications, from the simple to the complex. We also note that the male cricket rubs to communicate to the female cricket.

According to my enigmatic methods of translations I use in this book are unique methods of translations. And yet, there are numerous kinds of different translations of these ancient texts. As there are many languages to be translated, there must be many methods to be used in translations. And not any two, or more, of languages have the same translations methods.

Perhaps all modern people, and also primitive people, have common speech areas, or centers, within their brain. If this is true, empirically, that modern people, and our homo-erectus ancestors - will have the same verbal sounds, and the same natural environment, in which they both have visual and verbal experiences. We are closer to our primitive ancestors than we realized. And thus we are synchronized with both our modern people, and our homo-erectus ancestors. Our ancestors were not dumb apes. And yet, even our apes-kind-ancestors were not dumb.

Our homo- erectus ancestors had a common group-mind. The ancient poets experimented with speech-acts; and in our modern people created alphabets to transmit their spoken languages into written poetic languages. The concept of synchronized is between a spoken languages and written languages. To be in sync, or sinc with all the properties of spoken. Languages and written languages. It is thought that our homo-erectus ancestors could not think. And yet, they had visual experiences, and of the sounds they made. Writing is not only six thousand years old. It is common for the most primitive homo-primates. Their kind of written languages used objects, of their inner world, and their external world, as well as their verbal sounds, animal sounds, and other kinds of outer things, and their inner states of being. Proto-languages, written and spoken languages of our primitive ancestors is million years old.

To have being, or existence, within the world, is constantly needed to be decipher the fundamental texts of nature. This new concept of texts is a modern concept as based upon the method of ‘deconstructions’ invented by the late philosopher Jacques Derrida. I only use the concept of texts to offer to my readers a new kind philosophy words to describe our inner world and our outer worlds. I have attempted by my enigmatic methods of translations - of these ancient texts by using modern English words. Yet, in my enigmatic translations, I use the word by word, line by line, of these ancient written texts. Thus, we will find, in the ancient written texts, of the ancient ‘semantic’, and the ancient ‘grammar’ these texts will have.

A ‘me tarzan’, is considered to be the earliest stage of spoken languages came into being. It is my conjectures that primeval, and archaic, of spoken and written languages is much older than we believe it to be. As we have said: nature is our ‘tests’, to be deciphered, by mathematical formulas. We attempt to find the most ancient words, to discover our inner world, and our outer world: of these ancient peoples, and of our ancient homo-erectus ancestors. We seek the ‘archaicness’ – and it is us: and for our ancient homo-erectus ancestors – for our future human peoples. As well as for our modern peoples. It has been written: to use a present time, a now time, to find our archaic times.

ESSAY I

The Ancient Anglo-Saxon Beowulf Poem

Introduction

A T FIRST, I chanced upon the ancient Beowulf Poem in its original Anglo-Saxon format, after I began to write my