We are the demons

[Lady_Eva]

@Eddie_Romanov

Their word for human beings? Dhghemon. Which is pronounced like halfway between “daemon” and “Digimon” and is the mother word from which we get “Demon.”

Excellent post!

I’ll add something I originally posted in 2016 to the topic if I may:

@Lady_Eva

I just happened across this, and found it interesting with specific reference to PGM-inspired “assumption of godforms” and also out-right LHP theogenesis:

god (n.) Old English god "supreme being, deity; the Christian God; image of a god; godlike person," from Proto-Germanic *guthan (cognates: Old Saxon, Old Frisian, Dutch god, Old High German got, German Gott, Old Norse guð, Gothic guþ), from PIE *ghut- "that which is invoked" (cognates: Old Church Slavonic zovo "to call," Sanskrit huta- "invoked," an epithet of Indra), from root *gheu(e)- "to call, invoke."

But some trace it to PIE *ghu-to- “poured,” from root *gheu- “to pour, pour a libation” (source of Greek khein “to pour,” also in the phrase khute gaia “poured earth,” referring to a burial mound; see found (v.2)). “Given the Greek facts, the Germanic form may have referred in the first instance to the spirit immanent in a burial mound” [Watkins]. See also Zeus.

Source: etymonline.com

NOT “all powerful sky man who sends people to hell” - not “being who demands worship, and grovelling”…

That which is invoked, called, poured into, immanent within - implying pre-Christian users of the term may have had a concept of godhood (single or multiple, and it probably varied as much within a tribe or village as we personally do here) that was about the vital moment of interaction, and not a proper name for a specific being.

It’s as major as the difference between the proper name Mark, and the verb mark, as in, “I marked this with ink.”

Personally, I think this is a game changer: I’m definitely not a linguistics expert, nor do I pretend to be, but the things described there (call, invoke, pour into, immanent within) are all so close to the magickal and LHP concept of godhood, that I’m quite astonished no-one has mentioned this before?

It also confirms my belief that the desert troll-spirit went round acquiring any and all terms of power and made people believe that they were names belonging exclusively to itself, a bit like if someone made every domain name in the world point to the same web content.