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Written by bodhidave on 2025-01-16 at 15:26

huh ... was checking the etymology for "sema" ... in connection with this saying from Heraclitus ...

"The lord whose oracle {manteĩón} is the one in Delphi neither says {légei} nor conceals {crýptei}, but gives a sign {semaínei}."

... I didn't expect to find that it's ultimately related to the word "Zen":

[etymoline:] ... from Sanskrit dhyana "thought, meditation," from PIE root *dheie- "to see, look" (source also of Greek sēma "sign, mark, token;" see semantic).

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Written by bodhidave on 2025-01-16 at 15:29

MM McCabe's translation of that saying from Heraclitus [B93]:

The lord whose oracle is at Delphi neither speaks nor remains silent but gives a sign.

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