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Friday 14 September 2018

Linguistic Archaeology: The Fomorian Princess

You are probably familiar with the Little Mermaid, at least the disney version.
She probably saves him from drowning because girls from cultures by the sea all apparently know how to swim, and yet princes from cultures with boats do not.

'if the little mermaid doesn’t find love with the prince, she’ll die and turn into sea foam.'

Anyway in the fairytale the relationship falls through and she turns to sea foam. What can you do?

The word for Sea foam is skum. Skum-arkuarns (or foam-orions) are sea warriors or Fomorians. The tale of a little mermaid might therefore be intuitively considered a Fomorian-celtic interaction. As a Fomorian interactive, there must be a Celtic side to the presence of the Pirince. The -Kuar suffix should always represents a Celtic Prince during or after the Minoan period.

Kikimora is the Russian Bog hag who is a woman with seaweed hair, married to Vodyanoy, Lord of the Deep (an unattractive old man sometimes depicted as a merman). He apparently acts to prevent a Prince from marrying his daughter.


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