We humans are no strangers to DeSTRuCtion . We've destroyed plants, animals, men and women, and now we're facing the eXTiNCtion of our species, the Extinction Event. Are you surprised to hear me talking about the Extinction Event? Do I sound too much like a prophet of doom? Yet you’re aware that PRoPheTs usually emerge on the eve of a CaTaSTRoPhe.

Remember. NoaḤ, the first prophet of DooM. In my 2nd video on « ShaTa ». ShaḤaT, the destruction of Humanity turned CoRRuPt. I also spoke to you about DiSaSTeR, eXPLosion, BuRST, DiSCoRD, STRuGGLe and STRiFe. Do you remember now? Well, here again, destruction is also « Sha », not « ShaTa ». Starting with the Showʔah, the appalling eXTeRMiNation of Europe's Jews by Nazi Germany in the 20th century.

Showʔah comes from Shaʔah which also leads to Shawʔ and Shaʔown, or Sheʔt (DeVaSTation and DeSTRuCtion). There's also ṢeTaR (to destroy in Ezra 5:12). All these words are obviously polysemous: « Yes, we’ve already seen Shawʔ, and it's also Pink 🩷 Red 🔴 and Black ⚫, Shaʔah is also Light Blue 💎, ṢeTaR is also Black ⚫, and Shaʔown is also Yellow 🟡 ».

In Egyptian, SASA means to VaNDaLize, to RaNSaCk (SaCCager, mettre à SaC in French). In Arabic, ʕaÇaWa means to WReaK haVoC, to put in ShaMBLes, and of course we also come across TaʕaSa and SaḤiTa which mean to destroy, like in Hebrew, in Sura 20 'Ta-Ha. « Yes, and SaC is also Purple 🟣 and Brown 🟤, and SaḤiTa is also Brown 🟤. As for shambles it is also Red 🔴 ».

But no need for a catastrophe to DeVaSTate the eaRTh. As we've already seen, wherever men and women go, they ThRoW a FeaST, and then it's a MeSS (SaTuRa in Latin), WaSTe (DéCheT in French) all over the place. And the same goes for the ecological Pygmies: watch the end of the documentary Pygmies of the Ituri rainforest and you'll see that an aBaNDoNed Pygmy camp looks pretty DiRTy and DePReSSing.

This semantic field of devastation, JuMBLe, ConFuSion and RuiN is also prominent in the great texts of Antiquity. It is found throughout the Gathas, for example in Chant 4, §18

Let no one give ears to the words of FaLSe and the WiCked ones, because such persons shall lead the home, the village, the town and the country to ruin and destruction. It is, therefore, our duty to resist such persons and repel them with spiritual weapons of purity and righteousness.

but also in Chant 5, §4 (p140)

For, ye liars confound the human mind, and make men act their worst, Make men speak as lovers of eViL, Separated from the Good Mind, Far removed from the will of Ahura Mazda, Departing from the path of Truth and Right.

or Chant 13, §10-11 (P190) which is even more explicit, since Zarathustra evokes upRooTing and HuTs:

When shall good men come to understand and spread Thy Wisdom, O Mazda? When shall they upRooT the filthy evil of intoxication? The evil by which the wicked sacrificers and the evil lords of the lands make desolate the world! When, O Mazda, shall Piety come with Truth in our LaNDs, When shall happy life in peaceful PaSTuRes come to us through good rule?

In Hebrew, haRyṢuwt haRyṢah RaṢyṢ means ruin, as do ʔaShySh and Sheʔyah - or WASI in Egyptian (to FaLL into ruin) « Yes, and RaṢyṢ is also Red 🔴 ». And finally, there is maShuwʔah meShowʔah Showʔ (DeSeRTed, aBaNDoNed, lonely, RuiNed PLaCes).

Now that you know all about the semantics of ruin and destruction in the Paleolithic, the time has come to talk about a very important aNiMal. The Paraklet is very fond of animals, isn't he Polisson? I've already told you about the Taurus, the Turtle Dove and the Trout. But now let me tell you about another animal... No, not the stag. We'll look at the stag in a moment. No, I want to talk about the PiG. Yes, the pig. Or rather, the WiLD BoaR (SaNGLier in French), depicted in the oldest cave painting to date, dating from 45,500 years ago and discovered in Sulawesi in Indonesia. Strangely, apart from this depiction, the boar is very rare in Upper Palaeolithic art, as Marija Gimbutas points out. Just as it is strangely absent from Jean-Loïc Le Quellec and Bernard Sergent's Dictionnaire Critique de Mythologie.

This absence is quite odd because the WiLD BoaR followed Homo Sapiens all the way out of Africa. You may not know this, but this animal lives in two parts of the world. In the temperate FoReST s of Eurasia, of course, but also, hang on to your hats, in the African Equatorial Forest, home of the Pygmies (P66 of Pygmées, Peuple de la Forêt). The Efe creation myth tells how the first Pygmy arrived in the Land of the Dead after HuNTing an enormous boar he thought he had killed in his lair, as Jean-Pierre Hallet recounts in Pygmy Kitabu (P187).

Among our Neanderthal cousins, on the other hand, the WiLD BoaR seemed to hold a special significance, since the jawbone of a large wild boar was found near the right hand of an adult man on a burial site in Mount Carmel, Israel. Could the apparent absence of the wild boar in artistic representations and myths be the expression of a cultural ConTRaST between Neanderthal and Homo Sapiens, perhaps reflected in the DieTaRy ban on PoRK imposed by Jews and Muslims? We'll soon find out whether this idea is as wild as it sounds...

One thing is certain, SuiDae is also « Sha » in many languages. Starting with the Egyptian ShA, that we've already seen, but also in Akkadian, ShaḤum, the PiG, which might come from the Sumerian Sha'h. In Greek,yS is also the BoaR, the pig, SWiNe and SoW in English. Finally, in French, Soue is the STy, the pig STaBLe. And, yes, Polisson, we'll come back to the sow and the STaiNed sty (la Soue SouiLLée), which are also Red 🔴.

And if the pig is « Sha », it's because the WiLD BoaR is the animal that DeSTRoys Pygmy camps, especially when they are aBaNDoNed, or even they are only watched by a few children and elderly people. Truly, the wild boar is the animal that makes a MeSS. As Marija Gimbutas notes (P222-223)

In the myths of the Middle East and Europe, the boar is a beast of death who kills the vegetation god (in Egypt, Osiris, lover of the goddess Isis; in Syria, Tammuz, lover of Aphrodite; in Ireland, Diarmuid, lover of Grainne, daughter of the king of Tara). An unknown god disguised as a boar kills Ancaeus, king of Arcadia and follower of Artemis (Graves 1972 210). According to a legend from the north of Ireland, a huge boar devastated the whole land to such an extent that all the kingdom hunters gathered, resolved to hunt the animal until they finally slained it.

The boar is the KiLLer of gods and heroes, the ultimate animal of DeVaSTation, like the legendary Calydonian Boar, or in Psalm 80, verse 14. It’s also a symbol of STRenGth, but also of FeRTiLity and even LuST.