In Greek, the favorite tense for storytelling of the PaST is the aorist, from oRiSTos. And the obsession with oRiGiN wasn't just temporal, it was also geographical. Our ancestors always knew where they came from; they prayed and buried their dead in this DiReCTion. For the Chinese, it was NoRTh towards the Mongolian and Siberian plains, as Lie Tseu reports (Sur le Destiny P12): « Then Yen Ouei, facing North, greeted the Master by joining his hands: 'I, too,' he said, 'have understood' ».

For the Egyptians, the origin was SouTh, ReSuW or ReSI. And south of Egypt lies the Pygmies’ Great Equatorial FoReST. « Yes, and ReSI is also Yellow 🟡 ». Indeed, Polisson, and for tens of thousands of years, our French and European ancestors kept alive the memory of the South, of the lost PaRaDiSe, the GaRDeN of ʕeDeN, with BouGhs of hoLLy, KèLaSTRa in Greek, hung in the dead of WiNTeR, at Christmas. In pagan antiquity, holly used represented the continuation of PLaNT life through winter, a tradition that goes back to the dawn of time. It’s quite simply, a symbol of ReSuRReCTion.

As for the origin, you can see why, in Hebrew, ReʔShyt doesn't just mean FiRST-FRuiTs or the BeGiNNing. « Bereshit » means FoRMeRly (auTReFoiS in French). Like RiʔShah.. Just as RiʔShown means both the first, as well as the aNCeSToRs, the PaST, formerly. The RiʔShownym are the aNCieNts, the ChuRLs, the people of Ar-RaS! in the Qur'an, who, along with the Aad and Thamud, belong to the peoples of yore who have disaPPeaRed…

The RiʔShownym are also the NeW People, those who have just been BoRN, as seen already. This opens the understanding of this quote the fundamental Qur’an sura Al Layl 92: « To Us belongs, indeed, the last life and the PRéSeNt life » (where last can be the last … or the last) and of this one from Christ (Gospel according to Matthew 20.16): « So the LaST will be FiRST, and the first will be last ». I personally would have said « So the aNCieNt will be new, and the new will be ancient ».

Behind this idea that the First will be Last, that the New will be Ancient, is the Paleolithic vision of TiMe FLoWing in both DiReCTions. Towards the FuTuRe and towards the PaST. Or, put another way, the future always meets the past, and the past always meets the future. This is the well-known image of the ouRoBoRos, the SNaKe biting its own tail, which symbolizes, among other things, the idea of PeRPeTual ReTuRN, once again a universal theme featured in many cultures on many continents. This idea of perpetual return, of eTeRNaL ReNeWal, is reflected in the palindrome ShaRaSh as well as in another palindrome, the Greek SaRoS, the CaLeNDar CyCLe, the CiRCLe of SeaSoNs.

The FLoW of TiMe going BoTh WaYs, towards the past and the future, is just another avatar of DuaLity, discussed at length in my last video. For Carl Shuster and Edmund Carpenter (P270 & 277) this concept is held in the female statuettes with large buttocks hung upside DoWN (what they call an iNVeRSion) discovered in Malta, Siberia, France and Russia. According to them, this inversion refers to the world of the DeaD, and survived in today's tradition of holding a rifle by the stock, barrel downwards, or of hanging flags upside-down on the death of a king or an important person.

Let's come back to the ouRoBoRos: it's not really a CiRCLe but the projection of a heLiX (which profile DRaWs a SiNe WaVe, as seen in my last video) but this time from the front, drawing a TRuNCated circle: when you MoVe on a helix, you never come back to the exact same position; with each CyCLe, each ReiNCaRNation, you take a STeP forward... This helix could also be described as a SPiRaL, like your tail Polisson, but we'll come back to that soon.

You're now ready to understand this bizarre pattern: an incomplete CiRCLe with little BRaNChes SPRouTing out (once more the mingling of the circle and the TRee). This pattern is the visual means of communication used by the aliens who land in Denis Villeneuve’s Arrival.

If you want to understand the Paraklet, you must watch this film, the story of the arrival of 12 alien spaceships in 12 locations around the world (12 spaceships, like the 12 Tribes of Israel). These ShiPs are oblong, PhaLLic objects in which a long CeNTRal PaSSage leads to a large ChaMBeR...

When the film begins, the heroine (a LiNGuist!) tries to decipher the alien WRiTing, made up of CiRCuLar SiGNs that literally « n’ont pas de SeNS » (which in French both means they make no SeNSe and have no DiReCTion….). The whole plot revolves around the difficulty of uNDeRSTaNDing each other and the aMBiGuity of LaNGuage. Especially when the aliens write that they have come to « Offer WeaPoN », which the USA and China misinterpret as their wish to see humans kill each other.

Quite the opposite, the aliens’ purpose is to get humankind to « CooPeRate » - yes, Polisson, exactly what I’m trying to do with companies, with limited success, as you know... Each of the 12 ships provides only one PaRT of a JiGSaW that needs to be aSSeMBLed (we'll come back to NoN-zero-sum « WiN-win » games, and « MaNy become oNe » jigsaws (of which Osiris' dismemberment offered a glimpse).

The plot unravels when the linguist realizes that the aliens' offering through their circular writing is not a weapon but their own language, based on a new, CiRCuLar relationship with TiMe that enables them to PReDict the FuTuRe. Several clues had come to her through « flash-BaCks », which are in fact « flash-FoRWaRDs », including one where she sees herself autographing a future book entitled « uNiVeRSal LaNGuage ». Most of these « flash forwards » involve a child, whom she gradually realizes is the daughter she'll have in the future, and whom she'll call « Hannah », because that name is ... a palindrome.

Polisson, I'm afraid I've lost my little Pharisians with my science fiction film 👽. Let's get back to the RooTs of... 🔄 the TRee, together with its BRaNChes. The STRuCTuRe of the tree is commonly used to represent a DyNaMic phenomenon BiRThing complexity. Pharisian linguistics use it to represent language GRouPs.

« Semitic » LaNGuages like Hebrew and Arabic are what the Pharisians call « consonantal RooT languages ». A root (ShoReSh in Hebrew), is a cluster of 2 or 3 consonants from which several WoRDs derive. But what the silly Pharisians didn't understand is that all the world's languages are « root » languages.

Anyway. The representation of the TRee is used in another field, the Theory of Evolution, to represent the eVoLution of SPeCieS: the PhyLoGeNetic tree is a mere extension, on the species level, of the FaMiLy tree, the tree of the aNCeSToRs, the Tree of LiFe.

This connection between PhyLoGeNesis, SPeCieS hiSToRy and FaMiLy history, goes beyond GeNealogy. The eVoLution of the eMBRyo in the WoMB, known as embryogenesis, seems to retrace the chronology of evolution, from unicellular beings to FiSh, MaMMaLs and then PRiMates. This observation dates back 2 centuries and was picked up by Sandor Ferenczi in Thalassa (P113 French edition). We'll come back to the embryo, the womb and Thalassa in my next video.

One thing's for sure: our ancestors understood that SeXuality was central to the BReeDing process and the ChaiN of GeNeRations, embodied by the FaMiLy « TRee ». The family tree is Carl Schuster and Edmund Carpenter’s thing. Right from the introduction to their magnificent book (P14) they claim: « A single idea travels through all the pictures of this book: the image of the tree and the eVoLution of the human RaCe are one and the same. »

For Carl Schuster and Edmund Carpenter, the basic ShaPe was the Y-PoST, the DouBLe post occasionally featuring breasts and buttocks, or a face at the FoRK's junction, the right side representing the PaTeRNal « BRaNCh » and the left side the MaTeRNal « branch ».

For them, the « CuRLy STiCks » of the Japanese Ainu and Australian aborigines, resembling both HaiRy men and TRees with their grated BaRK, are a metaphor for GeNealogy. This they back by the fact that the Orok draw the same basic face on their curly sticks and on their sacred trees (P53).

In my opinion, it's a bit more complicated. These DouBLe PoSTs are, as always, « polysemous »: they certainly represent GeNealogy, but also the double, SeX and, of course, the TRee itself. When these posts represent men stacked on top of each other (Schuster and Carpenter P64-P65) they are of course more likely to speak about genealogy, but we'll come back to it in my next video with the notched sticks…

Meanwhile, many myths begin with a GeNealogical story going back to the primordial aNCeSToRs, whether Hesiod's Theogony, the Torah, or the Gospels. As far as language is concerned, genealogy in Hebrew is yaḤaS featured in Nehemiah 7.64 when the priests seek their genealogical titles to prove their aNCeSTRy. In English, STRaiN means LiNeaGe, RaCe, the STuMP (SouChe in French), when SToCk also designates the WooD of the STaG’s aNTLeRs, as Schuster and Carpenter noted (P28). And there has been many strains and races of Hominids, as we’ll see soon. « Yes, and strain is also Dark Blue 🔵 ». First time we've seen this one!

Of course, SToCk is mostly SToRage. The LiNeaGe we all carry as a MeMoRy reaches back to the dawn of time, and forward with each NeW GeNeRation. That's why a SCioN is also an offspring, and why in Egyptian SheR is the SoN, the ChiLD, the YouNGster, and SheReR is to ShRiNK. And that’s why in Latin CoNSoRS (coming from SoRS), means BRoTheR, SiSTeR - but we'll come back to the sister later.

Now you understand our connection to the Great Forest, the Garden of Eden, a living memory in the heart of our ancestors. This great forest infuses our most basic symbolic structures, which are intimately related to our sexual representations. This is the end of my second Diberah, my second story about « Sha », the Green one 🟢, and as usual I will sound the Shofar. Remember. Zikhron. Ziqra. Chronos. TaShaT, TaShRaT, TaShaT

7) Solution

You're probably thinking, like Hesiod at the beginning of his Theogony, « Why all these words around the oak and the rock? » or, practically speaking, what does this mean for your business? I‘m really starting to wonder if you’re just pretending not to get it. Didn’t you understand that « in the new working era we're stepping into, production systems are fragmenting into a myriad of skills provided by freelancers, creatives, experts, start-ups and VSEs »?

Look, we had even prepared 2.000 copies of a beautiful book, in which I explained that businesses live within ecosystems, and that the key to your company's success is to enable each of its collaborators and their partners to interact autonomously and on behalf of distinct legal entities, to define budgets, sign contracts, incur expenses and make payments; all with a few clicks and within a secure management framework independent of their current ERP.

That was in 2019, when I explained that businesses are living beings interacting with each other, like trees in the Great Forest, and that you should focus on exchange relationships, not your centralized accounting system.

Are you afraid? It's only natural: we're always afraid of the unknown, until we gradually realize that it wasn't as bad as we thought. It is precisely because you need help for this momentous transition that I created weOva : to help on a day-to-day basis each one of your employees and each one of your partners get to grips with the first ERP designed like an « ecosystem of trust ».

I'm sure this video echoed situations and issues you encounter daily in your organization. Beyond the delight of sharing what I consider to be a major anthropological discovery, my main purpose is first and foremost, and to the best of my ability, to help transform your company to make it faster, more adaptative and more open.

Just get in touch with me on LinkedIn through the link below, and we'll set up a 30-minute meeting to identify the key levers that will enable you to move forward quickly and effectively in this direction.

But don't wait: remember, the eaRly bird catches the woRm!