Alliance for Mystical Pragmatics

Alliance for Mystical Pragmatics

Harmonizing Evolutionary Convergence

Glossary Menus

dā-

PIE base ‘to divide, share, cut up’. See also *skei- ’to cut, split’, root of science and schizoid.

Also root of democracy and epidemic, from Greek dēmos ‘people’ (division of society), tidings ‘news, events’, Swedish timme ‘hour’ and tid ‘time’, German Zeit ‘time’, and daimon ‘guiding spirit, genius’, from Greek daimōn ‘divider, provider’.

[Pokorny *dā : də-, pp. 175–179.]

geological time scale

To present the history of the Earth in a more succinct manner than that of the map in The Times Concise Atlas of the World, here is the geological time scale in the form of a clock, borrowed from Wikipedia.

time

Time is familiar to everyone, yet it’s hard to define and understand. Yet, despite our ignorance of the nature of time, it tends to govern every aspect of our lives, during the 24 hours of the day, the four seasons, and the decades of our lifespans.