BOEOTIAN BELL AND SERBIAN LIMANA

Bell idol (terracotte, 10th-7thc. BC, Thebes in Boeotia, Greek: Βοιωτία, Corinth; Paris, Louvre).

Mill wheel

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Two limanas 

In western Serbia there is a river named LIM. The base of the name LIM is LI with the ancient meaning of SHINE, SUN: Galic LI means KING, BRIGHT, WHITE [1]; Chinese LI means RULER, GOVERNOR, MAN-DARIN [2]. So the Latin LĪMO means SHINY, POLISHED [3]. The word POLIRAN is derived from LI as well as the words LIM, LIMUN, i.r. LEMON [4]. These are all characteristics and descriptions of the Sun.

From the base LIM it became Serbian LIMAN, LI-MANA = WHEEL, WHEEL, SWASTIKA, WHIRL-POOL [5].

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[1] Jean-Baptiste Bullet, Mémoires Sur La Langue Celtique, Tome II; Besançon: Claudi-Joseph Daclin, 1759, p. 83.
[2] Ibid.

[3] Francis Edward Jackson Valpy, An Etymological Dictionary of the Latin Language, London: Printed by A. G. Valpy, 1828, p. 231.
[4] Petar Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika, Knjiga II, JAZU, Zagreb, 1972, p. 303.
[5] Lupi Stephani F., Lexicon Serbico - Germanico - Latinum; Viennae, 1818, p. 328.