23-07-2023, 02:09 PM
(23-07-2023, 01:08 PM)Koen G wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view."Bocks" transgressing into "pox" is a linguistic phenomenon. Pox being used as an euphemism for Gotts is, I believe, a cultural one.According to my research, pox, pronounced as POH, is a wrongly spelled BOH which is a Slavic word for God. P was often used instead of B, like Czeck PAN (Lord) and Bosnian BAN (a title of a ruler, Lord). PAN was also ancient Venetic god, depicted with a male goat's head, known in Greece and in Egypt. By the way, Greece in the ancient times extended at least to the present Slovenian city of Koper which was named Agida - goat town. German Steinbock as a Zodiac sign is also spelled as Steinpock in some Swabian manuscripts. There is a story in Trento region, also in Slovenian Alps, about the Steinbock with a golden horn, which was a medieval word for God who was luring the hunters to their mystical death.
The legend about the Golden horn has its origin in Greek myths, but it was reworked in the Middle Ages, when the Zodiac sign Capricorn was named Steinbock in German and Kozorog in Slovenian. Since all these mythological creatures share the image of male goat, it can be assumed that they all relate to the ancient Venetic god Pan.
It is possible that the medieval writers who were rewriting the ancient Greek myths brought back the ancient Venetic god Pan to allude to the Armenian (Nestorian) Apostolic Church, since the Patriarchate of Aquileia was once part of that Church, which had great influence on the Paulicians, Bogomils and Catars, as well as other pre-Protestant religious fractions.
This explanation can explain why POX was used as a swear word and why the devil was depicted as a black goat.
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