Do I get brownie points for this link??

[Phil Van Riper]

Just a couple days ago, while struggling valiantly to keep my eyes focused (Isaac can likely relate to that), I learned that the Biblical (and modern, AFAIK) Hebrew word Tefilah (prayer) comes from the Edenic root Tafal. The root Tafal means connect or adhere.

Moments later...actually HOURS later...(Isaac can relate to that, too!) I looked up Tafal (Tet-Phey-Lamed) in a dictionary called "Etymological Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew" by Matityahu Clark. Anyway, the Tafal entry shows a secondary definition of "lump together." The entry also shows as related words Dafal (dalet-phey-lamed) and Tafal (tav-phey-lamed). Too bad I don't have a copy of that book. Because one of those 'cognates' means 'tasteless.'

A few weeks ago, Isaac sent me a link from Choctaw! Tafulah, is the name of a gastronomic delight beloved by Choctaw people from Mississippi to Oklahoma and beyond. It's been further Anglicized to 'tom fuller.' It's some sort of stuff made of hominy.

I've never tasted tafulah. Perhaps it's not even lumpy and tasteless. But, it does sound kind of like it might be something of an acquired taste.

Wait a second! If Tefilah is related to Tafulah maybe Tafulah isn't so tasteless after all!

Wait another second! How did Native Americans in the southeast USA come to have...and use... a mixed up Edenic word?

Perhaps there are lots of Choctaw words that can be traced back to Noah...and on back to the Garden!

[Phil Van Riper]

Woops! I may have 'jumped the gun' on that!
I thought I had snagged a link between Edenic and Choctaw. After posting the above message I was flying along straight and level in the bright sunshine.

Then, diving out of the sun, came a single fighter..with a behelmeted pilot (I'm not positive, but I _thought_ I noticed a long white scarf, too). In a private email, moments ago, I took a couple 20mm rounds in the wing from Edenics scholar, Isaac Mozeson. (he didn't hit my fuel lines or engine, just a couple shots to the wing)

I'll try harder next time to (Tahf-Phey-Resh (liquid shift) to sew...to stitch together.) lash these proposed links down to good ole' terra-firma before writing about my 'discoveries.'

Maybe I need a another couple flying lessons before I go out flying around in my 'Edenics 150?'

[Yenia]

Tofu is that tasteless thing that I have to eat in my salad. ;D

PS. Just got my TOOS book yesterday