"Five" in In Glory Like Their Star

James Jordan · 04 Oct 2001, 13:25 · from urth-v0030.mbox · original

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From: James Jordan <jbjordan4 at home.com>
Subject: (urth) "Five" in In Glory Like Their Star
Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2001 13:25:50
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I should have remembered this from linguistics, but only now at this late=20
date recollected it: The Indo-European word "pan" means "all" and also=20
"five." (Note "pentegram" "pentagon" etc., and of course "pas, pan"). The=20
reference is to the totality of time.

Nutria

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