BIRDS EYE-VIEW OF MA-SIS/AR-ARAD, THE BOSOM OF NURSING MOTHER EARTH.

     

ARMENIAN NAME MASIS THE ORIGINAL MOTHERS BREASTS, MA-XI-MA, MI-NI-MA.

Breast-shaped mountains in the shape of a a womans breasts, such as anthropomorphic geographic features are to be found in different places of the world. In some cultures they were revered as the attributes of the Mother Goddess. Known examples such as the Paps of Anu, was named after Anu, an important female deity of pre-Christian Ireland. The name Ma-mucium that gave origin to the name of the city of Manchester is thought to derive from the Celtic language meaning "breast-shaped hill". Mostly breast-shaped hills are connected with local ancestral veneration of the breasts as a symbol of plenty, fertility and well-being. It is not uncommon for very old archaeological sites to be located in or below such mountains. There are over a hundred breast shaped and named twin mounts on this globe, yet Wikipedia does not seem to have found one scholar that recognizes the 'original pair' in "Paradise" East of Eden called MASSIS, 

The above pair were known as the 'Breasts of Aphrodite' in Mykonos,Greece.

It is relevant that the myths surrounding these mountains are ancient and enduring. Some have been recorded in the oral literature or written texts, for example, in an unspecified location in Asia, there was a mountain known as "Breast Mountain" with a cave in which the Buddhist monk Bodhidharma (Da Mo) spent a long time in meditation.

Travelers and cartographers often changed the ancestral names of such hills and mountains, as did the Bronze Age Armenians, who supplemented their Copper Age name from feminine Masis to Neuter Ararad. 

Here I will Posit that the meaning of Masis and Ararat are analogous, Mas-Sis translates to Bosom-flowing or Breasts Lactating and Ar-Arad translates to Giver abundance or Horns of Plenty. 

Mount Ararat  traditional Masis, consists of two major volcanic cones, a snow-capped, dormant compound volcano is located in the eastern extremity of Turkey bordering Armenia today. The highest peak on the  ;Armenian plateau; with an elevation of 5,137 m (16,854 ft); and the lower peak an elevation of 3,896 m (12,782 ft). The Ararat/Masis massif is about 40 km (25 mi) in diameter.                                                                                                                                      
MASSIF A noun, translates to a compact portion of a mountain range, containing one or more summits.

Or large elevated block of old complex rocks resistant to both erosion and crustal folding.

A band or zone of the earth's crust raised or depressed as a unit and bounded by faults.

                     

Masis is the original Armenian name for the twin peaks. The History of Armenia derives the name from king Amasia, the great-grandson of the Armenian patriarch Hayk, who is said to have called the mountain Masis after his own name. Where Amasis got his name or its meaning they do not say.

Masis and Ararat are both widely, interchangeably, used in Armenian. The peaks are referred to in plural..Some refer to the peaks individually, one as Greater Ararat or simply Masis or "Great Masis". the other as Lesser Ararat or Sis  or "Lesser Masis". 

According to some authorities the names Masis, Masu, have the meaning “twins”, “pair of mountains”, “twin mountains”. There have been many etymological attempts to get to the root of the meaning of the matter/mother. I encourage one to research it.  My search revealed Angela Teryan, who gets very close to the roots when she suggests in her book, that the meaning of the word “Sis” in Armenian can be connected to the “The Relics of Feeding Mother” and that “Ma” has the meaning “spawn” in Armenian, suggesting mother. She concludes, it can be said, that Masis means "Mother Sis." Close, very close. Ma is also referred to as "Mother of the mountain" 

Ararat in Hebrew spelling is  Urartu, it is a reference to a kingdom that existed in the Armenian plateau since the bronze age. The peaks are known as Ararat in European languages. However, none of the PIE native peoples referred to the mountain by that name. According to the fourth verse of the eighth chapter of the Book of Genesis (Genesis 8:4) following a flood, Noah's Ark landed on the "mountains of Ararat" (Biblical Hebrew: הָרֵי אֲרָרָט, hare ararat; Septuagint: ὄρη τὰ ᾿Αραράτ, óri tá ᾿Ararát). Most historians and Bible scholars agree that "Ararat" is the Hebrew name of Urartu, the geographic predecessor of Armenia. Urartu referred to the wider region at the time, not only the mountain today known as Ararat. The phrase is translated as "mountains of Armenia" (montes Armeniae) in the Vulgate, the fourth century Latin translation of the Bible..American Christian missionary H. G. O. Dwight wrote in 1856 that "the general opinion of the learned in Europe" is that Noah's Ark rested on Mount Ararat.Mount.

As traditions of the universal flood spread around the world with the post-Ararat migrations, the venerable name of Noah traveled with them. This seems especially evident by way of the ancient Sanskrit language and the name Manu. The Sanskrit term Manu may have come from an equivalent word in the so-called "Proto-Indo-European" language. Manu was the name of the flood hero in the traditions of India. He, like Noah, is said to have built an ark in which eight people were saved. It is highly probable that Noah and Manu were thus the same individual. 

In Sanskrit Manu is the progenitor of mankind, (since Manu, or Noah, was the father of all post-flood mankind).  Manu is also used with metaphorical implication as ‘mankind’. Other derivatives meaning ‘offspring of Manu’ are used for ‘man, human being’), cognate with man.
The English word "man" is thus also related to the Sanskrit manu, as well as its equivalents in other Germanic languages. Gothic, the oldest known Germanic language, used the form Manna, and also gaman ("fellow man"). The word is related to the Germanic Mannus, the founder of the West Germanic peoples.  Mannus is also the name of the Lithuanian Noah. Another Sanskrit form, manusa is closely related to the Swedish manniska, both words meaning "human being."

The same name may even be reflected in the Egyptian Menes (founder of the first dynasty of Egypt) and Minos (founder and first king of Crete).
In my search I did not find a reference regarding the elephant in the room, which is that the AR-MANU are the Armenian and MANU-G the Armenian word for human offspring a 'babe'.

The name An/Anu appears in Sumerian as the god of the firmament, the void and the rainbow was called "the great bow of Anu," which seems a clear reference to Noah (note Genesis 9:13). In Egyptian mythology Nu was the god of waters who sent an inundation to destroy mankind. Nu like Sumerian AN and his consort Nut were deities of the firmament and the rain. Nu was identified with the primeval watery mass of heaven, atmosphere, air, breath light etc. AN also means "sky."

In Hindu mythology, the story of Manu does carry some striking similarities to that of Noah. The Encyclopedia Britannica relates the story thus:

In the story of the great flood, Manu combines the characteristics of the Hebrew Bible figures of Noah, who preserved life from extinction in a great flood, and Adam, the first man. The Shatapatha Brahmana recounts how he was warned by a fish, to whom he had done a kindness, that a flood would destroy the whole of humanity. He therefore built a boat, as the fish advised. When the flood came, he tied this boat to the fish’s horn and was safely steered to a resting place on a mountaintop. When the flood receded, Manu, the sole human survivor, performed a sacrifice, pouring oblations of butter and sour milk into the waters. After a year there was born from the waters a woman who announced herself as “the daughter of Manu.” These two then became the ancestors of a new human race to replenish the earth. In the Mahabharata (“Great Epic of the Bharata Dynasty”), the fish is identified with the god Brahma, while in the Puranas (“Ancient Lore”) it is Matsya, the fish incarnation of Lord Vishnu.

Ma, the most fundamental of all sounds uttered by humans, the murmur of a babe for the breast.

I put forward the view that the Sanskrit root mā- ‘to make, produce, create’ should not be regarded as having derived from the  root mā- ‘to measure’, but recognized as an independent archaic root derived from PIE mā- ‘to make’, which is also to be seen in Lat. māteria, māteriēs ‘substance, material’ and in the IE word for ‘mother’ (Lat. māter, etc.). A mother goddess is a goddess who represents, or is a personification of nature, motherhood, fertility, creation, the one who embodies the bounty of the Earth. When equated with the Earth or the natural world, such goddesses are sometimes referred to as Mother Earth or as the Earth Mother.

James Frazer (author of The Golden Bough) and others (such as Jane Ellen Harrison, Robert Graves and Marija Gimbutas) advance the idea that goddess worship in ancient Europe and the Aegean was descended from Pre-Indo-European neolithic matriarchies. Gimbutas argued that the thousands of female images from Old Europe (archaeology) represented a number of different groups of goddess symbolism, notably a "bird and snake" group associated with water, an "earth mother" group associated with birth, and a "stiff nude" group associated with death, as well as other groups. Gimbutas maintained that the "earth mother" group continues the paleolithic figural tradition discussed above, and that traces of these figural traditions may be found in goddesses of the historical period. According to Gimbutas' Kurgan Hypothesis, Old European cultures were disrupted by expansion of Indo-European speakers.

Many different goddesses have represented motherhood in one way or another, and some have been associated with the birth of humanity as a whole, along with the universe and everything in it. Others have represented the fertility of the earth. 

The MOUND as "the first occasion". Writings, dating back to the Old Kingdom of Egypt (2780 – 2250 B.C.E) have given us most of our confirmed information. Different myths attributed the creation to different gods, examples like the set of eight primordial deities called the Ogdoad, the self-engendered god Atum and his offspring, the contemplative deity Ptah, and the mysterious, transcendent god Amun are a few. The different creation myths have some elements in common. They all held that the world had arisen out of the lifeless waters of chaos, called Nu. They also included a pyramid-shaped mound, called the benben, which was the first thing to emerge from the waters. These elements were likely inspired by the seashells found on the peaks of mountains or the annual flooding of the Nile River.  The receding floodwaters left fertile soil in their wake, and the Egyptians witnessed the emergence of life, the Scarab, from the primeval chaos. The imagery of the pyramidal mound probably derived from the highest mounds of earth, the mountains.

The sun was also closely associated with creation, and it was said to have first risen from the mound, as the general sun-god named Ra or as the scarab god Khepri, who represented the transitive power the pro-active thrust behind the rising and setting sun. There were many versions of the sun's emergence, and it was said to have emerged directly from the mound or from a lotus flower that grew from the mound, in the form of a heron, falcon, scarab beetle, or human child. So it is the MOUND that defines the 'first occasion' the origin of life, the first cause.

The cuneiform ma sign, is found in both the 14th century BC Amarna letters and the Epic of Gilgamesh. In the Epic it is also used as the sumerogram MA, (for Akkadian language "mina", manû, was a measurer, as MA.NA. Ma is a Sumerian word meaning "land" that in Sumerian mythology was used to regard Primordial Land. In Mycenaean Greek Ma-ka has been translated as Ma-ga, "Mother Gaia" also contains the root ga-. Ma was also a Phrygian alternative name for Cybele. Ma was a local Earth Goddess at Comana in Hellenistic Cappadocia. The underworld Kur is the void space between the primeval sea (Abzu) and the earth (Ma). The Latin Ma, Mamma, refers primarily to the female breast, a childs first oral request, hence its addoption for Mother. Also common in the sciences like Geology, Anatomy and Zoology; Matter, Mammalia, Mammary, etc. Akin to Greek Mamme a reduplication of Ma, Maia also is vocalised Ma. Skt. Ma again is mother. From Latin, we find the word Matter is Mother and becomes Matron, a nursing mother.The writings of Aleister Crowley speak of Babalon, a variant of the Whore of Babylon from the Book of Revelation, as the mother goddess of Thelema. Of Babalon, Crowley wrote:

BABALON, as the Great Mother, represents MATTER, a word which is derived from the Latin word for Mother. She is the physical mother of each of us, the one who provided us with material flesh to clothe our naked spirits; She is the Archetypal Mother, the Great Yoni, the Womb of all that lives through the flowing of Blood; She is the Great Sea, the Divine Blood itself which cloaks the World and which courses through our veins; and She is Mother Earth, the Womb of All Life that we know.

Crowley leaves out the Breasts of Mother earth, her bosom, so let me elaborate for it is relevant in confirming the first designation given to the phoneme Ma which I posit at root meant an aggregated mass of matter, a mound, a massive massif. 
The dictionary of Symbols referred me to the section on 'weights and measures' when I sifted through I discovered that breast is connected to the feminine principal, that is to say that everything is by 'measure' whereas the Masculine principal nothing is by 'measure'. Also that the right breast symbolized the Sun and the left the moon. The left the bigger in 80% of women. Be that as it may, breasts are exclusively a symbol of motherhood, love, intimacy, comfort, bliss, security and abundance. Mothers milk the heavenly giver on earth, motherhood, the reservoir of promise, recreation, regeneration. Returning to the bosom of the earth, even in death is analogues to returning to mothers bosom, the possibility, the prelude to new beginning, a bosom where there is no more pain or suffering. To Dionysius The Areopagite the breasts symbolize the invincible, protective faculty of life-giving distribution, placed so close to the heart.

The English word breast derives from the Old English word brēost (breast, bosom) from Proto-Germanic breustam (breast), from the Proto-Indo-European base bhreus– (to swell, to sprout).

Online Etymology Dictionary. massive (adj.) c. 1400, from Middle French massif "bulky, solid," from Old French masse "lump" 

MASS ETYMOLOGY 
Mass in church, another mother is when one finds nurishment of the soul, it is 'food for thought'
Mass is also an assembly of people in one location. In the mineral world Mass is a coherent body of matter, a swelling of earth.  Mass as a verb is to gather in ones hands, from Greek Masso, I knead.  

"lump, quantity, size," late 14c., from Old French masse "lump, heap, pile; crowd, large amount; ingot, bar" (11c.), and directly from Latin massa "kneaded dough, lump, that which adheres together like dough," 

"to gather in a mass" (intransitive),  from mass or from French masser. 

In European pre-historic societies, sculptures of female figures with pronounced or highly exaggerated breasts were common. A typical example is the so-called Venus of Willendorf, one of many Paleolithic Venus figurines with ample hips and bosom. Artifacts such as bowls, rock carvings and sacred statues with breasts have been recorded from 15,000 BC up to late antiquity all across Europe, North Africa and the Middle East.

Many female deities representing love and fertility were associated with breasts and breast milk. Figures of the Phoenician goddess Astarte were represented as pillars studded with breasts. Isis, an Egyptian goddess who represented, among many other things, ideal motherhood, was often portrayed as suckling pharaohs, thereby confirming their divine status as rulers. Even certain male deities representing regeneration and fertility were occasionally depicted with breast-like appendices, such as the river god Hapy who was considered to be responsible for the annual overflowing of the Nile.

Female breasts were also prominent in the Minoan civilization in the form of the famous Snake Goddess statuettes. In Ancient Greece there were several cults worshiping the "Kourotrophos", the suckling mother, represented by goddesses such as Gaia, Hera and Artemis. The worship of deities symbolized by the female breast in Greece became less common during the first millennium. The popular adoration of female goddesses decreased significantly during the rise of the Greek city states, a legacy which was passed on to the later Roman Empire.

During the middle of the first millennium BC, Greek culture experienced a gradual change in the perception of female breasts. Women in art were covered in clothing from the neck down, including female goddesses like Athena, the patron of Athens who represented heroic endeavor. There were exceptions: Aphrodite, the goddess of love, was more frequently portrayed fully nude, though in postures that were intended to portray shyness or modesty. Although nude men were depicted standing upright, most depictions of female nudity in Greek art occurred "usually with drapery near at hand and with a forward-bending, self-protecting posture".A popular legend at the time was of the Amazons, a tribe of fierce female warriors who socialized with men only for procreation and even removed one breast to become better warriors (the idea being that the right breast would interfere with the operation of a bow and arrow). The legend was a popular motif in art during Greek and Roman antiquity and served as an antithetical cautionary tale.

FUNDAMENTAL SYMBOLISM OF MASIS/ARARAD FOR ARMENIANS SINCE 2500 B.C.

Masis/Ararat has historically been associated with Armenia, and is widely considered the country's principal national symbol. It is known as the "holy mountain" of the Armenian people, It was the home of the gods in pre-Christian Armenian mythology. In time the mythology associated with pagan worship of the mountain was lost. Lost for at least 5000 years, if we assume that 'HAIK' (the Patriarch, Progenitor, founder of the Armenian language, culture, identity) named the massif, Massis,  

Masis/Ararat has been described as Armenia's calling card and the country's main brand. One scholar noted that the image of Masis is "so ubiquitous in everyday material culture that it would prove a feat to spend a day in Yerevan without seeing its pictorial representations framed within a nationalizing discourse." Herbert Lottman noted in 1976 that Mt. Ararat is "almost a required backdrop in paintings and prints" and is "the inevitable trademark on local products" in Armenia. Armenians have "a sense of possession of Ararat in the sense of symbolic cultural property," wrote one ethnographer. Recently a Turkish journalist wrote in Radikal that "for the residents of Armenia, it means much more than a mountain." The titles of at least two recent books describe Armenians as the "people of Ararat."

Masis was the geographical center of ancient Armenian kingdoms, and thus a critical piece of the Armenian homeland. One scholar defined the historic Greater Armenia as "the area about 200 miles in every direction from Mount Ararat." In 19th-century era of romantic nationalism, when an Armenian state did not exist, Mt. Ararat symbolized the historical Armenian nation-state. The First Republic of Armenia, the first modern Armenian state that existed between 1918 and 1920, was sometimes called the Araratian Republic or the Republic of Ararat.

Rouben Paul Adalian suggested that "there is probably more poetry written about Mount Ararat than any other mountain on earth." Travel writer Rick Antonson described Ararat as the "most fabled mountain in the world."

Masis the massive massif when viewed from any angle or direction appear like swollen breasts that have burst out nursing Mother Earth.

The look of the mountain Masis suggests that the name should be connected to mother earth. 

The Armenians originally, must have viewed their territory as a Motherland, an earth mother, a wet-nurse, nourishing the highlands and the fertile crescent, the bosom of a nursing mother, life-giving rivers of paradise, nurturing and nourishing Mother Earth, originally the Mother Land.
Masis the life-giving primordial waters,

SIS Secretory Activation.  Knowledge of the Mother is knowledge of the Matter

Greek -sis, is identical in meaning with Latin -entia, English -ing.  In linguistics, a suffix (also sometimes termed ending) is an affix which is placed after the stem or root of a word, a noun (where it is used to form a verb or an abstract nouns). Sis ending indicates the grammatical case where nouns and adjectives, are transformed in conjugation, into verbs. 

Sis is a fundamental suffix in Greek-derived nouns that have carried into English, denoting action, a process, a condition, activation. Examples are gene-sis , thesis,  aphesis.

The formation of the word Galactopoiesis, (meaning, the maintenance of milk production or Secretory Activation)  explains not only the meaning of the suffix -sis but also the process of lactation describes the secretion of milk from the mammary glands.T

The chief function of lactation is to provide nutrition and immune protection to the young after birth. The milk ejection reflex is also called let-down reflex. 

    



MAMMAE in English are the milk-secreting organ of the female, breasts.


Let us see what else one can find in PIE roots, phonetic/oral etymology that confirms the above.
Gaia is the ancestral mother of all life: the primal Mother Earth goddess. She is the immediate parent of Uranus (the sky), from whose sexual union she bore the Titans (themselves parents of the Olympian gods) and the Giants, and of Pontus (the sea), "Mother Gaia") also contains the root ga-.Hesiod's Theogony tells how, after Chaos, "wide-bosomed" Gaia (Earth) arose to be the everlasting seat of theimmortals who possess Olympus above, and the depths of Tartarus below (as some scholars interpret it). He then tells that Gaia brought forth her equal Uranus (Heaven, Sky) to "cover her on every side" and to be the abode of the gods. Gaia also bore the hills (ourea), and Pontus (Sea), "without sweet union of love" (i.e., with no father). Afterwards with Uranus she gave birth to the Titans, as Hesiod tells it: 
Roman goddess of fertility, Latin Maia, literally "she who brings increase," related to magnus "great" (see magnate). Maia, one of the Pleiades, is from Greek Maia, daughter of Atlas, mother of Hermes, literally "mother, good mother, dame; foster-mother, nurse, midwife," said by Watkins to be from infant babbling (see mamma). In Greek and Roman mythology she was the eldest of the Pleiades, the group of seven stars in the constellation Taurus, who were the daughters of Atlas and Pleione. Her son by Zeus was Hermes. From French mais, Italian ma, Spanish mas from Latin ma-gis, adverbial form of ma-gnus, from Proto-Indo-European *ma=ǵ- or *meǵh₂
Mag is to knead