KINAYRAS, THE POMEGRANATE/NURA, ROOT KNR AS THE SEED, THE BLOOD LINE OF ADONIS AND RIMMON THROUGH THE NERIADES.

In IE and in ancient Armenian IE, the tri-literal compound word KNR Ki-Nu-Ra, the Cypriot name Kinyra can be broken down to the Ki, the life force, the Essense and NuRa as pomegranate and also the Holy HARP, Kinnor that Priest/King, Kinyras and King David played. This post posits that both the priest- eN, Ruler of Cyprus Kinyras and the Kinnor (Ancient Hebrew for Harp) that he played, originate from the word for the essence of the pomegranate, which was the Holy light, the messenger from heaven in turn transliterated into the Arabic word for fire and the HOLY LIGHT. 

THE Astringent juice from the pulp, its acidity made of it could a color fastener for the color red/ IE Garmi. A mordent used as a color fastener in dying like HENNA/Inanana, a substance suggested as the origin of the name Cyprus. It is classified as a bitter-astringent (pitta or fire) the root of the word bitter. As was the mineral equivalent a COPPER SULFATE, referred to as KY-Ba-RE-YO in the product range of deciphered Mycenaean tablets, dated 1500BC.

First one must look at the IE words with the root NR, like NeRve (NR) which is the system that flows life to the body. In geography it is the rivers and tributaries which is the nervous system of Geia and earth. Neraeus the god of the sea and the father of the Neraides all female the representatives of the rivers and tributaries that run to the sea from the mountains were named by the root NR. We have to get into the etymology of Nurse, Nursary and Nourish Nurture all NR.

In Farsi, the word for pomegranate is anar. The pomegranate is indigenous to Iran one naturally assumes that the Farsi word anar is Persian in origin. In Arabic the word anNaR translates to the light and heat of fire. Anar is classified in the Iranian culinary folklore as a garmmi (warm) fruit. The Hebrew for pomegranate is Rimmon,  RMN, which reminds of Moses Cordovero's "Pardes Rimmonim" (Garden of Pomegranates or Rimmon/Adonis). Wild pomegranate seeds are used as a spice known as anardana (from Persian: anar+dana, pomegranate+seed). So we have DANA as SEED.

Anar, the Persian name for the pomegranate is native to the Iranian Plateau and the Himalayas in North Pakistan and Northern India. In the Northern Hemisphere, the fruit is typically in season from mid September to mid March. The genus name Punica which came later, refers to the Phoenicians, who were active in broadening west its cultivation, mainly for cultural and religious reasons. It has been cultivated in the Caucasus since ancient times. In Turkish it is the nar and Armenian nur. In Arabic the word anNar means fire and the generic meaning  of Nu-Ra is Heavenly fire.

The records show that the Pomegranate came to symbolize the continuation OF THE BLOOD LINE. Present in the holy of holies, representing the consummation and confirmation of ritualized holy union, (Hieros-Gamos) a god sent concept of masculine potency in marriage, contracted or otherwise. It is asserted by some scholars that it was the pomegranate that Eve offered to Adam in the Garden of Eden representing the fruit of knowledge. This idea is on record and can be verified. The antiquity of the Pomegranate as the symbol of union between the opposites is still prominent world wide.  The 'nourishing' pomegranate was primarily a symbol of fertility as well as the symbol of the “Hieros Gamos”, the bond, union. Aphrodite, or rather Cinyras/Adonis/Rimmon, it is recorded brought the pomegranate to Cyprus and that pomegranate trees were planted in the gardens/groves and Her temples. Hera wears, not a wreath nor a tiara nor a diadem, but clearly the calyx of the pomegranate that has become her serrated crown.

The pomegranate was Soul's sacred tree and resting place, and it was sacred to Rimmon, a name also given to Adonis, from whose blood the pomegranate is said to have sprung. Pomegranate was the only fruit allowed to be brought inside the Holy of Holies- miniature pomegranates were sewn on the high Priest's robes when he made his yearly entry.

Pomegranates were one of the fruits that the scouts brought to Moses to show that the "promised land" was fertile. The Book of Exodus describes the me'il ("robe of the ephod") worn by the Hebrew High Priest as having pomegranates embroidered on the hem.

According to the Books of Kings the capitals of the two pillars (Jachin and Boaz) that stood in front of Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem were engraved with pomegranates.

Solomon designed his coronet based on the pomegranate's "crown" (calyx). It is traditional to eat pomegranates on Rosh Hashana because the pomegranate, with its numerous seeds, symbolizes fruitfulness. Also, it is said to have 613 seeds, which corresponds with the 613 mitzvot or commandments of the Torah.

The saying “Anar mieveh beheshtist” literally means “The pomegranate is a paradisiacal fruit”. Gol a reference to the flower of the pomegranate which blossems on mid-summer and the fruit mid winter on the cycle (Gol=Cycle) with NR in front possibly gives us Nargol or Nergal., the vertical line. The Qur'an also mentions pomegranates twice as examples of good things God created.

The pomegranate appears on ancient coins of Judea. When not in use, the scroll handles of Torah scrolls are sometimes covered with decorative silver globes, in shape to "pomegranates" (rimmonim) Some Jewish scholars believe that it was the pomegranate that was the forbidden fruit of the Garden of Eden. Pomegranates are one of the Seven Species (Hebrew:שבעת המינים, Shiv'at Ha-Minim) of fruits and grains enumerated in the Hebrew Bible (Deuteronomy 8:8) as being special products of the Land of Israel. The pomegranate is mentioned in the Bible many times, including this quote from the Songs of Solomon, "Thy lips are like a thread of scarlet, and thy speech is comely: thy temples are like a piece of a pomegranate within thy locks." (Song of Solomon 4:3).

Pomegranates also symbolized the mystical experience in the Jewish mystical tradition, or kabbalah, with the typical reference being to entering the "garden of pomegranates" or pardes rimonim (garden of pomegranates). This is also the title of a book by the 16th-century mystic Moses ben Jacob Cordovero. It is a reference to Theophrastus, Enquiry into Plants Cant. iv.13 that says "The paradise of pomegranates are near the flowing streams of Lebanon"
Robert Graves tells us that the pomegranate which supplied a red dye is the tree of the seveth day, the day of repose, Saturns day, the Shabat. The seventh day was the most sacred also to Jehovah, the god of the noon-day Sun, and the mid -summer, mid-Winter Sun, having reached its most southerly point, where it halts for a day.The Pomegranate, Punica granatum and Punica granatum nana a dwarf variety was named Punica, refering to the Phoenicians or earlier Canaanites, who were active in broadening its cultivation in the Fertile Crescent, the Levant, mainly for symbolic religious reasons. A carbonized exocarp of the fruit has been identified in an Early Bronze Age level of Jericho in Israel, as well as in the Late Bronze Age levels of Hala Sultan Tekke on Cyprus. A large, dry pomegranate was also found in the tomb of Djehuty, the butler of Queen Hatshepsut of the middle kingdom in Egypt.

Damuzi/Adoni/Rimmonim

Mesopotamian cuneiform records mention pomegranates from the mid-third millennium BC onwards. The "Sacred Marriage" was "joyously and rapturously" celebrated in the ancient eastern Mediterranean for over two thousand years (Kramer 1969:49). It appears certain that, at Uruk, the priest-ruler, the "en," spent at least one ritual night in the high-priestly residence and this residence was referred to as the "gipar/ kipar," alluding to the womb, a four poster with a circular canopy. A ciborium. Could this "en" be the en'th, the ninth of Uruk, I wonder?  40x9+5=365.

What took place at these ritual, (from Steinkeller 1999:132) "during which [period] he consummated the marriage with Inanna." Inanna was the Goddess, who was said to have incarnated herself in a chosen priestess. The likeliest candidate would be the priestess known as nin-dingir, which translates from Sumerian to "Lady Deity" or "Heavenly Lady." A male could only achieve authority in Inanna's temple community at Uruk as her "trusted servant" or her consort or both. Traditionally, the ruler of Uruk and its goddess co-habited in the gipar. The word gabir root g-b-r pops its head again as the location where the creative forces unite in the act of creation.

The "Sacred Marriage," which at first conferred authority temporarily on one man, provided the religious sanction for male exercise of power. A king of Sumer could take part only if he held the office of 'en' of Uruk and bore the title "spouse of Inanna" (Steinkeller 1999:130-131). (Could this "en" be the origin of our en'th degree) I wonder? 40x9+5=365.
We know for a fact that around 2000 BCE, the monarch of Sumer was represented by "Dumuzi" in the rite. In return, he received the authority to manipulate "the natural and human environments for greater productivity and security of the whole."The Mesopotamians clearly understood Inanna to be closely connected with fecundity and fertility. The "Sacred Marriage" ritual was central to an early Urukian harvest festival. Please note that the agricultural Sumerians metaphorically equated ploughing of land with sexual intercourse (Jacobsen 1976:46).

Kinyras the priest-ruler of Cyprus and the Adoni of Cyprus, seem to have had the same relationship with Aphrodite and her incarnate temple priestesses, as did the "en" the priest- ruler of Uruk and or Dumuzi at Uruk, who spent one ritual night in the high-priestly residence, in the Gibor to inact the "Sacred Marriage" with the Goddess, who was said to have incarnated herself in a chosen priestess.


The phoneme Ki , which is the first syllable of the name Kinyras represented the "seed" as in the SPARK of LIFE, and the mystery of the cause and effect. The mystery of Holy-Union apparent in nature and nurture. The Cypriot 'Ku' I believe represented the progenitor, the proto-priest and king, the # Ones who have been vying for the high point since the beginning of time, to carry forth his BLOOD LINE;
K is a graphic representation of a conjunction representing the reasoned theory of the forces responsible for the creation. 'en' and 'Kinyras' seem to have positioned themselves, in the fire and the water, water as in blood as in river as in artery as in blood line. They are the ones that seem to define the 'still point,' the connecting principal governing the past, present and future, the above the middle earth and the below, in other words the vertical and horizontal. The CROSS.

Persian anar is evident in Arabic word narjyl from the Persian nargyl, meaning coconut. Another example of Arabicization of a Persian fruit name is narenj, which in Persian is narang. 

  

THE POMEGRANATE (Anar) is loaded with intuitive color and number symbolism.

Five petals on flowers of cultivated plants.

The calyx/crown has six points. KOTHAR, HERA.

The leaves are sub-opposite.

The fruit and the crown are rounded yet hexagonal in shape.

The aril, ranges in colour from translucent, white to deep red to purple.