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Milk
Breast Mammary Mammal Serum
Lactose |
We have SQUEEZED, DRAINED and DRAWN and therefore
MILKED quite a lot from the illustrated overview
concerned with MAST, MASTER and BREAST or MAMMARY
gland. It is logical now to focus on MILK and
therefore on GALACTIC related ideas.
MILK or MULGERE in Latin implies "what can be
drained" and also points to EMULSION in the sense
that it represents an unstable dispersion of
particles, in this instance quite FATTY, which
are suspended in a liquid, in this instance
a SERUM. When milk separates and its serum is
drained, the solid component is CASEIN from which
CHEESES are made.
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Gods were fed goat milk with honey. |
MILK is an essential NUTRIENT needed to NURTURE
human NATURE. MILK is also at the core of NURSING.
It is true that all MAMMALS rely on the
MAMMARY gland. However, some humans cannot metabolize or digest milk sugars such as
LACTOSE and GALACTOSE.
The fundamental importance of milk for human
existence is self evident and probably it is the
reason why words for MILK in Latin, old English,
Ukrainian or German are quite similar - MULGERE, MEOLOC,
MOLOKO and MILCH.
In Greek milk is GALACTIA from which a much more
complicated GALAXY of terms arises, some obviously
related and others more remote. Of note are GAIETY,
GALA, GALACTIC which have to do with
ideas found in LIGHT, WHITE, BRIGHT, DELIGHT, GLADNESS,
FESTIVITY and REJOICING as the mythic GALATHEA
tried to do.
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The milk of Juno forms the Galactic Way. |
Humans have been AMAZED not only by AMAZONS but
by the DAZZLING beauty of the galaxies of the
GALACTIC or LACTIC way. Some say that Juno, when
she tried to nurse Hercules, spilt her breast
milk from which arose the GALACTIC path traveled
by the Olympic Gods. Others say that the GALACTIC
path is the trail left by PHAETON. In India, the
Gods stirred an Ocean of Milk from which a torrent
of milk formed the GALACTIC way and descended on
the head of Shiva to become the Ganges river.
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Churning the ocean of Milk formed the Lactic Way and created
the World. (The phallic like "churning" is self evident.) |
GALATHEA, according to the ancients, was the
daughter of Nereus and Doris. GALATHEA loved
Acis but was promised to Polythemus, the
CYCLOPS. Polythemus crushed Acis
and Galathea was
metamorphosed into a weasel.
Names of organisms inclusive of GALA, as in GALActia, GALAtheascus, GALAthula convey
ideas pointing to "milk-white".
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Democritus was always Glad. |
GALAXIA was an ancient feast when participants
ate barley cooked in milk. It was Democritus who in 460 BC correctly
proposed that the VIA LACTEA or MILKy way
was a collection of barely visible stars
and Aristotle added that GALAxies include
luminous vapors.
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Aristotle invented Biology |
GALEN is the a name given to an outstanding
physician from Pergamon who was drafted to serve
the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius. GALEN is
also a name that emphasizes WHITE as
do CANDOR and CANDIDATE. In Spanish, GALENO
means physician and medicine has adopted the white color as its emblem. In fact,
the Hippocratic oath demands CANDOR from
physicians. However, as commercialized medicine
invades industrialized societies, some physicians
may not be CANDID and behave more like political
mercenary CANDIDATES do. Perhaps this is one
reason why in corporate medicine the prevalence of
physicians using white garb is dwindling.
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Galactorrhea without pregnancy is rare. |
MILK contains LACTOSE, a disaccharide meaning it consists
of two sugars which, when mixed with water, become hydrolyzed into GALACTOSE and GLUCOSE. It is
unfortunate that some infants can not digest
GALACTOSE because they suffer from a metabolic disorder called GALACTOSEMIA.
The disorder can result from at least three different
gene mutations. The classic type causes severe effects
which can be fatal in the neonatal period.
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