Ideonomy Left Leftist

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~ LEFT     THE SIDE OF THE BODY TOWARD THE SUNSET WHEN
           FACING THE SOUTH   
           also THE SIDE CONTAINING THE HUMAN HEART
           for contrast note that LEFT is opp to RIGHT
           in regards to
           STRAIGHT or ERECT
           LAW  CANON  RULE or RIGHTS
           LAW  JUSTICE
           DIRECT  STRAIGHT
           AGREEABLE  SATISFYING  PROPER  FITTING
           hx> THE GREEKS NAME THE LEFT HAND AS " BESTER " and the
               LEFT SIDE AS "THE SIDE OF GOOD OMEN"
           note MOST ANCIENT PRIESTS PERFORMED SACRIFICES
                FACING SOUTH TOWARD THE RISING SUN or EAST or
           EMERGING LIGHT
           LEVANT LEVITATE LEVEN as in ELEVATE   see> below
           in sp LEVADURA = YEAST denotes a FERMENT USED TO
                            LEVITATE BREAD         sug> ELEVATE
           the above ideas relate to BENEFICENT SACRED POWER
           note that LEFT ALSO CAN IMPLY A SLUR as in
                LEFT or ABANDONED 
                LEFT or LEFTOVER or WORTHLESS  
           THE LEFT HAND IS MOST OFTEN WEAKER AND CLUMSIER and
           LEFT HANDED PERSONS ARE IN THE MINORITY  see> LEFTY 
           in Greek terminology THE LEFT SIDE WAS THE SHIELD SIDE
                                THE RIGHT SIDE WAS THE SPEAR SIDE
           negative connotations of LEFT are found
           in political labels such as LEFTIST or LEFT WING
           also note AN INCA RULER LLOQUE YUPANQUI = LEFTHANDED or
           "ONE WHO WILL BE RENOWNED FOR PIOUS ACTIONS"
           showing that often LEFT HANDEDNESS WAS TAKEN AS A SIGN
                              OF GOOD AUGURY
           myth> HEPHAESTUS "POURED WINE FOR ALL THE OTHER GODS FROM
                 LEFT TO RIGHT" or in skt DAKSH or lat DEXTER
           implying DEXTERITY or DEXTROUS denoting
           FORTUNATE or TOWARD THE RIGHT
           note a relationship with the DAILY TRANSIT OF THE
           SUN FROM EAST or LEFT TOWARD THE WEST or RIGHT
           biol> THE LINKS BETWEEN PHILOLOGY  BIOLOGY AND NATURAL
                 HISTORY IN REGARDS TO LEFT AND ITS RELATION TO
           MAGIC or RELIGION PROFOUNDLY COLOR ITS ETYMOLOGY  
           NOTE THAT PERHAPS WE ARE NATURALLY INCLINED TO USE THE
           HAND MOTION FROM RIGHT TO LEFT AS DO THOSE CULTURES WHO
           WRITE FROM LEFT TO RIGHT BECAUSE INVARIABLY MOST PEOPLE
           REGARDLESS OF THEIR HANDEDNESS  WHEN SHADING WITH A
           PENCIL WILL DO SO WITH MOTIONS FROM RIGHT TOWARD THE LEFT
           note HOW WE EMBRACE or how THE RIGHT HAND WILL SWEEP
                TOWARD THE LEFT
           note DURING AN EMBRACE FACIAL CHEEKS TEND TO
                FAVOR RIGHT TO RIGHT CONTACT        sug> COITUS
~ LEFTIST  implies LIBERAL  note RADICAL LEFTISTS incl
           ANARCHISTS and COMMUNIST  MARXISTS 
           hx> FOLLOWING THE FRENCH REVOLT or REVOLUTION
               THE FRENCH PARLIAMENTARY PRACTICE WAS TO SEAT
           THE NOBILITY ON THE RIGHT AND THE COMMONS ON THE
           LEFT OF THE PRESIDING OFFICIAL
           ply> | POLITICS THRIVES ON SLOGANS AND
                  POLITICAL DEXTERITY FAVORS
           TACTICS THAT BRAND AND DIMINISH THOSE WHO
           CHALLENGE ESTABLISHED POWER OF
           RIGHTEOUS RIGHTISTS OF THE RIGHT WING BY
           BRANDING DISSIDENTS AS ZEALOT LEFTIST or
           REVOLTING REVOLUTIONARIES WHO ARE
           DEXTEROUS AT USING LEFT HANDED TRICKS AS MEMBERS
           OF THE LEFT WING |
~ LEFTY    vern for PERSON WHO PREDOMINANTLY USES THE LEFT HAND
           note LEFT DOMINANCE IS OFTEN PARTIAL or CROSSED as in
  LEFT HANDED and RIGHT FOOTED or RIGHT EYE DOMINANCE
  HAND FOOT EYE etc DOMINANCE CAN BE ALTERED BY DRILL
  biol> "ERECT POSTURE IS A RECENT HUMAN ACQUISITION
         AND IS STILL IN THE EXPERIMENTAL STAGE ...
  WE MUST PAY MORE ATTENTION TO THE FACTORS ON WHICH
  OUR ERECT POSTURE DEPENDS..."  Sir Colin MACKER [#]
  cited by Ira S WILDE [#] 
  also note how
  MANUAL DEXTERITY AND LANGUAGE WERE
  CONCOMITANT HUMAN NECESSITIES        sug> SIGN SIGNAL SALUTE
  med> IT IS DIFFICULT TO ESTABLISH CLEAR DIAGNOSTIC CRITERIA
       FOR LEFT HANDEDNESS SINCE STRONG SOCIAL PRESSURES EXIST
  TO LEARN RIGHT HANDED SKILLS
  note DEXTERITY DEXTEROUS implies SKILL as in DEFT etc
  also LEFT HANDEDNESS or " LEVI DEXTERITY " HAS
  ACQUIRED NEGATIVE IMPLICATIONS as in     sug> STIGMA
  LEFT OUT or LEFT BEHIND 
  myth> ROMAN AUGURS FACED THE SUN or SOUTH but the
        GREEK AUGURS FACED NORTH     lat AUGO = TO TELL
  A PRIESTLY "COLLEGIUM"  AN ESTABLISHMENT DEDICATED TO
  DELIVER AUSPICES or FORECASTS  THE COLLEGE EXISTED UNTIL
  THE 4th CENTURY  for more                     see> AUGUR
  PATTERNS OF THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS WERE SUGGESTIVE OF A GOOD
  OMEN IF THEY OCCURRED IN THE EAST SIDE or SUN RISE SIDE
  OF THE " TEMPLUM " DEFINED AS AN IMAGINARY SPACE
  DRAWN BY THE AUGUR
  THE CENTER OF THE SPACE WAS
  THE "TABERNACULUM"                            see> TAVERN
  IN ROME EAST WAS ON THE LEFT
  IN GREECE IT WAS ON THE RIGHT
  lit+ note complex convoluted ideas relating to LEFT
       Max Friedrich MULLER [#] said in  Chips from a German
  Workshop  vol 5 New York  Charles Scriber Sons, 1881 pp 78
  " BEFORE THE ARYAN NATIONS SEPARATED
    BEFORE THERE WAS A LATIN
    A GREEK OR A SANSKRIT LANGUAGE
    THERE EXISTED THE ROOT "SVAR" or
  indeur   SVAL      = GLITTER or WORM
  angsax   SWELAN      TO BURN                sug> SWEATER
  ukr      SVARKA      FIGHT
           SVITLO      LIGHT
           SVIT        WORLD
  ger      SWULL       OPPRESSIVELY HOT       sug> SWELTER
  also note
  Arabic   YAD         RIGHT HAND or HONORABLE HAND
  heg      YAMIN       RIGHT HAND
  ukr      YADRO       BEST PART  SEED        sug> ATOM
  Hebrew   ZEROA       LEFT HAND              sug> ZERO
           BEN YAMIN   BENJAMIN
  fr       GAUCHE      LEFT leading to GAWK or WRONG
                       the above from Ira S WILE [#] cited below
  also note            links between nature biology and religion
  eng     SINISTRAL    LEFT SIDE or HANDED
  lat     SINISTER     THAT IS ON THE LEFT HAND
                       also AWKWARD formerly LUCKY PROSPEROUS
  sp      SINIESTRO    LEFT SIDE and also MINISTER and
                       WRECK  DEPRAVITY  BAD OMEN  UNLUCKY
  angsax  SINNE        SON  implied SIN SINFUL or GUILTY
                       see> SIN  SON
       LEF             HURT  INJURY  WEAK  INFIRM
       LIF             LIVE an opposite of LEF
       LAEFAN          TO LEAVE
  ger  LUFT            AIR                            sug> LIFT
  lat  LAEVUS          LEFT  AWKWARD  STUPID
                       also PROPITIOUS
                       also LUCKY
                       note link with
       LEVIS           LIGHT                     sug> ALLEVIATE
  eng  LEVO~           prefix to denote left as in
                       sc> LEFT DEVIATING  eg LEVULIN  LEVULOSE
  ukr  LIVO            LEFT
  sp   LEVA            WEIGHING ANCHOR                sug> LEVY
       LEVANTE         EAST or LEVANT                
       LEVADURA        YEAST as in EAST               see> LEVEN
       LEVA            LEVY
       LEVANTAR        LIFT
       LEVE            LIGHT LEVITY
       LEVEMENTE       GENTLE
       LEVITA          DEACON
       LEUDO           LEAVENED              see> LEVITY
       LEUCEMIA        LEUKEMIA   or WHITE BLOOD
       LEUCOMA         med> WHITE SPOT it denotes mostly
                            SPOT THE CORNEA OF THE EYE
       LEUDAR          TO LEAVEN  as FERMENT WITH YEAST
  eng  LEVITY          LIGHT RISES from the EAST 
                       GAIETY  MIRTH  ELATION
  ukr  LIVYJ           LEFTY  LEFTIST
                       perhaps source for surnames LEVI  LEVIN
       SVITLO          LIGHT  A VITAL INDOEUROPEAN
        SVIT           UNIVERSE  PERCEPTIBLE WORLD
  sp          ZURDO    LEFT HANDED also CLUMSY  UNABLE  NON DEXTROUS
  port        SURRO    RUIN  VILE  DIRTY                 sug> SORDID
  Basque    EZKUR      HAND  perhaps this root spread and mixed with
  Celtic      KERROS   LEFT or CROOKED    sug> HANDICAP
  Catalan   EXQUERRE   LEFT
  sp        IZQIERDO   LEFT  OF PRE GREEK ORIGIN
  note  the hand to take OATHS WITH or TO GREET
        is the RIGHT HAND in contrast with doing things
        "ON THE LEFT" which may imply that RIGHTS were LEFT OUT
  note ukr NA LIVO = ON THE LEFT implies
                     ILLEGAL  SMUGGLE  DECEIT  SUBTERFUGE
  note as contrast that WHEN FACING THE RISING SUN THE LIGHT MOVES
       FROM LEFT TO RIGHT AND IS A REASON FOR GAIETY
  hx> in some instances THE LEFT SIDE OF THE BODY WAS GIVEN
      ATTRIBUTES OF ILL FORTUNE or EVIL IN CONTRAST TO THE RIGHT SIDE
  WHICH WAS LINKED WITH VIRTUE CORRECTNESS etc as denoted by
  WESTERN CHRISTIANS MAKING THE SIGN OF THE CROSS FIRST TO THE RIGHT
  in contrast note that ORTHODOX CHRISTIANS
  MAKE THE SIGN OF THE CROSS FROM LEFT TO RIGHT etc
  BUDDHA POINTS TO THE RIGHT HAND as the PATH TO NIRVANA
  SATAN SITS TO THE LEFT OF GOD
  IN THE BIBLE THE SHEEP ARE BLESSED AND SEPARATED FROM THE
  CURSED GOATS WHO ARE ASSIGNED TO THE LEFT SIDE OF THE LORD
  med> FEWER THAN 50% OF CHILDREN OF TWO LEFT HANDED PARENTS
       ARE "LEFTIES"  furthermore IDENTICAL or
  MZ or MONOZYGOTIC TWINS OFTEN ARE DISCORDANT FOR HANDEDNESS
  ABOUT 15% OF YOUNG ADULTS ARE LEFT HANDED BUT THE PROPORTION
  DROPS WITH AGING  IN SOME ESTIMATES TO AS LOW AS 1% AMONG
  OCTOGENARIANS  THE ABOVE FACTS ARGUE THAT LEFT HANDEDNESS
  MAY REFLECTS BRAIN ABNORMALITIES AND MAY POSE RISKS
  also AMONG RIGHT HANDED PERSONS  97% ARE LEFT BRAIN DOMINANT
  FOR LANGUAGE in contrast to LESS THAN 20% OF LEFT HANDED WHO
  ARE RIGHT BRAIN DOMINANT FOR LANGUAGE
  THE ABOVE IMPLIES DIFFERENCES IN BRAIN ORGANIZATION
  PERHAPS THIS MAY EXPLAIN WHY AMONG THE LEARNING DISABLED
  LEFTIES ARE MORE COMMON  AS ARE THE AMBIDEXTROUS or
  THOSE LACKING BRAIN DOMINANCE
  SOME PROPOSE THAT MILD BRAIN DAMAGE INCREASES THE CHANCE
  FOR NON DEXTERITY THUS INCREASING THE CHANCES FOR LEFT HANDEDNESS
  hx> note RECENT USA POLITICAL FORTUNES WERE IN THE HANDS
         OF "LEFTY" PRESIDENTS among which were
  Presidents FORD  NIXON  REAGAN and CLINTON
  biol> A VAST LITERATURE ON BRAIN DOMINANCE AND ASYMMETRY OF
        FUNCTIONS AND ON LEFT HANDEDNESS IS WITHIN EASY
  REACH   CURRENT STUDIES SUGGEST A ROLE OF TESTOSTERONE AND
  OTHER HORMONES   BOYS DEVELOP CEREBRAL DOMINANCE MUCH LATER
  THAN GIRLS  DOMINANCE MAY BE A "LOCK IN" OF FUNCTIONS WITH
  BOTH POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE IMPLICATIONS  perhaps THE LONGER
  THE DELAY IN DOMINANCE THE LONGER WE MAY LEARN
  lit+ note complex abstractions
       " UNITY IMPLIES MORE THAN UNITY
  ONE EXISTS AGAINST THE BACKGROUND OF MORE THAN ONE
  AT THE VERY BASIS OF ALL  UNITY EXISTS  THEREFORE
  AN IDEA OF DUALITY OR PLURALITY ...
  UNITY AND DUALITY ARE REFLECTION OF THOUGHT ...
  MAN ... SEARCHES FOR SINGLE LAWS  PRINCIPLES AND IDEALS
  AND PROVES THEM BY THEIR EXCEPTIONS ...
  THIS DUALITY  HEALTH AND DISEASE   HEAVEN AND HELL
  RIGHT AND LEFT ... " from the Introduction to HANDEDNESS by
  Ira S WILE [#]  Boston 1934 Chapter 2  Lothrop Lee & Shepard Co
  lit+ note a petition by Benjamin FRANKLIN [#] to educators
       advocating {in vain} the promotion of AMBIDEXTERITY
  " ... REMOVE THE PREJUDICES OF WHICH I AM THE VICTIM ...
    THE PARTIALITY OF OUR PARENTS WHO MADE THE MOST
    INJURIOUS DISTICTION BETWEEN US ...
    I {THE LEFT HAND} WAS SUFFERED TO GROW UP WITHOUT
    THE LEAST INSTRUCTION {WHILE THE RIGHT HAND} HAD
    MASTERS TO TEACH HER WRITING  DRAWING  MUSIC
    AND OTHER ACCOMPLISHMENTS ...
    IF ANY INDISPOSITION SHOULD ATTACK MY SISTER {RIGHT HAND}
    WHAT WOULD BE THE FATE ... "        signed THE LEFT HAND
  art> LEONARDO  RAPHAEL  PICASSO  AND MANY OTHERS WERE LEFTIES
       note UNUSUAL BRAINS AMONG ARTISTS MAY BE MORE USUAL or
  HANDEDNESS IS LESS IMPRESSED OR REPRESSED AMONG PAINTERS