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Life Live Alive Liver Living
Engraved before 1811 from an original in the then Museum Pio Clemens in Rome (Click for details)
Esculapius (Medicine) between Mercury (Merchants) and the Graces (Medicine, Hygiene and Panacea)
Esculapius dealt with Patients - Merchants make deals with Clients

~ LIFE  note LIVE LEAVE and LOVE            see> SEX
        id+  LIFE IMPLIES AT LEAST          sug> ORGANISM
             PRESERVATION OF SELF per       see> SOUL
  SELF REPLICA or CELL DIVISION and         sug> DUPLICATE
  REPRODUCTION or GENDER GENERATION         sug> REPLICATE
  implicitly A FORM OF BIOLOGIC MEMORY      sug> MEMORIAL
  ply> |IS LIFE  RECALL  of BODY and MIND?|
  biol> note HIGHER LIFE IS NOT REPLICATION
             IT IS CREATION or PROCREATION
  .....
  id+  LIFE and LOVE are CONNECTED          sug> VENERATE
  ger  LEIBEN = LOVE                        sug> VENEREAL
       LEBEN    LIFE  more below            sug> VITALITY
  .....
  hx> USA LAW DECLARED LIFE TO BE PRIVATE PROPERTY
      in 1972 Ananda CHAKRABARTY [#] SOUGHT WON A 
  PATENT or OWNERSHIP OF A BACTERIA CAPABLE OF DEGRADING OIL  
  ....IN 1980 HE WON A USA PATENT
  CHAKRABARTY DID NOT CREATE THE NEW BACTERIA BUT
  "PLAYED THE MATCHMAKER FOR A SHOTGUN WEDDING ...  
  MANY RABBIS AND CHRISTIAN CLERGY ARE AGAINST THE RULE
  .....
  THEY MAINTAIN THAT LIFE BELONGS TO GOD AND NOT TO A MAN
  .....
  sc>   IRRESPECTIVE OF MERCANTILE LEGALISTIC POLITICAL 
        PERSPECTIVES LIFE CAN BE SEEN AS ONE
  lit+  " ALL IS ONE and ONE IS ALL "    from Aristotle  
        perhaps it is a definition of GOD
  LUCRETIUS [3] in " Life and Death "  offers
  " NO SINGLE THING ABIDES
    BUT ALL THINGS FLOW
    FRAGMENT TO FRAGMENT CLINGS
    THE THINGS THUS GROW
    UNTIL WE NAME THEM
    BY DEGREES THEY MELT AND
    ARE NO MORE THE THINGS WE KNOW
    GLOBED FROM THE ATOMS
    I SEE THE SUNS ...
    EVEN THEIR SYSTEMS AND THEIR SUNS
    SHALL GO BACK SLOWLY TO THE ETERNAL DRIFT
    THOU TOO  O EARTH
    THINE EMPIRES LANDS AND SEAS ...
    THOU ART GOING  HOUR BY HOUR ...
    NOTHING ABIDES ... "
  biol> LIVING IMPLIES INDIVIDUALITY it leads to
        UNIQUE AND INDIVISIBLE
  WHILE SEPARATED CELLS MAY REMAIN ALIVE
  THEY ARE NOT AN ORGANISM SINCE SUCH CELLS
  NEED OTHER CELLS WITHOUT WHICH THEY LOSE
  THEIR IDENTITY AND BECOME UNDIFFERENTIATED
  .....
  med> HUMAN METABOLISM OCCURS MOSTLY IN THE LIVER  see> LEAVE
       META BOLUS = CRITICAL GULP                   see> META
  ply> | A LIVING LIVER IS VITAL TO LIFE |          see> ZHYVIT
  ply> | THE LIVER IS THE OVEN OF LIFE |            see> below
  .....
  lit+ CALDERON DE LA BARCA [#] offers                     
       " ... FOR ALL LIFE IS A DREAM
         AND DREAMS THEMSELVES 
         ARE ONLY DREAMS "
  ply> | LIFE IS A CAPABILITY TO DREAM AND LOVE
         LIFE IS MEMORY AND REMEMBRANCE  or
         A LIVING MATTER WITH DREAMS |
  med> consider FREUD and his VIEWS ON DREAMS
  .....
  id+ LOSS OF MEMORY IMPLIES A VEGETATIVE STATUS
      lined to OBLIVION  AMNESIA  VEGETATE
  myth> HYPNOS or SLEEP IS THE BROTHER OF
        THANATOS or " DEATH GIVER"
  ..... 
  lit+ DEATH IS PRESENTED BY LUCRETIUS AS
       NOTHING BUT A DREAMLESS ETERNAL SLEEP  as in
  OBLIVION  or HADES where the departed   sug> LATE
  LOST THEIR MEMORY
  ukr          HAD   = EVIL  SERPENT  SNAKE  VIPER
              ZHADAI   RECALL  REMEMBER  THINK ABOUT IT
               HADAI   THINK  IMAGINE
               HADKA   THOUGHT
  .....
  ger       LEIB or
            LEIBE   = LIFE and LOVE
  old Norse LIF       LIFE or BODY note LIFE    sug> FLORA
  eng       LIVE      sug> LIVER   see below
  Frisian   LIVA      LIVE
  sp        VIDA      LIFE        sug> VITAL
  lat       VITA      SOUL GHOST  MANNER OF LIVING also in
            ANIMA     SOUL        sug> ANIMAL ANIMATED
            SPIRITUS  SOUL
            VITALIA   VITALS as LUNG  HEART LIVER  
            VITELLUS  EGG YOLK
  ukr       VID       VIEW  FACE  FIGURE  ASPECT
            VIDOMO    KNOWN                   sug> VIDALIA
           SVIDOMO    CONSCIOUS
            VITAI     GREET
            VYDATY    ISSUE  ABUNDANT  also
            ZHYTY     LIVING
            ZHYVO     VITAL  ANIMATED  QUICKLY  BRISK
            ZHYVCHYK  PULSE  LIVELY CHILD
            ZHYTA     GRAIN
            ZHYTO     CEREALS  RYE
            ZHYTIA    EXISTENCE  LIFETIME
            ZHYVIT    VIVACITY  ABDOMEN  BELLY  LIME and
                      in the belly there is HEAT
            PECZ      OVEN   most of the heat is from
            PECZINKA  LIVER  note FORNIX FORNICATE  
 
.....

~ LIFT  TO RAISE or ELEVATE     sug> PARENT  TEACHER
        from germ LUFT or old eng LYFT = AIR or SKY
  ply> | ANIMATE or TO RAISE may  be         sug> ANIMATION
         LOFTY LIFTING OF SPIRITS or         sug> EASE
  TO LEAVEN BREAD WITH YEAST or              sug> EAST
  USE LEVERS TO LEVITATE THE DEAD or         sug> ALIGHT
  KEEP HOPES ALOFT or                        sug> GRAVITY
  SHOPLIFT LUNGS TO BE STORED IN A LOFT |    sug> GRAVE
 
.....

~ LIVE    or ALIVE      see> LIVER below
          note LIVING LIVES  ENLIVEN
          LIVERY  DELIVERY  LEAVE
          .....
~ LIVER   formal etymologists point link of
          LIVER with LIPID and in this regard
  gr      ALEIPHEIN or ALIPTES = ANOINT        see> LIPID
  biol>   PRIMARY ORGAN OF METABOLISM         see> CATABOLIC
          also MAIN SOURCE OF BODY HEAT       sug>   FIRE
  ukr  PECZ     = OVEN                        sug> INFLAME
       PECZE      BURN                        see> FORNIX
       PECZINKA   LIVER                       sug> ALIVE
       PEKLO      HELL                        sug> INFERNO
  med> THE LIVER RETAINS THE CAPACITY TO REGENERATE  sug> GENESIS
       recent PARTIAL LIVER TRANSPLANTS SHOW THAT    sug> LIFE
  THIS ORGAN REGENERATES IN THE DONOR AND RECIPIENT  sug> GENERA
  myth> WHILE IN TARTAROS                            sug> HADES
        THE LIVER OF TITYUS WAS GNAWED BY VULTURES   sug> HELL
  BUT IT REGENERATED TO CONTINUE HIS TORTURE         sug> ABYSS
  note " EAT YOUR LIVER OUT "                        sug> GRIEVE
  ply> | after death we may BURN or BAKE in HELL     sug> SEETHE
         but while ALIVE we BURN a LIVING LIVER |    sug> VITAL
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