M-Y-M – ‘principle of mutation, morphology; passive, plastic, creative movement’

The root מה, מו or מי, contains the idea of passive relation, or plastic and creative movement…The Hebrews…as well as the Chaldeans and Syrians, employed the verb מוט to express the mutation of things, and their relative movement…

Yet a very singular thing…is, that, from the Chinese to the Celts, all peoples may draw from the word which, in their tongue designates water, the one which serves as indeterminate pronominal relation. The Chinese say choui, water, and choui, who, what? The Hebrews מה or מי, water, and מה or מי, who, what? The Latins aqua, water, and quis, quo, quod, who, what? The Tuetons and Saxons, wasser, water and was or wat, who, what? etc.

I am taking up here, the etymology of the word שמים heavens, because it is attached to the one I have been explaining in this article, and because it signifies literally, the waters, raised, brillaint, and glorified; being formed from the word מים , waters, and from the root שם, which is united to it. This root contains the idea of that which rises and shines in space, that which is distinguished and noticeable by its elevation and splendour. The Hebrew and Chaldaic שמה means happy, transported with joy… (The Hebraic Tongue Restored, Fabré d’Olivet, p. 41-42)

The so-called “heaven” in the first verse, the name of which is Shamaim, contains a Yod between two Mem. This sequence indicates the cosmic movement of Sheen acting against Mayim, the so-called waters: the two Mem (40) between which Yod is playing against its partner Aleph in the game of existence versus life…and it plays against its very destruction. And that which plays against it is the so-called Spirit of God, which is the tremendous vital energy of Sheen originated by Aleph…

Yod must always be in possession of two contrasting qualities; strength and softness…If Yod insists on one of these qualities against the other, what happens is a “dead death”. (This expression, Mawt-Hamawt, will be used in a later description of Adam in Eden).

Thus, the so-called Spirit of God acts like a steam roller every time Yod does not play the game properly. And that action is one of the facts of life that we know best: wars, destruction, disasters of all sorts…frustrations and failures; the annihilation of our achievements; and the terrible refusal of life in response to our hopes and our projects. But from these ruins, these misfortunes, rise the triumphs of ever-fertile life…(The Cipher of Genesis, Carlos Suares, p. 81-82)