The "maps" described below were formed by configuring a virtual
human-like body over the area to be mapped. The name of each part of
that body became the name of the area/feature under that part. This
enabled the members of a language community to know the approximate
location of every area that was named in this fashion.

APHRODITE

The body-part map of Aphrodite is in north Africa. Her face [Semitic
PaNim] was lost during the 3rd Punic war. The rest of her is still
there. She is looking backwards, so her CRaniuM is reversed at Morocco.
It still has a Fez. Her chin [SaNTir] is also reversed at Tunisia. The
Atlas mts [atlas: 3. first cervical vertebra] support her head. Her
hair [Sa3aRa] is the Sahara desert. Her backbone [SHiDRa] is the Gulf
of Sidra. Her heart [LeV] is Libya. Her breast [SHaD] is Chad. Her
narrow [TZaR] waist is Misr / Mitzraim. Her liver [Greek hepato-] is
now Egypt. Her side [TZaD] is Sudan. Her left [SMoL] leg is Somalia.

CaNa3aN was her Latin cunnus. Its name changed to YiSRa@eL at the time
Ya3aKoV / Jacob "fought with god and men". This name change represents
a change in sovereignty from Africa to Asia minor. YiSRa@eL is that
body part that gives @oSHeR = delight to god when it is YaSHaR =
straight, upright.

HERMES

The body-part map of Hermes is in Asia minor. kHermes [kHoR = hole +
MoSnaim = waist] lived at Mt. kHermon before he moved Mt. Olympus
[Greek omphalos = navel]. Later his name was reversed to become Latin
Mercury.

His head [RoSH] was at Rus, south of Belarus. Its name changed to the
Ukraine [Gk kranion = cranium]. His throat [GaRGeret] is Georgia. His
left shoulder [KaSaF] is the Caspian sea. His right arm/hand is being
washed [NaTiLat] at Anatolia. His upper arm [Sanskrit irma] at Armenia,
biceps [Greek pontiki = muscle] at Pontus, elbow [KiFooF yaD] at
Cappadocia, wrist [m'FaReK] at Phrygia, and thumb [BoHeN] at Bithynia
were in Anatolia. His heart [Greek cardia]  became Kurdistan. His
narrow [TZaR] waist is Syria and his navel [Sanskrit nabhila] reverses
to LeBaNon. South of Lebanon is the male member [Greek phallus] named
Philistina/Palestine. See CaNa3aN / YiSRa@eL above. His buttocks
[YeReKH] is Iraq. The letter shin in his thigh [shin-vav-kuf] had a
dental T-sound so the reversal of TVK sounded like KVT or Kuwait. His
knee [BeReKH] is partially reversed in Bahrain. His right [Y'MiN] foot
is at Yemen.

For more information about this type of anthropomorphic map, join the
BPMaps discussion group at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BPMaps/

The maps of Hermes & Aphrodite and similar maps of the creator of the
Blackfoot indians (The Old Man) and his wife (The Old Woman) are
described in the databases at the BPMaps website. Look for the message
entitled "Attributes of Body Part Maps."

ciao,
Israel "izzy" Cohen
BPMaps moderator