Author: Walter Sabiston

3. Zygoma Etymology

Zygon, from which zygoma is derived, is the common Greek word for yoke, one of man’s first words. The audible sound for the yoke concept existed even before the alphabet and writing. The first letter of the alphabet ‘A’, is a pictograph which represents an ancient oxen yoke, chosen to become the first grammatical implement of writing, a vowel.

I am the first person to propose how the letter ‘A’ relates to oxen and that vowels began as yokes!

Zygoma in Greek, literally means, composed of a yoke. Galen chose this word as an anatomical term to specifically identify the arch of bone of our temple.

This discovery was significant enough, if subsequently confirmed, to be considered my  single truth were it not for an extraordinary experience I had in 1990  which can only be explained as “spiritual”. It convinced me that my zygoma word search had a deeper purpose than etymology, medicine or language.

After that encounter I changed my research and began following two lines of investigation: the first (zygoma etymology) continued with the empiric scientific method, while the other (spiritual) was intuitive,fueled by frequent intrusions of meaningful coincidences and synchronicity.

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2. Zygoma

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Zygoma is the name for the arch of bone that protects the temple of the human skull.

For fifteen years I doggedly pursued how the word zygoma began and evolved. It’s first use was as an anatomic term in the second century A.D. by Claudius Galen the famous Greek physician , father of anatomical terminology. Through the years it has been used to identify three different anatomical entities instead of just one as Galen intended, consequently it has lead to mistakes and errors in accurate communication of facial injuries between diagnosing physicians and treating surgeons. It was one such experience I had  as a resident surgeon at the University of Alabama in 1972 which prompted my interest in zygoma terminology and resulted in some original etymology and language discoveries.

 

 

1. Azoke

Azoke, a new word created to describe my forty year pursuit of the etymology of the anatomical term zygoma, which serendipitously led me to “a single truth”; a pre-med idea of mine that a life would be well spent if one could prove without doubt a single uncontested, irrefutable fact.

Azoke is defined as ones search for their yoke to God.

Zoke, another new word, is defined as the yoke which connects oneself to God.

A yoke is something that joins things together, such as the yoke of a dress, or the yoke of a trailer or a yoke of oxen.

The word zygoma, as I see it now and as you might come to agree, is my zoke. The search for zygoma’s origin, my azoke.

Together the two led me to what I consider “my single truth”.

God exists!

 

Etymology – The study of the history of words, their origins, and how their form and meaning have changed over time