patteren

patteren: 110708;677
series: meta;156

In the case of der erlkönig the discord surrounds the contention that goethe mistranslated or borrowed a mistranslation : it seems unlikely, actually impossible, that goethe meant to say elf king and rather said alder king : but the casualty of discord is not a loss regarding whether elf or alder is correct, the casualty is rather the loss of richness of meaning when both elf and alder are considered equally meaningful : so the question becomes whether elf and alder, at their roots, are isomorphic, and the answer, given the axiom of sweet imagination [meta132], is that they are accepted a priori as isomorphic and all that is needed are the missing layers [isomorphisms] connecting these two conjectures : the layers are not known, but consider this conjecture: these layers relate to the indo european root albh meaning 'white' which also spawned the middle high german elbe and old english elf : elf king and alder king might be masculine and feminine emanations of the root alb which describe an isomorphic god or goddess of various forms, consider: alberich, dwarf god of the underworld; alphito, arcadian goddess of barley; eller kong, danish king of the alders : whether elf king or alder king, a version of the same transformed deity is likely involved : the name is a marker, a place holder for a location in memory : interestingly, guido von list attempts to relate a similar runic sound 'embla' to 'alder' through a description of yggdrasil: '... the designation "World-Ash" is also meaningful, for "ash" is "Ask"—the first man, the primal-father of humanity who bore the same name ("the primal mother was called Embla, i.e., "Alder")' : so evidently, both alder and elf share some relationship with 'alb' and so the both are correct and the name meaning of the title erlkönig is the resonance of all layers of meaning :