Testament is derived from testicles!
By Manuel Luciano da Silva, Medical Doctor
Every one
knows that the word
Bible means scroll or the
Book. The Bible has been “the best seller” for many centuries.
In reality the Bible is a
library of 73 books for the Catholics and some Protestants,
66 books for other Protestants and 39 books for the Jews. The Bible is
the sacred writings of the Judaism
and of Christianity.
As a matter of the fact the word biblioteca, (library), is composed of the word Bible, meaning book, more “teca”, Greek, meaning “safe”. So a biblioteca (or library) is a place where books are safely kept, like in a safe box or volt.
But
we also know that the Bible is composed of two parts: (1) The Old Testament,
written by the Jewish prophets or
scholars, and the (2) New Testament is composed by 27 books and were written by
Matthew, Mark, Luke and also Paul.
But why are
the two parts of the Bible called
Old and New Testaments?
Because the
word testament is based on the symbolic meaning of both testicles!
Strange, don’t you think! The most important book in the Western World,
the Bible, is derived from both testicles?! Well, this certainly needs a very
clear explanation, don’t you think?!
Let us go
after it. Five thousand years ago, in Judea, (today’s Israel or Palestine)
or for that matter on any
part of the world, no human
being used the gesture of hand shaking, when he wanted
to salute another human being.
The hand shake
started with the Romans, when they begun with the gesture of grabbing each
other’s forearm, in order to show that they did not have any dagger
under their toga. And from this gesture, then, slowly, from the forearm,
it was moved downwardly into the
hand and therefore the handshake became a routine
which has been continued up to now!
But, five
thousand years ago, if in Judea, there
was no hand shake, they developed
another custom of saluting or congratulating each other, on
very important or happy occasions? Yes, Sir, they did.When a man became the father of a boy he called his close friends to his house for a party, or a celebration. And when his friends got to his house, when they enter the house, they made the gesture of touching his genitals, to homage him as a full-fledged man, because he was able to impregnate his wife and be so lucky that she gave birth to a baby boy to continue his family name!
In ancient
Judea, Egypt and Greece, and even the Romans (before Christ), the testicles
represented man’s virility, and were also the symbol of strength, respect and
honor, and the last name of the family!
Male testicles
are the parts of the human anatomy that have exerted the most influence on legal, religious and social development
throughout history.
Every man’s
and every woman’s last name is the
way it is because of the influence of
each individual’s father’s testicles! It might seem dirty to some people,
but that’s the way it is! Either
you like it or not. That the way it is, I repeat!
But there is
more! If for the people of antiquity the testicles had such symbolism of
strength and power, the human imagination went a step
further and elevated it
to a religious mysticism and most
powerful, omnipotent like God! And
therefore the Prophets and
the writers of the Bible, chose the most powerful word of
their vocabulary:
Testament for the name of
their most important book the Bible: the Old Testament and the New Testament.
The force of
the word testament is so powerful that we continue to use its meaning
even today. When we go to
court to testify, our deposition is based on the honor, on the truth of our
statements, based on the honor symbolized by our testicles. In Portuguese when
someone is going to court to testify we call that person a “testemunha”, or
witness, derived also from the word testicles.
Another word
that is used so commonly in our sophisticated society nowadays is the word
testimonial, which is also derived from the testicles. When we go to a
testimonial dinner and honoree is a man, I can see the truth, the
sincerity in it, but when the testimonial is dedicated to a woman, it makes me
laugh! Why? Because society with all its “knowledge”, and taboos, forgets
(or is ignorant) of the historical facts, which
were started by the ancient human beings because they were wise and
good observers!
Do you like your last name? Now you know where it came from!