69: More on the name "Parys"

 

Published on the 26th of August 2025 and only on this BookofDunBarra website. Note that I also published a different article today on this website although its publication completion date has now been moved to the 27th of August 2025, it is article number 70 on this site and contains new info pertaining to The Neverending Story, and like all articles on this site, is only published on this site, and like all other articles is also not published in any of my books, including those published on this site. This article contains 1056 words. This article contains 1 numbered reference and numerous references in the text. At the very end is some info about other publications.

 

In a few places (other publications) I have discussed Parys Mountain and in connection to that, that the name "Parys" may have a relationship to an Afro-Asiatic root word meaning "metal", namely Proto-Afro-Asiatic: *bir- "metal" (1). But when recently commenting on a BBC Facebook post connected to ancient Anglesey, I was told that in fact the name Parys was named after a Robert Paris who an English politician, alive in the 1400s, who the mountain was awarded to by The King.

This seems like a legit possibility for the etymology of the name, but I think that this possibility also speaks of colonialism, and this idea discussed in Tartarian theory circles where ancient monuments and sites were in fact wrongly attributed to famous architects, politicians, kings and queens, when - as the theory goes, in reality these monuments are much older, and these individuals accredited with their creation were either not real individuals to begin with, or were thieves who stamped their names onto monuments and scientific ideas that they merely stole from other cultures. It's an uncomfortable idea - but is it really that unrealistic, considering the track records of some politians across the world, and the English estfablishment's habit of trying to exterminate other cultures in the past? (Not all people in the British establishment, but rather a minority who should not have been allowed within a thousand miles of politics).

If we look into Robert Parys in a wee bit more detail, it seems that this second name seemingly appears with Robert Parys, which is passed onto his son, also named Robert Parys. It seems possible that despite being called an English politician, Robert Parys senior seems to have been based in Wales, and was apparently favoured by the King for collective taxes. Even the "History of Parliament" website (www.historyofparliamentonline.org) implies that the name Parys likely came from Wales. So, no I would not say that Parys is an English second name applied to the mountain because of an English politician.

My own guess is that the ancient people who were connected to these mining sites were always of a different culture, and him collecting taxes could be in reference to how the ancient copper miners may have enslaved other people's native to North Wales. Robert Parys may have been a real individual, or he may have simply been made up to explain this history and to fit it into the English political narrative of the time. I think it perfectly likely that his family and his family name came from an association with Parys Mountain, and that he inhereted the name from the mountain, and not the other way round. Whilst Parys Mountain is also known to have had a different Welsh name, Trysglwyn, also a name of somewhat unknown etymology, although I think it more likely that the the Welsh form Mynydd Parys, or simply Parys was connected to a particular part of this mountain where the mining was, with Trysglwyn referring perhaps to the upland area in general, although on maps today, it appears that Trysglwyn refers to a slightly elevated area to the south of Parys Mountain/Mynydd Parys, and indeed I think it more likely that the name Trysglwyn referred to this more general, more agricultural area to the south of Parys Mountain, or to the area in general, rather than referring specifically to Parys Mountain itself as a mountain and ancient mining area. 

Of course if you want to look at a more boring explanation of the name Parys then some believe it is named after the city, and that the word fundimentally may relate to the Greek word πήρᾱ, pḗrā meaning bag, pouch or wallet. It is easy to see how this Greek root could fundimentally connect to the same Afro-Asiatic root word, but that this root word also occurred natively in Wales. I think it likely that the word "Parys" is indeed connected to the city-name "Paris" and to the legendary Breton city of Kêr-Is - "city of Ys", although in the latter name, the Par- element is replaced by Breton (and pre-Celtic?) *ker-, the *is part of the name perhaps being connected to the Old Icelandic word Æsir, to the Irish Aes Sí and to the Etruscan word aesar - "god". This ultimately relates to what I have said in other publications about a connection between these copper mining places and the folk of the faery realm, known as Tylwith Teg in Welsh; in other publications I have given very specific examples of these connections and legends, and linguistic aspects, including of a vision I experienced. 

 

Reference: 

(1) - The Afro-Asiatic word was reconstructed by Alexander Militarev, and Olga Stolbova, this word is sourced from starlingdb.org, the database by S. Starostin

 

Note that the next publication, after this article (article 69) on this BookofDunbarra site, and after article 70 on this BookofDunBarra site published today, will be an article on my Clwàideac-na-Cuinne website (not the site you are currently on) and will be about polygonal masonry at Vanhankaupunginkoski in Helsinki, in relation to language and newly found (so far unpublised) possible Quechua cognates. This will be unrelated to previous publications on these topics and will contain different examples, e.g. Vanhakaupunginkoski as opposed to other polygonal masonry sites in Finland, and new Quechua-Finnish similarities. After this an unrelated PDF book will be published on my Clwàideac-na-Cuinne website pertaining to ancient Britain, language and places. After that an unrelated print-only book covering previously undiscussed mythology of Northern Europe and newly found Mapuche - Finnish and newly found Mapuche - Germanic similarities will be published.