Do people understand the difference between "original" and "originary"? Can anyone define originary?

Question

I'm speaking of these words as adjectives.

Originary is something so uniquely original that it did not derive from something else. The first instance of human langage is originary.

"The origin of language marks off a new stage in human evolution, the beginning of culture, including religion, art, desire, and the sacred. In addition, language makes possible new forms of social organization which are radically different from animal 'pecking order' hierarchies dominated by an alpha male. Because language is so radically different from animal communication systems, the central claim of Generative Anthropology maintains that its origin must have been a singular event..."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative_Anthropology#The_Originary_Hypothesis

The first poem would be 'originary' - the first sonnet would be 'original'.

I think the distinction is interesting, but I can't find any good places online that clarify the distinction in every day terms.

Is anyone familliar with any good definitions of originary?

Jesus M - You know every single word in the English language?

Here you go from websters:
http://www.webster-dictionary.net/definition/Originary

I find Webster's insufficient, so I asked here. I could go to the OED, but people here couldn't get to it because it's subscription only.

VC: It must have been something important to survival. I just read Jared Diamonds "Guns, Germs, and Steel" and one idea Diamond posits is that food production and control of food production is the genesis of human civilization, hierarchy, and power.

I think, in conjunction with the example in the essay, food would be amongst the first "sacred" objects.

So this prompts the question: what significance does food play in the origin of religions?

Answer 1

That is mind bending.

"The power of appetitive mimesis (in conjunction with the threat of violence) is such that the central object begins to assume that aura we call "sacred": infinitely desirable and infinitely dangerous."

What do you think that was? A woman? a idol of spiritual significance? A pretty rock?

I gotta read that again, real slow.

*edit*
Hmmmmm.
"In Greek mythology Demeter was the most generous of the great Olympian goddesses. The Greek goddess Demeter was an ancient goddess beloved for her service to mankind in giving them the gift of the harvest, the reward for cultivation of the soil."
The shift from hunting and gathering to agriculture. The realization that seeds could be planted, not just planted but nurtured. That's a big warm fuzzy for sure.

Answer 2

I think the first time man used an object for a tool or a weapon
would have been originary. Now, which came first; the tool or the weapon? The first plow would have been original, as well as the first gun.
All religions I am aware of had, though they may have discontinued the practice, a sacrifice of a source of food [be it animal or plant,] including Judeo-Christian. In less sophisticated minds, some of the food was left with the idea that the god or gods needed the food, as we need it to survive. It does make one wonder, why sacrifice virgins? Of course, that would have been an original moment, not originary.

Answer 3

O`rig´i`na`ry a. a million. Causing lifestyles; effective. The construction of animals, within the originary manner, calls for a unique measure of warmness. - Cheyne. two. Primitive; fundamental; usual. The grand originary correct of all rights. - Hickok.

Answer 4

There is no word in english language as originary. I believe you are making your own words whioch is not on the dictionary.
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