Author Lois P Liggett - Rooted Tongue - Decoding Norse Myths with Pet Ravens

Author Lois P. Liggett

Lois Liggett is a retired physical therapist and a world traveler. She worked in Japan in 1990 as a geriatric rehabilitation consultant. She has an M.A. in gerontology and a B.S. in physical therapy from Russell Sage College. She has an avid interest in the interface of language with mythology, religion, and spirituality. She developed a method she calls “spiritual linguistics” to find common and essential meanings of a nomenclature using word roots and definitions. Her first book, Decoding Norse Myths with Pet Ravens, published by Mindstir Media, LLC in 2021, reflects this linguistic method, as does this book, Bone (& Body) Lessons

She has an avid interest in the interface of language with mythol-ogy, religion, and spirituality. She led a weekly word discussion pro-gram in a Maryland correctional facility for three years. Typically, meeting with five prisoners for an hour each, and she discussed how the vocabulary they used reflected on their lifestyle. She used a dictio-nary with derivations and definitions as a learning tool. The prisoners named her the “Word Lady”. She also led a word discussion series, “Conversations with the Word Weaver”, at the Kellogg Hubbard Library in Montpelier, VT, for several months, with the recognition that the words someone uses defines who they are. In addition, she given lectures on semantics to branches of the American Association of University Women and to church study groups.

One way to understand self is through the skeletal frame. Skeletal bones hold many secrets which can be unlocked to tell stories of humankind; they become lessons for life. This book provides four perspectives on bone: culture, measurement of bones and body postures, grammar, and bone names.