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• Ντελόπουλος, Γεώργιος Α.

The ill-fated ucrainian town Tsernobyl is found in St. John's Revelation (Apocalypse) ch. VIII' l0-ll as “apsinthos” (wormwood). Tsernobyl as a name of a plant is a species of Apsinthus or Artemisia Vulgaris. Modern greek apsithia and especially pelino (lithuanian pelinos, bulgarian plin and russian polin from ancient greek pelion, pelithnon, pelinnor or peline in old church slavonic) indicate the pale, fading of black (tsernololour of this plant. The etymology of Apsinthus (ind. eur. ab-ap-apsa = water, river and anthos : flower) together with its qualities (watery, close to waters, pale [gr. pelinnon, sl. peline,lat- pallidus lividus, fel, b/lsl, bitier and poisonous as a drink or drug curing diseases and used for this reason in pagan and christian ceremonies) are represented diachronically through greek-slavqnic comparative linguistics (see plan in the end). Synonyms, place-names, proper names and phrases from greek and slavonic folklore verify the meaning of every word related to in Revelation and Tsernobyl itself as a place name.

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