What is the meaning of piniel?

Answer 1

Piniel is homophonous with peniel. It is likely they are the same meaning, since sounding them out they are the same. Unlike soared and sword, or eight and ate, piniel, peniel and pineal all are the same but only pineal is distinctly defined. Pineal is the gland in the center of the head where Descartes philosophized the soul interacts with the body, and in yogic practice is called the third eye. This ties into piniel/peniel. Peniel is ancient Hebrew for "the face of God," so called since Peniel is the mountain Jacob wrestled with a man he identified as God, and named the mountain "the face of God" to commemorate the experience. In meditation, the sensation of the divine can be achieved where you touch can the face of God--through your pineal gland. I have even read Descartes discovered and named the gland pineal, presumably after "the face of God," since this is the experience of centering energy through concerted effort from there. However, official sources claim it comes from "pinea", Latin for cone-shaped, since this describes the shape of the gland. The root of pineal is pinea; the root of piniel looks to be peniel. I advocate they are the same and the pinea Latin aspect was added later to cover the "face of God" aspect in our pineal gland.