hey this is a good post, thanks anon
Would like to draw attention to a connection I've noticed. It's slightly off topic and it doesn't really culminate, but it is mysterious and I think that is enough to be noted. Sorry it is a little convoluted.
Minnesota is supposedly named after an American Indian etymology. But I've found a historical context to this prefix "minne" that makes me think it's in fact German. Wiki will tell you that Minnesota is the highest German ethnic demo in the USA 50 states.
What they don't tell you is the connection this word "minne" has to the Knights Templar.
I'm not really sure the nature of this connection, but the word "minne" was a very important word in certain areas of medieval Spain and France. It's usage was associated with a religious sect of Chirstianity that was called the Cathars. The Cathars ceased to exist when the Pope ordered them to be exter"minne"ted.
The surviving members fled to Germany and were sheltered by the Teutonic knights. Later we see all this cool German mysticism.
Minne means a higher love. Better than marital love, it specifically means a person to person love. There were all these troubadours, also called minnesangers, who were poets and swordsmen and they were dedicated to this love of the minne. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnesang
The Cathars were burned at the stake for refusing to renounce this ideal in favor of Papal Authority.
Later on the writer Otto Rahn published a historical work "The Crusade Against the Grail" and was scooped up one day by Heinrich Himmler. The book says the Cathars were keeping an important secret from the Vatican, which was allegorically encrypted in the minnesanger Wolfram von Eschenbach's famous poem Parzifal.
Parzifal for those who don't know is about the search for the "holy grail"
Himmler sent a detachment of SS to the homeland of the Cathars, apparently looking for something called "the jewels that fell off lucifers crown".
Circling back, the Templars were the intelligence arm of Venice, their exploits in the ME crusades allowed the Venicians to travel to the New World before Columbus, and bring back huge quantities of gold and silver. They also were inventors of double entry accounting, which later appeared in Venice banks after the Templars were destroyed by French King Phillipe le Bel shortly after Albigensian crusade wiping out Cathars. this was a necessity for the Templar Order because for three hundred years they were given authority by the Pope that they didn't have to answer to anyone other than Papal authority. So they were an extraterritorial Nation. They made their own swords, ships, armors, and they needed to keep track of it all.
Many Knights Templar were actually from this region of the Languedoc where the Cathars were.
When the Knights were excommunicated, Phillipe le Bel went crazy trying to extract some treasure from them, which had gone missing right before the Papacy did it's 180 degree turn on them.
Anyway Ill just finish by noting a few words
cathar/"catharsis"
Minnesanger/minnelied is now [P]oet/[P]oem,
The Minne people became the early masons via german mysticism, jakob Bohme, Rosicrucian.