(updated October 6, 2024) Energy represents the concept of motion change. In ancient Druid Akkadian runic texts this is written as Gi or Ge. This also seems to be the word's meaning in Sumerian.
The far east has an identical concept which in the Chinese language is transliterated as Qi or Ch'i (Wade-Giles), in Japanese as Ki, and in Korean as Gi again. (https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Qi).
This commonality suggests that this word goes way back to the hunter/gatherer/fisher humans who migrated along the coastlines. In contrast, Indo-European language seems to call this power of change "wer" from which English gets the word "work."
In ancient Druid civilization Gi is analogous to wind and breath (spirit). It is the divine power which moves and assembles things as opposed to the power which grows of things. Akkadian “Gi” is the source of the English word “energy” via Greek energeia and late Latin energia. The word “energy” itself is a later Akkadian phrase Enu.Gi meaning "reassignments of energy.”
New World Encyclopedia's entry for Qi. Online at: https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Qi
No complete works of Heraclitus exist today. All we have are quotes found in later texts such as:
(Heraclitus, quoted in Hippolytus, Refutation of all Heresies 9.9.1.3-4) It is wise for those who listen not to me but to the Logos to agree that in Logos everything is one. (F10 in Waterfield, 2000)(July 20, 2024)
The Greek philosopher Heraclitus introduced the word logos into the Greek language within 30 years after the the Persian dominated Achaemenid Empire empire conquered his home city of Ephesus in 522 BCE.
Roman era Stoics believed attunement (logos) was one of the three characteristics of Divine mind along with nous (reasoning as the chaining together of facts) and ettistnun (knowledge of the facts). The dualist but still Stoic author Epictetus (c.50 – c.135 CE) and Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius (121-180 CE) wrote these:
(Epictetus Discourses 2.8) God brings benefit but the good also brings benefit. I would seem therefore, that is where the true nature of God is to be found. There too will be that of the good. Then what is the nature of God? Flesh, in no way whatever. Land, in no way. Fame, in no way. He is nous (reasoning), ettistnun (knowledge), and logos (emotional attunement). (Hard 2014)Logos being part of the Divine mind is what allowed the author of the Gospel of John to write this:
(John 1:1) In the beginning was the Logos, and the Logos was with God (Theos), and the Logos was God (Theos). Christian Biblical translators choose to translate "logos" as either “word” or “message.” This is completely wrong. First, using different words for the same underlying foreign word biases the translation. Second their word assignments do not match the word's usage in ancient texts.
The Apostle Paul used “logos” in 1 Corinthians 12:7-11 Here Christian translators incorrectly translate it as "message" deliberately changing the word assignment from what they used in John to hide its real meaning:
(1 Corinthians 12:7-11, NIV) 7 Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good. 8 To one there is given through the Spirit a message (logos) of wisdom, to another a message (logos) of knowledge by means of the same Spirit, 9 to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by that one Spirit, 10 to another miraculous powers, to another prophecy, to another distinguishing between spirits, to another speaking in different kinds of tongues, and to still another the interpretation of tongues. 11 All these are the work of one and the same Spirit, and he distributes them to each one, just as he determines.Substitute the word “attunement” for “message” to get a more accurate and spiritually meaningful translation.