Epiphany/Beckon/Banner #etymology

Have you had an epiphany about the new year yet, a sudden insight or realization beckoning you to a new banner year? English has the word epiphany because of one particular epiphany, the revelation of God to the gentiles in the form of the incarnate Jesus Christ, though depending on the branch of Christianity it marks different specific occasions, most commonly in English-speaking countries the visit of the Magi or Three Kings. It comes from Greek epiphaneia “manifestation, striking appearance, festival held in commemoration of the appearance of a god at some particular place”, made up from the prefix epi- “on, to” + phainein “to show”, from the Proto-Indo-European root *bha- “to shine”. This root also comes into Proto-Germanic as *baukna- “beacon, signal”, which leads to English beacon and beckon, and as *bandwa- “identifying sign, banner” which passes through Late Latin to eventually give us English banner. As one last insight, the root *bha- “to shine” had an unrelated homonym *bha- “to speak”, which passed into Greek as phone “voice, sound”, which, when combined with musical instrument company proprietor Epaminondas Stathopoulos’s nickname “Epi” produced the company name Epiphone.