What is the linguistic origin of Palin, or the one you have assumed? (Germanic, Greek, what?) I was thinking that a palindrome is a word or phrase spelled the same forwards as backwards.
From Dictionary.com:
palingenesis \pal-in-JEN-uh-sis\ , noun;
1. Rebirth; regeneration.
2. In biology, embryonic development that reproduces the ancestral features of the species.
3. Baptism in the Christian faith.
4. The doctrine of transmigration of souls.
Origin:
Palingenesis is the combination of two Greek roots: palin, "again," and genesis, "source."
From the Concise English Dictionary:
Palingenesis: “a new birth; reincarnation, a second creation, regeneration, unmodified inheritance of ancestral character, the new formation of a rock by re-fusion.”