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HISTORY OF GENESIS OF THE ALPHABETOrigins of the alphabetStratis Hatgivlastis © |
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According to Plato and Aristotle
each letter- character have meanings of «sounds, visuals, human behavior, and weather conditions», and every character have an symbolic meaning. |
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PREFACE |
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Introduction: This book attempts to establish
and prove the origins of the Greek alphabet as being ultimately
derived from the ancient Greeks, and not from the Phoenicians as
is widely accepted. Following extensive research, it is my
opinion that the complexity of a language, is the result of the
building blocks of individual characters or symbols forming the
words, those symbols, which have evolved to become the alphabet.
Each individual symbol must be able to be interpreted and
‘read’ as individual stand alone characters, the
combination and order of which tell a story. Every character or
symbol is an icon of an image, a tool, a human activity, or a
weather condition. This will be examined and presented in detail
throughout, and can be further supported through the modern
Greek vowel letters, Υ, Η, Ι,
which phonetically sound as the English letter E, but as symbols
have very different meanings. Through examining the letters and
their symbolism, and most crucially the order in which they are
presented, and as a result deciphering a meaning, reveals the
origin of what has evolved to become a language. With this brief
outline, it will become apparent that some of the same symbols
within the Phoenician language representing different and
groundless meanings than the ancient Greek symbols, when
creating words have the outcome of an indiscernible result.
Countries of western civilisations using the alphabet without
any knowledge the meaning of them, the Greek symbols were
created specifically only for the Greek language
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Plato and Socrates Commenting on the Greek Alphabet | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
THE GREEK ALPHABETand the symbolic meaning of each character |
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7 VOWELS & 17 CONSONANTS |
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According to Plato and Aristotle
each letter-character have meanings of «sounds, visuals, human behavior, and weather conditions», and every character have an symbolic meaning. |
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The alphabet described as linear
characters, joining lines to create objects of tools and images
that we use every day.
British linguist, Sir Arthur
Evans known for his translation of previously undecipherable
scripts and the theory that Linear B was an archaic form of the
Greek language.
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If the Phoenicians used the alphabet correctly, their language should have been Greek |
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Primitive man living in small groups creating words that they
only they understood causing problems to other communities to
communicate, natural phenomena earth tremors, thunder and rain was
not understood they could not explain where it comes from,
thinking that some one from above a god is giving them the rain
but wen he is angry he throws thunder and fire, the strike of a
thunderbolt is giving a sizzling sound
Zzzz and they name that Zzzzeus god of rain and thunder, visually
the thunderbolt becomes letter symbol ![]() ![]() |
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another example using the tool to build walls for their
homes ![]() ![]() |
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a similar way they created hundreds of symbols as we name
them linear symbols, gradually they are reduced to about 30 or
less as we know them today (linear
symbols) |
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The evolution of the human race and the need to communicateIt is difficult to give an exact chronological time of creation, but I strongly believe that began as early as the stone age. |
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The evolution of the human race and the need to communicate, resembles the story of the Babel tower of the book of genesis in the bible, people not able to understand each other from one group of people to another and the need to establish a common language was essential. Nowadays we find in caves and in other carvings animal and human images describing the intelligence of prehistoric people leaving their marks of the past, this marks of carvings became symbols progressively those symbols became plentiful and complex linear A and linear B for example. [Prehistoric carvings of Greek symbol characters] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Humans may appeared before
hundreds of thousands of years ago all over the earth, the
important proposition is to understand the effect of the great
quality of differences of civilizations. Whereas civilization
doesn't exist without a language. It takes a long process for a
language-civilization to mature, for the reason that a language
is relevant to habitat and geological conditions of that region,
and the long gradual development of it’s people.
Examining the Greek
area we understand the uniqueness from other areas, the friendly
conditions of the environment and the variety of food
collections but also the discovery of the technique to cultivate
the fields and animal breading as a result to develop a proper
settlement to the area. Paleolithic Greeks never lived as nomads
the mountains the plain and the sea gave them all they needed.
No civilization and language can be developed if people don't
have permanent homes, In the house
Εστία-Hestia the fireplace was a deity,
where the fire was never allowed to go out.
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Cyclops considered the first to have build their homes within
strong walls. “Cyclopean walls are one of the most
impressive remains from archaic civilizations. They are found in
many places in Greece, The many names of the primitive Greeks ΕΛΛΟΨ, ΚΥΚΛΩΨ, ΠΕΛΑΣΓΟΣ, ΕΛΛΗΝ HELLOPS, CYCLOPS, PELASGOS, HELLIN |
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Sounds and optical scenes
arranged in three categories were the basic structure of the
Greek language
A) Category, sounds and icons originating from natural human surroundings, Played an important role to humans, mimicking natures sounds that were the basic structure of the Greek language. B) Category, sounds and icons emerging from human activities (work, social communications, feelings of hostility) C) Category, sounds and icons come from human hypostasis. For various expressions happiness, sorrow, pain, anger, surprise, fear, love, admire, etcetera. |
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The tablet below, Greek Archaic similar Ionic Alphabet,
discovered at Sodo Italy. (archeological museum Florence) |
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The following book of 150 pages is
making an effort to explain the argument of Socrates and his group
concerning the creation of words by using the proper tool
letters (www.stipsi.gr/alphabet/grammata.pdf)
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