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HISTORY OF GENESIS
OF THE ALPHABET
Origins of the alphabet |
Stratis Hatgivlastis
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According to Plato and Aristotle each
letter-character have meanings of
«sounds, visuals, human
behaviour, and weather conditions»,
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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 letters, H, Y, I, 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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THE GREEK ALPHABET |
Áá Ââ Ãã Ää Åå Ææ Çç Èè Éé Êê Ëë Ìì
Íí Îî Ïï Ðð Ññ Óó Ôô Õõ Öö ×÷ Øø Ùù |
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CHRONOLOGICAL
TABLE |
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Paleolithic
Mesolithic |
Stone Age
700,000-9000 BC
9000-7000 BC |
Neanderthal man¹ |
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Pre-ceramic
Early Neolithic
Early Neolithic I
Middle Neolithic II
Late Neolithic
Final Neolithic |
Neolithic
7000-6500 BC
6500– 5900 BC
5900– 5700 BC
5700 - 4800 BC
4800 - 3800 BC
3800 - 3500 BC |
(scientists believe that the
human brain is the same as it was 400
thousand years ago) |
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Minoan Period |
Bronze Age
3500— 1000 BC |
Minoan Crete Greece |
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¹ Neanderthal man: it is not Known where
Neanderthal man first developed, but he spread
very widely; his bones have been discovered at
several sites in western Asia and in almost all
the countries of Europe, in an arc lying beyond
the southernmost limit reached by the ice during
the last glacial period, from 70,000 to 30,000
years ago.
(Excerpt taken from the book THE LAST TWO
MILLION YEARS Reader’s digest) |

The southern region of the Balkans are the most
friendly to man, concerning the whether conditions,
voluntarily trapping humans to reside permanently
and not to became nomads like the rest of other
regions, they were the first to settle and build
homes.
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Aegean islands (Cyclades) were joint,
stretching from the Greek mainland to almost joining
Turkey leaving a lake in the north Aegean |
Paleolithic
700.000 - 9.000 B.C. Mesolithic 9.000 - 7.000 B.C.
Neolithic 7.000 - 3.500 B.C. |
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coastal shores at about
10.000 years ago
Mesolithic period |
coastal shores at about
7.000 years ago
Neolithic period |
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Unfortunately today we don't realize the rapid
geological metabolic changes of the environment as it
happened at that time. We know today that before 18.000
years ago the coastal waters of Greece have been
suffered of continues floods and earthquakes causing the
sea level to rise 150 meters, and the land gradually to
sink below their feet, the need to communicate by
crossing the waters made the people skilled seamen |
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[New Information on the
Petralona Skull Controversy] |
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Ancient
Origins has recently presented the debate about the skull
found in Petralona, Greece. This debate has
been continuing in the scientific community for more
than half a century. While the Greek government has
tried to supress information regarding the skull and
disallow Dr Aris Poulianos and his collaborators from
carrying out further research, many scientists have
spoken out in support. Read the background to the
discovery of a human skull in Petralona, that has since
been referred to as ‘Petralona Man’.
In a recent letter to the Ministry of Culture in Greece,
dated 13th August 2013, Dr. Kyung Sik Woo, the South
Korean President of the International Union of
Speleology, a UNESCO-recognized organization that
represents cave scientists and cavers in over 60
countries, wrote:
Petralona Cave, in Chalkidiki, Greece, is an internationally
significant archaeological and paleontological site.
Over the years there have been disputes about the age of
the hominin skeletons recovered from the cave. More
recently I've heard concerns about the condition and
security of those materials, and that research
scientists, notably the primary scientists who studied
the material and the cave, Drs Aris and Nikolas
Poulianos, are being refused access to the materials and
cave for further research. I am writing on behalf of the
Union Internationale de Speleology (UIS) to state and
request the following be done openly and transparently:
Demonstrate that the materials are safe from harm and
establish a policy to assure their continued long-term
security; use documents and other information to prove
the authenticity and provenance of the materials;
carefully and accurately document the physical condition
of the materials and any damage to establish a baseline
from which their future condition and the effects of any
handling should be secured and future study can be
precisely compared and measured; and develop a policy
that includes the procedures, conditions, and
limitations under which any qualified scientist can
access the materials for further study.
Professor Macie Henneberg, Department of Anatomy and
Cell Biology, University of Cape Town, has also
reiterated the importance of the discovery:
There is no doubt that all aspects of the origins of humans and of
their present-day life are of interest to all mankind
and that no effort should be spared in investigating
them… The cave of Petralona and related sites stand out
as one of the foremost documents of man's origins. Some
disputes are still going on, but it is becoming ever
clearer that the exact age of the Petralona skull is
very important concerning the investigation of human
evolution for many reasons.
It is a totally different consideration whether the
diversification of our subspecies (anthropological
types, phylae, or the commonly called races) took place
thousands of years ago or almost one million years ago.
Until determining the age of the Petralona skull at
~700,000 years, all human fossils before around 400,000
years were considered as belonging to one species of
Homo erectus, for example, ‘Beijing man’ (500,000
years), Java man (900,000 years), or other African
exemplars (around 1.1 million years). Recapitulating the
facts and the surrounding framework concerning the
Petralona skull, initially it was considered by P.
Kokkoros and A. Kanellis, Professors of Thessaloniki
University, that it represented an unstratified female
Neanderthal of ~50,000-70,000 years ago. The same age
was given in 1964 by two German researchers, O. Sickenberg in Paleontology and E. Breitinger in
Anthropology, the latter declaring that Petralona man is
“the first African out of Africa”.
When Dr Aris Poulianos had the opportunity to study the skull, he
immediately highlighted the European traits of the male
Petralona man. In 1968, and again from 1975 to 1983, he
excavated the Petralona cave, proving that the human
skull belonged to a well evident stratigraphic sequence
(corresponding to the 11th layer), of 700,000 years old,
presenting its own Paleolithic culture, not to mention
the oldest traces of fire ever kindled by a human being.
The above mentioned professor, O. Sickenberg, with the
help of his pupil G. Shutt, indirectly agreed with Dr
Aris Poulianos concerning the date of 700,000 years
before passing away by the end of 1970. The initial
international reaction was that no humans could exist at
that age out of Africa in Europe. Therefore, Dr Aris
Poulianos’ theory was seen as exaggerated. However,
during the next decades due also to Petralona excavating
data, other European Palaeo-anthropological sites were
proven to be of an analogous age (700,000 years), such
as Mauer (Germany), Isernia (Italy) or Boxgrove
(England). The scientific “wind” started slowly to
“blow” in favour of Poulianos. Discoveries such as in
Atapuerca (Spain), Ceprano (Italy) or Dmanissi
(Caucasus) reconfirmed the initial idea that in Europe
the existence of humans could be of 2 million years ago,
if not even more. However, in Greece, it seems that this
news never arrived and that things became worse. That is
why Professor Macie Henneberg wrote in a letter to
“Current Anthropology” (v. 29, 1988):
By the entrance to the (Petralona Anthropological) museum there is
a marble plaque describing the purpose of the museum and
stating that it was erected through Dr. Poulianos
efforts. His name has been crudely chiselled off (though
parts of it are still legible). There is no competent
anthropologist supervising the site and the museum at
the moment… I do think that it is unethical to erase
facts with a chisel and to prevent competent researchers
from continuing their work at the site.
It is important herewith to point out that after
Dmanissi, a new “exodus like theory” emerged. First,
Homo habilis escaped (via deserts of Sinai) from Africa
to Eurasia, where finally it became extinct. On the
contrary, in Africa, Homo habilis evolved into Homo
erectus, who in its turn spread to the rest of the
world, but finally disappeared there too. In Africa,
however it evolved into Homo heidelbergensis (an archaic
form of Homo sapiens), defused all over the world, but
where it also disappeared. In Africa, Homo
heidelbergensis evolved into Homo sapiens where it
supposedly spread out of Africa 200,000 years ago.
http://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology-opinion-guest-authors/new-information-petralona-skull-controversy-001380#!bs7h3O |
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The evolution of the
human race and the need to communicate |
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. |
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Greek prehistoric carvings |
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The creation of
symbols |
Any human drawing, or carving, to create an image, have
some logical meaning and understanding, therefore it is
obvious that every symbol of the alphabet is a
description of something, over the past of thousands of
years hundreds and more symbols, have been created but
finally we end up with the ones we use today. Humans
used symbols to communicate, but different regions
different symbols, Egyptians, Babylonians, Persians,
Assyrians, and more. The only symbols uniting people of
the nations are the Greek symbols. |
Symbols evolved accidentally some times and
unscheduled but finally they became useful.
(giving to a 5 year old child pencil and paper asking
him to draw something, eventually he will come up with a
result, -then we ask the child what did he draw?
And the child will come with the
answer!
-This is daddy, surprisingly the child has
created an alphabetic symbol)
=A = human
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The child then draws a
cup to hold liquids That
became symbol Y =
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(words of liquids include the
y letter symbol) |
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Then the child draws a hammer that becomes
symbol T ,with this hammer
symbol T they created words ÔÝ÷íç = technical,
technology, ôïß÷ïò= wall using the hammer. |
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It is difficult to
give an exact chronological time of creation, but I
strongly believe that began as early as the stone age. |

Symbols pre Cycladic pottery from Milo's island
3.000 bc Written same as to day symbols X, N.
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Ceramic from Gioura Greece
5.000 bc Engraved symbols
A, Y, Ä |

North of India 5.500 years old
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This stone carving was found at Grave Creek west
Virginia U.S.A.
(In the inscription clearly noticed the Greek symbols Ê,
×, Ë, Ô, Ó, Õ (12.000 - 7.000 b.c.) |

Jewellery from the Incas showing engraved Greek symbols
×, Ó, Õ |
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Clay tablet with a Linear A text (From the palace at
Knossos Crete) |
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Clay tablet with a Linear A inscription
(From the Knossos Crete archive) |
Found in France older then 7.000
years, showing
many Greek symbols Ç, Ì, Ã, Ê, Ø, Ô. and more |
Linear A and Linear B Many symbols are
familiar to present alphabet |
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According to this listing The Greek symbols Existed between
the 10.000 -15,000 b. c
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Archaeological findings of Greek writing in northern Greece
have been discovered,
estimating an age of 11.000 years old. |
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[Linear A & Linear B
symbols] |
Michael Ventris |
British
linguist, known for his translation of previously
undecipherable scripts and the theory that Linear B was
an archaic form of the Greek language.
Although born in Wheathampstead, Hertfordshire, he grew
up in Switzerland and was therefore able to speak French
and German as well as English. From his Polish mother he
acquired Polish and he was known to have a talent for
learning languages, including the ancient Greek and
Latin he studied at school. He had no formal linguistics
training and started out as an architecture student.
As a schoolboy, Ventris attended a lecture by Sir Arthur
Evans on undeciphered Minoan scripts and he became
fascinated by their decipherment and the study of
similar ancient texts. The script in question, called
Linear B, was found on tablets dating from the middle of
the 2nd millennium bc that were discovered by Evans in
1900 in Crete.
While Evans ruled out any possibility that Linear B
could have been connected with Greek, Ventris noticed
some possible similarities in the word endings and,
pursuing this clue, he began to outline the structure of
the
language, which he believed seemed similar to Greek.
He was able to decipher much of the text and show that
it was Mycenaean. In doing so he upended Evans`s theory
that the scripts (and civilization in Crete at the time
they were written) were Minoan.
The Arcado-Cyprian dialect, about which very little is
known, is the descendant of a form spoken in Mycenaean
times in at least the Peloponnese and some of the
southern islands. The deciphering (1952) of the
so-called Linear B script (by British linguist Michael
Ventris), examples of which were found on tablets during
the excavations made in Crete and on the mainland of
Greece after 1900, revealed it as an ancestor (1500-1400
bc) of Arcado-Cyprian.
These researches indicate that the Greeks were a
literate people many hundreds of years before the period
of the first Greek poet, Homer (probably the 9th century
bc). Most scholars of today accept Ventris theory that
Linear B was related to the Greek language.
Ventris`s life was cut short when he died in a car
accident, shortly before a collaboration with John
Chadwick, Documents in Mycenaean Greek (1956), was
published.
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[THE
MINOAN-MYCENAEAN LINEAR B SCRIPT] |
The Linear B script was already identified by A. Evans,
who found the majority of the tablets in the palace at
Knossos but jealously guarded the right of publication
for himself, it was only in 1951, after the discovery in
the meantime of other texts in mainland Greece, mainly
at Pylos, that it became possible to study them. They
were finally deciphered by M. Ventris and J. Chadwick.
The Linear B script was used in Minoan and Mycenaean
palaces during the LM II, LM III and LH III periods
(1450-1200 BC). About 5,500 tablets and other objects
inscribed with this script come from six palaces and
palace centres: about 4,000 tablets or fragments of
tablets come from the palace at Knossos, dating from its
final phase (1450-1350BC) and 1,250 tablets from the
palace at Pylos. Only a few dozen or so inscriptions
come from the palaces at Thebes, Mycenae, Tiryns, and
Kydonia (Chania). Other Inscriptions have been found on
vases at Eleusis and Orchomenos. The tablets containing
Linear B inscriptions were preserved purely by accident.
The only ones to survive were those that were baked
during the fires that destroyed the palaces. It is
reckoned that only one tenth of the total number of
written documents survived. A. Evans correctly supposed
from the very beginning that they contained accounts and
records. Despite the external similarities between
Linear A and Linear B, the latter has several points of
difference in terms of its internal structure, and also
the external form of the symbols. In terms of structure,
Linear B makes use of groups of phonetic symbols
followed by an ideogram and a number, referring to the
same item. With regard to form, both Linear A and Linear
B use virtually the same number of syllabograms, about
100. Some of these are common to both scripts. From the
above it may be deduced that the three main forms of
Minoan script, though closely connected with each other,
do not represent stages in a simple development, with
Linear A replacing the pictorial script, and being
replaced in turn by Linear B. This was noted by Evans.
It is certain that there was some overlapping of the scripts, and
different schools of scribes worked at different speeds,
though in the same general direction of simplifying and
standarddisign the symbols. Linear B inscriptions are
found on four categories of object: clay page-shaped
tablets, clay 'palm-leaf' tablets clay seal impressions,
and vases. The same method of writing incising with a
sharp point on a piece of wet clay -was used for
inscriptions on tablets inscriptions on tablets and seal
impressions, all of which were part of the palace
archives. They were kept in wooden boxes. Inscriptions
on vases were painted, however, and probably relate to
the place of origin or possibly the owner of the vases.
Tablets occur in two shapes: long narrow 'palm-leaves',
and rectangular 'pages'. The first type was suitable for
lists, and the second for individual transactions and
calculations. The texts are written breadthways on the
surface, which is usually divided by ruler incised
lines. They were composed by professional scribes
following certain rules. The texts on the tablets are
calligraphically written and well arranged. The basic
elements used in Linear B are sylabograms, ideograms,
symbols for measures and weights, and number groups.
Quite irrespective of the system used to organize the
archives by the scribes who wrote Linear B, modern
scholars have classified the texts under eighteen
categories, depending on the object to which they refer.
These consist of tablets referring to personnel,
domestic animals, sheep, corn, quantities of foodstuffs,
(offerings and distributions of olive-oil), the
registering or distribution of metals, vases, fabrics,
lists of weapons, chariots and panoplies, vessels,
various supplies, lists with no ideograms, 'palm-leaf
tablets, seal impressions, fragments of tablets, and
inscriptions on vases. The decipherment of the texts,
published in detail in 1956, and the study of the
language of the texts are both of great interest. Only a
very general account can be given here. It was assumed
at the outset that the language of the tablets was Greek
and that the words had inflection, with cases and
gender. The signs had a syllabic phonetic value and
followed a particular orthography that was difficult and
had innovative rules. There were precise correspondences
between the syllabic script and ideograms, which later
con-firmed the correctness of the decipherment. The
decipherment was accepted by the majority of scholars of
Greek prehistory, and many continue to study and attempt
to improve the method and find further evidence to
confirm it. At the same time, systematic attempts are
continuing to decipher the Linear A script. The reading
of the Mycenaean script shed considerable light on the
economic and social life of the Late Bronze II and III
periods in the Aegean.
(Excerpt taken from the book
MINOAN CRETE from myth to history Adonis Vasilakis Adam
editions 1999) |
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Clay seal impressions indicating the rank
of the official, the 4 symbols
×, Î, E, Õ |
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My suggested decipherment, the activities of
works involving: ×=Earth excavations,
pile up=Î, works=E,
ceramic pipes for water and sewerage=Õ.
(From the palace at Knossos) |
A tablet with the ideogrammatic script.
(From the Knossos archive)
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Stone ladle a heart-shaped cult
vessel of translucent alabaster Linear A symbols
are incised on the rim. (From the Troulos district at Archanes).
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[Linear A & Linear B many of this
symbols are included in the Alphabet]
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Linear A |

Poetry in papyrus scroll 8th century
BC |
The Greek writing is older
since or before the appearance of Zeus and the muses,
long before the appearance of the Phoenicians. MUSE ÊÁËËÉÏÐÇ (=CALLIOPE) KALLI (=good, right, brilliant,
etc., OPE=open eye, broad vision. The many dialects of
Greece Achaea, Crete, Dorea, Cydon, Pelasgia originating
from Zeus era causing confusion. The muse =museum
CALLIOPE considered as the greatest offer, sorting out
the many words of the seamen to be understood by the
people of the mountains and vice versa and in all
regions and trades, and to create a common dictionary.
ÃËÙÓÓÁ (=GLOSSA=tongue=language=knowledge) the knowledge
of many words to rise the level of civilization. |
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This wooden plaque on the left, found in Kastoria Greece
aging 7,250 years old, according the radiocarbon,14c
(C14) examination, proving the prehistoric existence of
the Greek writing, unquestionable about the myth that
the Greeks where not autochthon (natives) from their own
country. |
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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 Åóôßá-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
ÅËËÏØ, ÊÕÊËÙØ, ÐÅËÁÓÃÏÓ, ÅËËÇÍ
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) |

The tablet above, Greek Archaic similar Ionic
Alphabet, discovered at Sodo Italy. (archeological
museum Florence) |


Translation:
In my kingdom
everything will be burn,
you my son go with a horse to the underworld’s kingdom |
LONDON — John
Chadwick, a self-effacing linguist who played a key role in
deciphering the ancient Greek writings known as Linear B and
then spent the rest of his life deflecting credit to his
collaborator, has died. Mr. Chadwick died in England on Nov.
24 at age 78.
That was when Mr. Chadwick and colleague Michael Ventris
announced they had unlocked the secrets to a puzzle that had
confounded scholars for more than half a century, and even
determined that Linear B was a style of Greek used 500 years
before the age of Homer. |
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THE PHOENICIANS
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Phoenicians
sea-going traders, and merchants adopting the Greek
Alphabet, and introducing it to other countries, giving the
impression that the Alphabet was Phoenician, for this
responsible was Greek historian Herodotus, a writer of not
significant evidence and proof.
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Plato
describing Phoenicians as good seamen with no other skill,
they did not leave civilization of intellectual and
spiritual heritage.
Homer's (Odyssey Î. 287- 290)
[...but, when the eighth year came, a Phoenician,
untrustworthy man, con artist, approached me....]
...áëë' üôå äÞ ïãäïüí ìïé åðéðëüìåíïí Ýôïò Þëèå, äÞ ôüôå
Öïßíéî Þëèåí áíÞñ áðáôÞëéá åéäþò, ôñþêôçò, üò äÞ ðïëëÜ êÜê`
áíèñþðïéóéí åþñãåé.
Homer's (Odyssey Ï. 415 - 417)
There seamen Phoenicians arrived, well known thieves, with
lots of fandangles in their ship.
¸íèá äÝ Öïßíéêåò íáõóßêëõôïé Þëõèïí Üíäñåò, ôñþêôáé, ìõñß'
Üãïíôåò áèýñìáôá íçß ìåëáßíç·.....
Herodotus (484-425 B.C.)
the two men who killed Hipparchus belonged...I have myself
looked into the matter and find that they were really
Phoenicians. |
(Evidence that the Greek writing is older
than the Phoenicians)
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Homer's
(Iliad Z. 169-170)
«ÃñÜøáò
Ýí ðßíáêé ðôõêôü
èõìïöèüñá ðïëëÜ» (ÃñÜøáò=he
writes - write)
We read: [Pritos with aggravating thought to revenge
Velerofontes betrayal to Pritos hospitability, as an
adulterer,
he writes fearfully events, on double wooden plaques and he
folded them, he send them with Velerofontes to Pritos
father-in-law for Velerofontes bad doings, Pritos knew that
Velerofontes could not read!!!. and would be punished from
Pritos father-in-law.] |
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Cadmus honored by Gods Athena and Ares on his
marriage
(450 BC metropolitan museum New York) |
Here we see in Homer that he's
confirming a great distance of chronological time
placing Cadmus daughter «Eno» the same era with
Zeus.
(Cadmus the Greek his son Phoenix primogenitor of
the Phoenicians)
here we se that Greek writing
existed before the appearance of the Phoenicians
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Homer's
(Odyssey E. 299-333-335) «Ôïí äÝ ßäåí ÊÜäìïõ èõãÜôçñ,
êáëëßóöõñïò Éíþ, ëåõêïèÝç, Þ ðñßí ìÝí Ýçí âñïôüò áõäÞåóóá
í´í ä' áëüò åí ðåëÜãåóóé èåþí åîÝììïñå ôìÞò» [Odysseus on
his despair fighting the sea and almost drowned, Cadmus
daughter Eno emerged from the sea, long before she was
mortal with human voice, but now in the seas she is honored
as a Goddess]. |
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The myth of Europe and its variations:
Starting off as a mortal woman in Greek Mythology,
Europe became immortal after her name was given to
the continent. One legend says that Europe had a
dream one night in which two women – actually two
continents –were arguing. One of them, Asia,
believed that Europe belonged to Asia, since she was
born there. The other one with no name -Europe -
said Zeus would give the name to her.
The myth of Europe and Zeus has some slightly
different variations about the details of how they
met and how the bull seduced her. What all of them
have in common is that Zeus one day saw Europe among
other young women and was so struck by her beauty
and her charms that he, known as the God with many
love affairs, decided to take her for himself. His
plan was to turn himself into a white bull and swim
to the shore of Asia where she lived.
The bull was so pretty and gentle that all women at
the shore fell for him. But he bent in front of
Europe offering her his back to ride. She mounted on
his back and the bull took her from Phoenicia,
across the sea, to Crete, to Dikteon Andron, the
cave where he was born. That is where he showed his
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People from other regions and cultures who stumbled
on the Greek symbols decided to use them without any
knowledge the meaning of them, the Greek symbols
were created specifically for the Greek language |
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The Latin symbols are the same as the Greek symbols with a
rotation and
different meaning |
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Plato and Socrates
Commenting on the Greek Alphabet
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Plato's Cratylus The etymologies (390e-427d)
Socrates' proposed answer fills the very extensive
central section of the dialogue. In short (for to say it
at length would exceed the capacity of this article),
names are appropriate to their objects in so far as they
describe what they are.
According to a long series of etymologies proposed by
Socrates, the Greek vocabulary itself, when suitably
decoded, is an elaborate set of descriptions of what
each named item is.
To continue with the example already mentioned, the
Greek word for ‘man’, anthrôpos, according to
Socrates appears to break down into ana thrôn ha opôpe (áíáèñþí
á üðùðå), ‘one who reflects on what he has seen’.
That is, the species which uniquely possesses both
eyesight and intelligence has been given a name which
acknowledges precisely that distinguishing combination.
The argument with Socrates, and Cratylus that the
correctness to a name is the meaning of the elements
that creates the word, and to describe it as accurate as
it can be, like a painting using the right colors and
the right combination of elements to create a logical
image that may emerge from that painting, using the
proper symbols-letters or a combination of small
sentences like music notes to create and build the word.
(a word should be created from a combination of
symbols of tools, sounds, visuals, human activities, and
whether conditions)
On the other hand many words are not as correct as they
should have been, for the reason that this words, from
the creation where difficult to pronounce
(tongue-twisters) as a result to add an extra vowel or
consonant and other times to remove, this words are
difficult to decipher correctly, the most accrued words
are the very ancient prime words. Barbaric words are
words that the symbol characters are irrelevant to the
subject-name (at least the first two or three
symbols in that word must describe the subject-name of
that word) |
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Example1:
The difference between the two walls, the wall of China,
and a common house wall as described (photo number1) is
written ÔÅÉ×ÏÓ
(wall), and photo number 2) is written ÔÏÉ×ÏÓ
(also wall, phonetically both sound the same but not
visually and in writing) every symbol has it’s own
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example 2:

(we will
examine each letter symbol extensible farther on) |
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To be more
specific I will try to place this words in frames as I
was mentioned earlier
that every word is describing a painting by using symbol
tools |
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The cup as a
symbol character Y is used in words of
liquids
and the lantern as a symbol character
Ö on the right in words that
emit light |
The Phoenician and the Latin Alphabets are irrelevant
of any meaning (they adopted them from the Greek without
knowing the meaning of them)
Phoenician
alphabet |
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Greek
philosophers consider any non Greek language as barbaric
language.
1) Greeks who short lived in other barbaric countries
brought many barbaric words,
2) The correctness of the names is to revive the
substances of the objects,
3) Names are replica exactly
as a painting,
*4) The creation of names given with an agreement,
5) For someone who understands the names he will
understand the objects symbols that created the
names-words. (Socrates & Cratelus)
*4) The word ÔÅÉ×ÏÓ
or any word for some one who don’t speak or understand
Greek is meaningless, on the other hand if he
understands how to decipher the Greek symbols will be
puzzled, but finely he will end up with a result
(Using the T=hemmer=(technique),
= E=work,
I=height,
O=my home)
The above decoding it may prove or explain some
understanding but doesn't establish or register the word
to be placed in a dictionary.
Here comes the agreement to establish the word ÔÅÉ×ÏÓ
or any other word for every one to understand.
I will use another example on the word
hubris=ýâñéò=ÕÂÑÉÓ (abusive,
hubristic, insulting) ÕÂÑÉÓ
Õ=wet moist saliva spit, Â=violent
abuse, Ñ=(r) run reel
orator direction, É=
wicked, Ó=continuously. As
we can see with all that code breaking we have to come
to an agreement and establish the word as ÕÂÑÉÓ=hubris
(by not mixing the order of the symbols).
The agreement is based on the structure of the word
by using the same order at all times the symbols, and
not mixing them, to be more specific Y is first  comes
second R third etc, that order can never be changed or
it will ruin the agreement of the word in the
dictionary. (nevertheless mixing the symbols we
probably will get more or less the same result of
understanding without matching the word in the
dictionary).
The Latins permanently coarsen them sounds within the
same Latin: quatru - quadru.
Vitruvius (Vitrubius)
The sound of the voice is different depending on variety
of breeds
In the South, through, nations have thin and shrill
voice.
In Greece, which lies in the middle, producing tone of
voice of each region.
Going north, the tone of voice made deeper, and shorter
words, to short breath out to prevent reducing body
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Let us decipherment
the Alphabet
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H, Y, I, which phonetically
have the same sound but as symbols, have very different
meanings |
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THE BOOK
THE MEANING OF THE GREEK SYMBOLS
HISTORY OF GENESIS OF THE ALPHABET Origins of the Alphabet |
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