Lascaux 22
– summaries, delving deeper / © 2019 Franz Gnaedinger
surviving / compounds / surprises / Prejocaj / rules for a scientific discussion / inspiration
/ word branching / from Jacob to Aaron / historical core of the Exodus / life symbol
ankh / a word formula and a double calendar / Chauvet
cave / Pech Merle / stage of a spectacle ? / Golden
Boy / Goebekli Tepe / Phaistos Disc, delving deeper
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Among the parts of my work the
reconstructions of pre-Greek mathematical methods including a systematic
calculation of the circle and numerous interpretations might have the best
chance of surviving. My contribution to a fair history of civilization.
I wish to add the triangle of
language whose corners are
--- life with needs and wishes
--- mathematics as as
logic of building and maintaining,
based on the formula a = a
--- art as human measure in a technical
world,
based on Goethe's formula All is equal, all unequal ...,
a formula known to artists of all
times
(The principle of equal unequal
can't be eliminated. Mathematical logic must be ensured with illogical rules,
for example the division by zero is forbidden because it yields infinite which
is equal unequal in itself. Astrophysics engineered by the powerful instrument of
mathematics carries us back in time by some 13.72 billion years to a tiny
fraction of the very first second of our universe but then collapses and gives
way to quantum fluctuations that rule on the smallest scale of everything.)
Hunch from 1963: If I do a chore in
a clever way I save energy, so maybe intelligence and energy are somehow
related?
Definition from 1974/75: Language is
the means of getting help, support and understanding from those we depend upon
in one way or another --- and every means of getting help, support and
understanding may be called language, on whatever level of life it occurs ...
Later addition: Language may be
considered the intelligence of life – coordinated by language in every form
we achieve more with the same amount of energy, or the same with less energy
than if we worked all on our own. Language in the most basic sense provides the
'negentropy' that makes life possible.
I see my work as a quarry of ideas.
Glad if some pieces of that 'marble' can be used one day.
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Daniel Everett needed three years
until he recognized that the color words of the Piraha
(pee-da-HAN) on the Brazilian Amazon are sentences, for example kopaiai 'black means: ko 'eye' opai 'unclear, opaque' ai 'to be'
- as if looked at with opaque eyes. Also other words like sunrise, morning,
noon, low water etc. are sentences.
I find the same poetic spirit in the
transition from Magdalenian to PIE and IE.
Greek pataer
Latin pater English father goes back to PAD TYR, activity of feet PAD to
overcome in the double sense of rule and give TYR - he goes ahead and rules and
overcomes obstacles in the way, and, as a hunter, animals that serve as food
for his family and tribe.
An interesting case is Mycenaean atoroqo Greek anthropos 'human
being', from AD TOR OC CO, toward AD bull in motion TOR (right) eye OC
attentive mind CO – toward the bull in motion with open eyes and focused
mind, facing him, taking him by the horns (a Minoan bull leaper), coping with
fate, AD TOR OC CO atoroqo anthropos.
Now add )OG or LOG for having the say and you obtain the origin of anthropology
as the science that cares about how people coped and cope with fate. A drawing
in the cave Le Gabillou shows a tiny Stone Age hunter
before a giant bull. The Minoan bull leaper was the emblem of astronomers
calculating the cycles of celestial bodies, a metaphorical bull-hunting, but
also a way of coping with fate for a seafaring nation.
TYRSANOS written on an Etruscan
shard found in the agora of Athens makes sense when parsed TYR SA NOS –
he who overcomes in the double sense of rule and give TYR from above (in
downward direction) SA and has a mind NOS of his own, better known in the form
of SA TYR NOS Saturnus Saturn, founder of the golden
age in Latium. The Etruscan leader Tyrsanos would
then have been a worshiper of that god.
How long will scholars of Nostratic and PIE and IE need to consider that also many of
their 'roots' and words could go back to compounds and sentences or even
formula of an older language, as the above formula naming the human condition?
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Brian Greene on string theory:
"The surprise would have been to find no surprises." Later on:
"Like ancient seafarers, we have a rough sense of what's out there, but it
will require extensive mathematical explorations to map the lay of the
land."
Looking at language in a different
way – from a remote past forward in time – can't but reveal
surprises. Also in this field we need extensive explorations, beginning with
lists of derivatives of the most important Magdalenian words, as explained in
the case of DhAG meaning able, good in the sense of
able.
If one believes (explicitly or
silently) that language was ever the same, and animals got no language, then
one must conclude that there was a day in the past when there was no language,
and on the next day there was language, fully developed, indiscernible from a
recent language.
I prefer surprises to such an anti-evolutionary
stump. As explained in a previous message, language in the most basic sense is
a primary feature of life, the intelligence of life, providing the negentropy that makes life possible.
There are plenty forms of language.
Recently discovered: trees use a chemical language, all over the world a total
of some three-thousand chemical words in communicating with each other, warning
neighbors of a bug, etcetera.
And human word language is still
embedded in body language, accompanied by gestures, among Norwegians no less
than Italians, a study form a couple of years ago revealed.
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The Albanian surname Preljocaj inspired
PIR LIC OC CO PRe
LI OC O Preljocaj
fire PIR light luck LIC (right) eye
OC attentive mind CO – possible title of an ancient keeper of a
lighthouse, maintaining the fire PIR that provides a guiding light LIC for the
open eyes OC and focused mind CO of a lookout on a ship, not really necessary
when the sky is clear and the sea calm, but most important in a gale, and then
seeing the fire of a lighthouse meant luck, light and luck being the double
meaning of Magdalenian LIC.
The above compound would first have
named a nautical profession, then become a metaphor for, say, a moral
authority, a shining guide of people, and finally a mere name.
Greek pharos 'lighthouse', Albanian
far, Italian faro, French phare, Spanish faro
PIR OC CO Phar Ops pharos
OC CO has a close derivative in
Czech oko 'eye' and would have been replaced by Greek
ops 'eye', parallel to Mycenaean ator-oqo that became
anthropos, whereupon ops would have been reduced to
the male ending -os. Light for the eyes of a lookout
on a ship.
PIR OC CO Pha
Ops phaos
Greek phaos
'light, daylight, sunlight, eyelight; torch, lantern,
fire; life, luck, salvation, hope'. Imagine a group of Stone Age people
returning by night, feeling lost, and finally getting a glimpse of a fire by
their tribe in an abri ... Or the joy when dawn and
sunrise ended a long, cold, moonless night.
PIR OC CO PIR aiO Peiraieus
/ Piraeus ?
The main harbor of Athens might have
been named for a pair of lighthouses from the 5th century BC, or even earlier
fires guiding ships home. OC CO became Czech oko
German Auge English eye, so why not also Greek aio (omega) 'I perceive, notice; hear, see, feel' ? a
sailor perceiving the lighthouses and already feeling safe at home.
PIR OC CO would also have accounted
for English bright, considering *bherhg- (simplified
notation) 'shine, gleam', and PIR LIC for brilliant and French briller 'shine'. Among the many derivatives of LIC alone
are English look German blicken, German leuchten 'shine', Greek leukos
'white'.
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Rules for a scientific discussion I
proposed in sci.archaeology twenty years ago: If you
are considered a kook, formulate one single claim that holds, and if you
consider someone a kook, focus on one single blunder – 1, one, one single
claim or blunder.
If I had to propose one single
claim, I would mention that so-called roots are not always semantic 'primes'
but can sometimes be compounds or even phrases of an older language. As long as
there is no evidence to the contrary I go on with my work.
Sir Karl Popper asked not only for
testable hypotheses and theories but also for daring ones, the more audacious
the better. I offer testcases, from bear as the furry
one vs bear as the brown one to the triple test case
regarding the name of Zeus, the Indo-European homeland, and words for the horse
(involving compounds that became words). Provide arguments for the classical
opinions, then I will provide mine, and we shall see which ones are better,
simpler and with more explaining power (a principle known as Bacon's razor).
As for audacious, my alternative
approach to early language (permutation groups based on four laws) is far from
trivial.
The scientific ethos obliges me to
go on exploring its possibilities. If I succeed, fine, and if I fail others may
learn. Mistakes are instructive. 3,000 people who fail make someone succeed.
But what is most important is my pleasure and joy in doing my work, getting a
glimpse of the language of the Lascaux people.
Do you think that the greatest
painters of their time were all born in the region of Montignac?
No, they came from far, symbolized by the five swimming stags crossing a river,
from all over the Guyenne, a proto-society held together by wandering
arch-shamans and arch-shamanesses, represented by megaceroi, giant stags and hinds. Cave art allows not only
conclusions on language but also on the social organization.
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Wondering about a Magdalenian
etymology of 'inspiration' I found *peis 'to whistle'
Old Church Slavonic piscati, Sanskrit piccora 'flute', Latin
s p i r o
'blow', Tocharian A pis 'blow an instrument'.
Magdalenian PIS means water in motion, and fish that swim in water, Latin piscis pisces.
Can it be that PIS meant also air in
motion? French bise names both the medieval water
channels in the Swiss Valais (upper Rhone, hewn out of rock or made from wood,
often at dizzying heights, in all 20,000 kilometers long, half around the
world) and a cold wind from the North or Northeast. Parallel derivatives of PIS
in the double sense are German fliessen blasen English flow blow (liquid infix), Latin pisces 'fish' in water and Magdalenian PIC for birds in the
air, the latter preserved in Sanskrit piccora 'flute'
(consider a song bird, it's melodic sound called Flšten
in German), in pick peck beak, and in peak that compares the lofty top of a
mountain to a bird's beak.
Water was a symbol of life, and air,
inhaled, a symbol of inspiration, revived in the language of symbols by Marcel
Duchamp, warmth a symbol of liveliness ...
Michel Lorblanchet
convincingly demonstrated how cave paintings were produced: colored earths or
coal were mixed with fat, chewed, and then spit on the cave wall. Spittle must
have had a high value by then. Being antisepctic it
was used by healers who may have chewed herbs with fat in making ointments.
Warm spittle mixed with fat and
colors made animals come alive on cave walls.
Actors wishing each other good luck
on the stage imitate the sound of spitting, toi toi toi. In like manner a Stone
Age painter spitting red ocher on a wall – producing a hand negative that
claimed a second life in the beyond for a worthy soul – could have
provided onomatopoeic SAI for life, existence, comparative form of DAI for a
protected area, in cave art given as tectiform signs.
Hand negatives are known from Indonesia, 60,000 years old. A red ocher dot,
also claiming a next life in a heavenly beyond, was dated in the Altamira cave:
some 43,000 years old. Also, licking the lips had been a way of declaring love,
which I conclude from the name of the Divine Hind who called life into
existence, her main sanctuary Altamira.
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Magdalenian has a most effective
mechanism of word branching via compounds. 400 words allow in principle 160,000
compounds of two words like AS PAC aspa asva and AC PAS hippos equus Epona hevonen, 64,000,000
compounds of three words like AAR RAA NOS Ouranos Varuna HŽrens and NOS AAR RAA
Noah, and 25,600,000,000 compounds of four words like AD TOR OC CO atoroqo anthropos, formula of the
conditio humana.
Compounds are the power and magic of
Magdalenian.
Another mechanism of word branching
can be observed in the six homonyms *bher- which
derive from BIR meaning fur, Greek byrsa 'hide, fur,
leather'
*bher- 1
'boil' – a cooking pit was laid out with a hide, water was filled in,
meat and vegetabilia were added, hot stones from the
nearby fireplace were rolled in and made the water boil
*bher- 2
'brown' – most fur is brown and made the bear as the furry one a brown
one
*bher- 3
'carry' – to carry something in a fur bag, then also used for a woman
bearing a child, giving birth, whereupon the newborn was placed on a bear fur,
a custom known from Hellenistic Greece, survived in parts of the Slavic world
until the twentieth century, was replaced by the bearing cloth in which a bairn was carried to the church for being baptized in
medieval England, consider also the Divine Bear Mother and Bear Nurse of the Vinca (Vincha) culture, emblem of
motherly love and care and protection
*bher- 4
'cure' – to make ointments by chewing medical herbs and fat and smearing
the paste on the inside of a warming fur, then wrapping it around the patient;
the inverse have been hallucinogenic herbs mixed with fat, smeared on the
inside of the fur coat of a berserk, absorbed by his skin, making him wild
before a batttle (note ber-
in berserk)
*bher- 5
'strike' – a hunter striking a furry animal
*bher- 6
'weave' – a Magdalenian site on the Seine before Paris proves that men
worked on stone tools and women on fur, BIR has derivatives in Latin pella, in English pelt and German Fell and Pelz, then also in English wool and German Wolle that accompanied the invention of weaving and turned
a BIR MAN, fur handler, MAN meaning hand, into something like weave-man then
woman.
BIR was the origin of the six
homonyms that can't have sounded exactly the same, whereas the pronunciation of
BIR poses no problem.
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PIE offers *worsmno- as origin of
Greek ouranos 'heaven' personified by the sky god Ouranos. An explanation of this name is provided by the big
limestone ring on the Goebekli Tepe
that shows a male head ex negativo, composed of air
AAR and light RAA and imagined to have a mind NOS of his own ouranos.JPG
While *worsmno-
remains opaque, AAR RAA NOS opens an archaeological window. The sky god of the Goebekli
Tepe region was implored for rain with prayers and
the rising smoke of sacrificial fires, symbolized by snakes heading upward;
falling rain by snakes heading downward; and rivers by snakes undulating
horizontally. Snakes are by far the most frequent symbol in the Goebekli Tepe iconography. AAR
RAA NOS became the Greek sky god Ouranos and the old
sky god Varuna of the Indus Valley, initial Var- meaning 'rain'.
NOS AAR RAA named Noah who followed
the mind NOS of the one of air AAR and light RAA. This name inspires a story. A
long drought was followed by a heavy rain that fell for forty days and forty
nights. Noah and his tribe left the region of the Goebekli
Tepe. There were two Noahs.
One Noah wandered along the Euphrates downward and founded Uruk
of the cattle enclosure in southern Meopotamia, in
the Bible Erech and the ark, Uruk
from AAR RAA CA, protected from above by the one of air AAR and light RAA in
the sky CA. The other Noah wandered along the Euphrates upward and settled in
the plain north of Mount Ararat, from AAR RAA RYT, abode of the sky god, he of
air AAR and light RAA as sun archer RYT, anticipating the sun archer TIR of the
Armenian Bronze Age, from TYR meaning to overcome in the double sense of rule
and give.
Magdalenian helps find historical
reality in the Bible.
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Harran or Haran, forty kilometers
south of the Goebekli Tepe,
was named for the ancient sky god AAR RAA NOS.
Jacob on his way from Beersheba to
Haran slept in the wilderness of Juda. In a vision he
saw the Lord on top of a heavenly ladder, and the Lord appointed him governor
of this very region. Later on he was given the name
AS AAR RAA ) or
AS AAR RAA L Israel
for he saw the Lord up above AS in
an aureole of air AAR and light RAA, and the Lord spoke )
or L to Jacob ...
His descendants became the
Israelites, with a center in BIR SAP Beersheba 'Seven Wells'. They were SAP BIR
apiru Hebrews, wandering water workers also in the
service of Egyptian kings.
PAS means everywhere (in a plain), here,
south and north of me, east and west of me, in all five places, Greek pas pan
'all, every' pente penta-
'five'. Inverse SAP means everywhere (in space), here, south and north of me,
east and west of me, under and above me, in all seven places, wherefrom words
for seven in many languages. BIR meaning fur named wells as places where fur
bags were filled with water. The SAP BIR apiru
Hebrews found water everywhere, in the five places of a plain, in the valley
below, on the hills above.
Their leader was Aaron, in the
tradition of those imploring rain from the ancient sky god AAR RAA NOS. His rod
turned into a snake that swallowed the snakes of the Egyptian magi, meaning he
surpassed even the water engineers of mighty Egypt.
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Several Moses figures and Aaron
figures led several groups of Israelites and/or apiru
Hebrews out of Lower Egypt into the Sinai and the region of the Har Karkom, identified as Mount
Sinai by Emmanueal Anati.
The high number of people who left Egypt at once according to the Bible were
several groups of people who left in the course of millennia and had the
potential of becoming a people, while the parting of the Red Sea means the
water workers knew where to traverse the swamps at the former northern end of
the Red Sea (now Suez Canal) without being followed by Egyptian soldiers on
carts pulled by horses that would have been swallowed by the mud.
In the Negev they found wells,
contracted to the miracle of the well in the desert of Zin.
They settled in a place they called Kadesh Barnea and erected a tent for ShA.CA DhAG.CA, ruler ShA in the sky CA, able one DhAG
in the sky CA.
The numbers 10 5 6 5 of JHWH were
encoded in the mercy seat placed on the ark of the covenant, also this one of
interesting numbers, while the sum 26 of the JHWH numbers allowed a fine
calendar with a lunar aspect and a solar aspect. Later on Solomon developed an
ingenious geometric system based on a pair of complementary cubits of nearly
the same lengths which provided simple formulae that solved an array of
demanding problems, and the Hazor bowl from around
840 BC offers a triangular algorithm that can be translated into words as
follows (analogous to the way Joseph managed the Egyptian famine) – There
will be plenty water, then little water, so let us plan ahead for the time of
need, and trust in God, there will be water again ... The equilateral q-d-sh triangle on the rim of the Hazor
bowl fits into the Solomonic system, and both the
'molten sea' on the Temple Mount of Jerusalem and the qodesh
bowl from Hazor commemorated the miracle of the well
in the Negev.
Magdalenian combined with
experimental reconstructions of early mathematics reveal a historical core in
the Exodus, related by the Bible in a verbal CinemaScope
that renders history from a psychological perspective.
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AAR RAA NOS had been the supreme god
of the Goebekli Tepe, the
sky god of air AAR and light RAA with a mind NOS of his own. A short version of
his name accounted for the supreme god of Sumer, the sky god Anu
AAR RAA NOS A(AR RAA) Nu Anu
In the form of AAR RAA CA he named
and protected Uruk of the cattle enclosure, Erech and the ark in the Bible, he of air AAR and light RAA
in the sky CA, while the original name accounted for Akkadian
Harranu, oldest known version of Harran
AAR RAA NOS h AAR RAA Nu Harranu
Harran Haran
Klaus Schmidt identified the sacred
Du-ku mountain of Sumerian mythology – where
the first gods and goddesses came from - as the large hill of the Goebekli Tepe. Du-ku from DhAG meaning able named
the large hill as 'mountain' of the able ones. Its ancient name had been AC CA,
where the earth AC and sky CA are meeting, personified in the Indo-European
earth goddess akka mentioned by Pokorny, and Hebrew Hawwa 'mother of all life'
English Eve.
AC CA DhAG
may have named Agade Akkad meaning 'the mother of life is able'. The most
famous ziqqurat is the one of Babylon called Etemenanki 'house of the foundation of heaven and earth'. Herodot reported a ceremonial marriage on this artificial
hill, securing the wealth of Babylon. It would have been a symbolic union of a
priestess representing earth and a priest (or the king) representing heaven.
Marduk was the creator of the cosmos, main
god and protector of Babylon, and Lord of the Etemenanki
ziqqurat
AAR RAA NOS DhAG mAR (RAA NOS) DhAG Marduk ?
He was the son of the wise
creator-god Enki of Sumer who made the big rivers
Euphrates and Tigris spring from his shoulders, the water god Enki/Ea, perhaps from AC CA like
Latin aqua 'water' obtained as exchange between earth AC and sky CA (rain
implored with prayers and the smoke of sacrificial fires, rewarding rain sent
from above).
Is AC CA also present in Egyptian
ankh 'life' ? An Egyptian papyrus mentions a Syrian province by the name of aqa – maybe the region of the Goebekli
Tepe in southeastern Anatolia and northwestern Syria?
The life symbol ankh is composed of
a loop for the sky, a horizontal bar for the surface of the earth, and a
vertical bar for the depth of the earth – evoking a goddess born from the
union of heaven and earth, incorporating this life spending union herself.
An elegant 'violin idol' from the
Cyclades on display at an art and antiquity fair showed the same idea. A disc
(diameter maybe four centimeters) represented her body and the earth, two
lateral protrudings both her arms and breasts, indicating the surface of the
earth where we are active (arms) and find our nourishment (her nourishing
breasts), while a smaller disc (diam. perhaps three cm) represented her head and
the sky, of translucent alabaster (or marble?), the smaller disc of the head
shining like a full moon when held against light.
Complementary interpretations of the
ankh sign are a vessel with a rim, turned upside down, water flowing out, and a
sacral knot.
AAR RAA NOS granted rain – a
sequence of ankh symbols represents a jet of water. AAR means air – the
sky goddess Nut holding the ankh before the nose of a king supplies him with
fresh air. A polished form of his name appears in Horus, the divine falcon whose
eyes were moon and sun, the solar disc also an emanation of the supreme god Ra,
short form of RAA for light. AAR RAA is present in aura and aureole, Greek hora (with omega) 'period of time; season; spring; harvest;
climate; year; daytime, day; hour; moment; age, phase; youth', Latin hora English hour, Rumantg aura
'weather', Finnish aurinko 'sun' and Hungarian arany 'gold'.
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Marduk was the creator of the cosmos, main
god and patron of Babylon. The sleeves of his shirt had been adorned with
circles and inscribed stars of eight points: emblem of the sun god of Sumer, a
world formula, a calendar of one year (sun and moon), and a calendar of eight
years (sun, moon, Venus).
PAS means everywhere (in a plain),
here, south and north of me, east and west of me. Inverse SAP means everywhere
(in space), here, south and north of me, east and west of me, under and above
me.
Analogously, the star of eight
points of Sumer and Akkad (and on beautiful Kamares
ware from Minoan Crete and in the center of the Tiryns disc of the Phaistos Disc) are a world formula, seen from our
perspective: here and now (center of the star), south and north of me (two
points), east and west of me (two more points), under and above me (two more
points), in the past and in the future (final points). And seen from the
creator god: he was everywhere.
Now the same star can be read as a lunisolar calendar of one year: each point a period of 45
days, in all 360 days, add 5 and occasionally 6 days for the center of the star
and you obtain 365 days of a regular year and 366 days for an occasional leap
year, while 21 continuous periods of 45 days are 945 days and correspond to 32 lunations or synodic month (equivalent of the Goebekli Tepe formula).
Again the same star can be read as a
calendar of 8 years or 99 lunations or 5 Venus years,
rounded average 2,922 days, eight regular years of 365 days plus 2 leap days.
From here you can get a rule: four regular years require one leap day.
A modern calculation yields a phantastic result. Let one point be 16 years, and the whole
star 128 years. Represent them by 32 groups of four regular years (r) and in
between them 31 leap days (l)
r r
r r l r r
r r l r r
r r l r r
... r r l r r r r l r r
r r l r r
r r
The mistake is two minutes in 128
years, one second per year!
Ezekiel, exiled in Babylon, Tell Abib on the Chaber, composed a
heavenly Jerusalem from the cycles of sun and moon and Venus rendered as wheels
turning within wheels (far out but numerically solid, as explained in 2017), a
vision culminating in the mighty river of life that comes from a heavenly Gihon Spring lascaux13.htm (scroll down to the end)
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One Holly, in the spring of 2006,
asked me about a domino five in the Brunel chamber of the Chauvet
cave – can I associate a Magdalenian word to that sign on the wall? She
gave me the link to the fine official website of that cave. I looked it up and
easily found the Brunel chamber with a large domino five made of red ocher palm
impressions, plus one more 'dot' in upper position, next to the right upper
'dot' of the domino five, and thought immediately of PAS CA ...
PAS means everywhere (in a plain),
here, south and north of me, east and west of me, in all five places, Greek pas
pan 'all, every' pente penta-
'five'. CA means heaven. Cave walls often represent the sky, Lascaux, Altamira,
Chauvet itself. PAS CA would then mean: everywhere in
the sky.
Who gets everywhere in the sky?
The answer is given in the hindmost
hall of the wide cave. On a stalactite appears a Venus, her lower body with a
big black pubic triangle, by her side a bison, his forelegs going along with
her legs, his head before her womb – the bullman,
supreme leader of the Lower Rh™ne Valley, born again by the goddess in the
region of the Summer Triangle Deneb – Vega
– Atair --- may he roam the heavens in his next
life as he roamed the earth in this life, may he get everywhere PAS in the sky
CA ...
Holly was mighty excited: the oldest
identifiable writing in the world!
PAS CA has derivatives in Russian Paskha, Italian Pasqua, French P‰ques.
***
Once a 'simple' and clear case like
the Chauvet PAS CA is resolved, you can look out for
confirmation and a more demanding case.
The Chauvet
paintings are 32,000 or even 36,000 years old, the oldest Lascaux paintings
17,000 years. Pech Merle is in between with 25,000
years.
Pech Merle presents a red ocher hand
negative, apparently above eye level, claiming a second life in a heavenly
beyond. Next to the hand, on the right side, a little below, is a
vertical-horizontal cross of five dots, with four more dots above the cross and
three more dots below the cross.
The cross of five dots and the four
more dots above it can again be read as PAS CA, and the cross with the three
dots below it as PAS AC - may the supreme leader roam the heavens in his next
life as he roamed the land in this life, may he get everywhere PAS in the sky
CA as he got everywhere PAS on earth AC.
PAS AC may have a derivative in
Pesach Passover, hypothetical original meaning of the Jewish festival: Pharaoh
can't hold us up, we get everywhere PAS on earth AC, we will cross the border
between Lower Egypt and the Sinai ...
The same idea is preserved in Hebrew
pasak 'to open wide' and English pass passport,
allowing us to get everywhere.
***
The Chauvet
cave might have been the stage of a spectacle representing the PAS CA idea: the
bullman, supreme leader of the Lower Rh™ne Valley,
born again by the goddess in the region of the Summer Triangle Deneb – Vega – Atair,
going on a heavenly journey (imagine shadow plays accompanied by flutes and
drums).
Michael Janda,
eminent PIE scholar, concluded from the Rig Veda on a Stone Age belief in a
second life somewhere on the Milky Way, while Michael RappenglŸck
identified the birdman, the bull, and the bird on a pole in the pit of Lascaux
as Cygnus with Deneb, Lyra
with Vega, and Aquila with Atair respectively –
in my opinion worthy rulers of the Guyenne (birdman, encoding a river system of
the Guyenne), of the Lower Rh˜ne Valley (bull[man]),
and of the PyrenŽes (bird on a pole) in the region of
the Summer Triangle.
In the time of Chauvet,
fast moving Arcturus, today below Bootes,
had been his head, facing the Big Dipper seen as a bear – ARC TYR,
overcomer TYR of the cave bear ARC. The skull of a cave bear had been placed on
a plinth in a chamber of the Chauvet cave, while the
entrance to that cave was blocked by a rock 23,000 years ago. Skulls of cave
bears were placed in many more caves, carefully deposited as emblem of the cave
according to Marie E.P. Kšnig.
ARC TYR lived on as Arthur / Artus. Arthur of Brittany fought for three days and nights
with the dragon of Landevennec – skulls and
bones of the long extinct cave bear, larger than a grizzly, had been
misinterpreted as remains of dragons in medieval times.
My assumption is that Golden Boy of
the Indus Valley had been the hero of a similar story (an oral epic), the young
god bringing civilization to the humans, his adventures projected into the
constellations of the night sky, Golden Boy a star among the stars in a
celestial movie on the heavenly screen.
***
For my entertainment I compiled an
oral epic from different sources, ARC TYR of the Chauvet
cave, Arthur Artus, Excalibur, Greek mythology,
Behemoth in the Bible, Goebekli Tepe
calendar, Pashupati tablets from the Indus Valley,
Lascaux midwinter emblem.
Golden Boy stole from the fire of
life PIR SAI guarded by the Perseus tiger of the Algol
eye. Then he followed the heavenly CA lake or stream LAC, together CA LAC overformed by Galaxy, Milky Way, until he saw the Lyra elephant of the Vega eye on the other side of the wide
river. The kind elephant helped him cross the water, and showed him the way
through the Draco Valley up to the Thuban mountain of
the heavenly North Pole. Golden Boy wandered along the steep valley and reached
the top of the Thuban mountain.
As he looked over the land he heard
people complain about the thirsty Bootes rhinoceros
that emptied the rivers, and nobody could cope with it. So he went down from
the Thuban mountain, took hold of the Spica lance,
pierced the bony skin of the grotesquely swollen pachiderm,
and released the first monsoon ...
Then he tamed the savage Canis Minor buffalo of the Procyon
eye, and taught people many arts, how to plough the fields, form and dry
bricks, build houses, the double Gemini towers, catch fish, bake bread, and
many more. Across the wide celestial river he got a glimpse of the Orion woman,
ORE EON, she on the beautiful ORE bank or shore EON of the heavenly stream.
Finally he returned to the top of the Thuban
mountain, climbed the pipal tree growing there, fixed
the stars to air roots, and swirled them around, making the merry-go-round of
the seasons turn: 90 days of the Perseus tiger of the Algol
eye; 90 days of the Lyra elephant of the Vega eye; 3
days of Golden Boy, midsummer; 90 days of the Bootes
rhinoceros of the Arcturus eye; and finally 2 and
occasionally 3 days of the Orion goddess, midwinter, her emblem a pair of
antithetic ibices.
The connecting lines Algol-Arcturus and Vega-Procyon
formed an oblique cross of practically the angles 70-110-70-110 degrees that
are very well approximated by the diagonals of the rectangle 7 by 10 whose
center was near Thuban in Draco some 4,500 years ago.
The society of the Indus Valley
imposed taxes in the form of work, for example in the fabrication of bricks (restauring Mohenjo-daro after the
monsoon required some two million bricks every year), and extraordinary endeavors
had been rewarded with an Indus tablet of high prestige, referring to the work
in question, in the given case fabricating and transporting of bricks in the 90
days of the buffalo, between the fall equinox and midwinter festival. Maybe we
can restore the oral epic of Golden Boy from those tablets, one day?
***
The school of Imhotep in Ancient
Egypt, more precisely Hemon, presumable designer of
the Great Pyramid, achieved the first systematic calculation of the circle on
the basis of the triangle 3-4-5. Using a linear plus-minus algorithm they found
a sequence of triple that generate a sequence of ever rounder polygons in a
sequence of circles of the radius 5, 25, 125, 625 ... ever finer units, 3-4-5,
7-24-25, 44-117-125, 336-527-625 ... But they probably also knew another
triple-generating algorithm
4x4 - 3x3 = 7 2x4x3 = 24 4x4 + 3x3 = 25
Applied to the numbers 10 and 7 of
the heavenly cross we obtain the triple or triangle 51-140-149 which provides
an angle of practically 70 degrees (twice the arctan
7/10), an angle of exactly 90 degrees, and an angle of practically 20 degrees (arctan 51/140 or arcsin 51/149 or
arccos 140/149, angle 20.0159... degrees, 18 times
that angle being 360.287... degrees, rounded a full circle).
I found this 'magic' triangle when
reconstructing a hypothetical solar sanctuary and complementary lunar sanctuary
of the Proto-Finns in the Middle Ural.
Some scholars make a connection
between the Indus Valley culture and the Finns.
According to a hypothesis of mine,
the Finns came originally from the Goebekli Tepe region, wandered eastward, reached the Aral Sea, and
settled in the Middle Ural, region of Perm and Jekaterinburg.
The names Aral and Ural derive from
AAR RAA ) or AAR RAA L, he of air AAR and light RAA has the say ) or L, while
another form of his name, AAR RAA CA, he of air and light in the sky CA, would
explain the name of Golden Boy muruku that was
identified by Asko Parpola
AAR RAA CA muR
Ru Cu muruku
The same compound may account for
Finnish AAR RAA CA aurinko 'sun' and CA kuu 'moon' - the eyes of the old sky god were sun and moon.
And the form AAR RAA NOS is found in Hungarian arany
'gold' (perhaps also on Finnish aarre 'treasure',
classically buried gold).
Theo Vennemann
considers toponyms like Val d'Aran
and Arundel a chief witness of the Vasconic theory of
early language. Remember also the Val d'HŽrens in the
western Swiss Alps, a valley being a hollow between hills or mountains filled
with air and light.
Magdalenian is a natural expansion
of the comparative method: finding deeper connections between languages and
religious beliefs of an early time.
***
Remember the imaginary rectangle 7
by 10 in the night sky, center near Thuban in Draco,
with Algol and Arcturus on
one diagonal, Vega and Procyon on the other diagonal.
The slowly turning diagonals could have served as a clock, with a short hour of
40 minutes and a day of 36 short hours
from Algol to Vega
11 short hours or 440 minutes
from Vega to Arcturus 7
short hours or 280 minutes
from Arcturus to Procyon 11 short hours or 440 minutes
from Procyon to Algol 7 short hours or 280 minutes
The guiding stars of the four
seasons played a role in the calendar
-- New Year following the midwinter
festival of the goddess, Algol reaching
the apex of its trajectory in the
evening at the beginning of a seson of 90 days
-- spring equinox, Vega reaching the
apex of its trajectory in the morning
at the beginning of a season of 90 days
-- midsummer festival of the god, 3
days
-- followed by the monsoon of the
rhinoceros, Arcturus reaching the apex
of its trajectory in the evening at
the beginning of a season of 90 days
-- fall equinox Procyon
reaching the apex of its trajectory in the morning
at the beginning of a season of 90
days
-- midwinter festival of the
goddess, 2 and occasionally 3 days, end of year.
Rising Bootes
reaching the apex of its trajectory in the evening announced the midsummer
festival, and the rising Pleiads reaching the apex of
their trajectory in the evening announced the midwinter festival. Aldebaran in Taurus and the Pleiads
were the Golden Gate of Babylonian astronomy, traversed by sun and moon and
planets.
The above calendar was derived from
the most elaborate Pashupati tablet which might have
honored an outstanding astronomer of Mohenjo-daro.
Actually it was derived from a seal impression of this tablet, showing the
tiger in the lower left corner; above him a standing or walking man, Golden Boy
marking the position of the spring equinox; the elephant above him; big in the
middle Pashupati, Lord of the animals, turning his
head, indicating the merry-go-round of the four seasons, wearing buffalo horns,
one big (nearly complete) circle for the day, the other one for the night; next
to him, on the right side of the seal impression, the rhinoceros; under him the
buffalo; and under the tabouret of Pashupati a pair of antithetic ibices, emblem of midwinter
according to Marie E.P. Kšnig. Pashupati
appearing big and the ibices small indicate a celebration of midsummer.
Pashupati means Lord of the Animals and may overform PAS PAD, everywhere (in a plain) PAS activity of
feet PAD - he got everywhere in the sky on his heavenly journey and became Pashupati, Lord of the animals of the four seasons, tiger
of the Algol eye, elephant of the Vega eye,
rhinoceros of the Arcturus eye, buffalo of the Procyon eye.
***
Goebekli Tepe
hieroglyphs (1)
Compared to the PAS CA formula of
red ocher palm impressions, the hieroglyphs on Goebekli
Tepe pillars are relatively young, 'only' 11,600
years old.
Temple D, in my opinion the
sanctuary of creation, has a pair of large central pillars, the female one in the
east, and the male one in the west, on their necks triple hieroglyphs that make
them speak gt01.GIF
The upper hieroglyph on the neck of
the female pillar shows an oval deepening between a pair of vertical bars,
indicating a talking mouth, the fire giver PIR GID having the say ) or L, and
her priestess in the role of the goddess between the pair of the central
pillars of temple D.
PIR GID calls out to her sister the
fur giver BIR GID. This one takes her cosmic fur and scoops the primeval hill
out of the primeval sea. Her hieroglyph is the one at the bottom, looking like
a bowl, representing a fur bag.
Now PIR GID called out to her sister
the fertility giver BRI GID. This one took the primeval hill and formed a ring,
the primeval earth AC, and the hollow in the ring the primeval sky CA. She also
planted the seeds of life into the primeval earth. Her hieroglyph is the ring
in the middle.
A male head appeared in the hollow
of the ring, the sky god AAR RAA NOS. His eyes were moon and sun. PIR GID lit
them up with her fire of life PIR SAI. And the shining sun made the seeds of
life germinate ...
***
Goebekli Tepe
hieroglyphs (2)
The hieroglyphs on the neck of the
female central pillar of temple D anticipate Genesis 1:1 in the Bible
)OG BIR AC CA or LOG BIR AC CA
Now for the second part of creation,
as encoded in the bucranium on the neck of the male
central pillar gt01.GIF
The somewhat ring-like head of the
bull symbolizes AAR RAA NOS, the sky god of air AAR and light RAA with a mind
NOS of his own. He appeared in the guises of a bull and a man. His head as a
man appears in the big limestone ring
ouranos.JPG
GIS BAL CA MmOS,
gesturing GIS hot(headed) BAL heavenly CA offspring MmOS
broke up the ring, freed the sky god, flattened the earth AC and spread the sky
CA over it. His element of the bucranium is the
horizontal bar on top of the head and pair of horns.
AD DA MAN dug river beds and made
the water flow toward AD the sea while coming from the hills and mountains, and
dug them with his right hand MAN. He was the patron of the early farmers who
dug irrigation channels. His tool had been horns, their tools stag antlers. His
element in the bucranium is the pair of horns
pointing downward.
Now for the various names and what
became of them:
AAR RAA NOS became Ouranos in Greece and Varuna in
the Indus Valley. His guises were a bull and a man. House 1A of Hallan Cemi (Chemi),
a round building half in the ground, inner diameter maybe six meters, a
gathering house, showed opposite of the entrance the skull and horns of an
aurochs, possible emblem of the old sky god in his guise of a bull
GIS BAL CA MmOS
became GISh.BIL.GA.MISh Gilgamesh, and in the short
form of BAL the god Ba'al
AD DA MAN became Adam, patron of
early farmers
AC CA personified became the
Indo-European earth goddess akka mentioned by Pokorny, also Hebrew Hawwa
'mother of all life' English Eve, and inverse
CA AC the Greek earth goddess Gaia.
AC CA also named the Goebekli Tepe
as the large 'hill with a navel' as the place where earth AC and sky CA are
meeting, or where they had been separated from each other in the beginning
– by BRI GID whose alter ego had been AC CA. A Syrian province by the
name of aqa mentioned in an Egyptian papyrus might
have been the region of the Goebekli Tepe in southeastern Anatolia and southwestern Syria (the
latter just now the place of yet another humanitarian catastrophe)
PIR GID and BIR GID and BRI GID were
preceeded by the triple goddess carved in the Abri Bourdois near Angles-sur-l'Anglin, Dep. Vienne,
France, and became the mighty Celtic triple goddess Brigit
BRI GID was AC CA personified and
became the Greek love goddess Aphrodite
BRI GID aBRI GIDe
Aphrodite
And the three divine couples were
PIR GID and AAR RAA NOS, then BIR GID and GIS BAL CA MmOS,
then BRI GID alias AC CA Hawwa Eve and AD DA MAN
Adam.
***
Goebekli Tepe
hieroglyphs (3)
The ring hieroglyph denotes the ring
of the primeval world, the ring itself the earth AC and the hollow the sky CA.
Whereas the broken up and flattened ring and the sky spread on it was
represented by another hieroglyph: the lying H
whose lower horizontal bar indicates the flat earth AC and the upper
horizontal bar the sky CA, while the vertical bar signifies exchanges between
them, notably prayers for rain and the rising smoke of sacrificial fires
imploring rain, and falling rain rewarding them (for example on pillar 30 in temple
D).
Snakes are by far the most frequent
symbol in the Goebekli Tepe
iconography. Snakes heading upward symbolize prayers for rain and the smoke of
sacrificial fires imploring rain: snakes heading downward symbolize falling
rain; and snakes undulating horizontally symbolize rivers (Euphrates and Tigris
on pillar 33 of temple D).
Also the snake in the garden of Eden
symbolizes water: the huge amounts of water needed for irrigating plantations
of cultivated date palms. A cylinder seal from Sumer shows a couple evoking
Adam and Eve seated under a stylized date palm, while a large snake forms a
stairway from the ground to the sky, as if the snake is drinking water from a
cloud ...
Over-irrigation deposited salt in
the soil and made it barren. Which is the reason why Abraham left Ur for
Harran, science found out. And when Adam and Eve had been driven out of
paradise, the snake was condemned to eat dust (Genesis 1:1).
A stone tablet from Jerf el-Ahmar – area and
era of the Goebekli Tepe culture
– shows a grid of lines and a snake undulating horizontally, hence the
lines are irrigation channels.
The first paradise was northern
Mesopotamia, and the second one southern Mesopotamia, water a big issue for
both of them.
Phaistos Disc again, delving deeper, final
evidence
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Phaistos Disc, as deciphered by Derk Ohlenroth, combined with an
alternative archaeological story:
A promising young man from Lycosoura spent much time in Elaia's
grove at Phigalia, learned all he could about agriculture
from the priestesses of Demeter-Elaia, and consulted
the oracle of Nyx. Powerful Nyx,
feared even by Zeus, was the daughter of Poseidon in the guise of a stallion
and of Demeter in the guise of a mare. (Demeter as goddess of cereals is
represented by the baking oven in the center field of the Elaia
disc, and Poseidon, originally the god of rivers, in form of the waves next to
the baking oven)
Enter Elaia's grove, kindle wood that is polished round about,
walk around the
sacrificial fire, beat the earth, and neigh
suddenly like a pair
of horses: Aio ae! hyauax! Come, shadowy one,
noble late Night, born
by the goddess again and again
Later on the young man wandered to
the Argolis, bringing olive twigs and portable beehives with him. He introduced
edible olives (elaia 'olive') in the Argivian plain, grew cereals, vegetables, vine, and cared
for the bees. Thus he luckily averted a famine and was appointed king of
Tiryns.
He had a good friend at Phaistos in the fertile plain of Mesara
in southern Crete. He asked him for a pair of gold discs he could wear on his
shoulders on festive occasions. Well, the gifted scribe and goldsmith invented
a peculiar Greek alphabet which allowed him to render Elaia's
grove and Tiryns both in words and as pictures – Tiryns from the former
Round Building on top of the acropolis (rosette of eight massive blocks at the
base still extant in situ, represented by the rosette of eight petals in the
center of the Tiryns disc) to the well guarded palisade (enforced by a banning
formula of archaic power). Spiral text
Zeus is the shining
one also when Zeus is the Lycaion one
whose lovers give
birth to offspring his equal,
and if shining Tiryns
is a divine town, also I (Eponymous Tiryns)
may be a shining one
of the same kind (i.e. divine)
text covering the entire margin,
banning formula enforcing the palisade, deterring possible intruders who try to
enter the acropolis and the Zeus shrine replacing the former Round Building
that burned down at the end of the Early Helladic period of time
Marked (by the god)
and lonely forever, without hope for salvation
and without a shadow,
shall return who tries to intrude into the sanctuary
A fresco in the palace of Tiryns
showed the king and his successors worshiping Demeter-Elaia,
and Zeus in the guise of an eagle behind her, under a sky of raining cereals
(grains), between the men olive twigs, on their shoulders gold discs, and they
appearing as lion-wolf-dog-bee men. The lion symbolizes royalty; the wolf
reminds of Lycosoura, Greek lykos
'wolf'; dogs are watchful guards; and bees industrious helpers of a farming
society.
The palace is long gone, but the freso survives in the gold signet ring found in a cache of
Tiryns ring.gif /
ring2.JPG
The olive twigs between the
lion-wolf-dog-bee men are the same sign as on the Phaistos
Disc, which disc is the pair of clay models baked together, found by Luigi Pernier in 1908. Maybe the pair of gold discs will one day
be found in another cache of Tiryns? The lower parts of the palace ruins are
not yet excavated.
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The emphatic sigma Ss (explained by Wilhelm Larfeld
on the pages 54/5 of Derk Ohlenroth's
book) is represented by the rosette of eight petals which appears
* at the beginning of the spiral text
in the center of the Tiryns disc, SsEYR for Zeus
* repeated for the Lycaion SsEYR
* and again at the beginning of the
ring text, banning formula covering the entire margin, SsLYGOS
'marked (by the god, SsEYR)'
* and once on the margin of the Elaia side, KSsYNORIS for a pair
of horses – Poseidon fell in love with Demeter, she fled, he turned into
a stallion, she into a mare, he raped her, she in her anger made the cereals
wither and caused a famine; only Pan with his flute could mollify her, placated
she gave birth to Nyx 'Night' and made the fields
fertile again
Whatever the meaning of this myth
(perhaps a reflex on the invasion of the Indo-Europeans and their horses in the
Balkans?) the rosette indicates deities and has a multiple significance in the
center of the Tiryns disc
* the former Round Building from the
Early Helladic period on top of the limestone hill of Tiryns contained a shrine
of Zeus; the Round Building burned down in the Early Helladic period, or at
it's end; the sanctuary of Zeus was probably rebuilt in the Middle Helladic
period; anyway, a rosette of massive blocks at the base of the former Round
Building still extant in situ
* as a flower it evokes the sun that
makes vegetation grow
* as a wind rose it allows an exact
orientation of the disc: entrance to the acropolis in the NEE; pictogram of
Demeter-Elaia on the margin turning into a mare (growing a mane) indicating
West, Phigalia west of Tiryns; two waves in the South indicating the former
course of the Manesse river (which caused heavy floods and was therefore
diverted around the mountain east of Tiryns with a kilometers long and up to
thirteen meters high dam in the Late Helladic period according to geo-archaeologist
Eberhard Zannger – a
Herculean labor)
* a lunisolar
calendar, each petal 45 days, in all a basic year of 360 days, add 5 and
occasionally 6 days for the tiny circle in the center and you get a regular
year of 365 and occasional leap year of 366 days, while 21 continuous periods
of 45 days are 945 days and correspond to 32 lunations
or synodic months
* a world formula: here and now
(center), in the South and North, East and West, below and above, in the past
and future - SsEYR is everywhere, Zeus onmipresent.
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Eponymous Tiryns on the Phaistos Disc is (in my opinion) Lord Laertes the gardener
in Homer's Odyssey, of the lineage
Zeus – Arkeisios
– Laertes – Odysseus – Telemachos.
TYR for the one who overcomes in the
double sense of rule and give was the god of the first Indo-European homeland
on the middle course of the Amu Darya. Central Asia abounds with derivatives of
TYR. Magdalenian TYR became Middle Helladic SsEYR
Doric Sseus Homeric Zeus, while DhAG
meaning able accounts for Dios, genitive of Zeus.
Arkeisios led the former miner tribes of the
Greeks and Hellenes from Central Asia to the southern Balkans and might have
been the mythological founder of the Early Helladic period in the Argolis on
the Peloponnese.
Lord Laertes the gardener
personifies the Middle Helladic period, achieving a certain equilibrium between
the invading Indo-Europeans and the local tradition of the Vinca
(Vincha) culture surviving in Elaia's
grove at Phigalia. Problem: Eponymous Tiryns lived in
the Argolis, Lord Laertes on Ithaca. The question was solved by Magdalenian.
ITA CA Ithaca means under the sky CA of the young (Zeus) bull ITA, and ATI CA
Attica under the sky of the mature (Zeus) bull ATI. Ithaca named originally the
Argolis, then larger parts of the Peloponnese, or all of it, and survives in
the name of a relatively small island off the northwestern Peloponnese. The
lion-wolf-dog-bee men spread over the Peloponnese and are often depicted as
pair blessing a young tree between them. Eponymous Tiryns introduced edible
olives in the Argolis, and Lord Laertes planted the olive tree around whose
trunk Odyssey and Penelope constructed their immoveable bed, symbol of the
hopefully eternal Greek civilization.
Odysseus – 'if there ever was
such a man' (Homer) – personifies Greece in the time of the Late Helladic
period ending with the Trojan war.
Telemachos 'Far Away War' symbolizes Greece in
the time of the Messenian wars, far from Troy and far
away in time from the Trojan war. Homer 1 of the Iliad flourished in the time
of the first Messenian war, Homer 2 of the Odyssey
flourished in the time of the second Messenian war,
and both of them were concerned about the coherence of the Greek civilization.
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Eponymous Tiryns would have achieved
a certain equilibrium between the invading Indo-Europeans and Old Europe in the
sense of Marija Gimbutas
which partly survived in Elaia's grove at Phigalia in Arkadia. Comparing a
loaf shaped clay plaque from Banjica near Belgrade,
Early Vinca (Vincha), with
a rectangular spiral and inscriptions rendering a grove with gardens and
sanctuaries and beehives (honeycombs); the baking oven in the shrine of the
bird goddess at Sabatinovka, Southern Bug Valley,
Early Cucuteni; and the Elaia
disc representing Demeter-Elaia's grove, a baking
oven in the center of the disc – in all fifteen baking ovens on this
disc, counterbalancing the fifteeen shields of the
Argos eye on the other disc
The entrance field of Elaia's grove contains from the outside to the inside
(against the reading direction) the head of a pig, a pair of beehives (my
interpretation), a bag (dito), and a vine twig. Among
the offerings to Demeter had been pigs, also figurines with the head of a pig,
and bags of unwashed wool. The first lion-wolf-dog-bee man in line before
Demeter on the gold signet ring from a cache at Tiryns raises a libation jug of
wine mixed with honey in honor of the goddess. Both ring and offerings indicate
respect for the legacy of Old Europe, and only the balance of the old culture
and new culture of the Indo-Europeans made the rise of Greece possible.
The center field of the Elaia disc shows a baking oven, emblem of Demeter, goddess
of cereals, and a wave, emblem of Poseidon, originally a river god, peacefully
side by side. While the center field of the Tiryns disc associates the rosette
(Ss) of SsEYR Zeus and
profile (EY) of the king and ear of grain (R) as further emblem of Demeter.
Eponymous Tiryns in divine company! On his cheek is a tattoo resembling an 8
consisting of an upper circle for the divine sphere and a lower circle
for the human sphere. Eponymous Tiryns rules in the name of the god and goddess,
honors both of them in like manner, and thus makes the Argolis flourish and
prosper.
We find a marvelous complexity and
multitude of enfolded messages, achieved with a peculiar alphabet of 45
pictograms, among them for example six alphas, allowing to render Elaia's grove and Tiryns both in words and as pictures.
A Greek alphabet from around 1650
BC, invented in the laboratory of writing that was Minoan Crete.
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Fifteen baking ovens on the Elaia disc as emblem of Demeter have a counterpart in
fifteen shields on the Tiryns disc, Argos eye, emblem of a watchful union of
towns in the Argolis, also of the organization of a single town – in the
center the ruler of the focused mind CO surrounded by guards of the open eyes
OC along the enveloping palisade or wall LOP, together CO OC LOP overformed by Cyclops, the most famous one having been Polyphem, Homeric symbol of Troy, his one eye overlooking
the wide river plain, his body downtown Troy VIIa
that provided protected shelter for 5,000 till 10,000 people. Consider also the
term 'cyclopic wall'.
PAS LOP Penelope was the
personification of the Argolis, everywhere PAS towns enveloped by palisades or
walls LOP, and POL LOP PAS named the Peloponnese, fortified settlements POL
enveloped by palisades or walls LOP everywhere PAS.
A further numerical symmetry are the
five portable beehives on the Elaia disc and five
eagles on the Tiryns disc. The bee is an emblematic animal of Demeter, also of Elaia, goddess of olives (Greek elaia
'olive'), see the gold ring from Mokhlos in
Crete elaia.GIF and the eagle was a guise of Zeus.
The flying eagle on the disc holds a snake in his talons. Perhaps the farmers
of Tiryns trained eagles to catch snakes? Then there is a political and
military aspect. Zeus in his guise of an eagle, protecting the palisade of
Tiryns (banning formula along the rim, covering the entire margin) punishing
intruders symbolized by snakes?
Maybe there is more information
regarding the social organization of the Argolis in the Middle Helladic period
of time, made accessible by Derk Ohlenroth
with his fine decipherment.
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Three signs on the Elaia disc and three signs on the Tiryns disc represent a
vertical olive twig. They return in the three vertical olive twigs between the lion-wolf-dog-bee
men on the gold signet ring from a cache of Tiryns in the same form and nearly
the same size (10 vs 12 mm high). May we assume an
open air sanctuary of three sacred olive trees in Middle Helladic Tiryns?
Plenty double axes of bronze and some
of gold were deposited in the cult cave of Arkalokhori
on Crete. One of the bronze double axes bears a hieroglyphic inscription. Three
of the signs (no correspondence with the number three above) closely resemble
pictograms on the Phaistos Disc. Also this
inscription was deciphered by Derk Ohlenroth
DAeIOYS
LO(Y)S(I)AS EIMI
I belong to the goddess Lousia
Lousia means 'Angry One'. She was the
Cretan equivalent of Demeter-Elaia from Phigalia in Arkadia who turned
into Black Demeter-Melaina and caused a famine. So we
have not only a connection of the scripts but also of the underlying myths.
Apparently the votiv gifts were deposited in order to
mollify the goddess and prevent a famine.
The first six pictograms in the
center of the Tiryns disc tell the basic story of Eponymous Tiryns in form of
the shortest possible summary
rosette for SsEYR Zeus
profile of Eponymous
Tiryns
ear of grain for
Demeter
walking man
vertical olive twig
ground plan of a
palace
Eponymous Tiryns, worshiper of Zeus
and Demeter, had come from Elaia's grove at Phigalia in Arkadia, bringing
twigs of edible olives with him, grafted them on wild olive trees, averted a
famine, and was appointed king of Tiryns the shining town ...
(7/10)
Remember the promising and ambitious
young man from Lycosoura visiting Elaia's
grove at Phigalia, consulting the oracle of Nyx. What did she tell him via her priestess? Maybe she
gave him the advice to learn about agriculture? and prophesized that one day he
may be appointed king?
The reading direction leads from the
end of the Elaia disc evoking Nyx
to the six first pictograms in the center of the Tiryns disc, which, when read
as emblems and pictures, convey the summary story of Eponymous Tiryns. Can they
also visualize the prophesy made by Nyx that came
true?
From a 'shadowy late night' in Arkadia to the brightness of the Middle Helladic day ...
If you magnify the six first
pictograms in the center of the Tiryns disc, the beginning of the spiral evokes
a nautilus shell (and the man fixes the ear of grain before him as if saying
that he studied agriculture). A Minoan seal from the Idaean
cave, where Zeus was born according to a Cretan legend, shows a priestess
holding a triton shell before her mouth. Beautifully colored spiraled
conch-shells were found in many Minoan shrines, nearly always the narrow end
cut off, so they were used as megaphones by a priestess conveying the message
of her goddess.
The spirals on the pair of discs
have then a further meaning, and thus confirm the context of an oracle as found
by Derk Ohlenroth in his
fine decipherment.
(8/10)
Even astronomy is encoded in the Phaistos Disc – beyond the rosette of eight petals
that also adorns beautiful Kamares Ware from Middle
Minoan Crete.
On the Elaia
disc we count 119 and on the Tiryns disc 123 in all 242 = 11 x 22 pictograms
which provide better definitions of the lunation and year than the lunisolar calendar of the rosette.
But first of all they provide titles
for the pair of discs. The one of the Elaia disc is
given by the 11 pictograms of the first 3 fields
EN / YLAeI / ELAiAS / in(to) Elaia's
grove
and the one of the Tiryns disc by
the 22 pictograms in the first 6 fields
SsEyR
/ KI / PhAAiNNOS / SsEyR /
Ai YL / KIOS /
Zeus is the shining
one also when Zeus is the Lycaion one
The Elaia
disc evokes the 'noble late Night' Nyx, daughter of
Demeter-Elaia, personification of night, and the
Tiryns disc a sunny day provided by Zeus.
Analogously the number 11 of the Elaia disc refers to the moon. 400 periods of 11 days
correspond to 149 lunations or synodic months,
mistake half a minute per lunation.
Count lunations
in the 30 29 30 mode. 15 and 17 lunations yield 443
and 502 days respectively
17 15 17 15 17 or
17 32 49 64 81 lunations
502 443 502 443
502 or 502 945 1447 1890 2392 days
81 64 4 sum 149 lunations
2932 1890 30 29 30 29
sum 4400 days
Result: 400 periods of 11 days are
4,400 days and correspond to 149 lunations; mistake
half a minute per lunation.
Moon by night, sun by day. 119 123 123 sum 365 days in a regular year. Four regular years plus
one leap day are 1,461 days. 83 periods of 11 days are 1,826 days for 5 years;
mistake one hour per year
365/1 (plus 1461/4) 1826/5 3287/9 4748/13 6209/17 ...
9131/25
These and further additive number
sequences were known to the Minoans, helped them find a way through the
'labyrinth' of demanding astronomical calculations, and were later on dubbed
'Ariadne's thread'.
The myth of Minotaur in the
labyrinth of Knossos and the round kernos in the
royal court of Mallia encode lunisolar
calendars based on a number sequence relating lunations
(l) and years (y)
l/y 37/3 99/8 136/11 235/19 (Knossos) 371/30 (Mallia)
The Mallia
calendar uses a period of 11 days (returning in Elaia's
number).
Derk Ohlenroth
found a phonological parallel between the Phaistos
Disc and the altar stone inscription of Mallia which
he translates as follows: May the goddess (Britomartis)
let it rain. So the concern was again agriculture.
The Phaistos
Disc in the light of Derk Ohlenroth's
decipherment is of a marvelous complexity which allows to combine various
fragments of the Minoan and Helladic past.
(9/10)
Not enough with astronomy, the
numbers also reveal a system of early geometry.
The Elaia
disc has 119 or 7 x 17 and the Tiryns disc 123 or 3 x 41 pictograms.
17 and 41 appear in the basic number
column for calculating the square and octagon
1 1 2
2 3
4
5 7
10
12 17
24
29 41
58 and so on
41 and 123 belong to the basic
number column for calculating the cube, equilateral triangle and hexagon (the
construction of a hexagon is indicated by the geometrical sun on the gold
signet ring from a cache of Tiryns)
1 1 3
2 4
6
1 2
3
3 5
9
8 14
24
4 7
12
11 19
33
30 52
90
15 26
45
41 71
123 and so on
17 and 123 are present in the basic
number column for calculating the double square and decagon
1 1 5
2 6
10
1 3
5
4 8
20
2 4
10
1 2
5
3 7
15
10 22
50
5 11
25
16 36
80
8 18
40
4 9
20
13 29
65
42 94
210
21 47
105
68 152
340
34 76
170
17 38
85
55 123
275 and so on
Elaia disc 119, Tiryns disc 123, sum 242
pictograms. Let the circumference of a circle measure 242 units. How long is
the diameter? practically 77 units, value for pi 22/7
77 x 22/7 =
11 x 22 = 242
Here we have again the number 11 of
the Elaia title and number 22 of the Zeus title
involving night and day, lunar month and solar year, final evidence for the
validity of the decipherment achieved by Derk Ohlenroth.
A pseudo-decipherment is a window
painted on the wall. A genuine decipherment opens a window on a far away
scenery and events in a long bygone era.
(10/10)
There might be even more geometry
encoded in the Phaistos Disc, again based on Egyptian
– Mesopotamian – Minoan methods.
The Elaia
title of the first three fields has 11 signs and the Tiryns title of the six
first fields has 22 signs, 11 x 22 = 242, number of all signs
on the Phaistos
Disc. The Elaia disc has 30 fields and the Tiryns
disc 31 fields, 30 x 31 = 930, an interesting number.
Basic pi sequence, followed by the
most important one
4/1 (plus 3/1) 7/2
10/3 13/4 16/5 19/6 22/7
3/1 (plus 22//) 25/8 47/15 69/22 ...
465/148
Double the numbers of the last value
and you get 930/296 for pi (3.14189... instead of 3.14159...).
A rectangle measuring 12 by 35 units
has a diagonal measuring exactly 37 units. Multiply the numbers by a factor of
8 and you obtain a rectangle measuring 96 by 280 units, diagonal exactly 296 units,
while the circle circumscribing this rectangle has a circumference of
practically 930 units, 930 the product of the number 30 of Elaia
fields and 31 of Tiryns fields.
The over-determination of laudatio and mythology and topography and astronomy and geometry
might explain some of the linguistic peculiarites of
the early Greek as deciphered by Derk Ohlenroth – anyway a secret message, because the name
of Nyx was taboo, her public name Despoina
'Mistress', but is given as her proper name Nyx on
the Elaia disc, daughter of Demeter-Elaia.
Spirals in the Neolithic art of the
Balkans have the meaning of regeneration, growing, waxing, and giving birth.
Double spirals curving in and out – for example on the womb of a Vinca (Vincha) goddess –
are a symbol of the sequence of generations, one following the other.
The goddess on the Elaia disc gives birth to Nyx
over and over again, while SsEYR on the Tiryns disc
'sired' offspring his equal, Zeus in Homer's Odyssey founding the lineage Arkeisios – Laertesm
– Odysseus – Telemachos, Lord Laertes the
gardener being the alter ego of Eponymous Tiryns and his dynasty, hero of the Phaistos Disc.
