30 - The Syllable MO : Origins of Writing in Western Civilization and the Kaulins Minoan Aegean Sign Concordance (MinAegCon™): A Syllabic Grid of Mycenaean Greek Linear B Script, the Cypriot Syllabary, the Phaistos Disk, two Old Elamite Scripts, the Inscription on the Axe of Arkalochori, and Comparable Signs from Sumerian Pictographs and Egyptian Hieroglyphs

This is the 30th posting in this series (which started here), and presents the Syllable MO in the Syllabic Grid. Each syllable is presented in its own posting.

There is first a scan of a "syllabic" table excerpt from the original Microsoft Word manuscript -- the links there are not clickable because it is one image.

That image is followed by the original text -- the links there are clickable -- but you can not see the Aegean Fonts or images embedded in Microsoft Word, as these do not resolve in Blogger, so you will see some "filler" material. After I get all the syllables online, I will clean up the individual pages by making images of the various signs and uploading them to eliminate the current text resolution deficiencies, but it is a massive amount of tedious extra graphics work, so I am not doing it right now, as it is not essential for online purposes. One can see the full grid for the syllable on the scanned image.

The Syllable MO in the Minoan Aegean Sign Concordance (by Andis Kaulins)

MO (should be viewed together with MU) Since Sumerian had no “O” vowel, overlap can occur between O and U syllabic elements in terms of concepts, especially here at the M- based syllables. The concepts of “ox(back)” “back” and “middle” may have meshed in the Phaistos Disk sign for MO, leading to the back middle of an ox being depicted there, but an ox head being depicted in Linear B for MU. μοιράω, ἔμμορε “divide, distribute” “Divide” as "middle" (μετά & μέσος for

Cypriot syllabary �� MO „middle“

Linear B ��(15) MO “middle” Linear B sign B15 (MO) „middle“ matches sign B12 (SO) “channel “ and B14 (DO) “pipe”, (all Minoan plumbing). The bend in the vertical holding line shows relation.

Phaistos Disk �� MO “ox back” μείρομαι "divided, middle" The Phaistos disk sign combines the ideas of MO “middle” and MU ‘”’back” together and there is no MU on the Phaistos Disk.

No comparable Axe sign __________ The Phaistos Disk sign for MO may show the “back” “middle” of an “ox”, combining concepts used for the MO and MU syllables elsewhere. Sumerian note: A sign of “nine” notches or divisions could also stand for the number nine, in Indo-European e.g. Latvian deviņi “nine” which is nearly homophonic with dieviņi “Gods, diminutive form” and so might also have been used as a determinative for the concept of “gods”.

Elamite MO divided distributed Egyptian Ryan writes: “Egyptian m, ... represents ME   meaning .... 'in the middle of'”

Sumerian MI3 (Jaritz #889) “middle” MAL3 (Jaritz #126) unknown  meaning “side” ? Latvian mala Sumerian AMA  “wild ox”