31 - The Syllable MU : 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 31st posting in this series (which started here), and presents the Syllable MU 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 MU in the Minoan Aegean Sign Concordance (by Andis Kaulins)

MU (should be viewed together with MO) 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.

Cypriot syllabary �� MU For Sumerian MURGU “back” see also Indo- European e.g. Latvian mugura “back”

Linear B �� (23) MU  “ox head” Egyptian M(J)R “ox tongue” Gardiner #F20 Latvian mēle “tongue”

Phaistos Disk no similar sign. _______ If more texts of the type on the Phaistos Disk turned up, then MU here would surely be about the same as the Elamite sign.

No comparable Axe sign __________ It would appear from my decipherments that the Old Elamite symbol to the right was used in Old Elamite script to show the deceased both pictographically and syllabically.

Elamite MU “back, on one’s back, laid to rest, the deceased”

Sumerian MUR7 MURGU “back” Sumerian AM AMA means “wild ox, bull”