36 - The Syllable NU : 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 36th posting in this series (which started here), and presents the Syllable NU 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 NU in the Minoan Aegean Sign Concordance (by Andis Kaulins)

NU νύξ, νυκτός "night" The Linear B sign of two half circles represents "night" by showing the period of darkness as the period between the setting and rising sun(s). Difficult to represent. Compare: the modern Yes Zulu Watch which calculates night for 500 different world cities. In ancient days, marking night was not so simple.

Cypriot syllabary 𐠚 NE The Cypriot sign is most similar to the Sumerian sign and combines the semi- circles into one contiguous jagged two- halved line.

Linear B ,𐀝(55) NU Two half circles represent "night as the period of darkness between the setting and rising sun(s). νύξ νυκτός "night"

Phaistos Disk 𐇹 NU The heavenly firmament with dots to represent the stars in the night sky on the sweep of heaven’s arc. νύξ νυκτός

No comparable Axe sign __________ Hieroglyphs Egyptologists see NUT as a "sky" goddess, but she is the NIGHT sky only. The “sky hieroglyph” is read as pt "visible sky", and is not the same as hrw “hours of the day”. The hieroglyphs are read as grH “night” but correct is vakarā (ca. vak-ar-ā) same as Indo-European, e.g. Latvian for “in evening”. Latvian kar(ā) is “hang”, the determinative sign.

Elamite NU νύξ νυκτός This is just like the Linear B sign,  but with solar hemi- spheres turned the other way.

Sumerian INANNA NIN2 “the eye of night sky” (Jaritz #165) Egyptian NUT "night sky"