50 - The Syllable LO : 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 50th posting in this series (which started here), and presents the Syllable LO 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 LO in the Minoan Aegean Sign Concordance (by Andis Kaulins)

LO λοιβ-ή λείβ-ω "pour liquid, fluid, libation" λεῖος “smooth, even” λεαίνω “smooth, polish, grind” (i.e. using applied, running or poured water, liquid or fluid for this purpose) Sumerian Note: The Sumerian libation sign is virtually identical to the dropping drops Axe sign, while Old Kingdom Pharaonic Egyptian hieroglyhs for libation are similar, retaining the “drops” concept, suggesting the original sign concept may have shown raindrops falling from the firmament above.

Cypriot syllabary �� LO λοιβ-ή __________ Axe of Arkalochori Dartmouth University Prehistoric Archaeology of the Aegean, , Lesson 25: The Linear B Tablets and Mycenaean Social, Political, and Economic Organization, writes: “QA-SI-RE-U [quasileus = basileus]: [cont. right]

Linear B Read in error as RO ��(02) LO λοιβ-ή __________ The connection of Linear B QA- SI-RE-U with Homeric basileus meaning "king" is undeniable, but it is equally clear that the Mycenaean quasileus was nothing more than some kind of chief or leader of a small group, in one case a group of bronzesmiths.”

Phaistos Disk no similar sign Because of no “O” vowel in the writing of the presumed predecessor script for Sumerian, the Phaistos Disc consonants essentially have only four vowels viz. vowel- sounds used mostly in the consonant and vowel combination

Axe of Arkalochori ��or�� LO My decipherment of the Axe of Arkalochori reads " βασιλεύ(ς) The overseer of smiths λεῖο- θείνω smoothened ὑπείρo- λεῖο(ς) this super (hyper-) smooth πέλεκυ(ς) axe ἄρχο(ν)τε(ς) (for the) ruler Simple-syllabically that is PA-SE-LA Overseer LO-THI-NE smoothened PA-RU-LO super-smooth PA-LA-KU axe (A)RO-KU-TE for ruler

No Elamite sign yet _______ Egyptian In the Old Kingdom UAH was surely an L (!) even if lost over time. Egyptian UAH grow, increase, or “libation” seems comparable to Indo- European e.g. Latvian LIEL- “big” or LEJ- LĒJU “pour, poured” viz. “LIJA „rained“

Sumerian sign at Ryan LIL3 “slippery” “wet” ? (Jaritz #918) (#908+#823) LIL2 “rain” Latv. LIJA Egyptian UAH To UAHIT “libation” compare Indo- European e.g. Latvian LĪT “to pour„ ,,to rain“