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Saturday, February 19, 2011

62 - The Syllable ZA : 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 62nd posting in this series (which started here), and presents the Syllable ZA 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 ZA in the Minoan Aegean Sign Concordance (by Andis Kaulins)


ZA

ζάω “to live”
with many variants
and cognates

Compare other archaic
Indo-European tongues
e.g. such as
Latvian dzīve “life”
which will show a very
archaic form of the root
in the DZ- format.

Since Sumerian „man as
a being“ and „necklace“
are homophonic „same-
sounding“ terms, that is
one of several possible
explanations for the
ANKH’s origin as an
amulet of protection.
Cypriot
syllabary

𐠷
XA

Other
Cypriot signs
suggests that
these symbols
are “sides”
as the arms
of “man as a
being”.

χείρ is also
possible
as a root word
Linear B

𐀼 (17)

ZA

The Egyptian
ankh for “life,
live” is the
same symbol
as here.

I give several
alternative
explanations
based on the
Sumerian
signs.
Phaistos Disk

𐇘

ZA

protection
fetter for
animals
or collar
modern
horse collars
No comparable Axe sign
__________



Speculative:
Egyptian ANKH and
Sumerian
ANZAG written as

  AN
ZAG
one above the other
could be related as
only the holding vertical
line is then missing
No Elamite
sign yet
_______







Egyptian

“protection
fetter”

ZA
Sumerian


ZA
”necklace”
or
“man
as a being”



Indo-
European
compare
Latvian
“necklace”