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German Indologist claims to have decoded Indus scripts
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| February 7, 2007
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Posted on 02/17/2007 6:31:24 AM PST by aculeus
Panaji, Feb 07: Renowned German Indologist and scientist of religion, Egbert Richter Ushanas today claimed that he has unravelled the mystery of Indus Valley scripts by decoding major seals and tablets found during various archaeological excavations.
"Already 1,000-odd seals are decoded and of them, 300-odd are printed in monography -- the message of Indus seals and tablets," stated Richter, who has also decoded tablets from Easter Island in Pacific Ocean and disc of Phaistos on Island of Crete in Meditarrenean Sea.
"All the seals are based on Vedas -- Rig Veda and Atharva Veda," Richter told a news agency here.
He is here to attend the International Indology Conference, beginning from February 7.
Richter, who began decoding the mysteries behind the seals way back in 1988, feels that after decoding 1,000-odd seals, there is no need to decode the rest.
"You need not eat all apples of world to understand the apple. Few apples are enough," he quipped.
The path-breaking decoding by Richter is based on the Sumerian and Brahmi script wherein he has detected the lost meaning of the seals which can be traced to Vedic era.
A Vedic scholar himself, Richter during the course of unravelling the Indus Valley mysteries, has translated all the important Vedic hymns and is a Sanskrit exponent too.
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To: Physicist
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posted on
02/17/2007 4:43:18 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
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To: Eternal_Bear
If something written more than 7000 years ago says, It's Bush's fault." You'd better agree it's Bush's fault.
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posted on
02/17/2007 5:07:01 PM PST
by
USMMA_83
(Tantra is my fetish ;))
To: aculeus
I just was reading a new book put out by National Geographic, about using DNA analysis to figure out who's related to who. From what I recall, the southern Indians (Dravidians?) were from the same group that migrated out of Africa first, most of whom ended up becoming Australian Aborigines, but some of whom dropped out along the walk along the south coast of Asia and became the first Indians.
A while later, a different tribe came out of Africa (lots of tribes came out over thousands of years), and after spending a while in central Asia, split off, with some going south into India (Aryans) and Iran (Persians) and others going into Europe. Hence the northern Indian and Persian (Farsi) languages are part of the Indo-European language system.
My question is, can this guy translate "Derka derka derka," and if so, what does it mean?
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posted on
02/17/2007 7:17:05 PM PST
by
omnivore
To: aculeus
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posted on
02/17/2007 7:47:18 PM PST
by
Cacique
(quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat ( Islamia Delenda Est ))
To: USMMA_83
[If something written more than 7000 years ago says, It's Bush's fault." You'd better agree it's Bush's fault.]
Well, it may have been a Bush - but not necessarily one named George.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_bush
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posted on
02/17/2007 8:35:35 PM PST
by
VxH
(There are those who declare the impossible - and those who do the impossible.)
To: omnivore
"My question is, can this guy translate "Derka derka derka," and if so, what does it mean?"
Veni, Vidi, Vinci.
;^D
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posted on
02/17/2007 10:23:24 PM PST
by
RebelTex
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To: Verginius Rufus
"arrival of the Aryan invaders of India"
Aryan invasion has already long been proven to be a false claim. It got its popularity due to Hitlers propaganda. There is no truth in it.
To: aculeus
uh oh - the archeologist has dicovered that the famous Indus "spiritual book" How to serve man is actually a cook book... who knew?
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posted on
02/18/2007 4:03:33 PM PST
by
chilepepper
(The map is not the territory -- Alfred Korzybski)
To: Verginius Rufus
"Indo-European languages show up in India?"
It went to Europe from India and not vice versa. The oldest languages in the family of Indo-European languages are to be found in India not Europe.
To: omnivore; Andrew Byler
The oldest of the "Aryan" language is Sanskrit (not Farsi or any other European Language) which was/is spoken in India. It was spoken at a time when many of the languages like Farsi, Latin, Celtic, Greek were not even born. Most of the Indo-European Languages derive their grammar from Sanskrit. Sanskrit is also the language in which the Vedas (including the Rig Veda) were written.
To: Gengis Khan
"Aryan" is said to come from the Sanskrit word
arya meaning "noble," and to be related to the word "Iran." The word was around for a long time before Hitler cooked up his racial nonsense. The word should be avoided in European contexts because of the Nazi abuse of the word, but that had nothing to do with India.
Martin Bernal (of Black Athena fame), incidentally, uses the term "Aryan" to besmirch mainstream views he disagrees with, trying to insinuate that those who hold those views are racists, but that is just Communist agitprop on his part.
I am not an expert on the history of India, but if there were people in India 3000 years ago who called themselves by a term resembling the word Aryan, the Nazi misuse of the same word 3000 years later would not change it.
To: Verginius Rufus
Madame Blavatsky was the one who first drew a connection between the "Vedic/Aryan" culture in India and its connection in Europe, which is where Hitler picked up from.
Look up Madame Blavatsky on google.
To: Gengis Khan
The other Indo-European languages, outside of India, did not derive their grammar from Sanskrit--they are sister languages, not daughter languages. It would be like saying Portuguese and French derive their numbers from Romanian. The words are indeed similar in all three languages, but it's because they all derive from Latin. Sanskrit is already many centuries removed from the parent language, "Proto-Indo-European," which was probably never written (at least no texts in it have been found).
To: Verginius Rufus
Sanskrit is far more ancient then any languages you see on the Proto-Indo European Language chart. And its the only language that has a link with most other language on the chart. In fact European languages inherit the grammar from Sanskrit (not the words). I have studied German and Sanskrit and can attest to that. If there is really any "Proto-Indo European" it is Sanskrit or its primitive form (some call it Brahmi).
To: Clioman
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posted on
02/19/2007 12:10:06 AM PST
by
saalebhosdike
(Your mother was a macaca, and your father smelt of elderberries...)
To: Verginius Rufus
"Aryan" is said to come from the Sanskrit word arya meaning "noble," and to be related to the word "Iran."I've heard it is also related to the word Eire for Ireland, and the word Ehren in German.
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03/01/2009 7:15:53 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
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12/25/2015 8:29:21 AM PST
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SunkenCiv
(Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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