Much more can be found at the web site
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1 posted on
10/19/2002 10:28:48 AM PDT by
vannrox
To: vannrox
It contains two texts, one in cuneiform and another Semitic language of possible Sinaitic extraction cuneiform influences.
"Sinaitic extraction cuneiform" ... say, what?
According to the symbols used one would be before an object that evidently shows itself to be from the transitional period between ideographical writing and cuneiform.
Um, cuneiform
is ideographic (like Chinese writing). What it
isn't is phonetic-consonantal (at least not originally), like some of the early Canaanite (Sinaitic?) adaptations, adaptations that many scholars believe were the first halts and half-starts toward alphabetic scripts.
Chronologically, this leads us to the 3500/3000 B.C., the Sumerian/ Akkadian period.
Yeah. Only no. Because that would massively predate any of the Canaanite-Semitic adaptations. It would also massively predate any of the Meso-American civilizations (Incas, Aztecs, Olmecs etc., etc.).
From a history-of-the-written-word point of view, this article is really screwed up.
2 posted on
10/19/2002 10:39:40 AM PDT by
Asclepius
To: vannrox
The time period coincides nicely with Sitchin's date of 3113 B.C.. , when Thoth (Quetzalcoatl, the Winged Serpent) "chose an abode in the New Realms -- in Mesoamerica." "The Lost Realms," page 268.
3 posted on
10/19/2002 10:48:18 AM PDT by
Eastbound
To: vannrox; blam
Fascinating!
To: vannrox
WOW
12 posted on
10/19/2002 12:36:14 PM PDT by
watcher1
To: vannrox; Victoria Delsoul; blam; callisto; Ernest_at_the_Beach; LostTribe; RightWhale; Rutabega; ...
((((((growl)))))
To: vannrox
So....what does this mean about the Epic of Gilgamesh?
To: vannrox
Muttly want his water bowl back.
To: blam
Comments?
To: vannrox
Google search for quipu, which is what that "cuneiform" pattern may resemble. Assuming the artifact isn't a modern fake.
32 posted on
08/24/2004 10:03:05 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
(Unlike some people, I have a profile. Okay, maybe it's a little large...)
To: vannrox
33 posted on
08/24/2004 10:07:01 PM PDT by
AFreeBird
(your mileage may vary)
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