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LEGAL WRITING? Where Did the Letters Come From? Try SAMEKH: Hebrew? Phoenician? Arabic? You and the Written Word: The Origins of Writing, Mycenaean Greek, Minoan, Aegean, Elamite, Egyptian and Sumerian

By Andis Kaulins

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I used to teach Legal Writing. Where Did the Letters Come From? How about SAMEKH? Hebrew? Phoenician? Arabic? Have you seen latest series by the Law Pundit on the origins of writing in Western Civilization? Here is a sample.

There is first a scan of a "syllabic" grid 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 images embedded in Microsoft Word do not resolve in Blogger, so you will see some "filler" material. Go here for more syllables.

The links in image above can only be clicked below,

but some images are missing and you may see white space or "filler" there.

The Syllable SI in the Minoan Aegean Sign Concordance (by Andis Kaulins)

The Phaistos Disk fish

sign is seen by some to

be a mackerel or tuna.

A ?horse-mackerel?

was called ?????? in

Ancient Greek, a term

similar sounding to

???????? and

?????? meaning

?to dry, dry out, parch?.

The non-fish signs

are supports viz. drying

racks for dried fish. In

Ancient Egypt fish were

dried in the sun. The

Phoenician, Hebrew and

Arabic terms for samekh

mesh with the others.

Cypriot

syllabary

A propped

tent

In Phoenician:

Semk (samekh

or simketh)

Hebrew

samekh means

?support?

while samak is

?fish? in Arabic

Linear B

??(41)

Rack for drying

or smoking

fish.

Fish drying rack

at Seeds of

Christianity.

?SI? is for fish.

Phaistos Disk

????? (also

an early

symbol of

Christianity)

Archaic

???????

"fish",

Compare

Latvian

asaka

?fishbone?,

Polish osc-

No comparable Axe sign

Santorini (Thera)

Fisherman with

?mackerel or tuna?

Wikipedia image

Elamite

A rack for

drying fish

Egyptian

SICHNT Food rack prop, O30, Gardiner

Sumerian

ZUBUD

(Jaritz #962)

Compare

Latvian

ziv?te

dim. of zivs

Lithuanian:

?uvis" ?fish?

Latv. ??v?t

?to dry?

The SI-syllable analysis above presents one of the most spectacular of all the syllables because it ties in the "fish"-related origin of the SI-signs and similar signs of the major syllabaries and alphabets of Western Civilization.

Christians may be pleased to see their "fish" so prominently featured and fans of Sports Illustrated should be aglow (the magazine is known in the vernacular simply as "SI" and that's what you get if you simply "google" SI).

Go here for more syllables.

Full post as published by LawPundit on February 23, 2011 (boomark / email).