Tuesday, February 15, 2011

52 - The Syllable KA : 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 52nd posting in this series (which started here), and presents the Syllable KA 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.







KA viz. XA (German CH)
These signs mark a
“crossroads” location
such as a town, village,
city, or other settlement
Variants of this ancient
sign for ”an X marks the
spot”
𐀏
are found as far away as
Egypt and China.

Sumerian KALAM will be
cognate with Greek
earth” with KALAM =
KERAM.  A cognate term
is maybe Greek χαμαί
"ground (location)"
Cypriot
syllabary


𐠊

KA



The lower
horizontal ine
is the ground
surface and the
arrow
represents the
location.
Linear B

𐀏(77)
KA

Represents a
“ground”
location such
as a town, city,
village, or
crossroads
Scholars read
Linear B KA-KE
as “copper”
but consider
XA(L)-KE
Phaistos Disk


𐇤

KA

town, city,
village or
crossroads,
also perhaps
walled or
pillared
building,
palace or
fortification
No comparable Axe sign
__________



Ancient China
City symbol
ancient China,

Egyptian
The crossroads sign took
its name from dwellings
NTW (see right)
Elamite


KA
_______


Egyptian
NTW
See NA.
Sumerian
KALAM
“Sumer,
land, nation”
KI
“place”
GAGAR
“area”
Egyptian
XA