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Echoes from the Dawn of Creation Archaic
languages, Earliest Accounts of 'Creation'
,Ancient linguistic scripts (Paperback - 23 Dec 2010) ‘Echoes From The Dawn of Creation,
explores the first literary attempts of civilization. The tales of creation
are featured together with transcriptions of fragmented clay tablets from
Sumer which include examples of the saga of ‘Tiamit and Marduk’ also, ‘Anuma
Elish’ and the saga of, ‘Uptnapishtm and ‘Gilgamesh’. Cuneiform script is reviewed as
being from its earliest form a system of pictographs and covers the period from
when it originated in Sumer around the 30th century BCE as one of the
earliest forms of written expression with emphasis on its evolution and
eventual transition as it diminished in the number of characters as pictorial
representations became simplified and more abstract. The replacement of
cuneiform writing by alphabetical writing during the Iron Age. ( Neo-Assyrian
Empire..) . Many archaeologists view old Elamite to be an undeciphered Pictographic script.
Recent information (Kaulins-Morritt) hypothesizes that old Elamite is a
genuine script due to the finding of an Akkadian bilingual text which allowed
translation of script from an Elamite tablet to be a dedication to sculptor
Inshushinak as made by Shilhak- Administrator of Susa. The two texts that
contained symbols with a great deal of similarity to a number of symbols on
the Phaistos Disc and appear written by an author, presumed to be Palamedes,
the son of Clymene.(The inventor of Greek letters.) Bedrich Hrozny is highlighted due
to his successful interpretation of
the Hittite language and the path
finding work of Alice Kober and Michael Ventris that produced the key to the interpretation of Linear ‘B’
language. The book includes paleographical examples of archaic Mediterranean
language in both Delos and Lemnos together with examples of the archaic
Cretan-Greek alphabet and of Semitic linguistic influences. Hebrew and Babylonian theories of
Creation Contemporary archaic Creation tales An overview of Babylonian and
Hebrew civilization Messianic doctrine of retribution Man’s piety in search
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