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Echoes from the Dawn

of Creation

Archaic languages, Earliest Accounts of

'Creation' ,Ancient linguistic scripts (Paperback - 23 Dec 2010)

 

Robert D. Morritt

 

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          ‘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..)

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          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 of the redemption