Re: Vinca script, cross bar angle - Ki Ri Ke


John Atkinson wrote:

Not to mention that in foraging and early agricultural societies, 100 km is
enough to change the language a good deal more than that. It would be
_extremely_ surprising if pre-10 000 BP Europe (with a population of a
million or less) didn't contain several hundred mutually unintelligible
languages each spoken by a few hundred to a few thousand people. These
languages would have belonged to a dozen or more language families so
different from each other that it would have been impossible for a linguist
to find _any_ cognate words between them.

The language of Marrseilles wouldn't have been that of western Switzerland,
though they _might_ have belonged to the same family. Austria and Czechia
and Hungary would have spoken unrelated languages, and the same for GT and
Gilgal.

John.

We have a wrong understanding of the Upper Paleolithic
societies. Can anyone believe that the elaborate cave
paintings in the Franco-Cantabrian space were just local?
Those people exchanged ideas, and I have reasons to
believe that we can call the society of the Guyenne just
that, a society. The birdman in the pit of the Lascaux cave
represents the river system of the Guyenne, his head the
region of Bordeaux, his eye Bordeaux, his beak the Gironde,
by then shorter, as there were marches, but the beak as
the Gironde makes sense, for the Paleolithic dwellers of
the region had been diving for mussels as do the seagulls.
Here you are with two comparisons of the birdman and the
river system of the Guyenne (note that the phallus of the
birdmann corresponds to the river Vézère and Lascaux,
from which I derive that the lovely valley of the Vézère
and the region of Lascaux were the center of a summer
festival, where shamans and aspiring tribal leaders were
meeting):

www.seshat.ch/home/menhir6i.GIF
www.seshat.ch/home/menhir6j.GIF

The druids had been wandering from tribe to tribe,
and I assume the same for the Guyenne and the whole
Magdalenian space, from northern Spain to at least
Hungary: arch-shamans, represented by the giant stag
megaceros in the cave art, have been wandering up and
down the rivers and visiting tribes all along their way.
This kept language in shape, as they have been the
lords of language, the ones who had the say. The same
wanderings must have occurred in the Azilian and Natufian,
people wandered all along the fertile crescent. Goebekli Tepe
was the center of a widespread culture, and had the same
hold over official language as Oxford and Cambridge over
official British English in recent times.

Regards Franz Gnaedinger

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