Re: new book on the spread of IE

On Mar 1, 7:11 pm, "Peter T. Daniels" <gramma...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

How stupid are you? "The Ionic alphabet" was not the first alphabet,
and three symbols carried over from Phoenician that were _not_ letters
in Greek were used as numerals.

The first Greek alphabet I know is the Ionic one (apart
from the special alphabet used for the disks I mentioned),
it had 24 letters, from alpha to omega, which also represented
the numbers 1 till 24, and, my discovery from past September,
the 24 hours from sunrise to sunrise. In the third century BC,
the Greeks introduced the old digamma, the Phoenician koph,
and the Phoenician (?) shin or tsadé, and drew up a better
numerical system, 1 - 9, 10 - 90, 100 - 900 (digamma for 6,
koph for 90, shin or tsadé for 900).

Omega means big O, the uppercase Omega represents
the sun rising from the horizon, the lowercase omega
a rudimentary sun between the horns of the sacred cow
Hathor or the sacred bull Apis, the sign resembling the
upper part of the Egyptian hieroglyph for east.

Phoenician (?) alp, NW Semitic aleph, Greek alpha goes
back to Magdalenian ALPp for the mountain in the east,
where the sun rises from. The Semitic sign represented
the head of an ox. Might there have been an eastern
mountain somewhere in Asia Minor that somehow
evoked a cow or a bull? Close to ALPp is Aleppo in
northern Syria, Arabic Haleb, Hittite Halab, Alexandrian
Chalybon. Aleppo is in a plain. Draw the midsummer
line, and it goes along with the Jebel Shawa. The low
mountain range must appear as a distant hill when seen
from Aleppo, and the sun must rise from this 'hill' on
midsummer. May it be that the mountain range, or the
end facing Aleppo, resembled somewhat a cow or a bull?
or did a temple of the sacred cow or bull stand on the end
facing Aleppo?

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