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Gathering the Pieces of the Original Language
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Etruscan
Hindustani
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Ancient American Archaeology and Linguistics
Los Lunas Decalogue
Jaredites: The First Americans
The Jaredites were Black
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North America’s Lost Archaeology

Ancient Scripture
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Greek Beatitudes
A New Translation of Isaiah

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Honesty in Translations
The Origin of Nations
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Units of Time

Linguistic Hoaxes
The Michigan Tablets
Burrows Cave
Wisconsin Cuneiform
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The Original Language
Traced back from its immediate successors

David Grant Stewart, Sr.

(c) 2008

work in progress

 

Chapter 1

A vast amount of information has been kept from us because none of the very most ancient records has been translated correctly. The object of this work is to correct this by providing correct translations and explanations as to why they are correct. The original language was written in three or four writing systems: Cuneiform, Hieroglyphic, Hieratic, and Phoenician type characters. The distinction between Hieratic and Phoenician in their earliest forms is blurry, hence the “three or four.” Every character had multiple sounds and multiple meanings. In order to recover these, our logical path leads us from late Assyrian, back through Babylonian, Akkadian, Ugaritic, Sumerian, then Egyptian Hieroglyphic, and finally Hieratic, in each case proceeding from the later simple forms to the earlier complex forms. These writing systems were used simultaneously, often in the same document.  “Many early tablets show a mixture of signs drawn and written in cuneiform.” [Cuneiform, C.B.F. Walker, Univ. Calif. Press/British Museum, 1987, p. 7.]

 

The earliest forms of writing appear fully developed, as implied by Holy Writ. No evidence whatsoever has been discovered even to suggest, let alone confirm, the gradual development demanded by Darwinian evolution. “Study of the early Uruk texts themselves has also suggested that they are dependent upon an earlier tradition of pictography which has not yet been found or identified.” [op. cit., p. 9].

 

Here are some geographical equivalents we will need later:

Kish, Eshnunna: north of Sumer

Aratta: Iranian mountains

Dilmun: modern Bahrain.

[op. cit., p. 11].

 

An ENMEGARAGESI is supposed to be a king of Kish, contemporary with ZIUSUDRA [op. cit., p. 13]. We will take these up later. The latter is an alternate transliteration of ZIUDSUDDU which we will encounter later as Noah. At that time we will analyze and translate the former individual’s name as an individual you may recognize. He is supposed to be “the first man known to be commemorated by his own inscription” [ibid.] but we will identify yet older persons.

 

Girsu corresponds to modern day Tello [ibid.]. In tablets we will translate, we will find the untranslated name NINGIRSU and we will see that it should have been translated “lady [or queen] of Girsu.”

 

We will find the name “Lugalzagesi, king of Uruk” [op. cit., p. 14] but since LUGAL means “king” we may find grounds for equating ZAGESI with URUK. The fact that “From Old Akkadian times on, ... the heads of wedges appear only at the top or the left side of a sign” [ibid.] can be, and has been by myself, used to prove that certain supposed “cuneiform” tablets are in fact recent fakes.

 

The Sumerian plural for sons is very close to modern Chinese: Sumerian DUMU, son, DUMU-MESH, sons; the Chinese plural suffix for persons is MEN.  The original language word for no or not is very similar to ours:) NU. Likewise, do something, or make or build, is DU.  MU in Sumerian is English “my.” Another nice similarity.

 

“At all periods the numerical system used by the Sumerians, Babylonians, and those who borrowed from them, is a combination of the decimal system (counting in tens) and a sexagesimal system (counting in 60s).” [op. cit., p. 20].

 

It is commonly known that our system of dividing hours, minutes, and degrees into sixty parts goes back to Adam.

 

Here are the numbers 1-9, 10, 60, 600, 602, 602 x 10:

/, //, ///, z, F, G, H, I, J, K, U, V, X, /, u, /, u.

 

You can see that the translation of these numbers is highly context dependent. The language is the same way.

 

K or u are in many instances an alternate way of writing ~.

 

In many instances the orientation does not change the meaning: F is in some cases equivalent to i.  Both characters may stand for the number 5. The latter character also means “hand.”

 

Here are two examples of context dependency:

 

/ u F can mean 60+10+5=75, 602 +10+5=3615, or 1+15/60=1.25

// 4 F can mean  2x60+40+5=165, 2x+602+40x60+5=9605, or 5/60=2.75 [op. cit., p,. 21]

 

 Here are some fractions:

 

t ½

Z 1/3

The same character as above with a short vertical stroke /inside is 2/3

The same character as above with a two vertical strokes z inside is 5/6.

 

The names of some gods, Gods, or great ones were associated with numbers. We see this in the New Testament with the Holy Ghost associated with the Pentecost, fifty days after the Passover. We see this in ancient Scandinavia, where Odin is also the Russian word for 1.

 

We have u, the number 10, as representing the god ADAD. But AD means “father.” Did ADAD mean “Father of fathers,” which in later Hebrew is a way of expressing the superlative [holy of holies, etc.], meaning the supreme Father in Heaven? Cognates abound; we have Swedish TIO, ten; Italian DIO, God as one of countless pairs of examples. Note that this goes back to the language of Adam where the number 5 is associated with a man or father, the augmented 10 is God, just as LU is “man” and LU-GAL is “great man, king.”

 

uu, 20, represents Babylonian SHAMASH, Hebrew SHEMESH, but also the representation of the name SHEM, the great high priest. Sun worship, at the earliest stage of the language, is identical to Shem worship. We find all over the world the founding fathers of every nation being elevated to deified status when their descendants lapse into apostasy. Numerous instances are recorded in Holy Writ of heathens disposed to offer sacrifice to holy men. [Unhappily, even more accounts exist of holy men being the sacrifice.]

 

“... in the Ur III period the practice of using a top line as a guide from which to hang the signs seems to be quite regular; it is still common in the old Babylonian., especially for letters and literary texts.  Occasionally examples can be found in the Kassite period.” [op. cit., p. 24]. It seems not unlikely to me that this practice may explain the origin of Sanskrit characters, which seem to be from a rotated Egyptian Hieratic script suspended from an upper line.

 

Forgeries of cuneiform texts are very easy to detect because very precise rules were always followed by every civilization that ever used cuneiform. “In general, if a multi-column tablet does not obey these rules, or if the tablet turns right to left (as the page of a book) then it suggests a forgery.” [ibid.] Any person not knowing all these rules, or applying one set of rules to another civilization, immediately shows himself to be a counterfeiter.

 

The ancient Babylonians wrote dates the same way we do in America, not the way the rest of the world does it: month-day-year.  The years were generally numbered from the beginning of the reign of the king or in the case of Assyrian, the name of the public official appointed for that year, a practice requiring the maintenance of long lists bearing the names of officials of previous years.  In 305 BC the dating system was changed to count from the beginning of the Seleucid Dynasty, set at 311 B.C.

 

Although widespread illiteracy is claimed for the ancients, archaeological findings do not bear this out: “...  if one digs in a town of the Old Babylonian period, it seems that one can find a few tablets in almost every house.  Small private libraries existed at all periods...” [op. cit., p. 38].

 

A great many cuneiform tablets found have still not been published to date. Perhaps this begs the question of why any more expeditions should be funded until the records already in hand have been made available to scholars.  The seeming next question implied - why should we publish unpublished texts when the ones we have already published are not translated correctly - is less rational. It is precisely the increased availability of these records that will assist in correcting errors in the previously available ones. Moreover, cuneiform texts are translated with a very high degree of accuracy; most errors are in the way proper nouns are handled, such as Gilgamesh. But as you can see for yourself, there is a world of difference and enlightenment in translating a record of a world-wide Flood where the hero is some legendary Gilgamesh as opposed to the correct translation, “the father of Shem.” By the way, in the Gilgamesh epic, the first line is translated as “He who saw everything.” Does this sound familiar? To an Anglo-Saxon scholar, it should. It is the correct translation of the name Alfred, “all-perceiving.”

 

Variants of the cuneiform writing system were used by about fifteen different languages. Some of these were Sumerian [ancestor of Finnish], Akkadian [ancestor of Hebrew], Assyrian [ancestor of Russian], Babylonian, Eblaite, Elamite, Hittite, Hurrian, Luvian, Urartian, Ugaritic, Persian, Median [ancestor of Chinese], and of course the original language of Adam.

 

Some of these language affinities are difficult to trace for the very reason the civilization stopped using this writing system: in every case they were conquered by a foreign power. Russian, for example, has much in common with the Semitic syntax of Assyrian, but many common words come from Mongolian, which would be a surprise unless you knew something about the history of Russia. The history of Muscovite Russians is recorded both in their language and their appearance, not to mention their multifaceted attributes.

 

Italian finds near Aleppo, Syria [the Ebla tablets] have added a great deal to the study of cuneiform. About 10,000 clay tablets have been found there, which range from a few lines to over 3000 lines per tablet. 80% of the words in these tablets are Sumerian. The other 20% represent a strange language which for lack of a better name is called Eblaite. This is a Semitic language.  The odd thing about these tablets is that the part of the language carrying intelligence -- nouns, verbs, and adjectives -- are Sumerian, while the boilerplate -- prepositions, pronouns, conjunctions, and personal names -- are written in Eblaite.

 

Elamite is the least of the three languages of the Persian Empire, the other two being old Persian and Babylonian. Like Persian, Elamite is non-Semitic. Only about a dozen scholars on the planet are studying it.  The two other languages used in the Hittite kingdom were Palaic and Luwian. They all three use the same Hittite script. 

 

Fragments of the Babylonian epic Gilgamesh have been found in Hurrian.  Urartian is the descendant language from Hurrian, 1300-700 B.C., around Lake Van.

 

Ugaritic is related to Hebrew. Like Hebrew, Ugarit uses an alphabet, but it is comprised of customized cuneiform characters.

 

It is instructive to compare Akkadian, Ugaritic, and Old Persian cuneiform which (according to tradition) was invented by the king of Persia. Assyrian preserves best the forms and sounds of the ancient Sumerian characters, but the meanings are lost.

 

Assyrian

Sound

Ugaritic

Sound

Persian

Sound

a

A

a

A

A

A

U

A

 

 

 

 

b

BA

b

B

B

BA

`

BI

 

 

 

 

+

BU

 

 

 

 

B

AB

 

 

 

 

IB

 

 

 

 

/

 

g

G

 

 

g

GA

 

 

G

GA

1

GI

 

 

 

 

!

GU

 

 

g

GU

G

AG

 

 

 

 

d

DA

d

D

D

DA

5

DI

c

D

b

DI

@

DU

 

 

d

DU

T

AD