Intro

O full-orb'd moon, did but thy rays

Their last upon mine anguish gaze!

Beside this desk, at dead of night,

Oft have I watched to hail thy light:

Then, pensive friend! o'er book and scroll,

With soothing power, thy radiance stole!

In thy dear light, ah, might I climb,

Freely, some mountain height sublime,

Round mountain caves with spirits ride,

In thy mild haze o'er meadows glide,

And, purged from knowledge-fumes, renew

My spirit, in thy healing dew!

Goethe: Faust I.

Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Symbolic similarities between two characters does not make a comparative set.


Call me Captain Obvious. Call me PFC Intolerable. And call me and tell me what the fuck this tablet says.

It's the Haghia Triada 31 tablet. It appears that Haghia means "Divine" in a Grecian language. Triada can be interpreted as Trinity and thus Haghia Triada as "Holy Trinity", the name of the location that this tablet was uncovered.

The study at Linear A Texts in phonetic transcription HT (Haghia Triada) indicate there is a significance in the use of vessels: vases, jars, handled jars, cauldrons, etc. Perhaps it's a recipe. Perhaps one needs to stretch further with symbolism and interpretation. Onomastic reference could provide keys, and more questions. As a complete outsider and newcomer to Linear A, an approach to make the very consuming effort to become familiar with all of the cultural, historical, and comparative elements of any script family this may be a part of portends me in a perverse way. Demotic Proto-Greek? Minoan? I don't even know enough to ask myself the right questions.

It does make me curious about divination, and the divination in inkslinging. Scrivening.

It could be a freaking hobby, I suppose.

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