The author, Iurii Leonidovych Mosenkis, is PhD in general linguistics, DrSc in the Ukrainian language and general linguistics, Professor of the Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University (Ukraine), member of the Presidium of the Ukraine Higher Education Academy of Sciences, member of the European Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Literary (France), Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and Arts, and PEN club (Belgian francophone section).
The author proposes reconstruction of three unknown Greek-like ancient dialects and decipherment of Cretan Hieroglyphic and Linear A in Greek. Greek mythical events are interpreted historically and archaeologically.
D. I. Pereverzev, PhD, corresponding member of the Higher Education Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and the European Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Literature (France)
Author(s): Iurii L. Mosenkis
Publisher: PP Zhovtyi
Year: 2016
Language: English
Pages: 247
City: Kyiv; Uman
Chapter One
FORMATION OF THE GREEKS, THEIR LANGUAGE AND WRITING, 4600–2200
BCE p. 8
From Proto-Indo-European to Common Paleo-Balkan p. 8
Archaeology, archaeogenetics, physical anthropology p. 8
Origin of Paleo-Balkan peoples and the Sea Peoples: ethnonymic evidence p. 10
Palaeoethnology of Crete p. 17
Pre-Romanian: substrates and loans p. 21
Several unknown Paleo-Balkan languages and substrates, adstrates, loans in Greek
p. 25
Pelasgians and their language p. 25
‘Dithyrambic’ p. 26
Gutian p. 27
Paleo-Balkan elements in Burushaski p. 28
Phrygian-related Eteocretan p. 30
Phrygian-like elements in Linear A? p. 33
Eteo-Cypriot: Paleo-Balkan, Tyrsenian, or Hurrian? p. 34
Cretan royal dialect? p. 34
Pre-Greek substrates vs irregular Greek/Paleo-Balkan forms and loans p. 34
Cucuteni-Trypillia – Troy – Mainland Greece p. 42
Proto-Greeks/Paleo-Balkanians and their writing in the Cucuteni-Trypillia culture
3400–3100 BCE p. 42
Earliest Aegean states: Pelasgian Early Helladic II, Greek(-Macedonian) Troy II, and
Georgian-Armenian Trialeti, about 2600–2200 BCE p. 47
The first Greek state in Mainland Greece: Early Helladic III, from 2200 BCE p. 57
Pre-Greek Aegean: Tyrsenian p. 61
Lemnian language of Aegean Tyrrenians p. 61
Etymological dictionary of the Etruscan language p. 64
Chapter Two
DEVELOPMENT OF THE MINOAN GREEK STATE IN THE HIEROGLYPHIC
SCRIPTS, 2200–1700 BCE p. 75
Greek language in arts, myths, and rites from Minoan to classical time p. 75
Greek-spoken Minoan painters: the ‘language interpretation of art’ method p. 7
Language-addicted myths and rites: the ‘language interpretation of myth and rite’
method p. 77
Cretan Hieroglyphics: the script for kings and goddesses p. 80
State and writing: a timeline p. 80
Satem-influenced Greek language of Cretan Hieroglyphs p. 81
Ariadne the Mistress p. 85
Wine and meat vs king titles p. 85
Γυγ, Minoan/Ancient Macedonian Athena p. 86
King vs goddess on the three-sided ‘royal’ seal p. 89
King, queen, and the goddess on the eight-sided seal p. 89
Hieroglyphs beside hieroglyphics p. 92
Mother of Health in the Arkalokhori Script p. 92
Greek hieroglyphic/acrophonic roots of Minoan syllabary p. 92
Chapter Three
FLOURISHING OF THE MINOAN GREEK STATE IN THE LINEAR A SCRIPT,
1700–1450 BCE p. 98
Language p. 98
Minoan Greek: a history of the hypothesis p. 98
Linear A word groups: a key to deciphering? p. 105
Phonetics and orthography p. 109
Greek morphology of Indo-European origin in Linear A p. 114
Syntax p. 117
Farming p. 118
Land, plants, wine, beer p. 118
Animals, fish, wool, clothes p. 122
Vessels p. 124
Yoke, wheek and vehicle p. 124
Society p. 125
Cities p. 125
Sacral king and city ruler/judge p. 127
Native and foreign slaves p. 127
Healing p. 130
Change p. 130
Instruments and weapons p. 131
Religion p. 133
Mountains and caves p. 133
City Goddess p. 134
Mother Goddess(es), Hestia vs Iasios, Demeter, Eileithyia p. 136
A goddess of Libation Formula? p. 138
Double Axe-holding Idaean Mother p. 138
Tutelary god: personal vs of city p. 139
Palace, throne, shrine p. 139
Oral law and magic charm in games p. 141
Rites: burial, purification, bull leaping p. 142
Priests and priestesses p. 143
Gifts for gods: bread, votive sculpture, gold ring p. 144
Chapter Four
CHRONOGOGY, RELATIONS, RECONSTRUCTIONS p. 147
High precision astronomical chronology of Eneolithic-Bronze Greece p. 147
Multi-disciplinary periodization of Balkan prehistory p. 147
More precise than calibrated radiocarbon: Ancient chronology of early Greek kingdoms
and the Helladic culture p. 152
Minoan Floods: about 1530 BCE (the Thera eruption?) and others p. 153
The Telchines and Heliadae: astromythical chronology of ancient Rhodes confirmed the
early date of the Thera eruption p. 156
Lunar and solar chronology of Late Mycenaean Crete in the Minos-related myths p. 157
The Sea Peoples during the 1280s BCE in the Argonautica p. 159
Greece and Troy between two Trojan wars p. 161
Precise chronology of the Bronze Age Collapse in the Trojan Epic cycle p. 162
Greek world in the Bronze Age: Long-distance contacts p. 169
Mycenaean oecumene: Greek epic evidence p. 169
Cretan sacral king of the Helios dynasty, Chinese yellow-clothed king, and Tocharian
sun god p. 174
Abkhaz-Adyghe origin of the Greek king title: βασιλεύς p. 175
Minoan-Mycenaean Greeks in Colchis p. 175
Minoan Greeks in Bronze Age Norway and Cypriot Hurrian trade elite of ProtoGermanic
people p. 180
Κουρῆτες and Σάλως: Hurrian sacral warriors and bull cult in Crete? p. 183
Celts in Middle Greece? p. 184
Greece, the Hittites, Mitanni, and Egypt: synchronisms of the Late Bronze Age
p. 186
Hittite and Mitannian kings in the Tantalus-Pelops and Atreus-Thyestes myths p. 186
The family of Amenhotep III in the Greek myths p. 187
The Akhenaten and Mursilis eclipses: the cause of reform and the basis of chronology
p. 188
Mycenaean-Hittite war, the fall of Troy VI, and the Sherden invasion in Egypt in the
Heracles myth: astronomical dating p. 190
Ramesses II, Merneptah, and the Sais Battle in the Greek literature p. 193
Cretan theocracy: an interdisciplinary model p. 196
Minoan religion origins p. 196
Sacral royal family: a ‘Lunar Dynasty’? p. 197
Origin and structure of Minoan-Mycenaean power: evidence of titles p. 200
Sacral-military diarchy p. 202
From elected to inherited king p. 203
Royal bull cult p. 204
Golden Fleece: a kingship symbol from the Anatolian Greek homeland? p. 205
Chapter Five
MINOAN EXACT SCIENCE: SACRAL ASTRONOMY p. 206
Astronomy and calendar p. 206
Orientation of buildings p. 206
Eight-year cycle and Venus cult p. 206
Sacral star of Arcturus p. 209
Minotaur-Theseus myth and Hercules-Perseus-based calendar p. 213
Pasiphae, Circea, Aeëtes and seasonal markers p. 215
Calendrical instruments p. 217
In search of Minoan star catalogue p. 220
Double Axe and Ursa Major p. 220
Constellations in Minoan art p. 221
Astronomical provenance of the Linear A iconography p. 223
Aegean-influenced Phoenician alphabet as a star calendar p. 226
‘Non-Ptolemaic’ constellations in the Sphaera Barbarica, Lunar Zodiac, and
Dodekaoros p. 228
Possible Pre-Classical Greek Parallels of Egyptian and Arabic Constellations p. 235
Neolithic roots of Minoan sky map p. 238
Neolithic Zodiac and Mountain Mother p. 238
Tartaria Tablets: a deep precursor p. 239
The Phaistos Disc: an astronomer’s instrument? p. 241
Sign-grouping in the Phaistos Disc: An evidence of non-linguistic/astronomical text
p. 241
Sailor’s tool p. 243
Lunisolar calendar p. 244
Lunar phases p. 245
Egyptian method of intercalations p. 245
Venusian period p. 246
Prediction of the eclipses p. 246
