Venetic Language by Andres Pääbo
FINAL 2023 update to replace in around 360 pages the existing excessively long "The Veneti Langua... more FINAL 2023 update to replace in around 360 pages the existing excessively long "The Veneti Language..." which is close to 1000 pages and some say with too many side topics and repetition and hard to read. It continues to document my improvement of the results in the deciphering and reconstruction of the ancient Venetic Language that is presented in the ancient inscriptions on objects in the Veneto region of Northern Italy.
In my interpreting of the Ancient Venetic inscriptions documenied in THE VENETIC LANGUAGE An Anc... more In my interpreting of the Ancient Venetic inscriptions documenied in THE VENETIC LANGUAGE An Ancient Language from a New Perspective: FINAL I found that the results from more or less direct interpretation (ie getting meanings from context and cross-checking across all complete inscriptions) produced many words and grammatical elements that appeared Finnic in nature. This makes sense in a theory that the Finnic northern culture, descended from the original boat-using hunter-gatherers (archeological “Maglemose Culture”), was preadapted to take on the role of professional long distance traders for the settled farming peoples, and one of the major trade products became Baltic amber. Both archeology of amber roads and ancient writings identify Ancient Veneti recieved amber from the north, and handled the distribution into the Mediterranean. This leads one to believe that the markets and colonies of the Ancient Veneti of northern Italy were established by Finnic traders from 1000BC (Much like more recently Hungarian was transposed south from northern Russia ultimately by fur traders), and the language stuck, even if, like in any successful economic region, the area itself drew into it enterprising peoples from all around. If this connection with the north is true, then it follows that we would find a connection between Ancient Veneti and the Finnic north in not just language, but in deeper culture too, namely religious practices. Therefore we should find the goddess worshipped by the Ancient Veneti at sanctuaries, appearing in the word re.i.tiia.i. , in the north at the amber sources. First of all I identify the goddess as the pre-Greek Rhea. This paper shows evidence that she was in the north and that remnants of her worship via boars endured until relatively recent times in Estonian culture
Iliad&Odyssey by Andres Pääbo
While the Iliad, by ‘Homer’ is not an account of history, but a work of epic poetry, analogous ... more While the Iliad, by ‘Homer’ is not an account of history, but a work of epic poetry, analogous to modern ‘historical fiction’, nonetheless the history – the real events influencing it – has intrigued humanity since it was created close to 3000 years ago. If we look at the Iliad from the point of view of a poet, it soon becomes clear that Homer wanted to create a very big war, so he chose the most strategic and largest city that the Achaeans could attack, which he thought was the city at the entrance to the Dardanelles, a strategic location commanding seatrade between the Aegean and Black Seas. A fortified city there has been excavated by archeologists but it does not exactly agree with what was expected, based on the details in the Iliad. Let’s be realistic. If Homer learned about there having been a major fortified city called Troy centuries before his time, he will have only experienced its ruins, and maybe learned of an invasion centuries earlier. This would inspire a tale, but what Homer would lack would be details. He had to obtain details from elsewhere in his experiences. This paper proposes that Homer had been a military official in an invasion in his time of a location, also with a citadel, further south on the coast, at what is now southwest Turkey, which was ancient Lycia. Proof of this lies within the Iliad itself, in the author’s many references to Lycia, and in particular to using an alternative name for Scamander – Xanthos – which is the river in Lycia around which the original Lycian civilization developed. This paper studies the details given in the Iliad with geographical information about the location of ancient Lycia to prove this case.
It has often been the opinion of scholars through the millenia that the author of the ancient Gre... more It has often been the opinion of scholars through the millenia that the author of the ancient Greek epic poem the Iliad did not write the Odyssey. Besides some discrepancies with the Aegean noted already in ancient times, in Roman times according to Tacitus, there was a widespread belief, from similarities in tales, that Odysseus travelled in the north. All evidence considered, the Odyssey was likely written when the Iliad was well known by a minstrel who gathered stories in the ancient Scandinavian north and adapted them for a Greek audience who were attuned to the Iliad and wished to hear more tales from the Iliad and its heroes. When viewed in this way many of the details in Odysseus’ (or Ulysses’) travels can be easily associated with locations along the Norwegian coast and islands north of the British Isles.The starkest northern location found in the Odyssey is the large whirlpool called Charybdis, identifiable with the famous Maelstrom off the Lofoten Islands The significance of this is that the Odyssey is the earliest written witness into the North Atlantic setting. (For more revelations see also https://www.academia.edu/13625035/The_Iliads_dual_location_of_the_Trojan_War_-_Hellespont_and_Lycia)
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Venetic Language by Andres Pääbo
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