Yay! I thought this book had gotten lost forever but I found it. I haven’t read it yet, but I wanted to post one of the main reasons I bought it.
This is taken from Before the Pharoahs by Edward F. Malkowski. He tells about Augustus Le Plongeon who lived in the 1800′s who among other things learned to speak Mayan by working with them for 12 years at various Mayan ruins. He took the Greek alphabet and matched up the Mayan words to the syllables that make up the Greek letters, and listed their definition in story form. He believes the story is about the sinking of Atlantis. This alphabet definitely tells an interesting story…
alpha al (heavy) paa (break) ha (water)
Heavily break–the–water
beta be (walk) ta (place)
extending–over the–plains.
gamma kam (receive) ma (earth)
They–cover–the–land
delta tel (depth; bottom) ta (where)
in low places where
epsilon ep (obstruct) zil (make edges) on-om (whirlpool; to whirl)
there are–obstructions, shores form the whirlpools
zeta ae (strike) ta (place; ground)
strike–the–earth
eta et (with) ha (water)
with water.
theta thetheah (extend) ha (water)
The–water spreads
iota io (all that lives and moves) ta (earth)
on all that lives and moves.
kappa ka (sediment) paa (break; open)
Sediments give way.
lambda lam (submerge) be (go; walk) ta (where; place)
Submerged is–the–land
mu mu (mu)
of Mu.
ni [nu] ni (point; summit)
The peaks–only
xi si (rise over; appear over)
appear above–the water.
omikron om (whirlpool; whirl) ik (wind) le (place) on (circular)
Whirlwinds blow around
pi pi (to place by little and little)
by little and little,
rho la (until) ho (come)
until comes
sigma zi (cold) ik (wind) ma (before)
cold air. Before
tau ta (where) u (basin; valley)
where–existed–valleys,
upsilon u (abyss) pa (tank) zi (cold; frozen) le (place) on (circular)
now, abysses, frozen tanks. In circular places
phi pe (come; form) hi (clay)
clay–formed.
chi dhi (mouth; aperture)
A–mouth
psi pe (come out) zi (vapor)
opens; vapors
omega o (there) mee (whilrl) ka (sediments)
come forth–and volcanic sediments.
Imagine if you wanted to pass down a story. A story so big you didn’t want it ever to be forgotten. If you embedded the story into something so basic as an alphabet from which an entire language is formed… it would never be forgotten. It might get lost for a few thousand years, but it would always be there for someone to find at a later date. What is one of the first thing you learn as a child? The alphabet. Do you know where “a, b, c…” comes from? I have no clue. Maybe it’s time to examine that…
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