(March 3, 2023) This text seems to have been written during the 5 year long Elijah drought of 840 BCE. The text implies the existence civil strife with its mention of emotional arousal.
In the center is an image of the sun representing the powers of the connective sun/water god Hu which the text calls the "eye of fate." It is emanating both heat/light (triangles) and water (wavy lines). The scene takes place above the sky shell with its embedded stars and wavy lines representing the waters which fall as rain.
Seated on the far right is the personified form of the god Hu representing the life powers as indicated by his watery robe and the symbols he is holding. These symbols are the masculine rod and feminine ring. He is a deity as indicated by his snake hat. He is seated on a box containing the rain bringing chaotic storm bulls which are trying to escape. Above him are 3 celestial signs (left to right): crescent moon, sun, and star. Above those on the roof are two spirits representing the astrological powers of the night sky which are trying to pull the sun up to them.
Holding down the full moon's table in a tug-of-war with the astrological powers are two people which the text above them identify as magic crafters. The goddess Ayu (Ishtar), with both hands raised and wearing a snake cap and robe representing the watery sky-shell is supporting them from behind.
The first line states that the motion powers as focused conscious emotions are confused. Motions on earth originate from both the astrological night sky with its moving heavenly bodies and human/animal conscious feelings. The corrective action is to use human emotional magic to overcome the astrological powers.
Online at: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/W_1881-0428-34-a
(Feb 9, 2023) Two are in Etruscan script and one in Phoenician script but the language of all is Akkadian. The two Druid civilizations were allied at least between between 600 and 530 BCE against the Greeks and Romans and this temple on the shoreline was probably built for that alliance. The Phoenician and short Etruscan text are in agreement about the cause of a drought occurring between 600 and 580 BCE. Now at: Etruscan Museum in Rome. Online at: https://www.museoetru.it/masterpieces/lamine-doro-da-pyrgi
(Feb 9, 2023) This text blames the drought on the emotional desires (emotion magic) of the general population for being too effective in moving fertility fluids through the life network when the network channels have become restricted (crimped). This empties the channels.
(Feb 9, 2023) This text mostly agrees with the first in another indication of a Punic/Etruscan alliance. It blames the general angry emotional state of the population for emptying the restricted life network channels. The corrective measure is to enlist the motions powers of the night sky to compensate for the emotion triggered motions.
(Feb 9, 2023) This is a rebuttal to the first two texts, probably written some time later. This text blames the magic crafters and their wind/breath/spirit powers for messing up the flows of fertility fluids (life powers) through the life network. Therefore life powers are not getting through no matter what the life-priests do.
(December 30, 2023) A kernos (Greek: κέρνος or κέρχνος, plural kernoi) is a pottery or stone tray for holding ritual supplies. It is most commonly found associated with temples. This form seems to have initially made in stone before being made in pottery. It was abundant in the early Minoan and Cycladic civilizations from 3,000 BCE onwards. This one has an educational inscription for instructing new magic crafters in the way of emotion and astrological magic.
The vase was bought by the Altes Museum in Berlin from an antiquarian by Heinrich Dressel shortly after he acquired it. It was discovered in 1880 by workers who were digging the foundation of a building near the newly opened Via Nazionale in Rome. This was in the valley between the Quirinal Hill and the Viminal Hill. More precisely it was found on the south slope of the Quirinal, near the church of San Vitale, Rome. Dressel was told the place was supposed to have been a burial site.
It reads:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duenos_inscription#cite_note-8
(August 17, 2022) Based on letter "N" this dates to shortly after the composition of the golden Pyrgi foils putting it around 550 BCE. Compared to the Pyrgi foils, the letter the letters P, E, and I have been simplified. The letters P and E have one horizontal line removed while the I has its top and bottom horizontal lines removed.
Romain Butin’s 1928 Hebrew translation based upon incorrect letter assignments and assumes that Hebrew existed at this time despite it lack of attestation elsewhere. In contrast, cuneiform Akkadian has been found in Egypt from this same time period. It was being used to write diplomatic letters to neighboring states in a series of texts known as the Amarna Letters (1360-1332 BCE). Butin’s translation is also read in the unlikely order of side, then right column, then left column. This is his translation:
(Sept. 9 2022) This location is labeled "Banquet Scene" on the Orcus Tomb map.
(August 5, 2022) This graffito blames both sources of motion powers (astrological and human emotions) for the drought.
Vertical Column (top to bottom, Text 4.1)
Horizontal Row (right to left, Text 4.2)
Vertical Text (top to bottom)
Horizontal Text (right to left)
Line 1 of Vertical text claims that emotional influences from the astrological powers are fooling the magic crafters.
Line 2 of Vertical texts states that the way to overcome this is to focus on making the life powers effective by purifying their ritual spaces.
Line 3 of Vertical text states that life powers are also needed to reveal the life forms triggered by the fertility fluids.
Line 1 of Horizontal text is blaming the astrological powers for not pushing the fertility fluids through the life network represented by the god Hu and the goddess Ayu.
Line 2 of Horizontal text states that without this pushing the fertility fluids are not triggering the manifestation of life forms. Both life powers and motion powers are needed to reveal life forms. This balance of powers is the main focus of the Aegean culture. In contrast the Israelites focus only on the life powers and the Phoenicians focus only on the motion powers.
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The two following Hebrew translations by Butin and Rainey fail. Additionally, they are completely different from each other.
Butin's translation is as follows:
Butin says this about his letter assignments showing just how tentative he thought they were (differences from my letter assignments in red):
Vertical column. Aleph, nun, waw, shin, gimel, nun, samekh; the eighth letter is a new sign, no. 28 of the alphabet. As has been explained above, this sign may be lamed or kaph, and its doubtful character should not be forgotten. Then comes mem with a point. The next sign (27 of the alphabet) is almost certainly lamed and aleph. Then follow in order: beth, beth, mem, and nun. At the end of the vertical column and slightly to the left are a certain number of lines, evidently a numeral. Blake counted seven; I see nine on the photograph. (Butin 1928, page 40)Butin’s translation fails because of incorrect letter assignments which is not unusual from an early pioneer in the field. It also fails because of the many guessed at word assignments.
In 1975 A.F. Rainey (Rainey 1975) attempted another Hebrew translation His letter assignments for the vertical line are shown below (our differences are in red):
ANT TPN DKM LABB MNK (top to bottom)
Anat tapanu dukkema li’ababa minka
Besides incorrect letter assignments Rainy incorrectly converts an aleph to an ayin in the word “LABB.” He also is claiming the 7 lines are the letter K at the end of the line.
His letter assignments for the Horizontal line are:
SM’A MRA RB NQ _ (left to right)
Sim’a’ mar’u rabba naq [banima(?)]
The letters “B N” do not exist in any form in the text so Rainey seems to added them just to make his translation which is translation fraud. Rainy also ignored the last letter which is an ayin.
These produced his proposed translation:
This is a failed translation due to:
(Jan. 20, 2023) This text is blaming magic for opening up the astrological powers of fate which in turn are causing a drought by making the sun too strong.
(Jan 24, 2023) This text mentions the roles of the two power classes of the Ancient Pagan Paradigm (life class and the motion class). It mentions the connective motion hermaphrodite deity Thu (Athu, Athena) along with the magical emotion owls (Athenian owls). Olympia is just north of Athens. The text also mentions the life manifestation god of Yahu (Yahweh). The Alphabetic Akkadian text reads:
Line 1: The "life-threads" comprise the network channels which distributes the life powers as fertility fluids to the earth where they trigger the manifestation of life-forms by Yahu. This text is saying that the roast offerings in rituals maintain the thread's effectiveness. In contrast, focused emotional energy (considerations) done in magical rituals is responsible for the actual manifestations because that is needed to push the fertility fluids through the channels. Magic provides the pressure.
Line 2: The temple of Olympia originally had diviners (seers) but during the classical era it lost out in that area to Delphi. Consequently, it turned to the Olympic games to bring in people.
"The sons of Kypselos dedicated [this bowl] from Heraclea"
The letters of the names are not even correct showing this is a fake translation. The museum does not provide the name of the translator.
(August 21, 2022) This text uses Phoenician letters as shown in the letter chart. It is blaming the lack of control over emotion magic for immobilizing the life network such that life-powers can no longer trim the life network and emotion magic can no longer aid in the flow of the fertility fluids.
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(September 5, 2022) This text is blaming a drought on negative and unblocked human emotions. Normally the connective hermaphrodite motion power deity, Thu, blocked most of these negative emotions before they could affect the flow of fertility fluids through the life network represented by sun god Hu. In this case Thu is being restrained by the astrological motion source powers represented by the full moon god Su.
(September 5, 2022) The top image of this gravestone is that of the full moon god Su traveling across the sky-dome at night. The bottom image is of his feminine partner Selene representing the spirits of the underworld.
The goddess Selu (Selene = "powers of Selu") shown at the bottom of this gravestone is the goddess of the underworld where resides the spirits of the dead and unborn. Both Selu and Su are source deities of the magical motion powers. Su mainly represents the motions generated by the astrological heavens while Selu represents the motions generated by emotions. She is the main goddess of emotion magic but is often mixed up with Hekate who creates the spirits but does not animate them.
(August 14, 2022) This text at the bottom of the sarcophagus absolves magic crafters of any blame for the Great Drought which ended the Bronze Age. This is because their emotion magic was not powerful enough to overcome the storm of generated human emotions like envy which inhibited the flow of fertility fluids through the life network. Without this flow, the Opener (Asher, Asherah) cannot open her gate and allow the Revealer (Yahu) to manifest the life forms.
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(September 6, 2022) Put some Israelites and Philistines together in a room discussing the cause of a drought and this is the result. Slightly different line by line letter styles indicates many lines were written by different people. The themes of these lines can be classified as either Israelite or Phoenician. Phoenician texts are always supportive of magical motion powers and so blame droughts on the life powers. This is in contrast to the Israelites who were anti-magic and instead always supportive of the life powers. The middle of the road position was that of the Aegeans/Philistines who supported both but were against mixing them inappropriately.