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David Olmsted
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Ancient linguist and engineer specializing in Druid Akkadian, the language which Neolithic farmers brought into Europe. All European languages are a mix of this and the later arriving Indo-European languages. Past is Pagan. See https://www.druidwisdom.org/
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David Olmsted @ancientlinguist.bsky.social · Nov 22
🏺Map combining the latest from historical genetics and archaeology showing the spread of Neolithic farming people out of northern Mesopotamia, the homeland of Akkadian as revealed by cuneiform studies. Map from Gronenborn & Horejs (2023). www.academia.edu/9424525/Map_...
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Map showing the spread of Akkadian speaking Neolithic farming culture. https://www.academia.edu/9424525/Map_Expansion_of_farming_in_western_Eurasia_9600_4000_cal_BC_update_vers_2023_1_?email_work_card=title
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🏺York #Raven Penny 1000 CE. #Rune style approaching Codex Runicus. Language is #Druid #Akkadian. Raven text mentions "Veiled-One" referencing #Hekate. The center cross is not Christian but is letter T meaning "astrology #magic" and used in the text.
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York Raven Penny. The left image is that of a raven which is associated with the Druid goddess Kate/Hekate as implied in the text. The right image is of the letter "T" meaning "astrology-magic" which is the main theme of the coin. The runic text style is approaching that of the Codex Runicus Translation 1. Astrology-magic's considerations (focused emotions of emotion magic) are lacking the veiled-one (Kate/Hekate). Life-Manifestations and revelations of respect are (thus) ineffective. 2. Manifestations of the high-life-powers are from opening-up the harbor (sky-shell). Manifest Hu. The Moon-Eye (astrology-magic source god Su) is making ineffective the life-threads. Eagle-vultures can neglect astrology-magic's results.
January 3, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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🏺An ancient culture would not be a culture without its own pantheon. This is a #Philistine ritual bowl from Gath having the #Druid #Akkadian inscription "This emotionally-arouses Kate / #Hekate | Involve nourishments with motion[-changes]" #pagan #Palaeography

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Philistine Gath (Tell es-Safi) Red Ritual Bowl Held Food Offerings for Hekate - 1000 BCE This text is about the two classes of divine powers working together which is typical of the Aegean islanders but not of the Phoenicians and Minoans. This text was first reported in 2006 and published in 2008. It is on a type of pottery which belonged to to the time between the late Iron Age I to early Iron IIA. This dates it to about 1000 BCE. Gath was the reported home of Goliath in the Bible (1 Samuel 17). This pottery shard was found in an industrial/commercial area as a cast-away on the floor of a heavily used room. Based upon the number of bones on the floor this room seems to have been a food preparation area. The thin red slip allowed the letters to be scratched with little effort.
December 30, 2024 at 11:57 AM
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🏺 Vimose Comb #Rune text 200 CE Funan, Denmark. Translated in #Akkadian as "The liver is opened by Su." Liver was the source of emotions in humans because it acted as a receiver of emotion/motion powers from the #Druid dark new moon god Su. #Pagan #ancienthistory
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December 21, 2024 at 11:43 AM
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🏺Farnese Museum's Tired Hercules. Text cannot be Greek translated, claimed to be statue's sculptor Glykon ignoring other letters. Top line in Akkadian "Lack of energy and involvement will activate the revelations (of fate)." #classics #Rome #art #Akkadian #Pagan
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In 1546 the Farnese Hercules was found in the ruined Baths of Caracalla in Rome (built 206-216 CE). It is now at the Museo Archeologico Nazionale in Naples. It is 10 feet 5 inches high. The small inscription is on the front of the rock right below the club. The statue shows a tired Hercules. The reason for this pose is explained in the first line of its text written in Druid Akkadian. Significantly, the last line is in Greek making this a rare example of a text using two separate languages: Lack of energy and involvement will activate the revelations (of fate). (but) Expectations of intimidation will result in Yahu's nourishments. EPOIEI (Greek for "Do That!")
December 19, 2024 at 8:24 AM
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🏺Magical Alpine #rune graffiti, Not Latin, Not Greek, but #Druid #Akkadian. 300's CE #Celtic #Pagan #epigraphy

"Break-outs (like rain from sky-shell) cannot be shedded by blockages.
Is not the curse from Su's (Dark new moon god) emotion-powers?"
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One of the few Alpine Celtic texts is written on a boulder in a tiny shelter at 2643 above sea level in the Swiss Alps (Valais Canton). The inscription is near a Roman fortification dated to the 1st century BCE. Runic literacy spread north from the Etruscan lands.
December 17, 2024 at 9:59 AM
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🏺Love images with texts as they cross-check each other. This is the star Sirius which integrates the 2 Druid spiritual power classes. Text: "Sirius gives divinity (motion power characteristic) to the eagle-vultures (a life power mechanism)" #Pagan #Numistatics
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Images having 8 radiations represent the star Sirius which was thought to be the mediator between the 2 spiritual power classes of the ancient Druid civilization, the emotion/motion powers and the life powers. This star is normally the brightest star in the sky. It is the sun's companion star which is why it is also called the dog star.
December 15, 2024 at 12:35 PM
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🏺Minoan shipping tag about ritual knives (athames). It reads in Linear A Akkadian "For activities not being revealed | (3 ritual knives) for revealing" 1750 BCE. An Athame was found at the site. #Pagan #Minoan #epigraphy #Akkadian #Aegean
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Minoan shipping tag about ritual knives (athames). The center sign Nun (N) means "to reveal" when applied to inanimate objects. It spiritual contexts it often refers to the revelations of fate. Sign assignments by Olmsted (Image from foldout 3 of Goldart and Poursat 1978) Minoan Athame on display at the Heraklion Museum in Crete. It was found in work quarter Mu at Malia. This is a different work quarter than where the shipping tag was found.
December 13, 2024 at 8:46 PM
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🏺 First Romans wrote Akkadian in Etruscan letter style as evidenced by blackish Lapis Niger Runestone (700 BCE) now under the Roman Forum. It is a debate about the astrological powers. #Pagan
#romanarchaeology #epigraphy #Akkadian #ancient #history

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Lapis Niger Today Under Its Concrete Pavement. This photo shows its left side With back side partly hidden. The ceiling shown here also supports the black flooring above. The ceiling is a concrete mixed with small fragments of black marble which littered the site. The runestone is 0.47 x 0.51 m, wide, by 0.61 m. high.
December 12, 2024 at 11:31 AM
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🏺 Lost in the Minoan Palace at Knossos? Just look for the pillars having "Opening" signs (double axe shapes). These are Linear A style using Akkadian language. #Minoan #ancient #epigraphy #archaeology #Akkadian

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Artist reconstruction of the Minoan Temple Palace showing just how large it was. Pillar at Knossos showing "opening" signs (double axes) in Linear A.
December 10, 2024 at 10:17 AM
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🏺York Raven Penny in Akkadian 990 CE. Left is a raven which is associated with the Druid goddess Kate/Hekate mentioned in the text. Right image is the letter "T" meaning "astrology-magic" which is the main theme of the coin. #Pagan #Viking #epigraphy #runes #coins
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York Raven Penny. The left image is that of a raven which is associated with the Druid goddess Kate/Hekate mentioned in the text. The right image is of the letter "T" meaning "astrology-magic" which is the main theme of the coin. About 1000 CE
December 9, 2024 at 11:50 AM
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🏺 Ancestor figurine from Pope’s Cave in Brassempouy, France dated to 25,000 BCE where the arm is clearly visible. This is similar to the pillars at Gobekli Tepi. Based on the backside carving this originated as a phallic symbol. #Neolithic #Mesolithic #pagan

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One view of the ancestor figurine from Pope’s Cave in Brassempouy looking life what is found at Gobekli Tepe Gobekli Tepe excavation showing some of the ancestral pillars. Ancestor figurine from Pope’s Cave in Brassempouy, France dated to 25,000 BCE where the arm and phallus shape is clearly visible on the opposite side.
December 8, 2024 at 1:00 PM
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🏺Sky-Shell building blocks, another long lasting Druid cultural meme identified by their top handle. Göbekli Tepe Pillar 43 (9000 BCE) has it. Akkadian text on Italian version (400 BCE) is about powers punching through the sky-shell. #Neolithic #Pagan #Akkadian
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Göbekli Tepe Pillar 43 Sky-Shell Blocks 9,600-8,800 BCE Bronze sky-shell building block from Archaeological Museum of Este, Padua, Italy. Circular text is about spiritual powers punching through the sky-shell. The matrix text is Jewish claiming everything is due to Yahu/Yahweh. The text style is not Etruscan but is unique so far.
December 7, 2024 at 1:51 PM
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🏺The spiral is a cultural meme of Druid civilization found all across Europe. Those with texts inside them indicate they represent the coming together of the 2 spiritual power classes of Druidry, the life powers and the emotion/motion powers. #Pagan #Neolithic
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Cucuteni–Trypillia Pot with Spirals, Romania (4000 BCE) Gold Bracteate from Vindelev Viking hoard in Denmark Shows Spirals and Letters (550 CE)
December 5, 2024 at 2:38 PM
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🏺Minoan Phaistos Disk 1900 BCE. Language is Akkadian. Its signs are ancestors of all European alphabets. Front side is about problems with life powers. Back side is about using emotion magic to restore the balance. #Pagan #epigraphy #Akkadian #Bronzeage #Minoan
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Minoan Phaistos Disk 1900 BCE. Language is Akkadian. Its signs are ancestors of all European alphabets. Front side is about problems with life powers. Back side is about using emotion magic to restore the balance. Photo was taken in the Heraklion Archaeological Museum in Crete.
December 4, 2024 at 1:01 PM
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🏺 Etruscan Magliano Disk. Another Druid spiral from 500 BCE translated from Akkadian. This is a debate about which emotion magic to use to combat the fate powers from the planets which are being blamed for a drought. #pagan #etruscan #epigraphy #magic #Akkadian

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December 3, 2024 at 6:30 AM
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🏺Minoan Ritual Procedure Ring with Druid Spiral 1450 BCE. Translated in Linear A Akkadian. This was for reminding a priest on the steps for a ritual. #Pagan #Minoan #epigraphy #Bronzeage #Akkadian

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Minoan Ritual Procedure Ring 1450 BCE
December 2, 2024 at 11:30 AM
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🏺Why Druid? We have European-wide runic texts written in Neolithic Akkadian from 1900 BCE to 1200 CE, all showing a common spiritual culture. Despite spoken language changing around them, some group kept writing Akkadian. They must be the Druids of the classical authors. #Pagan #ancient #history
November 30, 2024 at 4:59 PM
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🏺Runic letters slowly developed over time after the Bronze Age and divided themselves into 3 lineages Northern, Sea Peoples, and Levant (see charts). Runes are letters used texts whose words do not have inner vowels. Greeks were first to add inner vowels. #linguistics #epigraphy #runes #ancient
November 30, 2024 at 12:05 PM
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🏺Codex Runicus, 200 pages untranslated until now (25 pages so far). Written 1190 CE in Druid Akkadian. Druid philosophical text. No Nordic pantheon mention. Wendish. Commissioned by Danish king Valdemar 1. #epigraphy #pagan #runes #ancienthistory #ancientbluesky
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November 29, 2024 at 1:19 PM
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🏺 Debunking fake history. Megiddo Mosaic is not Greek Christian inscription. It is Akkadian in legionary Pagan ritual space involved with astrology magic. Fish symbols were Pagan before being adopted by Christians. #pagan #earlychristianity #epigraphy #ancient
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Top view of Megiddo Mosaic showing its central altar Reconstructed building over the mosaic's Pagan ritual space Example of letter assignments on the Megiddo Mosaic.
November 28, 2024 at 7:55 AM
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🏺Correcting some claims these Syrian tomb sticks are the oldest letters. They are not. These are in the Maltese style dating to 500 BCE and can be translated in Akkadian: "[something's] energy frustrates astrology-magic." & "Nest the passions" #epigraphy #Pagan
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Syrian tomb stick with Druid Akkadian letters saying [something's] energy frustrates astrology-magic. Syrian tomb stick with Druid Akkadian letters saying: Nest the passions.
November 27, 2024 at 3:35 PM
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🏺This technique for moving large blocks should be a core element of every experimental archaeology class. Two people with a small round fulcrum stone can move such blocks almost anywhere, even up and down hills. #ancientsky #Neolithic
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AMAZING VIDEO! Man Lifts 20 Ton Block By Hand?
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November 26, 2024 at 9:03 PM
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Funan Bracteate, Denmark 700 CE #Viking #Pagan #archaeology 🏺
Druid goddess Ayu (crescent moon, sky-shell opener) on a running horse facing down an eagle-vulture who is resisting Ayu's desire to open up the sky shell to let the rain through. Akkadian Translation:
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Gold Bracteate from Denmark showing the Druid goddess Ayu (crescent moon, sky-shell opener) on a running horse facing down an eagle-vulture who is resisting Ayu's desire to open up the sky shell to let the rain through.
November 24, 2024 at 2:01 PM
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Many English words with problematic traditional etymologies actually derive from Akkadian. One is beer: Akkadian phrase B.ER meaning "nourishments of a gathering-place." Middle English ber, Old English beor "strong drink, beer" cognate with Old Frisian biar, Middle Dutch bier, Old High German bior.
November 23, 2024 at 9:05 PM
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🏺 Computer studies continue to show European languages have two sources. The northern Indo-European source and the southern Akkadian source. Yet some researchers continue to insist that Indo-European also came out of northern Mesopotamia. P. Heggarty, and all (Science, 28 July 2023) #linguistics
Map showing sources of European languages. P. Heggarty, and all (Science, 28 July 2023) Language trees with sampled ancestors support a hybrid model for the origin of Indo-European languages. Online at: https://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.abg0818
November 22, 2024 at 9:18 PM