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David Olmsted @ancientlinguist.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Just received the book and started reading it. This will be a great read. I highly recommend this to anyone else interested in Christian descriptions on the last surviving Pagans on the margins of Europe.

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David Olmsted @ancientlinguist.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

We can translate Minoan Linear A now along with the longer Phaistos disk and slight later texts from Serabet el-Khadim. Only Academic nationalists keep insisting we can't despite the overwhelming evidence. www.druidwisdom.org/druid-rune-t...

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DruidWisdom.org - Temple Ritual Supply Texts (1700 BCE)

Eastern Minoan Crete. Malia is located in the upper center part of this map. It was destroyed by an earthquake around 1700 BCE which preserved a moment in time. This earthquake was not due to the volc...

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David Olmsted @ancientlinguist.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Too bad the text is not readable because Linear A has been deciphered. Its just the nationalist old guard does not want to admit it because of what it means. www.druidwisdom.org/druid-rune-t...

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David Olmsted @ancientlinguist.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Its older than that. As NK this same Akkadian word is found on the European runic texts coming from the Neolithic farmer language (who migrated out of northern Mesopotamia). It is the source of the English word "naked" due to proximity in space and time. www.academia.edu/127047369/Dr...

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David Olmsted @ancientlinguist.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Amazing proof of correlation between eggs and a pomegranate. These cultural clues are more important in my opinion then treating this simply as art.

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David Olmsted @ancientlinguist.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Actually it is Skadi as indicated by the label on this pot from Etruscan Vulci. The other side also shows Skaldi with Druid Akkadian text. Etruscan studies have been polluted by Greek assumptions. French National Library Number: De Ridder.920a.

Skadi as indicated by the label on this pot from Etruscan Vulci. French National Library Number: De Ridder.920a.

(Photo: French National Library Number: De Ridder.920)
The Druid Akkadian text reads:

The Death-Omen (Skadi) is not affecting it (her).
The irrigated-field (life network) is manifesting the fertility-fluid's involvement.
Nourishments are being associated.

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David Olmsted @ancientlinguist.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Trump and his minions are a disgrace to the free world and the United States.

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David Olmsted @ancientlinguist.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Well done! The past is Pagan. The translations of the runic texts will give future Pagan scholars a ton of new material to chew on. The point about being trapped in the monotheistic paradigm is true. Just describing Paganism as polytheistic instead of perceptheistic is an example of that.

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David Olmsted @ancientlinguist.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Yes, this is deeper than politics, it is cultural. This reflects the religious dualism the West inherited from Zoroastrianism and which then found its way into Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (good versus evil). Only nature Paganism incorporates the middle ground from ancient times up to now.

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David Olmsted @ancientlinguist.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Minoan Linear A is in Akkadian as are all the runic texts around Europe. This is the language of the Neolithic farmers and hundreds of those texts have already been translated and its dictionary published. Akkadian words are even found in English. Translations at www.druidwisdom.org

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David Olmsted @ancientlinguist.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Initially words were not separated by spaces. This era was the time of transition during which spaces were becoming standard. Other common separation mechanisms were colons and dots. I also don't think we should assume it is a boundary marker without a good translation.

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David Olmsted @ancientlinguist.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

I don't know. This seems to be Latin "An ab estas" meaning "are you from here?"

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David Olmsted @ancientlinguist.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Translation here: www.druidwisdom.org/druid-rune-t...

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David Olmsted @ancientlinguist.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Probably neither. Wings indicate a sky-shell level deity, non-classical due to clothing, disk is likely the sun so this is a representation of a sun god having some sort of problems.

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David Olmsted @ancientlinguist.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

No, its just too clunky compared to specialized games meant to do that sort of thing. Jousting, shooting arrows, flying dragons around an obstacle course are good though.

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David Olmsted @ancientlinguist.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Not really. Something more is going on here. She is older than most and is dropping the mirror. She is the center of some zodiac signs. The closest parallel is the younger and more regal Vénus d'Arles collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/5335...

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Vénus d'Arles

Aphrodite (cheveux, en bandeau, ondulé, chignon, bas, ruban, double, lemnisque, demi-nu, himation, demi-drapé, bracelet, sandale) Etat de l'oeuvre : incomplet : le bras droit, l'avant-bras gauche, le...

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David Olmsted @ancientlinguist.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Yes, The Roman church could not stand that the Irish church remained independent from their control. As far as I can tell the Roman church only got that control after the Norman/English invaded Ireland.

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David Olmsted @ancientlinguist.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

How do they know this image represents Venus? All I see in a mirror and a rattle.

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David Olmsted @ancientlinguist.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

So it was Tertullian who began the false identification of magi with kings. I suspect he wanted to end the tradition that Jesus was involved with ancient magic. Interesting.

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David Olmsted @ancientlinguist.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

🏺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. www.druidwisdom.org/druid-rune-t...

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.

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David Olmsted @ancientlinguist.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

That is really interesting! I have not appreciated that contemporaries so strongly differentiated the "mystery cults" from the standard royal deity pantheon.

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David Olmsted @ancientlinguist.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

This should be interesting! They had a day or two to evacuate and those on the beachfront at Herculaneum were still in the process when the pryoclastic flow hit.

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David Olmsted @ancientlinguist.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Sorry but I don't. That was a long time ago!

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David Olmsted @ancientlinguist.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Great survey. If I am reading it right, the decline of these ritual figurines seems to correlate with the arrival of the Indo-Europeans in the area around 3000 BCE.

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David Olmsted @ancientlinguist.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Do you have a reference to the original source document for this?

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David Olmsted @ancientlinguist.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

I believe radium was the source of alpha particles for Rutherford but I may be wrong.

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David Olmsted @ancientlinguist.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

This was also a legal move. He did not have legal authority to do anything outside the constitution and the law of the time outside of the states in rebellion. He did not want to become a dictator.

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David Olmsted @ancientlinguist.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

I can still remember subscribing to a magazine from about that time which found and reviewed internet sites. This was before Google was a thing.

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David Olmsted @ancientlinguist.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

This brings back fond memories of hiking during those humid southern mornings when I lived in the south.

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David Olmsted @ancientlinguist.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

If it ain't broken don't fix it. "Residents" is good.

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David Olmsted @ancientlinguist.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

I loved the first part of that series. Too bad it rather petered out.

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David Olmsted @ancientlinguist.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

The idea that the alphabet originated from Egyptian signs is obsolete. It comes from Minoan Linear A which has more signs in common and provides the source words for the signs. www.druidwisdom.org/druid-rune-t...

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David Olmsted @ancientlinguist.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Nationalism is the curse of many things. This sort of Anglo-Saxon and Celtic Paganism is medieval and is based upon bardic tales and not the older European wide Paganism of earlier eras as described in the runic texts.

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David Olmsted @ancientlinguist.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

🏺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 www.druidwisdom.org/druid-panthe...

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.

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David Olmsted @ancientlinguist.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

I never said Celtic is Akkadian. Celtic is a linguistically defined culture which mixed the original Neolithic farmer culture with the invading Indo-Europeans. Texts mistakenly identified as being their the supposed Celtic language are Akkadian however.

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David Olmsted @ancientlinguist.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Why do you say that? They were speaking something and they came out of the Akkadian language homeland. Akkadian is found in Europe in the runic texts so if they did not speak it how did it get into Europe?

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David Olmsted @ancientlinguist.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Firstly, Latin is not pure Indo-European and derives from languages going further back in time. How is "up-lead" like educate? My next Akkadian dictionary will change "edu" slightly to meaning motivation because that is the best fit to its sentence use. So educare derives from motivating something.

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David Olmsted @ancientlinguist.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

So because you can't attack the evidence you resort to personal attacks just to preserve your dogmatic belief. Interesting.

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David Olmsted @ancientlinguist.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

The semantics are good. Why do you think everything in Europe derives from Indo-European when we know the Indo-Europeans interacted with the Neolithic farmers?

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David Olmsted @ancientlinguist.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Yes, a dark day. Journals used to be like this with boards of older respected members of the field who where not all that active in research anymore so who could impartially judge submissions. Now they are just another profit making center for large conglomerates.

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David Olmsted @ancientlinguist.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Seems to be 2 separate pathways for Akkadian phrase ŠN.TR šenû.taru meaning "ooze of transformation" as in what oozes out during a fire. So the original meaning would also include smoke. The /Š/ is like an /sk/ sound.

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David Olmsted @ancientlinguist.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

I am partial to Paul Whitewick's theory that they are talking balls for holding in your hand when talking before an assembly. They are round for holding, yet carved to prevent them rolling away. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWZf...

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The Mystery Stone Age Object - That Defies Logic.

YouTube video by Paul Whitewick

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David Olmsted @ancientlinguist.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

This Academic specialization is worrisome, as is the pressure to jump onto the latest hot specialized trend to get funding. The best general and up to date integrative history these days is being done on YouTube by non-Academics.

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David Olmsted @ancientlinguist.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

I don't think the vu combination appears in Latin. I am skeptical of abbreviations unless the phrase is a standard one or the abbreviation appears on a coin. Therefore, I suspect it is Akkadian. UM EN N . Y . UM YB "redirection of reassignments are not being revealed. Storm-powers are the enemy.

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David Olmsted @ancientlinguist.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Those Athenian owl coins sure have been clipped!

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