Horse image clay tablet Knossos KN Sc 225
Linear B clay tablets: phonetic syllables or ideograms?
Were Linear B images inscribed on soft clay tablets a syllabary used for making lists of objects for trade in palaces, or were images built up from many components – marks to imitate gestures that can still be recognised as meditation instructions to describe knowledge about the 6th sense as taught by the Buddha?
After years of comparing images a remarkable detail jumped out of the tsunami of markings on clay tablets and other objects. To illustrate the drawings there was no need to draw symbols used on images – they were already listed in the computer as punctuation or mathematical glyphs. When in doubt of the meaning it was always worth checking its modern name, which was often aligned with the intended meaning on the clay tablets or coins.
Practice of the meditation system in Europe predated writing in Latin, use of texts became common about 1,000 years after the Buddha. Was annotation as used by meditators to illustrate objects copied when punctuation as used for modern writing evolved?
Linear A clay tablet Knossos KN Fn13: illustration of the 6th sense, “hadaya vatthu” in Pali
On Linear B clay tablets discovered in Greece there are thousands of variations, which were deliberately ignored by linguists. They simplified the complex hand-drawn images into a group of 87 fixed syllables: phonetic sounds to record long forgotten ancient Greek dialects. On Linear A tablets are no lines, the drawings are scattered more freely and despite sharing many symbols, Linear A cannot be deciphered using the same system to translate images, the approach of translators may be fundamentally flawed.
Clusters of symbols: practical meditation instructions as if speaking to a teacher
When each Linear B symbol is analysed as an ideogram the drawings are quite easily recognisable as meditation instructions. Each image is an imitation of a figure (series of a seated person, walking man, horse, snakes) with clusters built up using different abstract parts – building blocks – that are very simple, but profound in meaning.
The marks are gestures that point the meditator in the right direction – to “imitate the truth”. Step-by-step the process of concentration related the 6th sense (hadaya vatthu in Pali) was illustrated, as seen with the mind’s eye when practicing the meditation system as taught by the Buddha.
Examples of abstract symbols used as building blocks
Carpenter’s angles “to measure” past & future ❮❯ House where the mind lives ☐ Spear of attention I Axe/hammer ⎤ Brackets to include information ( ) ⎛⎞ Snake past & future life S Ƨ Continuous life investigated — Life cycle in samsara O Seeds of kamma ♢ Sword to investigate / or cut \
Example: Linear B Knossos KN Fp13 symbols analysis of building blocks aligned with Runes & Phaistos Disk symbols
Four Noble Truths Dissolution
6th sense: meditation & Horse “eats” seeds of kamma
When each image on the Phaistos Disk is combined with its number in order of appearance the meaning of symbols can be identified. The system of numbers to illustrate knowledge was used for up to 1,800 years, finally expressed as Rune symbols in Scandinavia. Using the knowledge of the definitions of runes that were described as riddles in Rune Poems as a foundation, the original source – the more detailed ”deconstructed” Linear A and B images – can be translated, many symbols were copied directly to design the Runes.
Linear B Knossos KN Fp13 Analysis with parallel Phaistos Disk and Rune symbols
Top line Four Noble Truths and 2nd 3rd line: investigation with the 6th sense
2nd & 3rd line: Seated figure 6th sense and progressive images to illustrate Ultimate Reality of Mind (nāma) and Materiality (rūpa) observed in “dissolution”
Linear A and B symbols are recognised by their basic shape, deconstructed components were individual gestures that “point the meditator towards the goal” and were used to build up sophisticated illustrations as step-by-step meditation instructions, still taught orally by teachers well trained in the knowledge as described in the Abhidhamma, the “higher teachings of the Buddha”.
Linear B Knossos KN Fp 13 Translation withLinear B Knossos KN Fp 13 Translation with parallel Phaistos Disk images and runes: how to attain Four Noble Truths and function of the 6th sense parallel Phaistos Disk images and runes
The hand with only 4 fingers to illustrate Four Noble Truths is linked by lines, the “light of wisdom”, to the horse who “eats seeds of kamma”. The horse as an-iconic symbol represented the Buddha’s meditation system, the horse as ideogram to end the power of kamma to produce new life was reused on the Ramsund runestone Sweden AD950. On the Gök rune stone a camel eats branches of the tree of life and on the Vang stone in Norway a lion eats branches as symbol of ending the power of kamma. The hand with four fingers to illustrate Four Noble Truths was used until the 11th century: see Langeid sword Norway.
Knossos KN Fp 13: the hand with 4 fingers is linked to the horse by fine lines: light of wisdom of the concentrated 6th sense.
To discard the cycle of birth, ageing & death the horse as symbol for the meditation system “eats” seeds of kamma
Ramsund rune stone Sweden AD 950: the Horse eats tree of life
Linear B Sword of Wisdom and Axe to cut the rebirth link: example Langeid sword Norway 11th century
That there will be skepticism about the validity of the translations is obvious, but symbols used on the Linerar B Knossos KN Fp 13 clay tablet and axes found in Crete were still illustrated on the Langeid sword, its handle too small for a human hand, found buried together with an axe with a blade too thin for warfare in Norway. The design includes highly sophisticated illustrations of spirals, the ‘E’ of Delphi, the cross and the 4-fingered hand that was already used on Linear A and B tablets 1,500 years before: Four Noble Truths.
The Linear B drawings, clusters with complex meditation instructions, can be directly linked to the Phaistos Disk: a master key with an overview of the meditation system taught by the Buddha. The 47 images were simple, every-day objects used as ideograms, positioned in a fixed numerical order, which makes it possible to still understand the meaning even with only a basic understanding of the numbers used in the Buddhist meditation system, such as “6 senses, 8-fold Noble Truth, 12 Dependent Origination factors, 16 Vipassanā Insight Knowledges, 28 rūpas as taught by “28 named Buddhas”.
Example Horse “eats seeds of kamma” Knossos KN Fp 13
Meaning of upside-down “J” with 12●: Dependent Origination, rebirth
Linear B Knossos KN Co 906 Meditator’s path to attain Four Noble Truths: liberation
Coded Horse Image
Example: horse image Knossos KN Sc 225 analysed with Phaistos Disk system of numbers
The horse as an-iconic image of the Buddha is a cluster with a combination of brackets ( ), four manes to illustrate Four Noble Truths, the 5th ear to listen to the teachings (i.e. 5 clinging aggregates) and the face that imitates symbol 37 on the Phaistso Disk: the path to attain enlightenment, the Ten Dhammas as taught by the Buddha: 4 path, 4 fruition, 1 study, 1 Nibbāna.
The Linear A and B drawings were the early source of knowledge but were simplified, abstract scripts were created with glyphs that were summaries of images, these symbols were then used as a mnemonic to compose complex votive messages occasionally combined with images. The line of development can be followed from the Ancient Arabian script used from c. 100BC-AD200 with many symbols identical to the final product, the Rune alphabets.
Newgrange: oversized Linear B symbols and beams of sunlight to imitate concentration
Linear A and B symbols were copied on a massive oversized scale to imitate the experience of a meditator during concentration as seen in the passage of Newgrange in Ireland. The meaning of Linear A and B drawings, only millimetres in size, were so well known that they were reproduced in Sweden centuries later on rocks, and as illustrations on ring-swords: swords of wisdom to cut the rebirth cycle.
NOTE: The pedestrian on Pylos Linear A is exactly the same as Knossos KN Fp 13, the meaning is comparable to Newgrange Orthostat 21: liberation from 6 senses
Some rune symbols were copied unchanged from Linear A and B clay tablets, some were specially designed, or borrowed from scripts such as Archaic Greek or Ancient Arabic.
A series of fixed symbols were chosen when the Elder Futhark Rune alphabet with 24 glyphs was finalised: 24 Paṭṭhāna factors. For the Anglo-Saxon alphabet 6 runes were added in total 28 runes were used: 28 materialities, rūpas, but also the historical “28 named Buddhas” described in Pali texts. A short simplified version, the Younger Futhark has only 16 symbols: Sixteen Vipassanā Insight Knowledges.
Linear A & B source of Runes in Scandinavia
Symbols on clay tablets had to be well known in Scandinavia, concepts such as the “hanging man” illustrated with drawings of abstract symbols on the Zakros House ZA14 Linear A clay tablet are identical to symbols illustrated in Sweden. Goths were described by Jordanes in the Getae in AD551 as philosophers and in the 3rd century Porphyry wrote in the biography – Life of Pythagoras – that his favourite student was Zamolxis: philosophy teacher of the Goths in Thrace. The link between the dialectics of philosophy in Athens and the high quality design of the Ramsund runestone is confirmed by symbols on Linear A and B clay Tablets.
Translation Linear A clay tablet Zakros House ZA14
Ramsund & Gök runestones linked to Linear A clay tablet in Crete Zakros ZA14
Symbols on the Zakros House clay tablet ZA14 were the source for famous runestone images illustrated on a massive oversized scale in Sweden in the 10th century, confirmation of the link between Sweden and learning centres in Greece.
Camels on the Gök runestone in Sweden and the Meigle stone in Scotland are proof that they continued to study in India after southern routes were no longer safe. Images on the Gök runestone in Sweden were designed by people with knowledge of the Linear A and B symbols.
Coded faces to illustrate the 6th sense
Face in Sweden designed 1,400 years after the Lunigianesi statue Italy
Gök runestone Sweden face to illustrate concentration with the use of negative space, compare to the statue Lunigianesi in Italy: perception of the concentrated 6th sense
Golden Collar Möne AD450 with coded faces distributed on 7 rings: Seven Stages of Purification
Linear B image illustration Valsgärde ring-sword
Scholars interpret swords as evidence of the supposed violent “Viking” culture, but messages on swords are votive objects to describe concentration practices: sword of wisdom to cut the cycle of life, symbol number 41 on the Phaistos Disk. The influence of Linear A and B symbols is seen on the Valsgärde ring-sword with coded image of a man comparable to Linear A & B drawings.
The meditator (man) investigates past life “/ “ to cut attachment ” \” to endless rebirth in new existences “- ” with the practice of Dependent origination “❮ ❯”. By listening to the Dhamma ” -) “ as taught by the Buddha he follows the eightfold Noble Path of Purification “ᚹ rune no. 8” . With investigation to end kamma that will cause rebirth of past life mind-materiality ” \\” he investigates “upside-down Y Victorious man ᛘ & ᛦ hanging man” to attain Seven Stages of Purification “X rune no. 7 “ to be able to end future rebirth as mind-materiality ” //¯ “.
The meditation system is still taught unchanged after 2,500 years and people are practicing successfully, including westerners.
