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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Piotr Gasiorowski"
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:> There's absolutely nothing on the
Gunderstrup cauldron that could be> interpreted as a writing system.
There are some ritual scenes there,> and their meaning is rather
clear if you know anything about Celtic> culture and religion. There
are also some animal motifs betraying> Mediterranean influence: a
dolphin, a bull, lions... And let me repeat that> there's no writing
to be seen anywhere, unless you take a risky dose> of ephedra juice
before you look at the cauldron.
I disagree, Piotr. All the glyphs are hieroglyphs, pictographic
writing, not unlike Egyptian hieroglyphs (though explained with a
complex set of syllables without inherent vowel, phonetic
determinants etc.)
Prakrits -- mleccha of early gypsies -- can explain the hieroglyphs.
See more details posted at (so as not to waste the bandwidth of this
list):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/IndianCivilization/message/47849
If members want, I can mirror it on this list.