From "decryption" to "translation"

[geoffreycaveney]

Thank you Linda! This is more very interesting material.

In case you and others are interested, my (quasi-Judaeo-)Greek letter correspondences produce the following readings of the TO map labels on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. 3:

Europe: [opcholdg]

my reading: "Apheonus"

interpretation: "Japhe-(g)onous"

meaning: "Japheth-born" or "the descendants of Japheth"


Africa: [otodol]

my reading: "AkhAbon"

Here I must extend the interpretation of [d] to include the other labial sound "m",
to allow the interpretation "Kham-(g)on",
an abbreviation of "the descendants of Ham"


Asia: on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. 3 this is a long text. 
The word [ykeol] does occur twice in the text,
and I can read it as "stheAm"

It is possible this may be a reference to "Shem", although I will need to make sense of the "th" in the word.

Geoffrey