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0 page of the work Champ *leury' auquel est contenu l'art et science de la deue et vraye proportio des lettres ... ! from Wikipedia's page Upsilon % Wikisource: The ivine !nstitutes. pp. 1ook 2, Chapter ,,,. translated "y William #letcher
Upsilon as a diphthong
,n the comment to Wikipedia's page Upsilon it is said that' ()he man on the left side of the drawing plummeting into the fire is what was known in the classical tradition as a falling& diphthong+. 1ut what is supposed to be falling' the man or the diphthong /3 , found some answers to the falling diphthong in Upsilon 4 Pronunciation' Upsilon participated as the second element in falling diphthongs, which have subse5uently developed in various ways' for instance after alpha or epsilon it is pronounced 6f7 or 6v7. )his however could not be understood from (a man who was plummeting into the fire...+. )o find out some more about the original drawing , had to read the Champ *leury in *rench, which is rather difficult if most of the linguistic redundancy had been lost in the scanning procedure.
" *alling and rising =iphthongs' Falling or descending& diphthongs start with a vowel 5uality of higher prominence >?@A?BCDE@FG?DHCDIHJKLBMDNOPDBOPD@ODNDQBL@IHRBJDR@F?DJBQQDECHL@OBOGBSDJ@TBDUNVW XD@OD eye, while rising or ascending& diphthongs begin with a less prominent semivowel and end with a more prominent full vowel, similar to the 6Ya7 in yard.
Later in the manuscript the Latin .lphabet is more correctly described as consisting of e vowels .4 \4,4-424/ and 0^ consonants resulting in an alphabet of !% letters&. ,n Latin alphabet the 8 officially belongs to the consonants. )he vowels are categori<ed in ! groups' % (prepositives1 ., \, -& and % (su"iuctives1 \, 2, ,&, which are being used to form diphthongs. )he / itself had been defined as a /atin iphthong9 without further detailed emplanations.
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.s an artisan ]eoffroy )ory also respected a human body's proportions in his designs. )he design of the letter . had been drawn in the same 0# m 0# grid he had used for the human body. )hese designs followed the ancient mythical rules of archaic philosophy, which even included the muses in dimensioning artwork. )he design looks like Leonardo da 2inci's 5itruvian 6an c. 0":#&^, but this time the artist adds the alphabetical symbolic roots for the mute letters 1C=*]aPb) and .pollo's name.
nIHn is sometimes interpreted as meaning !esus 7ominum Salvator ncesus, Savior of menn in Latin& or connected with !n 7oc Signo. Such interpretations are known as backronyms. ,t is followed by two capital& letters chi and rho & of the ]reek word n opqrn 89hrist and a trailing letter r.
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*ig.:' =esigning the Letter / from an (,+ and a (2+ 3& =id ]eoffroy )ory really merge and combine the designs of the vowels , and 2 to produce another vowel /3
.lthough all designs for the alphabetical elements have been documented in at least two pages some emtra effort has been invested for the documentation of the /. )he ambivalent structure of the /4symbol is similar to the duality of the ways to frugality and luxury. 8owever the image has been simplified. .n emtra cryptic illustration has been decorated in order to promote the letter for higher or even highest 3& ranking in the alphabetic hierarchy. ,n this illustration the emplanatory power obviously has been suppressed. )he image will be understood for those, who already had seen, known or heard the story before. )he coronation clearly indicates the victory for the right side. )he fire illustrates the left s wrong& side. \ven if we do not understand all symbols we may confirm the story of good and bad. _o falling man or falling diphthongs will be needed any more.
he e!planatory s"etch
#ig. 1,: The 0ild animals are named !nvidia %envy-, Super"ia %vanity- and /i"ido %lust-
#ig. 1+: $reek 4lpha"et %9opied from 9hamp #leuryCopied from Champ *leury dated 09!:& u : 0# 00 0! 0% a glottal stop in Phoenician because the pharyngeality altered the following vowel Phoenician alphabet Clotho spinner&, Lachesis allotter& and .tropos unturnable& not needed for a consonant in eastern dialects of ]reek, which lacked 6h7 | C,}.}*,L, , which in modern rendition would be lAciB a 8istory of the ]reek alphabet and Long i with a sample L2 { filiB, with a macron rather than apem to indicate vowel length&.
,n an overview the e vowels ~ 0^ consonants !% characters of the Latin alphabet are depicted as the rays of the solar composer Creator ]od .pollo, who is playing his instrument.
A hierarchical order
,t surprised me to see seven (vowels+ to the vowel branch. \ven more the category of semivowels may be considered as most interesting. *rom a philosophical standpoint the semivowels might be playing a role in the hieroglyphic hierarchy, in which the vowels .\,-U belong to the highest level maybe with a vowel (,+ at the top 3&' 9 [oman vowels .\,-2 and the additional ]reek vowel / and the aspiration 8 ^ semivowels L;_[SZ` : mute letters 1C=*]aPb)
)he vowels I$A$% seemed to be a standard for all alphabets, but what role had been taken by the /3 )he Upsilon seemed to be a Coker in the contest, switching between I and &4vocals ad lib.
#ig. 1:: !nscription displaying apices %from the shrine of the 4ugustales at 7erculaneumoriginally posted to Flic*r as !##:#0#e0!!0!9w, Creative Commons .ttribution !.# ]eneric license.
.t least the Latin had been highlighting the I as a long vowel. .t the left and right side the long vowels . and 2 had been located as ministers. )he long vowels and seemed to be servants compared the main IA& triad.
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Hebrew hierarchical order
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)owards the end of the [oman [epublic, after the con5uest of ]reece 0"e 1C& the ]reek letters ypsilon and Deta were added to the end of the Latin alphabet, in the form of y and D, so that the [omans could properly spell ]reek words and names 09. )his however added another vowel /& to the system, which destroyed the symmetry. -bviously the [omans had lost the keys to their hieroglyphic system.
)he perfect symmetry has also been identified in the 8ebrew vowels. )he cewish alphabet had been designed to generate 9 long vocals , , , , from " consonants aleph, he, 0a0 and yod&' the letters .leph and the three letters of the )etragrammaton 0e. )he letter @ayin had been considered as a consonant. )he 6atres /ectionis merely allowed to generate long0^ vocals and therefore only the long vocals may be considered as allowable translations for the 8ebrew hieroglyphs'
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09 )he Lapis _iger 4 Codem :: 0e _otes to Sefer /et<irah 0^ in modern printed temts matres lectionis are sometimes used even for short vowels, which is considered to be grammatically incorrect from' matres lectionis0u 8istory of the ]reek alphabet
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.fter the eth century 1C the vowels \ta and -mega had been included and that was the event in which the symmetry had been lost. de also might consider this as the era in which the hieroglyphic keys had been lost. People who insert the -mega at the end did not really know that the / had to be the last element instead of the long vowel -. ,f we highlight the .4,4/ structure inside the new ]reek alphabet the asymmetric structure will be seen immediately' a 1abylonian confusion of the vowels must be dated at the introduction of 8 and t around the eth century 1C.
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)he 7e"re0 Letters of the =ay as taught in Sefer /et<ira double because they each represent two sounds, hard and soft )he )imeline of 2owel Symbolism bu4 das the pronunciation cehovah widely accepted in the 0eth century 3 4 from' )he _ame -f ]od /ehowah. ,ts Story, 1y ]rard ]ertoum
!% _otes to Sefer /et<irah !" in modern printed temts matres lectionis are sometimes used even for short vowels, which is considered to be grammatically incorrect from' matres lectionis!9 1e<alel Porten, 4rchives from Llephantine: The life of an ancient Me0ish military colony, 0:eu, University of California Press, pp. 0#9, 0#e. !e )etragrammaton !^ Clotho spinner&, Lachesis allotter& and .tropos unturnable& !u 8yginus' c. e" 1C $ .= 0^& legend about the introduction of Phoenician letters to ]reece 5uoted in 8istory of the ]reek alphabet& !: a glottal stop in Phoenician %# because the pharyngeality altered the following vowel %0 Phoenician alphabet %! 8istory of the ]reek alphabet %% 2owel 2owel Systems&
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%. \ssentially the five long fundamental vocals 9" 1" :" 2" ; had been available in 8ebrew in the letters .leph and the three letters of the )etragrammaton&, in ]reek initially in A" E" I" !" Y and later more specifically in A" H" I" Y" #& and in Latin in B0C00D0 E/ ,0 in which the Long i$)owel had been written as if the vowel had been set in a special archaic form of an Upper 9ase. s )his might have been a good reason for \nglish language to capitaliFe the ego$pronoun I.& ". ,n all variants of these three languages the I had been located at a central highlighted& position of the long vowels%^' 4 in 8ebrew in the five long fundamental vocals 9" 1" :" 2" ; 4 in ]reek in A, E, 8, I, !, Y, t, within the archaic undifferentiated A" E" I" !" Y and later within the subset of long vowels A" H" I" Y" #< / 0G0 $ in Latin as the long ,4vowel in' + , 0D0E 9. )he 9 vocals basically , , , , & have been the keywords in designing the divine names | SDI-U4piter, =ieu, =iaus%:, etc.&, a great number such as the Tetragrammaton, I.t%u, { of ego4pronouns such as iau"#, ieu"0, iou"!, eau&,etc.& and for the days of the week such as Yueves , Yeudi , covedi, diYous ...& in a great variety of languages."" e. ;ost of the vowel cores inside the divine names and ego4pronouns& start with an :, to be followed by one of the long vowels 9" 1" 2" and eventually a trailer vowel ;. *rom these positions we may derive the principality of the vocalvletter (:+ or I in Latin the long &. ^. .rchaic divine names will often be restricted to three4vowel words such as = yaus, IA#, I!&4piter, =ieu. )herefore the triad4design seems to be the archaic prototype. | 2;4piter. ,n 8ebrew the divine name u. ,n Latin the principal deity had been chosen { YHAH had been represented by various vocal combinations such as :9;1, :1;1, and theoretically also :2;1<
%" not needed for a consonant in eastern dialects of ]reek, which lacked 6h7 | C,}.}*,L, , which in modern rendition would be lAciB a %9 8istory of the ]reek alphabet and Long i with a sample L2 { filiB, with a macron rather than apem to indicate vowel length&. %e Latin alpha"et %^ )acitus commented' 1esides this he 6Claudius7 invented three new letters and added them to the alphabet, maintaining that they were greatly neededw he published a book on their theory when he was still in private life ... %u .4t' ]reek 2owels and the Chaldean Planets %: yaus Pita "# )he ego4pronoun for the cauer4dialect "0 Sursilvan "! Sutsilvan "% [umantsch 4 ]rischun "" Permutations of the )rigrammaton /8d
:. )he ;atres Lectionis allowed four 8ebrew consonants .leph, 8e, daw, /odh to represent 9 vocals , , , , 4 , , , , 4 , $ respectively , , &. )he letter 8e however mostly represented or emcluding the &, which automatically reduced the possibility of | MDCHLDF?BDBFCNACNLLNFHOD>GHLENCBPDFHDF?BDCBKBOF generating (Ho)e+ respectively { generation of (Ha)e+ or (He)e+&. | SDNOPDBCBRDRHCPQDN?IB?DHCDNIBDNOPDBIBDQBBLDFHDFHD?NIB 0#. 1asically the Latin word { been derived from similar vowel hieroglyphs representing the vocals , , , , .
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,t must be a set of vowels which was to form a symbolic center for several alphabets. )he mystery of the real heart pu<<led me enough to invest some more time in the deciphering of the enigma.
)his alphabet only provides three vowels U, ,, . and does not contain a vowel (-+. _o P rune has been found in inscriptions, but it has been postulated that it was a mirrored form of the " rune due to pairings indicated in the staveless runes.
,n staveless runes the , is the only runic symbol, which fills the available space between the upper and lower bar.
#ig. 1T: Short)t0ig runes, one of the t0o main types of the .ounger #uthark, for comparison.
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6agnus <ikolai 9elsius 0e!040e^:&, who decoded the runic system of the staveless runes, suggested that the left wing of this alphabet had been the elder section. 9elsius also suggested that the 8elsing runes as well as the 0e _ordic 2iking runes may be arranged in two u4character groups. )he runes i and a, s and t have been additional elements to an original runic alphabet, in which the vowels i and a had been missing or replaced by the f respectively o4sounds9#.
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)he staveless runes even provide us with a lumurious doublet [ in the runes LM and the terminating & which seems to be superfluous. 8owever the ]reek alphabet also contains a doublet [' N at the beginning and O in the middle and the end of a silbe, which may be observed at locations, where both characters meet in ONLP.
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Other Vowel67e8uences
0. Long or genuine vowel se5uences QRSLT UVWXLI aeon may be considered as hieroglyphic words. ,n ]nosticism an on is a spirit being emanating from the ]odhead. Aeonian first usage 0^e9& is defined as (lasting for an immeasurably or indefinitely long period of time+99 !. ,n -ld \nglish Y is defined as (custom, tradition, law+9e Cognate with -ld Samon 1o, -l *risian ewa, 1we, 1, 9, -ld ]erman 1wa, 1ha, 1a, 1 ]erman Ehe" =utch echt&. %. ,n some _orwegian and =anish dialects9^ is used as an ego4pronoun9u I&. (,n many western, northern, and southwestern _orwegian dialects, and in the western =anish dialects of )hy and South cutland, the phoneme 6 6x7 has a significant meaning' the first person singular pronoun I" and it is thus a normally spoken wordw usually, it is written as 6 when these dialects are rendered in writing. ,n *aroese, it is pronounced the same way, but it is written as eg+. ". )he vowel I is being used as an ego4pronoun in \nglish. Y has been used by dycliffe in his ]enesis9:. )he .rabs say y for (e 637:(. 9. 1ased on the principal position of the I4vowel in the fundamental vowel subset 9" 1" :" 2" ; the word , and eventually an e5uivalent /3& seem to have been designed from the central master of the fundamental hieroglyphs 9" 1" :" 2" ;. e. AEI!& was a symbolic device utili<ed by the 8absburg emperors and designed by \mperor *rederick ,,, 0"09$:%&. ^. _egating versions of vowel se5uences may also relate to hieroglyphic words such as (nieuw+e0, pie. Uneuio) 3&, from Proto4]erman. Uneuja) -nl. 0#th Century usage e.g. '(nuuui+, mnl. e.g.: Vnieu1&e!. )he negated root4word may have been eeuw originally ' (many years+, or -ld \nglish Y respectively -nl. euua godes ]od's Law 4 probably also cognate with -ld Samon 1o, -l *risian ewa, 1we, 1, 9, -ld ]erman 1wa, 1ha, 1a, 1 ]erman Ehe" =utch echt&.
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]reek' perpetually, incessantly a long period of time, eon, epoch, age 4eonian 4 ;erriam4debster -nline *rom Proto4]ermanic aiw, aiwa< (law+&, from Proto4,ndo4\uropean oiw4 (custom, tradition, law+&. =ialects mostly found in )rndelag, northern _orway, and parts of western and southern _orway and =enmark first4person singular personal pronoun 1ible Wycliffe&v$enesis _otes to \tymons of \nglish dords 0u!e& -nl. niu0i in calf nuuui een nieuw kalf 60#e eeuww d.Ps.7 nieu0 pas ontstaan, gegroeid of gemaakt& 4 etymologiebank.nl
Conclusion
)he oldest .4,4U vowel concepts seem to have retained their original vowel structures in all languages. \misting .4\4,4-4U vowel concepts seem to have retained their original vowel structures up to their first modifications in which vowels had been modified. ]reek language lost its symmetrical vowel structure at the introduction of the long vowels 8 and t eth century 1C&. Latin language lost its symmetrical vowel structure at the introduction of the specific ]reek letters / and ` 0"e 1C&. ,n the ]reek alphabet the first letter . and the last letter Upsilon U& initially had been defined as vowels. ,n the eth century 1C the ]reek alphabet had been modified to use a first letter .& and the last letter t& as vowels. Latin obviously always used a consonant Z or `& as a last letter. )he vowel concept for the Latin alphabet may be considered as intact if the /4vowel is ignored.
e% e" e9 ee e^ eu e: ^# ^0 ^! ^% ^" ^9 )etragrammaton _otes to Plato's )imaeus and Symposium .nd additionally to the seven metals and seven colors )he Seven )emples of 8arran 4 \mplaining the vowel symbols in ,.t _otes to Sefer /et<irah _ames of the days of the week aierren 1arry. The $reek Wa"alah /ork 1each, ;\' deiser 1ooks, 0:::&' %9 49#. ;anly P. 8all. Secret Teachings of 4ll 4ges _ew /ork, _\')archervPenguin, !##%60:!u7&. buoted in .4t' ]reek 5o0els and the Chaldean Xlanets 8owever, the actual correspondences used by these initiates were never recorded )etragrammaton (,n the cewish4\gyptian magic4papyri it appears as YZ[GH\E.+ source' _.;\S -* ]-= 4 cewish\ncyclopedia& )he Seven )emples of 8arran 4 \mplaining the vowel symbols in ot
Contents
,ntro to one of the vowels.....................................................................................................................0 Upsilon as a diphthong.........................................................................................................................! Champ *leury 4 the art of designing letters..........................................................................................! 2owels .\,-2 $ / and 8...............................................................................................................% .pollo, ;uses, .rts, 2irtues and ]races........................................................................................." ;etrics.............................................................................................................................................9 Understanding the Pythagorean /...................................................................................................^ )he emplanatory sketch....................................................................................................................u )he ]reek alphabet...............................................................................................................................: -verview of the alphabet's Composition.......................................................................................0# . hierarchical order........................................................................................................................00 Latin hierarchical order.............................................................................................................00 \mample for a long ,4vowel.......................................................................................................00 8ebrew hierarchical order.........................................................................................................0! ]reek hierarchical order............................................................................................................0! Checking of the 2owel Symbolism's )heory......................................................................................0" dycliffe's /....................................................................................................................................0" Comparing ]eoffroy )ory's structure to the 8ebrew alphabet.....................................................0" ,oue s ,oua s ,ehoua 3&............................................................................................................0" Comparing .rabic, 8ebrew, Latin and ]reek...............................................................................09 . Concept for 2owel Symbolism.......................................................................................................0e .rchaic 2owels..............................................................................................................................0e \pisode from the eth century 1C onwards....................................................................................0^ \pisode from 0"e 1C onwards......................................................................................................0u [unes..................................................................................................................................................0u )he 8elsingia runic alphabet.........................................................................................................0u =ouble [........................................................................................................................................!# -ther 2owel4Se5uences.................................................................................................................!0 Chaldean and planetary& [elations...............................................................................................!! Conclusion..........................................................................................................................................!!