THE ARMENIAN ALPHABET IS AT LEAST 17 THOUSAND YEARS OLD”
KIM VELTMAN – PREVIOUS ARTICLE.
“The Armenian alphabet is said to have been invented by Saint Meshrop Mashtots in 405 or 406 A.D. at the time when Christianity came to Armenia. And yet an evolution of the Armenian alphabet traces the history of its letters from petroglyphs in the Paleolithic period (15,000 – 12,000 B.C.), via hieroglyphs and syllabic systems to the Hyksosian alphabet (1,730 B.C.) and finally the modem alphabet.”
“Alphabets of Life”, v.1 p. 806
“It is generally accepted that the Armenian alphabet was created by Saint Mesrop Mashtots in 405 or 406 AD, when Christianity arrived in Armenia. However, the evolution of the Armenian alphabet traces its writing history from the petroglyphs of the Paleolithic period (15,000–12,000 BC), through hieroglyphs and syllabic systems, to the Hyksos alphabet (1730 BC), and finally to the modern alphabet.
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Syllabic systems were used in the Armenian language from approximately 1100 BC to 650 BC.
By 6500 BC, the Armenian alphabet became an offshoot of the Indo-European language system. In the Old Armenian alphabet, each letter of the alphabet corresponds to seven different word combinations:
AR, AST, AZD, ASHT, TAR, ZAR, SUN.
Each Armenian letter is accompanied by a word or phrase related to the cosmos, light, fundamental principles, and cyclical return, such as:
Sun, Good, Existence, Gift, Sky, First, Fire, Struggle, Cosmos,
Compose, Define,
Flame, Ascent, Essence, Leap, Deep, Radiance, More, Rebirth, Spiral
Fight, Heat, Infinity, Kolak [Sun], Time, etc.
It is easy to see how the four wings of the swastika serve as a matrix for the creation of letters. As early as 6500 BC, this alphabet represented more than just a set of letters for spoken and written speech.
The Armenian alphabet represented a celestial plan of the sources of creation and the resulting cycles of the universe, the history of the heavens. The Armenian alphabet was solar alphabet. The emergence of cosmology, religions, and alphabets in Sumer and Armenia were obviously interconnected.”
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Dutch-Canadian scholar Kim Veltman claimed that the Armenian alphabet is at least 17,000 years old. 17,000 (seventeen thousand!) years old, not 1,700, as some believe. And the Armenian letters on the jug at the Gold Museum in Bolivia are 5,500 (five thousand five hundred) years old!
Kim (Keimpe) Henry Veltman (September 5, 1948 – April 1, 2020) was a renowned Dutch-Canadian historian of science and art. He was the director of the Virtual Maastricht McLuhan Institute (VMMI), a consultant, and an author known for his contributions to the fields of “Linear Perspective and the Visual Dimensions of Science and Art,” new media, culture, and society.
Veltman was born in Workum in Friesland and emigrated with his family to Canada, where he became a Canadian citizen. Veltman received a BA in history from York University in Toronto in 1969, where he also earned an MA in Renaissance history in 1970. In 1975, he received his PhD in the history and philosophy of science from the Warburg Institute in London, where he studied with B.A.R. Carter, Alistair Cameron Crombie, Ernst Gombrich, A.I. Sabra, and Charles B. Schmitt.
After completing his studies and several years of research and industry work as a postdoctoral fellow, he began working as an assistant professor and research fellow at the University of Toronto in 1984. From 1990 to 1995, he was Director of the McLuhan Perspectives Program in the Faculty of Education at the University of Toronto.
In 1998, he moved to Maastricht, where he became Director of the McLuhan Maastricht Institute. Since 2006, he has been Scientific Director of the Virtual McLuhan Maastricht Institute.
Over the years, he was a visiting professor at the University of Göttingen in 1983–84; at the University of Siena in 1991; at the University of Rome La Sapienza in 1992; at the University of Rome II in 1995; and at Carleton University in 1994–96. The proceedings of the EVA 2020 London conference were dedicated to his memory, including eulogy from his colleague Carl Smith and others.
