#Ancient Scripts

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just let me go (or take me with you)

CHAPTER ONE OF ONE

Pairing: Dewdrop/Swiss

Rating: Explicit

Words: 5073

Tags: Grief/Mourning | Isolation | Aether’s dead I’m sorry |Church Sex| Improper Use of Catholic Rituals | Dominate Dew | Altar Sex | vague mentions of suicidal ideation | Post-Break Up | Make up sex

He’d broken up with the pack, so his anger was entirely misguided towards them. They were doing what he’d asked, leaving him the fuck alone. There were other things he’d said, but they are best left unrepeated.

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all my thanks to my beta @papal-babygirl and to @askingforthesun, who dealt with me the entire time i wrote this and helped me with the infernal 🖤

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Ogham is such an interesting script. I'd love to learn it and the language that uses it.

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Runecasting is an ancient Norse art of geomancy/divination Both spiritual & practical advice are provided in a rdg! .doc/.pdf includes pic of cast & in-depth interpretation! #runes #futhark #germanic #heathen #pagan #witch #wiccan

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WHY DO ANCIENT SCRIPTS DIE OUT

About Ancient Scripts This is a reblog of the article posted by Rita Roberts on why ancient scripts die out. The invention of writing is a topic that intritues. Below is a snippet of the article and link to the full post.Why do Ancient Scripts Die Out?Today is World Endangered Writing Day, a new initiative by the Endangered Alphabets project aimed at highlighting and celebrating minority and…

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Ancient Scripts

Welcome to Time Spectators, the ultimate gateway to the enigmatic and the untold. Our channel is a treasure trove of content that delves into Ancient Mysteries, Unravels Historical Secrets, and Explores the Mysterious Places of the world.Are you fascinated by the enigmas of Lost Civilizations or intrigued by the Unsolved Mysteries that history has left behind? Do Archaeological Discoveries pique your interest? Do you find yourself drawn to Mythical Legends and Conspiracies that have withstood the test of time? Then you’re in the right place!

Join us as we uncover the Hidden History and Secret Societies that have shaped our world. From the Mystery of the Pyramids to the Ancient Artifacts that baffle modern science, from the Dark History hidden in plain sight to the Secret Chambers of history’s most iconic structures—we cover it all.

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Ancient Scripts

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Ancient Scripts

Welcome to Time Spectators, the ultimate gateway to the enigmatic and the untold. Our channel is a treasure trove of content that delves into Ancient Mysteries, Unravels Historical Secrets, and Explores the Mysterious Places of the world.Are you fascinated by the enigmas of Lost Civilizations or intrigued by the Unsolved Mysteries that history has left behind? Do Archaeological Discoveries pique your interest? Do you find yourself drawn to Mythical Legends and Conspiracies that have withstood the test of time? Then you’re in the right place!

Join us as we uncover the Hidden History and Secret Societies that have shaped our world. From the Mystery of the Pyramids to the Ancient Artifacts that baffle modern science, from the Dark History hidden in plain sight to the Secret Chambers of history’s most iconic structures—we cover it all.

Subscribe to Time Spectators and become a part of our community of history enthusiasts, mystery solvers, and seekers of the world’s greatest Secrets and Mysteries. Every video promises a thrilling journey into the unknown, with expert storytelling, stunning visuals, and meticulously researched content.

Don’t miss out on our Historical Documentaries that bring the past to life, and stay tuned for regular uploads that will feed your curiosity and expand your understanding of the world’s most Mysterious Cultures and Legendary Treasures.

Hit the notification bell to get alerted on the latest videos, and remember—history is not just about the past; it’s a map to the hidden wonders of our world. Dive in with us and unlock the secrets waiting to be discovered. Welcome to Time Spectators—where history’s mysteries are brought to light!

Ancient Scripts

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Ancient Scripts

Welcome to Time Spectators, the ultimate gateway to the enigmatic and the untold. Our channel is a treasure trove of content that delves into Ancient Mysteries, Unravels Historical Secrets, and Explores the Mysterious Places of the world.Are you fascinated by the enigmas of Lost Civilizations or intrigued by the Unsolved Mysteries that history has left behind? Do Archaeological Discoveries pique your interest? Do you find yourself drawn to Mythical Legends and Conspiracies that have withstood the test of time? Then you’re in the right place!

Join us as we uncover the Hidden History and Secret Societies that have shaped our world. From the Mystery of the Pyramids to the Ancient Artifacts that baffle modern science, from the Dark History hidden in plain sight to the Secret Chambers of history’s most iconic structures—we cover it all.

Subscribe to Time Spectators and become a part of our community of history enthusiasts, mystery solvers, and seekers of the world’s greatest Secrets and Mysteries. Every video promises a thrilling journey into the unknown, with expert storytelling, stunning visuals, and meticulously researched content.

Don’t miss out on our Historical Documentaries that bring the past to life, and stay tuned for regular uploads that will feed your curiosity and expand your understanding of the world’s most Mysterious Cultures and Legendary Treasures.

Hit the notification bell to get alerted on the latest videos, and remember—history is not just about the past; it’s a map to the hidden wonders of our world. Dive in with us and unlock the secrets waiting to be discovered. Welcome to Time Spectators—where history’s mysteries are brought to light!

Mysterious Events

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Observing World Sanskrit Day: Protecting an Old Legacy

World Sanskrit Day is a valued event that resounds with the reverberations of an old phonetic fortune – the Sanskrit language. This day respects the rich legacy, significant insight, and social importance epitomized inside the Sanskrit script. In this far reaching article, we plunge profound into the meaning of World Sanskrit Day, its verifiable roots, the immortal significance of Sanskrit, its…

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The narrator and the ugly ahh protagonist [Blank Scripts AU/non-canonical]

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Stone With 1,600-Year-Old Irish Inscription Found in English Garden

A geography teacher, Graham Senior, stumbled across a rock with mysterious incisions while tidying his overgrown garden in Coventry, England. The discovery of a small stone carved with an early form of Celtic script has caused excitement among archaeologists.

The rectangular sandstone rock was found by Graham Senior in Coventry during lockdown in 2020 while he was weeding, but its true value was only recently understood.

The 11-centimeter-long and 139-gram rectangular sandstone rock had cryptic inscriptions on it that suggested a history spanning over 1,600 years, all written in the mysterious Ogham alphabet.

Ogham is an early medieval alphabet used to write the Archaic Irish language from the 4th to the 6th century and Old Irish from the 6th to the 9th century. It is usually found carved on stones in Ireland, Wales, and western Britain. It was the first written language in Ireland. The majority of the 400 or so known inscriptions from the Archaic Irish period are family name pillars that were built to announce land ownership.

Ogham is an extremely unique writing system among all writing systems, with lines arranged in groups of one to five only. The stones provide insight into the Irish language before the use of the Latin insular script.

Finds liaison officer for the Birmingham Museums Trust, Teresa Gilmore, told RTÉ’s Morning Ireland that the discovery on an Ogham stone in the English midlands was a rare find.

“These finds do not turn up in the midlands. The bulk of Ogham inscriptions are found over in Ireland,” she said.

Professor Katherine Forsyth of Celtic Studies at the University of Glasgow conducted additional research that shed more light on the stone’s provenance. Her findings point to a period suggesting a timeframe ranging from the fifth to sixth centuries, with the possibility of an even earlier date in the fourth century.

The stone is inscribed on three of its four sides. The inscription on the stone, “Maldumcail/S/ Lass,” puzzled researchers, with interpretations pointing towards a version of the personal name Mael Dumcail, but the meaning of the S and LASS is unclear. Given the usual purpose and significance of ogham stones, it may be a location reference.

Theories regarding the origins of the stone abound, with speculations ranging from migration patterns to the presence of early medieval monasteries in the region.

The rock will be displayed at the Herbert Art Gallery and Museum in Coventry, to which Senior has donated it permanently. It will feature in the forthcoming Collecting Coventry exhibition, which opens on 11 May.

By Oguz Kayra.

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April 13, Xi'an, China, Shaanxi Archaeology Museum/陕西考古博物馆 (Part 1 - Neolithic to pre-Qin dynasty):

Unfortunately I was not able to acquire tickets to the Shaanxi History Museum/陕西历史博物馆, which is one of my biggest regrets from this entire trip, because Shaanxi History Museum is the provincial-level museum, it has a lot more artifacts. Xi’an is the capital city of Shaanxi Province, so it has both the city-level museum and the provincial-level museum; the one I posted about previously, Xi’an museum, is just the city-level museum.

But fortunately Xi’an has a quite a few history museums, which makes sense considering the city’s very long history, so on we go to the Shaanxi Archaeology Museum:

For the longest time I also thought archaeology was a very European thing, but actually? It did also exist in ancient China. The word guxue/古学 (lit. “Antiquity Studies”) existed as early as Eastern Han dynasty (25 - 220 AD), and by Song dynasty (960 - 1279 AD), kaoguxue/考古学/archaeology was pretty well known. Sidenote: the word 考古学 may not mean exactly the same thing as archaeology in Song dynasty, but today it just means archaeology. Below is the Song-era kaoguxue work named 《考古图》 (this book on display was printed in Qing dynasty, judging by the cover):

Compare the above with the notes of a modern archaeologist:

A collection of interesting Neolithic era pottery artifacts with various faces on them. Some are from Yangshao culture/仰韶文化 (5000 - 2700 BC). I swear you can make reaction pics out of these lol

They even have these refrigerator magnet souvenirs lol

Is that a pottery piggy on the right? This piggy looks oddly familiar…

Which reminds me of this other pottery pig found near the Sanxingdui/三星堆 site (Picture from Douyin user 姜丝炒土豆丝). Looks very familiar indeed lol

A pottery drum reminiscent of an udu drum. The one in the front is a replica that visitors can try out

Left: a pottery artifact with a frog face on it. Right: a pottery tiger I think? Not sure.

Shang dynasty (1600 - 1046 BC) jade dragon:

Carved stone bricks from the neolithic site of Shimao/石峁 (~2000 BC). These were originally found in the outer walls of the site, which is why they are presented this way:

Mouth harp artifacts from Shimao culture (top one is a modern one, for comparison). There’s also a map on the many variations of mouth harps from cultures around the world, which is really cool:

Fragments of bone flutes. These were flutes fashioned from crane bones, the most famous of which were the intact flutes unearthed from the Jiahu/贾湖 site dating back to 7000 - 5700 BC, and they were still playable (first link is the 1999 Nature article regarding this discovery, second link goes to a recording of a modern musician playing the song 小白菜 on one of these bone flutes)

A Western Zhou dynasty (1046 – 771 BC) bone hairpin. There were quite a few hairpins in the exhibition, but this is my fav:

And now comes the really cool stuff: oracle/divination bones. Oracle/divination bones were animal bones that ancient Chinese people (mostly of Shang-era) used for divination. These bones have holes drilled into them in a pattern and have oracle bone script/jiaguwen/甲骨文 carved into them (the carved text consists of questions presented to the gods), and then they were heated slowly over a fire until the bone starts to crack. A priest or priestess would then interpret these cracks, as they were seen as answers from the gods, and record the answer on the bone. Sometimes these bones were used purely as records for important events:

Since oracle bone script is the oldest form of Chinese written language, it is possible to decipher the text carved onto these bones:

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refusing to be undone.

Atia Balba, niece to Julius Caesar, died only a year after his assassination, and was survived by her two children, Octavia the Younger and Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus, who she had named Gaius Octavius at birth. Both her son and daughter would outlive her by several years.

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Examples of Ogham Script, The Moffat Museum, Scotland