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The
islands on the Mediterranean Sea, such as Cyprus, Crete and
Malta, have been settled from the very early times by the Okh
tribes, expanding from Central Asia (see Chapter 2,
The
Proto-language of
Central Asia).
We can attest this fact from the seals and early ideograms
found in several locations. The “Onk” or “Kno” seal mentioned
in the previous Chapter is an important indicator of this root
culture. Below we see several Onk / Kno seals found in
different places of the world.
The
coins found on the island of Crete are the only ones having
inscriptions. One can read this three-letter word from left to
right as “KNO” or from right to left as “ONK”.
Since the most important ancient city in Crete was Knossos, it
is very probable that KNO stands for Knossos (see map below).
If “KNO” is
the concatenation of OK-ON, the original form of Knossos could
very well be OK-ON-AS-US. This 4-monosyllabic word
means “We are the universal OC and AS”, which is a clear
indication that the Ok (Oc) people originating from Asia. The
name Crete (Krit / Girit) itself can be expanded as
OK-UR-ET “make it an Oc settlement”, where UR means
“settle” and ET means “do” in the Altaic languages.
Crete
abounds with Minoan remains, mostly found around Knossos,
Arkanes and Phaistos. Several different inscriptions on clay
documents have been unearthed by Arthur Evans
(1).
Some of the early seals are in the form of arrow, sun and
double-edged ax. All three symbols (seals) are important
indicators of the early Central-Asiatic culture. A. Evans
found also a script which he named Linear-A. As of today
Linear-A is still not deciphered
(2).
Below we see some examples of the Linear-A ideograms. The ONK
seal can clearly be seen on the first line of the third box.
The name
Minoan is not the original name of the early Cretan culture.
It has been coined by Arthur Evans, from the name Minos; the
ruler of Knossos. According
to Arthur Bernard Cook (3), Minos and Minotaur
are only different forms of the same personage, representing
the sun-god of the Cretans, who depicted the sun as a bull. As
mentioned before, the bull and some horned animals such as the
ibex and the elk were all representations of the Okh shaman
leader, having the power of the bull, the wings of an eagle
and worshipping the sun-god. He was accepted as being the
incarnation of the sun-god on earth.
We see this
symbolism in Mesopotamia, in Anatolia and on the Mediterranean
islands. Below, (on the left) the golden bullhead and the
double-edged ax of Minos are shown
(4). On the right side a
winged Sumerian deity having a human head with triple horns
and a bull body is shown. Similar statues called
Lamassu
are found at the entrance gates of palaces in Hattusas
(Turkey), in Babylon and Nimrud (Irak) and in Persopolis
(Iran). They tell the visitor that the palace they are about
to enter belongs to a powerful “Okh” king who is strong as a
bull and has supernatural powers. The double-edged ax will be
discussed in a further chapter.
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