Word Family - Egypt December theme: Pre-Classical Mediterranean 🏝 Introduction Tying Minoan (Cretan) Phaistos and Greek Hephaestus in to this family is speculative, but not as wild a reach as it first looks like. Hephaestus and Phaistos, Crete: We usually represent the name as Hephaestus in the Roman alphabet, after Roman transliteration traditions, but (as … read more
Word Family - Phoenix December theme: Pre-Classical Mediterranean 🏝️ Introduction Next week, the sister of Phoenix. Teaser Phoenicia, phoenix, Tisiphone Full Text Egyptian fnḫ carpenter, woodcutter Egyptian fnḫw woodcutters, Canaanites, Syrians [1] Mycenaean Greek 𐀡𐀛𐀑𐀍 po-ni-ki-jo trade commodity of some sort [2] Classical Greek φοῖνιξ phoînix Phoenician, purple or crimson, date palm, a guitar-like instrument … read more