Motion Source God Su

The cycle of new moon to new moon was the fundamental unit of time in ancient times. Time changes all things.  
Su also corresponded to the "window of emotions," which was represented by the pupil of the eye. In the middle east where the life power class came to dominate Su came to be considered evil after the introduction of dualism after 500 BCE. This led to the concept of the "evil eye." In contrast to the pupil, the iris was considered as the eye of the sun. This was big in Egypt as the "Eye of Horus." This also led to the iris more directly  representing the "sun disk" as the god Aten under the pharaoh Akhenaten.

Masculine Motion Source Power - Su

(June 19, 2023) Motion deities were responsible for all changes in object positions (motion) on earth. This is in contrast to the life deities which were responsible for all growth changes. Motion powers were the magical powers. 

Su is represented by the dark new moon and the pupil of the eye which corresponds to both sources of motion, the heavenly bodies of the night sky and a person/animal’s inner emotions. This eye correspondence gives rise to Su’s main epithet which is “observer.” The new moon defines the monthly cycles so Su is also “father time.” The causal fluid of this class is “breaths” and “winds” (depending on which motion class) which would later be translated as “spirits.” Compare to the life-growth source deity Alu (AL).

This deity has also be translated as "Sin" or "Suen" which is incorrect. The /n/ suffix is the means "powers of" when applied to deities so those words should be translated as "powers of Su."

Etruscan Orcus Tomb Two Image 4: Hu With Deities of Fate (Kate/Hekate and Su) 490 BCE

(November 12, 2023, updated December 20, 2024)

The next image clockwise around the room shows three deities in a cloud. They are right to left: dark new moon god Su with a bear cap, underworld goddess of fate Kate/Hekate with snakes in her hair (symbols of life and death), and the manifestation/emanation god Hu holding the spear. (Original photo: Rönnlund, Wikimedia Commons, 2012).

Translation in Akkadian (Text Med 19.3)

(read right to left. Capital letters on stone. Inner vowels inferred)
  1. Nu  A  A
  2. Mu  EDu  Bu  IGu Na Pu Ya
  3. Du U Ṣu

In English

  1. Revelations (of fate) are are result of them (Kate/Hekate and Su).
  2. Fertility-fluids are moved by nourishing the eyes-of-fate (planets). The Revelations (of fate) are not being opened.
  3. Life-power-manifestations are because of activity (motion powers)

Moon Bear As The Emotional Human Beast

(December 9, 2024) The Asiatic black bear is also called the "moon bear"  because it has a crescent shaped white patch. As such it represents both crescent moon life goddess Ayu and the celestial light motion/emotion source goddess Selu/Selene. Given its moon context its black color represents the dark new moon god Su.
Consequently, the Moon Bear represents the human beast,  the human in its pure emotional form. Bears have many human characteristics such as being omnivorous, having only 1 or 2 young, and being able to walk on 2 feet. 

Mosaic Bear at House Entrance in Pompeii

(December 9, 2024) Bear wounded by a spear. Text above is "HAVE" which is not Latin. Roman mosaic from the House of the Bear (VII 2, 45) in Pompeii. "HAVE" is actually Druid Akkadian Ḫ.AW.E meaning "Hu makes ineffective the emotion-powers." in which the emotion-powers are represented by the bear.
Image from: https://ru.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BB:Pompeii_-_Casa_dell_Orso_Ferito_-_Bear_Mosaic.jpg

Front of Temple Token From Palmyra, Syria 50 BCE

(February 28, 2024) The image on this face shows some young person or deity surround by astronomical symbols. These are from right to left circling clockwise: an unknown symbol, the dark new moon god Su (ringed disk), a comet, a rising sun (dawn) and a crescent moon representing the connective life goddess Ayu. The identification of the other two symbols is uncertain.

Reference

Now at the Louvre. Item number AO 1951

https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010144273

Back of Temple Token From Palmyra, Syria 50 BCE

(February 28, 2024) The image  consist of a ringed disk next to a disk encircled by 8 small disks. The ringed disk is an eye representing the dark new moon god Su. In contrast the center disk seems to be the earth surrounded by the heavenly bodies pf which Su is a part.

The text is stating that Su is resisting the flow of life powers to earth. Implied is that this lack of life powers is causing a drought which is killing the suffering humans (the "tearful" in the text).

The letter style is early Aramaic.

Translation in Akkadian (Levant Text 69.1)

(read left to right. Capital letters on object. Small letters are inferred Inner vowels. Verbs are italic bold)  
  1. Ku  Qu  Su  WaNu  WaLu.  AWu  QaPu  BaKu (Lev )

(Dual use letters are E/H, I/Y, U/W, and '/A in which vowel appears at beginning of words except for Yahu which is keeping its traditional Hebrew transliteration)

In English

  1. Involve the life-threads.  Su is resisting Alu.  Motion-powers are collapsing the tearful.
 

Reference

Now at the Louvre. Item number AO 1951

https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010144273

Diameter: 2.30 centimeters.  Weight: 2.24 grams. Letter assignments by Olmsted. From British Museum. Museum number: 1984,1101.1. Online at: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/H_1984-1101-1

Translation in Akkadian (Rune Text 11)

(read right to left in the traditional Druid direction as the bracteate is rotated counter clockwise. Capital letters on object. Small letters are inferred Inner vowels. Verbs are italic bold)
  1. ŠaPu,  ŠaPu,  ŠaPu  ṢaPu. ŠaPu  Ṣu.  Mu  Ṣu  Ya (Rune 11.1)

In English

  1. Make-super, make-super, make-super the soaking. Make-super the activity-level.  Fertility-fluids are not being activated.

(June 16, 2023) This text is a plea for avoiding a drought by using magic. It is claiming not enough rain is being made because the fertility-fluids needed to trigger it is not being pushed (activated) enough to get through the life network of Hu.

The imagery on this bracteate is a mix of Roman and Druid. Just under the chain ring is a Druid Spiral doublet. To the left of that is a symbol at bottom of this photo is the Roman symbol of the infants Romulus and Remous feeding at the teats of a wolf (milk is a fertility fluid as mentioned in the text). Between the two are images are the sun (god Hu, life power) and the dark new moon (god Su, astrological motion power) indicating this bracteate is about the integration of those two classes of spiritual powers. Notice the moon is similar to the eye in the helmeted figure which further supports the idea the concentric circles represent the new (dark) moon god Su. The new moon had the epithet of "observer" in Alphabetic Akkadian. 

Etruscan Orcus Tomb 2, Image 4, Embarrassed God Hu Surrounded by Gods Alu and Su 490 BCE

(April 19, 2024, Updated December 20, 2024)  According to the text, the characters are right to left:

This scene shows an embarrassed god Hu standing between an old Alu on the left and a younger Su on the right. Previously these deities were misidentified as Vanth, Agamemnon, and Tiresias. Each plant in this scene divides the layers of the Ancient Pagan Paradigm which are represented by their main life class deities. The left plant has 6 nymphs representing the 6 known planets (eye-of-fate) of the sky shell between Hu and Alu. These planets are: Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. (Original photo by Rönnlund, Wikimedia Commons, 2012).

According to the text, the destroyed image behind the god Su should have been the underworld goddess Kate/Hekate. Presumably, Su's text would have been lower down and located in front of Su but that has also been destroyed.

Translation in Akkadian (Text Med 19.4)

(read right to left. Capital letters on stone. Inner vowels inferred)
  1. Nu  IGu  AZu
  2. Šu  INu  Qu  Ya  A  Lu.  Tu  EPu  Ya  A  Zu.  Hu  Lu  Zu
  3. ... [ ]Mu  E  Mu.  Du  UYu  Ya

In English

  1. The Revealer (goddess Kate/Hekate) associates with the Eyes-of-Fate (planets).
  2. Similarly, the Moon-eye (Su) is not threading this lack.  Astrology-magic (from Su) is not drying their emanations (rain).  Hu is lacking emanations.
  3. … .  the can make ineffective the fertility-fluids. Life-Manifestations are not being fated.
Minoan workshop tags found in quarter M1. Sign assignments by Olmsted (Image from foldout 3 of Goldart and Poursat 1978)

References

Godart, L. and Poursat, J-C (1978) Malia. Le Quartier Mu 1. Introduction générale par J.-Cl. Poursat. Écriture hiéroglyphique crétoise par L. Godart et J.-P. Olivier. Études crétoises, 23, 1978 - 2021 École Française d'Athènes. Online at: https://cefael.efa.gr/detail.php?site_id=1&actionID=page&serie_id=EtCret&volume_number=23&ce=oatbaqmb7gsvpv7saktgh9sd9dd7b3sr&sp=230

Minoan Malia Shipping Tag for Source Power Items - 1700 BCE

(July 11, 2022) These are read left to right.

Tag 1a Translation into Akkadian (Minoan Text 1.1.1)

  1. du

Into English

  1. For the life-power source (Alu) 

____________________

Tag 1b Translation into Akkadian (Minoan Text 1.1.2)

Into English

  1. For Su (Motion power source)

One side of this tag  labels items for the life powers while the other side labels them for the motion powers.  This indicates these tags were reused.

Round Minoan tag at Heraklion Museum with Inscription
Round Tag displayed at Heraklion Museum in Crete. (Personal photo of Olmsted)

Round Temple Tag at Heraklion Museum (Minoan Text 1.5) - 1700 BCE

(August 13, 2022) Read left to right. This is not a workshop tag but seems to be a temple tag with a religious phrase. 

Translation into Akkadian

  1. Su Lu.  Ḫu Wa

Into English

  1. Su is lacking. Hu is miserable.

The full moon god Su is the motion source god and his motion powers are needed to push the fertility fluids through the life network represented by the visible sun god Hu. If the fertility fluids are sluggish then life forms do not get manifested making all the life powers miserable. 

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References

Godart, L. and Poursat, J-C (1978) Malia. Le Quartier Mu 1. Introduction générale par J.-Cl. Poursat. Écriture hiéroglyphique crétoise par L. Godart et J.-P. Olivier. Études crétoises, 23, 1978 - 2021 École Française d'Athènes. Online at: https://cefael.efa.gr/detail.php?site_id=1&actionID=page&serie_id=EtCret&volume_number=23&ce=oatbaqmb7gsvpv7saktgh9sd9dd7b3sr&sp=230
Allegedly from Lower Egypt. Now at the Oxford, Ashmolean Museum (number AN1889.433). Seal made of Carnelian, 14 x 10 x 7 mm.

Nile Delta: Motion God Su Affects Yahu (700-610 BCE)

(May 10, 2023) The full  moon god Su is adequately pushing and pouring the fertility-fluids (filtrate) through the channels (threads) of the life network. Nothing is being adversely affected.

Translation in Akkadian (Levant Text 60.203)

(Read right to left. Capital letters on seal. Small letters are inferred Inner vowels. Verb is italic bold)
  1. Su  Gi  Qu (Levant Text 60.203.1) making left line on the S has a hand slip resulting in an extra long line
  2. Lu  Ya  RaKu (Levant Text 60.203.2) 
  3. Zu  Su  KaRu  Ya  E (Levant Text 60.203.3) 

(Dual use letters are E/H, I/Y, U/W, and '/A in which vowel appears at beginning of words except for Yahu which is keeping its traditional Hebrew transliteration)

In English 

  1. Su is energizing the threads. 
  2. Not lacking is the inpouring.
  3. Emanations of Su are not reducing anything.

Previous Hebrew Translation Attempt

Some Hebrew language scholars claim the text reads as follows: 

  1. Belonging to Yarim
  2. (son of) Zimriyahu

References

Avigad, Nahman; Sass, Benjamin (1997) Corpus of West Semitic Stamp Seals. Published by THE ISRAEL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES, THE ISRAEL EXPLORATION SOCIETY, THE INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGY, and THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM. Online at: https://www.academia.edu/4786835/1997_Avigad_N_revised_and_completed_by_Sass_B_Corpus_of_West_Semitic_stamp_seals_Jerusalem 
Carthage Stone as display at the Carthage National Museum in Byrsa, Tunisia. Photo from م ض via Wikimedia Commons at: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mus_Carthage.JPG
Carthage Stone as display at the Carthage National Museum in Byrsa, Tunisia. Photo from م ض via Wikimedia Commons at: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mus_Carthage.JPG

Line by Line Explanation

  1. Threads are the channels of the life network through which fertility fluids flow to trigger Yahu to manifest life forms. But, fertility fluids affected by negative human emotions which are not being covered  up but are instead being made manifest by the motion source god and full moon god Su. The sun god Hu represents the life network but it is not being properly formed.
  2. Thu is the hermaphrodite motion power deity for the connective layer of the Ancient Pagan Paradigm. He is the one who normally filters out negative human emotions but he is being intimidated by the source power of this motion powers which is Su.
  3. Eagle vultures are the familiars which edit the life network by cutting off unwanted links.
  4. Lack of drought depends on a working life network represented by the sun god Hu and the pushing of the fertility fluids through it by spiritual motion (wind) powers represented by the owl familiar.
  5.  Humans emotions are causing the misery 
  6.  The astrological motion powers are in control of human emotions right now.
  7. This line makes a connection between the life powers and motion powers by using the analogy of sex.

Translation of Carthage Stone Text Blames Drought on Negative and Unblocked Emotions (170 BCE)

(September 5, 2022) This text is blaming  a drought on negative and unblocked human emotions. Normally the connective hermaphrodite motion power deity, Thu, blocked most of these negative emotions before they could affect the flow of fertility fluids through the life network represented by sun god Hu. In this case Thu is being restrained by the astrological motion source powers represented by the full moon god Su.

Translation in Akkadian

(read right to left. Capital letters on stone. Inner vowels inferred)
  1. Lu Qu ḪaWu Le'u. IA Šu Qu. E ḪaSu. Su IMu Du. Mu Ta'u Ru. E ReTu A. Tu NūNu Bu Ḫu.
  2. Tu Lu Ṭu. MuTa Lu Ṭu U APu Nu. Ba'u I' QaRu. Apu Nu. Ba'u Yabu A Tu MaNu. ḪaNu Su Bu NuNu.
  3. Du RuQu Bu. Nu HuNu AWu. Hu Bu Ru. Nu MaṬu. Nu A Ma'u Ya Hu Mu. IWu Qu Se'u. Bu PaMu IDu RaQu.
  4. Bu Pamu ID RaQu. Bu Nu Be'u. Ya Ḫu Nu A Bu. NaBu PaMu ID Raqu. Lu IṢu ŠuḪu U Aku Nu A.
  5. Ṣu Ḫu RaQu Nu. Ṣu Qu EMu U Ṣu AMu. A Tu Ba'u. MaDu DaRu QaTu Du. IMu EQu Q. WA T A
  6. A Tu Imu Nu. Ṣu U Ḫu RaSu UMu. A NuNu MaWu. BaQu QeNu RaMu U Le'u IṢu Pu. IMu A Ḫu Pu 
  7. U'a Nu Tu. EMu Ḫu TaBu. Mu A Tu. INu AZu Qu. E A Pu Mu. E A U ṢȃLu AYu Lu Gi. Ya Le'u IMu. NeKu ...

In English

  1. The lack of threading is the howling of the astrological-powers. Yahu (IA) is being the same as the threading. Nothing is being covered-up. Su manifests the emotions. Fertility-fluids are being pastured by the eagle-vultures. Nothing is being set by them. Anarchic magic is nourishing Hu.
  2. Magic is lacking Thu. The murderer is lacking Thu and veiling the Revealer (Yahu). The nest (network) determines the fate of Yahu (I'). Veiled is the Revealer. The nest's enemy is supported by this magic. Intimidation by Su is nourishing anarchy.
  3. Life-manifesting is being made difficult for the nourishments (fertility-fluids). The Revealer (Yahu) is being intimidated by the motion-powers. Hu is being nourished by the eagle-vultures. The Revealer is scarce. Those revelations are not being pushed by Hu's fertility-fluids. The redirection of threads is being inhibited. Nourishments are clamoring for the difficult life-channels. 
  4. Nourishments are clamoring for the ignored life-channels. Nourishments nest the Revealer. Shouldn’t Hu be revealing those nourishments? The Nourishment-Revealer (Yahu) is clamoring for the difficult life-channels. A lack of scarcity depends on the wind and emotion-owls will be revealing that.
  5. The activity of Hu is being difficult for the Revealer (Yahu). The activity of the threads is being supervised and activated by the Reed-Boat (Ayu). Her magic is nested. The creation of invisible-forms is ending in life-manifestations, (but) emotions are making ineffective the life-threads. Misery is from those magical-powers.
  6. This magic is revealed by emotions. Activity and Hu are being attacked by the storm-powers. This makes anarchic the waters. The swarm (stars) is taking possession of the emotional-releasing and the astrological powers are making-scarce the openings. Those emotions open Hu.
  7. Misery is being revealed by magic. The Supervisor (Ayu) arouses Hu. Fertility-fluids are crafted by magic for that. Moon-eyes are associating with the threads. None of this is opening-up the fertility-fluids. None of this is fighting Ayu’s lack of energy. Do not the astrological-powers emotionally-empower? Nakedness ..