The various articles can be found in the respective fields of interest. Moreover Odyssee-Verlag-Wien presents its first book.
MAYA TRANSITION EPIGRAPHIC DICTIONARY by Kurt Schildmann
The author shows a possible expedition near-east seafarers reached Maya-Land around 500 BC. They brought their script symbols and a lot of expressions to their new horizon, which can be found in the Mayan context as far as they are open for our understanding. An understanding, which is promoted and opened in remarkable way by this book.
Kurt Schildmann, born 1909, Duisburg-Hamborn, Germany. At the age of 18, he explored Greece with his brother, where monks gave them lessons in medieval Greek. Later, by etymological studies he specialized in reconstructing the Proto-Indo-European Basic Language. Examined on 6 languages by the New Federal Ministry of Defense, he became a member of the linguistic staff of that Ministry for more than 20 years. Retired, he got the opportunity to read and collect grammar and vocabulary of exotic languages. Finally he deciphered Glozel (France), Burrows Cave (Illinois, USA) and texts as written in Sanskrit.
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REVIEW by Dr. Horst Friedrich
The author of this book is an extraordinarily competent non-Establishment scholar who has, in 1994, already successfully deciphered the Indus script, as written in Sanskrit. This has already been rather sensational, and constitutes one of the great achievements in the field of the decipherment of ancient scripts. In addition, in the years to follow, he has examined inscriptions on certain artifacts from North and South America (among them finds from the controversial Burrows Cave, Illinois), and even from Europe (among them Glozel, Southern France), being able thereby to propose that the advanced civilization of ancient India obviously had been involved in worldwide colonizing activities.
With his new book Schildmann has demonstrated even more convincingly that in ancient times there must have existed worldwide, intercontinental interconnections with respect to cultural diffusion on such a grand scale, which our relevant Establishment sciences would have held impossible up to now. One of the provisional results of Schildmann's decipherment of the Maya script, and study of the Maya language, is the rather sensational discovery that words from several Old World languages (Sumerian, Accadian, Indo-Iranian, Phoenician, Hebrew and Basque) have somehow found their way into the Maya language. Nota bene in addition to other linguistic elements which show interconnections with South East Asia. Quite obviously, such discoveries have only been possible for some comprehensively competent linguistic scholar like Schildmann. They could not have been made by a specialist.
For the Mayanists Schildmann's book is an absolute "must". But it will also be of the greatest interest for all those who see in global cultural diffusion the new paradigm. Schildmann speaks e.g. of "irrefutable proof... of the Babylon-guided penetration of Maya-Land at about 500 BC" (p.37), and of an "arrival of Ancient Near Eastern nobility at 500 BC in Mesoamerica (p.54)
