HOW THE JIROFT SCRIPT ENCODES CIVILISATION

JOHN MCCLELLAN
6 min readJan 5, 2024

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“Undeciphered” Script on the Jiroft Tablet — Iran — 2,500 B.C. Image Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiroft_culture#/media/File:Jiroft_culture_inscriptions.jpg
NOTE: The scribe has fitted the 70 characters onto 5 lines by diminishing the size of them on the last two lines. [I had to make 6 lines]. It should be noted that the forming of a Buddhist Stupa is organised in 5 levels of Psycho-Cosmic Geometric Manifestation. In this regard, see the subsequent spread of Indo-Iranian language group to Sri Lanka — Indo-Iranian languages — Wikipedia along with the extension of Hindu Varna Four Social Groups -Varna (Hinduism) — Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pancha_Bhuta
REF: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dactylic_hexameter#/media/File:AENEIS.png

This glaze-baked 2-palm-width (smartphone-sized) clay tablet is the best-made and preserved of a small collection preserved from the 3rd millennium B.C. at Jiroft, Iran.

It with its similar-others were recently found, carefully buried, close to an early urbanised major religious location — Ref: https://hal.science/hal-03471097/documentJiroft culture — WikipediaJiroft (elamit.net)

Now, as one of the first known scripts, it is not yet translated by linguistic researchers!

However, I show how that is done — here, in a geometric-based analysis.

Detecting patterns in cognitive development — Ref; https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6167542/

This significantly effects how we can understand the Neolithic Era radical origin and ongoing development of present-day culture — as again we materially install a transformative outlook onto Cosmic and Socially organised Earth existence. This process is ongoing-explained in “Space-Cell Systems” presentations on ‘Academia’ and ‘WordPress’ sites

This tablet, well-crafted with its precision inscription and long-used hand-worn form, corresponds to a ‘prayer-sutra/mantra’ from a present-day Buddhist monastic-source. It should be noted that such sacred chants are asserting-predominant vocalised in extended vowel sounds —https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vowel — as Vedic “AUM” is considered a primary ‘cosmic’ invocation — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Om.

Vedic chant — Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rigveda — “The hymns of the Rigveda are in different poetic metres in Vedic Sanskrit. The meters most used in the ṛcas are the gayatri (3 verses of 8 syllables), anushtubh (4×8), trishtubh (4×11) and jagati (4×12)”. [As demonstrated, this tablet is arranged in its 3 x 8 vocal metric format]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gayatri

Listen to this present-day base-invocation — https://www.ted

Those are standing-wave acoustics that thus maintain ‘pure’ geometric integrity. REF:

https://physics.info/waves-standing/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Om + Christian https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plainsong https://canticasacra.org/?page_id=7895

Extended across the Eastern World, the operating principles and organising tenets of Buddhism are yet conveyed as 5-level-constructed in the base-geometric “Cosmic-Conditioned” forms of Stupa/Dagoba and Pagoda: https://www.aisf.or.jp/~jaanus/deta/g/gorintou.htmhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shulba_Sutras — Vedic Geometric Fire Altars “The content of the Shulba Sutras is likely older than the works themselves. The Satapatha Brahmana and the Taittiriya Samhita, whose contents date to the late second millennium or early first millennium BCE, describe altars whose dimensions appear to be based on the right triangle with legs of 15 pada and 36 pada, one of the [Pythagorean-triplet — A-squared + B-squared = C-squared — 3,4,5–5,12,13–15,36,39] triangles listed in the Baudhayana Shulba Sutra.[10][11] “— From a Classical Greek era come the Western World’s five cosmogonist-organising geometric principles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platonic_solid

Here the horizontal lines and vertical bars set the sequential geometric phrases, just as contemporary Tibetan Prayer flag — Wikipedia — in linear-unit colour-coding — same way now convey those same ‘Cosmic’ messages.

Ref: https://psychcentral.com/lib/memory-and-mnemonic-devices#examples —Solfège — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solf%C3%A8ge

“Sowing the Dragon’s Teeth” — The Geometric Development of Ongoing Globalising Empowerment in Western Civilisation.

It is not generally appreciated how the Western “Alphabet” was derived — around 1,500 years later — from an (unknown) ancient-source, in an alpha-numeric sacred sequence the Hebrew Kabbalah preserves. Dragon’s teeth (mythology) — Wikipedia

There the twenty-two letters/numerals deliberately exclude voicing the vowels.

For those ‘sacred’ reasons “Aleph” is the open inverted-triangular un-vocalised transcendent “Absolute”. “Beth = 2” is square “House-Container”, “Gimel” = 3 is circular-return throw-stick (Boomerang), “Daleth” = 4 as triangle Door — opening to the dynamic repeat-pattern of evolving creative existence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Latin_script

That way the ‘Alpha-bet’ sets going a helical-extending geometric sequence — 1 = Alpha as Inverted Triangle — 2 = Beta as Square — 3 = C/Gamma as Circle — 4 = Delta as Triangle >>>.

My analysis shows how that 22-unit progression is in 7 linked-groups of those four base forms. So, dynamically arranged, it articulates the “Pi” geometric formulation propelling unending activity, as does the interactive space-time ‘Thales-geometry’ of ‘Relativity Theory’ [ref; my “Space-Cell” analysis on previous postings].

In manifest existence, Human DNA advances a helical-repeat sequence from its four base-codons > A — U — C — G < geometric assembled in the molecular forming of each ‘gene letter’ — 22 + M or F. The ‘Biblical-allotted’ and bio-regenerative cell-cycles of human life-span is 10 x 7 = 70 years.

REF; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sefer_Yetzirah

Note: From a Vedic era an operating construction of a Society was hereditary-organised on the base of Four ‘Colour-Coded’ Groups — Priests — Warriors — Merchants — Laborers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varna_(Hinduism)

Those groups were/are physically “Housed” in appropriate designed constructions and separate locations that geometrically reflect and maintain the inter-active principles of those occupations.

Four (similar interactive) social principles are the ongoing bio-genetic Hereditary-House of Nuclear Family “Civilised” Life. Father > Mother > Son > Daughter relations were/are enforced or maintained via laws, prescriptions, and custom conventions.

End Note: The key evidence that proves my analysis of the Jiroft script — as a chant record — is correct is that the first two Phonemes — Square and enclosed Triangle — are later shown there as “Dot-centered” variations. That ‘Dot’ way of indicating a tonal variation is yet used on contemporary Vedic-derived language-scripts.

It evidences this scribe was ‘in training’ — copying from a prototype. There should be 14 ‘phonemes’ on each of the five lines = 70. The first line is fine. On the second line the signs are too large — only 13 ‘phonemes’ fit; so, on the third line there are 15. That and the following two lines have 14 smaller signs, but the soft clay surface has been distorted by the scribe’s hand-pressure, so those signs and lines are, inexpertly, not so well crafted.

It is accepted that this is an authentic artifact — archaeologist dated from the 3rd Millennium B.C. in the urbanising transition to Modern Day Society.

I show and explain how it is a complete recording of a significant message in a ‘religious’ system cross-culturally important as world-wide active today.

It is logically organised in its perfectly preserved and clearly readable condition. But it continues to resist translation by the world’s linguistic researchers in their expert search for a ‘prosaic’ interpretation.

[Note: It has been recently [2017] seen as following a ‘musical score’ layout — but without recognising the evident ‘Vedic’ chant prescriptions: —

Ref; Matthieu Kervran — The Konar Sandal ‘Geometric’ inscriptions: a graphotactic analysis. https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/2vbhy

6. Conclusion — Here have been presented several observations supporting the view that α, β and γ probably denote music. The ‘Geometric’ writing system could be a kind of musical notation, or at least a shorthand notation for an activity related to music, such as singing or dancing.]

The Vedic archaic-record tradition was explicit in not writing its core messages — but passing them on orally, as that UNESCO award recognises. Similarly, Vedic-derived oral prescriptions were late set down in scripts by the Sri Lankan Buddhists in that recent ‘modern’ B.C. > A.D. axial-era — as the vocal process was regularly in danger of being genocidal erased.

A present-day problem is with generalised academia accepting/understanding the conceptions of prehistoric human ‘scientific’ intelligence. Coming from 10,000 B.C., the Neolithic Revolution was science-recognised (reluctantly) mid 20th-century. As shown here, it had long secured the new geometric foundations effective for advancing our recent globalised and extra-terrestrial society. So, its analytical science was appropriately advanced, more-so than presently appreciated. These “Medium” essays explain that ancient ‘Revolution’ in its key geometric relation to ‘Modernity’ and ‘Relativity Theory’.

John McClellan — “Space-Cell Systems” — LONDON — 03–01–24 — 02–05–24

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JOHN MCCLELLAN

I was privileged to be trained, educated and experienced in Architecture at a time and in places when genius of every kind was transforming existence.