Chapter 1. Introduction.
The Tartaria tablet, Fig. 1, was descovered in 1961 in the village of Tartaria, Alba county, Roamania. The tablet is round, 6 cm (2.5 in) in diameter, was made by unbaked cley with a peripherial hole drilled through it. The tablet has symbols inscribed only on one face, was dated to around 5300 BC and have been the subject of controversy among archeologists, some of them claim that the symbols represent the earliest known writing in the world. The discovery was made in a neolitical tomb containing a woman skeleton. It has been suggested that the body was of a shaman, even if was a woman, and the text represents a magical formula.
To decrypt an unknown inscription are necesary two conditions: to know the language of the inscription and to know the phonetic values of the symbols: hierogliphs, syllables or letters. The author of decrypting supposed that the language of Tartaria inscription is vedic language, the language of vedic arians setlled down in north-west of India around 1500 B.C. The specialists concluded that the vedic language is very closed to proto-indo-european language and even is this ancient language. A modern hipothesis sugests that the indo-european civilisation has begun a few thousend of years ago in the north and south sides of lower Danube, including Roamania. As a conclusion, the language of Tartaria inscription is indo-european language, that is vedic language. The author of decrypting found in religious vedic literature an incantation, a „mantra”, used in situation when a vedic priest was recognised as a third grade priest, the higher position as a vedic priest and supposed that this mantra is the solution for Tartaria inscription decrypting. By comparison of mantra’s words and inscription’s hierogliphs the author of decripting concluded that the two texts matches perfecty. Using information from vedic astrology, vedic astronomy, vedic mithology, vedic religion and vedic language, (old sanskrit) were found connections between mantra’s words and important constellations or parts of them. Each hierogliph is a representation of a known constellation or a part of a constellation. All stars used in this study in order to find hierogliphs inside constellation maps have magnitudes between zero and six, that is they are visible with the naked eye. Exceptions will be explained.
The vedic mantra is:
Devadhinam jagat sarvam,
Mantradhinam ta devata,
Tan mantram brahmanadhinam.
Brahmana mama devata.
The translation is:
The univers is under power of god,
The god is under power of mantras,
Such mantras are under power of brahmanas.
Brahmana is my god.
„Brahma”, „Brahman” or „Brahmana” is the supreme vedic god, „brahma”, „brahman” or „brahmana” is a vedic priest, „mantra” is a sacred expression, spiritual sound, a syllable, an word or a group of words that is supposed to have a spiritual power. This power may exist when the mantras are present in audible or written form or present in mind. The decrypting method started from the vedic mantra, considered as the final solution, traversing the decrypting process until the hierogliphic text, using information from the five mentionated domains of vedic culture. The written side of the tablet is split by two diameters in four quarters that were treated in clockwise direction, the first quarter is on the right, up. The hierogliphs were treated from left to right and all astronomic charts are oriented to north, if not otherwise is specified. Order numbers of the hierogliphs are specified in Fig. 1, where each hierogliph was assigned with a word. There were used Sanskrit-English dictonaries.
The words „devadhinam”, „mantradhinam” and „brahmanadhinam” contain the component „dhinam”. The hierogliphs assigned with these words contain the same symbol, a „semicircle”. According to this notice, a semicircle, in any position, has the meaning of the word „dhinam”, that is „power”. This conclusion was supported by the ideea that the bow was a powerful weapon used by vedic fighters in theyrs struggles. The semicircle symbol is found in hierogliphs No. 1, 2, 6 & 8.
Chapter 2. Decrypting of hierogliphs 1 & 2
The hierogliphs 1 & 2 were treated together, both of them having a „D” shape, Fig. 1. According to the oldest vedic mith, Orion constellation is the body of the supreme god Brahma, killed by god Shiva and the star lambda is the head of Brahma. The three stars from Orion belt are the places where the god Brahma received the finishing stroke. In Fig. 2 can be noticed two bows drawn by connections between a few stars located in the east of Orion and west of Taurus constellations. The two bows can have the mening „the power of Brahma”. Comparing the two bows in Fig. 2 and the group of 1 & 2 hierogliphs in Fig. 1, it can be seen a perfect match, regarding direction, sizes and relative position. The conclusion is that the meaning of the two hierogliphs „DD” is „the power of Brahma”.
Chapter 3. Decrypting of hierogliph 3
This hierogliph consists of a horizontal segment crossed by five small segments, and has a comb shape, Fig. 1. Tartaria inscription author has used a complex method to create the hierogliphs, making conections between mantra’s words, vedic lunar mansions, associated stars of the these zodiacal mansions and the constellations that contain associated stars. The word „jagat” has no connection with vedic lunar zodiac, but its synonym „aditi”, found in dictionaries, leads to the Aditi godes, the ruler of the seven’s lunar mansion, or mansion Punarvasu. The associated stars of this mansion are: Castor A, Castor B, Castor C, Pollux and sigma, Fig. 3. Castor is a triple star. This group of stras, called Punarvasu asterism, belongs to Gemini constellation. Is very easy to notice near Punarvasu asterism the five stars kappa, upsilon, iota, tau and teta contained in the arms of the twin brothers. The hierogliph „jagat”, the comb, was found in Gemini constellation. The group of these five stars looks like hierogliph 3, that has the meaning „jagat” or „to dominate”.
Chapter 4. Decrypting of hierogliphs 4 & 5
These hierogliphs were decrypted together. At first sight this group seems to be two circles with diferent diameters. After a closer analysis results the biger circle is an ellipse and the smaller one is an arrow pointed to north. At the basis of this arrow there is a small arc of circle, Fig. 1. The word „sarva” is a synonym of the word „jagat”, that is „univers”. This information leads to Gemini constellation, Fig 4. By conections between stars alpha, beta, kappa, lambda, zeta, omega, tau and again alpha was drawn an heptagon that can be positionated perfecly in an ellipse. The long axis of the ellipse contains the stars lambda, iota and ro. Conecting the stars niu, gama, epsilon, teta, Propus via M35 nebula and miu, was drawn an arrow pointed to north. Conecting the stars alpha (Betelgeuse) and miu from Orion constellation and star ksi from Gemini constellation was drawn a small arc of circle. Comparing carefuly the image in Fig. 4 and the group of hierogliphs 4 & 5 can be concluded they matches perffectly. The group of hierogliphs 4 &5 was found in Gemini and Orion constellations. As a conclusion this group of hierogliphs has the meaning „sarva” or „univers”.
Chapter 5. Decrypting of hierogliph 6
This hierogliph consist of two symbols, Fig. 1. The lower symbol is a semicircle, and the upper symbol is a triangle pointed down and three parallel arrows pointed up, perpendicular on the triangle base. The semicircle has the mening „power”, as was decided before. The word „mantra” has the meaning „the fifth lunar mansion”, that is the mansion Mrigasira, associated with Mrigasira asterism, consisting of three stars, lambda, phi-1 and phi-2, belonging to Orion Constellation, Fig. 5. Using the base of the triangle alpha, gama, lambda, which contains Mrigasira asterism, were drawn three arrows perpendicular on triangle base that point the three big stars from Orion belt, zeta, epsilon and delta, Fig. 5.
Rotating this triangle with 180 degrees, the three arrows will point the north. This new figure is very closed to upper symbol of the hierogliph 6, Fig 1, that has the mening „mantra”. The whole hierogliph has the mening „mantradhinam” or „the power of mantras”. Inscription author has drawn the three arrows to indicate location in cosmic space of Mrigasira triangle in Orion constellation, in order to be identified precisely in this place. This cosmic configuration is unic in the canopy of heaven
Chapter 6. Decrypting of hierogliph 7
This hierogliph consist of two symbols, Fig. 1. The upper symbol is a point inside a semiellipse, the simbol „point-semiellipse”. The lower symbol is a triangle with a horizontal base and a perpedicular segment on the triangle axis of symmetry, at the top of the triangle. This segment have bent extremities. The translation of the word „devata” is „the deity”, an important god, and the meanings of the word „ta” are: jewel, fighter and virtue. The expression asigned to this hierogliph, „ta devata”, has the meaning „the bright, unconquerable and virtuos deity” that is „the supreme god Brahma”. This meaning leads to the twenty-eighth lunar mansion, Abhijit mansion, ruled by the lord Brahma. The associated stars of this mansion are: alpha, epsilon and zeta, belonging to Abhijit asterism, in Lyra constellation, Fig. 6. Conecting the stars: zeta, delta, iota, gama and again zeta, was drawn the triangle zeta, iota, gama. Conecting the stars 93808, 7146, 6997 and 90781 has been drawn the transverse segment with bent extremities, that is parallel with the triangle basis, the segment iota-gama. The stars 93808 and 90781 have magnitudes biger than six (smaller luminosity), magnitudes of 6.49 and 7.37, respectively. It is supposed that these stars were seen by ancient astronomers having high visual acuity. Using the star Vega as the center, the line zeta-Vega as the small axis and the star epsilon a point belonging to an ellipse, it can be drawn an ellipse. In Fig. 6, it has been drawn a semiellipse around the star Vega, very closed to the semiellipse existed in the hierogliph 7. It is supposed that the hierogliph’s author had information about circle and ellipse construction. After a closer analysis of the hierogliph 7 results a point marked clearly on left side of the semiellipse. This point is the star epsilon marked by hierogliph’s author in order to locate precisely the point-semiellipse symbol in Lira constellation. By conection between stars Vega and zeta has been completed the image of priest, or god, wearing a long robe, with both arms raised at the shoulders level and bent forearms, upwards and downwards, respectively. This is the image of the god Brahma, where the star Vega is the head of Brahma. It is possible to conclude that the decrypting of the hierogliph 7 is „the god Brahma”.
Chapter 7. Decrypting of hierogliph 8
This hierogliph consist of two symbols. Fig. 1. The left side symbol is a semicircle and has the meaning „power”, as specified before. The right side symbol is a cross in horizontal position, part of the cross is placed inside the semicircle.
The word „brahmana” has no connection with vedic lunar zodiac. Using the dictionaries, has been found two meanings of the word „brahmana”: „atmabhu” and „ireza”. Both of them have a second meaning „the name of Vishnu”, a vedic god, the lord of the twenty-first lunar mansion, the mansion Shravana. The associated stars of this mansion are: alpha (Altair), beta and gama, belonging to Shravana asterism, in Aquila constellation, Fig. 7. Conecting the stars teta-zeta and gama-delta was drawn a cross, that in conection with the segment delta-star 444 formed the perfect cross ensemble of the hierogliph 8. That means the whole cross can be decypt as „brahmana” and the hierogliph 8 has the meaning „brahmanadhinam” or „the power of brahmanas”.
Chapter 8. Decrypting of hierogliph 9
The hierogliph 9 consist of two identical symbols, two parallel arrows with top angle of 90 degrees, pointing east, Fig. 1. The word „tan” has no connection with vedic lunar zodiac, as well. A relative of the word „tan” is „tanugrha”, a word with the same root, „tanu”. The word’s „tanugrha” translation is „the first lunar mansion” or mansion Ashvayuja. The associated stars of this mansion are, beta and gama, belonging to Aries constellation, Fig. 8. Conecting the stars epsilon, star 41 and alpha and the stars sigma, niu and iota has been found an image of two parallel arrows with the top angle of 90 degrees, pointing the north direction, Fig. 8. By rotation of the Fig. 8 with 90 degrees to east, was found the image of the hierogliph 9. The most convenable translation for the word „tan” is „uninterrupted succession”.
Chapter 9. Decrypting of hierogliph 10
This hierogliph consist of two horizontal, parallel segments crossed by an oblique segment with two discontinuities in the upper and lower sides of the two parallel segments, Fig. 1. The part of the oblique segment located between the two parallel segments is placed on the right side of the upper and lower parts of the oblique line. The translation of the word „mantra” is „the fifth lunar mansion” or the mansion Mrigasira. This information leads direcly to Orion constellation, Fig.9. Conecting the stars: upsilon-star 6074, alpha-kappa, epsilon-zeta and delta (Mintaka)-star gama of the Monoceros constellation was found the image from Fig. 9, which is identical with hierogliph 10. For identification , the Orion constellation was rotated with 90 degrees to west. As a conclusion, the significance of the hierogliph 10 is „mantra”. Taking in consideration decrypting of the hierogliphs 8, 9 and 10, the third verse of vedic mantra can be: „the power of brahmanas (dominates) the uninterrupted succession of mantras”. The „uninterrupted succession of mantras” is supposed to be continuous mantras in audible form coming from brahmans during the religious service.
Chapter 10. Decrypting of hierogliph 11
This hierogliph has the form of a royal throne, Fig. 1. The word „Brahmana” leads directy to the twenty-eighth lunar mansion, „Brahmi” or Abhijit. The associated stars of this mansion are: alpha, epsilon and zeta, in Lyra constellation, Fig. 10. Has been conected the folowing stars: alpha-zeta, zeta-delta, delta-iota, beta-gama, gama-M56 nebula, delta-gama, iota-star 19 and the star 7237-star 13. The image in Fig. 10 is the royal throne of the supreme god Brahma, where the star Vega is the head of Brahma. The image in Fig.10 is very closed to hierogliph 11. Conclusion is: decrypting of the hierogliph 11 is „Brahma”.
Chapter 11. Decrypting of hierogliph 12
This hierogliph has a „D” shape, but not an usual one, not the same shape like hierogliphs 1 and 2, Fig. 1. It is visible that the semicircle of „D” passes in the left side of „D”, in both corners of the symbol „D”. The diameter of „D” outruns the lower limit of the symbol „D” in the left lower corner of the symbol. The words „devata” and „deva” are synonyms. For the word „devata” was found the meaning „the deity”, that is an important god and for word „deva” was found the meaning „supreme spirit”. These meanings lead diretly to the meaning „Brahma”, or „supreme god” and to the twety-eighth lunar mansion „Brahmi” or Abhijit, in Lyra constellation, Fig.11. There is a group of eight visible stars located in the south-east of Lyra constellation, with magnitudes lower than six, four of them belonging to Hercules constellation. This group of stars has the pefect shape of the symbol „D”, containing the star kappa and the star 99. Diameter of the this cosmic „D” is limited by the distance between stars alpha and beta of Lyra constellation. The arows originated in the „D” shaped symbol points the stars alpha and beta. The arrow originated in the lower corner of „D” oriented to south-west points the star 8991, located in the Vulpecula constellation. The arrows originated in the corners of the cosmic „D” locate precisely this group of stars, in the cosmic space, near the stars alpha and beta in Lyra constellation, related with the location of the star 8991 from Vulpecula constellation. This cosmic configuration is unic in the canopy of heaven. The extensions existing in the corners of hierogliph 12, Fig. 1 are identical to the three arrows originated in the corners of cosmic „D”, Fig. 11. Image in Fig. 11 is identical to hierogliph 12, Fig. 1. The cosmic „D” is connected directly with Lyra constellation, dominated by god Brahma. The conclusion is that the decrypting of hierogliph 12 is „supreme god”.
Taking in consideration the decrypting results of the 12 hierogliphs of Tartaria inscription, the correct translation may be:
The power of Brahma dominates the univers,
The power of mantras (dominates) the god Brahma,
The power of brahmanas (dominates) the uniterrupted succession of mantras.
Brahma (is my) supreme god.
Chapter 12. Conclusions
1. In order to decrypt Tartaria inscription the study author made the hypothesis that the vedic language is the language of Tartaria inscription. The hypothesis was right.
2. The second hypothesis was that the decripting solution is the vedic mantra specified in chapter 1. The hypothesis was right.
3. As a result of decrypting was found an important conclusion: the sacred chandra-bindu (moon-point or point-semicircle) symbol of Hinduism, Fig. 12, is very closed to the point-semiellipse symbol from Tartaria inscription of hierogliph 7. In Hiduism, bindu is the god Brahma itself, but in carpato-danubian religion, the point of the point-semiellipse symbol is the head of god Brahma, the star Vega. That means the origin of chandra-bindu was found in the religion of carpato-danubian indo-europeans who have lived in Transilvania 7,300 years ago. Chandra-bindu symbol is part of a more complex symbol, „Aum” symbol, the most important symbol of Hindu religion, Fig. 13. In Hinduism, the „Aum” symbol is an oral and of view representation of the god Brahma.
4. Successfully decripting of Tartaria inscription may prove the existence of indo-europeans in carpato-danubian space 7,300 years ago.
5. The shaman of Tartaria was a third grade vedic priest and the magic formula is the vedic mantra presented in Chapter 1 or the version of this mantra presented above.
• B.S. Gheorghe VASILE,
November 2016.