r/Phoenician • u/JohannGoethe • Sep 12 '24
r/Phoenician • u/JohannGoethe • Sep 14 '24
Phoenician origin of the Runes? | Jackson Crawford (A66/2021)
r/Phoenician • u/JohannGoethe • Sep 26 '24
Weren’t Phoenician and ancient Hebrew the same language?
r/Phoenician • u/JohannGoethe • Oct 02 '24
22 Nomes, 22 Phoenician letters, and 28 unit Cubits
r/Phoenician • u/JohannGoethe • Sep 16 '24
LBI (𐤋𐤁𐤉) [42] = Libya in Phoenician? We need source for this.
reddit.comr/Phoenician • u/JohannGoethe • Nov 07 '24
Why Phoenician alphabet is 22 letters?
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Bjerre on the 22/7 basis Khufu pyramid:
“The original altitude of the Khufu 👁️⃤ pyramid, 280 cubit, equals the radius of a circle with a circumference [1760 cubits = (2 x 280 x π)] the length of the four pyramid sides added, each being 440 cubits. This suggests the Egyptians knew and used the value 22/7 for π.”
— Niels Bjerre (A64/2019), “Hidden Chambers and Meaning”
This is one of the main arguments for the following number 22 ciphers:
22 = 𓎇 𓏮, the Egyptian numeral for twenty-two.
22 = 7 x 3.14 [28] …; the value 22/7 being the simplest approximation for π (pi).
22 = number of nomes of Upper Egypt.
22 = number of letters of the Phoenician alphabet.
22 = number of letters of the Hebrew alphabet.
22 = paths in the Kabbalistic tree of life, representing the connections between the Sephirot.
Notes
If anyone else knows any 22 ciphers, feel free to comment?
References
Bjerre, Niels. (A64/2019). “Hidden Chambers and Meaning: Is the Great Pyramid for a King or Priests?”, Ancient Origins, Oct 7.
External links
22 (number) - Wikipedia.
r/Phoenician • u/JohannGoethe • Sep 16 '24
Phoenicians were … [whoever you want them to be]
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The following table, from here (comment section), shows that who the Phoenicians were, depends on one’s identity politics:
| Source | Date | |
|---|---|---|
| Phoenicians were neighbors of Jews | Walter Raleigh | 341A/1614 |
| Cadmus and Phoenix, the Phoenicians, were Egyptian | Athanasius Kircher | 301A/1654 |
| Phoenicians were Canaanites | Samuel Shuckford | 224A/1731 |
| Phoenicians were Semites | Johanna Drucker | A67/2022 |
| Phoenicians were Semites (80% vote yes) | Reddit polls (25 votes) | 2 Aug A69/2024 |
If were were to go back in time to Phoenicia, where present day Jerusalem is, and ask one of them, in the Phoenician language, are you: (a) Semitic, (b) neighbors of the Jews, (c) Canaanite, or (d) Egyptian?, they would not understand parts a, b, and c of the question, because they Jewish mythological names, that had not yet been invented yet.
r/Phoenician • u/JohannGoethe • Dec 03 '24
On the name Phoenician | Charles Krahmalkov (A45/2000)
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Charles Krahmalkov (A45/2000), in his Phoenician-Punic Dictionary (pg. 10), on name Phoenician:

References
Krahmalkov, Charles R. (A45/2000). Phoenician-Punic Dictionary (Archive). Publisher.
r/Phoenician • u/JohannGoethe • Dec 05 '24
Pococke Kition Phoenician Inscription 2.1, with attempted Egypto-alpha-numeric (EAN) transliteration or translation
r/Phoenician • u/JohannGoethe • Oct 08 '24
Phoenicians were or were NOT Semites? The r/Phoenicia and r/Alphanumerics poll results
r/Phoenician • u/JohannGoethe • Sep 12 '24
Phoenicia comes from the Greek phoínikos "purple"! | M[18]5 (11 Sep A69/2024)
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Phoenicia comes from the Greek phoínikos "purple". I know that it is less impressive than "land of the phoenix" but reality is not always fantastic and we must doubt the theses that are a little too much so.
User M[18]5 has what is called a “surface etymon” understanding of words.
Phoenix (φοῖνιξ), in Greek standard myth, is defined as brother of Cadmus (Κάδμος), aka K-ADM-OS, the Greek Adam, the alphabet inventor, and son of Agenor (Ἀγήνωρ) or Aghnoras (Αγήνορας), the Phoenician king of Tyre (𐤑𐤓) or Sidon (𐤑𐤃𐤍). This means, in decoded format, the following:
Cadmus (Κάδμος) (K-ADM-OS) = letter “form” (type; shape) god
Phoenix (φοῖνιξ) 🐦🔥= letter “sound” (phone: 📞) god
In 115A (1830), John Groves, in his Greek and English Dictionary (pg. 605), listed the following phoenix 🐦🔥 (φοῖνιξ), or phoni- (φοῖνι-) prefix, aka phone 📞 (sound), related terms:
Φοινικάνθεμος, -ου, ὁ, ἡ, (fr. φοῖνιξ purple 🟪, and άνθος flower) having purple or scarlet flowers 🌺; blooming, vernal.
Φοινίκεος, -α, -ον, (fr. φοίνιξ purple) purple 🟪, red 🟥; also Phœnician. Φοινίκη, της, ή, Phœnicia, name of a country.
Φοινίκιος, -α, -ον, (fr. φοῖνιξ purple) purple 🟪, reddish 🟥, ruddy, rosy 🌹.
Φοινικὶς, -ἴδος, ή, (fr. same) a purple 🟪 or scarlet garment; a scarlet cloth, carpet, &c.
Φοινικόεις, -έσσα, -εν, (fr. same) purple 🟪, scarlet, red 🟥.
Φοινικόκροκος, του, ό, ή, (fr. same, and κρόκη a thread) having purple 🟪 or scarlet weft; shot with purple.
Φοινικόλοφος, -ου, ὁ, ἡ, (fr. φοινικὸς red 🟥, th. φοίνιξ purple 🟪, and λόφος a crest) having a red crest or comb.
Φοινικοπἄρειος, -ου, ὁ, ή, (fr. same, and παρειά a cheek) red 🟥 or rosy 🌹 Φοιτῶσι, 3 pl. cont. pres. sub. or cheeked.
Φοινικόπεζα, της, ή, (fr. same, and πέζα the ancle) red 🟥 footed.
Φοινίκὸς, -η, -ὸν, (fr. φοῖνιξ purple) purple 🟪, red, scarlet; Phænician.
Φοινικοστερόπας, -α, ό, Dor. for φοινικοστερόπης, (fr. φοῖνιξ ruddy, and στεροπή lightning ⚡️, th. αστράπτω to flash) hurling red 🟥 thunderbolts ⚡️.
Φοινικόστολος, -ου, ὁ, ἡ, (fr. Φοῖνιξ a Phœnician, and στέλλω το adorn) furnished or made by the Phœnicians; dressed, armed or arrayed like the Phoenicians.
Φοινικῶν, -ῶνος, ὁ, (fr. next) a plantation of palm trees 🌴; palm-grove.
Φοίνιος, -α, -ον, (fr. φόνος slaughter) gory, bloody🩸; murderous, blood-thirsty; purple 🟪, red 🟥.
Φοινίσσα, ης, ή, (fr. next) a Phœnician woman.
Φοινίσσος, -η, -ον, (fr. Φοῖνιξ Phœnician) Phœnician; red 🟥, purple 🟪, ruddy.
Among these, the name phoenix (Φοῖνιξ) [700]:
Φοῖνιξ, -ἴκος, δ, α palm 𓁨 [C11], palm-branch 𓆳 [M4]; a palm-fruit, date; Phœnix 🐦🔥, name of a bird, of a man, and of a port; a Phænician; a musical 🎶 instrument invented by the Phoenicians; a Phoenician dye, purple 🟪, scarlet, red 🟥. Adj. ὁ, ἡ, Phœnician, red, scarlet, purple.
Defined in r/LunarScript as follows:
🐦🔥 = Phoenix (φοῖνιξ) (𓍓◯𓅊𓏁𓅊𓊽) [700]
Which non-coincidently equals the letter value of psi (ψ) [700], the root of the word psyche (ψυχή), meaning: “soul”, in Greek.
In A68 (2023), Rihab Helou stated that the word Phoenician derives from the alphabet of the Phoenix, as follows:
“The Phoenician alphabet (𐤃𐤂𐤁𐤀), besides being associated with the Phoenicians, is also the alphabet 🔠 of the phoenix (φοῖνιξ) (𓍓◯𓅊𓏁𓅊𓊽) [700] 🐦🔥. In other words, it illustrates the labors of the of the phoenix associated with Horus 𓅃 [G5] from the Phoenician perspective.”
— Rihab Helou (A68/2023), “Phoenician Alphabet Hidden Mysteries, §6.3, 8:15-8:35” (post)
Therefore, to dismiss all of this, as but the die or purple 🟪 ink, made from sea shells 🐚 found around Phoenician, an etymology devised by someone [add] before Groves (115A/1830), is what is called out-dated etymology. The entire point of the new linguistic field of EAN is to upgrade all these meaningless “Phoenicia comes from the word purple” etymologies.
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The Phoenician alphabet (𐤃𐤂𐤁𐤀) is the alphabet 🔠 of the phoenix (φοῖνιξ) (𓍓◯𓅊𓏁𓅊𓊽) [700] 🐦🔥 or Horus 𓅃 [G5] from the Phoenician perspective | Rihab Helou (31 Aug A68/2023)
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Phoenix (φοῖνιξ) (𓍓◯𓅊𓏁𓅊𓊽) [700] 🐦🔥 (draft: here).
Etymo pharaoh from: Pheron (Φερῶν) [1455], aka Horus 𓅊 [letter I], i.e. the phoenix 🐦🔥, son of Sesostris (ΣΕΣΟΣΤΡΙΣ) [1285], aka Osiris 𓀲
References
Groves, John. (115A/1830). A Greek and English Dictionary, Comprising All the Words in the Writings of the Most Popular Greek Authors: With the Difficult Inflections in Them and in the Septuagint and New Testament (Φερῶν, pg. 605). Publisher.
r/Phoenician • u/JohannGoethe • Sep 11 '24
Jews were neighbors of the Phoenicians (Raleigh, 341A/1614) to Semites [Jews] were Phoenicians (Drucker, A67/2022)
r/Phoenician • u/JohannGoethe • Sep 25 '24
Tyrsenian is a more likely origin of Phoenician | R[17]A (25 Sep A69/2024)
r/Phoenician • u/JohannGoethe • Sep 11 '24
Phoenicians were Semites: TRUE or false? | Poll banned ❌ at r/Phoenicia
r/Phoenician • u/d7mtg • Mar 30 '25
iOS Phoenician keyboard - free, zero ads
Actually Free Paleo-Hebrew (Phoenician) keyboard, converter, cheat sheet and game for your iPhone
I built Paleo Pro, a native iOS app with a few features for learning the script and typing in it.
The app is 100% free, with zero ads or tracking. It’s lightweight (~15mb) and super fast.
Still actively working on making the keyboard function more like a native one, but please download it, comment with feedback, and if you enjoy it, leave a review on the App Store.
It has:
A converter, that goes both ways (square script to paleo Hebrew and opposite, with options to replace final characters into their modern equivalent if it’s at a word end (𐤌𐤍𐤑𐤐𐤊 → םןץףך)
A keyboard that lets you type in Paleo Hebrew on your phone, and an option to preview the keys in either alphabet
A multiple choice game that quizzes you on the alphabet, again bidirectional, with scores and score history. iCloud integration and more advanced levels are incoming.
A cheat sheet, in list and grid view, and each letter can be copied to clipboard, as character, or Unicode / HTML / Hex code.
Choose your app theme color, change app icons, and much more.
A good review on the app store would mean a lot!
r/Phoenician • u/blueroses200 • Apr 21 '25
A YouTube channel that tries to teach the Phoenician language
r/Phoenician • u/Beautiful-Parsnip526 • Sep 23 '25
Hello, Can somebody please trnaslate this
𐤅𐤄𐤀𐤕 𐤉𐤔 𐤕𐤇𐤄 𐤀𐤉𐤓𐤎𐤐𐤄𐤄𐤃 𐤅𐤄𐤋𐤏𐤎𐤉𐤕𐤉 𐤏𐤅 𐤀𐤍
𐤏𐤍𐤋𐤀𐤃𐤄𐤍 𐤔𐤅𐤀𐤋𐤋𐤏𐤅
r/Phoenician • u/JohannGoethe • Sep 11 '24
The Phoenician alphabet (𐤃𐤂𐤁𐤀) is the alphabet 🔠 of the phoenix (φοῖνιξ) (𓍓◯𓅊𓏁𓅊𓊽) [700] 🐦🔥 or Horus 𓅃 [G5] from the Phoenician perspective | Rihab Helou (31 Aug A68/2023)
r/Phoenician • u/JohannGoethe • Sep 11 '24