I am making decisions about family conflicts.
My father’s feelings
This inscription was found in Pylos, Messinia, Greece. It dates back to 1400 B.C..
We have neither a depiction of the original, nor any elements about when and by whom it was found, until now.
The text refers to a family conflict.
The text is a document of conflicts across time.
The phonetic values, as they were identified and phonetically transcribed by Ventris and Chadwick, are the following:
KA KO DE DE ME NO NO PE RE E
We studied the phonetic values in the actual text. We understood it, we read and rendered it into Modern Greek, but we also approached it philosophically.
Figuration of the phonetic values of the text.
In our own view, the phonetic values are formed as follows:
KAKO–DEDE–MENO–NO–PEREE
The language of the text is Greek, Archaic, typical of any Minoan text. The grammatical structure of the text is mixed.
One can identify Pontic words, as well as Classical Greek Language.
The utterance of the words and of the verbal types, follows the grammatical rules of the Pontic Dialect, as well as those of the Classical Greek Language.
Rendition of the text:
Το κακόν του τετέ μένος, νοώ περαιεί.
The Τext in Modern Greek:
I realize that my father’s bad anger is about to stop.
(Ο κακός του πατέρα μου θυμός αντιλαμβάνομαι ότι τελειώνει, παύει).
A Philosophical Approach:
The author of the text is a member of a family.
He warns someone else about his father’s anger, which he evaluates.
The receiver is probably a member of the family and he has been expelled, so he waits for any developments. He may also be another person, not belonging to this family, who disagreed with the father but who is interested in the father’s feelings.
According to the text, there are three heroes.
Firstly, there is an angry father about a moral, a behavioural , or a transaction issue.
Moreover, there is a person who is anxious about the father’s anger. It is not clear if this person is a daughter, a son, or a person not belonging to the family.
The immediate person, who acts as a messenger, expresses his opinion to the person who caused the father’s feelings, based on the father’s behaviour.
He expresses his own view:
I believe that my father’s bad anger is about to stop.
We should not forget that during that time, there were behaviour, as well as punishment rules.