This blog is the companion blog to Sumerological Musings. It comprises the historical, general and ecclesiastical, notes of my readings, just as Sumerological Musings contains the linguistic and ethnological information I gathered over time in my armchair.
There will be some overlapping but the centres of gravity, several in each case, diverge enough to justify two independent blogs. Linguistically I am most interested in these language families of Eurasia: Indo-European, Afro-Asiatic, Sino-Tibetan and Sumerian. Two other fields of interest are Athabaskan, Uto-Aztecan, Otomanguean, Mixe-Zoquean and Mayan on the one hand and the Mande languages, Songhay and Yoruba on the other hand.
Kléos áphthiton (,”fame unwilting”, a Homeric epic formula supposedly expressing the highest goal of early speakers of Indo-European languages and used here sarcastically,) deals mainly with Late Antiquity, The Holy Roman Empire up till the Peace of Westphalia (1648) and the history of Central Asia, in particular the Silk Road, from Táng 唐 to Sòng 宋 Dynasties (618 – 1279 A.D.).
This blog here will be bilingual in part, especially as far as categories and tags are concerned, because I will add more German ressources than on the “fine language” blog (Sumerian: eme galama according to Wolfram von Soden’s Akkadisches Handwörterbuch).
κλέος ἄφθιτον 