I ia wa, ka tae mai nga mea whakamere ki runga i taku teepu i tua atu i to maatau mohio. Ko te Newton Stone ngaro tetahi o enei taonga. He karere whakairo to tenei monolith tawhito kua tuhia ki roto i te reo ngaro kaore ano kia whakatauhia, a ka taea te panui ma te whakamahi i nga reta rereke e rima neke atu.
Te hura i te Kohatu Newton
I te tau 1804 e hanga ana e te Earl o Aberdeen, George Hamilton-Gordon, he rori e tata ana ki Pitmachie Farm i Aberdeenshire. I kitea te megalith ngaro i reira, a ka nekehia e te tohunga whaipara tangata Kotimana a Alexander Gordon ki te kari o Newton House i te Pariha o Culsalmond, tata ki te maero ki te raki o Pitmachie Farm. Ko te Newton Stone te korero e whai ake nei e te Kaunihera Aberdeenshire o Newton House:
Hōtuhi tē mōhiotia
Ko te reo Airani tuatahi i tuhia ki te piapa Ogham i waenganui i nga rautau 1 me te 9. Ko te rarangi poto o te tuhi i runga i te Newton Stone ka horahia ki te tuatoru o runga o te kohatu. E ono nga rarangi me nga tohu 48 me nga tohu, tae atu ki te swastika. Kaore ano nga tohunga i mohio he aha te reo hei tuhi i tenei karere, no reira ka kiia ko te tuhi kore mohiotia.
Ko te nuinga o nga tohunga e whakaae ana ko nga tuhinga roa a Ogham no mua noa atu. Ei hi‘oraa, i mana‘ohia e no te senekele 9 te papairaa ite-ore-hia e te taata tuatapapa aamu Scottish o William Forbes Skene. Heoi ano, he maha nga kaituhi e kii ana i tapirihia te rarangi poto ki te kohatu i te mutunga o te tekau ma waru, i te timatanga o te rau tau 19 ranei, e kii ana ko te tuhinga ngaro e kore e mohiotia he horihori no tata nei, he mahi tinihanga ranei.
Te Whakakore i te Kohatu
I tuhi tuatahi a John Pinkerton mo nga whakairo ngaro i runga i te Newton Stone i roto i tana pukapuka 1814 Inquiry into the Story of Scotland, engari kaore ia i ngana ki te mohio he aha te korero o te "tuhituhi kore mohio".
I te tau 1822, ka tuhia e John Stuart, he ahorangi mo te reo Kariki i te Kareti o Marischal, he pepa e kiia nei ko Sculpture Pillars i te taha raki o Scotland mo te Edinburgh Society of Antiquaries. I roto, i korero ia mo te whakamaoritanga a Charles Vallancey, nana nei i whakaaro he Latin nga kiripuaki.
Ko Takuta William Hodge Mill (1792–1853) he tangata Haahi Ingarihi me te tohunga ki te Rawhiti, te upoko tuatahi o te Kareti Pihopa, Calcutta, muri iho ko Regius Ahorangi Hiperu i Kemureti. I te tau 1856, ka tukuna e Stuart nga Kohatu Whakairo o Scotland, e whakaatu ana i nga mahi a Mill.
I kii a Takuta Mills ko te tuhinga kaore i mohiotia ko Phoenician. No te mea ua matau-roa-hia oia i roto i te mau reo tahito, ua haapao maitai te taata i to ’na mana‘o. Ua paraparau pinepine ratou no nia i te reira, i te tairururaa iho â râ a te Taatiraa Beretane i Cambridge, i Beretane, i te matahiti 1862.
Ahakoa i mate a Takuta Mill i te tau 1853, i kitea tana pepa On the Decipherment of the Phoenician inscribed on the Newton Stone i Aberdeenshire, a, i panuitia tana whakarereketanga o te tuhinga kaore i mohiotia i tenei tautohetohe. He maha nga tohunga i whakaae ki a Mill i tuhia te tuhinga ki te reo Phoenician. Hei tauira, i kitea e Takuta Nathan Davis a Carthage, i whakaaro a Prof Aufrecht i tuhia te tuhinga ki te reo Phoenician.
Engari ko Thomas Wright, he tangata ruarua, i kii he whakamaoritanga ngawari ake i te reo Latina: Hie iacet Constantinus Ko konei te tama a te tama a te tanumanga. I whakaaetia e Vaux o te Whare Taonga o Ingarangi hei Latin mo nga tau waenga. Ua farii atoa te taata papai parau ra o Constantine Simonides i te huriraa a Wright, ua taui râ oia i te reo Latino na roto i te reo Heleni.
E toru nga tau i muri mai o tenei aitua, i te tau 1865, ka korero te tangata tawhito a Alexander Thomson ki te Society of Antiquaries of Scotland i korero ai ia mo nga ariā rongonui e rima mo te whakamaarama i te waehere:
- Phoenician (Nathan Davis, Theodor Aufrecht, and William Mills);
- Latina (Thomas Wright me William Vaux);
- Te tohu Gnostic (John O. Westwood)
- Kariki (Constantine Simonides)
- Gaelic (he kaikawe korero a Thomson kaore i pai kia whakaingoatia);
He nui nga ariā taniko!
Ahakoa e tautohetohe ana tenei roopu tohunga mo te tikanga o te tuhituhinga i runga i te Newton Stone me tehea o nga reo e rima ka taea te whakamahi hei tuhi i te karere ngaro, he roopu rerekee o nga kairangahau rerekee i puta mai nga whakaaro hou. Ei hi‘oraa, ua mana‘o o George Moore tane e ia huri i te reira na roto i te reo Hebera-Bactrian, area te tahi atu, ua faaauhia te reira i te reo Sinaitic, te hoê reo Kanaana tahito.
Ko Rūtene Kānara Laurence Austine Waddell he kaihōpara o Ingarangi, he ahorangi mo te Tibetan, te matū, me te pathology, he tohunga whaipara tangata runaruna e rangahau ana i te reo Sumerian me te Sanskrit. I te tau 1924, ka whakaputahia e Waddell ana whakaaro mo Out of India, i uru mai he huarahi hou whakaharahara ki te panui i te reo e kiia nei ko Hitto-Phoenician.
Ko nga pukapuka tautohetohe a Waddell mo te hitori o te ao i tino paingia e te iwi. I teie mahana, te mana‘o nei te tahi mau taata ia ’na te faaururaa mau no te taata tuatapapa i te mau mea ora o Indiana Jones, tera râ, ua iti to ’na faaturaraa i ta ’na ohipa ei taata tuatapapa ati Asura.
Opaniraa
I tenei ra, he maha nga ariā e ngana ana ki te mohio he aha te tikanga o te karere ngaro i runga i te Newton Stone. Ko etahi o enei ariā ko te reo Latina, te reo Latina o nga tau waenga, te Kariki, te Gaelic, te tohu Gnostic, te Hiperu-Bactrian, te Hitto-Phoenician, te Hinaitic, me te Irish Tawhito. Heoi ano, kare ano kia kitea he tika enei whakaaro. I tenei wiki, me hoatu e koe te Newton Stone kia kotahi haora na te mea ehara tenei i te wa tuatahi ka kitea e te tangata o waho te ki o tetahi raru tawhito.
