User talk:Damate

Pyrgos
Have a look at my answer to your question on Talk:Pyrgos.--Hippalus 06:46, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

To Do

 * Fleshing out Minoan civilization category
 * Ayia Varvara
 * Vitsilia
 * Mitropolis
 * Plate
 * Prophetes Elias
 * Ayios Konstantinos Attica vs. Crete?
 * Platanos not the bananas ... Platania related or no?
 * Larani
 * Halasmenos Brock University 2000
 * Pelekita
 * Ambelos
 * Xykephalo
 * Nirou Khani Ksanthoudidis
 * Chamaizi (Souvloto Mouri) Xanthoudides, Davaras -- k. da-ma-te (talk) 06:02, 2 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Kommos Shaw
 * Kato Syme Lebessi
 * Zou Platon
 * Atsipades Korakias Alan Peatfield, Christine Morris
 * Mameloukou
 * tis Ouranias to Froudi cave at Zakros
 * Episkopi Sakellarakis cave
 * Axos Sakellarakis
 * Dia island north of Amnisos... any Minoan evidence? Homeric name for Naxos
 * Mohos Sakellarakis sw of Malia
 * Krasi Sakellarakis
 * Tzermiado Sakellarakis south of Karfi
 * Lyttos Sakellarakis cave
 * Xydas Sakellarakis
 * Kasteli Sakellarakis
 * Thrapsano Sakellarakis
 * Limenas Hersonisou Sakellarakis
 * Skoteino alias for Skotino
 * Nirou Hani Sakellarakis north, east of Amnisos, cave
 * Myrtia Sakellarakis related to Myrtos?
 * Houdetsi Sakellarakis
 * Kounavoi Sakellarakis
 * Skalani Sakellarakis
 * Patsides Sakellarakis .. same as Atsipades?
 * Profitis Ilias Sakellarakis
 * Aghios Myron Sakellarakis
 * Kato Assites Sakellarakis
 * Rizinia Sakellarakis cave
 * Prinias Sakellarakis
 * Gasi Sakellarakis
 * Gonies Sakellarakis
 * Anogeia Sakellarakis ''focus on Axos instead
 * Aghia Pelagia Sakellarakis north, nw of Iraklio
 * Kroussonas Sakellarakis
 * Epano Archanes vs. Kato Archanes Sakellarakis
 * Kasteli Sakellarakis
 * Vitsila Sakellarakis west of Juktas
 * Tourkoyeitonia - part of Archanes
 * Papadaki - bakery sity at Archanes
 * Kassotaki - at Archanes
 * Psaltaki - at Archanes
 * Vorna at Archanes
 * Agora at Archanes
 * Kakoskalo Sakellarakis north of Vitsila
 * Karydaki Sakellarakis west of Archanes
 * Homatolakkos east of Archanes
 * Katsoprinia nw of Archanes Sakellarakis
 * Sambei west of Archanes Sakellarakis
 * Synoikismos west of Archanes Sakellarakis
 * Karnari west of Archanes Sakellarakis
 * Myristis north of Archanes Sakellarakis
 * Xeri Kara se of Archanes Sakellarakis
 * Aghios Ioannis MMI Sakellarakis
 * Expand Leto

Wikify
It's a pleasure, and it's nice ot be appreciated! Good work by the way, when we've finished WIkipeida, perhaps we can crack Linear A? Rich  Farmbrough. 09:57, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
 * I'm on it, Rose! Damate

Demeter-Tamatiri
It is possible that the name Demeter is derived from the PIE root *dem "house" (Fraenkel) therefore she is the the "mother of the house" (relative greek words: domos,despotis,despoina,damar),but it was rejected by Kretschmer.It's almost certain that the second element means "mother"(Comp.Messapian Damatura).Despoina (clearly interpreted as "mistress of the house") was the goddess of the mysteries of Arcadian cult and a title also given to Persephone.This title is similar to the nameless "mistress of the labyrinth" of the Linear B tablets and today it is given to the mother of god in the Orthodox church ("Panagia Despoina"). It' s possible that Demeter and Despoina,the great Greek goddesses of the Arcadian cult (later Demeter and Persephone) are connected with the Egyptian Isis ("mother" and "mistress of the house of life") and Nepthys ("mistress of the temple" or "mistress of the house") probably with an intermediate link in Knossos (snake goddesses?).I cannot include it in the article because I could be accused for vandalism or for personal research by the Anglo-germanisch experts.Mondigomo (talk) 21:58, 10 December 2010 (UTC)

Komawenteia
As you know, Komawenteia was a goddess listed in Linear B. Do you think this word could mean "Party Goddess"? (κόμμα θεά) or "Divine Party"? (κόμμα θεία) But what does βεν mean in Greek? What ever it means it would be in Greek "komma ven thea" and "komma ven theia".--Russianamerican1 (talk) 20:49, 23 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Maybe. However, I'm not entirely convinced ko-ma-we-te-ja is a theonym.  The contextual argument isn't bulletproof when you delve into its incidents.  The likely related anthroponyms, ko-ma-we, ko-ma-we-ta, ko-ma-we-to and ko-ma-we-te are generally etymologically derived from κόμη 'hair', suggested as relating to "long-haired", by scholars. Do you have a copy of A Companion to Linear B: Mycenaean Greek Texts and their World vol. I from 2008?  It has some good information on both the theonym and anthroponyms, including a theory that ko-ma-we-te-ja as a theonym is an epithet meaning "long-haired". k. da-ma-te (talk) 20:44, 24 July 2012 (UTC)

I have heared of Komawenteia meaning “long-haired” before, and no I don’t have a copy of A Companion to Linear B: Mycenaean Greek Texts and their World vol. I, but I’ll have to get one.--Russianamerican1 (talk) 19:43, 26 July 2012 (UTC)

Query via Quora
Greetings, User:Damate! It is I, Ellie K., of Quora, paying a social call. I perused your Linear A & B blog, enjoyed it quite a bit. The post that is currently the first entry of the second page on your blog included a link (about an alphasyllabary?) that led me to a favorite website, that of The OmniGlot. I like The OmniGlot a lot, especially the blog. I based a recent blog post of my own on something seen there. I would like to share it with you. I will do so by other means. On your blog, you wrote about regressive spelling or pronunciation, with a nod of acknowledgement to statistical methods. I enjoyed that, especially because it explained what a tripo is. I have seen that term, or maybe tripos, as a variety of degree for graduates of King's College, Cambridge, and been confused. I'm digging around the somewhat mysterious story of Baron Kahn of the multiplier and Keynesian fame, and noted that he was graduated with that degree in the late 1920's, maybe early 1930's.

I'm sorry. My narrative is the very opposite of linear! I am rushing. Please note that I left a completely unasked for response to your visitor from 2010, regarding Demeter. Feel free to delete any or all of it. Demeter, or Ceres, is my patron avatar, or loa, if I were Hindu or Santeria-observant. And if Demeter/ Ceres were members of the Hindu pantheon or Yoruba/ Haitian/ Voudun, which is not the case! I am here, on English Wikipedia, a fairly recent arrival, and also dabble on Wiktionary and related sister sites, minimally. I've been referred to as the "Whimsical Economist" by kindly souls, but in my official capacity (insert humor, irony, quick grin and shake of my head at the mock pretense), I am known as --FeralOink (talk) 23:20, 22 November 2012 (UTC)
 * So, what is a tripos three-footed degree? -kim. (talk) 20:44, 28 December 2012 (UTC)


 * Regarding a "tripos", there is even a Wikipedia article for you to peruse, -kim., so that you may better understand! The etymology of the Tripos as an academic credential does allude to "three footed", but as an object, rather than a living being. "An apocryphal legend says that students used to receive one leg of a stool in each of their three years of exams, receiving the whole stool at graduation."--FeralOink (talk) 11:30, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

DIDOMITODESOI
Why wi-ki-pa-i-di-ja and not wi-ki-pe-di-ja? -kim. (talk) 05:07, 3 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Obviously because of ἐγκυκλοπαίδεια, encyclopaedia... PS.Though the barnstar was given to Damate for her to decipher when she would have come back, this, unfortunately, doesn't seem likely any time soon. So, you deciphered the easy part; how about the rest?! :) Thanatos|talk|contributions 13:19, 26 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Oh, I now realise, it's you. I'm such a fool; your user alias really fooled me. So... you've come back. So, as I've asked you recently elsewhere, on a different medium, care to comment on the present status of the List of Mycenaean deities? Also have you deciphered this? Thanatos|talk|contributions 22:32, 2 June 2014 (UTC)
 * I'm still having some difficulty deciphering it ... I can't tell if it's intended to be an English transliteration or Greek, and without the space delimiters, it was only the wi-ki-pa-i-di-ja that stuck out for me immediately ... ai-a-wa-(is that supposed to be a ju?)-ti-qa-ta-po-tu-wo-ke-wi-ki-pa-i-di-ja-two-pa-ta-ti-qo-ro. Want to give me a hint on the delimiters? :) -kim. (talk) 04:32, 20 August 2014 (UTC)
 * As for the List of Mycenaean deities, there are some problems with it right now. :( Too many of them are hapax legomenon and impossible to define with any certainty.  I haven't read any academic work on quite a few of the items in the list.  I'll try to make some time to do a more thorough line item review, but it might be very intermittent as I still don't have the time I'd like to dedicate to such pursuits ... -kim.  (talk) 04:35, 20 August 2014 (UTC)

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Notability Comment
Hi. Before creating articles on soldiers please read our notability requirements, in particular WP:SOLDIER. The two articles I tagged for deletion don't meet the notability requirements. Not every soldier is notable and WP is not a memorial to fallen soldiers, see WP:NOTMEMORIAL Gbawden (talk) 10:12, 22 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Disagree. This is very important and notable to US history because these soldiers are the first black soldiers to serve in the US Army. These are free men and slaves fighting to end slavery in the US. Many suffered as prisoners of war above and beyond white soldiers, which has been documented, and also makes them notable. And, because too many came from slavery, very little is currently available in the vital records about these men, so the many things that are likely notable about them are in an archive somewhere or were never made available because they were deemed property rather than people. I'm happy to accept a stub designation on these, but I don't agree at all that the soldiers of the MA 54th - especially ranked soldiers and soldiers killed in the service - are not "notable." It is rare to even have a photograph of one of these soldiers, and that's something that should be widely shared as the US struggles to tell our black history better. These kind of articles are meaningful and notable to black American identity because of the paucity of any information about black Americans and black soldiers from the American Civil War era. -kim. (talk) 10:32, 22 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Gbawden, please also note that nearly all references from this time period are written by white men and the black soldiers are almost never named in the details. During the American Civil War, the very highest rank a black soldier could attain was Sergeant Major, automatically disqualifying all from several of the WP:SOLDIER criteria. -kim. (talk) 10:42, 22 January 2018 (UTC)
 * I just want to let you and -kim know that I (re)created a page for William Tecumseh Barks based on a number of sources. I'm not sure the state of the original page and welcome any additions from anyone. I have have added my 2 cents on -kim's point at the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Military history, but I wanted to make sure you were both aware of the new version of the Barks page. Smmurphy(Talk) 17:27, 22 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks, Smmurphy! -kim. (talk) 19:50, 22 January 2018 (UTC)

January 2018
Hello, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. This is just a note to let you know that I've moved the draft that you were working on to Draft:William Nesbit (Civil Rights Leader), from its old location at User:Damate/William Nesbit (Civil Rights Leader). This has been done because the Draft namespace is the preferred location for Articles for Creation submissions. Please feel free to continue to work on it there. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to ask me on my talk page. Thank you. I dream of horses If you reply here, please ping me by adding to your message (talk to me) (My edits) @  22:51, 30 January 2018 (UTC)
 * , thank you! I was confused about whether it was Ok to move the page before it was reviewed. Question answered. (And heart attack averted; for one second I thought it had been wholesale-deleted without comment. So thank you for updating me here!) -kim. (talk) 04:42, 31 January 2018 (UTC)
 * I didn't delete the page. I suppressed the redirect. I just thought you were able to figure out where the draft was without a redirect, and it sounds like you did after a brief startle.
 * Generally speaking, if you're going to submit a draft for review, you'll may as well do it directly in the draftspace, or else, move it/expect it to be moved. -- I dream of horses If you reply here, please ping me by adding to your message (talk to me) (My edits) @  07:28, 31 January 2018 (UTC)

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