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226 ; we turn to the Ethiopian q (khua), and we find it, or as qua, ; while the Phœnician comes still nearer the supposed Maya form in ; the Moab stone was ; the Himyaritic Arabian form became ; the Greek form was , which graduated into the Roman Q. But a still more striking proof of the descent of the Phœnician alphabet from the Maya is found in the other form of the q, the Maya cu, which is. Now, if we apply the Maya rule to this, and discard the outside circle, we have this left,. In time the curved line would be made straight, and the figure would assume this form, ; the next step would be to make the cross on the straight line, thus,. One of the ancient Phœnician forms is. Can all this be accident?

The letter c or g (for the two probably gave the same sound as in the Phœnician) is given in the Maya alphabet as follows,. This would in time be simplified into a figure representing the two sides of a triangle with the apex upward, thus,. This is precisely the form found by Dr. Schliemann in the ruins of Troy,. What is the Phœnician form for g, as found on the Moab stone? It is. The Carthaginian Phœnicians gave it more of a rounded form, thus,. The hieratic Egyptian figure for g was ; in the earlier Greek form the left limb of the figure was shortened, thus, ; the later Greeks reversed it, and wrote it ; the Romans changed this into, and it finally became C.

In the Maya we have one sign for p, and another for pp. The first contains a curious figure, precisely like our r laid on its back,. There is, apparently, no r in the Maya alphabet; and the Roman r grew out of the later Phœnician r formed thus, ; it would appear that the earliest Phœnician alphabet did not contain the letter r. But if we now turn to the Phœnician alphabet, we will find one of the curious forms