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Aug 7

Pa-ki-ja-ne

Lemme get a couple orders of speech, a priest, oh a — a divine one, and uh — how about a sacrifice? That’s not seasonal is it?

Pa-ki-ja-ne

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May 7

Aegean Infiltration

Arthaśāstra Spy Network embedded deep in Mycenae

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Apr 26

Westward Expansion

Sonny Maya and the Masked Mantle

A distressed, sepia-toned 1960s television poster styled like a Western serial. A masked cowboy in black hat and cape stands in the foreground, while a second man — Sonny Maya — looks up at him from the side, suggesting they may be the same person. Large headline text reads “Sonny Maya and the Masked Mantle.” Side panels show black-and-white scenes: a lone rider, a tense face-off, and a “Wanted” poster labeled “Masked Mantle.” Taglines emphasize ambiguity and inversion (“Sometimes they fight cri

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Feb 26

Gilded Fleece Pictures:

The Poster Cycle of titles we wished that were

Gilded Fleece Pictures:

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Jan 26

The “Accountable Men” in Linear B

If you take one small cluster of job titles that show up in Linear B tablets, most textbooks call them “the accountable men.” The idea is…

Diagram showing a vertical hierarchy of labels: “Idamate” at the top in red above an upward orange arrow; “Upe Naga” in purple beneath; a faint gray word “threshold” behind a white cylindrical pillar; “revata-rakṣa” in blue below; and three black crescent/oval marks at the bottom labeled “upa-dāmiyah,” “upa-kāpī-vāha,” and “upa-śuka.”

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Nov 29, 2025

Submission Forms

DOCA FIELD OFFICE

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Nov 26, 2025

The Ancient Information Technology Hiding in Plain Sight

Reversible Phonemic Architecture

Minimalist beige cover image divided into a left and right panel. On the left, bold black sans-serif text reads: ‘The Ancient Information Technology Hiding in Plain Sight’ and below it ‘Reversible Phonemic Architecture.’ On the right, three outlined geometric shapes contain syllabic units from Linear B: a square with ‘WA–NAK,’ another square with ‘NA–KA–,’ below them a triangle containing ‘D / PA-TE / TE-PA.’ The design evokes orientation-neutral CV sequences and reversible phonemic structure

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Nov 12, 2025

More Than a Textile

Ground Floor of the Fleece

A golden spiral mat rises from dark ocean water, its surface inscribed with glowing Sanskrit and Linear B glyphs that curl inward like a galaxy of light.

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Oct 30, 2025

Mapping the Ligatures of Linear A

How a few joined strokes on Bronze-Age clay reveal the first hints of phonemic writing.

Illustrated poster showing a pastoral-industrial scene beneath a stone arch. Around the central field of grazing sheep, interlocking golden gears depict human figures reading, sailing, harvesting grain, and wielding swords — symbols of production and exchange. At the bottom stands a single black-faced sheep bearing a silver axe across its back. The title reads “Say you, Kṣemaka.”

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Oct 28, 2025

Deputy Nāga: Carder of the Fleece

A linguistic-administrative analysis of ka-na-pe-u and the hidden office in the Linear B textile archive

Close up of a bronze gear beside aligned wool fibers on a wooden carding board, evoking the connection between mechanical order and textile craft; faint Linear B inscriptions visible in the background.

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MIS / compressing Mystery, myth, pattern & recursion. Language reverse engineer, Fleece Technician, Golden Fleece Auditor, Founder: Western Civ - Lost & Found

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