The Decipherment of Minoan Linear A, Volume I, Part II: Hurrians and Hurrian in Minoan Crete: Text and Summary

The author shows that the Holy Trinity of the main Hurrian Gods, Tešub, Ḫebat and their son Šarruma is addressed in a sophisticated and poetic way, usually at the beginning of the so-called 'libation formulas', by means of descriptive epithets. They appear in a fixed order of importance. First Tešub's Linear A epithet a-ta-i-jo-wa-ja 'Our Father', absolutive/vocative attai=(j)=o/uwwa=(j)=aš, consisting of attai 'father' + transitional semi-vowel -j- between 2 vowels + enclitic possessive p...