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“The history of the Ge’ez writing system is not as easy to trace as the Roman, owed primarily to widely accepted but inaccurate scholarship based on Euro-centric assumptions. As Amadou-Mahtar M’Bow has written there was a refusal to see Africans as creators of original cultures which flowered and survived over the centuries in patterns of their own making and which historians are unable to grasp unless they forego their prejudices and rethink their approach.”(see below, our italics)

ባጭሩ የግእዝ ፊደል ስረ መሰረት ሶስት ገጽታዎችን፣ የሚያመለክት አጭር
ጥናት ነው። ማለትም ግእዝ

1ኛ ሥዕላዊ ገጽታ
2ኛ ርዕዮታዊ/ሃሳባዊና
3ኛ ሰማያዊ/ መንፈሳዊና መለኮታዊ ገጽታ እንዳለው፤ በዚህም ከዘመን መቁጠሪያ ጋር በተያያዘ አልፎም ከኮከቦች አቀማመጥ ቀምር ጋር
የተመላከተና የረቀቀ መሆኑን ያሳያል።

i.e. “Astrography, or the charting of the stars and hence, the calendar, is the third property of the Ge’ez system. The system, with it’s 26 classes and 7 variations provide its total of 182 syllographs. One hundred and eighty two, being half of 364, represents a half-year or one equinox.”

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“Each of the syllographs have a corresponding number value from 1-5600.The number values associated with each syllo graph also contains codes of the Ethiopian knowledge (mystery) system. “

Geez-origin & system-of-usage

Origins and Usage of Ge’ez

Read More:

wWw.thisisgabes.com/documents/paper_gabriella.pdf

http://tseday.wordpress.com/2008/09/14/ethiopian-astronomy/