In his youth on Crete, Samartzidis encountered Greek's earliest syllabic scripts: Linear A, Linear B, and that on the Phaistos Disk. He calls this encounter an “apokalypse.”
In Samartizidis's own words:
•"All these verses I transcribe ... are part of my ‘language homeland,’ this universe in a nutshell that I carry through my birth, my education, my experiences. This universe is not visible but it is comprehensible and perceived through emotions and imagination. The covering of it with Linear-B symbols is like a gold plating technique to beautify and add sparkle to it on the one hand and give it an identifying feature of Hellenism on the other. And - who knows? It might protect it from barbarians too…(Samartzidis).”