Universal Language
"One picture is worth a thousand words." Universal language is visual
language. I look forward to the day when a New Guinea pig farmer can go
online to the University of Iowa website and get advice on a problem he is
having with his pigs without having to learn English.
I just finished reading "Fingerprints of the Gods" by Graham Hancock. My
own
work and research supports or parallels many of the "Fingerprints of the
Gods" arguments about an ancient prehistorical civilization. My version or
vision of that civilization differs from his in significant ways, but it
also confirms his vision in profound ways. The meltdown of the Ice Age was
surely the germinal event that led to the development of human
civilization - as we know it.
The Ice Age didn't simply melt down, it collapsed. My basic argument has
long been that our ancestors turned to agriculture because their Stone Age
economy crashed when the Ice Age collapsed. Fingerprints of the Gods
carries
that argument a ways further and argues that there was an earlier "high"
civilization during the Ice Age, and that "human civilization as we know
it"
which rose after the meltdown was not the first human civilization. By
Hancock's argument, that civilization which rose after the meltdown was
not
a step up from a 'primitive' Stone Age culture, but a poor renaissance of
the earlier higher one. Some of Hancock's evidence is difficult to refute.
For instance, the Sphinx and other monuments in Egypt show unmistakable
signs of rainwater weathering that couldn't have occurred anytime near the
historical period.
I recommend this book for anyone who is interested in that sort of thing.
It
challenges some conventional ideas about our world.
I came to my version or vision of a prehistorical civilization by quite a
different route than Graham Hancock did. This has been my path of
discovery
about the prehistory of ancient history: I discovered the pictographic
origins of our alphabet in 1975. Contrary to all of the established
theories
and opinions, our alphabet is not purely phonetic. It is also
pictographic.
The letters of our alphabet are a set of Pagan religious icons derived
from
the legend of Isis and Assur(Osiris). Every letter of our alphabet, the
modern Roman alphabet, the one I'm using right now, is a picture that has
a
meaning of its own. The letters are not a mismatched collection of
abstract
symbols and arbitrary sounds.
Mathematics is a system. It isn't just a collection of numeric symbols.
The
proof of the system is in the system. According to the Pagan foundation
legend, Thoth was the "scribe of the gods." Thoth was the "inventor of
writing and of numbers." It was Thoth who "first taught men to speak
clearly." The pictures that are letters of our alphabet(s) are elements of
a
'Thothian' system of linguistics. The Thothian system of linguistics is
not
as perfect and precise as mathematics is, but it is a system nevertheless.
The proof of the system is in the system. There is no academic "paper
trail"
to prove this argument.
The letters of our alphabet are pictures that when added up generate words
that are pictures of their meanings. That's the system. Not all of our
words
are 'picture words,' but many of them are - especially names. Being able
to
read words and names that are pictures enables one to see a much different
picture of ancient history than 'linear learning' scholarship or mythology
does. This system would be easy to teach little kids who are learning
their
ABCs. That was part of its original purpose. Thirty years of trying to
introduce it to PhDs has failed to reach a single one.
According to the Egyptian foundation legend, Assur was an ancient king who
was the first king of the first kingdom on earth. A company of
conspirators
murdered Assur. They hacked his body into pieces and scattered his severed
parts. Isis gathered together the scattered parts of Assur and resurrected
him from the dead. This is an allegorical tale. It is a verbal history of
the pre history of the world going all the way back to the Ice Age. Assur
was a real ancestor. He was the original patriarch, the original "Adam."
He
was already a deified ancestor for thousands of years before Isis
"resurrected" him.
Isis copulated with her resurrected king and from that union she begat the
bloodline of "divine" kings. In Egyptian art, Isis is commonly pictured
with
a throne atop her head. She was the mother of the throne. Despite what
Egyptologists say, the throne of Egypt passed down the female line of
inheritance.
The missing parts of Assur that Isis gathered have found their way into
our
alphabet. The D is his hand (thumb and opposed forefinger), the G is his
head, the J is his beard, the L is his leg, the O is his eye, the P is his
phallus and so on. The entire set of Roman (Pagan) letters is a matched
set
of religious symbols lifted directly from Egyptian art and symbolism. They
did not "evolve" from some earlier Canaanite script.
So what?
Why does it matter if our letters are pictures and not just phonetic
symbols? We communicate perfectly well in phonetic language, don't we?
"One
picture is worth a thousand words." Combining pictographic symbols to
create
words that are pictures results in visual language. Visual language is a
more powerful medium of communication than phonetic language is. TV is a
more powerful medium of communication than radio is. TV communicates
across
linguistic and cultural boundaries better than radio does because it's
graphic. It isn't entirely dependent upon the verbal languages of diverse
nationalities and cultures. Visual language can communicate across
linguistic and cultural boundaries better than verbal language can.
The world is getting crowded and we need a universal language. Following
World War I, people recognized the need for a universal language to
facilitate cross-cultural and international communications because they
saw
that lack of communication had been a major contributing factor to that
war.
After World War I, there was a lot of interest in developing a universal
language and people were working on it. World War II came along and
destroyed their dreams. There has been very little interest in the idea of
a
universal language since World War II. (Esperanto is fatally flawed. There
are a number of reasons why Esperanto can never be the universal language
its creators intended it to be, which is an argument that I can't go into
here.)
The name "Mandarin" means "Bad Big Man," which was the Chinese name for a
government bureaucrat. Mandarin language began as a government language
which was created to administer a kingdom that spoke 400 different
languages. China still speaks 400 languages, but they all read and write a
'universal Chinese' language regardless of how they speak. The Egyptian
language of the Pyramid Texts and etc. was a government language like
Mandarin. Each passing dynasty rose from a different linguistic and
cultural
tradition. They all used the same 'universal government language' for
government business regardless of what they spoke.
The Thothian system of our pictographic alphabet(s) could be developed
into
a global universal language - not a spoken language like Esperanto, but a
graphic written language like a 'Mandarin' - that could serve for
cross-cultural communications in a world that speaks 6000 languages. An
alphabetic Mandarin could achieve visual language without requiring the
large number of drawn characters that the Chinese Mandarin does. That was
where the Thothian scribes were headed long ago before militant monotheism
destroyed their world. We need to get back on that path.
"Resurrect Isis," www.resurrectisis.org, is the name of my website. On the
Resurrect Isis website there are twenty-six individual illustrated
alphabet
pages, one for each letter, that explains what the letters represent and a
little bit of how they were used to make "picture words." There is a
"Visual
Language" page that should probably be previewed before the alphabet
pages.
Respectfully,
Will Moore
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