Caves, crypts of the ancestors. Hiding places, labyrinthine hiding places, circuitous, dark.

The ABCs started as ABG Agriculture, Houses, and Mining

The writing revolution reflects a human revolution. The alphabet commemorates a shift from the hunter-gatherer, to settled, house dwelling, crop-raising lifestyle. The letter Aleph started as a pictogram of an ox head. It symbolizes the ploughing fields, and the domestication of cattle, rather than reliance on hunting. Bet depicts the man-made houses that represented progress from dwelling in caves. The Gimmel was a digging stick, for the practice of agriculture, rather than gathering from the wild plants of the landscape. This tool was also used for mining and represents the innovations of metallurgy. Neolithic writing in China

Proto-Sinaitic entices the imagination with letters that transparently depict real-world objects.

• "Aleph" outlines the horn-crowned head of an ox or bull, a symbol of plow pulling power and verility. According to the second century B.C. writings of the prophet Enoch, divine beings which descended like falling stars from heaven to teach and have sexual relations with beautiful human females took the form of a bull as one of their shape-shifting manifestations. According to legend, the Greek god Zeus, for example, took the form of a white bull when he seduced Europa. It can be inferred that the inventors of the alphabet also venerated the sacred white cow, as in of Greek myth, and the cow-headed love and fertility goddess Hathor of Egypt. One of Hathor's titles was "Lady of the House". A may represent Hathor, and B represents her house, the temple of love.

  
  

• "Bet" traces the floor plan of a house which originated way back in the stone age. It has a welcoming open door, and wind-sheltered, yet ventilated alcove for the warm fire of the hearth. It might also represent the confining and confusing labyrinth of the Minotaur.

  
  

• "Gamlu" is a shepherd's crook, or bird-hunting weapon of choice -- the throwing stick or boomerang. This L-shaped letter evolved into Γ the Greek letter gamma. "Digg" is a fish. Dag means fish in Hebrew. It is probably named after the Mesopotamian god Dagon, the L-shaped half-man half-fish deity. He wears a crown with bull horns. The Biblical scripture 1 Samuel 5:3 says that when the Philistines captured the Hebrew Ark of the Covenant, and brought the trophy to their temple, their statue of the Dagon cracked in two. The human half fell on his face before the Ark, leaving only a fillet of fish on the pedestal.

  Possible connection to Poseidon, who provided a sacred white bull to Minos, king of Crete. Zeus metamorphosed into a bull to seduce Europa (Posture connects to Babylonian, Sumerian and Gobekli Tepe and Olmec with handbag of the gods) Two central pillars in Philistine temple that Samson pushed down, and at Gobekli Tepe. Represents some primordial duo, mother father god, two brothers, twins? Sisters?

  Gimel also shaped like adze, important for digging and sowing, and hollowing out, or shaping logs for use in watercraft

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