A comparison of scripts

First there was (sound) — then there was Light (and shadows).

Then –there were shapes in the Light— who spoke...

Later, there were Words...
and Numbers...
Then, at last, Letters...and the logics of their assembly...

into transports of communion.

— the translator


 

This diagram illustrates the numeric and generative relations between proto-sinaitic (or proto-hebraic) script on the far left (Sinai Peninsula, ~1500 B.C), Hebrew, and Greek (on the right). The proto-language is a modern reconstruction from fragments, as I understand it, and is (again to my knowledge) nowhere found in a collective lexicon that would assert a more formal identity (except now).

Beta and Sigma have ‘finals’ forms (a special shape adopted when this symbol ‘comes at the end’ of something. I did not have symbols for Digamma, Sampi, the Dotted Alpha, Stigma (or Episimon Vau) or Koppa. I have drawn from a variety of sources to create this and would appreciate any advice on corrections or additions.

Bora Finton’s site concerns itself with the revelation of the magical connectivity from which all language arises — and is an excellent resource on Paleo-Hebrew and Hebrew scripts, as they relate to the exploration of direct experiential communion (or gnosis) with our sources.

This particular page is a wonderful resource, which I highly recommend. It is uniquely illuminative to see each letterform is shown ‘spun through four angles’.

Notaricon

Additionally, Ancient Scripts is a site of incredible merit, unquestionably of profound valuel to anyone tracing the linguistic, morphic and cognitive (or poetic) roots and forms of the languages of our anscestors, and those we use today.

Proto-Sinaitic

Notice the incredible similarity between many of these characters and their ‘Egyptian’ corrolaries — for example, the character Tsadde is actually the symbol of ‘the upper nile’, and many other symbols familiar from heiroglyphs are clearly present. Heiroglyphs were not the same as a written alpha-bet, however. The snake, crook, arm-hand, and palm-hand, as well as the eye and the 'flower-plant' — all of these are nearly exact replicas of thei glyphs they are either sourced from, or...

What was the real source of the Egyptian glyphs, and might it have been Thoth, as is commonly (mythically) purported? My own experience says yes — Thoth, or ‘the scribe-angel’ was a significant formative power in the creation not only of glyphs from this area and time — but of all the human language-making we have ever done.

Glyphs don’t come from a machine of evolution. They come from a living source, that ‘offers them as gifts to children’.

Phonecian

Notice that the Greek has unique features of character according to local symbolic dialect.

 

 

 

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