Cave paintings show us that this is how early humans communicated before
the advent of writing. Palaeontologists now suspect that Neanderthals could
speak, yet what they said to one another we'll never know! As humans became
more advanced, more sophisticated ways of relating information were needed.
It comes as no surprise that the first languages were symbol and pictogram
based, as can be seen in my earlier articles. By using objects familiar in
daily life, messages were easily understood.
When Egyptian hieroglyphs were translated in the early nineteenth century
by Thomas Young, an English physicist, and Jean Champollion, a French history
professor, the pictures were found to represent single and groups of letters.
The key to linking the symbols was the Rosetta Stone discovered in 1799,
which is also in Demotic and Greek. Like Egyptian, Sumerian and other ancient
dialects were based on phonetics. Because hieroglyphs are all consonants,
Egyptologists add vowels for ease of reading. Thus, d', 'nh and dd become
di, ankh and djet. Put together they mean "given life eternal" [see Heaven
on Earth?]. But what does this actually mean? An afterlife?
Reincarnation? Or the ability to prolong life? After all, some Biblical
characters [Noah, Methuselah, etc.] lived to extraordinary ages!
In that article and others I explored the idea that symbols conceal
another meaning. For example, the djet and disc together resemble a beacon
or lighthouse, the former maybe to guide alien craft. And what does one make
of the "sacred tree" depicted in Assyrian and Sumerian wall reliefs? To me
it resembles the DNA double helix, the very "building blocks" of life.
Supposing the "winged geniuses" tending to them were akin to the Old
Testament Jehovah, who extracted DNA from Adam's "bone and flesh" [Genesis 2,
v. 23; see Amen: "Be It So" ]. [The Romans believed the "genius" was the
guiding human spirit]. This would mean humans are the result of genetic
"experiment" by alien beings, the ancient Creator gods I discussed in that
article. Curiously, Genesis 2, v. 26, makes God speak plurally, the only time
this occurs in the Bible:
I would hope that those who influenced early civilizations would
understand the implication on those discs.. . Could these ETs explain the "leap"
in prehistoric human intelligence, and the reason why our early ancestors are
looking increasingly "sophisticated". Maybe there is no Missing Link after
all! Makes the GM debate look stupid, doesn't it?
If Stargate is correct, then one way to communicate with ETs would be via
ancient languages. Linguists have noted similarities between different
dialects globally. A common Atlantean origin, as suggested in so many
mythologies? Or did the same "gods" give different peoples the means to
communicate with them? Could it be that ancient texts, particularly
religious ones, in their glyphs, not only sought to explain the mysteries of
life, but also were designed to conceal advances in technology? Or were they
telling those who came after them, as I argued in The Device, that they
weren't so "ancient" after all? To me, the pre-Edison "light bulbs" alone,
depicted in the Temple of Hathor, Dendera, prove that much... .
Those mysterious crystal skulls, the first discovered in 1927, show
"computers" in use long before our own IT age. But, as they also "speak"
telepathically, this calls to mind the intriguing suggestion on Channel 4's
"Talking With Aliens" [20/12/99] that maybe aliens communicate by means other
than speech or writing. One example given was dolphins. An interesting
idea, particularly as the so-called "interviews" with the enigmatic humanoid
Greys at Area 51 appear to show them attempting thought transference with
humans.
I would be interested to know what you think of all this, esp. on the eve
of a new millenium. Do you believe the truth is Out There [viz. the X
Files], or closer to home than we imagine, or indeed hope/fear... ?
Do Pictures Speak Louder...?
If you met someone who did not understand your language, how would YOU
communicate? This was a conundrum I was faced with on a childhood visit to
China. Being of Caucasian appearance, I was a source of wonder to Chinese
children unfamiliar with Westerners. In effect I was an "alien" in that
country. As there was a distinct language barrier, we resorted to something
more basic, drawing on the ground with sticks. It was a simple, but
effective, solution.
by JJ "And now we will make human beings; they will be like us and resemble us."
The two naked humans on the Pioneer 10 disc are like the Genesis Adam
and Eve and other "proto-couples" I discussed in "Amen". Should the OT
Jehovah[s] words prove true, it would be nice to think that the ET
culture[s] from which the first "gods" came would recognise their own
creations.. . Had I been one of the astronomers who'd transmitted the DNA
helix in the binary Arecibo Telescope signal, this would've been a
motivating factor. It would be the ultimate in "phoning home"! From the
earliest times humans aligned their major monuments to constellations, and
dedicated them to "gods" that shaped their lives and destinies. Stars aided
navigation. Then and now people consulted oracles and horoscopes. There was
a global obsession with the Pleiades, Orion [think Giza], Sirius, Jupiter
and Venus [see "Amen" and The Winged Disc ]. Ancient rulers were God-Kings
and claimed to rule by "Divine Right". But maybe we are all the Children of
God[s]... .
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