THE FIRST SIGILS OF LANGUAGE FROM ASTROLOGY
Engineered languages (often abbreviated to engelangs, or, less commonly, engilangs) are constructed languages devised to test or prove some hypotheses about how languages work or might work. There are at least three subcategories, philosophical languages (or ideal languages), logical languages (sometimes abbreviated as loglangs), and experimental languages. Raymond Brown describes engineered languages as "languages that are designed to specified objective criteria, and modeled to meet those criteria".
Structural information theory (SIT) is a theory about human perception and in particular about visual perceptual organization, which is the neuro-cognitive process that enables us to perceive scenes as structured wholes consisting of objects arranged in space. It has been applied to a wide range of research topics,[1] mostly in visual form perception but also in, for instance, visual ergonomics, data visualization, and music perception.
Much work within music psychology seeks to understand the cognitive processes that support musical behaviors, including perception, comprehension, memory, attention, and performance. Originally arising in fields of psychoacoustics and sensation, cognitive theories of how people understand music more recently encompass neuroscience, cognitive science, music theory, music therapy, computer science, psychology, philosophy, and linguistics.
Traditional areas of linguistic analysis correspond to phenomena found in human linguistic systems, such as syntax (rules governing the structure of sentences); semantics (meaning); morphology (structure of words); phonetics (speech sounds and equivalent gestures in sign languages); phonology (the abstract sound system of a particular language); and pragmatics (how social context contributes to meaning).[9] Subdisciplines such as evolutionary linguistics (the study of the origins and evolution of language) and psycholinguistics (the study of psychological factors in human language) bridge many of these divisions.
Humanism is a philosophical stance that emphasizes the individual and social potential and agency of human beings. It considers human beings as the starting point for serious moral and philosophical inquiry.
The meaning of the term "humanism" has changed according to the successive intellectual movements that have identified with it. Generally, the term refers to a focus on human well-being and advocates for human freedom, autonomy, and progress. It views humanity as responsible for the promotion and development of individuals, espouses the equal and inherent dignity of all human beings, and emphasizes a concern for humans in relation to the world.
Structural linguistics, or structuralism, in linguistics, denotes schools or theories in which language is conceived as a self-contained, self-regulating semiotic system whose elements are defined by their relationship to other elements within the system.[1][2] It is derived from the work of Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure and is part of the overall approach of structuralism. Saussure's Course in General Linguistics, published posthumously in 1916, stressed examining language as a dynamic system of interconnected units. Saussure is also known for introducing several basic dimensions of semiotic analysis that are still important today. Two of these are his key methods of syntagmatic and paradigmatic analysis,[3] which define units syntactically and lexically, respectively, according to their contrast with the other units in the system.
Paradigmatic analysis is the analysis of paradigms embedded in the text rather than of the surface structure (syntax) of the text which is termed syntagmatic analysis. Paradigmatic analysis often uses commutation tests, i.e. analysis by substituting words of the same type or class to calibrate shifts in connotation.[Anaximenes defined paradeigma as "actions that have occurred previously and are similar to, or the opposite of, those which we are now discussing."[5]
The original Greek term παράδειγμα (paradeigma) was used in Greek texts such as Plato's Timaeus (28 AD) and Parmenides as one possibility for the model or the pattern that the demiurge used to create the cosmos.[6][7] The term had a technical meaning in the field of grammar: the 1900 Merriam-Webster dictionary defines its technical use only in the context of grammar or, in rhetoric, as a term for an illustrative parable or fable. In linguistics, Ferdinand de Saussure used paradigm to refer to a class of elements with similarities.
The meaning of the term "humanism" has changed according to the successive intellectual movements that have identified with it. Generally, the term refers to a focus on human well-being and advocates for human freedom, autonomy, and progress. It views humanity as responsible for the promotion and development of individuals, espouses the equal and inherent dignity of all human beings, and emphasizes a concern for humans in relation to the world.
Modeling principles
In SIT's formal coding model, candidate interpretations of a stimulus are represented by symbol strings, in which identical symbols refer to identical perceptual primitives (e.g., blobs or edges). Every substring of such a string represents a spatially contiguous part of an interpretation, so that the entire string can be read as a reconstruction recipe for the interpretation and, thereby, for the stimulus. These strings then are encoded (i.e., they are searched for visual regularities) to find the interpretation with the simplest code.
This encoding is performed by way of symbol manipulation, which, in psychology, has led to critical statements of the sort of "SIT assumes that the brain performs symbol manipulation". Such statements, however, fall in the same category as statements such as "physics assumes that nature applies formulas such as Einstein's E=mc2 or Newton's F=ma" and "DST models assume that dynamic systems apply differential equations". That is, these statements ignore that the very concept of formalization means that potentially relevant things are represented by symbols—not as a goal in itself but as a means to capture potentially relevant relationships between these things.
A sigil is a sign, word, or device of supposed occult power in astrology or magic
Sigil was stamped from Latin sigillum, a word for a small figure or image or a seal. Sigillum is a diminutive of signum (which can also mean "sign" or "mark"). The Latin meanings are reflected in senses of the English sigil, which, for one, is used for a seal. In astrology, it is used for a sign, word, or device (a talisman) having mysterious powers.
The Elements – fire, earth, air and water – are the energy substance of experience.
The Signs are the primary energy patterns and indicate specific qualities of experience.
The Planets regulate energy flow and represent the dimensions of experience.
The Houses represent the fields of experience wherein specific energies will be most easily expressed and most directly encountered. In concrete areas of the individual´s life.
The aspects reveal the dynamism and intensity of experience as well as how the energies within the individual interact.
Astrology describes these energies through symbols and myths.
The symbols may seem simple or even naive, but they contain layer upon layer of meaning and reach far back into ancient times. They pick up the collective experience of human existence and archetypical challenges through the ages.
Symbols and myths are the language of the timeless soul. Words follow the knowledge base but they are not enough.As an example, the sign of Taurus has the bull as a symbol. But in ancient times – in Sumerian and Minoic culture – this sign was connected with the sacred cow as a feminine symbol of fertility and the power to create on the physical plane. To be fertile in the widest sense of the word, you must first be in contact with the vital principle of life, The Universal Source of Creation.
Taurus is therefore one of the earth goddesses, a woman connected with this sacred source in herself and able to express it through her body and senses. The sign is also named the ”Priestess” or “The Interpreter of the Divine Voice.” She connects herself with the beautiful rhythms and tones of the universe and expresses herself sensuously through the birth of a child, song or dance.
The positions of the planets as they appear from the earth. if the signs represent qualities, the planets represent parts of ourselves, such as seven styles of being.
Even Noam Chomsky’s famous theory of Universal Grammar presumes that certain structures of language are universal and have a genetic and, therefore, uniquely human foundation. Creating a method to decode an unknown language without relying on parallels to Earth languages seems like a Sisyphean obstacle. It is completely possible that an extraterrestrial language could be soundless or, alternatively, lack a written component, so these traditionally reliable methods would be useless if we are presented with such an alien language.
“True” language, is a term linguists seem to reserve only for human language. Still, it’s only in the last 40 years that signed languages have been acknowledged as proper language.In any attempt to communicate with someone whose uses a different language, bridging the gap between the two interlocutors’ languages is essential.
In analytic philosophy, philosophy of language investigates the nature of language, the relations between language, language users, and the world.[1] Investigations may include inquiry into the nature of meaning, intentionality, reference, the constitution of sentences, concepts, learning, and thought.
In continental philosophy, language is not studied as a separate discipline. Rather, it is an inextricable part of many other areas of thought, such as phenomenology, structural semiotics,[3] language of mathematics, hermeneutics, existentialism, deconstruction and critical theory.
Languages are thought of as sign systems in a semiotic tradition dating from John Locke and culminating in Saussure's notion of language as semiology: an interactive system of a semantic and a symbolic level.[57] Building on Saussurian structuralism, Louis Hjelmslev saw the organisation of the levels as fully computational.
In the early 19th century, the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard insisted that language ought to play a larger role in Western philosophy. He argued that philosophy has not sufficiently focused on the role language plays in cognition and that future philosophy ought to proceed with a conscious focus on language:
I agree with Soren Kierkegaard 100%Loosely speaking one can say that the unity of a nation is directly dependent on language.
Genesis 11:1 implies that at one time (some time after the Flood) that there was one common culture and that all people of that culture of a given extended territory, spoke the same language. We can assume from the archaeological record that the language in its written form was probably Sumerian.
The native speech, the language of ancient Sumer is believed to be a language isolate and to have been spoken in ancient Mesopotamia (also known as the Fertile Crescent), in the area that is modern-day Iraq.
Genesis seems to make clear that at least the spoken language was the same among all people. There was apparently a great degree of unity of the people at that time.
The history and development of Sumerian (in its written form) can be divided, (as shown below) into several periods and the analysis of the changes that it goes through will show to the nearest 100 years when the proto-Sumerian language became practical and portable enough so that it could be superimposed on any vernacular, thus giving independent individual thinkers and groups that felt oppressed, the opportunity to set up house away from urban centers, free from the dictates of Kings who over time tended to go corrupt.
Archaic Sumerian – 31st–26th century BC
Old or Classical Sumerian – 26th–23rd century BC
Neo-Sumerian – 23rd–21st century BC
Late Sumerian – 20th–18th century BC
Post-Sumerian – after 1700 BC.
The Sumerian language is one of the earliest known written languages. The "proto-literate" period of Sumerian writing spans c. 3300 to 3000 BC. In this period, records are purely logographic, with phonological content.
From about 2600 BC, the logographic symbols were generalized using a wedge-shaped stylus to impress the shapes into wet clay. This cuneiform ("wedge-shaped") mode of writing co-existed with the pre-cuneiform archaic mode.In this same period we find that the large set of logographic signs had been simplified into a logosyllabic script, containing only several hundred signs.
This is the pre-Sargonian period of the 26th to 24th centuries BC is the "Classical Sumerian" stage of the language. It is also the period of the departure of the progenitor of the Armenian nation Hayk the Patriarch.The cuneiform script was adapted to Akkadian writing beginning in the mid-third millennium. Our knowledge of Sumerian is based on Akkadian glossaries. During the Ur III period (21st century BC), Sumerian was written in already highly abstract cuneiform glyphs and it was directly succeeded by Old Assyrian cuneiform.
Obviously, logically, any unity that existed in the Archaic period became a unified rebellion against the Sumerian gods. Pride and a desire for independence from the existing order must have take hold. If men had been coerced to work together on a project like the tower. For at that moment in time man had reached the intellectual and technological heights of power to go it alone. The abstract creative power of language and technology gave the smaller group the power to go it alone, start a new fresh culture. One wonders if humanity had stayed together as in a super-organism one unified common culture through history, if the new order with the new technological language based on I&0 would have arrived sooner and humanity been more civilised and if God would admit he was wrong to encourage the rebellious gene in humans.
God’s new objective in the covenant with Christ was to work to reach the point in history where many peoples from different cultures, nations, and languages all get to know and worship Him, all together (see Revelation 7:9). If mankind had not been judged wrongly by Him at Babel, the cultural barriers between people would likely have been greatly lessened. Obviously unity on a grand scale given mans pride is not achievable without external manipulation. So God first wanted people to spread out and occupy the whole Earth, to the point of total exhaustion before He advised them to get back to the one language one humanity one god original idea of man.
Linguists today suggest that there were about 100 different language “families” that led to all the 6,000 or so languages that now exist in the world. This is arrived at purely from scientific, linguistic analysis of languages today and this is very consistent with the Genesis story of the Tower of Babel of 70+.
The idea that it was God’s intervention that changed the languages of the people., naturally or miraculously, means God overviewed the split of humanity into smaller groups with each group having its own new language. It also means that God was in agreement with the naturalist theory of language who suggest that language is like hardware, imprinted knowledge, hard wired into the speech centers of their brains. So it was as a consequence of God’s intervention that forced the idea of working together for the benefit of the whole was bad. So God’s first command to Noah to multiply and fill the Earth (Gen. 9:7) force mankind to destroy the planet.
To recap we can say that the most ancient written languages are described as logographic by linguists. This means that before the alphabet was invented or abstracted man first used sigils, signs or symbols to represent sounds, consonants and vowels, Today we can say that a written language, like English is both alphabetic and phonetic. This means that when we write in English, the individual characters represent sounds, and combining these letters, elements with meaning we turn them into words and sentences with the tools of grammar to create meaningful expression, interaction, communication, coordination, cooperation.
As we mentioned above for Sumerian, we know also that the first written languages like the Egyptians used a form of hieroglyphics; this form of writing was cumbersome and did was not based on an abstract phonetic foundation like the alphabet. It is still not known exactly when or how the first abstract phonetic language was developed. My theory is the story of Babel gives us a chronological clue as to when the approximate change started to take place. The development or if you like the invention of the abstract phonetic alphabet for writing by ear over any existing vernacular or formalized pictographic language was the dawn of the dusk we are experiencing today.
Prior to Babel, there would have been no need for written languages to be constructed. A taxonomy was not yet needed, not until that is that technology, meteorology and metrology gave the ego the idea that he was like a god and imagined he could want the world and have it not now a bit later. the theory is that abstract sound-based language when programmed into humans from an early age would make them keen followers of fashion.
The cuneiform script was in principle capable of distinguishing at least 16 consonants, transliterated as
b, d, g, g̃, ḫ, k, l, m, n, p, r, ř, s, š, t, z
as well as four vowel qualities, a, e, i, u. The Akkadian language had no use for g̃ or ř but needed to distinguish its emphatic series, q, ṣ, ṭ, adopting various "superfluous" Sumerian signs for the purpose.
First document in Elamite cuneiform (2250 BCE) comes in two variants, the first, derived from Akkadian, was used during the 3rd to 2nd millennia BCE, and a simplified form used during the 1st millennium BCE. The main difference between the two variants is the reduction of glyphs used in the simplified version. At any one time, there would only be around 130 cuneiform signs in use. Throughout the script's history, only 206 different signs were used in total. Some believe that Elamite cuneiform might have been in use since 2500 BCE.
The evidence that 2600 BCE iis the dawn of modern man for better or worse is in my opinion overwhelming.
Comments