How did our numerological and alphabetical systems come to be? That is the question.
Did they evolve from one original language and then spread, transform, and adapt around the globe? Or did they emerge from different places, each culture developing its own way of speaking, counting, writing, and understanding reality?
Are we truly, in origin, one race descended from Adam and Eve, or do we come from totally different origins? Are we perhaps different branches of humanity, shaped by different cultures, histories, and maybe even influences from around the universe? Maybe our ancestors came from astral origins, spreading across the universe before settling here. Maybe we are a humanity of migrants and settlers. Or maybe we are star people who came down here to be, to live, and to settle into different continents and different forms of civilization.
And what about the migration of continents? Maybe there was human life back then too, before the tectonic movements that spread the global territories apart. What if that were true? What if all that we know from biology and history books is not the full truth?
Just as in geography, the map is not always accurate. Countries are adjusted in size and shape to fit the surface of a globe onto a flat image. The true geometrical form is different, and the size of lands also varies depending on how the map is projected. If you do not believe me, Google it.
So let us see in this work what can come out of these questions. What similarities and differences can we find in human language? Is there one origin, or are there many? Maybe we will find something totally different. Maybe we will find multiple origins. Maybe we will find none. Or maybe we will discover something that has not yet been fully told.
For me, as I see it, the origin of language is in the voices of nature: in animals and their sounds, in rain and thunder, in the voice of a cow or a frog, in the wind, the river, the cracking of branches, and the rhythm of footsteps. We learn and we adjust. We see and we process. This is the way of human nature. Before written language, there was sound. Before sound became a system, there was imitation, memory, emotion, and meaning.
Another question that asks for an answer is this: were we ever truly a settled kind of humankind, or have we always been migrants? Maybe we settle only for longer or shorter periods. Maybe we seem like settlers because we remain in one place for 20 or 200 years, but in the long term, across generations and timelines, are we truly people who settle?
I believe we will always strive for more. We will always search, move, look, and reach. We search for better opportunities, better land, more space, more freedom, more minerals, more beauty, or a place closer to something important. We move because something calls us forward. Sometimes that call is survival. Sometimes it is curiosity. Sometimes it is the need to expand.
So all these questions are here, but where are the answers?
I believe the answers are hidden in the way the tectonic plates moved across the Earth. I believe we have migrated up and down across the equator. I believe that we learn just as children learn: through direct experience and by becoming aware of something that already exists.
As children, we often have our own language. Could there have once been a child who grew into adulthood without losing that language, and from that personal language another new language grew? Was there maybe once truly a Tower of Babel? Or were there extraterrestrial races or other beings from whom we learned language and mathematics? Or maybe we copied what already existed into sign language, symbols, and written forms.
Maybe the stars and constellations gave us patterns. Maybe the behavior of animals taught us movement, rhythm, and warning. Maybe the shapes of rivers, trees, mountains, and the human body became the first symbols. Maybe alphabets, numbers, runes, and hieroglyphs were not invented from nothing, but observed from life itself.
Where do hieroglyphs come from? Where do the old Nordic languages and runes come from? Maybe they came from the way one can move the body. Maybe they came from the shapes of the human form. Maybe they came from the shapes of nature and animals. Maybe the flora and fauna of the Earth shaped humankind not only biologically, but also mentally, spiritually, linguistically, and symbolically.
What is the truth? Is there ever one truth to discover? Or maybe we will find that truth lies somewhere in the middle, as it so often does: between history and myth, between science and spirit, between migration and settlement, between Earth and stars, between what we know and what we have not yet remembered.