The Egyptian hieroglyph of plough has a striking similarity to the Semitic aleph sign (Kallir 31). "The taming of the bull is the great achievement of the developing agricultural civilization and, like the invention of the alphabet, a milestone in the progress of man". Kallir (31) also refers to the double meaning of 'husbandry' in English, as for example in this Shakespeare's sonnet: For where is she so fair whose unear'd womb / Disdains the tillage of thy husbandry? The sexual connection of writing and has been mentioned by Vilem Flusser. Was the draught-bison often violated by the right shaft of the harness because he had to pull heavy loads?Īlpha (ℵ=Aleph= glyph for a bull-head): Caananite, Aramaic, Phoenician, Hebrew, Etruscan and Hellenic.Īleph means head, especially the head of the bull, taurus. The harness looks like an Alpha turned upside down ! Does this symbolize that this buffalo is a representative one? The horizontal line of this letter is engraved 1 mm deep. A very similar kind of a hollow I saw upon an Abbevillean (250,000 to 700,000 years B.P.) stone offered as a pebble chopper for $ 155.00. The shape of the tool reminded me of the good old-fashioned (paleolithic), bifacial flint hand axes but could not have taken the function of such a tool because it did not have any sharp edges.Īt the rear end of the stone there is a round deepening. les hommes préhistoriques ont affiché leur corps et leur sexualité de façon à la fois explicite, concrète, avec des images matérielles, mais également de façon très dissimulée, très partiellement affichée.” ( L’unité psycho-anthropologique de Sapiens - Par Denis Vialou) This granite has a pestle at the headside and a mortar at the tailside, I discovered on September 8th 2007. For 57$ you can buy an artificial copy made of stone-filled polymer. The Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Musee des Antiquites nationales has a head turning around bison made of reindeer antler. It is showing the silhouette of a bison slightly turning his head into the direction of the spectator. The other side of this artifact is still not available. Obviously not for fighting with another one - as everybody would like to believe - but for pulling - as a domesticated draught bison cow harnessed and subdued under a yoke - heavy loads like stones, carts and trolleys. The scan of this side of the granite artefact shows the silhouette of a bison bowing his head to march straightforwardly. Move your mouse over the above scan to see the 5 notes!
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