The Alphabet and the Zodiac
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Sino-Platonic Papers is pleased to announce the publication of its three-hundred-and-twenty-eighth issue:
"On the Origins of the Alphabet: The Cycle of Emmer Wheat and Seed/Word Selection within the Proto-Sinaitic/Phoenician/Hebrew Alphazodiac and the Chinese Lunar Zodiac," by Brian R. Pellar. (free pdf)
ABSTRACT
This paper presents evidence that the Proto-Sinaitic script, the Phoenician twenty-two-letter alphabet (and, by extension, the Chinese twenty-two ganzhi and the Chinese twenty-eight-mansion lunar zodiac) are patterned on the solar zodiac and Mesopotamian/Egyptian celestial diagrams, and that these are based on the cultivation cycle of wheat. The evidence shows that the animal figures such as the ram, bull, and lion that are seen in the Mesopotamian cylinder seals, the zodiac, and the Egyptian celestial diagrams symbolize the various stages of the growth of Emmer wheat. A prominent part of the process, selecting seeds for future resowing, corresponds to Word selection (a concept rooted in the Egyptian conflict stories of Horus and Seth). It is also shown that the cycle of wheat was established in the Neolithic and Upper Paleolithic in the idea of the Solar Lion-Lunar Bull Conflict, itself ultimately based on the sun/moon cycle and the mythology of the Great Goddess.
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Over the past thirteen years, Pellar has explored related themes across several issues of Sino-Platonic Papers. These include:
SPP 296 (Feb. 2020): On the Origins of the Alphabet: The Rapallo Alphazodiac and the Birth of the Sun as the Seed/Word
SPP 263 (Dec. 2016): The Foundation of Myth: A Unified Theory of the Link Between Seasonal/Celestial Cycles, the Precession, Theology, and the Alphabet/Zodiac (Part Two)
SPP 246 (April 2014): On the Origins of the Alphabet: New Evidence
SPP 219 (Jan. 2012): The Foundation of Myth: A Unified Theory on the Link Between Seasonal/Celestial Cycles, the Precession, Theology, and the Alphabet/Zodiac (Part One)
SPP 196 (Dec. 2009): On the Origins of the Alphabet
These and all other issues of Sino-Platonic Papers are available in full for no charge.
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Selected readings
- "The Musical Origin of the Seven-Day Week" (5/6/22)
- Sara de Rose, "A Proposed Mesopotamian Origin for the Ancient Musical and Musico-Cosmological Systems of the West and China", Sino-Platonic Papers, 320 (December, 2021), v, 178 pages.