Writing

The most important of these are the human systems of graphic communications. However it may be mentioned that the proto-Sanskrit script which was called devanagari, the 'divine snakes', and the Tablets of the Law given on Mt Sinai, are among many instances of alleged writing by superbeings or by a superbeing. Interestingly, the interplanetary message aboard. Voyage presumed writing ability somewhere else in this galaxy or the next. In mythology about the origin of writing in addition to culture herves, both serpents and birds, e.g. cranes, have been cited. In fact, animal tracks and human foot and hand prints may have inspired or accelerated the development of conventionalized systems of signs. The eventual codifications of written signs were contemporaneous, it appears, with the projection onto star groupings, of anthropomorphic, zoomorphic and other images, which were later read in various combinations as messages symbolically portending events on earth. Thus human writing on prepared surfaces has to be sees in a broader behavioural context, human and non-human (animal, insect, etc). Writing then appears to be a special instance, for example, of marking, or of indicating or designating by employing objects. For example, the use of stones, pebbles, corn, etc can be considered in their contexts as means of writing when searching at the most concrete end of the spectrum of instruments of communication. marks and scripts are themselves still objects although abstract or symbolic. A fully abstract 'script' may lie somewhere in the future as an elaboration of electro-encephalograph readings interpreted by a microprocessor and reboradcast as imagenery to a microprocessor cerebral implant.]

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