History of Writing
“Now the Gnesian being will instruct you,” Dagolo said, “She will begin a new theme. If you become tired we will break, OK”
After these words the being from Gne got up and stood herself on the square plate where I stood before.
She gave the computer instructions to show some writing examples. Immediately the viewing screen turned to a gentle pink color and then turned dark. And then the desired object appeared on the viewing screen in six different same sized little boxes. In the upper right box one could see 42 writing characters. It was a mixture of symbols and lines and points and circles in very erratic lines .
“We will show you in a small excerpt how the communication on your Earth developed, and now in all probability will continue to develop. The written letters that you see in the upper boxes are those that we use in our own community today. These are the written signs of eleven human races in our space ships that we fly altogether. Even though each human race has its own language, here we all use the same writing code. Each being who comes with us and travels with us must master these writing codes of out Mother Ship language.”
“When about 70 million years ago the united Earth humanity existed, that developed from the forest and the marsh races, they used similar written letters, but as the various different visitors left Earth, there were only a few thousand new human beings left who had mastered and understood the written form of the foreigners, because they were only servants of the visitors, the non-Earth humans. After a few hundred years there appeared a new written language. A few different languages became lost in time and new expressions were lost as well.”
The computer filled in the empty fields next to the 24 symbols It was geometric symbols of written signs. Next to it were ten to twelve number ciphers.
“We are now skipping back to the young part of the Earth humans – to a time when they were given and taught a new written language. Later I will demonstrate a few more things about these signs.”
“A long time ago, about 937,000 years, nearly a million years ago, disappeared the biggest part of the of the Satanian beings from the Earth. The Satanians who left took the most developed and intelligent Earth human beings as their servants and they were taught this new written language.”
“Because of the various diseases of this time most of these Satanians died out. After that the former servants of the Satanian race had raised themselves to a level where only the servants could master the written language of the Satanians.”
“Gradually the smaller communities grew into bigger communities, but only the helpers of the headmasters were allowed to learn the written language form.”
“One day these communities became so big that they had to divide themselves, and different parts went into different regions. But in their new regions the written language was changed. For that reason the various different written forms appeared.”
“The written form was now the main form of expression. The computer called it writing form in the empty little boxes on the monitor screen. About 80 to 100 written forms appeared. One flying saurian symbol appeared and above it was the sun. It was the only sign that stood by itself in a box.”
“All the different signs were combinations of various different symbols, and symbols of the ant, the bee and the elephant often appeared as companion symbols. Beyond that there were symbols of only single and double lines, as well as bows and up to 10 points. These writings expressed the richest information. But this writing did not survive because of its many different picture symbols.”
The computer continued. Partially this old symbol writing mixed itself and was reduced to a few generally understood signs. This reduced writing began to represent understandable signs, and when that appeared it began to maintain itself among some of the folk. This particular writing was very different from the symbol writing for which the group of signs and symbols was evolved.
Geometric symbols like triangles and circles, and rectangles, six sided and other geometric figures were there where, for example, fish, crab and snake images, and balls with lines and points, were there, which were drawn into them and would form the most completely different combinations.
About 40 to 50 different signs would appear in one little box next to the picture writing. Only the leaders and their servants in their little folk society would master this new picture writing for many hundreds of years. Somehow it mixed itself with the older symbol writing. This mixed writing was building a new foundation for newer written languages. These newer forms in time adjusted themselves to some of the older symbols. In the last little box one could distinguish Kysher and Celtic writing symbols.
These signs only survived a few hundred years and then they disappeared. Then came the speaking runes of the Celts which developed into a spoken language faster than the written form. Slowly the more expressive spoken language was pushing in the background on the symbol rich written language. It would dominate the old Celtic language. Until this world went down it was not changed.
Even though in the future there will appear many languages that could be useful for data, only a small part will survive, explained the computer.
“Andreas,” said the beautiful woman with the unusual nose as she interjected, “We also use a common language and a computer language. This is quite necessary because only the fastest communication is
possible to be utilized by all of those combined different beings from our other races. The necessary information will be abstracted from the main calculator in our central station. And there it is translated from language to language. This process runs within a few thousandths of a nanosecond and it functions in a stable and reliable manner. All beings who live on the mother ship can exchange information without problem.”
Then there appeared on the viewing screen of the monitor, within nanoseconds, a new little box that was brightly framed, and in that appeared writing signs of mixed picture/symbol form that resembled the box before. The beautiful lady explained to me, this is her common written language, right now in this time, but the writing symbols that built up like a pyramid belonged to all the other human communities on the Mother Ship.
I asked myself if this would appear in our world also. And as if Krotk and Dagolo were in secret agreement, they expressed at the same time the commentary. When you viewed a little longer and more accurately you could see the similarity of the various different single writing symbols, even though they mostly had different meanings.
The little boxes had the capability of sorting out the various different signs, writings and languages that were closer to each other. The more technology and communities were developed, it seemed to be a natural law, that if various different speaking nations and folk would desire to communicate with each other, it will soon be clear which language is the most useful one to quickly communicate, and to express and to exchange ideas the fastest and the most efficiently.