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Clifford C. Richey
December 2014
It might be helpful to refer to:
academia.edu/Universal-Prehistoric-Depicted-Sign-Language,
when reading this paper, as it explains the use of Form, Imagery, Gesture signs,
Stance, allusion and position as used in composing glyphs.
Illustration 1: Assyrian
The concept behind this paper is not an attempt to interpret the compositions from the various coutures
in any great detail but rather to compare the Imagery of the Bags found within them. We will focus on
the question of the meaning of these Bags and any salient signs found within each composition related
to the Bags and their possible meaning.
In the Assyrian Composition (Illustration 1) we not only see the Bag grasped in th Hand of the Figure
but several (blue-green) Water-drop (particles of water) Forms. Those Forms found in the (tan outline)
Leg-Foot (a long walk or journey) of the Figure. At the Elbow (alluding to the Joint as something that
opens and closes) of the Figure we can see two small Serpent (a stream of water) Heads and Three
Dots in a Triangular Form. This indicates a female-spirit and in association with the Serpent, a female
water-spirit. The Dots form a Face thus indicating, his appearance. The Lower Arm (a warrior). The
Arm is created from Three, parallel, Lines that indicates, a hidden or unseen-pathway. The Thumb of
the Hand (a steward of the Sun) is a Severed Finger pointing a direction, here, below. Next to the
Thumb there is a Circle that means Numerically, the one and Linguistically, his location. The Four
Fingers are Vertical Rectangles, or vertical-place signs. The Number Four indicating the four directions
or everywhere. The place signs are positionally, below. All of this, of course, points to the Bag as the
location that contains the warrior-steward of the Sun. The Upper Arm and Hand also contains Waterdrops and the Hand held in a (brown) Pine Cone, the one that contains seeds, has tiny (blue-green)
female-water-spirits, within it. The Figure has the Face (his appearance) of an Eagle, the sign for, the
daytime Sun and a Human Body. Therefore the Figure represents a human leader whose Title was a
Sun, The Great Sun, a warrior, and steward of the Sun.
Illustration 2: Olmec
In Illustration 2 we see a Olmec composition where a Figure is Sitting (waiting) and carried on the
back of a Serpent (a stream of water). The Form of the Serpent is in the shape of the sign for, taken
upwards. The Figure is holding a Bag in the same manner as in the Assyrian composition. The Form
of the Total composition is one of a (tan) Female Breast that was used as a metaphor related to, the hills
of the Female-earth. The overall (tan) Body belonged the Female-earth. This tells us that the Setting is
one of an event happening within the a hill or the Breast of the Earth. Again, the Arm and Hand of the
Sun described here, as His Face, his appearance as a Mouse, the little one, the Arm and Hand. The
Mouse Imagery or Form was used to distinguish the actual Sun from that other important star, Venus.
As with the Assyrian composition, the warrior of the Sun, the steward of the Sun is described as, in the
Bag.
Illustration 3: HittiteMinoan
The Hittite-Minoan culture (see Illustration 3) used essentially the same signs and methaphors as the
Illustration 4: Moche
The Moche culture of Peru also had Figures holding Bags. We note that the (tan) Female-earth is very
graphically depicted as a woman lying on her back. We can also see how the Breasts of the Earth were
visualized as hills and mesas by the Moche. The (blue-green) Serpent appears, once again, this time as
within the Body of the earth. But it is noteworthy that the Mouth (a source of water) of the Serpent is
portrayed as just under a Breast or hill of the Female-earth's Body. The (light-blue) Triangular femalespirit sign is also found in this composition and the multitude of these signs creates the outline of Large
Breasts. Within the (red) Circle on th left the Bag has Double Lines creating an unseen-place sign and,
positionally, within it Seven Seed (probably, Mesquite) Pods, The Stance of these Seeds is Leftward
leaning indicating, the seeds, stopped, within, an unseen, place. The Bottom of the Bag is in the Form
of a Black Quarter Circle (the dark underside or the dark underworld) that is positionally, below.
For more information about this composition see:
https://www.academia.edu/8042352/The_Coca_Chewers_Moche_Vessel_Imagery_The_Wonder_of_the_Lunar_
Rainbow
Illustration 5: Egyptian
In the above Egyptian composition we see the (red circle) Bag being held by a female. The scene or
setting is agricultural but the content is cosmological. The color white represents spirit and both the
female and male Figures are clothed in white. The male is the one plowing or cutting the earth while
the female is holding the Bag and is sowing the seeds. The Bag is made up of a Large Horizontal
Rectangle, a great horizontal-place, which is turn contains many small (green) vertical-place signs.
There are vertical Curved (red) Lines on the Left and Right sides of the Bag. These Lines are in the
Form of the gesture sign for arising, In gesture signing the Left indicates the east and the Right
indicates the west. Thus the meaning is, arising, on the east, and west, sides, of the great container.
This refers to the Arm (the warrior) and the Hand, the steward of the Sun, that holds the Bag.
The Seeds, the ones that will sprout or arise from the earth, stemming from the Arm and Hand, the
warrior, the steward of the Sun, and Form the Three Lined sign that indicates, on, a hidden-pathway.
This is the same sign that we have previously seen as making up the Arm and Hand of the Assyrian
Figure.
Behind the female Figure is a vertical row of (blue-green) Lines that mean, a flowing of water (the blue
-green color). Above the flowing sign are (blue-green) Water-drops, particles of water. The Stance of
the particles is downward and the combination may indicate, the rain.
Mallery, Garrick Sign Language Among North American Indians Compared With That Among Other Peoples And
Deaf-Mutes
First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian
Institution, 1879-1880,Government Printing Office, Washington. Ogima, the Ojibwa
term for chief, is derived from a root which signifies "above" (Ogidjaii, upon;
ogidjina, above; ogidaki, on a hill or mountain, etc.). Ogitchida, a brave, a hero
(Otawa, ogida), is probably from the same root.
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/17451/17451-h/17451-h.htm#page420
located on the Thigh (associative meaning unknown), whose Stance is heading downwards on the Left,
in the east, and upwards on the Right, in the west. We note the (black) Quarter Circle indicating, the
underside or the dark underworld, along the Cow's Back which represents, the ground's surface..
The sixth Tree is in the Form of a Large Knife (The Great Ray of the Sun, the great warrior). The
Knife appears to be penetrating the earth's surface. The seventh Tree has the overall Form of a Large
V shaped, the great-opening, sign with the singular Trunk forming a Line indicating, the great one,
positionally, within it. The Leaves forming, the three, the many, arisings in the east and west. The
Tree Top forms the signs for, within the opening, positionally, at the center,