Notes 2-15

Memory Presentations start next class period! From the bottom of the alphabet up.

notion of many scripts but one alphabet
Writing restructures consciousness
bloriate--talk at length, especially in an inflated or empty way

Difference between script and alphabet:
Script is picture language (ex: Egyptian hieroglyphs)--aesthetically rich
Alphabet is connected to units of sound (Phonetician invention)

Hebrew language with vowels (DR MTHR, SND MNY: still readable)
Vico said: the best language was images, the language of the Gods--and then we descend into language of aristocracy, then the language of money
Rhetoric used to refer to purely oral speech, now refers almost exclusively to writing.

What kind of writing activates right brain?

Memory becomes a part of virtues (prudence)--not to connect with the divine, but as an aid to help you avoid problems that will happen to you
Bosch--painting of what will happen to you in the after life if you are not patient and virtuous

please see alphabetgoddess website for timeline

The primary religion of humankind is the female who creates all by herself, but with literacy--turned upside down
Woman creates world by herself, man speaks it into being (And God said)

Greek--word for speech is logos (logic) creative ordering principle of the world--the right brain.

"The Enigma of Kasper Hauser": boy raised in Germany without speech (a similar example "Wild Child")
If you get a chance, watch "Cave of Forgotten Dreams"

Literate language is a fall from grace. We learn to forget, we learn to remember and another kind of consciousness comes into being

Read Nick's blog--Goddess and the earth. Agriculture brings the plow to the earth, rapes Goddess