Re: Drawing is the a good idea
Huck said:
Drawing is a good idea ... , when thinking about the ABC-man.
But I've seen no picture?
Anyway, how do feel like a pornographic artist? ...
http://www.angelfire.com/space/tarot/abcman.html
I only did it to humour you.
My chief objections are these -
A funny drawing done in modern times does not constitute historical proof for ancient times.
Only 6 of the letters mean what they are meant to; one is suspect (qof), and the other 5 are made up by the needs of your theory. There is no evidence they ever meant anything else.
Your theory demands that only 12 be used; but the Cosmic man of 12 parts is not attested before late antiquity.
The 12 sign zodiac is not attested before 6th-5th century b.c.e., way too late for your needs.
The alphabet on which you base this theory is too early for both the Sefer Yetzirah and the Zodiac.
The Sefer Yetzirah is irrelevant to the earliest history of the alphabet.
There is no evidence for the Master of the Alphabet; if there was such a person, or who he or she was.
There is no evidence the primary purpose was to teach children to read and write.
There is no evidence of this alphabet being used to teach children to read and write.
There is no evidence for this style of pedagogy in the second millenium b.c.e.
Any kind of evidence for any of the above would go a little way towards helping your theory.
But the primary objection, I reiterate, is that you have to manufacture data (the 6 letters that don't mean parts of the body). The second most important objection is that you arbitrarily limit it to 12, based on nothing more than a text as far removed from this alphabet as we are from the text.
It is not alphabetic or historical logic that demands these 12 letters conform to your theory, but only *your* logic and sense of humour (which is not bad, but is far from constituting historical proof).
But, for your amusement, here goes -
http://www.angelfire.com/space/tarot/abcman.html