Uma said:
I am curious whether there is any information about the 22 Sanskrit letters and how do they compare with the 22 Hebrew letters?
I believe you may mean the Brahmi alphabet, which was an offshoot, seemingly, of south Semitic writing. Some forms in south Semitic are provocative—such as an axe or hammer for D, duir-the-oak in Irish, one version of whose line in the ancient druidic Song of Amairgin is “I am a tree-stump in a shovel”—but overall its connexion to north Semitic (proto-Canaanite) seems somewhat loose.
I'd like to read a tarot deck using the esoteric meaning behind the Sanskrit alphabet so I'm looking for deeper meanings to the number 22 as it relates to other models besides that of the Quabalah.
You should get Huck to tell you about his I-Ching theory, which shows how division of 32 ‘paths’ into 10 and 22 arises naturally from the structure of the 64 hexagrams of I-Ching (seen as 32 reflected pairs).
Dave's Angel said:
If you are looking at less well-known alphabets the following site may interest you -
http://www.omniglot.com
That site leaves out two of the most important ancient alphabets, Tifinag and Libyan, both of which are found in the New World. Instances of Libyan in America (as well as Phoenician, and Keltic ogham) are especially widespread, Libyans having been the great ocean-going seafarers of the ancient world (Sea Peoples, who settled in Libya and later became the Egyptian navy). (For Libyan, consult Barry Fell’s
America B.C., and for Tifinag, his
Bronze Age America.)