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ALEPH
- the bull
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This is
a little story about the logo I use and this is also a short story about
a powerfull deity in
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ancient
times already long forgotten. Nevertheless....
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The Sumerean people 4000 years ago had several deities. One of them Adad
(orig. Enlil) was
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considered
the god of storm and thunder and also the fertilizing rainmaker. His emblem
is the
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bull.
Also the Egyptean people had a deity that was associated with the bull
(or more precise:
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the cow)
called Hathor, the goddess of love and joy who created the world and all
it contains.
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The Great
God of the Cretan people was half human with a bull's head and later known
as the
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Minotaur.
In the later Greek mythology Zeus disguised himself as a bull to kidnap
the Phoenicean
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princess
Europa and brought her to Crete where she married the king.
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All these ancient people had their own script, an ideographic writing system
consisting of lots
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of pictures.
Among the first ones who developed a phonetic system were the Phoenicean
sea-
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people,
who used an "alphabet" of about 30 characters to indicate sounds (in fact
syllables).
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