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One World LanguageBy Keith Varnum Out in the remote canyons of the Pergatoire River, just south of La Junta, Colorado, researcher Gary Vey was examining some very old petroglyphics (rock art and writing). The amazing thing was that these ancient alphabetic symbols were virtually identical to others found in the Negev desert of Israel, in South Australia, in Yemen, in Chile and in the British Isles! On six continents, the ancient language symbols were virtually the same.After numerous deciphering attempts, translations were eventually made with success through an old Hebrew dialect. The La Junta Colorado alphabet consisted of 22 basic, distinct geometric shapes. Gary Vey has termed it “The First Tongue.” Translations of similar petroglyphs in Australia proved that they originated with the same root culture and ascribed to the same rules of grammar and symbols as the Colorado rock language. Likewise with the petroglyphs in Israel’s Negev desert, documented by Dr James Harris, during the Harvard expedition in 1994. These discoveries, along with those on other continents, strongly suggest that there was once an original common world language. Only One Global Language at First This fact that the whole world once spoke the same language survives in the racial memory of many peoples. A Sumerian tablet from the Tigre and Euphrates region of the Middle East speaks of a time when “the whole universe” spoke “in one tongue.” The idea that there was a time when all men spoke the same language is found also in ancient writings in Egypt and India. Likewise, the Popul Vuh, a book of the Central American Maya, records that “those who gazed at the rising of the sun [the ancestors who formerly lived east of the Americas] had but one language before going west to the Americas.” These testimonies support the statement in the Biblical book of Genesis that “all the earth was of one language, and of one speech.” (Genesis 11:1) Then Sudden Confusion of Languages Numerous ancient traditions concur that: (a) Everyone on earth spoke a single language at first. (b) In a single dramatic event the one original language became suddenly confused. (c) Then from one central point the people were scattered to the ends of the earth. Scores of ancient human cultures recall this break up of the One Language. Various peoples—such as the Greeks, Mexicans, Fijians, the Hindus of India, the Chiapa of the Americas, Australian Aboriginal tribes, to name a few—have a tradition concerning this event of scattering and then the time in which each tribe received a new language. This ancient event has been burnt into the racial memory of humankind as a whole. The exact nature and cause of this global break up of language and culture is still the stuff of mystery and speculation. Very little factual evidence exists to piece together this dramatic transformation of the human community eons ago. However, the archeological physical evidence that does exist is beyond fascinating.
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