Abracadabra

Abstract and Book Reviews
Abstract:
This publication details how (copying) and when well before 3200 years ago) the Western Alphabet character sequence (abecedary) was modeled after a pre-Sanskrit character grid (abugida).

By forcing the Western-Late Roman Alphabet character sequence (the ABC or abecedary) into a tabular format by starting out to line up the vowels in one column followed by fitting the consonants sequentially into three adjacent columns, a somewhat orderly and surprising result was obtained.

By comparing the resultant character grid with an early simpler phase of the Sanskrit Devanāgarī character grid, it became possible to discover clear links between Western alphabets and an early form of the Sanskrit Devanāgarī abugida (alphasyllabary).

This dependent linkage between the Western Late-Roman and the Devanāgarī abugida is evidenced by their similar if not almost identical ordering of characters in grids of comparable phoneme classifications.

In this study, the origin of the dissimilarities - or, in fact, irregularities - has been traced back to two errors made by an ancient Near Eastern linguist after his study-visit to ancient India.

As the Western Late-Roman Alphabet in this study's tabular arrangement appeared to be irregular in certain places, especially when compared to the highly organized and well ordered Devanāgarī abugida grid, this study demonstrates how, why and approximately when (before 1200 BCE) those irregularities came about.

When the two sequential formats are superficially compared to each other - before the tracing of errors and before the tabular reconstruction - a percentage of similarity of only 20 % (4 out of 20 characters) was calculated.
However, after the error identifications (described in detail) and while taking into account the varying but close pronunciations of a number of comparable characters in side-by-side alphabet and abugida grids, and while focusing on the placement of nearly all Western Late-Roman characters in their appropriate vowel, labial, guttural and dental columns (illustrated in detail) an 85.00 % match between them was arrived at.

This study also demonstrates how the Ugarit abecedary from Syria (1400 -1200 BCE) is evidence that even before it was inscribed in cuneiform, that a 'West-of-India' style irregular alphabetic sequence was already in use, which, as demonstrated in this study, was based on a very early form of a Pre-Sanskrit Brāhmī abugida."

Book Reviews:

“This Alphabet paper is simply brilliant stuff, serendipity at its finest. The tabulation similarity of ABCD [the western abecedary] with Panini’s abugida [Sanskrit alphabet] is totally new and totally brilliant [and] on par with a description of Fleming’s discovery of Penicillin.”
~ Dr. Shiv Sastry MD

“A study by my friend, original thinker along the lines of Vartak, Einstein, Newton and Kepler. So expect flight of fancy, joy of speculation and wonderful research.
One of a few brilliant Jewels.
~ Nilesh Oak (Author of “When Did The Mahabharata War Happen? - The Mystery of Arundhati” and "The Historic Rama")

“Wim Borsboom takes the reader on a fascinating brief trip through the history of real magic; reading and writing.”
~ S. M. Sulllivan (Author of “The Indus Script Dictionary”)

“Wim Borsboom has hit upon a brilliant idea related to the origins of the western alphabet. He shows that in its basic form, it is similar to the scientifically organized Sanskrit alphabet. This research is of importance not only to the student of alphabets but also to the historian and the layperson interested in understanding cultural interactions in the ancient world.“
~ Subhash Kak, Regents Professor, Oklahoma State University. (Co-author with Georg Feuerstein and David Frawley of “In Search of the Cradle of Civilization”)

“The sequence he has discovered in the alphabet is really fascinating. I don't know how no-one noticed this sequential phonetics before.”
~ Shrikant G. Talageri (Author of “The Rigveda: A Historical Analysis”)

In questo saggio si parla di: oggetti capelluti, mana, sciamani, arte e ornamento, "Atmosphères" di György Ligeti, indianə trans e subcultura Hijra, teoria matematica delle categorie. E poi di: Claude Lévi-Strauss, Marcel Mauss, Ferdinand De Saussure, Bruno Latour,  Platone. E molto altro.

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This paper argues that a new genre of therapy has appeared in the arena of contemporary spiritual alternative healing, which expresses an outlook never-before-seen in the history of medicine: postmodern therapy. Postmodern therapeutic methods (PTMs) express a popularization of postmodernist philosophy in regards to language's role in the therapeutic process, expressing a novel cosmology. These methods are illustrated in the paper, and then analyzed in comparison to two other groups of methods: traditional/occult magic, and modern medicine. Finally, PTMs are characterized as neo-magic, bearing features similar to modernistic outlook on the one hand, and features similar to pre-modern magic outlook on the other hand. Thus, these new outlook demonstrate a double appropriation and rejection of perceptions viewed as contradictory – traditional magic and secular science.

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Abstract

This study investigates how and where the Western Alphabet acquired its haphazard and seemingly illogical order.

"Alphabet or Abracadabra?" details the writer's research into how (by copying) and when (before 3400 years ago) the Western Alphabet character sequence (abecedary) was modelled after a pre-Sanskrit character grid or abugida.

Inspired by the Devanāgarī abugida grid of characters, Borsboom discovered this when he forced the western alphabet's character sequence (the ABC or 'abecedary') into a similar tabular format. He started out by lining up the vowels in one column and fitting the following consonants sequentially into three adjacent columns and rows.

By comparing the resultant 4x5 column-and-row table (which contained most of the 26 western characters) with a then still hypothetical earlier and simpler form of a pre-Sanskrit abugida character grid, he was able to draw clear dependent links between the western alphabet's sequence of characters and that early form of a pre-Sanskrit nāgarī abugida.

There were some interesting anomalies though, the origins of which Borsboom was able to successfully trace, identify and explain.
Using those anomalies, he could even trace and date one particular early copy process to its (up to now) earliest occurrence, namely one 1400 BCE alphabet artifact found amongst the Ugarit cuneiform tablets.

This book illustrated tracing the origin of the anomalies back to three errors made by an ancient, most likely Near Eastern linguist, who, apparently, must have been on a 'study visit' in India.

When we compare the two sequential formats (the abugida and the abecedary) superficially, that is, before the tracing of errors and before the tabular reconstruction - a percentage of similarity of only 20% (4 out of 20 characters) was calculated.
However, after the error identifications and while taking into account the varying but close pronunciations of a number of comparable characters in side-by-side alphabet and abugida grids, and also while focusing on the placement of nearly all Western-Late Roman characters in their appropriate vowel, labial, guttural and dental columns (as will be shown in detail) an 85.00% match between them is arrived at.

This study also demonstrates how the aforementioned Ugarit abecedary from Syria (1400 -1200 BCE) is evidence that even before it was inscribed in cuneiform, that an even older 'West-of-India' style irregular alphabetic sequence was already in use, also based on a very early form of a Pre-Sanskrit Brāhmī abugida.