The lecture addresses one of the crucial problems of the cultural development of mankind -- creation of an alphabetic system and its interrelation with different alphabets. The centerpiece of the work is a complex comparative investigation of the first letter of the Phoenician alphabet 'Aleph (bull) and the Kartuli Asomtavruli letter-signs Ani and Khari. The study consists of two basic sections: a) a comparative analysis of the Phoenician 'Aleph and the Kartuli Asomtavruli Ani, and b) a similar investigation focusing on 'Aleph and the Kartuli Khari, also meaning a bull. The uncovered connections between the mentioned Phoenician-Kartvelian pairs are of two types: a) exoteric or visible, such as the graphic design and the acrophonic principle of nomination, and b) cryptic or invisible - ties lying in deeper layers of Semito-Kartvelian relations and embracing mathematical, geometric, astronomical, calendar, and religious bonds. Interestingly, the latter, of which only the last two aspects will be discussed in the paper in detail, turned out to be much more diverse and significant for the establishment of genetic relations between the two different writing systems than the systemic features (shape, phonetic value, alphabetic order, etc.) acknowledged by traditional paleography so-far. For instance, in terms of calendar relations, the study throws light on a combined Semito-Kartvelian Moon God -- Bull (as the sacrificial animal of the Moon God) formula where being a dependent member, 'Aleph is governed by the Asomtavruli Ani. Similar subordinate relations are exhibited by the entire Phoenician alphabet in relation to its Kartvelian counterpart whose Khari group of seven letter-signs is an obligatory complement for the North Semitic mother alphabet to accomplish the lunar cycle of the month. The second part of the paper is linguistic and cultural analysis of the Semitic 'Aleph and a group of six Kartvelian words as its possible equivalents. The uncovered Kartvelian group represents a super-informational unit where the semantics of each member discloses a specific aspect of the Phoenician alphabet and contributes towards the formation of a massive informational bank, confirming not only some well-known historical facts but more importantly, elucidating a number of interpenetrating, interdependent, and harmonious esoteric affinities uniting the Phoenician and Kartuli Asomtavruli alphabets as mutually complementary systems.

• published: 11 Mar 2014
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