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0011 So, what am I getting at?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0012 The navel idols before the rise in sea-levels are made in order to stimulate an embodied interventional sign-relation, not unlike the Lion Man statue found in southern Germany, dating to 35,000 years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0013 Say what?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They are designed to induce – what Julian Jaynes calls – “auditory hallucinations” in a hand-speech talking Paleolithic human.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The topic is discussed in Razie Mah’s e-book, Synaesthesia and the Bicameral Mind in Human Evolution<\/em> (available at smashwords and other e-book venues). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

0014 Okay, what about the navel idols after the rise in sea levels?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

6800 B.C. corresponds the most rapid increase in sea-levels at the end of the last interglacial.  Among other things, the Persian Gulf fills with seawater.  The rise forces a Mesolithic river and coast hugging culture<\/em> into proximity with a dryland Neolithic culture<\/em> (perhaps related to the traditions of Gobekli Tepe).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the start, both cultures practice their own traditional hand-speech talk, just like all the human Epipaleolithic and Neolithic cultures at the time.  When forced into the same territory, they first develop a pidgin, then a creole.  The creole does not have the hand-component of hand-speech<\/em> talk<\/em>.  The emerging union, the pre-Ubaid,<\/em> practices speech-alone talk<\/em>.  At 6800 B.C., it is the only culture on Earth to do so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0015 Creole?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Sumerian language is unrelated to any family of languages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0016 Razie Mah tells the story in a course called “The Crystallization of the Fall”, which includes the short work, The First Singularity and its Fairy-Tale Trace<\/em>.  The spread of speech-alone talk<\/em> is alluded to in chapter five of An Archaeology of the Fall<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is a figure for the hypothesis of the first singularity<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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0017 At the time of Gobekli Tepe, all cultures practice hand-speech talk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, all civilizations practice speech-alone talk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0018 Surely, this comes as a revelation to the author, who has laboriously and studiously sought out data for which he has little hope of accounting for<\/em>.  The book itself<\/em> is a plea for precisely such an accounting<\/em>.  I only pray that this examination offers a guess that may be closer to truth than… well… make-believe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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