A favored catch phrase of mine is “Words Have Power;” To me its an obvious statement of magical tech that’s apparent mundanity is highly misleading – DAMMIT! So, here’s a NY Times book review about a tome examining the beginnings of hominid language. Gotta dig the opening as I believe John Dee believed that Enochian was the language the angels taught Adam and Eve that was then by humanity until that unfortunate incident at the Tower of Babel. Admittedly this article is a bit dated – then again, the emergence of hominid language did occur a while ago! Here’s that snappy opening:
If you stand on the rock of Edinburgh Castle on a clear day and look due north toward the Firth of Forth, you can make out the small island of Inchkeith, about three miles out to sea. It was to this island, in 1493, that James IV banished two infant children, with only a mute nurse for company, to be raised in silent isolation. The king hoped that, when the children came of age, this experiment would reveal the original, Edenic language of Adam and Eve, uncontaminated by modern chatter.
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