Pictograph writing

If you pointed behind me and said, 'elephant', then my visual cortex activates a neural sequence that takes my eyeballs through a certain pattern outlining the finite feature set of an elephant, for real. I already no how to look at one, I know the scan, they taught me when I was a kid, they took me to the zoo and said, 'look an elephant'.

We do pictographs, not pixel maps but a compact sequence of eye movements.  We transferred that ability, we taught the kids to visually go though a Phoenician elephant sequence and identify the letters as an elephant. It is an out of mind exercise we homo sapiens learned, warp the eye movements from the actual elephant to an expected sequence of characters?

As if we can see sounds and the Phoenician alphabet are just the pictographs of vocalizations. The original attempt may have been to actually draw a model of the mouth for each vocalization. 'sses' are wavy. 'tees' are stopped up top. 'bee' are you lips, 'cee' is an open mouth,' dee' is a tongue. m and n, why are they similar in both sound and letter? And they stand together. Look at z and s in similarity and sound. Your lips make an 'ooo' and so does the letter.

We may still be pictograph, never stopped. Then when we read our mind is looking at a speakers mouth, we exect the speaker to make shapes with the lips teeth and jaw. I can see my speaker cough up the word 'cat' 'caa' hard sound, like a cough shaped mouth.

Remember, the prior epoch was oral, made of travelling poets who preached the kings law. They stood in large crowds, visibly vocalized the rhyming stanzas. So the first attempt is music, you are trying to create a language that just tells us how to duplicate the orators mouth. Vocalists likely had a music score system, treating the mouth as a sound shaping instrument, with diagrams.

I think the Indo-European poets had a cheat sheets. The had tree bark, good enough for a cheat sheet. They could mark their tree bark with simple phonetics to help repeat the rhyme, recover the message.  Their language too complex to be spread so accurately wit vocal alone. the official poets and orators must have had a musical-vocal system of marks.