Sumerian language would have immediately oriented on the subject of the statement, only including the object and verb after.

Ah, This I understand.

I’m starting to see how words can be considered magic…altering consciousness. Yes, words can indeed alter perception.

‘The house it’s owner entered’ would be how their language was structured.

Help you I can. Yes, sort of like Yoda speak. His phrasing is actually not a grammar error despite what so many people opine online.

What would our imaginations and thinking be like if the subject always came before the object, and object before the verb? The house its owner entered. How would that effect our behaviour?

The house was entered by its owner… Passive voice. Editors hate that.

It affects what your brain keys onto, the house vs owner. It makes you imagine the house first. I’ve heard writers say to write what you want the reader to think about first.

I never understood what was so wrong with passive voice. It’s one of those little rules that college editors cling to, because writing is so subjective they need something to correct you on.

And unfortunately it now makes Word grammar correct useless. It always brings up passive voice so I ignore it.

Many times that’s exactly what you mean to say.

Perhaps another example, ‘the dog it’s guardian walked’, or ‘the park the people visit’. How would that affect problem solving?

Focuses on objects rather than action.

I need to put the park in the right place vs control how people visit it.

I think part of the reason for our stress, and sometimes really strange or questionable judgment, is the emphasis on actions, tasks. It ignores the fact that everything that occurs is actually shaped, even completely dictated by the components involved in it. We often try to achieve a fix of something without actually considering the circumstance in which the problem occurred, or all the relevant components involved. This might be why as a culture it can be said we don’t know what we want.

Yea…people expect a one size fits/fixes all solution.

Like feng shui, the focus should be on arranging objects and a persons behaviour will flow from there as required.

We don’t even arrange the picture clearly in our heads. It’s all clouded up with adjectives and verbs. This makes no literal sense of course, but this phrase, ‘blue run’, probably feels like it makes sense.

Adjectives – it’s more important how we feel about it.

Or ‘green talk’. Does it seem to make sense?

Yes. Green day would.

Green day tripping. If we become engrossed in green day tripping, what sort of behaviour would that lead to? Or blue singing, red eating?

I can relate to blue singing.

We think actions can have nuances outside of the context of the objects involved. Is that at all logical? Generates ego, reinforces characterization outside of anything concrete, distracts us from perceptions of genuine identity. It can keep us looking anywhere but at the gateway, or if you prefer logic gate that is the acting self, rather than the action. It is why we assert so commonly these days the notion that you are what you do, or are what you do repeatedly. Does that concept make sense? That you are what you do repeatedly? If so why?

Well, what you do can change who you are…but are you a different person when you are sailing as opposed to cooking?

Now let’s look at this sentence, The car it’s owner started. Does this lead you to believe that the owner is a car starter?

No. A better example I have not seen.

It does say that the owner is able to start cars, but leaves everything else wide open. Maybe creating more space for creative thinking and imagination? More flexible problem solving?

This way I will be talking for the rest of the day.

It could help to use it as a meditation technique even if you don’t speak that way. Mantras are often structured in a way that seems strange to westerners.

So any questions about cuneiform or Sumerian language before I conclude? Was the subject adequately covered?

I’d like to create my own sort of hieroglyphics some day. It would be a worthwhile exercise I think. Perhaps a deep path of self discovery. It might be a big part of what motivates artists, trying to uncover their own language.

Yes, very much so. That’s the nexus of art I think, finding your voice.

Your thoughts are welcome. Be well friends.

Travis Saunders
Dragon Intuitive
~science,mysticism,spirituality~