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In ancient Egypt, language and numerology were just two sides of the same coin. Both were based upon profound and precise knowledge of the mysteries of Creation. Let us first look at language; in particular the "Word."
Egyptian creation texts repeatedly stress the belief of creation by the Word. As stated earlier, when nothing existed except the First Cause, He created the universe with His commanding voice. In effect, He contained the potential existence of all things, and when He spoke, He and all things with him came into objective existence. The Egyptian Book of the Coming Forth by Day (wrongly and commonly translated as the Book of the Dead), the oldest written text in the world, we read:
I am the Eternal ... I am that which created the Word ...I am theWord ...
In ancient Egypt, the words of Ptah, revealed through Tehuti-Thoth (the Egyptian Scribe, equivalent to Hermes, or Mercury), became the things and creatures of this world, i.e. the words (meaning sound waves) of the Creator created the elements of the universe.
The word (any word) is scientifically a vibrational complex element, which is a wave phenomenon, characterized by movement of variable frequency and intensity, between oppositely charged poles.
There are various types of sound waves. We know that infrasound waves can't be detected by our ears, but they can shake buildings and destroy body organs. Also, the ultrasound waves cannot be detected by our ears, but doctors use this power, as a kind of knifeless scalpel in microsurgery. We also know that a soprano singer can shatter glass with her voice.
Modern science has confirmed a direct relationship between wave frequency and form. Patterns and shapes of some materials occur only at specific frequencies. It is also a common knowledge that talking to plants (sound waves), causes them to grow (change in form).
The relationship between form, matter and sound can literally be heard at the Karnak temple, where the top portion of an obelisk is lying on the ground. If one hits the obelisk with his hand, the entire enormous block resonates like a tuning fork, which can be detected by putting one's ear at the angle of the top pyramidion. This phenomenon is certainly an instinctive property of granite, when cut to an obelisk shape, confirming the relationship between form and sound.
So with this understanding we should not realize that when God created with the "Word" a truer understanding would be He created with Sound Waves which comprised these Words.
The ancient Egyptians expressed their ideas in writing, more than seven thousand years ago, by means of a large number of picture signs, whicha re commonly called hieroglyphs. The word "hieroglypyh" has its origin in Greek, and means "hly script." Important to note is that all the signs of hieroglyphs are images from the Egyptian natural world, and therefore it was of an Egyptian origin and not imported or influenced by other cultures.
Our main access to the ancient Egyptian history is restricted by our knowledge of their language. The Rosetta stone (found in 1799) is our only key to read, pronounce and understand hieroglyphics. It consists of fourteen lines of Egyptian hieroglyphics; thirty-two lines of Egyptian Demotic (a cursive script), and fifty-four lines of ancient Greek. In 1822 Champollion was able to dicipher the meaning of the fourteen lines of hieroglyphics. There were no dictionaries, language learning books, etc., to use as reference. The discovery of the Rosetta stone revived the ancient Egyptian language, which was declared dead since the sixth century, when Egypt became an Arab colony.
As in all styles of hieroglypic writing was limited to consonants of the words. In all these languages, the meaning of the word is generally contained in the consonants, while the vowels are added, as a rule, only to indicate the grammatical forms. Hebrew is a great example besides the Egyptian language. As such, normal sounds were not included in the written language. Egypt also had a kind of shorthand systemof hieroglyphs called "hieratic," which was used for official communications and other secular matters. Later on, a still more cursive script called "demotic" was employed, presumably used for economic concerns.
The problem of translation is compounded by the symbolic language employed by the Egyptians. It is therefore up to modern scholars to penetrate the symbolism and interpret it as well as they are able to. What results from such efforts is, to a very considerable extent, determined by the attitudes of the scholars involved in the work. Those who believe that the ancient Egyptians were basically barbarians, will come up with one kind of interpretation, while those, who are convinced that the Egyptians were enlightened people, will make of the same text a completely different interpretation. No greater example can be seen than the one we have already addressed: the neteroo. One group of scholars interprets this as idolatry with Egypt being pagan and worshipping hosts of animals and nature with a plethora of gods. Others understand that Egypt was expressing only the concept of the attributes and varied workings of the One True God.
The fact remains that hieroglyphs can be "decoded," but not exactly "translated," and certainly not interpreted reliably or consistently. Translation of the hieroglyphs still presents difficulties.
Very important for us to note now is that every Egyptian letter contained a specific cosmic meaning. This meaning was also amplified by the sound of the letter itself. Words were constructed of these letters in a manner incorporating and amplifying the meaning of the individual letters, so that the meaning of a word emerged from the interplay of letters.
The ancient Egyptian language was a picture of reality. The word was very powerful because the word was an image. Every picture was potentially animate. A common expression, in our time, is that a picture is worth a thousand words. The same applies to the pictoral hieroglyphs, which not only had an overt phonetic script, but a more secret symbolism, which conveyed the subtler metaphysical realities of the universe. As such, it evoked an idea or concept in its entirety.
The "Roman" alphabet owes its origin to ancient Egypt. It is common knowledge that the letters of the Roman alphabet were adapted from the Greek alphabet. The ancient Greeks have informed us that they received their alphabet from the Phoenicians. The Phoenicians, the Hebrews, and other peoples of the lands at the eastern end of the Mediterranean all spoke dialects of the same Semitic language, and used the same consonantal alphabet in their script. The word "alphabet" itself is made up of the Greek names of the first two letters, alpha and beta, which were their versions of the names of the same letters (and in the same order throughout) in the Semitic languages: aleph, bet. The rest of the Greek and Semitic alphabetical letters are gamma = gimel, delta = dalet, and so forth to the end, tau = tav, each name having meaning in the Semitic but not in the Greek. In 1906 Egytologist William Petrie discovered in Sinai, a stela with hieroglyphic inscriptions, and ten tablets of rock, inscirbed with characteristics of a much simpler and cruder form, which were described as "proto-Sinaitic Inscriptions." Later, Egyptologist Alan Gardiner was successful in proving that these proto-Sinatic inscriptions were the votive inscriptions of the Semitic-speaking Canaanites laborers, whom the Egyptians were known to have employed. Gardner proved that these inscriptions were "borrowed" by the Canaanites laborers, from the Egyptian language. He also proved that these "proto-Sinaitic Inscriptions" were the connecting link between Egytpian hieroglyphic writing and the Semitic alphabetic script.
Subsequently, a few alphabetic inscriptions, with similar types of characters to the proto-Sinatic inscriptions, were discovered in Palestine itself, offering corroboration of Gardner's theory, of the derivation and adaptation of the Semitic letters from the Egyptian alphabet. The Hebrew language is derived from the Egyptian language.
So much for the tradition that the Hebrew language was the original language of mankind as held by many Rabbis. A little tradition never hurt anyone...or does it? I don't know about you but I want the truth!