Good thing I gave up on trying to tell the "truth" and settled for merely entertaining myself by outrageous speculation and stretching the limits of believability to be plausible, but not convincing.
For some time now, I've wondered if the "twin" angle in the Gospel of Thomas references a binary code. The runes of the Scandinavian and Germanic tribes were said to be like that. The symbols could all be cut into a round walking stick in wedges that was used like a magic wand for calculating things like solar and lunar eclipses, but the runes were not considered a true written language representing words nor did they have a formal numbering system.
Some scholars who study the history of languages have suggested that the attempt by the elder statesmen of the northern European tribes to keep the runic system pure led to their eventual downfall as a loosely unified society administered by the Druid priesthood.
I'm only partially speculating about how this transformation took place. Several books about how written languages emerged from the record keeping of the merchants along the Old Silk Road, particularly Babylon offer convincing stories about the struggle of the oral traditionalists against the invasion of some written language into their traditional way of keeping their cultures alive.
These academically oriented books agreed that it was always the young people who first saw the true value of a written language, and found ways to seek it out. But, an exquisite system for memorization got tossed out with the bath water. Before the development of scribes who wrote things down for people for money there were a class of people who were professional memorizers. They could remember everything everybody would say at a public meeting. The entire Koran is said to be the product of a group of professional memorizers who followed Mohammed around and then sold what they remembered to scribes who wrote what they remembered down in pen and ink.
The young Danish people saw the value of a written language like Latin, and sold out the old Druidic Gods to learn to read and write from the Roman priests who were formerly their Druid priests. Good thing too, later the same crowd invented the printing press.
I do not attempt to tell the God's own truth here because I don't know what the truth is or hardly ever. I try to capture the drifting thoughts that randomly appear in my imagination for reasons I may not understand. I don't know if the content I capture with these words is true or false. The Comments settings are turned off to prevent me from having to defend what amounts to little more than fanciful, sometime crude speculation. Great moments in our lives never return.
