(Korton gives us a look at languages from the simplest cave paintings to what we have today and learn that the objective of communication is to understand its importance. It's with Korton’s help we discover what was spoken back then and the ways it was split with the breakup. Their legacy could be in the ways we speak today as we have no way of knowing if the root of a word was passed on by the survivors.) 

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Korton: greetings and felicitations Russ.

Russ: greetings Omal.

Korton: I hardly think so.

Russ: oh.

Korton: due to the fact that my esteemed colleague is not going to be present tonight due to the fact of meetings, I will be acting in the capacity as the censor.

Russ: well thank you Korton, this is quite an honor.

Korton: you are welcome. First of all, let us address last week (Atlantis, After the Fall). The person acting in Omal’s stead at the time did a okay job (Tia). Lacking the judgment of higher consciousness, the individual did as best as she could. Miss Tenuvial (Bunny) and her boisterousness, that is acceptable as she is a guest. Okay, let me give a dissertation on the evolution of communication from simple grunts and groans to the eloquence that we have achieved and you have achieved at this point with precise underlines on certain areas. Now, primitive communication serves the same function as does verbal and mental communication, it is just done in different ways. When you look at communications that were scraped and painted on walls in the past, they are the same as words crammed into a much more different form. To understand the consciousness in the development from paintings on walls done by spraying from the mouth and from hands to communication in pictures with vocal words spoken, the development of language is not only vocally, it involves more possible stimuli then you could conceive. For example, hands, facial, eyes, body, looks, when I say looks I’m not meaning looking in a particular way with facial features in the way that an individual looks at something is what I am referring to. The necessary eloquence that is developed now also developed in the most primitive forms of communication. The consciousness in the mind and the growth and the ability to communicate has not changed that much in many thousands of years. To understand the importance of communication is the objective of communicating itself. If you do not communicate well or use words and meanings that are generally not understood and not understandable or mispronounced, then the point of communication becomes irrelevant because misunderstanding and all the problems that creates will occur so communication breaks down. But, if you cannot be understood due to different linguistic abilities or pronunciations or languages, you can still be understood by the most simple and basic method of communication for somebody that is unable to communicate on a vocal level. That would be pictures, any questions?

Russ: yes, two questions to start with here. Painting as you mentioned on walls in a primitive form has kind of also gotten to a point now where as we see as in graffiti.

Korton: correct.

Russ: expressions as far as pictures being the simplest way of communicating.

Korton: correct.

Russ: which brings me to my next question which is last week Kiri discussed the split up of Atlantis from the four points to the different parts of the world they went to.

Korton: correct.

Russ: I’d like to work a little bit on the evolution of the speech patterns that came along from that split.

Korton: okay, let us address first of all the people from what you would call the Southwest area. Atlantis was broken not only up into races but up into linguistic areas. They spoke a common language but each race had its own language. A good example is Sirius. Miss Tenuvial, when she speaks has a different accent than the Tanaka girls (Karra and Kiri). When they talk amongst themselves they will speak in their particular dialect and area that they’re from. For all intents purposes they speak a different language. Miss Tenuvial and her sister speak in a lowland dialect and in a lowland language. The Tanaka ladies speak in a highland dialect and language when they are private but, when they are communicating with the Tenuvials (Leah and Bunny), they speak in the common Sirian language. So that there is an ethnic pride that is maintained. The ethnic pride is there for a reason as it was on Atlantis. If you take the individuals in the low-lying Southwestern areas, they were into fishing and farming so they had naturally a different language because the sea and the land was important. For the people in the Northeastern part of Atlantis living in the highlands in the rugged area, the language of the animals and under the ground was important. So they had more of an interest in the animals and internally within the mountains and hills. The people in the central area where the capital was located had their own legal language which even today continues. If you have a group of lawyers and barristers and judges and lawmakers together, for all intents purposes they do speak a different language. Do you understand what a Baylor is?

Russ: a bailer?

Korton: Baylor.

Russ: a Baylor, no.

Korton: it is somebody that acts in a capacity for example to evict somebody.

Russ: oh.

Korton: let us take a simple phrasing. If a Baylor due to his action lets a individual lapse into detinue but this occurs before detinue was detinue, then the Baylor is negligent in his actions.

Russ: oh.

Korton: but, that means nothing if you do not know what a Baylor is or what detinue is.

Russ: I see.

Korton: so, the different languages on the continent or the island of Atlantis were there for a particular function, it is easier for those individuals to communicate quicker and faster vocally in their native language or their native dialect between themselves but they have a common language which they would all speak on the island as they do on Sirius. It creates racial pride in their language which strengthens the race and therefore drives the individuals harder to do better than the other races and individuals because their language is better than the other languages which it is not but it is still pride to believe that your languages are better than somebody else’s. For example, on your planet, people that speak a language well and precisely and are understood by a majority are thought of more highly than an individual that uses slang and jargon that is understood by a few.

Russ: understandable. What about the hieroglyphics then that you see from Egypt?

Korton: they are pictures.

Russ: uh-huh, we’re going back to…….

Korton: they tell a story, they represent ideas.

Russ: I see. So is this a preservation for the future of a history without actually having to go to the Sirian language or something similar to that……

Korton: no.

Russ: that would get passed on?

Korton: no. The only reason that the Egyptian language was broken and being able to understand was because of one stone.

Russ: the Rosetta Stone.

Korton: correct, it had all three languages on there. If it did not have a language that was still read and understood, then the other two languages would have meant nothing. They would still be pretty pictures, people assuming that certain images represented certain things. It gives a basic understanding on what goes on.

Russ: I see, similar then to the Mayan codices.

Korton: correct. Let us go back to the most simple form of communication, the drawings on a cave.

Russ: okay.

Korton: you have a scene, you have stick figures chasing an animal throwing what appears to be spears. But what if that’s not actually the case? What if the people are throwing offerings at the creature or the objects are coming from the creature?

Russ: hmm.

Korton: you see you have to think of the possible other options.

Russ: well for example from the Northeastern quarter of Atlantis….

Korton: uh-huh.

Russ: we see instead of the hieroglyphs of Egypt, we’re seeing actual stone constructions that actually tell more in their way they were built than could huge encyclopedias.

Korton: again it is a matter of culture. A culture that lives from the land and under the land does not have much time to be able to have a well-written writing system, a well-thought-out system so they have to do their writing in large stones.

Russ: oh yeah, I see. Hmm, then the last one that we have left then is in the Northwestern quarter….

Korton: uh-huh.

Russ: which leaves I believe that would be the Americas.

Korton: correct.

Russ: and we don’t find much in the way of things left over except possibly mounds….

Korton: uh-huh.

Russ: and different things throughout the Southwest.

Korton: again it is a matter of environment, understanding……it is all right.

(a cat had climbed onto Mark's body)

Russ: okay.

Korton: don’t forget, I do have a feline myself.

Russ: oh that’s right.

Korton: it is a matter of what is up environmentally……my feline does not sleep on my chest though.........it is a matter of what is environmentally suited.

Russ: oh.

Korton: for example, buildings with high roofs would culturally be unsuitable in that kind of environment.

Russ: uh-huh, okay. So we almost see the Mayans and the, if you look farther south, the Incas with a higher level of education let’s say. Knowledge of calendars, knowledge of the stars…..

Korton: uh-huh.

Russ: knowledge of hieroglyphics, knowledge of pyramids as you do in Egypt….

Korton: uh-huh.

Russ: where the same latitude you see the same similar constructions.

Korton: uh-huh.

Russ: then in the northern part of England, Scandinavia, Germany, Scotland you see the same kind of constructions as you see in North America.

Korton: uh-huh.

Russ: why would that be?

Korton: obvious, as they flee you have groups from the highlands or the North part of the island getting pushed to Europe and the continent of the Americas.

Russ: ohhhh, of course.

Korton: and in the southern part you would have the people that are from the lowlands and the judicial systems and government systems being pushed to the Southeast and Southwest.

Russ: hmmm and because the Southwest was more farming, you wouldn’t see the sophistication you saw in Egypt and Greece.

Korton: in a way yes, it is a little bit more complicated and we do not have the time really to go into detail on these matters. You must remember, I am a communicator.

Russ: correct and you have helped me a lot in the communication aspects of the split up.

Korton: thank you.

Russ: thank you Korton.