>>15987379If you want to get even more curious about it, "Why is it we consider cuneform as the first written communication?" Because it has a lexicon? Humans have been painting and writing our stories of experiences since our earliest times on the walls of caves we lived in. Tales of hunts, of clans, of conquests and loss. Although not lexicon based, it is the same purpose "Writing down the tales of the things we have seen in pictograph form."
And these things, when viewed through the modern eye don't always make sense, "Perhaps the deer in this depiction was not the actual scale of being 30 feet tall in comparison to the hunter, perhaps this is just a "I caught a fish thiiiiiiiiiis big" embellishment. However; beyond the oddity of the message, we can assume "There was once a hunt where we took down a very large deer."
Which begs the question of things that even we in the modern age consider odd and strange. Sky people, and star people. Are these embellishments based off of creativity or human rationality? Perhaps an asteroid fell and thus we humanized and translated it as such? Or did we actually meet something that we could not understand as a primitive social species, but had to talk about?
Case in point; the star people of the Native Americans. Through our modern perspective, we can view this pictographs as reminiscent to our modern interpretation of alien life; and the pictographs imply that these "Sky people" came from the night sky and glowed with an aura.
How are we supposed to interpert this? Did the vast majority of the people get high as fuck off of some natural element and see visions of other wordly entities and spread the story of said visions? Or did they see something that they couldn't quite comprehend, and told/wrote what they had seen?
These are the questions we must ask ourselves, and ultimately come to some sort of conclusion to. Are we observers of the strange; or merely dreamers of it?
