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2023-04-08 10:10 dustin  
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Bonus cave 1: previous version of "c/g for stick"  
  
this was ma first design for the third cave, which was dedicated to the related letters "c" and "g".  
  
you can see:  
| the random fill from bd1-c combined with the ΘΘΘ from bd1-g  
| a big camel in the middle (egyptian hieroglyph)  
| the proto-sinaitic version of the letters "c" and "g" (lower-left corner)  
| the greek letter "gamma" (lower-right corner)  
| the etruscian version of "c" (mid-right)  
| how the latin letter "c" became "g" (top-left)  
  
some historians suggest that the camel-hieroglyph might have inspired the proto-sinaitic and phoenician "c"/"g" versions.this is supported by the fact that the phoenician word for that letter, "gimel", was also their word for "camel".   
  
it's still hard to imagine how such a complex hieroglyph could became the simple-shaped letter in the lower-left corner!? that's why most historians think that the phoenicians had called their letter "gaml" (="throw stick") at first. later, they probably renamed a few of their letters, among those may have been this "gaml" letter which became "gimel".  
  
in the end, i found this cave slightly misleading because it is dominated by a camel which probably didn't have much to do with the evolution of the letters. so i re-designed the cave and made seperate caves for "c" and "g".  
  
cave difficulty: 3/10