General Interest Languages - Animal Speak - Ancient languages and alphabets here's a little post that is different. a passage from a book called 'Animal Speak' by Ted Andrews. It's a fun read and speaks of the symbolism that creatures that you might encounter in your daily life. the spider (păianjen) has many symbolic meanings and one important interesting one is as the guardian of ancient languages and alphabets......

animal speak - ted andrews - pp 345-346 - dictionary of insect totems

"Spider is the guardian of the ancient languages and alphabets. Every society has had myths about how the different languages and alphabets were formed. The Chinese alphabet is attributed to Ts'ang Chien, the god with the dragon face and four eyes. He formed it from the patterns of the staars, the marks on the back of the turtle and the footprints of birds in the sand. The Norse god Odin created the Runic alphabet after hanging upon the great tree of life for nine days and nights. After this time, the twigs fell off and spelled out certain formulas and words.

To many, there was an alphabet even more primordial. It was formed by the geometric patterns and angles found within the spiders web. To many this was the first true alphabet. This is why spider is considered the teacher of language and the magic of writing. Those who weave magic with the written word probably have spider totem."  ¶ 8:56 a.m.