A rather bizarre question popped into my head today. ...What does a spiral symbol sound like? If a spiral is a path, and the center of the spiral is the start point and the spiral is 'unwound' and transformed onto a line that represents time, then the sound would start out high-pitched (high frequency) and soft (low amplitude), and get lower in pitch (low frequency) and louder (higher amplitude) over time.
The sound of a circle? A short (brief) continuous tone of equal amplitude and frequency.
The sound of a square? A rising continuous tone, then held for a brief duration, then falling and held for a brief duration....remarkably similar to the prosodic structure for approval.
This is the general idea. If phosphene patterns are commonly found in prehistoric art (and carry on throughout the ages) in cultures with an assumed verbal language (but no written language), then is there a link between SOUND and these simple shapes/patterns? Perhaps the sounds of these shapes correspond with sounds heard in the natural environment, or perhaps the sounds correspond with chanting utterances of sacred rituals?
Keep in mind that the sounds I'm talking about here are not sounds arbitrarily assigned by humans to the phosphene symbol. The sounds here are achieved when the actual path of the symbol is 'unravelled' and transformed into a sound wave. Also rather strange is that the sound waves derived from these symbols look very much like the acoustic mappings of bird calls.
In prehistoric pottery, border patterns are prolific. If a border contains several discrete symbols, the resulting sound map would reflect simultaneity, achieving a harmonic set.
