The Ideas of

Water Age

Water Age, at its core, is about lost connections, and new ones. It concerns itself with time, and its effect on water and us. It is truly about the journey of water through the ages, through our eyes. By scrutinizing the environment and forms in which water exist with us today, the transient nature of water in every sense, is being magnified. What exactly has passed though? And what is it that is now? This book goes back in history in search of forms that once had immense relationship with man through exploring language of the past.

This is how ‘water’ was written in Aramaic. Derived from Phoenician

script, it is the direct ancestor of modern Hebrew and Arabic script

MIM

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This is how ‘water’ was written in ancient egyptian hieroglyphs.

It is the direct reference for early non-pictographic writing systems

WATER

This is how ’water’ is represented in Korean (Hangul). Hangul is widely classified as

a Language Isolate, one that has no demonstrable derivation from other languages

MUL

물

This is the Oracle bone script writing for ‘yu’, the chinese character for rain

YU

‘Mak’ represents water in arabic. It constitutes the characters ‘meem’,’ alif’ and ‘ain’, of

which ‘meem’ derives itself from phoenician alphabet, ‘mem’ which represents water

MAK

This is how ‘water’ is written and pronounced in kun yomi (native japanese read)

MI ZU

みず

This is how we write ‘water’ in standard hindu today

PAANI

This is ‘water’ in Hebrew language. It is based upon the 13th alphabet, ‘Mem’ (m),

which in turn was derived from egyptian hieroglyphics

MAYIM

This is how ‘Water’ is written in Hanacaraka, an ancient javanse script based

on a poem about 2 warriors

BAN NYU

The Phoenicians took the egyptian hieroglyph for ‘water’ and simplified it,

naming it ‘Mem’, their word for water

MEM