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the refined snow the refined snow alpha august 26 2008 alpha uppercase α lowercase α greek αλφα is the first letter of the greek alphabet in the system of greek numerals it has a value of 1 it was derived from the phoenician letter aleph letters that arose from alpha include the latin a and the cyrillic letter а in both classical greek and modern greek alpha represents the open front unrounded vowel a plutarch in moralia 1 presents a discussion on why the letter alpha stands first in the alphabet ammonius asks plutarch what he being a boeotian thinks of cadmus the phoenician who reputedly settled in thebes and introduced the alphabet to greece placing alpha first because it is the phoenician name for ox which unlike hesiod 2 the phoenicians considered not the second or third but the first of all necessities nothing at all plutarch replied he then added that he would rather be assisted by lamprias his own grandfather than by dionysus grandfather i e cadmus for lamprias had said that the first articulate sound made is alpha because it is very plain and simple the air coming off the mouth does not require any motion of the tongue and therefore this is the first sound that children make the homeric word alphesiboios 3 ἀλφεσίβοιος 4 is associated with both the root alph and ox it is derived from alphanō ἀλφάνω 5 meaning to yield earn and bous βοῦς meaning ox hence alphesiboios means bringing in or acquiring oxen according to plutarch s natural order of attribution of the vowels to the planets alpha was connected with the moon oxen were also associated with the moon in both early sumerian and egyptian religious symbolism possibly due to the crescent shape of their horns alpha both as a symbol and term is used to refer to or describe a variety of things including the first or most significant occurrence of something the new testament has god declaring himself to be the alpha and omega the beginning and the end the first and the last revelation 22 13 kjv and see also 1 8 the uppercase letter alpha is not generally used as a symbol because it tends to be rendered identically to the uppercase latin a posted in uncategorized leave a comment first post august 15 2008 first posted in uncategorized 1 comment create a free website or blog at wordpress com about this blog about blog recent posts alpha first post recent comments wintering on first post subscribe subscribed the refined snow sign me up already have a wordpress com account log in now privacy the refined snow subscribe subscribed sign up log in report this content view site in reader manage subscriptions collapse this bar design a site like this with wordpress com get started