Elephants are in Africa and India
Aleph doesn't come from elephant ....
We have here the relicts of a "WORLD-RELIGION", you cannot easily change the main protagonist.
It may be good idea to ask, if the object "Elephant" got the name "Elephant, cause it also was an impressive animal (and a more impressive one) as the ox, perhaps meant as an language-escalation of aleph = Ox or bull.
World Religion:
1. Crete has its height between 2000 - 1500, the central religious object is the bull. Minostauros. Zeus captures Europe as a bull, Herakles later captures a famous bull of Crete. Pasiphae sleeps with this bull. There is no doubt about it: it's a bull cult. All important Crete myths center the bull.
2. Delta-Region of Nile. The Egyptian have animal cults generally, of special concentration in the Delta-Region are cow- and bull-cults (Apis-cult, Isis has a cow-head), naturally as at the upper Nile you had no good regions to feed cows.
At least 4 of the 20 Gau-names directly relate to the bull-cult:
a. Gau of the mountain-bull
b. Gau of the black bull
c. Gau of the god-calf
d. Gau of the slaughtered (bull)
In the greatest of all Egyptian myths, the Osiris-cult, Isis looses her head and gets a cowhead.
The Osiris-myth connects Phoenicia with Egyptia. Osiris is cut in pieces by Seth, but Isis collects the 14 (13) pieces. One she doesn't find, the genital. She replaces it. For the honour of the places where she found it, there were 14 cult places, which were located at the nile, the last being Byblos (that's in Phoenicia)
The death-journey leads the dead Osiris from the Nile crossing the sea to Byblos, where was a big Osiris-cult-center.
Osiris reigned 28 years to please the moon-calendar, but also to be added with his 14 pieces to the number 42, which was loved as "number of the Gaue".
There are archeological fragments enough about the bull-cult.
3. The central figures of the Kanaan-mythology knows El, which is the highest God and Baal, which is the hero-god, which has to fight with Jam (sea) and Mot (death). The myth is only known by fragments found 1929 and the translation from Ugarit has difficulties.
At least: Baal sleeps with cows.
The conflict between sea and agriculture-cowbreeding is a very special Phoenician problem, cause they became great sea-explorers.
4. The bull-killing Mithras was still active in Roman time as the MAIN concurrent to Christianity (also strong was the Isis-cult) - you should know, that we had Isis-cult and Mithras-cult here in Germany (!) in late Roman time. This were also WORLD-RELIGIONS.
It is said, that it derived from Persia and Mesopotamia, very old, perhaps even reaching back in times of the Alphabet.
Bull-Killing is not a bull-cult, you should see the difference, which has the historical context, that in the final fights after 1000 BC it was the Mesopotamians, which killed the BULL of the Egyptia-Phoenecia-Creta regions in long fights, finally establishing a very great dominion called Persia, which ruled as far as Egyptia but also 1000s of miles in the East. This great dominion, accompanied by the Fire-religion of Zoroastrism, but also the "bull-killer cult Mithras", found their quick and sudden end by the Greek idea of a very special polytheism, which we all do know well, and which luckily revived after being "also killed" by Roman Catholic Church in 14th/15th century in the time, which interests Tarot-researchers.
Cause of all this it is quite doubtful, that Aleph has an origin as "Elephant"
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I miss a continuation of the basic-questions:
A: Is there a face in the alphabet-letter-names?
B: If it is accepted, that there is a face at the tail of the Alphabet, then ... where is the body?
The body of the ABC-man or Alph-beth-gimel-man.
*** It's often useful to think about complicated matters like a child. How old was you, when you learnt the Alphabet? 6 years? 7 years? Earlier?
Go back to that place in your memory. Somebody explains you how to read and write. Remember.
Your teacher doesn't speak of elephants, you do not know.