Breath is life. If breath is believed to be a manifestation of the deities, vowels may be the vestiges of divine speech. An infant’s early word-sounds are nearly all vowels. Our final dying word is often a vowel. It is with the vowel we come into this life from elsewhere. It is with the vowel we leave this life for elsewhere. Throughout our life, Latin, vowel, vox, voice persistently seeks consonant, Latin, consonare, to harmonize. This is the alphabet’s spell.
