A as in Ox

Via the acrophonic method, the aleph is borrowed from the hieroglyph for "ox." Egyptian god of energy. Propulsion. Civilization maker. The ox was to the Ancient Egyptian what electricity is to modern civilization. It was the idol of propulsive force, nature harnessed to plow the field, haul cut stone, build monumental architecture. Now scrawled by hand in the mines, it pulls the Hebrew alphabet behind it like a locomotive engine, all crazy motion with a cowcatcher.