I was watching a documentary called The Story of India, hosted by Michael Wood. In the beginning of the documentary, Michael Wood takes us to Kerala, a south Indian region where the first human group to migrate out of east Africa is thought to have settled.
In Kerala, there is an oral tradition of mantras (spiritual incantations) that has been passed down for centuries from father to son in an ancient brahmin clan. Only recently have outsiders been allowed to record and study these mantras.
But scientists were soon baffled by some of the mantras--not only are they in no known language, but there are entire episodes of these mantras that follow no known human speech patterns on earth. They follow certain rules and patterns, but no meaning can be derived from them. According to PV Bhattathiripad, a Kerala Brahmin, these mantras cannot even be written in any printable format. They can only be transmitted orally.
So if they follow no known human speech patterns, then where did they come from? Under scientific analysis, the patterns of these mantras are shown to be closest in resemblance to birdsong; these sounds are so old that they predate human speech.
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