One point of inspiration may in fact be the Sannai-Maruyama settlement believed to have been settled some time around 3900BCE during the Jลmon period, discovered during excavation near the Okidate river in Aomori Prefecture. Though there's some resemblance to Sannai-Maruyama, even including underground storage rooms, I feel like the aesthetic of the Alph Ruins is trying to imitate something else in particular. What exactly, I'm afraid I'm just not familiar enough with archaeology to know, and my fleeting research turned up few helpful leads.
I'm going to use the original Crystal version of the inscriptions because they're honestly just better than the HGSS version, for some unknown reason. The meaning is absolutely the same between versions so it really doesn't matter they're just worded better.
I can't make any definitive statement as to the meaning behind this, intended or otherwise, and I don't think I'd want to. I'd much rather leave Alph up for debate, because boy howdy is there a lot to debate and a whole lot of interpretation and speculation to be done. As with all good archaeological remnants. What it does do, however, is reinforce the idea that at least part of the inspiration was taken from Japan's many Jลmon ruins, given the implication that the people who settled here did so only temporarily and ultimately migrated away at some point for whatever reason.
Yeah I'll admit this one's a lot weaker but I guess I'm just not much of an archaeologist.
Part 2: The Ruins of Alph
I'm going to use the original Crystal version of the inscriptions because they're honestly just better than the HGSS version, for some unknown reason. The meaning is absolutely the same between versions so it really doesn't matter they're just worded better.
I can't make any definitive statement as to the meaning behind this, intended or otherwise, and I don't think I'd want to. I'd much rather leave Alph up for debate, because boy howdy is there a lot to debate and a whole lot of interpretation and speculation to be done. As with all good archaeological remnants. What it does do, however, is reinforce the idea that at least part of the inspiration was taken from Japan's many Jลmon ruins, given the implication that the people who settled here did so only temporarily and ultimately migrated away at some point for whatever reason.
Yeah I'll admit this one's a lot weaker but I guess I'm just not much of an archaeologist.