The sequence of ciphers 1, 2, 3, 4... as representing a continuity. The alphabet, from A to Z, representing nothing but itself. Would we not learn something about the common source of ciphers and ciphers by not giving in too easily to the difference of yard-stick sequencing and alphabetical ordering? Did not the Sumerians have different names for '5' as in "five cows" and "five pots" as if numbers and letters belonged together?