This paper proposes that, through literature, one can search for visual sources that have generated universal and transversal abstract language, independent of their linguistic or cultural context. Farming and herding shaped the cultural matrix of the entire Mediterranean region, regulating daily activities and modelling the conceptualization of surrounding cosmoses. In that sense, these activities are reflected in abstract thought, establishing the basis for a linguistic creativity whose meaning depends on past empirical experiences. By identifying the visual context within language, as expressed through literature, one can aim at retrieving the “silent voices” of the past; that is to say, a way of seeing the world by those who left neither diaries nor any trace of their existence. Ultimately, “metaphoric” language based on agriculture is the manifestation of a framed landscape that involves an empirical interaction with natural phenomena and is compounded by “signs of meaning” that are universal. By adopting a semiotic approach to linguistic expression, our aim is to analyse the way in which an anthropological prejudgement, based on common sense, is constructed and maintained in a defined cultural context, far behind the complex symbolic expression stated in literature. In order to understand how the allegorical images and mechanics around the crystallization of traditional bias regarding agriculture are built, we intend to identify possible traces of transversality in ancient traditional thought across cultures with no direct relation, such as Sumerian and Roman. The main goal is to draw a common line between different cultures based on anthropological constructions that have environment as a main source for building meaning.