JSesh has many more signs than Gardiner collected. Most of the time their values are not listed and that makes us suppose they have the same value the basic sign has. These are all elaborations on the regular sign and you see the groups repeated.
Wednesday, March 2, 2016
E. Mammals
This is Hoch's selection from Gardiner's list of Egyptian hieroglyphic signs. From an artist's point of view this is one of the more interesting groups. Whenever in doubt for drawing an animal an hieroglyph sign can do. At least for starters. Birds are another great group for that reason. Hoch uses thirty-five of these signs to teach his class and that covers the entire range. The italic letters with marks around them are transliteration symbols that suggest sounds. It's phonic and so oblivious to homonyms. When used to communicate via computer the little marks are forfeited so they're even worse as descriptors.
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Your cat drawing has the letters miw :)
I'm missing a clue, not understanding why E20 Seth is Nothing But Trouble. However, I did my part by sticking around like nit glue to see this one through to the end hoping for another clue.
And Miw to you too, deborah!
Seth is actually not nothing but trouble. That's wrong.
Some early pharaohs even have "seth" in their name and his little picture is in there, not just the letter.
It's one of those syncretism deals. The story changed over time. Seth is the bad guy who chopped up his brother Osiris and who tried to kill his nephew Horus. It is the most elaborate and finely worked out story of Ancient Egyptian mythology. It took time to get it that highly polished. In the process Seth is nearly purely evil and always spells trouble. He's not even an animal. He's a made up animal. There are other signs that are bad news too. Too much negative power as symbols. They're often marred. They're put there, then marred. On purpose. You might want to disable those things on your coffin.
So now, whenever you see it you can properly freak out automatically.
Interesting. The Egyptians were more realistic in their stylized pictorals of animals than the were with humans. More lifelike.
Did they not have the ability to portray humans or was there some religious or psychological proscription?
This two-minute vid:
https://aeon.co/videos/how-hearse-rooted-in-an-ancient-word-for-wolf-rolled-into-the-lexicon?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=813126dde6
made me think of Anubis, and I found this:
"Anubis is the Greek name of a god associated with mummification and the afterlife in ancient Egyptian religion, usually depicted as a canine or a man with a canine head. Archeologists identified the sacred animal of Anubis as an Egyptian canid, that at the time was called the golden jackal, but recent genetic testing has caused the Egyptian animals to be reclassified as the African golden wolf."
-wiki
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