Ptahhotep Maxims 11, 12, 13 and 14

In two videos.

Maxim 11 is treatment of one's son. It's gross. We get a good idea of where Norman Mailer got his bizarre idea from about reincarnation through magic. When I read that in Ancient Evenings I thought, man, that sounds particularly Egyptian. He's internalized their way of thinking. And now it's shown in hieroglyphs in pornographic form.

12 is how to behave in court. Allen is at his best in notes. He has a lot of good insight that I don't see anywhere else. We learn that local court was held in the wide entrance gateways to the temples.

13 is about how to behave toward neighbors. The idea is look to their needs before your own.

14 is about how to be a good messenger. It was the most difficult so far. In places the transliteration of presumed sounds does not match the hieroglyphs shown, letters out of place, positions switched, then translations do not match the tranliteratons and the definitions do not match the translations, with portions omitted, portions doubled, lines overlapping, and other portions added elsewhere, prepositions thrown in where they're not shown, key glyphs ignored. In places I had to just throw up my hands and accept what is given.

Their is clearly an "n" and he's saying it's an "i."

It shows "gtf" and he's saying it's "gft." That sort of thing throughout.

It's a small thing but it makes a huge difference when you're looking up each thing.

Want to hear something incredibly stupid?

I woke up this morning from dreaming very convincingly. A person I was speaking to was talking about flags. He told me this bears on the exercise I had just finished. I wanted to add a little animation to the front of it. He said, use flags. They're explained in your notes. He said that some nation's flags are derived from their state flags, an element in the canton of a state flag used as the Nation's entire flag, the reverse of how it usually goes. Like Australia. He said there are dozens of examples. I should show an Egyptian at a sewing machine with flags pouring out the front side and displayed to the viewer.  He told me the word for this reversal.

I woke up thinking that was real. I looked back in the notes but nothing is there about flags. I looked online and researched the flag of Australia. Then I read a flag glossary. Nothing matched.  And then I was baffled about where in the heck did I come up with something so strange as that. The dream person seemed very real. I thought I had a good idea there, but it just wasn't.

Now I'm having that déjà vécu thing happening again massively. Did I show you this already? Because it feels like I did. Ignore if you saw this before. And apologies.