I’m carving this into the pyramids where it doesn’t belong, to throw archeologists for a loop

  • A_norny_mousse@feddit.orgEnglish
    11·
    1 day ago

    I see at least 5 hieroglyphs and now that I know what they mean I’d like to have them parsed in detail, thankyouverymuch.

    • egrets@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      22 hours ago

      I know literally nothing about hieroglyphs, but I found all the individual symbols (I think):

      𓄤 𓆑𓂋𓅱𓏭𓄖𓎡𓏭

      • A_norny_mousse@feddit.orgEnglish
        5·
        10 hours ago

        Cool! Putting these in a search engine one by one, I get

        • The first three are used to describe “beautiful,” “perfect,” or “good:” 𓄤𓆑𓂋 1
        • 𓅱 = quail chick, used also for the plural word ending (I’m going with this, because the other meaning is “Field, district, region”)
        • 𓏭 = plural, majority, collective concept (e.g. meat, jwf), duality. Can be used as a replacement for signs perceived to be dangerous to actually write. (I can’t really make sense of this one, maybe it’s just some sort of stress)
        • 𓄖 = Hindquarters of leopard or lion <= aha!
        • 𓎡 this apparently only has a phonetic value of ‘k’???

        I learned a little about hieroglyphics today. Just enough to realize they are both complex & well researched.