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

  • MacN'Cheezus@lemmy.today
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    9 hours ago

    Hieroglyphics, let me be specific: I wanna be down in your South Seas
    But I got this notion that the motion of your ocean means “Small Craft Advisory”
    So if I capsize on your thighs high tide, B-5, you sunk my battleship
    Please turn me on, I’m Mister Coffee with an automatic drip
    So show me yours, I’ll show you mine, “Tool Time,” you’ll Lovett just like Lyle
    And then we’ll do it doggy style so we can both watch “X-Files”

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    18 hours 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.

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      12 hours ago

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

      𓄤 𓆑𓂋𓅱𓏭𓄖𓎡𓏭

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        24 minutes 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.

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      13 hours ago

      I don’t know Egyptian, but I’m guessing that phrasing is somehow closer to the original? “Thy” is sometimes used in translations to emphasise that the original text used informal 2nd person pronouns

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    16 hours ago

    Which one means butt? The bird, the ladle, or the squash on an 80° angle?