cladking Wrote:
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> I'm referring to F46 through F50.
Ah: my mistake: sorry. F: parts of mammals.
> They look like
> paperclips
(Or Clippy [
en.wikipedia.org]... )
but they represent the "sinews of the
> Bull of Heaven", they are the chain that becomes
> taut in the PT;
No: they represent (animal) " Intestine:" [
commons.wikimedia.org]). You can see an example under Tuthmoses III's ( [
en.wikipedia.org] ) cartouche at Constantinople: [
commons.wikimedia.org] ( [
en.wikipedia.org] )
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> I believe Horapollo had some of the ancient
> knowledge that was passed down orally but some of
> it was confused.
(Citing Umberto Eco, no less)
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... modern Egyptology regards at least the first book as based on real knowledge of hieroglyphs, although confused, and with baroque symbolism and theological speculation, and the book may well originate with the latest remnants of the Egyptian priesthood of the 5th century. [
en.wikipedia.org]
If so, then Horapollo might have had a handle, not only on "ancient knowledge passed down orally," but also on hieroglyphs: knowledge of hieroglyphic writing didn't die out until the 5th century.
>
> He said, "HEAVEN AND EARTH GUSHING FORTH WITH
> WATER".
>
> "And they depict three waterpots, and neither more
> nor less, because according to them there is a
> triple cause of the inundation. And they depict
> one for the Egyptian soil, as being of itself
> productive of water;..."
So: it's referring to the Nile flood ...
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(Boas trans.)
To symbolize the rising of the Nile, which the Egyptians call Noun, which being interpreted means “new,” sometimes they draw a lion, sometimes three great water-jars, sometimes water gushing forth over heaven and earth. The lion, since when the sun enters Leo, it produces a great rise in the Nile. As the sun remains in this sign, the water is frequently at twice its normal height at flood-tide. Wherefore the an¬ cient engineers of the sacred works made the pipes and inlets of the sacred fountains in the shape of lions. From that time on an overabundance of water . . . And three water- jars, or water gushing over heaven and earth . . . they compare the water-jar to a heart which has a tongue. ( [
archive.org]: 71 )
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