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

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    2 days 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.