Egyptian kings made huge efforts to conserve both their material and spiritual achievements.
By intricacies they wanted to remote the treasures from inappropriate acquisitioning. Both their constructions and composed pieces on first eyesight appear to be ceremonial, but a profound approach toward the picture puzzles will uncover their real purposes.

As one inscription states:
"Take no word away, and add nothing thereto and put not one thing in the place of another."


Separated the suffixes; -ation, -blye, -cain, doesn't mean anything in English. In ancient languages however all parts are significant. Familiar objects got used to expand the terminology. Not only the properties of earth, wind, fire and water but also the words, head, face, ears, eyes, nose, arm, hand, leg and foot became suffixes.

Papyrus suited the needs of scribes. From this sacred plant they made pliable sheets whereupon they wrote hieroglyphs. These are pictograms that need to be read and uttered aloud continually. Then, by their synonyms meaning, the statement becomes obvious. The name one give to a character is crucial, because if it is applied wrong it could turn into a devastating creature.

Underestimating the richness of the upper-class vocabulary, exposed throughout the word of ancient authors, has truly become unfortunate for wrongheaded scholars. Miserable interpretation of ancient artistry and rhapsodies has actually, by illogic conclusions, brought forth strange beings with strange names, and what is worse, they became spokesmen of such deviancy.

The management of all the characters initially belonged to the court of nobles. Scribes were the clerks and officials of ancient Egypt. By tradition the cognition of characters pertained to the clergy, but in the passage of time it spread out to the population, with altered significance.

There is reason to believe that when the king of Egypt imposed regulations in the usage of deities it was actually orthography, but the widespread opinion among the clergy already differed and they were not willing to download the message.



 

When picture writing first began, the pictures represented the actual object they depicted.

These we call pictograms. For example, a picture of a sun within a family scene signified that the sun was part of that scene. Later, pictures came to represent ideas, so that if you saw a sun in a scene, it might symbolize not only the sun, but also daytime, warmth, or light. These are known as ideograms.

Finally, the pictures began to represent not only the appearance of an object and related ideas, but also the sound of a spoken word used to it describe it.

Hieroglyphic writing was written in columns or rows. Reading direction is determined by the direction that human and animal figures faced. Reading starts from the direction that figures face and continues in the opposite direction. Columns were read down as we would read lines down a page.

The Egyptians liked symmetry. If hieroglyphs were inscribed in a column, they would often inscribe the same text in the opposite column, except with the writing reversed.

The example below demonstrates how symmetry was obtained while writing on the lintel of a door.

The text in the second row starts in the middle of the lintel with the and runs to the sides. Thus the text to the left is read from the middle to the left and the text to the right is read from the middle to the right.

In scenes with two figures facing each other, the respective texts of the figures face each other as well. It thus becomes easier to distinguish between the legends and speeches of different actors in a scene and to find the starting point of each actor’s accompanying texts.

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