Friday, February 19, 2016

C. anthropomorphic deities

Hoch provides a sign list for his study of Middle Egyptian. The third category of Egyptian hieroglyphs is deities. Hotch uses twenty of them in his supplemental book.

It is a fairly complete list in that it covers the major gods. The gods represented towns or cult centers, power centers that shift over time, a very long time through shifts in language as well so the list of gods, major and less so in their aspects over time is quite large. So large that Blogger will not upload the file's full width. Blogger would prefer to show this the size of a pencil. This is large as it goes.



The woman bending over is "sky," you'd think that one would be important. She's painted on tombs everywhere. 

3 comments:

deborah said...

Which column is the woman bending over in? About how far down.

You have shown us how the one bird is A, the leaf is I, etc. Are those for spelling nouns? And all the little drawings are like Chinese pictograms? And you find both in sentences?

Chip Ahoy said...

Near the bottom, noticeable because larger. She takes the whole thing.

Chip Ahoy said...

She's depicted as in the paintings.

Hoch's signs is having Anubis and Wepwawet as the same jackal creature but they are distinct gods with no syncretism. Google images is hopelessly conflated. But Wepwawet started out as wolf and changed over time to jackal but did not change to Anubis although he sometimes helps and they're sometimes seen together. Wepwawet is gray-face. His role is different.