I've started learning hieroglyphic, has anyone else here also been dumb enough to go down this road?

I've started learning hieroglyphic, has anyone else here also been dumb enough to go down this road?
What are your favorite resources? Is there a good drawing guide out there, maybe some worksheet repository from a college course? I've also been looking for some sort of hieroglyphic composition webtool or standalone program but all I get are these basic transliteration widgets that only have the uniliteral signs and don't allow for stacking or any other arrangement.

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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Frick rotational metadata

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I still don’t understand it myself

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I wish I wasn't moronic so I could learn Sumerian, so there's that. There was a bunch of Assyriologists lurking on IQfy, though.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I tried learning Akkadian. non-alphabetic scripts are not for me.

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Is this board insufficiently autistic to discuss hieroglyphs?

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    i'd rather learn hieratic but it's difficult to find guides for it

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      simple, just learn hieroglyphic and re-develop hieratic by writing hieroglyphic in a hurry

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Learning here, I'm a language-let though so I resolved to learn latin first to learn how to actually learn language

    What I can say so far though is these things are totally 1 idea 100 different levels of meaning though

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Any texts you've liked in particular? I read Budge's Intro to Egyptian Language, I've currently got the textbook in the OP and another neat book that goes through a substantial sign list and describes how each one is used in different ways in artistic compositions and sculpture and the like.
      Budge and other guys in that era are surprisingly funny to read, the beginning of his book had a substantial segment where he just trash-talked pre-Rosetta Stone scholars who were making shit up for clout.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I haven't dug deep enough to have a goof opinion of such things, here are my 3 initial though

        https://archive.org/details/prcisdusystm00cham/page/n8/mode/1up
        http://web.ff.cuni.cz/ustavy/egyptologie/pdf/Gardiner_signlist.pdf
        https://www.godelectric.org/

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    What’s the point of reading hieroglyphics? I get maybe trying to learn ancient Greek to read biblical texts or some thing, but what are you going to read that’s relevant to today’s world that’s in hieroglyphics?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >What’s the point of reading hieroglyphics? I get maybe trying to learn ancient Greek to read biblical texts or some thing, but what are you going to read that’s relevant to today’s world that’s in hieroglyphics?
      autism

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Are you calling me autistic or are you calling OP autistic?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Cause when you dedicate an 1 or 2 decades of a person's life in a low surplus economy to write something down, it's probably pretty important

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Egypt is the foundation of Western civilization. The Greeks say they learned the ways of civilization from the Egyptians and were proud of it.
      It's a system of writing that saw consistent use, relatively unchanging (compared to any modern language), for 3000 years. Egyptian religion and philosophy is closely rooted to the very beginnings of our emergence from the hunter-gatherer lifestyle, and to deep human psychology in general.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        just to add, pretty much all the Greeks we root ourselves in studied there directly in the mystery schools

        and the corpus hermeticum underpins Christianity and was found to be a major peace driving force in the holy wars/conflicts

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Sometimes I wonder how the world could have been if Akhenaten hadn't spewed his turbo-autism everywhere and spawned monotheism

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Oddly enough I did a report on this for my ancient history course at uni, I determined that the cult of amun (akenhatens name for first 5 years of reign was amenhotep meaning "amun is satisfied") was in a power struggle as the Pharoah tried to break free of this 'illuminati of anitquity" by institute those religious reforms by changing his name to mean "effective for the aten" he failed and the cult took back over and they splayed his name for generations

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

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