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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I still don’t understand it myself
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.
I tried learning Akkadian. non-alphabetic scripts are not for me.
Is this board insufficiently autistic to discuss hieroglyphs?
i'd rather learn hieratic but it's difficult to find guides for it
simple, just learn hieroglyphic and re-develop hieratic by writing hieroglyphic in a hurry
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
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.
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/
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?
>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
Are you calling me autistic or are you calling OP autistic?
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
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.
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
Sometimes I wonder how the world could have been if Akhenaten hadn't spewed his turbo-autism everywhere and spawned monotheism
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
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