I search in vain for a picture of neter in Wilkinson. Instead I have to use E. A. Wallis Budge's "The Egyptian Book of the Dead". This is the beginning of that book:
The foot-note explains that "Characters over which a line is printed are, in the papyrus, written in red." The text is running from left to right, but the characters are looking towards the left. Egyptians always do it strangely. Though also the Maori (and, I believe, the rest of the Polynesians) always looked backwards; the future being unknown. Then I check if I ought to update the text in my glyph dictionary at GD32. Hancock's description of the image of the sun cast on the special stone in the Mnajdra tempel is suggestive and gives clues for understanding GD32 (I believe). But I cannot see how to include his text there, in my GD32. I would have to rewrite it all and that would not be good. Even if this part (the glyph dictionary) is dynamic, open to revision, I should avoid that if possible. And the explanations must not be too long, just the bare essentials to get the idea. |