The
Gardiner list is a series of groupings of Kemetic glyphs that help categorise the array of hieroglyphs that form the Kemetic alphabet.
The X Series List features glyphs that represent cakes and loaves. It is interesting to note all the different types of bread shapes that the ancients enjoyed, and I am certain that each has a meaning perhaps now lost to us.
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| Table of X classified glyphs in the Gardiner list |
The glyph X1 is a loaf of bread and is used to represent that word but also as a determinative for all things female. Its sound is “t”.
The glyph X8 is said to be a bread cone, and has the meaning “to give”.
Its sound is “di” and” imi”. I wonder at why this glyph is used in the word for “Sirius”?
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| The word "Sirius" in Kemetic |
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| This is my first "X" post in the PBP 2012. I have no clue what the 2nd one is going to be! |
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