intaier:

alltheprettyghosts:

intaier:

alltheprettyghosts:

touzoku-ou-bakura:

FINALLY posted this story to my Wordpress! Yay! (Also I made my Wordpress accessible again since I’ll be writing for it again.)

This upsets me, because for a starters it assumes that people didn’t want to preserve the language during the Greco-Roman period. Hellenic library, like the library of Alexandria, because of the prevalence of Native culture and the fear that Hellenic culture would be corrupted… So you stick all you have written down in a room and keep your past safe… This worked a little too well as it overtook Egyptian language. However there were many Egyptian libraries which were formed in response, I think Oxyrincus was one such place where there was papyrus libraries.

Secondly, it assumes that Egypt was the only place where Egyptian culture was prevent. Nubia! Nubia, the beautiful land to the south that continued being ruled by Pharonic Kings and continued the culture till about 600 CE. For example there is a Kushite crown with shows purely Egyptian iconography, but using Byzantium stylistic techniques, from about 500 CE. Also one of the most remarkable achievements of Egyptian language I would say belongs to the Nubian pharaoh Piye, the ‘Victory stele’ which is an epic - poem - that describes the state of Egypt, the religious unrest, the Nubian piety and therefore justification to conquer Egypt.

Finally, wasn’t Djehuty only the second in the list of kings to rule Egypt, followed by Osirus, then Horus, then the rest of them according to ancient mythology.

Sorry, that was very ranting, and the story was an interesting idea… But the Nubiologist within couldn’t help but make a post.

I don’t think you have to be upset about this one, really.

May be the chronology of the MYTH is slightly messed up, but remember, this is a myth. Myth explaining the decline of Hieroglyphics as punishment. It does not have to be perfectly aligned with the events of human history.
And, the myth is especially about the loss of Hieroglyphics; not the aesthetics, not the style, not the iconography.
The ideals of egyptian culture were preserved. But the gift of understanding of Hieroglyphics itself was taken away as a punishment, and - here’s the chronology of the mythological interpretation isn’t 100% correct - most likely, the punishment started with the rise of christian fanaticism.

So, again, this is not a myth about the Egyptian Culture, but only the knowledge of Hieroglyphs themselves.

Okay, then to clarify, my mythological standpoint is Theban-Nubian, so I may have got some wires crossed. And I studied middle Egyptian language.

So, when we now learn the language we use hieroglyphs because they are standard, rather than cursive which is handwriting. I don’t like the myth in itself because it assumes that the deities and whatnot thought that this was bad. I feel from everything I know and understand about Ancient Egyptian culture, which is not separate from the language is that the idea of the lost of hieroglyphs is a wholy modern assumption. The language was retained, the writing styles were retains, for example the temple of Isis at Philae had the last written hieroglyphs relatively late, but I can’t remember off hand the exact date.

Furthermore, understanding written language, let’s say middle Egyptian which was first created in the new Kingdom and lasted until end of the 18th dynasty, was to most people from the 15th dynasty onwards like reading Shakespeare to a modern English speaker, reading middle Egyptian to a Greco-Roman period Egyptian speaker would have been like reading Beowolf to the modern English speaker. I would have made sense… Just needed some translation.

Also, targeting the Christians as evidence for destroying Egyptian language is wrong. Point blank, I hope I don’t have to explain why. But let’s just say without those monotheists, ancient Egyptian would have been much harder to translate into English. The first French translated whose name I shamefully forget at this moment, only made such a breakthrough because of his understanding of the Coptic language.

Finally, this myth assumes that change is wrong, which it is not. I’m sorry, but separating one aspect of written language of an ancient culture is painful to watch. You can justify it as being a myth and that may be who you feel, but I cannot accept it for what it is.

Again, this is a myth based on UPG, and it’s not about the evolution of the language, and not about the culture.

It’s about hieroglyphs as Medu-Netjer, the divine language filled with special heka-power. Not about the spoken/written language of people, but about metaphysical Language, key to the mysteries of the Universe. This is about symbolical connection between humanity and the Netjeru, too.
I’m very sorry that the myth did not resonate with you.
P.S. I also studied middle-egyptian. This myth was inspired by some of my UPG, and my communications with Djehuty. But I don’t insist that you take it as literal truth. First of all it’s myth and allegory told from particular points of view.