#separator:tab #html:true # edubba-hieroglyphs-102 — one card per sign taught in the course, generated by # bin/deck_export.rb from the Edubba registries and Sign Codex. # Import into Anki (File > Import), then enable FSRS in the deck # options for evidence-backed scheduling. 𓁹 eye · D4 · [jr] · eye
The eye oversees the doing: in Egypt what the eye watches gets done, and the same sign carries both. See it, and read either sight or work — the two were never far apart.
msdm,t — "black eye-paint" — kohl (urn:nabu:aes:bbawgrabinschriften:VE2JSCEGGZGMZARSXOWKDLNQCY:IBUBdzOum4YRQkH6nXREobm4kNg, license: attribution)
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The giving arm reaches out with the bread still on it — the moment before the gift lands. Life, health, bread, breath: whatever gods give, this arm is extending it.
ḏi̯≡f ꜥnḫ-(w)ḏꜣ-snb — "may he give life, prosperity, health" (urn:nabu:aes:bbawamarna:HWXOUYTRENGFFMB5KUVYWRHJRY:IBUBd70Q6dj7pkSMoKYTRjTmemM, license: attribution)
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The hare exists at speed — blink and it is elsewhere, but it IS, emphatically. When Egyptian insists that something exists, endures, will always be, the hare runs through the sentence.
wnn p,t wnn≡k — "as long as the sky exists, you exist" (urn:nabu:aes:bbawamarna:XC6QAUTJCVHPLDGRSYE6AQR4AM:IBUBdzFCWdtW6E0Fmm1Uyep04GU, license: attribution)
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Refusal needs no sound: the open arms that mean "nothing here, not happening" in any century. When a sentence opens with this shrug, whatever follows is denied.
n rdi̯.n≡sn Jmn m jb≡sn — "they did not put Amun in their hearts" (urn:nabu:aes:bbawhistbiospzt:66ATQAWY55BNBFZYHSRGQK5RG4:IBUBd6iYTlk1NUePjd1ybYheCWQ, license: attribution)
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Great is a column you could not lift — laid down so you can measure it. Where rank is meant, the swallow flies instead; where sheer size is meant, the column lies here.
Nfr rn-ꜥꜣ≡f — "Nefer is his great name" (urn:nabu:aes:bbawgrabinschriften:6CRPOC6MRRG45B75JES3ABTHZE:IBUBd9muUqQ92ErXjUoKSTj9VwE, license: attribution)
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The elder of the air: swallows return each year older and first — the bird of seniority. Mind its lookalike, the sparrow of G37: the swallow's forked tail lifts a word up, the sparrow's round tail drags it down.
Rꜥw-wr — Ra-wer — "Ra is great" (approximate) (urn:nabu:aes:bbawgrabinschriften:3SOT6RKYAJBX7IYKESFMZXREDM:IBUBdyvvHw5gX0VdlhJYRxrccqw, license: attribution)
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The sky is a ceiling — Egypt's cosmos was architecture, and this is its lintel. Everything under discussion happens under this slab; gods walk on top of it.
wnn p,t wnn≡k — "as long as the sky exists, you exist" (urn:nabu:aes:bbawamarna:XC6QAUTJCVHPLDGRSYE6AQR4AM:IBUBdzFCWdtW6E0Fmm1Uyep04GU, license: attribution)
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The land is a floor as the sky is a ceiling — the world's other slab. Everything Egyptian happens between the two flat lines.
sn tꜣ n nb-tꜣ,wj — "kissing the earth for the Lord of the Two Lands" (urn:nabu:aes:bbawamarna:EIKGCKAHNZGOTKGBXIR2SFEYWU:IBUBd6hlDXaq3U8ygzfYpV2CjOY, license: attribution)
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The heart is a jug with two little handles — pick it up and weigh it, as the gods will. Where we say mind, memory, courage, Egyptian says jb, and draws the organ itself.
jb≡sn fn ḥr ḏ,t≡sn — "their hearts grow faint in their bodies" (urn:nabu:aes:bbawamarna:NW3QVVI5YRAD7F6HR5GGNDDBGA:IBUBdzTaJQptlU2SmbH7WZApCd4, license: attribution)
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Likeness travels in the milk jug: milk takes the shape of whatever carries it, and mj pours one thing into another's shape. "You, like Aten" — the jug does the pouring.
msi̯≡tw≡k mj msi̯.w Jtn — "you are born like Aten is born" (urn:nabu:aes:bbawamarna:XC6QAUTJCVHPLDGRSYE6AQR4AM:IBUBd8adyZ8nckyKkFUqMLPRlds, license: attribution)
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The throne fixes a place: to have a seat is to have a station in the world. When the tale says the prince is "in his place," the throne-sign is the place.
sw m s,t≡f — "he is in his place" (urn:nabu:aes:sawlit:MTBRL3MIIJDKXAOF2336WRLMZA:IBUBd5NmCHOe70QOmEFGRHm2dc4, license: attribution)
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Majesty is written with a laundry club — remember the mismatch and you have the sign forever. The king and the washer share a syllable; the storytellers' "His Majesty" swings this club in every tale.
ḏd.jn ḥm≡f — "then His Majesty said" (urn:nabu:aes:sawlit:2NTZNJ65V5FZBCZ3BM55HZEQDQ:IBUBdWpnG0ykOEMOoprzuiSho4Y, license: attribution)
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The fire-drill spins until the spark takes: prosperity as friction rewarded. Every "may he prosper" and every "off His Majesty went" turns this same drill.
wḏꜣ pw jri̯.n ḥm≡f — "then His Majesty set out" (urn:nabu:aes:bbawhistbiospzt:66ATQAWY55BNBFZYHSRGQK5RG4:IBUBdWJOtubnq0gWkM04vZMyAMk, license: attribution)
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The mirror basket is the same basket picked up with the other hand. One sound, two shapes: if the handle surprises you, nothing else changes — say k and read on.
m≡k wj m ꜥ≡k — "behold, I am in your hand" (urn:nabu:aes:sawlit:2NTZNJ65V5FZBCZ3BM55HZEQDQ:IBUBd7asxKnE30ahuz1fBt6Z3kU, license: attribution)
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The watcher sits above the word the way the falcon sat above Egypt — not read, just present. If the falcon oversees a name, someone divine is being spoken of; mind your manners in the sentence.
jw≡j rḫ.kw rn≡t — "I know your name" (urn:nabu:aes:bbawtotenlit:ADO4HPZ7DNBFPOKZ4AGZWM45HM:IBUBdQG5TTz2PUSItFcr1ila4GI, license: attribution)
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Effort is a man putting his back into it: when a verb wears this figure, someone is straining. From flax-beating to demon-smiting, the swing is the same.
ḥwi̯ mḥꜥ — "beating the flax" (urn:nabu:aes:bbawgrabinschriften:LA52ETBPSBG7NAVV4L7HMTI26A:IBUBd92d0kl2YENfkaxOX7knJ9c, license: attribution)
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Force is an arm plus a lever: the same limb that gives and carries, now holding a stick. Three arms, three tempers — open, giving, armed — and this is the armed one.
bn krp≡tw≡f — "it shall not be torn out" (urn:nabu:aes:bbawamarna:6QCUCG3T3VD7FK4KVZXPLY7GQU:IBUBd1Wvm3Eog0MNnyize0M3W6w, license: attribution)
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One dot of sand stands for everything you measure by the pinch: ochre, incense, salt, medicine. When a recipe's word ends in the little grain, you could pour the substance through your fingers.
jri̯ m pns,t — "make into a pellet" (urn:nabu:aes:sawmedizin:A3SCLECB6ZH23OARP74WFWLFAU:IBcBSdhHmI9qAk99siydPWqZDaQ, license: attribution)
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One ripple is a sound; three ripples are water you could fall into. Depth is drawn by stacking — and every liquid in the language carries this little pond along.
jꜥi̯ tw — "wash yourself" (urn:nabu:aes:sawlit:QUFWZTEPLRE4NHKCPAJXGSAOSQ:IBUBd4lwId5ua07LirzzmXOeYNM, license: attribution)
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Death's stand-in is the script flinching: the scribes would not draw the corpse, the enemy, the doomed god — so a neutral stroke stands where the danger was. When you meet it, read what was avoided.
nn rn.pl≡tn — "your names shall not be" (urn:nabu:aes:bbawtempelbib:Q4OD2GDHL5HIXHU3MGUZ3PAMVM:IBUBd5fCxiuh40LfrVMQR1XNMws, license: attribution)
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Sickness is a swelling drawn small: whatever the little lump once was, the doctors made it their filing mark. In a remedy, the words wearing it are the complaint and its discharges — the reason the papyrus was written.
dw sjn — "applying the clay" (urn:nabu:aes:bbawgrabinschriften:D6W7KCYSB5BZPNGLGV53DHHC4A:IBUBdxkYkpwLcEhHgGHCQiLfSWE, license: attribution)
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