Hieroglyphs Addenda · Signs
lion
| Name | E23 |
|---|---|
| Reads | rw |
| Means | recumbent lion — rw |
| Taught in | 11 · The stone that talked |
Where it comes from
A lion lying down, forepaws extended — resting but watching. It writes rw; and because Egyptian had no separate l, the lion was drafted for the L of foreign names — the L in Ptolemy and Cleopatra’s rings is this animal.
How to remember it
The lion at rest still owns the ground — and it owns two alphabets’ worth of sounds: Egyptian rw at home, and the borrowed L whenever Greeks came visiting. Decipherment walked in on its back.
In the wild
urn:nabu:aes:bbawtotenlit:2Z3OHH5EKZEUTAFMAIWR2PXTGE:IBUBdwKURW8Z1EbXp44g88XV2ug
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Piece by piece:
- ꜥꜣpp ḫr — Apophis is fallen, every dangerous name written with the cautious substitute stroke
- qrnr — one of the serpent’s ugly by-names, the lion carrying its inner r
A liturgy fells the chaos-snake, and the lion-sign helps spell the monster’s name. The sign is taught in 101’s chapter 11.