Hieroglyphs Addenda · Signs

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hare

NameE34
Readswn
Meansdesert hare
Taught in03 · To do, to give, to be

Where it comes from

A desert hare flat-out at speed, ears flat along its back. It writes wn — the sound of wnn, “to be, to exist,” the verb a verbless language reaches for when being itself needs saying.

How to remember it

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.

In the wild

Amarna inscription (aes corpus). urn:nabu:aes:bbawamarna:XC6QAUTJCVHPLDGRSYE6AQR4AM:IBUBdzFCWdtW6E0Fmm1Uyep04GU · license: attribution.

Piece by piece:

  • wnn p,t — the sky exists: the hare, then heaven
  • wnn≡k — you exist: the hare again, running the promise home

Eternity measured in hares: while one endures, so does the other. The line anchors 102’s chapter 03.