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Wen 丨 has seen the big dragon in the world
Editor丨 has seen the big dragon in the world
preface
The ancient and modern Egyptians were the same people. The political conditions now are much the same as those throughout history. Professor Elliot Smith of FRS has made it clear enough through his study of bones of all ages that the ancient and present inhabitants of the Nile Valley are anthropologically identical people.
This fact immediately laid a unique foundation for this matter, because no other nation in the world, apart from China, can be proven to have retained its type for such a long time. Making any resemblance to Greece or Rome impossible. The present-day Greeks have little in common with the ancient Greeks in anthropology, because the lineage has become very mixed, and the Italians and the ancient Romans are not the same. English is the result of a relatively new collection of types.
It seems certain in Egypt that the subjects of the ancient pharaohs were completely similar to those of the modern Kheif dynasty, never introducing fresh blood into the country on a noticeable scale, even among the Arabs. So if history has any importance to the impact of politics, we have a better chance of learning about it in Egypt than in any other country.
Language changes in Egypt
The language has changed but this is not a matter of paramount importance, a Jew is not so typical because he speaks German, French or English. Irish skull cracking sounds are introduced in English as easily as in Erse. The ancient language of Egyptian hieroglyphs is practically not completely extinct.
Still used by many Egyptians in Copt, they would greet their friends or say good morning or good night to them. This form of ancient Egyptian is read in Coptic churches and is known as the same name for Amon and his colleagues.
Many ancient Egyptian words have seeped into Arabic and are now commonly spoken in the country. Old words are often confused with Arabic words with similar sounds. Thus the ancient fortress in Abydos is now called Shunetes Zebib, which in Arabic has the inexplicable meaning of "raisin warehouse".
In ancient Egyptian, its name is pronounced similarly, meaning fortress of the ibis jar, and after this place was abandoned as a military fortress, several of the holy birds were buried in the jar. Many Egyptian towns still use hieroglyphic names, such as Aswan Kom Ombo and Dendereh to name a few. The true origin of these words is now forgotten, some of them are given false Arabic derivatives, and stories are made up to explain the special meaning of the words so introduced.
The word Silsileh means a chain in Arabic, and a place in Upper Egypt was named after that. It is now said to be named after a certain king here who pulled an iron chain on the river to block navigation. But in fact the name is derived from a mispronounced hieroglyphic word meaning border.
The Egyptian town of Damanhur is the place where the massacre took place, as in Arabic the name may be interpreted as a river of blood, when in fact the name in ancient Egyptian means only the town of Horus. Archaeological travelers in Egypt encounter examples of continued use of the Pharaonic language at every moment. Nothing makes Egyptology more alive or distances it from the dusty atmosphere of museums than hearing the ancient words actually spoken by the modern inhabitants of this land.
Statue of Egypt
In ancient times, the god Isifal was the patron saint of crops, he guarded the growth of grain. This fallen statue of the Min god, made of whitewashed wood and mud, can also be seen today, standing like a scarecrow across the fields of Egypt. As sailors crossed the Nile, they could often be heard singing YaAmuniOAmon, as if calling for the help of that forgotten god.
In Aswan, those who are about to travel far still go to the traveler's holy place dedicated to the cataract gods to pray. In Thebes, women climb a hill and pray for refuge from Meretsegert, the now-lost ancient serpent goddess. Snakes are relics of the family goddess and are usually kept as pets in farmers' homes. Infertile women still go to the ruined temples of abandoned gods, hoping that there is virtue in the stone.
The white paint decoration at the doorways of some houses in the south is a vestige of the local custom of placing a bucranium there to ward off evil spirits. Some temple watchers will still ask the spirits in the sanctuary to leave before entering the building. The white paint decoration on the doorways of certain houses in the south is a relic of religious practices, and the statue of the goddess Karnak Sekhmet is revered divinely. It is said that the goddesses who once slaughtered humans are still believed to take pleasure in slaughtering.
Once floating on the sacred Lake Karnak, the golden sailing ship of Amunla, it is said that locals nowadays sometimes see that they have not forgotten its former existence. During the parade festival where Abu'lHaggag, the patron saint of Luxor, his mosque and mausoleum stand on the ruins of the Temple of Amun, a small boat was dragged across the ground, inadvertently commemorating Amun's boat in the procession of that god.
Also in Moule del Nebi's parade in Luxor, boats placed on carts cross the streets, as one sees in ancient paintings and reliefs. Horur and Sebek, patron saints of Kom Ombo in Kom Ombo, as two brothers who lived in the temple in ancient times, remain in the memory of nearby peasants.
When the robber enters the tomb, like his ancestors four thousand years ago, he smashes the eyes of the deity and the deceased represented in it, making it impossible for them to observe his actions. In Gurneh, a farmer recently broke the arm of an ancient statue half-buried near his field because he believed the statues damaged his crops.
Egyptian civilization
In southern Egypt, a jug of water was placed on the grave of the deceased to water their ghosts or ka, as it was called hunger and thirst in ancient times, and the living would sometimes stand in the cemetery at night and call the name of the deceased. Ancient Egyptian magic is still widely used, and many of the formulas used today are familiar to Egyptologists. In fact, Egyptians lived in a world deeply affected by magic and was full of ghosts, demons, and trolls.
Educated people in government positions dressed in the most fashionable European style will describe their magical adventures and their encounters with the gods. An Egyptian gentleman in an important administrative position, told me the other day that his cousin was used to turning into a cat at night and wandering around the city. As a child, his father discovered this and once chased the cat, only to find the boy covered in scars the next morning.
My informant's uncle once magically read such strong language in a certain book that it began to tremble violently and finally rushed out the window. The same figure once sat under a palm tree with a magician I feared he was also a magician, when his friend happened to notice a string of dates about 20 feet above his head, and his friend stretched his arms upwards, his hands immediately filled with fruit.
The magician left his friend with his arms stretched upwards and his hands were immediately filled with fruit. Another time, the magician, he, or the devil, caused a lot of harm to him and his neighbors, snatched oil lamps, poured oil on terrified villagers, threw stones at passers-by, etc.
The souls of the dead haunt the living in the same way and often cause harm to them. Recently in Luxor, the ghost of a famous robber persecuted his widow, so much so that she ended up going crazy. A very similar case to this one can be mentioned, which dates back to the time of the pharaohs.
It was a letter from a haunted widower to his dead wife, in which he asked her why she persecuted him, because he had been good to her throughout her life and had never saddened her by caring for her when she was sick. These examples may multiply, but the ones I have quoted will help show that the ancient gods still exist and that the famous magic of the Egyptians is not yet a modern thing. Past. Now let's turn to the affairs of everyday life.
The customs of the people of Egypt
Archaeological travelers in Egypt are bound to observe similarities between ancient and modern customs as they travel through villages and fields. These houses, if not built according to European plans, are very similar to those of ancient times. The old cornice remains, and rows of dried palm stems can still be seen on the walls of the garden and courtyard, from which its shape originally derived. Dried corn stalk sheds or shacks often erected in the fields are exactly the same as those used in prehistoric times.
Ancient corn stalks strung into later stone pillars, and these soils made them later stone pillars, although their stone descendants are now in ruins. Through the doorway of one of these ancient houses, travelers may see a woman grinding corn or kneading bread in exactly the same way her ancestors did in the time of the pharaohs.
A few days ago a local asked for permission to buy some ancient millstones from us in the temple of Thebes in order to reuse them on his farm. Travelers will notice that in some shady corner, the village barber is shaving the heads and faces of his customers, as seen in the tomb paintings of Thebes thousands of years ago.
In a house where death occurred, mourning women wield the same blue cloth of ancient mourning and will wave their arms in a pose familiar to everyone who knows the ancient scene. The funeral is about to take place and the men will sing a solemn and cheerful tune always reminiscent of the famous Maneros, which Herodotus described as a mournful funeral elegy, and Plutarch asserted that the song was also suitable for festive occasions.
A wedding will take place in another house, where singers and pied players will recall scenes from the monument in the same way. The former has a favorite posture of placing your hands behind your ears when singing, a pose that often appears in ancient manifestations of such holiday scenes. Dancers also appear here, their eyes and cheeks painted thickly, just like their ancestors. The tambourine they hold in their hands is the same as the one carried by their class in Pharaonic paintings and reliefs.
The same date wine enchanted admirers of the Egyptian Bacchus in this village company, the same food of the same small, flat bread, and travelers into the fields saw the ground raked into small squares used by prehistoric farmers for irrigation. The shape of the plow, as always, shade or water hyacinth, has been working patiently for thousands of years. The cylindrical crane used in Lower Egypt was invented and introduced in the time of Ptolemaic.
epilogue
The way threshing and raising the valley was carried out according to the way on the monument, the way of sowing and harvesting did not change. Along the road of the embankment, people, cows and donkeys fish across the skyline, reminiscent of the straight rows of these figures often depicted on monuments. The vulture goddess Nekheb flew overhead, and the eagle Horus hovered nearby.
Across the road ahead is the jackal Anubis, and at his feet crawls the scarab Khepera, where under the sacred tree sleeps the horned ram of Amun. In all directions, the hieroglyphs of the ancient Egyptians passed back and forth, as if some ancient temple inscriptions had been resurrected. The owl M whistled by.
The letter A eagle hovers overhead, and the sign ur wagtail skims by the side of the road, chirping at the sign rekh, peewit. Along the road is the calf that signs Ab frolicking, and near it is the Ka bull. Behind them walked the sign fa, and a man carried a basket on his head. Everywhere are the graphics used by the ancients to make hieroglyphs. So that wonderful ancient text immediately ceased to be mysterious, no longer something of a long time ago, and people realized how natural a national product it was.
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