Click, gets bigger.Amazingly -- and I truly consider this amazing -- one of our Vleeptroidz has come up with the correct answer for this PizzaQ. We got a reader who can translate ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics, just like the Egyptologist nerd in Stargate!
Unglaublich!
But meanwhile, I want to see if we can pull another right answer out of anybody else in the Blogosphere, maybe Vargo in Kafe Internet Sofia, or maybe Klaas in Rotterdam. So here are 2 Hints! (patfromch did it with 0 Hints.)
The creature is Not A Bunny. (patfromch thought it was a Bunny.)
The Vleeptron Zoological Society informs us that the thing with the big ears is a critter of the Sahara, the Fennec Fox (Vulpes zerda).
Turn your speakers ON and click HERE and you could get lucky (works for me in WinAmp) and listen to a Fennec singing. In the moonlight. Standing on the apex of the Great Pyramid of Khufu/Cheops.
(Actually in a cage at the Wilhelma Zoo, Stuttgart DE, photo by Kathrin Gaisser. And it sang in the morning.)
Vleeptron is happy to provide you this Hint, because it will not help you at all.
The wiggly horizontal line refers to the River Nile. This Hint actually WILL help you figure out which Place this hieroglyph is the name of.
2 comments:
Nope, not a fox, but a desert hare. Not that I want to be picky, far from it. Those PizzaQs are fun, they broaden my horizon.
From a paper found on the website of the University in Giessen, Germany:
Finds dating back to Asia Minor´s neolithic age come from the field of the glyptic. The interpretation of the images contained on coining or roller stamps inform us of a variety of roles played by the hare in the Hittites´ mythic world. As the animal´s roles with times of recorded history, the study focuses first on its place in the animal - governed cosmos of Egypt´s advanced civilisation. Some series of images found in Thebaic graves confirm our assumption that the Egyptians dealt with the desert hare as huntable game. Scenes taken from every day life in sepulchral paintings were to accompany and please the deceased. In ancient Egypt´s hieroglyphic working the shape of hare was omnipresent, too. It served as a symbol for a multi - valve consonant with the clearly defined phonetic value of 'wn' to be translated in the sense of an auxiliary meaning 'to be' or 'to open'.
The female hare, as an essential characteristic of the deity 'Unut', patron saint of the 15 th upper-Egyptian district might, as female in the pantheon of Egyptian mythology, have stood for the fertility principle. Objects of analysis are also both the ritual importance of the hare, controversially discussed in scientific circles, with regard to the Egyptian deity 'Osiris', and its links to 'Thot' the moon god who, due to changed religious notions, assumed the leading position in the 15 th district´s pantheon of gods.
The interlinkeage between the hare and moon, suggested in Egyptian culture is omnipresent as well in the respective traditions in various parts of the world with not only visual interpretations of lunear maculae having hare-like contours forming the basis of tales based on associations. The text allow of interpretations of the hare, as a lunear symbol, implying a variety of meanings.
Nicked from http://geb.uni-giessen.de/geb/volltexte/2005/2398/
Just scroll down for the english version
I got a book on the history of Archeology somewhere, maybe Budge is mentioned somewhere
wow, you cheat, you read books. Okay, it's a bunny.
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