

NEW THEORY ABOUT THE HIEROGLYPHS AND SANSKRIT

by Andrea Portunato (2016)



Introduction



On this page we present a new theory concerning Egyptian hieroglyphics. According to my hypothesis, the hieroglyphic and the Sanskrit would have a common root, so that it would be possible to read (at least in part) the hieroglyphs using the Sanskrit.



The hieroglyphs are a model for writing adopted in Egypt from 3000 BC and used until the time of Roman rule.

The ancient Greeks and Romans had no problems with the understanding of hieroglyphics. During the rule of the Ptolemies (305 BC - 30 BC), dynasty of Macedonian origin, and under the rule of the Roman emperors (from 30 BC) hieroglyphics were still used.



For example, the Rosetta Stone, famous because it allowed the beginning of the study of hieroglyphs, bears the inscription of a decree of Pharaoh Ptolemy V Epiphanes (210 BC - 180 BC), in three different spellings: hieroglyphic, demotic and greek.

From the second century A.D. spread in Egypt Coptic, language that adopted the characters of the greek alphabet. With the concomitant spread of Christianity the ancient hieroglyphic symbols, too attached to the ancient religion, were finally abandoned bringing oblivion of their meaning.

From the seventh century, with the expansion of Islam, also the Coptic, was used less and less in favor of Arabic.

The modern study of hieroglyphs start at the beginning of the 19th century using the knowledge on Coptic language, which had preserved because used as the official language of the Coptic Orthodox Church.



To tackle a subject as complicated as the deciphering of hieroglyphics, we start from a simple word: "EGYPT"





KHME (form Coptic) KM (pron. kèm) (M) T shred of crocodile skin with scales owl bread

town

country



According to the Coptic sources, Egypt was called KMET (in Coptic alphabet KHME) and its transcription in hieroglyphics is that I show above.

Attributing to each hieroglyphic a letter, as you can see, it was identified the phonetic values of each.

According to this interpretation, the "poor" ancient Egyptians had to write it 4 signs only to utter a single syllable (KME).

According to the most popular version, the etymology of the word comes from "black soils" (KME = "the black") referred to the muddy area around the Nile.



We know from written sources that the Greeks and Romans on the contrary called it Egypt (Àigüptos in greek and Aegyptus in Latin).

As this name, Egypt, is very different from that Coptic, KME, according to the current hypothesis, it could derive from the words in ancient Egyptian "Hwt-ka-Ptah (?wt-k-pt?)" ie the "home of the ka of Ptah", the name given to a temple of the god Ptah at Memphis.

According to this interpretation the Ancient Egyptians, to indicate their country, said Kmt (the-black) and the Greeks instead Aegiptos (the-house-of-god-ptah).

As if a foreigner, instead of England, called all the country "St-Paul's-Cathedral", such as the famous church in London.





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Reading using Sanskrit.



We resume the hieroglyphs.

In another of my research, I discovered that the sound K (also in its phonetic variants C and G) is present in the names related to birds in many languages (eg Italian oca, duck, etc.).

I thought it was strange that the drawing of the owl, in the ancient Egyptian, had rather sound "M" and "K" was reserved for the first symbol (described as the crocodile skin).

I also noticed that some names of birds of prey in different languages have within them sound similar to those of CIVetta (owl in Italian): in italian GHEPpio (a type of falcon), GIPeto (a type of vulture) and GUFo (long-eared owl), in Latin acCIPiter, the vulture, in Hindi uKAB (the eagle) while in Maghreb uQAAB is the hawk.

At the same time I noticed that, in the word aeGYPtus, the second syllable is GIP.

I wondered: what if the Egyptians called the owl with a name similar to italian CIVetta?

Then, try to insert GYP for the second hieroglyph and others of Ae-gyp-tus as a consequence.







AEGYPTUS AE GY P+T wing owl town



What could it mean EGYPT written in this way?

Let's try to interpret the hieroglyphics in a symbolic way.





AE GY P TOS Unity

Country

wing

united bird feathers, together) owl

(controlled, Governor, Government) millstone

(bread) Town

(arms folder across the chest, all the people) set/union "political" of the cities/people



The first, AE, reminds wing (latin Ala). Not a single bird feather, but all together, so we assume that it means "together".

The second, GY, is clearly an owl. I remembered that the owl was often captured and tied to a pole, for an ancient hunting technique (if the other birds see the owl does not run away and then you can hunt. For example, see the "Feather Book of Dionisio Minaggio" picture (Milan 1618) of an hunter carrying a tethered owl.). From which CAPta (captured) and COPula (join) in Latin, GABbia (cage) in Italian, the word tether in Albanian KAPistall, KAPank'ner in Armenian.

So that the owl could indicate the bond, also political, the GOVernment, the basis of the roman/latin CIVitas.

The third sign, rather than a bread, might be the stylized picture of a millstone for grain, (pressum in Latin) whence P(R).

The last hieroglyph, which is found in many terms that relate to the Egyptian TOwn, could, in fact, indicate a TOwn. However, I believe that it is not the design of a plant town. Most likely has the meaning of all, full (latin TOTUM), and is used for "all the people", opposed to the individual. This is because the intersection indicates the arms crossed in the act of taking as much as possible (as I'll explain in a next page).

The meaning of Egypt would then be "all the governments of cities", ie a kind of federation or a kingdom.

Among the Sanskrit words, there is one that has a meaning close to that I suggested, the realm of just one (or absolute monarchy or supreme power), Aikapatya.

(as you can see in the on-line dictionary spokensanskrit.de Aikapatya)



AE GY P TOS AI KA PA TYA Unity

(Sans. aikya) To be owner

(Sans. patiya) wing

(Sans. haya, that pushes) owl

(Sans. ghuka) millstone

(Sans. Pid, to press) Town

(Sans. Daya, place) AEGYPTUS / AIKAPATYA

Conclusion



We have seen that the Egyptian hieroglyph could have been a model of syllabic script and how the language of the ancient Egyptians could be related to the Sanskrit language.

Soon I will publish details of this hypothesis by showing many other hieroglyphs read in syllabic way, indicating their significance and proximity to Sanskrit terms.



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Written by Andrea Portunato, page updated on November 25, 2016