r/AncientEgyptian

Hi everyone!

I'm designing an Egyptian-inspired memorial tattoo for my late mother.

I'd like to write her name Marta in a cartouche (I know cartouches were historically reserved for royalty, but I'm using it as an artistic choice), followed by the funerary epithet mꜣꜥ-ḫrw ("true of voice" / "justified").

My intention is for the inscription to read:

Marta, mꜣꜥ-ḫrw

Is this the historically correct order? And what would be the most accurate way to write both the name Marta and mꜣꜥ-ḫrw in hieroglyphs?

Since it's for a permanent tattoo, I'd really appreciate historical accuracy.

Also, I apologize in advance if I've made any mistakes or misunderstood something. Both the tattoo concept and this post were prepared with the help of AI, so I'm relying on your expertise to correct anything that's inaccurate. Thank you very much!

https://preview.redd.it/5vd3c7kpauah1.png?width=1536&format=png&auto=webp&s=5b18952e1f1fc8a38e9aa2da147691da087fe9a2

Fair warning before anyone gets excited or annoyed: this is a conjecture, not a claim. I built a live, physics based demo to test my own idea against real numbers, and I'd rather find out where it breaks from you than keep quietly convincing myself it works. Some of this is solid textbook stuff. Some of it is me reaching. I've tried to be honest about which is which.

The core idea is simple to say and hard to defend: what if the chamber proportions and the layout of the pyramid were chosen to tune the structure to the natural electromagnetic resonance of the Earth, the Schumann ladder, and the whole thing was meant to function as a kind of transducer.

Two things got me here, and they're both real. The King's Chamber demonstrably encodes phi. Petrie's measurements give a clean 2:1 floor, and the height comes out at exactly half the floor diagonal, which drops the golden ratio straight out of the geometry. That isn't mysticism, it's just what the numbers do. The second thing is that the measured 8th Schumann mode sits right around 50 Hz. I'm not pretending the builders knew the term Schumann resonance. I'm asking whether they tuned to something they could feel and measure that happens to land there.

The demo runs three systems, and you can poke at each one.

The pyramid itself is the collector and the ground. The footprint sits in saturated ground (I'm leaning on the paleo Nile branch and a high ancient water table here, not a moat), which turns the base into a genuinely good earth electrode. The math for that part, R = 1/2πσa, is standard and it holds once you accept the wet footprint. Lightning charges the ground store, the fair weather atmospheric field keeps it primed.

The coffer in the King's Chamber is the core, and this is the part I find most interesting. The mercury inside isn't the generator. Its own motion makes almost no power. What it does is act as a switch, a mercury arc gate that chops a much larger current on and off at 50 Hz to make AC. So the slosh is the timing, not the fuel. I think that distinction is the most defensible piece of the whole thing.

The obelisk pair is the receiver at the far end. It locks onto the broadcast frequency, develops a high voltage, and each home steps it down locally. High volts and low current, because you physically cannot pull real power through the ground at low voltage without cooking the soil.

Now the honest part, because I don't want to oversell this. The weakest link, and the demo flags it as conditional on purpose, is whether the regional ground current actually carries enough to gate into real power, or whether it just stalls. A resistivity survey would settle that one way or the other, and I can't do that from my desk. The phi to frequency mapping is also something I'm still chewing on. So treat the energy numbers as an upper bound idealization, not a built machine.

One thing up front so nobody feels misled: the source isn't published yet. For now it's the compiled demo, the physics runs live in WebAssembly so you can watch it start up or stall depending on the assumptions. Happy to talk through the model in the comments.

Https://phicoherent.com/demos/pyramid-energy.html

Genuinely here for the criticism. If the telluric supply piece is the thing that kills it, I'd rather know now. Where does this fall apart for you.

Hello, what would be the actual vocalisation for Shu (the Egyptian god)? I mean the non-Egyptological pronunciation. Thank you!

Kimi “Kemet” 𓆎𓅓𓏏 𓊖 means Egypt and the whole land of Egypt, from east to west and from north to south.

This is the name known and used by all Egyptians for thousands of years, whether in the hieroglyphic, hieratic, demotic, or Coptic scripts, and all Egyptologists and scholars of the ancient Egyptian language know this fact.

If you research the frequency of this word’s occurrence in all the existing inscriptions or papyri, you will find that this word is the one primarily and universally used.

I'm trying to search for variants of the phrase "saAy(.n=i) jb(=i)" from BM EA586, line 2, but no matter how I write it nothing comes up. Even if I copy it from JSesh as unicode, exactly as it's written on the stela.
What do I need to type to find examples of the word saA(y) followed by jb?
I need help in figuring out how to search the TLA for anything more than simple single words.

This comes up constantly and it’s worth untangling because the two get treated as the same thing.

\*\*The Doreal text\*\* — “The Emerald Tablets of Thoth-the-Atlantean” — is a 1925 work by Maurice Doreal of the Brotherhood of the White Temple. It’s the one with Atlantis, the 36,000 BC dating, Thoth ruling Egypt for 16,000 years, and tablets hidden under a Mayan temple. There’s no manuscript behind it and no claimed provenance beyond Doreal himself. It’s a modern channeled/composed work. Whether you find it meaningful is up to you — but it isn’t ancient and it isn’t connected to the historical Hermetica.

\*\*The actual Emerald Tablet\*\* — the \*Tabula Smaragdina\*, “as above, so below” — is a short Hermetic text whose earliest traceable source is Arabic, around the 8th–9th c., in the \*Kitāb sirr al-khalīqa\* (\*Secret of Creation\*), attributed to pseudo-Apollonius. It enters Latin in the 12th c., and one of those translations (Hugo of Santalla’s) keeps a frame narrative most popular versions drop — a descent beneath a statue of Hermes, and two objects recovered, a tablet \*and\* a book.

If you’ve only ever met the Doreal version, the real transmission history is genuinely more interesting than the Atlantis framing.

Happy to point to the Ruska (1926) and the Hudry edition of the Hugo text if anyone wants the scholarly trail.

For context, I'm producing a film set in ancient times and I would like to have a half egyptian character exclaim something in his native tongue. The exact sentence would be "The old weapon made new."

Below are two options from a kind coptic fellow who translated the sentence, but suggested I check here for another kind person who might get me closer to the mark.

ⲁⲡⲥⲟⲧⲃⲉϥ ⲛ̄ⲁⲥ ⲣ̄ⲛ̄ⲃⲣ̄ⲣⲉ or maybe ⲛ̄ⲧⲁⲡⲥⲟⲧⲃⲉϥ ⲛ̄ⲁⲥ ⲣ̄ⲛ̄ⲃⲣ̄ⲣⲉ

I'm happy to credit anyone who can help in the film! Thanks

Hi all, I am trying to get some words translated for a tattoo and I am not confident with my own translation skills. I am trying to translate 'nothing can stop me now' and I have this

𓈖𓅱𓏏𓉔𓇋𓈖𓎼 𓎢𓄿𓈖 𓋴𓏏𓅱𓊪 𓅓𓅂 𓈖𓅱𓅃 but not sure it's right. Can anyone help? Thank you!