Lonelygirl15

[Thamus]

Graecum est non potest legi. Latin for: It is Greek; it cannot be read.”

The Egyptian alphabet was pictures before it was words. The same is true of our other alphabets (like the Greek); the letters were images long before they became elements of words. Or became numbers.

Much of the old Egyptian hieroglyphics were essentially cartoon strips (like “The Book of the Dead”) for a non-literate populace.
Perhaps the symbols should be seen (and not read) as simple four-to-eight episode stories.

This adds the dimension of time. (Quote Tachyon's theme song, "What time is it?)

A graphic short story?

[kellylen]

[ignatzmouse]

A dead end I had a look into, just thought I'd save everyone else the bother...

There's another series of Egyptian fractions based on the Eye of Horus. It contains the fractions 1/2, 1/4, ..., 1/64, and was used to give any fraction in the range (0..1) up to accuracy 1/64. Those clever Egyptians used binary!

Some more googling turns up ...

http://www.recoveredscience.com/const102horuseye.htm

by someone with too much time on their hands (pot, kettle) and some, er, interesting theories. It does show what the fractions looked like.

Interestingly, the Egyptians never added the pupil to the Eye, and represented the iris as a white disk. The theory presented in this page is that the black pupil = darkness and death. Oh look what the Watcher / Theta+Nu symbol have: a pupil in the eye.

I think this is a dead end at the moment, although an Egyptological/numerological hermetic Order with an eye for a symbol would certainly have been aware of this number system.
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[janesalteredstates]

[Balmung]

[deagol]

[outlaww]

From Wikkipedia:

[tiltingwindward]

Egyptian fractions are notable, as outlaww pointed out, because the numerator is almost always one, with a different denominator (that eye/mouth shaped piece stands for one, or 1/1). You start from there, and add symbols to make it 1/3, 15, 1/10, etc., but you can never make 5/6, 3/5, 9/11, etc. A traditional Egyptian fraction looks like this:



There are only two exceptions to this rule: they are 2/3 and 3/4...and they look like this:


Fraction symbol for 2/3


Fraction symbol for 3/4

If we're hypothesizing that these are symbols for different factions within OpA or the Order, we need to take into account that the two symbols being used are the exception to the rule.

The Eye of Horus

ignatzmouse, I looked into the Eye of Horus too, mostly because it appears to have grown out of the basic Egyptian fractions into something a little more complicated...also because each portion of the Eye has a symbolism I discussed in my post on the previous page. I won't repeat all of that here, but here's a graphical representation of the Eye, with the appropriate fractions attached:


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[outlaww]

Ohh, okay- I didnt read that as well as I should have. They are the exception.

Which is still interesting.

I can't believe we haven't gotten this yet!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhind_Mathematical_Papyrus

I think this is interesting. But maybe I'm looking too far into the 84 word problems. It's just sticking out to me.

[ignatzmouse]

[toadlguy]

Tachyon said:

[deagol]

[toadlguy]

[janesalteredstates]

[marlasinger]

There hasn't been an answer to that yet, has there? Thelema, being the Temple of Thelema, that is, the "California Non-Profit Organization" ....
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