Monthly Archives: June 2010
A road to walk on
From Petechons’ Flickrstream, licensed by Creative Commons: This is a beautiful job! Whoever did this is a pro. The writing is in Cursive Hieroglyphs, and the text is a line from the Book of the Dead. The translation is: “May … Continue reading
Snail-mily
(f)-a-m-iii-l-w-y The word “family“, transliterated into hieroglyphs using a website – the same one used in the “Almighty” tattoo. Note the strange “Snail hieroglyph” on top; the sound “F” in Egyptian is represented by a “Horned Viper” or Cerastes cerastes, … Continue reading
Temperance
From Sin City Tattoos: t-i-m-p-i-r-3-n-s-i This is the English word “Temperance”, transliterated to Hieroglyphs using a chart. There is no Egyptian equivalent to “Temperance”, to the best of my knowledge. There are Egyptian words for “excess”, “to exceed” etc., which … Continue reading