#relearned to read hieroglyphics

[davidlikebowie-noturaccountant]

top three things i did because i read percy jackson:

1) was a vegetarian for five years

2) tried to get a scar on my lip like jason’s

3) decided to major in latin/ancient greek in uni

[archivist-crow]

On this day:

OMM SETI

On April 21, 1981, Omm Seti passed on to join her lover, Egyptian pharaoh Seti I, with whom she began an affair thousands of years earlier. Her story began, in this lifetime, early in 1907. Born in London, England, Dorothy Eady was three years old when she fell down a flight of stairs and was pronounced dead by the family doctor. Two hours later, he found her playing in bed and demanding to be taken "home." Her dreams of an Egyptian temple began.

At eight years old, Dorothy was taken to the British Museum by her parents. She discovered the Egyptian galleries there and said that she had "found her people." The keeper of Egyptian antiquities, Ernest Wallis Budge, befriended her. When he was surprised at how quickly Dorothy learned to read hieroglyphics, she told him she was merely relearning a language she had forgotten.

Gradually, Dorothy remembered a past life as a young Egyptian priestess who had been seduced by the pharaoh Seti I and then made to commit suicide when the liaison was discovered. Their bond still existed, and he would visit her during the night in this lifetime. Dorothy was briefly married to an Egyptian and moved to Cairo. They had one son, named Sety.

Upon visiting Abydos, the home of Seti I, Dorothy recognized it as her real home. Skeptical, the head of the Antiquities Department at the Cairo Museum tested her. At the temple, in the pitch black night, he told her to find the Chapel of Amon. She followed the maze of corridors straight to it and then continued on to the Hall of Sacred Boats. From past-life memory she was able to point out the as-yet undiscovered location of the temple gardens and other enclosures. She changed her name to Omm Sety and worked as both a healer and a respected Egyptologist.

Text from: Almanac of the Infamous, the Incredible, and the Ignored by Juanita Rose Violins, published by Weiser Books, 2009

[madamelaydebug]

The Third Eye...

The Ammon is the Abraxas, and place of Sophia (wisdom); to the Gnostics, Christos (or Gnosis), and the Third Eye to many people today hippocampus 3d2who may be considered New Age. The Ammon's Horn is also known in science as our hippocampus located in a section of our brains that we access the hidden supreme power deep within the DNA of each one of us to obtain gnosis, intuition, wisdom, and to relearn from our past lives.

Third eye activation to enlightenment and gnosis here we come...

The subject of the third eye is a favorite topic amongst many modern researchers, and authors like myself. When studying the history of any topic, my path is one in which I try to utilize science and real world descriptions in order to attempt to make actual connections between the subject I'm researching and with scientific research. The many times I have employed this method, I have been able to make sense of some of these terms like the third eye, ancient myths, and/or religious allegories.

For example, I have found that it wasn't until the recent era in the last 100 years or so with certain belief systems such as Theosophy, that the third eye was connected with the pineal gland that is sometimes called the sixth chakra. The pineal gland is also said by some people to be the seat of the soul which is the intuition organ and the connection point to self enlightenment. This belief has carried on into other "modern spiritual traditions"which we can just call the modern New Age community.

In doing my own extensive research into the third eye, our brains intuitive organ, modern science and ancient history, I had discovered that the ancient philosophers, wisdom teachers, mystery schools, religions and even the scientists today of the world have never mentioned the pineal gland, or alluded to the center of the head being the place where this enlightenment or gnosis would be the center of. There is no evidence, clues, statements, hieroglyphs, history and studies whatsoever that I can find.

What I have found is an ancient connection to a god who was known in Egypt as Ammon (Amun, Amon Ra, Amen etc.), and a place in our brains known as the ammon's horn, or hippocampus. Here is an image of the ancient Egyptian ram-horned Jupiter Ammon connecting to his third eye in order to obtain enlightenment which is depicted in the planetary disk that represents Jupiter.

The descriptions, stories, hieroglyphs, hymns and history written about this god indicate to me that Ammon represented what we call today the third eye. If you look at the simple evidence I provide below with an open mind (or should I say third eye?), and read the other articles I have written on this very subject in the past, you will see that I provide not only the ancient stories, but that I also connect them to real science that can be verified by anyone if you simply take the time to research this subject.

33rd Degree Masonic philosopher, Manly P Hall had written about Ammon in How to Understand Your Bible; "The word 'amen' is from Ammon, the father god of Egypt, and was an ancient Egyptian salutation to the supreme power of the universe." According to Plutarch, Ammon is the first being and all things, and Ra is the sun-god.

Here are some images of just a few of the most famous powerful people in history, proving they knew the science of Ammon. Can I get an Amen?

Here is Menmaatre Seti I (or Sethos I as in Greek) who was a pharaoh of the New Kingdom Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt, the son of Ramesses I and Queen Sitre. His horns are right in the location of our hippocampus.

What many people have failed to realize in reading these descriptions, is that this first being and supreme power is actually within all of us. It is our real third eye, and it is not or pineal gland. This is why Ammon (Amen) is described by the Egyptians who were master alchemists and knew this science, as the King of Gods; Father of the Gods; Lord of the Thrones of the Two Lands; Lord of Truth whose shrine is hidden; and Amun ra, the Lord of Wisdom. Amon is “The Hidden One” of the visible and the invisible worlds, who is the “Creator God” and the mysterious soul of the universe which reveals itself in light. Amon is the light, creator, builder and grand architect of the house and temple.

These are all ancient esoteric descriptions and allegorical representations that were only to be truly understood by the initiated, and marveled at by the uninitiated. These weren't dreamed up stories made of fantasy or myths created for no reason. This was an actual science of anatomy, physiology, cosmology, enlightenment and gnosis. A science they used to create Gods, legends, and to live by. A secret gnosis they had sought to remember they had lived before in order to evolve their souls in each successive lifetime.

I know because I descend from these ancient Egyptian Pharaohs, Hebrew Kings and sons of the serpent priesthoods. What I'm doing in this lifetime is just relearning what I have done in past lives. It is a form of genetic memory in which our DNA acts as our hard drive, and the hippocampus as the computer's memory processor. It is through who the Egyptians had called the supreme being; the hidden God and lord of thrones in our brains where we connect with the creator, our pasts, intuition and where we evolve as souls.

Because as Plutarch said, Amon is the first being and all things, and Ra is Jupiter who gave Ammon his being.

Here is another image of the hippocampus. My goal with these images and connections is to show that some of our ancestors had left these clues in stones, sculptures, and even coins for us to remember and relearn.

[nedjemetsenen]

What is the Rosetta Stone?

While most of you have doubtless heard the name "Rosetta Stone" before, I'm guessing that a good number of you don't know why it's important or even what it is. Which is fair because, outside of Egyptology, it's really not that important. In the field of Egyptology, though? This little rock was everything.

The Rosetta stone (named for the place where it was discovered) is basically a public thank you note created during Egypt's Hellenistic period. Fun fact about the Hellenistic period: it was the time when Egypt was ruled by a bunch of Greeks and those Greeks had no interest in learning the local language. Luckily, they didn't care about destroying the local culture, either. They were happy to let the locals keep on keeping on as long as they got to rule. Because of this, Egyptians got to keep worshiping their gods and speaking their language, but the language of the nobility was Greek.

So, when one of the local temples wanted to create a public decree talking about all of the good things that one of those Hellenistic pharaohs had done? Well, they had to write it in Greek or else the pharaoh wouldn't have been able to read the decree! But they were still Egyptians, so they wrote the decree in Egyptian, too. Two forms, actually.

The top of the stone is in the famous hieroglyphs and the middle is in demotic, another form of the same language. It was quicker to write in and so it was the more common script for day-to-day business by this period in history. (Think of hieroglyphs as illuminated manuscripts and demotic as print. Also know that demotic was a variant of hieratic, so you may hear it called that instead. Think of demotic as print and hieratic as cursive and yes I'm simplifying this. The important thing to know is that not all ancient Egyptian writing took the form of hieroglyphs. They had quicker forms that they developed as the language saw more and more use.)

When the Egyptian language was subsequently lost, everyone thought that it was gone for good. Then the Rosetta Stone was rediscovered by some French troops and, hey, they knew Greek! And here's something written out in Greek and ancient Egyptian! That meant that scholars could take the Greek text and use it as a key for figuring out what the other two sections read. And that's why the Rosetta Stone was so important! If Napoleon's troops hadn't found that little chunk of stone, then we probably wouldn't have been able to relearn ancient Egyptian!

[pokemoncoloursplash]

I imagine question hour has long passed but...what languages do the mods speak and what languages do you want to learn?

I am hypothetically fluent in English since it’s my first language, but it’s an infuriating language. I have some level of understanding of French because I am legally required to.

This isn’t a vocal language, but I can read Egyptian hieroglyphs to an extent. Also, I create languages in my spare time for various writing projects.

- Dragonis

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English and French! Also, morse code, but I don't know if that really counts. I'm also in the process of learning American sign language as well. - Mod Paragon.

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I took university level French for my language requirement but I doubt I could hold much of a conversation. I started Scottish Gaelic on duolingo just this week and I eventually would like to learn ASL and Tagalog, maybe Japanese too

- Decima

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I can speak English and, by all technicality, French, but I also enjoy encoding things with ciphers in my spare time. I would like to learn a wide majority of languages, but I suppose Korean and Arabic are chief among them. - Vice

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I'm fluent in English, I can speak and more or less understand Hebrew but I never learned how to read 😔, I took French in high school but since I didn't have anyone to speak it with Ive forgotten a lot of it, use it or lose it right? Im trying to relearn it through Duolingo, and will probably be focusing on it in it when I get to university since Im planning on majoring in world cultures. I took a semeter of Japanese in community college, kanji is hard rip, a year of German in high school, and on and off have been trying to learn Swedish, Norwegian, Korean, Spanish and Hawaiian on Duolingo. Duo is sad because I haven't been on in a long time :'( -Gale

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Native French and I'm fluent in English. I'd like to learn LSF at one point. - mod Shay

[nedlittle]

for the color asks: gray and claret <3

grey: how many languages do you speak? do you want to learn any more?

alas i am monolingual. i took french from grades 4-10 (granted 6 of those years were mandatory) and yet i am hopeless at it. depending on the context i could maybe read a webpage or a children's book and understand the gist but i have a bit of a speech impediment which gets even worse with french bc of the pronounciation (and lack thereof). any word over 3 syllables i really have trouble with. tried relearning it last summer with duolingo for work and oh boy i was not good :( would love to be able to speak any other language. also pls note that i do not wish i could speak french out of choice it's so that i can be employable and whenever french speakers come into the lighthouse i feel bad i cannot properly communicate with them

claret: do you play an instrument? do you want to learn to play any?

again i'm really showing my ass here by being a talentless hack but i swear to god i'm like. musically illiterate. if you put any instrument in front of me i will create the worst sound you will ever heard. one time i was at a music store with friends and there was this instrument that was apparently impossible to play wrong (before you ask i do not remember what it was) and guess what i found a way to play it wrong!

my aunt has a piano so when i was a kid i would go over all the time and futz around on it but nobody ever thought about teaching me even though it was RIGHT THERE so i can't even really do a scale + could only play with my right hand because i have no coordination and my left hand is functionally useless in everything anyway + sheet music is like hieroglyphics to me so if i wanted to play maybe three bars of edelweiss i'd have to have my aunt write out the letters for the notes which were also labelled on a piece of slidy cardboard above the keys and even then i was bad. it didn't help that two or three of the keys were broken and it was probably out of tune when i was a child so the sound was weird. i have a vivid memory of being a kid and getting a black eye from a stocking holder falling on my face and then blacking the other eye literally the next day because i went over to my aunt's and the piano lid fell on my face somehow.

i tried to learn flute in grade 7 because we were required to choose from flute, trumpet, clarinet, and trombone and i had to stay inside for recess because i was SOOOO bad at even making sound let alone trying to read the music. most stressful experience of my life. wish my parents had decided i needed to learn an instrument to build character because i think if i learned young enough when my brain was still elastic i'd actually be able to do something but alas :/ my favourite instrument is the cello so in an ideal world i would play the cello but i think if i had to actually choose an instrument i would choose violin because dude my fucked up back could not handle hunching over a cello all day and my arms are too weak to carry one.

[jamieclawhorn]

How becoming an investor is like learning a musical instrument

As we get older, most of us stop learning new things.

I don’t mean those lessons we need to keep relearning – that it’s less hassle to buy a Valentine’s Day card than to argue it’s all commercialised nonsense – but rather the big skills.

You know, like a new language or how to fly a plane or, in my case, learning a musical instrument.

Once more with feeling

Ever since I was a kid I’ve wanted to play the piano.

Like all kids, I was used to having no idea about anything and being routinely terrible at everything. That would have surely made it easier, but I never learned how to play back then.

Being out of your depth is the daily grind of childhood. But few of us live this way as adults. Rather, we get comfortable and stick to what we do well – whether that’s eating with a knife and fork or performing brain surgery. We stay in our lane and feel competent most of the time.

You’re instantly reminded why if you do try to learn something new. It’s straight back on the fast track to that state of childish awkward, hopeless, haplessness.

My piano playing today reminds me not of Chopin or Debussy but of walking past a classroom and hearing someone trying to pick out Mary Had A Little Lamb or Jingle Bells on an out-of-tune school piano.

Worse still, I can’t even play Jingle Bells yet – at least not with both hands together. Rachmaninoff will have to wait for a decade or two.

Learning to be an investor

There is, however, one endeavour I got to grips with as an adult, and that’s the art and craft of investing.

I’ve been studying and practising investing for nearly two decades. But I still remember that early feeling of having absolutely no idea what was going on.

My struggles with the piano have brought those old feelings back. They may be familiar if you’re still finding your way with investing.

1. It’s all gibberish

Harmonic 4ths, time signatures, treble clefs – music is a jumble of words that don’t mean anything at first. Sometimes that’s because they’re not even in English! Fortissimo sounds like something a love-struck Italian would exclaim at a beauty pageant. Demi semi quavering is what I do as I turn over the next page of my musical theory textbook.

It’s the same with investing. Old hands like me throw around P/Es, DCFs, NAVs, and VIXes, but to most people, they sound like the names of Star Wars droids.

2. You can’t do what you want to do

Perhaps you hope to be the next Warren Buffett. Maybe you just want to be sure you’ll have some money in your old age. You know what you want, but to get there you need to get used to this whole new world.

Experienced investors might think it’s easy to just buy an index tracker. They’ve forgotten brand new would-be investors can’t tell an index tracker from a Ponzi scheme.

3. You keep discovering there’s even more to learn

After a few weeks, I could finally read the notes on the treble clef and bass clef – part of the mysterious hieroglyphics of musical notation. For five minutes I felt like I’d achieved something. Clair De Lune here I come! But then I was told about key signatures, which mess with the notes I’d learned in myriad different ways.

The same thing will happen to you many times on your investing journey.

To give one example, after a couple of years I finally knew what all those acronyms meant and fancied myself as a bit of a stock picker.

But a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. I held lots of banks for their high dividend yields ahead of the credit crisis, and when yields started rising I thought they were getting cheaper, so I bought more.

It was only the postings of some veterans on our old discussion boards that made me truly realise (just in time!) that a high yield can be a warning sign as much as an opportunity.

4. Other people seem to find it very easy

If you watch financial TV or even just have a certain type of friend, you’ll hear investing is easy. Cheap, great companies are lying around like winning scratch cards with the numbers revealed, for example. Or perhaps that a crash is obviously just around the corner, so everyone knows you should sell everything right now.

At first, this is very impressive. After a while, you’ll notice that despite the ease with which they claim to pick winners, it’s never their round in the pub – and you’re still waiting for the huge market crash they said was a certainty years ago.

It’s easy to bluff in investing but very difficult to win, at least if you’re trying to beat the market. Most people fail, but don’t expect them to tell you about it. That goes for fund managers, too.

At least with the piano, it’s obvious whether someone can play or not. But you’ll still get frustrated when you see them knocking out notes in perfect harmony.

5. You wonder what the point is

I suppose it’s no wonder most people give up learning a musical instrument, be it the piano or the flugelhorn.

Learning is no fun, especially at the start when it’s bewildering. And even as you get better, it only makes it easier to hear your own inadequacies.

Experienced investors are also more aware of their limitations. Indeed, my top tip when someone is holding forth about investing is to listen to how often they recall their bad calls or losing trades.

If everything is a winner, smile politely and move on to Game of Thrones or some other fantasy story.

But don’t give up! I am fairly sure that if I stick with the piano it will eventually bring me a lot of joy and satisfaction – but I KNOW that’s been true of investing.

Keep learning, and don’t be afraid to ask questions. You’ll get there in the end!

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