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Re: Isis
Right. The meaning or translation of the hieroglyphs that represent the name can be considered separately from the meaning or etymology of the vocalized sound of the name.
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The same applies to other names written with ideographs, including Chinese and Japanese names which may be written one way, but with a different pronunciation and meaning - the ideographs become a kind of riddle that may be completely obtuse unless explained. kind of like cryptic crossword clues. In this case "'Woman of the throne', 4 phonemes", answer = Iset.

This message was edited 1/19/2021, 1:05 AM

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