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To help us get at the answer to this puzzle we need to understand how the ancient Egyptians used body parts to express ideas. The symbol which sheds the most light on to what may be the true meaning of the symbol for sound is the hieroglyph for “nfr” and represents beauty. “b” The foot expressed movement. “d” The hand and the arm are used in reference to doing something depending on what it is holding. If it holding a reed it is for writing, whereas, a loaf of bread signifies an offering, and a stick represents action or even violence. “r” The symbol for mouth is above and yet it is oddly missing in the symbols for speaking. ”tp” The sideways facing head refers upon or hence. Literally everything from the hair on top of your head to the bottom of your foot was used. What is not as wellknown, however, is the ancient’s use of internal organs to express an idea. Yes, you read right—internal organs! LOL! “imɜḫ ” or veneration. Take the hieroglyph above of cow’s ribs with the issuance or marrow above. The ox tongue “ns” overseer. The heart or “ib”. Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/barbaraiviegreen Email: [email protected] Blog: www.barbaraiviegreen.blogspot.com Website:www.barbaraiviegreen.com This symbol is the heart and windpipe. Please note the long stick that is used to denote the windpipe. ”nfr” This means perfect, wonderful, good, beautiful. The horned viper “f” or “nf” and the mouth “r”. “nfrw” perfection, splendor. To the ancients the seat of the soul was the heart and therefore was used in this manner to signify beauty. Even Nefertiti, one of the most beautiful queens of Egypt, utilized this symbol in her name repeatedly. The hieroglyph below is for protect and although we have the hand with the reed implying there is writing involved, such as the type written on the tomb walls that protect the pharaoh in his journey through the underworld, there is also the symbol for sound. So what is making this noise? Is it an instrument of some type? I believe so. I believe it’s the human voice. I propose that the oval depicts an open mouth and the stem a windpipe, much like the one in beauty, which has sound issuing forth. Music, singing, or a chanted spell was clearly a powerful tool to the ancient peoples of all lands. —Author Barbara Ivie Green $((