Page 57 - SYTYGIB: Ancient Egypt

People in Egypt also believed lucky charms called amulets protected them and their children from harm.
Better safe than sorry!
For instance, a fish amulet worn at the end of a braid of a child’s hair would protect them from drowning in the Nile or being eaten by crocodiles.
Note!
Do not try gluing
a sardine to your head and getting all up in a
croc’s face – it will NOT work.
Uh, Mummy? I can´t ACTUALLY
move!
Do you ever wish . . .
you could speak a secret language?
Well, perhaps if you took some time out of
your busy schedule of playing video games and picking your nose and tried to learn a bit about hieroglyphics, you could be getting all secret with your best buddies sooner rather than later.
First things first: the
word hieroglyph isn’t
even Egyptian. It’s Greek for "sacred writing", just to confuse you.
And while there might be 26 letters in the English alphabet, the ancient Egyptians would
laugh their wigs off at that puny letter-count. Their hieroglyphic system used a total of around 900 different signs!
Hey! Come back! You don’t have to learn all 900 now.
OK, take a breath, chill out, and give this a go for starters. Put on your thinking cap – and your creativity pants – and have a go at drawing your own hieroglyphs.
Try translating this sentence into your own made-up language:
“My best friend does huge bottom-burps that sound like a giant playing an old tuba and smell like rotten eggs, cabbage and stinky socks.”
How did you get on? Excellent!
You’d fit right in back in ancient Egypt.
Thoth, the god of knowledge and writing was sometimes shown as an ibis or a baboon. Trying to get a real ibis to write may disappoint.
gods, amulets and protection
Other words written in hieroglyphs
crocodile
mummy
cat
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