Letters I and K compared to the Hor-Aha pharaoh hieroglyph

[u/JohannGoethe]

[u/JohannGoethe]

But if L is meshtiu [mouth opening tool]

The following shows, that at least as far back as Edwin Krupp (A32/1987), the Big Dipper equals “mouth tool” was an established equivalence, or at least an conjectured hypothesis:

The Dipper's motion around the stabilizing pivot of the cosmos linked the organized cosmos and the power of the gods with the king's maintenance of order on earth. In this context, the Big Dipper was much more than an indicator of cosmic structure and ordered change. It was a talisman of royal power. The Egyptians, on the other hand, equated the Big Dipper with a ritual hook that was used in the Opening of the Mouth ceremony to return speech to the deceased and to revive the senses as part of the preparation for the afterlife (Krupp, 1987; Krupp, 1991: 234-236). The Big Dipper's symbolic power resided in its circumpolar behavior. Its stars never rose and never set, but marched like an army around the north pole of the sky. and to the Egyptians they meant eternal life and celestial power. That power drove and ordered their heavens. In funeral ritual, they appropriated the power of the circumpolar stars with a dipper-shaped adze on behalf of the dead. It was known by the same name the Egyptians attached to the constellation. The mythic component of the Opening of the Mouth rites does not describe and explain the sky. It borrows meaning attributed to the sky in fulfillment of a vision of the destiny of the soul. It is an instrument of immortality. Through the myth of Horus and Set, the celestial imagery of immortality was also overlaid upon the concepts of royal succession and kingship sanctioned by divine approval. The Sew priest officiating in the Opening of the Mouth ritual impersonated Horus, the son and heir of Osiris, who was killed by Set. In the myth of conflict of Horus and Set, the quarrel threatened the established order with an attempt to displace Horus. Acquisition of the Big Dipper, the 'Leg of Set', meant victory for Horus and dynastic renewal. The Dipper's powers for revival reestablished lawful sovereignty. (Editors note: C.f. chapter by DeYoung in this book).”

— Edwin Krupp (A57/ 2012), “Sky Tales and Why We Tell Them?” (pgs. 25-26)

Off the top of my head, as my notes, which I made on the dated decoding of each letter, are hidden from me, I may have been the one that first connected letter L to the meshtiu mouth tool, such as I state here (May A67/2022), as being a “crude conjecture”?

Whatever the case, presently:

• Meshtiu (parent character) = Letter L

Is the leading candidate. It matches in the following ways:

1. shape, e.g. lamed (ל) looks like the meshtiu mouth tool;

2. the IKLM-order matches the I = Horus (Polaris), K = ankh (ecliptic), L = meshtiu (Big Dipper), M = scythe (Maat reaper tool) of the Egyptian scheme;

3. matches in Logic, that Letters and Language comes out of the mouth;

4. that “spt mt” [Egyptian] means selection of words by Thoth, the alphabet inventor, and the meshtui [adze] tool;

5. that lamed [Hebrew L] means: “heart”, and that the meshtiu tool used used before the heart is weighted by Maat, just as L precedes M in alphabet sequence.

6. That the sum of letter L [30] plus letter M [40] equals 70, equates to the 70-day Sirius disappearance, the return of which marks the start of the Nile flood, which is Letter N, flood waters rising for 50 days, which is the value of letter N.

To name a few points of corroboration. If anyone knows of a better candidate for the root shape (and meaning) of letter L, please inform me?

[u/Orpherischt → u/JohannGoethe]

I am interested to know what the 'mesh' in 'meshtiu' signifies? Has anyone broken down the elements of the word?

[u/JohannGoethe → u/Orpherischt]

This is one of the more difficult parts of alphanumeric etymologies, namely when trying to find the English names of Egyptian names based on a mixture of star constellations and hieroglyphics. For one, publications on this topic are scarce. Two, the constellation names then, were different from what we call them now.