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The Verb rs and its Significance in the Ancient Egyptian Civilization

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Last updated: 29 Dec 2024

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Studies of ancient languages, lines and inscriptions.

Abstract

The ancient Egyptian language was abundant in verbs, distinguishable and classifiable akin to languages worldwide. Ancient Egyptians realized two contrasting human states, namely sleep and wakefulness, which together constituted an integrated cycle essential for human adaptability within nature. Complete wakefulness is challenging for humans to attain. Sleep aids in the body's dormancy to rejuvenate its activity upon waking. There were various forms of vigilance where realized in Ancient Egyptian belief, comprehend by the ancient Egyptian to attain their destiny, specifically the prospect of eternal life once more, and that life does not straighten unless there are two opposing attributes. They noted that inertia is succeeded by activity, evil is followed by good, and the sunset is inevitably succeeded by the sunrise once more, and the bilateral sign rs appears meaning to wake up, and this verb has many impacts, which required thinking about the form and origin of the binary sign that can be read rs and represents T 13 in Gardner's lists of Unilateral, Bilateral, Trilateral Signs.

DOI

10.21608/lijas.2023.229092.1010

Keywords

The Book of Hourly Vigil, vigilance, Osiris, Sokaris

Authors

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Hossam

Last Name

Fawzy

MiddleName

Yaser

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Egyptology Department, Faculty of Archaeology, Luxor University, Luxor, Egypt.

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hossamyaser3000@gmail.com

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Rania

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Abd El-Wahed

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Moustafa

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Egyptology and Islamic Archaeology Department, Faculty of Arts, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt.

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First Name

Heba

Last Name

Abou Bakr

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Ragab

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Egyptology Department, Faculty of Archaeology, Luxor University, Luxor, Egypt.

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Volume

6

Article Issue

2

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45178

Issue Date

2023-12-01

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2023-08-13

Publish Date

2023-12-31

Page Start

158

Page End

170

Print ISSN

2535-1788

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2974-4121

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2,686

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Publication Title

Luxor International Journal of Archaeological Studies

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https://lijas.journals.ekb.eg/

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The Verb rs and its Significance in the Ancient Egyptian Civilization

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Created At

18 Dec 2024