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mattparlmer 🪐 🌷
@mattparlmer
Absolutely fascinating thread about hieroglyphs
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sean
@DilettanteryPod
Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics were typeset (metal characters made for the printing press) ~3 centuries before they were deciphered (via Rosetta Stone in 1824), due to esoteric interpretations of them, and how Europeans thought highly of them in general. Elizabeth Eisenstein:
“the still undeciphered images had come to stand for everything that was secret and everything that was known...[the] ancient glyphs were seen to emanate from the same “logos” which had presided over creation and had taught Adam the names and properties of all things.”
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