Mastodawn

Sep 15, 2025

The creator of "One of the most learned monstrosities of all times" believed that he had deciphered Egyptian hieroglyphs while incorporating Greek esoteric texts, Jewish Kabbalah, Arabic magic, alchemy, astral medicine, and pure antediluvian wisdom. "One may be tempted to dismiss him as a learned charlatan or a crank."
https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/athanasius-kircher-and-the-hieroglyphic-sphinx/
#heiroglyphics #esoteric #astral #antediluvian #BullDada #crank

Athanasius Kircher and the Hieroglyphic Sphinx

More than 170 years before Jean-François Champollion had the first real success in translating Egyptian hieroglyphs, the 17th century Jesuit scholar Athanasius Kircher was convinced he had cracked it. He was very wrong. Daniel Stolzenberg looks at Kircher's Egyptian Oedipus, a book that has been called “one of the most learned monstrosities of all times.”

The Public Domain Review

linguistics Aug 23, 2025

Hieroglyphs are easier than they look

https://tube.blueben.net/w/oF3UAxQZRX47aSq7etbXDg

Hieroglyphs are easier than they look

PeerTube

conor.May 24, 2025

Hive mind! Do any of you have clear photos of Egyptian hieroglyphics, from museums or whatever? I'm particularly interested in funerary glyphs, but don't worry if you don't know what you have pics of. I'm looking for a few real texts to practice on.
#egypt #heiroglyphics

AnneTheWriter Sep 4, 2024

Grammar Helpers:
"YOU'RE going to need to work on YOUR homonyms."

"THEY'RE going over THERE to eat THEIR picnic."

(It's #HootinTootinTuesday again! Post some jokes or funny memes under this hashtag today, and bring lots of smiles to #Mastodon.)

#Humor #Humour #FunnyMeme #Grammar #Spelling #Youre #YoureYour #Homonyms #Contraction #Heiroglyphics #EditorsLife #WritersCommunity #WritersLife

𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 "not yet begun to fight"Jan 1, 2024

By Way of #Introduction

Hi beige.party! I'm Lana. But who am me, anyway?

Well, me'm a #poet, an #author, a #musician, and a small #business #owner. But all that's all just stuff I do. It's not who I am.

30 QUICK FACTS ABOUT ME:
1. I'm a #Seattleite.
2. I'm a #coffee drinker.
3. I'm watching #MST3K right at this moment.
4. I've never been to #Boston.
5. I love #Japan in the spring.
6. I wont eat #peaches even if you paid me.
7. I'm a bad #liar.
8. I'm a good #loser.
9. I've never smoked a #cigarette.
10. I once ate too many #pot #gummies and I started speaking in #heiroglyphics.
11. I have two #cats and one #husband, whom
I #adore for very different reasons.
12. I don't know #Java or #C++, and
13. #football bores me to tears.
14. I love a good #pun and
15. I will sometimes #rickroll my friends for no reason at all.
16. I have strong feelings about #shortbread.
17. I'm not too bad at #pingpong
18. I love #absurdist comedy
19. I #hired 7 people last year.
20. I will always want to see pictures of your #cats
21. I was once a boy #scout.
22. I once wrote a #poem that was retooted by @neilhimself
23. I play #Minecraft way more than I should.
24. I am an #immigrant to America.
25. I am secretly afraid of #bees
26. I haven't spoken to my #parents in 22 years.
27. I can #sail
28. I hate #KungFu movies
29. I can quote #ThePrincessBride almost word for word
30. I know where my #towel is.