Egyptian hieroglyphs

They created a simplified cursive version called hieratic that was much faster to write for everyday documents and correspondence, somewhat like the way we use shorthand.

Hieroglyphics were reserved for formal monuments, temples, and religious texts where permanence and dignity mattered.

The fact that we can read any of them is, honestly, almost miraculous.

The knowledge of how to read hieroglyphics was completely lost for centuries, basically for more than a thousand years, until the Rosetta Stone was discovered.

They were higher, smarter-

... and they would go higher up 'cause the pyramids were high.

And that's why they called it hieroglyphics because they said, "If we're gonna put these glyphs all the way up here, we better let people know where they are or else-

Did they walk like that? Why do we think that the Egyptians walked like that? From the hiero- from the-

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the cave art.

Did you go to that, um, did it exist? That, like, KFC or Burger King that has a view of the, um, pyramids.

I wish.

Hieroglyphics are an ancient writing system that uses pictures and symbols-

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And there wasn't any invaders coming from the other side of the mountains because they were still on the other side of the mountains.

At that point in time, let's just say if that land was still called Artemy and the Hieroglyphs, but it's kind of hard to tell that because that far back, you don't really have the same type of glyphs that we have today that people can translate.

It's a lot more crude the further back you go, so some stuff just kind of gets lost to time, but If you can imagine, that land would probably still be called the same thing.

It's arable land.

It looks like pictures of chickens and snakes and things." This was what was on the charm.

Hieroglyphics omitted.

"I've no patience with you," said the Psammead.

"If you can't read, you must find someone who can.

Mm

... retired to go and study hieroglyphics-

Hieroglyphics, yeah

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in Egypt-

[laughs]

What was it?

Hieroglyphics.

However, due to sin, the Lord God did cause a skin of blackness to come upon them." The lone Nephite's survival in the final battle, according to the Book of Mormon, with their Lamanite enemies, was a mighty military commander named Moroni.

And along with his father Mormon, Moroni inscribed what Joseph Smith called the most correct of any book on earth, and reformed Egyptian hieroglyphics and then buried it in the hill Cumorah.

And after being resurrected as an angel, Moroni appeared to the prophet Joseph Smith and instructed him relative to the ancient record and its destined translation into the English language.

Now here's the problem.

I have called this story of the Fall in Genesis a sort of hieroglyphic.

Hieroglyphics set forth records just as histories printed in alphabetical writing do.

But hieroglyphics are not letters but pictures, and as such they seem to me to illustrate those first grand and profound pages of the Bible.

There the foundation facts of man and the world are given to us under images and mysteries in a manner different from common narrative, while true to the facts of God's ways with creation and with man.

We kind of met him through Raz.

He just happened after the battle between Hobo Junction versus Hieroglyphics and shit like that.

So, yeah, that was my first official record that I produced on Wax.

Those guys