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Re: (meteorobs) Meteor Symbol
I don't know about the Greeks but in checking my Egyptian hieroglyphics
dictionary I found something under "iron from the sky," which would be a
meteorite. This has some interesting implications, someone must have seen
a meteorite hit the ground (or an Egyptian-George) within the Egyptian
culture and recovered it. An iron tool was used in one of the more
important rituals, opening of the mouth, which indicates an association
with iron meteorites for the iron tool prior to the age of iron as this is a
ritual from early Egyptian culture 5-6 thousnd years ago, long before
iron became common. Other associations may be using iron from the sky to
release the soul to heaven, so iron meteorites must have been very
expensive in ancient Egypt, so... what has changed?
The word for "iron from the sky" is something like, "baa en pet", but
anyone studying hyrogliphics could recogize the word if you only use the
determinatives for iron meteorite which is the symbol for sky and one for
metal, this would make an appropriate ancient symbol for meteor and
would look something like this: 1======1 or sky metal/meteor.
o o o
The upper line is straight, nothing is above it, the lower line curves at
the ends to a point. The symbol for metal looks just like three lower case
"o"s, not dots which means many. They also have a word for metal rich
stony meteorites as one of the determinatives used in this word includes
the symbol for stone. Probably more than you wanted to know.
Dave English
Oceanside, California
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