Fun Thing To Do: Want To See What Your Name Looks Like In Heiroglyphics?
By pyewacket
@pyewacket (43903)
United States
March 31, 2008 2:05am CST
I guess I must be having one of my wacky bored moments here folks...little bit of daydreaming ...I've been just now to a bunch of websites of various tourist websites and ordered brochures/catalogs of places to travel to..hey I can dream can't I?? Hehee
Anyway, having had a love for the ancient Egyptian culture since god knows when, I decided to click on the Egyptian Tourist Bureau....
http://touregypt.net/
And it has a lot of stuff there, including recipes of the week, but really got me was the one section where you can type in your name and see how your name looks in Egyptian hieroglyphics...mmm..not bad...so if your curious..click here
http://www.touregypt.net/ename/
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15 responses
@jwfarrimond (4473)
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31 Mar 08
Having taken a holiday in Egypt last year with my sister, I saw several heiroglyphic / alphabet keys, one of which was in the form of a papyrus bookmark which I bought. You could also get things personalised with your name in hieroglyphics. This online one is a fun thing to play about with. 
Just a note to those who don't know anything about ancient Egypt, hieroglyphics were only used on monuments - carved into stone, or painted on to the walls of tombs. For day to day writing, they used a shorthand version which we call demotic. That's what you would use if you were actually writing your name.
Just a note to those who don't know anything about ancient Egypt, hieroglyphics were only used on monuments - carved into stone, or painted on to the walls of tombs. For day to day writing, they used a shorthand version which we call demotic. That's what you would use if you were actually writing your name. 3 people like this
@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
31 Mar 08
Wow..you're so lucky to have actually gone to Egypt..did you do the whole pyramid and sphinx tour?? I've had a love affair with the ancient Egyptian culture since I was a little girl and actually studied a bit of Egyptology in college
@littleowl (7157)
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31 Mar 08
hello pye-i have a love for the egyptian culture too so will be looking my name up in hieroglyphics-would really love to be able to read them they facinate me-bright blessings littleowl 
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
31 Mar 08
Maybe the two of us are old souls and had lifetimes in ancient Egypt..No??
@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
1 Apr 08
Yup--not only Isis but Bast...strange how different time and cultures have viewed cats..in ancient Egypt cats were worshiped..the most sacred cat being the black cat..then centuries later cats were tortured and killed and superstitions evolved around black cats.
@littleowl (7157)
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31 Mar 08
you never know as i am drawn very much to the egyptian side and Isis-you?-bb littleowl
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@blackbriar (9075)
• United States
31 Mar 08
We all know you have a few screws loose somewhere but still love ya. 
As for the symbols, that was pretty neat. Wonder if I was to sign my checks that way if the bank would accept it. lol
As for the symbols, that was pretty neat. Wonder if I was to sign my checks that way if the bank would accept it. lol2 people like this
@blackbriar (9075)
• United States
31 Mar 08
I do have a few screws loose and I'm proud of it. lol Besides, the bank and my work already know that. Wouldn't be nothing new for me to do something like that. 
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
31 Mar 08
Okay, I know, I know...I've got bats in my belfry...and proud of it
Mmmm...that would be unique to sign your name on checks that way...hehe--then the bank would think YOU had a few screws loose
Mmmm...that would be unique to sign your name on checks that way...hehe--then the bank would think YOU had a few screws loose @littleowl (7157)
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31 Mar 08
hello pye thanks for those sites i could stay onthem forever they are so interesting but have to get my dogs out get something to eat and get back on mylot!! thanks once again bb littleowl
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
31 Mar 08
It was interesting to find out that in my name I had a lion as part of it..figures being a lover of felines..
@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
2 Apr 08
I have a lion in my name too..yes, I love the way my name looks in heiroglyphics too..thank goodness though we don't have to write out names out like that though
@winterose (39887)
• Canada
1 Apr 08
I really love those sites, it is fun to see different things like that, and I love anything ancient.
@GnosticGoddess (5626)
• United States
1 Apr 08
That's really neat!
I wish you could save the entire thing though - I'd put that on my myspace page LOL.
You can save them individually but - that's too much trouble :)
Thanks for sharing!
@whiteheather39 (24403)
• United States
31 Mar 08
That was pretty neat. Thanks for sharing
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@BarBaraPrz (51839)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
31 Mar 08
leg... bird... eye... leg... bird... eye... bird
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
31 Mar 08
Your name looks great...mine is owl, Maat's feather symbol, lion, falcon, water (squiggly symbol), Maat's feather, Maat's feather symbol
@worldwise1 (14885)
• United States
31 Mar 08
One of those days, huh, pyewacket? That was really cool, seeing my name in hieroglyphics. I have been interested in Egyptology for a long time myself. Anything having to do with history interests me greatly. I believe that's something we have in common.
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
31 Mar 08
uh-huh--it's amazing the weird things I wind up doing when a bit bored..hehee Yup been a general lover of history for all my life but particularly ancient Egypt
@gabrielle47 (1219)
• Philippines
1 Apr 08
Hi Pyewacket. That was cool. Thanks for the info and like you I like to dream traveling and I like watching Discovery travel and living a lot where i get to see lots of beautiful places around the world and hope to see them one day.
@jewelenterprises (1996)
• Australia
31 Mar 08
I've loved egyptology since I was a kid too... it just fascinated me from the time I read Alfred Hitchcock and the three investigators 'the mummy mystery' in about grade 3.
I was so into it that in high school I wanted to be an archaeologist and dreamed of digging up ancient ruins and tombs LOL
My name in heiroglyphics starts with some kind of snake, then a bird, a lion, some kind of brush and finally another bird.
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
1 Apr 08
The movie I feel in love with when I was a kid was the classic Cleopatra with Claudette Cobert...and yes, I too wanted to be an Egyptologist when I was younger as well
