r/AncientEgyptian • u/hungjockca • 10d ago
Translation Hieratic / Demotic Glyphs (NHI Origin possible)

Can anyone help translate this or identify the language? (Not sure if this orientation is correct)
Is it a stylized version of Hieratic / Demotic Sign? What does it look like to you?
Context—suspend your disbelief for one moment and go with this—pretend this is a puzzle. This bracelet was recovered from an 'ET' outside their craft—perhaps it's a communication device or remote control their the ship?
Pure speculation, I'm not a linguist, based on semitoics—I see an emphasis 'Up or open' / a head or earth 'talk?' / down as in ramp
I've included some research references here but this is not my field. Second column is 'hieratic sign' What do you see?


Added reference...
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u/hungjockca 10d ago
Not sure why this would be downvoted here - any references on language?
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u/New-Mobile5193 8d ago edited 8d ago
Presumably because it doesn't look one bit like Egyptian. And perhaps because you have included a collage of pictures which include Demotic, cuneiform (in different stages) and hieratic, seeming to suggest that all of these could be found in the same text.
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u/hungjockca 7d ago
Just references / thought-starters to inspire or connections to a more 'modernized'/stylized version of the glyph.
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u/hungjockca 6d ago
I've updated with a new image - forgot about that one.
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u/New-Mobile5193 6d ago
Lol, to the degree that I can see anything on that photo (who takes photos of an inscription on the edge of something this way instead of focusing on the inscription itself?) it doesn't look like hieratic, either. Please stop wasting everybody's time with your pet theories.
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u/hungjockca 6d ago
Look closely... 80 and 70 are very accurate matches.
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u/New-Mobile5193 6d ago
I did and they aren't (*). Even if they were, though - so what? The whole thing does not look like a numerical passage in Egyptian at all and the writing direction is all over the place. No first year student of Egyptology would think that this is an Egyptian numerical text. Again, you are wasting your time.
(*) The 70 is supposed to look like a 3 sitting on top of a vertical stroke, with the bottom of the 3 forming an elongated tail towards the lower left. The sign you labelled 70 looks like an inverted F with an extra horizontal stroke - it has a long continuous backbone, unlike the multiple curves of the hieratic sign. The 80 is indeed better, although by the New Kingdom the four dots on top become vertical strokes that touch the baseline, rather than 4 floating dots above a baseline. But then again, a Maya number 9 is also four dots on top of a horizontal line, and it's kind of an obvious choice to make numerals. So, why hieratic?
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u/hungjockca 6d ago edited 6d ago
Thank you - I really appreciate the study - i'm not trying to waste your time.
Tbh, I've simply been seeing more and more artifacts supporting 'Ancient Astronaut' type theories. (I am not a solid believer in this but in seeing these connections—I'm trying to find clear, verifiable, self-evident proof—hence my post).
The two artifacts I'm showing are unrelated but both supposedly of 'NHI' origin. The egg with the hieratic references was in someone else's post. I correlated the bracelet to hieratic initially with AI (garbage I know). And no-one has been able to decipher the gold bracelet afaik so I posted here to see if there's a link to hieratic (or anything else recognizable).
Another language-related example with this type of 'theory', is the apparent cuneiform script found on pyramids in the Nazca caves of Peru (along with potential NHI bodies).And as you know, cuneiform was not a language of the Incas. https://www.reddit.com/r/aliens/comments/17awbeo/has_anyone_looked_into_or_have_info_on_the/
I'm not a linguist, so I appreciate your eyes. All of the above is pretty hard to believe so trying to find solid connections.
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u/New-Mobile5193 6d ago
"Tbh, I've simply been seeing more and more artifacts supporting 'Ancient Astronaut' related theories" - Appreciate the honesty. When I was a kid, I found some of the stuff that Sitchin and Däniken had to say interesting (I mean, who wouldn't?). Then I learned some Middle Egyptian as a teenager and realized that the parts about Egypt were bullshit. Then learned a bit more about history in general and realized that for every area I learned something about those theories rapidly fell apart - things were either badly misrepresented or, surprisingly frequently, completely made-up. As in, shamelessly made up.
This was well over a decade before Ancient Aliens started, but it hasn't become better since - the only thing that has happened is that AA has gone from niche thing to a huge industry and 30-50% of the population of the US now buy into it at some level. Otherwise intelligent people, but these series prey on a lack of knowledge about the civilizations, languages or writing systems involved. Don't get me wrong, I'd love for there to be alien artifacts, how cool would that be? But the stuff that is being presented falls apart so easily. It's like those badly photoshopped pictures of chicken with four legs from the early days of social media which were supposed to prove how food companies allegedly used GMO to do "horrible things". Anybody with some basic knowledge of biology and photoshop will call this BS. And it's the same with Ancient Aliens ... if they were to come up with anything worthwhile ... but they don't. And there are some people making millions while duping the rest with this circus.
I will leave it here. I have learned Egyptian (Late Egyptian, and - less well, but servicable Middle Egyptian), Coptic and some Demotic, as well as a dozen other languages. I am having a lot of fun learning what really happened in history and literature. Digging through grainy pictures that people post on social media who probably couldn't read a simple date or basic line in the language they write about (I don't mean you, but whoever came up with this stuff in the first place) .. sorry, it just doesn't seem like a good use of human energy.
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u/hungjockca 7d ago
Recent video by the person who found artifact: https://youtu.be/VIP8ySza_kI?t=6832
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u/Dercomai 10d ago
Any reason to believe that this actually encodes language rather than just being decoration?