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The Egyptian god Ptah is the husband of the lion goddess Sekhmet, the ferocious alter ego of Hathor, loving goddess of the sky. Separated by Shu, the god of air, they long for reunion, and exchange much poetry of love, which appears in numerous Proto-Sinaitic inscriptions. They are the parents of Kheper (Qpr), aka Nefertum, who represented the sunrise.
According to Egyptian cosmology, Ptah is the god who created the world via the spoken word. Afterwards, Ptah created
Khnum who formed man on a potter's wheel. Ptah is the patron deity
of craftsmen, and associated with the Apis bull and oracles.
Sinai 351 inscription interpreted by Celeste Claire Horner, 2022-8-22
Right: Ptah image by Jeff Dahl, 2007.)
Love-lorn god of earth gazes up at the beautiful goddess of the stars. Nut, goddess of heaven, is separated by the air god Shu from her love Geb, the god of the earth. Her torso, tummy and back could be represented by two lines "=", with stars "+" suspended below. From A history of Egypt from earliest times to the Persian conquest, by James Henry Breasted, 1945.
Analysis notes:
Right column: St (Egyptian) lady, woman. pr (Egyptian) house. Ishah (Hebrew) woman. n (Egyptian) of Shem (Hebrew) / Shen (Egyptian) name. mesh (Egyptian) birth. Qpr (Egyptian) dawn, conception, god Kheper. Hr (Egyptian) face. Nfr (Egyptian) beautiful.
Left column: Em (Hebrew) mother | Ma mother | Mai (Egyptian) lion | ∀ head of Hathor, heavenly cow goddess | Ahab (Hebrew) love. Habib (Arabic) beloved. BB (Meta) heart-beat. Ba'alat, Lady, feminine form of Ba'al, Lord. al (Hebrew) god. Al.at (goddess).
Lexicon of Egyptian hieroglyph terms
DRAFT 2022-8-23, link to hieroglyphs
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