Friday, March 12, 2010

COURTYARD TRANSLATIONS

I was directed to an Entertainment Weekly video showing "clues" in the Temple courtyard, columns of hieroglyphs. In all the courtyard scenes broadcast, none of columns in the video were really visible to the viewer.

Even though the video was clear, some of the symbols themselves were rough, odd and not traditional. That makes any attempt at translating them much harder, and more open to interpretation. Normal translation is more of an art than a science to begin with; then add another layer of assumptions for unknown symbols or possible symbols or bad combination of symbols . . . you get the point. So the confidence level on these translations is not high, but this is my best "guess" at what the three courtyard columns said:

ONE DAY (HE) WILL SAVE
BIND THE REFUGE OF EVIL SPIRITS TO SUBMISSION
BIND COSMIC DISORDER (FOR) HEAVEN
EGYPT FOLLOW THE DEATH OF OSIRIS

(WE) MOURN THE TRUTH OF OUR RULER
FOR (IT) BELONGS TO US TO BUILD ETERNITY
STRONGLY, PERMANENT, ENDURING

FOR OUR LIFE BELONGS TO US
ABUNDANCE IF WE (GO TO THE AFTERLIFE)
I DIE REJOICING!