11 may 2023

11 may 2023

John Bjarne Grover

Yesterday I added an egyptian observation to the discussion of my poem Kinderhilfe #136 - that is king Ramses II and the chinese radical #204.

Another two radicals seem to meet in another egyptian with comparable vertical-horizontal turning - the priestess Imeret-Nebes from around 1800 or so BC. Even this is given in an illustration from the same book by Breasted (1964) - the illustration is given here - it seems to be the same photo from 1934. Here is another source of the same photo.

The two poems from 'Der Dornenstrauch' are

DDS #65 = absolute enumeration #80 =

毋

= chinese Kangxi radical #80

as well as

DDS #107a = absolute enumeration #140 =

艸

= chinese Kangxi radical #140

This radical #140 = 艸 exhibits a certain similarity with Imeret-Nebes - her arms up to the shoulders, her hair. Her 'carrot'-striving hands.

It is seen that the combination of these approximates the theme of the front page of 'The Endmorgan Quartet' (here turned 90 degrees) - only the vertical arms and hands of Imeret-Nebes correspond to the two horizontal green 'straws' or puppeteer-controls behind the young woman (as she stands under the guardian angel) on my front page - the very 'Morgenlicht' in the scent of the green grass. These two green controls are the two horizontals on the righthand side of radical #80 = 毋 - where one even can see the foot in the lower right. Is it her white belly that is seen between the two horizontal green grasses or 'puppeteer' lightrays? It seems that radical #80 = 毋 can be traced to not only negations ('do not') but also etymologically to the sign 母 = 'mother'.

Here is another variant of the theme - from this article.

2 x 'nochmals' = 1 x 'hochmals'.

(See also this file).

Source:

Breasted, J.H.: Geschichte Ægyptens. Deutsch von prof.dr.Hermann Ranke. Deutsche Buch-Gemeinschaft, Berlin, Darmstadt, Wien 1964.

My thanks also to the friendly doves for the tip.