”, meaning the word "god", which was translated in Judaism (700BC) as the word "El", meaning "mighty, might, strong, power", which became in Coptic "nutra", thereafter rendered as "nature" (Brugsch, 1888), "kraft" (force), or power. [4] |
| A a section from a c.3200BC pre-dynastic Egyptian green slate, showing the various weapons used by the Egyptian hunter-warriors, one of which is a "axe" like object, which in Dynastic times, became the word "neter", shown by the hieroglyph “”, meaning the word "god", which was translated in Judaism (700BC) as the word "El", meaning "mighty, might, strong, power", which became in Coptic "nutra", thereafter rendered as "nature" (Brugsch, 1888), "kraft" (force), or power. [4] |
” hieroglyph, the symbol of a "hatchet" (Birch, 1848), "weapon" (Brugsch, 1862), or "axe" (Budge, 1904), is the original Egyptian word for “god”, or in plural form “neteru”, represented by the combined hieroglyph set of symbols “”, meaning “gods”. ”, or Ogdoad, in Greek, e.g. Hermopolis ogdoad (Ѻ), or nine “”, or Ennead, in Greek, e.g. Heliopolis ennead (Ѻ), it refers to a "paut" or group of gods, generally symbolic of the strength of the "military power" of the given city. [1]
’among ‘objets tranchants, armes’ [sharp objects; weapons], in his classified list of hieroglyphic characters.Note, the English translation, at right (above), is done by Budge (1904) who translates "kraft" as power, whereas correctly, in modern scientific terms, kraft translates as force. When, correctly, a force moves an object, e.g. a person, through unit distance, per unit time, only then is the quantity of effect a "power".
German English “Neter [means] die thatige Kraft, welche in periodischer Wiederkehr die Dinge erzeugt und erschafFt, ihnen neues Leben verleiht und die Jugendfrische zuriickgiebt.” “Nete [means] the operative power [force] which created and produced things by periodical recurrence, and gave them new life and restored to them the freshness of youth.”
’ symbol is a bone with a roll of yellow cloth wrapped around it.1. See the Pyramid Text of Unas (2360BC), line 209; in the Pyramid Text of Teta (2333BC)(Ѻ), line 197, the gods are described as "male and female" via the hieroglyphs:
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”, the gist of which he summarizes as follows:“We have now to consider what object is supposed to be represented by ‘
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| A pre-dynastic green slate object (an enlarged section of which is shown above), held in the British Museum, which, according to Wallis Budge (1904), shows Egyptian warriors holding the "axe", the symbol of power, which became the Egyptian hieroglyph for god or neter sign. |
’ symbol is a bone with a roll of yellow cloth wrapped around it, which Budge dismisses as an evidence-less based conjecture.’ object is “an axe and nothing else”. Budge then, citing his earlier History of Egypt (1902), goes onto discuss types of stone and metal axe-like weapons the ancient Egyptians might have used during battle, citing examples of which from the archaic period (before 1st dynasty), as preserved in the British Museum, as shown (adjacent). [4] |
| A visual of Muata Ashby's 1998 natural afterlife spirituality definition of neter. [5] |
“The term Ntr ‘’, or Ntjr ‘
’, comes from the Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic language which did not record its vowels. However, the term survives in the Coptic language as ‘Nutar’. The same Coptic meaning (divine force or sustaining power) applies in the present as it did in ancient times. It is a symbol composed of a wooden staff that was wrapped with strips of fabric, like a mummy. The strips alternate in color with yellow, green and blue. The mummy in Kamitan spirituality is understood to be the dead but resurrected divinity. So, the Nutar (Ntr) is actually every human being who does not really die, but goes to live on in a different form. Further, the resurrected spirit of every human being is that same divinity. Phonetically, the term Nutar is related to other terms having the same meaning, such as the Latin ‘natura’, the Spanish ‘naturalesa’, the English ‘nature’ and ‘Nutriment’, etc. In a real sense, as we will see, Natur means power manifesting as Neteru and the Neteru are the objects of creation, i.e. ‘nature’.”
“The root of the idea or belief that Egyptians hoped to become one of the gods in the next world. Cam be found in the meaning of the word for ‘god’, netjer, especially in relation to the afterlife where the world ‘god’ may have an extended meaning. Neither the hieroglyphic sign nor any of the suggested etymologies for the word are particularly helpful in explaining what the Egyptians really meant when they spoke ‘god’ or ‘gods’. The hieroglyphic sign apparently shows either a pole with cloth streamers attached, or a cloth-wrapped pole. In the so-called ‘Signs Papyrus, dating to the Roman era, the hieroglyph is given the gloss ‘he is buried’.”
