Post by Malcolm on Feb 2, 2013 18:50:46 GMT -5
Exodus 15:20 "And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand;"
Exodus 4:14"And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Moses, and he said 'Is not Aaron the Levite they brother?" One cannot help wondering why an 'All Knowing God' had to put this as a question, rather than a stern reminder stating that Aaron was his brother. Nevertheless 'Aaron' is clearly an Egyptian name. Assuming that Akhenaten was indeed Moses, then Aaron would have to be either Smenkhkare, or Tutankhamen, or possibly the son of one of Solomon/Amenhotep III's hundreds of wives and concubines,and therefore unknown in the pages of history.
The two letters 'A' are not vowels as we know them. They are most likely to be two throat consonants. In writing they are the 'Wooden Column' glyph for the two consonant letters, a short 'Ah' sounded from the throat, followed by a Glottal Stop. In English this would sound something like a short sharp 'Ah Uh'. In Egyptian it means 'Great'. These are shown below in one of my vocabularies in two different forms. On the left is the simple form of the 'Wooden Column' glyph lying horizontally. The reversed comma and reversed 'E' following are the symbols used in the Egyptian grammar for these two sounds which are not in English. The second set begins with the two consonant 'Ahh Uh' but then adds two emphatics neither of which is pronounced, the extended arm for 'Ah' and a vulture for the glottal stop sound, 'Uh'. Next is a determinative, 'A Papyrus Roll' to show that the word is an abstract term.
So now we have 'Ah Uh Ra On', Great is God of Iunu. Annu or On was the Egyptian concept of Heaven which was also the name of the City of Iunu or On, near Cairo, and later renamed Heliopolis by the Greeks.
There is another possibility. On TwtAnkhYmn's golden shrine, there is a column of glyphs reading 'HRWN MSS YY
It may be that the Moon God Iah or Yah has been abbreviated (dropping the Twisted Wick glyph - 'H'), and then doubled to indicate the plurality of Yah. When spoken though, the normal plural ending 'W' is used to give us 'Yah Weh'. We might then hear these words 'AARON MOSES YAHWEH.
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