Home Medjai-Tattoos: the left part of the chest

The left part of the chest (on the Medjai warrior picture it is right to the weaponry) is not easy to catch. There are five hieroglyphic letters, and they are confined by lines. Ine can see, from left to right: the panicle of the flower (M17, phone "j"), a wave (N35, "n"), a board (Y5, "mn"), a bread (X1, "t"), and a house (O1, means building). These five letters means togehter "secret place", in particular of the underworld. One can find out this meaning easily, if one puts the labeling of Gardiner in these five letters ((M17, N35, Y5, X1 und O1) in a translation machine, that is an online dictionary for Old Egyptian. For this tattoo, too, the letters were placed a little bit different, so one can see the bread on the house and not unter the wave. This was allowed and quite normal for old Egyptian artists. Normally, hieroglyphics can be read from right to left as well as from left to right and top to bottom.
If one reads both chest parts together, than one has "silcene" and "secret place", this is the oath of the Medjai: to keep silent on secret places. The plural form "places" can be intrepret if one reads the chest tattoos together wuth the three line above the navel.

Hieroglyphic tattoo on the left chest