Medjai-Tattoos:
the left part of the chest
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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 |
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