ra epitome of incomprehensibility Ancient Egyptian sun god discussed a bit in the blathe for "a". 240414 ... e_o_i But the spelling is a bit complicated. Basically, Old Egyptian writing has pronunciation symbols, ideograms (a picture of the thing as a word), and semantic determiners (a picture of what category the thing is in). So Ra can be written lips + forearm (r and ' (glottal stop or a)), sun (a circle with a smaller one in the middle), or any and all of the things before with a seated important-looking man - that is the semantic determiner for a god. 240414 what's it to you? who go blather from