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Originally posted by rasol:
^ Poor effort.

You repat the same comment about Budge and Champollion over and over again, but there is never and "ACT II".

You know, the part where you tell us what the 'proper translations are', and according to whom.\


Your discourse is FLAWED.

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yes!...and don't you just LUV these idiots who post absolute trite as this "Ray5950." It appears that some here on this board think that everyone is as shallow and as vacuous as they are. His response to my post is to say that Budge's dictionary is flawed, when we're not even discussing the entirety of Budge's dictionary, just the words cited, and this poor, ignorant soul cannot cite any instance where the words cited are inaccurate or flawed. But this is what we have come to expect on such a forum as this...

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c) The "golden Horus name"

The meaning of the third part of the royal titulary, the "golden Horus name" Golden Horus , is more disputed. It represents the falcon god Horus perched on a symbol that usually represents "gold".
Based on the Greek equivalent of this title on the Rosetta Stone, which translates into English as "superior to (his) foes", it has been proposed that the hieroglyphs symbolised Horus as victorious over Seth, "the Ombite" (another possible reading of the hieroglyph on which the falcon is standing). This was, no doubt, the interpretation of Greek times, when the opposition between Horus and Seth was much more pronounced than in earlier times. For these earlier periods, however, the evidence may point in another direction.
If the "golden Horus name" symbolised Horus’ victory over his enemy Seth, one might expect that the names following this group should be aggressive in nature, but most of the time, those names are far from being bellicose.
In a context dealing with the titulary of Thutmosis III that king says "he (Amun) modelled me as a falcon of gold". Thutmosis III’s co-regent Hatshepsut calls herself "the female Horus of fine gold". The concept of the golden falcon can be definitely traced back to the 11th Dynasty. An inscription of the 12th Dynasty describes the golden Horus name as the "name of gold".
The notion of "gold" is strongly linked to the notion of "eternity". The burial chamber in the royal tombs of the New Kingdom was often called the "golden room", not (only) because it was stacked up with gold, but because it was there for eternity. The "golden Horus name" may convey the same notion of eternity, expressing the wish that the king may be an eternal Horus.

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