The Verb rs and its Significance in the Ancient Egyptian Civilization

Fawzy, Hossam Yaser; Abd El-Wahed, Rania Moustafa; Abou Bakr, Heba Ragab

doi:10.21608/lijas.2023.229092.1010

The Verb rs and its Significance in the Ancient Egyptian Civilization

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¹ Egyptology Department, Faculty of Archaeology, Luxor University, Luxor, Egypt.

² Egyptology and Islamic Archaeology Department, Faculty of Arts, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt.

10.21608/lijas.2023.229092.1010

Abstract

The ancient Egyptian language was abundant in verbs, distinguishable and classifiable akin to languages worldwide. Ancient Egyptians realized two contrasting human states, namely sleep and wakefulness, which together constituted an integrated cycle essential for human adaptability within nature. Complete wakefulness is challenging for humans to attain. Sleep aids in the body's dormancy to rejuvenate its activity upon waking. There were various forms of vigilance where realized in Ancient Egyptian belief, comprehend by the ancient Egyptian to attain their destiny, specifically the prospect of eternal life once more, and that life does not straighten unless there are two opposing attributes. They noted that inertia is succeeded by activity, evil is followed by good, and the sunset is inevitably succeeded by the sunrise once more, and the bilateral sign rs appears meaning to wake up, and this verb has many impacts, which required thinking about the form and origin of the binary sign that can be read rs and represents T 13 in Gardner's lists of Unilateral, Bilateral, Trilateral Signs.

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