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Faux, you're a person of many in depth talents.

Though ribs are usually curved, which took me a few seconds to work out.

So, run me through, the serpent and the plunger, the doorbell, the symbol for a grill, and the bowl, and explain how these symbols translate to "becomes green through thee".

Though obviously, ancient Egyptians didn't speak English.

The Egyptians convicted their birdbaths to farming equipment.

They were primitive

Convicted?

Sorry meant to say converted.

 I am fluent in ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. It is read left to right, top to bottom as presented here, with stacked glyphs [the last two pairings on the top line, and the middle pairing in the bottom line] read top to bottom in sequence.

So, you can read the Book of Abraham in the original, have you studied it?

As Written: "Becomes green through thee the Earth in triumph"

As we would say it: "Through thee the Earth becomes green in triumph."

Faux, I suppose we will have to take your word on that explanation. Not that I think is incorrect.

Faux, do you know if there is set of Eygptian icons { picto-graphs } for concept of finite and infinite?

We know the common symbol for ' infinite ' is kind of like a sideways 8 i.e. oo where one of the curves is smaller than the other and referred to as ' the lazy eight ' according to wiki.

There is no symbol per say for ' finite ' other than brackets { } according to wiki.

I always thought a row of dots after a few numbers meant infinite ex as in Pi is 3.14..........

The Book of Abraham was not written in Middle Kingdom Egyptian hieroglyphs, so, no, I have not read it in that language. The few samples that are concluded in the Book of Abraham do not represent the entire book, so even if that language were universally known, it is not the entire book.

Those are just tools used to build a bird cage. That is why a bird is also shown and the human builder/carpenter.

AI...' In essence, the ancient Egyptians viewed the universe as a finite, created order nestled within an infinite, primordial chaos, and understood eternity as both a static, unchanging state and a dynamic, cyclical one '...

Great! AI and I agree on both accounts mentioned above. Now I just need a Egyptian picto-graph{s} to with them.

observe below:

The Book of Abraham was not written in Middle Kingdom Egyptian hieroglyphs, so, no, I have not read it in that language. The few samples that are concluded in the Book of Abraham do not represent the entire book, so even if that language were universally known, it is not the entire book.

Bullshit, you know damn well that the Book of Abraham was a fraud perpetrated by Joseph Smith.

Joseph Smith supposedly "translated" a set of hieroglyphic documents to produce the Book of Abraham before qualified scholars were able to translate the hieroglyphics, later on, it was examination by professional Egyptologists (both Mormon and otherwise) and the documents were identified as Egyptian funerary texts.

I see word eternity, not finite or infinite.

Above word eternity is two vertical braided patterns. One one each side of a circle, with much smaller circle within.

Thanks. I can do search on net for specific picto-graphs for finite and infinite. They probably dont exist for the Egyptians is my guess.

Bullshit, you know damn well

Great demonstrated lack of cl clarity from credible sources, boyo, because Joseph Smith, himself, said he had zero understanding in any language, including beyond typical early 19th century education in English, which was less than we experience today in grade school, and certainly no scholastics whatsoever in the anceint Egyprtan language, so the figures drawn are amateurish, and Joseph admitted it. The other two are from papyri that he was given that have no relation to the Book of Abraham text by huis description. So "translation" is not an adequate word to describe how the Book of Abraham came about. Read the attached file, if your are at all interested in better understanding. https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/gospel-topics-essays/translation-and-historicity-of-the-book-of-abraham?lang=eng

All the Gods involved to build a birdcage..

I prefer a fowlcage, and, consulting my OED, its definition of "fowl," the biblically-used term, refers only to the set of birds that are intended as provision of food, either by their flesh or their eggs. or both. Therefore, the suggestion that we were intended to be vegetarian by biblical decree is grounded.

Only Hindus and Indians came up with the concept of vegetarian.

Yes, but adopted by other cultures.

More was copied from Hinduism than any other religion.