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Did you know... that the ancient Egyptian deity Ptah was often shown carrying a scepter which was a combination of the djed symbol (seal with djed hieroglyph pictured) and the ankh, the symbol of life?
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We should have an article on every pyramid and every nome in Ancient Egypt. I'm sure the rest of us can think of other articles we should have.
Cleanup.
To start with, most of the general history articles badly need attention. And I'm told that at least some of the dynasty articles need work. Any other candidates?
Standardize the Chronology.
A boring task, but the benefit of doing it is that you can set the dates !(e.g., why say Khufu lived 2589-2566? As long as you keep the length of his reign correct, or cite a respected source, you can date it 2590-2567 or 2585-2563)
Stub sorting
Anyone? I consider this probably the most unimportant of tasks on Wikipedia, but if you believe it needs to be done . . .
Data sorting.
This is a project I'd like to take on some day, & could be applied to more of Wikipedia than just Ancient Egypt. Take one of the standard authorities of history or culture -- Herotodus, the Elder Pliny, the writings of Breasted or Kenneth Kitchen, & see if you can't smoothly merge quotations or information into relevant articles. Probably a good exercise for someone who owns one of those impressive texts, yet can't get access to a research library.
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why only mention Osiris and Ptah and Tatenen? This seems a bit blinkered. Surely Andjeti means "he of Andjet" and Andjet means "place of the Djed". It is my understanding that Andjet (Greek Busiris) was originally a cult centre of Andjeti and preceding the cult of Osiris (by whom he was later assimilated). Thus the reference to "ancient cattle culture" should be directed to Andjeti (rather than Osiris) who was originally a god from the ancient semi-nomad society and was the patron of domesticated animals. The Lesser Merlin (talk) 11:40, 21 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
This article seems to have a speculative essay feel to it at the moment. Readers want to know wat a Djed is, not the beliefs of a couple of esoteric scholars into spermo-gnosisMerkinsmum 22:51, 6 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I agree: they seem to have lost the plot entirely here (see also my comment above) The Lesser Merlin (talk) 11:40, 21 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
the djed pillar is a symbol of the earth axis. Look at the picture from abydos, the pillar got there an angle of round about 23°, check it yourself. It is the backbone of osiris as the constellation sah (orion) because sah is wandering up and down as part of the precession cycle. at the time of osiris the calendar was changed as plutarch shows in his about isis and osiris. that was necessary because something had happened to the axis of the earth as plutarch as well as berossos and the indian rigveda show. it would be good if you would try to understand ancient thinking and depiction--87.152.248.232 (talk) 12:06, 1 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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