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Wally
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Air-cooling system
"Amen" (Hidden)
Anatomy (identifying and labeling internal and external body parts)
Anthropology-Ethnology (identifying and labeling ethnic groups)
Antibiotics
Architecture
Astronomy
Automatic door (Heron)
Automaton (Heron)
Bagpipe
Beauty shop
Birthdays
Botany
Bowling
Calendar
Canals (including the first Suez canal)
Canopy bed
Carpentry joints
Carrier pigeons
Checkers
Circumcision
Clock
Comb
Contraceptive
Cosmetics
Cough drops
Darts
Dentists
Deodorant
Doll making industry
Drum
Egg hatchery
Embalming
Eye makeup
Fan
Fiberglass
Handshake
Hot Comb/Hair straightening comb
Indoor lighting - oil lamps
Ink
Key
Literature (novels, poetry, narrative, drama)
Lock
Loom
Marbles
Marshmallows
Master bedroom
Mathematics
Mechanical toys
Medical specialists (Doctors who treated specific ailments)
Metal piping
Monotheism
National Government
Navy (including the circumvention of the African continent)
Pancakes
Philosophy
Plow
Postal system
Rattles
Rudder
Scissors
Senet
Shoes (sandals)
Sistrum
Spermicide
Steam engine (Heron of Alexandria, a native Egyptian, called Michanikos, the Machine Man)
Surgical instruments
Table manners
Thumbs up, thumbs down
Toothbrush
Toothpaste
Trumpet
Wedding ring
Wigs
Wind Organ (Heron of Alexandria)
Writing
Zoology
Zoos
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References:
Ancient Inventions, Peter James & Nick Thorpe, Ballentine Books, NY
Extraordinary Origins of Everyday Things, Charles Panati, Harper & Row, NY

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^ Didn't you have two or three other posts with a list of Egyptian inventions?? Why not rehash those? By the way, the 'Amen' of Egypt is different from the 'amen' said in prayers today.
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quote:
Originally posted by Djehuti:
... By the way, the 'Amen' of Egypt is different from the 'amen' said in prayers today.

Care to explain to me and others the difference?
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I also would like to know the difference in the usage of Amen in Egypt & how it is in use at the end of prayers today.

I have my on theory on the matter. One being Egypt having laid down a firm theological foundation centuries before Christianity, in which other countries & religions borrowed from. Amen which was probably known by many people of the ancient world & worshiped esp. when Egypt was in ascendency & thus became the zeitgeist "God" for many being the idea of the universal "Hidden One". Just as many people today use the word God /Allah to describe the ineffable. [Wink]

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Amen simply means water.

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Are we going somewhere or are you going to keep annoying me with your boring lectures professor-warrior??

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quote:
Originally posted by Nebsen:
I also would like to know the difference in the usage of Amen in Egypt & how it is in use at the end of prayers today...


Its usage in prayers and hymns is merely to conclude them and that is all...

Amen in the Mtau Ntr

Amen - hidden person or thing, concealed, secret, mysterious
Amen - a title of the high priest
Amen - "hidden one," a name of the Devil
Amen - "the hidden god" who is in heaven, the god Amen

'Reveals' himself in Revelations

Jesus, here in this passage becomes the Amen...
quote:

Revelations 3:14 “And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;”

And from the Old Testament...

Elohiym Amen
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Isaiah 65:16 “That he who blesseth himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God of truth [Elohiym Amen]; and he that sweareth in the earth shall swear by the God of truth [Elohiym Amen]; because the former troubles are forgotten, and because they are hid from mine eyes.”

Amen Yehovah
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Jeremiah 11:5 “That I may perform the oath which I have sworn unto your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as [it is] this day. Then answered I, and said, So be it, O LORD [Amen Yehovah].”

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Jeremiah 28:6 “Even the prophet Jeremiah said, Amen: the LORD [Amen Yehovah].do so: the LORD perform thy words which thou hast prophesied, to bring again the vessels of the LORD'S house, and all that is carried away captive, from Babylon into this place.”


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