The Progress of Ethnology: An Account of Recent Archaeological, Philological and Geographical Researches in Various Parts of the Globe, Tending to Elucidate the Physical History of ManBartlett, John Russell
History
The Progress of Ethnology: An Account of Recent Archaeological, Philological and Geographical Researches in Various Parts of the Globe, Tending to Elucidate the Physical History of Man
Bartlett, John Russell
Anthropology -- History; Ethnology -- History
Mr. de Saulcy has already unravelled the intricacy of the demotic
writing of Egypt and the popular characters of ancient Libya. He is thus
working at both ends of the Libyan chain. He will find the Berber thread
at the Oasis of Ammon, and at Meröe. We shall thus probably find, that
the Berber language was the original tongue of that part of Ethiopia.
Dr. Lepsius found in that region, numerous inscriptions in the Egyptian
demotic, and in Greek characters, but written in an unknown language. He
strongly suspects, that the old Ethiopian blood will be found in the
Berber veins; and that the Nubian language has strong affinities with
the Berber. When these inscriptions in an unknown language are
decyphered, it will be known how far the interpretation of Egyptian
mythology and the local names, heretofore proposed by Mr. Hodgson, is to
be received as plausible. He has proposed the Berber etymologies of Aman
or Ammon as water; Themis as fire or purity; Thot as an eye; Edfou and
Tadis as the sun.
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