Sentences with phrase «hieroglyphics which»
Gradually the pictures were standardized and became symbols or hieroglyphics which could be combined to represent whole new ideas.
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He fashioned the Urim and the Thummim - which in the Old Testament were «divine dice» the priests used to cast lots but Smith insisted were «see - er stones» - into spectacles through which he looked and the hieroglyphics were magically translated into mangled King James English.
BTW, Joseph Smith translated the golden plates (which were written in what he insisted was «reformed Egyptian» hieroglyphics - something no other linguist in history has ever heard of) behind a curtain while dictating the translation to a secretary on the other side of the curtain.
Furthermore... check Sumerian or Egyptian or Asian hieroglyphics, which often depict our solar system (with the earth revolving around the sun), as well as depicting giant beings.
We have ancient cuneiform, hieroglyphics and other inscriptions which were *** cast in stone *** and have not changed a bit either.
Whereas, earlier, it had been believed that the Aryans found only peoples of relatively undeveloped culture, now it is known that at least some of these early Indians had developed the arts to a high degree, that they even had a kind of hieroglyphic writing, not yet deciphered, and probably an equally well developed religion which, suppressed for a time, gradually reasserted itself and greatly modified Vedic religion, gradually transforming it into the Hinduism as practiced in India today.
A blury replication of which, appeared to be Egyptian Hieroglyphics..
All that exist today are writings about their descendants; Mayan hieroglyphics, which are slowly being transliterated; and ethnological observations of the present Maya Indians, whose food habits have changed little in twenty centuries.
I told my husband and he didn't believe me, so he went to the pharmacy and bought the most expensive digital pregnancy test... which told us the same thing the 4 tests prior did, only in words instead of hieroglyphics.
Professor Vyv Evans, Professor of Linguistics at Bangor University, was quoted as saying: «As a visual language emoji has already far eclipsed hieroglyphics, its ancient Egyptian precursor which took centuries to develop».
One of the best learning experiences I remember is when, in 6th grade, we learned about ancient Egypt in social studies, read Agatha Christie's «Death Comes As the End» (which is set in ancient Egypt) in Language Arts, and did art projects with hieroglyphics in art class.
It's that framed square of hieroglyphic - like symbols that we flip to in a magazine, which triggers our smartphones to reveal a company website when scanned.
In electronic literature, this is apparent in works such as Amaranth Borsuk and Brad Bouse's Between Page and Screen, which features machine - readable hieroglyphics that reveal kinetic poems once placed in front of an active webcam.
The central complex has five major plazas, including the Hieroglyphic Stairway Plaza, which has the longest known Mayan inscription (consisting of over 1800 glyphs).
In her work with this word being its title, the artist Srividya Kannan Ramachandran invites you on «a hermeneutic meditation of hieroglyphics through which you can perceive the ancient light at the end of a modern tunnel.»
«Marten's objects read almost as hieroglyphics, a visual system of communication that is expressive yet rooted in logic, which makes rational the combination of a pickle with an electrical circuit, or a pillar drill alongside a bowl of fish skins.»
Created through an intricate process, the 18 works on paper in this exhibition serve as a foil to the large painting also on view, the stark shapes of which recall archaic hieroglyphic text.