10 LIBRI IN INGLESE ASSOCIATI CON «HIEROGRAMMATE»
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hierogrammate nella seguente selezione bibliografica. Libri associati con
hierogrammate e piccoli estratti per contestualizzare il loro uso nella letteratura.
1
Lexicon Urthus, Second Edition
Severian meets Alpheta, an exultant lady. From her he learns that the golden one
will be judged by the Hierogrammate Tzadkiel the next day, and that Severian
will now lead him into the courtroom. As he does so, he calls the golden one “Zak
...
Michael Andre-Driussi,
2008
2
Solar Labyrinth: Exploring Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun
Perhaps, we might conjecture, it's some Hierogrammate potentate back on Yesod
, who's relaying instructions through Ossipago. Yet if this is the case, why send
juveniles, and short-lived ones at that? As we're told by Baldanders, “These ...
3
Attending Daedalus: Gene Wolfe, Artifice and the Reader
Their apparently altruistic actions towards humanity, their granting of the boon of
the New Sun, must be recognised as a Hierogrammate means to a
Hierogrammate end; the (comparatively) short-term benefits conferred on Homo
sapiens who, ...
4
The Greek-English Derivative Dictionary: Showing, in English ...
HIEROGRAMMATE'I, s. from the Gr. ieros, sacred, and gramma, a letter. The
priests among the Egyptians who were to explain the mysteries of religion. HI'
EROGRAMS, s. from the Gr. ieros, holy, and gramma, a letter. Sacred writings.
5
An Examination of the Ancient Orthography of the Jews: ...
Quoique je n'aie pas eu a ma disposition tout le grand nombre de monu- mens
que l'hierogrammate francais eut en Egypte, j'ai le droit de tirer cette
consequence, puisque mon alphabet renferme au moins cent hieroglyphes
phonetiques ...
Charles William Wall,
1840
6
The Ancient Egyptian Book of Thoth: Text
... presentation; in a procession the lec:or priest (a Thoth substitute) is the wn-iml.
On this priestly title, see also Al- liot, Culte d'Horus a Edfou, p. 395. Alliot refers to
him as the "second hierogrammateus" ("le second hierogrammate du temple ...
Richard Lewis Jasnow, Karl-Theodor Zauzich,
2005
7
An Universal Etymological English Dictionary: Comprehending ...
the word is now taken for any symbol, emblem or mystical figure.
HIEROGRAMMATE'I [of «»>e*>- fixrti, Or. ] priests, among the ancient Egyptians,
appointed to explain [he mysteries of religion, and to direct the performance of
the ceremonies ...
8
Notes and Queries on China and Japan
... when the meaning of a word was doubtful, it was nucessary to explain it by a
syuonyine or definition. Thus the reed, Amrès. meant : the hierogrammate, tho
food, the haven, the anchor, contentment, etc. The vulture, according to Horapol-
lon, ...
Then comes the hierogrammate coiffed with feathers, with a book in hand and the
small palette in which he keeps the black ink and the calam which he used for
writing. This personage has to know the writings which are called hieroglyphics, ...
Leopold Sabourin (S. J.),
1973
Occasionally, scribal staff (Greek hierogrammate) may have been required to
compose original works, but generally their duties would have involved copying
earlier texts, and incorporating any corrections in the revised version.