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  2. Se'irim - Wikipedia

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    Sa’ir was the ordinary Hebrew word for "he-goat", and it is not always clear what the word's original meaning might have been. But in early Jewish thought, represented by targumim and possibly 3 Baruch, along with translations of the Hebrew Bible such as the Peshitta and Vulgate, the se’īrīm were understood as demons.

  3. Decipherment of ancient Egyptian scripts - Wikipedia

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    Emmanuel de Rougé, who began studying Egyptian in 1839, was the first person to translate a full-length ancient Egyptian text; he published the first translations of Egyptian literary texts in 1856. In the words of one of de Rougé's students, Gaston Maspero , "de Rougé gave us the method which allowed us to utilise and bring to perfection ...

  4. List of Egyptian hieroglyphs - Wikipedia

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    The total number of distinct Egyptian hieroglyphs increased over time from several hundred in the Middle Kingdom to several thousand during the Ptolemaic Kingdom.. In 1928/1929 Alan Gardiner published an overview of hieroglyphs, Gardiner's sign list, the basic modern standard.

  5. Nubian ibex - Wikipedia

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    The Nubian ibex (Capra nubiana) is a desert-dwelling goat species (Genus Capra) found in mountainous areas of northern and northeast Africa, and the Middle East. [2] It was historically considered to be a subspecies of the Alpine ibex (C. ibex), but is now considered a distinct species.

  6. Category:Jewish legendary creatures - Wikipedia

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    Giants in the Hebrew Bible (4 C, 8 P) ... The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. ... Sea goat; Shedim;

  7. Egyptian hieroglyphs - Wikipedia

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    The later hieratic and demotic Egyptian scripts were derived from hieroglyphic writing, as was the Proto-Sinaitic script that later evolved into the Phoenician alphabet. [5] Egyptian hieroglyphs are the ultimate ancestor of the Phoenician alphabet, the first widely adopted phonetic writing system.

  8. Category:Hebrew letters - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Hebrew letters" The following 92 pages are in this category, out of 92 total. ... This page was last edited on 18 May 2021, at 17:16 (UTC).

  9. Sigil of Baphomet - Wikipedia

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    The 1897 illustration with "Samael" and "Lilith" text. The depiction of an inverted pentagram with a goat's head, paired with five Hebrew letters at the pentagram points, first appeared in the 1897 book La Clef de la Magie Noire by French occultist Stanislas de Guaita.