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Did the Egyptians know the sperm ?!

We have dedicated many articles to Egypt, among them: "the doctors of ancient Egypt", "Hitler's bewildering love for Nefertiti", "the Book of the Dead"...Today we want to present a anecdote more than Curious: A sperm appears on an exterior relief of the Luxor Temple.After discovering it, the researchers, like you, wondered, is it really a sperm? Judging by the image, it is exactly the same as one...We discover the answer to the riddle!

The sperm of the Temple of Luxor

In the exterior of the Temple of Luxor There is a religious scene in which the God Amon-Min appears with a erection, ejaculating, in which a sperm is perfectly represented (as you can see in the following video).

How can it be? How could the Egyptians know sperm if they are only visible with a microscope of at least 1080 magnification?

The God Min is one of the oldest deities of Egypt , appears in the pre-Dynastic era; he is represented as a man with erect penis with black or green skin and on a pedestal ; on the head he wears a crown with 2 long feathers and a scourge. He could also be represented as a lion or a black bull, and was known as "his mother's bull", for being the one who fruitful to the sky goddess .This God represented the force of nature, was the lunar god, of fertility and vegetation and his cult was one of the most enduring in Ancient Egypt.

Did the Egyptians know the sperm ?!

Stela with the gods Min, Qadesh (Syria) and Reshef (Canaan), in Deir el-Medina, Egypt.

In a wake that is preserved in the Museum of the Louvre is a hymn dedicated to him:

«Hail, Min, Lord of the processions, god of high feathers, son of Osiris and Isis, venerated in Ipu, coptita, Horus of the strong arm »

Many of the attributes of this God were taken to later represent the D ios Amon, like the erect phallus.

Resolution of the "Egyptian sperm" puzzle in Gardiner's list

To solve the sperm riddle, a document had to be consulted Very special: Gardiner's list. This is a list with 743 hieroglyphs, plus 20 Egyptian variants (the basic ones because in reality the hieroglyphs became about 6000 in the Greco-Roman Empire, although previously 750 were used in the Middle Kingdom), classified in 26 subcategories and explained by British Egyptologist Alain Gardiner, known for his English language grammar . In short, or A must reference for any student of the hieroglyphs of Ancient Egypt.

In the subgroup F that corresponds to the mammalian body parts appear the signs F10 and F17 : a jug that pours water on a horn, whose meaning was purification or cleaning.Its appearance? Exactly the same as a sperm! That is, what looked like a sperm... It was a jug pouring water!

Did the Egyptians know the sperm ?!

Hieroglyph F17

The truth is that it was an illusion to think it was a sperm and the magic that envelops the mystery...right? However, we are also reassured to know that sometimes mysteries are solved with a little research.

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  1. fstpkrDecember 12, 2021 at 3:04 PM

    The English language is rife with words that have identical spelling but mean completely different things. A jug pouring water, a sperm cell or some other meaning but wait we have experts who completely understand a 6000 year old method of writing.

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