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Needed articles.

We should have an article on every pyramid and every nome in Ancient Egypt. I'm sure the rest of us can think of other articles we should have.

Cleanup.

To start with, most of the general history articles badly need attention. And I'm told that at least some of the dynasty articles need work. Any other candidates?

Standardize the Chronology.

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Stub sorting

Anyone? I consider this probably the most unimportant of tasks on Wikipedia, but if you believe it needs to be done . . .

Data sorting.

This is a project I'd like to take on some day, & could be applied to more of Wikipedia than just Ancient Egypt. Take one of the standard authorities of history or culture -- Herotodus, the Elder Pliny, the writings of Breasted or Kenneth Kitchen, & see if you can't smoothly merge quotations or information into relevant articles. Probably a good exercise for someone who owns one of those impressive texts, yet can't get access to a research library.

Sophia-gnostical[edit]

Although Saa in Egyptian mythology is a male character I think that he may be the same as Sophia in gnostical mythology. In that case Hu and Saa are about Christ (-consciousness)and Sophia. aut. Tom Dorbeck

Hieroglyphs for Saa[edit]

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Saa
line 13,Rosetta Stone
+ Decree of Canopus
in hieroglyphs

The Saa hieroglyph is a seated (Man-God) with a shape above his head-(timeperiod 196BC, Rosetta Stone). The god Saa standing on a boat-Solar barge with the other gods (5-10), Saa is the "Knower", the "Seer" of the Way Ahead.

For the seated god as seen in the Rosetta Stone, next–to–last Hieroglyphic line: (line 13) shows the God, identified with the symbol above his head, an Upside down stepped-Flag, or more properly, a banner-with stepped segments. No hieroglyph easily represents This. Represented here is the Human with arm pointed To the Head the Mind ! (Points to Mouth. The forehead, That hieroglyph also not available-Forehead-But very common in the texts) .... So He, She, It will be "cognizant" (gnostic) of the way (forward). Saa appears on all 3 stones of the series, Decree of Canopus [1]., Decree of Memphis (Ptolemy IV), and the Rosetta Stone [2]. (all in the next–to–last line)

".....and so all People (of Egypt:Ta-mer-T, or Kem-T, or Baq-T) will Know (be Cognizant(Saa-God)), we will inscribe in stone: "a vertical slab"- Hard, in 1-writing of Holy script(hieroglyphs), 2-writing of the citizens (Demotic (Egyptian)), 3-and writing of the "Greeks", and erect in the "courtyard", in temples of the 1st order, 2nd order, 3rd order...."

So, I'll add some info to the Main page for this topic. from the SonoranDesert of Arizona... --Mmcannis 05:15, 1 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Standing-God-Saa
On Solar barge
(as "Knower"-of-Way)
in hieroglyphs

The Standing God version.-- ...ArizonaGuy-Mmcannis 05:33, 1 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Poor quality article[edit]

This article is a disaster and needs drastic edit.Apepch7 (talk) 00:08, 26 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I know. To different degrees, the same is true of all the Egyptian god articles. I don't do as much to clean them up as I should, partly because the task is enormous, and partly because it still wouldn't result in the thorough, well-sourced articles I'd like to see and am very slowly working to create. Another reason is that, for lesser deities, all the information I have is the brief description in Wilkinson, and if I cleared out all the uncited material and replaced it with a paraphrase of Wilkinson, there would be nothing but a stub.

So, after getting that off my chest, what do you want to do about this article? It's a stub already, so gutting it and starting over wouldn't be so unsightly. Do you have any information about Saa (Sia) that isn't in Wilkinson? A. Parrot (talk) 01:07, 26 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

My main other source apart from Wilkinson is Hart. I agree that the task is too enormous and quite often I read the article(s) and don't know where to start it is so bad. So I usually just start by cutting out the worst and dubious unsourced parts and then try to add back some facts and references. But the result is still fairly mixed. I think that for a deity like Sia a stub is appropriate its whole purpose is as the perception of Ra or Ptah. I will add some more from Hart and see how it looks.Apepch7 (talk) 09:01, 26 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Ok I've completed what I think is an improvement to article and added references but just noticed Hu (mythology) is unreferenced also. If anyone understands how to disambiguate that link could they do it??? ThnxApepch7 (talk) 10:41, 26 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

"Deification" seems to be a derogatory term. It implies that the god isn't actually real. We would not accept this point-of-view approach for modern religions. 2.31.162.81 (talk) 14:52, 6 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]