JUST SOME NOTES

Now, the Ancient Egyptian that I used in chapter 8: Sketches and Dreams, are not completely correct. I'm not an Egyptologist, not do I speak fluent Ancient Egyptian... Although that would be really cool. I'm just fascinated by it, and I thought it would spice up the story a little. Since I have had a TON of reviews about the new chapter (which I am immensely thankful for), I decided it was time to answer some of the questions and also explain some problems I've had, or might have, if I continue to use this language.

If you're not interested, obviously you don't have to read this. But you might find it interesting.

I originally used a site that was found by the authoress Ocean, http:// hieroglyphs. Net/ 000501/ html/ 000-016. html (just take out the spaces.) But then I had a few corrections by a reviewer about the grammar (pronouns, suffix's, etc.) Then I looked up the other site that Ocean had, http:// www. Imt. net/jimloy/ egypt/egypt. Htm (again, just take out the spaces.) Here, it had the proper uses of personal pronouns, suffix's, etc. But it was still pretty confusing. Now I've had the help of lucidscreamer, who was amazing at helping me with everything.

Ie: When writing 'my king', instead of using 'i nsw' which is literally 'my' and 'king', it would be 'nesu-i' or 'nsw-i' as it is possessive.

This is just some of the problems I've run into. Since Ancient Egyptian is obviously a dead language, I've been having some thoughts of what I should do. I either have a choice of just translating it directly and ignoring Ancient Egyptian grammar, or doing it properly, which might take some time. I also was told I should translate all the words to make it easier to pronounce, but there is the problem of finding a correct form to translate the transliteration symbols into the English equivolent so the words would be correct. I'm trying to figure out that now, so there may be some more changes to the Egyptian words in Ch. 8.

Also, there was some changes in the 'dream' part of the sequence, for the part of the gods. Since Egyptian mythology is so damn convoluted, I've had to do some research to clear up my own – and other reviewers – confusion. I have fixed it, but I decided to clear up some matters here.

Thothused to be the moon god. A lot of people have associated him with the moon, and his other Egyptian name was 'Djehuty'. But according to wikipedia. org (I love this site), he actually became associated with the moon's other aspects of wisdom, magic, peace-making, and the measurement, and regulation, of events and of time. He was also called the God of the Scribe and was associated with the Greek god Hermes. He was called the Secretary and Counselor of Ra and stood by him with Ma'at, the Goddess of Truth, Justice, and Order.

Since the dream sequence speaker was using magic (if you read the translations, you can kinda tell), I changed the beginning from, "Behold God of the Moon," to "Behold God of Magic and Wisdom."

The real God of the the Moon is Chrons.

Also, when I wrote "Praise God of the Moon" ('Hsi Amun-De') I was also wrong. Amun-De is not found ANYWHERE, so wherever I looked it up, or whatever, was wrong. I will be changing it to 'Hsi Djehuty' to actually mean, "Praise the God of the Moon."

I don't know what other gods I will add to this story, as it might make it all the more confusing. The ones with the most prominence is probably going to be Thoth,Ra,Horus,Anubis, and Ma'at.

There was also a reference to 'The Eye of Horus' in chapter 1, when Yuugi explains to Yami about the eye on his pyramid.

"The Eye of Horus was the Egyptian sign for the great Pharaoh's. It was said to hold great power and help the rulers in their rebirth. Horus was the Egyptian Sky God, or the son of the Sun God, Ra. The way your drawing of the eye is facing, this one is the right eye of Horus, or the Eye of Ra. If you turn it the other way around, it would be the left eye of Horus, or the Eye of Thoth, the Moon God. Get it?"

This is still correct. Horus is the Egyptian God of the Sky. It was said that his eyes represented the Sun and the Moon, and when they traversed the sky, he as a falcon, was flying. Although Thoth isn't the God of the Moon, in reference to the Eye of Horus, it is still called The Eye of Thoth (when it is facing left.) Horus also had the name, God of Two Horizons.

Because the Eye of Horus is so special to Pharaoh's, there will be more emphasis on this God in later chapters.

Since I don't want to bore you to death any longer, I will give a quick explanation about the other gods and leave it at that.

Ma'at: Goddess of Truth, Justice, and Order.

Anubis: Guardian of the Dead, and guide to the recently departed. He would weigh the deceased heart on a set of scales, against the feather symbol of Ma'at, to judge the dead and see if they were worthy of the afterlife.