Hieroglyphs: the god's words

Hieroglyphs appear, called medu netjer — the god's words.

Geometry, Pride: A reading: a writing that is the god can never be checked against the god. The world's own numbers agree: in 21 of 21 clean comparisons, a system's check of itself fell short of an outside check.

In plain words

Egypt's first writing is called “the god's words.” The name is a claim made at the birth of script: this writing does not describe the god, it is the god speaking, and only the house that holds it may say what it says.

The mechanism

THE UN-ACCUSABLE SEAT — the enclosure claim stated out loud at the birth of script: this writing is not a record of the god, it IS the god speaking, and only the house that holds it can say what it says

How it was checked

• EvidenceT6 PHYSICAL / MANUSCRIPT; Status: COMMITTED; a capture
• Letter eraTHE ENCLOSURE AT THE BIRTH OF WRITING c. 3500 to c. 1150 BC
• Plate — Bone label from Tomb U-j, Umm el-Qaab (Abydos), excavated by Günter Dreyer, 1998 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:U-j_Per-wer.jpg
• SourcesARCHAEOLOGY / PHILOLOGY