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This looks fun. What is the context and use of the above glyph list?


Gardiner's sign list. It's a modern categorization and ordering scheme. "Man and his occupations", "Woman and her occupations", "Anthropomorphic deities", "Parts of the human body", "Mammals", "Parts of Mammals", so on and so forth.


Also the order in Unicode. 1072 chars. (based on Gardiner's list),

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_Hieroglyphs_(Unicode_...


In modern usage it is a shitpost called "Curse of Ra!"




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