> On Mar 31, 2009, at 2:49 PM, R A Brown wrote:
>
> Andrii Zvorygin wrote:
>>
>>> Indeed it seems that extra-terrestrials might use a form of
>>> oligosynthetic-language due to some of their expressions.
>>> For instance in the ra material
>>>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ra_(channeled_entity) there are many such
>>> allusions.
>>>
>>
>> While I think it is not at all unlikely that other intelligent beings
>> exist on other planets within our universe, I think I need slightly more
>> evidence than purported telepathic communication to persuade me to
>> accept the existence of a particular group of exterrestrials. I notice
>> it said that: "These entities claim that the ancient Egyptians
>> worshipped them as their deity, Ra ...."
>>
>> But the ancient Egyptians did _not_ worship a deity _they_ called 'Ra'.
>> The form 'Ra' is simply a _modern convention_ for pronouncing the
>> ancient _rʕ_ (/r/+ pharyngeal voiced fricative); the ancient
>> vocalization is not known. IIRC evidence from Akkadian transcriptions
>> and from Coptic suggests that the ancient pronunciation was probably
>> [ri:ʕ]
>>
>
> I had never heard of this "channeled" Ra, but once I had a dream in which I
> met a god named Ram who claimed to be the god of this universe, and said he
> was the inspiration for Ra and Rama.
>