Quotes About Egyptian

I like both Greek and Egyptian. More Greek stories have survived, so we know more about them. They've always been my favorite. On the other hand, I like the Egyptian stories because they're not as commonly known and they have an exotic flavour.

Right, Sadie said. And Set will just stand there calmly while I read him to death.

With my sister perched on my arm, I walked to the elevator. A business man with a rolling suitcase was waiting by the doors. His eyes widened as he saw me. I must've looked pretty strange—a tall black kid in dirty, ragged Egyptian clothes, with a weird box tucked under one arm and a bird of prey perched on the other. "How's it going?" I said. "I'll take the stairs." He hurried off.

A weapon, I told Horus. I need a weapon. I reached into the Duat and pulled out an ostrich feather. "Really?" I yelled. Horus didn't answer

Right," I said. "So the baboon, the crocodile…any other pets I should know about?" Amos thought for a moment. "Visible ones? No, I think that's it.

All [Sadie's] previous attempts [of making a shabti (an Egyptian avatar of one's self)] had exploded or gone haywire, terrorizing Khufu and the initiates. Last week she'd created a magical Thermos with googly eyes that levitated around the room, yelling, "Exterminate! Exterminate!" until it smacked me in the head.

In the Duat, Anubis looked as he always had, with his tousled dark hair and lovely brown eyes, but I'd never seen him filled with such rage. I realized that anyone who dared to hurt me would suffer his full wrath, and Walt wasn't going to hold him back.

Another guy barked orders to a small army of brooms, mops, and buckets that were scuttling around, cleaning up the city. Like that cartoon, Sadie said. Where Mickey Mouse tries to do magic and the brooms keep splitting and toting water. 'The Sorcerer's Apprentice,' Zia said. You do know that was based on an Egyptian story, don't you?

Set screamed something in Ancient Egyptian. I was fairly sure it wasn't a compliment. "I will rend your limbs from their sockets!" he shouted. "I will—" "Die?" Carter suggested.

After all the dangerous adventures I'd had, I couldn't die like this. Sadie would be devastated. Then, once she got over her grief, she'd track down my soul in the Egyptian afterlife and tease me mercilessly for how stupid I'd been.

Carter started down the stairs, but I grabbed his arm. "Hang on. What about traps?" He frowned. "Traps?" "Didn't Egyptian tombs have traps?" "Well…sometimes. But this isn't a tomb. Besides, more often they had curses, like the burning curse, the donkey curse—" "Oh, lovely. That sounds so much better.

You might not think a hippo could inspire terror. Screaming "Hippo!" doesn't have the same impact as screaming "Shark!" But I'm telling you—as the Egyptian Queen careened to one side, its paddle wheel lifting completely out of the water, and I saw that monster emerge from the deep, I nearly discovered the hieroglyphs for accident in my pants.

I'm Carter Kane-part-time high school freshman, part-time magician, full-time worrier about all the Egyptian gods and monsters who are constantly trying to kill me. Okay, that last part is an exaggeration. Not all the gods want me dead. Just a lot of them.

Throwing down your staff may sound like a sign of surrender, but in Egyptian magic, it's bad news. It usually means, 'Hey, I'm going to summon a big nasty thing to kill you while I stand safely inside my circle and laugh'.

He raised an eyebrow. You claim not to know me? Of course I'm Thoth. Also called Djehuti. Also called-- I [Sadie] stifled a laugh. Ja-hooty? Thoth looked offended. In Ancient Egyptian, it's a perfectly fine name. The Greeks called me Thoth. Then later they confused me with their god Hermes. Even had the nerve to rename my sacred city Hermopolis, though we're nothing alike. Believe me, if you've ever met Hermes--

Isis and Horus, he said. I see you've found new bodies.

Mine is a khopesh ,' Carter said. 'The original Egyptian version. What you're holding is a kopis – a Greek design adapted from the Egyptian original. It's the kind of sword Ptolemy's warriors would've used.' I looked at Sadie. 'Is he trying to confuse me?' 'No,' she said brightly. 'He's confusing without trying.

Walt's face lit up. Sadie, Ptah was more than the craftsman god, right? Didn't they call him the God of Opening? Um...Possibly. I thought you taught us that. Or maybe it was Carter. Boring bit of information? Probably Carter.

Across the field, Carter's voice yelled: 'STAHP!' I guess stahp is actually a word in Ancient Egyptian. Who knew?

Ptah? son of ptooey? What is he god of spitting? i asked

Four thousand years ago, an Egyptian wrote out his despair onto papyrus in the form of a narrative and four short-versed poems. This document, now in the Berlin Museum, is thought by British psychiatrist Chris Thomas to be the first suicide note [...] Death is before me today As a man longs to see his house When he has spent years in captivity.

He will to his Egyptian dish again.

Thoth is the Egyptian ibis-headed god of magick and writing, whose name means "Leader". His worship has been suggested by bronze ibis heads at Chiddingfold (Surrey) and Caerwent (Monmouthshire), indicating his worship found its way to Britain, if only in private villas.

You may find it interesting that the word Solomon is comprised of three smaller words—the Latin 'sol,' the Hindu 'om,' and the Egyptian 'on'—all of which mean sun in their respective language.