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Everything they teach about Egypt in most schools is distorted. The people of Egypt called their country Kemet not Egypt. Kemet means black land. Egypt is a Greek concept. Egypt is derived from the Greek word Aegyptos. The greeks called the kemetians language hieroglyphs, but the people of Kemet called their language Medu Neter. Even the names we learn of the gods are wrong. Isis Kemetic name is Aset. Anubis is Anpu. Horus is Heru. Osiris is Wesir. I’m doing research to find as many of the true Kemetic names that I can.
If you’re really into reconstructing the ideas and culture of the ancient Egyptians (keeping in mind that they spanned eras and many of their ideas and religious concepts changed immensely), you might look into the Kemetic reconstructionism. These orthodox folks are really into the nitty gritty of it and the only reason I’ve never gotten involved with them is their attention paid to their founder. Besides that, their info is pretty spot on.
Sir E. A. Wallis Budge was probably the greatest Western scholar on Egyptology (but again, keep in mind he was white and British though earnestly interested in discovering the Egyptians actual culture and beliefs).
Personally, I would recommend looking up something called Gardiner’s Sign List and translating/transliterating the names yourself, if you’re really interested. Wesir and Aset are a little misleading as transliterations because vowels weren’t notated in their writing system, as in modern Arabic. Be wary that there are also lots of variant spellings due to the fact that the language was used and changing for over 3,000 years and that words could essentially be expanded/contracted to fit in to the available space in a way that was aesthetically pleasing.
