And a little boy with his finger in his mouth means...

I'm re-reading an old favorite - a book about the various meanings of the poses (and such) used to depict Egyptian folks in paintings and statuary. So many of the stylised poses are actually hiroglyphics with specific meanings and it's fun to learn the 'whole'. For instance (see my header), a small child, usually a boy with a hair-knot, who is sitting with his finger along side his nose/mouth (as if he were thinking, or thinking of sucking his finger, maybe) is the word "mes", which means, of course, "child". Now, here's this cool statue with the Horus/Ra falcon standing above a woman (Isis) seated with a small boy on her lap (mes). What you get, besides the obvious "this child is sacred/special to the Gods", is Ra - mes - Isis...Rameses. The name of the Pharoah who commissioned the statue and is showing that he is doubly-blessed of the Gods.

Neat, eh?

Back to embroidery...

Weather report

Mt street is flooded. When Arni went to work, it was just barely covering the curb by our mailbox. That was an hour ago. It is now half-way up the yard. Okay, well, 3/4 up the yard. In all the years of storms, it has never flooded past the front porch (which is just a one-step slab before the door) but I'm a tad concerned... we flood last. I wonder if we can *get out* of Virginia Beach this afternoon? 58 floods much sooner than my neighborhood does.

Time to make some contingency-plan phone calls...