Re: [tied] Hathor

>However, this doesn't mean that
>the Egyptians can be categorically said to be impervious to prehistoric
>European influence.

No, it's just that the problem typically extends in the other direction.

>I thought Hathor was actually Coptic... the descendant language of Egyptian.
>I ask you: Who better than the Coptic to know how to pronounce the names of
>their own deities?

They weren't their deities anymore. Copts were Christians, who used the
Greek alphabet and had been influenced by Greek. Hope you aren't going to
argue that Isis was the actual pronunciation of Auset as well.

>No cigar for you, young man. :P

Another error of fact. I'm a middle aged woman, and don't smoke cigars.

Max Dashu