Mr. Bossell, choose to not believe if you wish. You seem to be emotionally locked into "not wanting to believe", fine! I say it is academics, not emotion.
Two of your own quotes...
"Egyptian pronunciation is largely unknown, we have estimates but not much more. What we have from the hieroglyphs are only consonants, vowls are almost completely out of reach for us."
Actually we DO HAVE a fair, maybe
vaguely fair idea of how the Egyptian names were pronounced. That method is comparing the Egyptian names, as translated by various previous historians, with
Greek equivalent names, and
Japanese equivalent names, and
Chinese equivalent names, and
Amerindian equivalent names, and
English equivalent names.
Sometimes, in some surprising instances, they
seem to sound and mean the same, such as the name Khut, Kai Yu, Kiau, Coyo, chaos!
Persons like yourself, Mr. Bossell, are quick to point out that exact pronunciations may be unknown, EVEN BY YOURSELF,
THEREFORE, other ideas MUST BE WRONG! ??? What???
Or that you can't name exactly what the Egyptian name for dragon is...your quote...
"Don't know, my capabilities in ancient Egyptian are rather limited. What comes next to a dragon in Egyptian mythology: probably Apophis (though that depends on time & place of worship, & there are some other creatures which might be interpreted as dragons)."
THEREFORE???, other ideas MUST BE WRONG!???
Exactly my point. 5200 years of Egyptian history, 2600 before the acknowledged Japan existed at 400 BC! The Egyptians had flying serpents, they had griffons (whatever they are), they had sky Gods, under various names and features and
varying reverence (good, then bad, then good, then bad again...
"Set" for example).
My next post will show my selection of the array of Egyptian "dragons" or their equivalents with Japanese "Dragons". Names like "Kai Yu", spelled by Budge as "Khu", and the Japanese meaning of "Fire dragon", and the Chinese meaning of the dragon "Kiau" of swamps and mountains, and the Aztec-Amerindian "Coyo", as in ... Co-yo-te. The Greek/English similar name might be "Chaos".
I agree and appreciate your revealing comment, Mr. Bossell, but I don't believe your capabilities are limited regarding Egypt, as are my own, but your open-mindedness seems to be clouded by your emotional side...
YOU WIN???