Prototype Cards: Number 219

The Master of Secrets

This card contained Egyptian Hieroglyphs. They can be transliterated (using computer transliteration and not standard conventions) to:

ink imAh nsw ink mrrw n it=i iw Sdy=i r mSdt kA iw sS n=i aSAt Hr sS iswt nt kmt iw sw(A)D n=i r n kmt iw srd.n=i hAw Hna nht ink sS ikr n Dba=f ink kAry wAD n Dba=f ptr rn=i

Which can in turn be translated to:

I am the King's backbone (literally: spinal cord) I am the love of my Father I suckle the ford bull

The scribes of the old times of Egypt hand over to the mouth of Egypt I made the plants grow together with the sycamore I am the trustworthy scribe of his fingers I am the great green gardener of his finger Who/What is my name?

the * relates to a line in transliteration which at the present time is not fully translated into english. It can be translated somewhat into "the multitude of scribes to me"

The solution to the riddle is the River Nile as this is all those things to Egypt.