the gardener1965 wrote:

> I suppose I'm rambling. Suffice to say I don't know yet why it
> was called the "marsh of reeds": Cladking
>
> Long ago, tall slender hollow reeds grew on the banks of the
> Jordan and the Nile river. The word for 'reed' in the Hebrew,
> Arabic and Egyptian languages was 'kaneh'. Latin - 'canna'. The
> word passes over into Greek and Latin, and into the languages
> of western Europe. A rather remarkable word family grew from
> the root word 'canna'. Some are easy to trace back - sugar
> 'cane', walking 'cane' and even a 'cannon', are all clearly
> related to the reed in shape. With just a little imagination,
> the word 'canal' and 'channel' can also be associated with a
> pipe or grove.
>
> It is probably more difficult to see how the word 'cannon', as
> in 'law', derives from the root word meaning 'reed'. Since
> reeds were long and straight, they were often used as measuring
> rods. From this concept, 'reed' came to mean a 'standard' and
> ultimately an 'authoritative standard'. With the Field of Reeds
> representing the Great island of Osiris, the red crown and
> throne are perfect symbols of law and governance, a governance
> that is predicted for Osiris to include the entire world.
>
> The word 'marsh' is also interesting when we study it's root
> origin, which can be found in the fourteenth century
> Anglo-Saxon. The word 'marsh' has it's root word in merus/mere:
>
>
> 1. Pure and unmixed as wine; a people or a language.
>
> 2. Fully; as much as; what is specified; completely fulfilled;
> developed or absolute.
>
> It is interesting then when we apply these root definitions to
> the two words of 'marsh' and 'reeds':
>
> Marsh of Reeds - pure or fulfilled laws
>
> Marsh of Offerings - pure or fulfilled offerings
>
> Field of Reeds - field of laws


Thank you very much for all the information. This was one of the most confusing things when I started on the PT; that English and Egyptian have so many commonalities. When I saw a translated word that could be understood two ways I just assumed that it was a coincidence that didn't apply to Egyptian but it frequently does. There are a lot of really strange similarities like the word we mistranslate as "god" and actually means "nature" was spelled like "nature" in Egyptian! Many of the words and concepts seem to have survived by some means into English!

Utterance #304 was one of the first I believe I understood. "Purification" of this water storage device on the pyramid top was very much looked forward to since it would get extremely funky if it went long without fresh water and, more importantly, they needed the weight of the fresh effervescent water to resume building the ka of the king. That the word "marsh" is related to "purification" sounds extremely "Egyptian" to my understanding. They not only used hyperbole to name things but also its desired state.