Talk:Bennu

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WikiProject Ancient Egypt to-do list:

Needed articles.

We should have an article on every pyramid and every nome in Ancient Egypt. I'm sure the rest of us can think of other articles we should have.

Cleanup.

To start with, most of the general history articles badly need attention. And I'm told that at least some of the dynasty articles need work. Any other candidates?

Standardize the Chronology.

A boring task, but the benefit of doing it is that you can set the dates !(e.g., why say Khufu lived 2589-2566? As long as you keep the length of his reign correct, or cite a respected source, you can date it 2590-2567 or 2585-2563)

Stub sorting

Anyone? I consider this probably the most unimportant of tasks on Wikipedia, but if you believe it needs to be done . . .

Data sorting.

This is a project I'd like to take on some day, & could be applied to more of Wikipedia than just Ancient Egypt. Take one of the standard authorities of history or culture -- Herotodus, the Elder Pliny, the writings of Breasted or Kenneth Kitchen, & see if you can't smoothly merge quotations or information into relevant articles. Probably a good exercise for someone who owns one of those impressive texts, yet can't get access to a research library.

Gray stork bennu

Different birds-(species) represent the "Bennu-bird"
This "bennu-bird", from the Book of the Dead, is quite striking-(gray stork). (Papyrus of Ani).

It should be noted that because of Ancient Egypt's long timeframe of history, and different regions, and the "fashion of the time", that multiple explanations, and importance of the Bennu ebbed and flowed. I know the explanation of the Bennu with the BenBen stone goes back to the "beginning" dynasties, but I think with the Papyrus(the Paper-equivalent), and the many Books of the Dead, in their color-portrayals, (as opposed to the wall paintings in color), there possibly was a resurgence of the Beauty of the Bennu-bird. (This rebirth could be a pun, but I don't mean it as such.) I do think this (Now Non-stub article) shows the variety of uses of the Bennu bird, over a range of times.

When some categorization, or assessment–(of this article) comes along, I hope there is a way to put things into a Category/Style of: Multiuse/ or Multi-interpretation, along the lines of how the "Usage of Ancient Egytptian Amulets" must have also been "Multi-used", by different People in different regions, at different time-periods. (And I added the hieroglyphs a year ago, on an article that was very short. It now looks pretty nice, and it covers a lot of ground in its (synoptic)-explanation, ... from the beginning dynasties down to post-Book of the Dead time.) A Note from the ArizonaDesert of ArizUSA-- ..-Mmcannis 05:55, 19 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Burning bush/burning tree

Just re-reading "a once-old article from Wikipedia"....Anybody see a "burning bush" story close-by?.....hmmmm..I wonder--.....SonoranDesertFellow from USA,North America-Mmcannis (talk) 17:55, 3 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Visitors or Priests

The Egyptian priests showed this pillar to visitors, who considered it the most holy place on earth.

This sentence at the beginning of the article is ambiguous as to who considered the pillar to be the most holy place on earth. I'm thinking the priests did, but the sentence reads that the visitors thought so. --Born2flie (talk) 09:26, 31 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Asteroid 1999 RQ36

On May 1, 2013 - the name of asteroid (101955) 1999 RQ36 was designated as "Bennu". Should there be a redirect here, or the disambiguation page be updated? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Therealdfletch (talk • contribs) 17:21, 2 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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eagle and heron rappresent the phoenix... 79.25.170.52 (talk) 12:45, 4 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format. EvergreenFir (talk) Please {{re}} 18:34, 4 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Connection with extant bird species

I just watch Animal Planet program about Egypt animals. It shows Benu as a modern day bird, hunting for fish. Is there a real world version of it? Hyoroemon2 (talk) 12:13, 21 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]