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[edit] Pronunciation of Ptah
How do you pronounce Ptah? Puhtah? --Jondel 03:37, 1 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Pt-ah. With the Pt pronounced exactly the same as in Ptolomy. The best way to get the pronunciation is to try to say tah, but starting with your mouth closed.
Just like neptah only without the ne. ~~~~
You can also give the modern pronounciation P-tah which is then rendered as Peter where Peter is the 'fisherman', or fisher of men, and generally recognised as 'GOD' proper.
However there is a god and satan (gas) combination at work here where it is written that 'Satan will - always - tell you that he is god."
Ian Chattan 18:45, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
Say wha.. "there is a god and satan (gas) combination..."?? Okiedokie. Anyways, the pronunciation is found already here at Answers - Ptah. However, the "p" in Ptolemy is like the "p" in pneumonia -- not pronounced at all. So "puh-tah" is good but "puh-TAH-luh-mee" is bad. Confused? Excellent!
I guess it has something to do with whether the word is from Greek or not. "Pneumonia", "psychopomp" and "Ptolemy" are all Greek words and names (note the Ptolemies of Egypt weren't originally from Egypt) so the "p" is not pronounced. Yet, Ptah is not from Greek, but directly from Egyptian, and so the "p" is coincidently pronounced.
(On a side note, learning French as a child in school, I always had a giggle when the teacher said things like psychologue ("psychologist") or pneu ("flat tire") because in French the "p" is always pronounced, even in these words. But in the end, why was a bratty child like me chuckling at the French? Doesn't that make more sense in the end? So English is a funny language.) --Glengordon01 09:29, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] This sentence lost me
When the beliefs about the Ennead and Ogdoad were later merged, and Atum was identified as Ra (Atum-Ra), himself seen as Horus (Ra-Herakhty), this led to Ptah being said to be married to Sekhmet, at the time considered the earlier form of Hathor, Horus', thus Atum's, mother.
I think it probably assumes too much existing knowledge in the reader. qp10qp 03:32, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
There has been much vandalism in the origin on Ptah's name section. I have fixed it as of today. 68.178.124.58 02:58, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
