Symbolise? rasta I tell you what it literally says means and how it sounds
Each glyph either represents a sound / syllable, a determinative or an ideogram.
The reed or leaf symbol tells you which direction to start reading (determinative), it is always at the beginning and can give an 'i' sound or can be silent. This is a glyph which means the mdu ntr can be written left to right or right to left up down etc....
The next two glyphs represent the mN sound. The first representing mn and the water or wave glyph representing n. Put them together and its mn with emphasis on the n. As these glphys are on top of one another in a horizontal reading pattern it simply means they are together as one syllable. The term mN literally mean hidden.
The small line or stick underneath the circle is another determinative meaning you should take whatever it is affiliated with literally. Hence seeing as it is underneath a perfect circle with a dot in the middle this literally = the sun or even the universe. The sound for this is re. This is an example of an ideograms (the glyph means what it looks like)
After this we see a picture of a diety. This isn't a sound but a determinative. Meaning whatever we are talking about is to do with the divine. The diety pictures always come at the end of a word.
Put it all together and we have
Left to right
mN (hidden)
Re (the literal sun)
(Talking about a God)
= (i)MN-Re
AmunRa, a diety associated with the sun / creation (Re) and the unseen or the universe (mN)
Hotep.
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