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The hieroglyph for beget includes the quail chick, the two loaves of whatever they are, and the ejaculating penis, which is the determinative, apparently, because it doesn’t contribute a sound. Chick (egg?) + milk + sperm = new entity. Like a recipe for life, this definition helps us understand early man. The cute, little quail chick provides the w sound—think “ooh” or “uh,” like the beginning of “quail.” The double-T is our old pal “B” on its side. And there’s no vagina in sight. That double-T sound was enough to suggest female. Egyptians liked symmetry, so the double-T could also represent “testes,” which is the word “tes” twice, as the two balls under the penis attest. Could they have equated lactation with ejaculation and thought that glandular white stuff was teaming with homunculi? This word “wtt” has the same vowel-consonant format as “egg.” Could the vowel in both be the proverbial soul (our emotions tend to be vocalized in vowels) and the consonants represent the genetic material? Could, in fact, the “e” in our word “egg” be the “window to the soul” and the two “g’s” be the gametes?