ABSTRACT
According to William A. Foley (1997), “Anthropological linguistics view language through the prism of the core anthropological concept, culture. As such, it seeks to uncover the meaning behind the use” of words (p. 3). The meaning of divine and beautiful then requires a cultural system that will give to it a so dai ‘clear-word’ (comprehensive meaning). The people of Kemet left no definitive definition of the divine or the beautiful, only statements and customs of its centrality in their lives. In his book, Serpent in the Sky, (as cited in Browder, 1995 p. 105) John Anthony West writes “Egyptian knowledge is always implicit, never explicit.” Consequently, to interpret the meaning of some statements and customs, it is necessary to turn inward toward other more immediately accessible African cultures.
