0 a picture or symbol that represents a word, used in some writing systems, such as the one used in ancient Egypt
In our purely historical world, even laws are mere hieroglyphs in the sand.
Literature co-operated as well: poems were set up in altars and hieroglyphs in pyramids.
In addition, as stated earlier, the hieroglyphs on the reverse of the shell are upside down when the front of the shell is turned around.
Utilization of hieroglyphs thus enabled the artist to represent more clearly the complex simultaneity of nature.
The chiselled, unperturbed musical themes of the ballet are heard as distinct events, elements of an abstract design that could very easily be a full-fledged text as indecipherable as hieroglyphs.
Symbols function as hieroglyphs of the interpenetration of divinity and the world, but symbols can never be exhaustively decoded or understood.
All too often, interpreters of culture are hobbled by the formidable mystique of music as a foreign language, of the score as hieroglyph, of musical form as technical and esoteric.
There are hieroglyphs printed on a passport which are not adequately explained to the bearer.