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Yes the "Opening of the Mouth and Eyes" ceremony used a tool shaped like a constellation it was made of meteoric ion. I think it or any meteoric iron in general was referred to as "Ra's semen" or something like that. It is an adze but I don't even think it has a name or at least nothing in English other than adze. I've seen it described as simply "nw" or "stp". Many ancient languages didn't use vowels.

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The written forms of some Afro-Asiatic languages often did not (and still don't) include vowels, as they didn't provide any information that couldn't be gathered through context. The actual languages did have vowels.

Coptic, the descendant of Ancient Egyptian used by liturgical purpose by Egyptian Christians uses vowels, while very distantly related Arabic and Hebrew (part of the Semitic branch of Afro Asiatic) don't use vowels except in rare cases.

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