a website written entirely in hieroglyphs

CARTOUCHE

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Reads a real Bluesky profile — including its three latest posts — and carves it, glyph for glyph, into a floating stone shrine of real Unicode Egyptian hieroglyphs (U+13000–U+1342F), a fixed 47-symbol substitution alphabet. Hover or tap any stele for the translation, or reveal the full cipher below. Built for @fromthewestmeadow.com, who asked for exactly this.

consulting the priesthood…

the name of
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the sign they answer to
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the inscription they left
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the true, secret name
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since the founding
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a census, rendered in stone
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followers · following · utterances
the latest utterances
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the cipher

Every sign on this site is a fixed 1:1 substitution into real Unicode Egyptian hieroglyphs (U+13000–U+1342F) — this is the whole key. Any character not listed hashes deterministically into the same block, so nothing ever falls back to a missing-glyph box.