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Brawnfire posted:"This... This enterprise."
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# ? Mar 28, 2024 23:47 |
zoux posted:I see my stele is raising a lot of questions answered by my stele thread title
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CrypticFox posted:Yeah names for objects go way back. The Sumerian king Gudea is known for commissioning a bunch of inscribed statues of himself, and they generally have specific names. One of them (Statue D) was named "The king whose immense power no foreign country can withstand." Makes sense to me, I know people who name any houseplant they hang onto for a year, and given that sailors are often a type of professional who change what ship they're working on it feels like it'd just be flat out more inconvenient to live a life being like "I spent 2 years on the...uh, the one owned by Jackassicus, the smaller one not the bigger one." Sick. Also my 'study' of Egyptian history, aka "listening to the history of egypt podcast sometimes," has trained me to treat that name as incredibly stereotypical of Egyptian naming conventions.
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Jazerus posted:thread title Current one is sublime
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# ? Mar 27, 2024 00:46 |
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Another clerk at a post office I used to work at told me they were a kemhetist. Like with total sincerity.
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# ? Mar 27, 2024 01:05 |
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bless that person
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# ? Mar 27, 2024 01:37 |
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Well, Re spends the day sailing across the sky in His solar barque which is named Millions of Years, so we know that at least one Egyptian boat had a name. The one He travels in through the twelve caverns of the Underworld which are the hours of the night has a way less badass name, which is just plain old Night Boat.
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# ? Mar 27, 2024 03:13 |
Mad Hamish posted:Well, Re spends the day sailing across the sky in His solar barque which is named Millions of Years, so we know that at least one Egyptian boat had a name.
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# ? Mar 27, 2024 03:18 |
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Mad Hamish posted:Night Boat. Sounds like an 80s action show
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# ? Mar 27, 2024 03:19 |
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Brawnfire posted:Sounds like an 80s action show I would watch the hell out of a show about Re solving crimes in the underworld
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# ? Mar 27, 2024 03:23 |
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Brawnfire posted:Sounds like an 80s action show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoV1-fsFCmw
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# ? Mar 27, 2024 03:41 |
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That's what it was! My brain works, just not for my benefit!
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# ? Mar 27, 2024 04:18 |
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"Father Re, why did you name Millions Of Years that?" "Because that's how long I will love them for." "and what of my name, Night Boat?" "same"
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# ? Mar 27, 2024 04:27 |
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May or may not be related that Norse sagas have even the tea kettle of the gods given a name. Apparently, to cast magical enchantments on an object requires it to have a name you can address it by. Makes sense to me! Also Night Boat strikes me as possibly one of those things where it has a name, but rarely spoken of because it's considered dangerous to speak of it. Hades was apparently rarely directly referred to by name.
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# ? Mar 27, 2024 05:30 |
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did charon's boat have a name in greek and was it mister rowboato
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# ? Mar 27, 2024 07:24 |
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Orbs posted:It would make sense for boats to have names, especially big, important ones like triremes. Ships take a lot of effort to build and maintain, and that effort is usually toward a specific intentional purpose. That's the kind of endeavor that always seems to make humans want to go "we should name this thing, this great complex endeavor we're doing." "Stone...uh..henge?" "Fucks sake, Steve, it's not a henge!"
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# ? Mar 27, 2024 07:42 |
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"Horizon" is such a cool sounding way to remark cultural periods https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periodization_of_pre-Columbian_Peru
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# ? Mar 27, 2024 10:28 |
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Actually, while I'm thinking of it, the pyramids in ancient Egypt also had names. The Great Pyramid's proper name is Khufu's Horizon, and the name of Djedefre's pyramid (Khufu's successor) is Djedefre's Starry Sky.
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Elissimpark posted:"Stone...uh..henge?" Mad Hamish posted:Actually, while I'm thinking of it, the pyramids in ancient Egypt also had names. The Great Pyramid's proper name is Khufu's Horizon, and the name of Djedefre's pyramid (Khufu's successor) is Djedefre's Starry Sky.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:
Interested in the source on that one, since the Iliad namedrops Hades a few times and you'd expect that to be spoken aloud quite a bit. Is it a matter of different names?
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Orbs posted:I wonder what the original name of that monument was, I don't think it was Stonehenge iirc. I bet the original name was way more rad. Possibly, but it might also translate to "The People-What-Live-On-Hills Fancy Circle of Very Big Rocks"
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# ? Mar 27, 2024 23:34 |
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It was called ENEMY PORTAL
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Orbs posted:I wonder what the original name of that monument was, I don't think it was Stonehenge iirc. I bet the original name was way more rad. No, I think that was an early mediaeval term. And Stonehenge not being a henge proper is a modern thing. Something to do with where the ditches are or something from memory. Mad Hamish posted:Actually, while I'm thinking of it, the pyramids in ancient Egypt also had names. The Great Pyramid's proper name is Khufu's Horizon, and the name of Djedefre's pyramid (Khufu's successor) is Djedefre's Starry Sky. Either '60's British psych bands or strains of hash. (but that's pretty cool, I didn't actually know that!)
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Mister Olympus posted:Interested in the source on that one, since the Iliad namedrops Hades a few times and you'd expect that to be spoken aloud quite a bit. Is it a matter of different names? The Iliad is also full of people getting pierced, slashed, mangled, crushed with pointy rocks, flung down to the dust by the hand of god, etc. The horror of death and the grave is a major theme from the beginning. It’s fitting for Hades himself to be evoked in such a context…but if you believe the Iliad is a divinely inspired work and its conception of the gods is true or mostly true, you probably wouldn’t want it to happen to you. By historical times the name Plouton had come to be used for Hades. Whence Latin Pluto, for example. I don’t think it was a total taboo to say the original name or anything. But like the Furies (or the fairies, or the devil…) it’s better not.
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Orbs posted:I wonder what the original name of that monument was, I don't think it was Stonehenge iirc. I bet the original name was way more rad. According to medieval legend, it was called the Giant's Dance before the British stole it
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Tunicate posted:According to medieval legend, it was called the Giant's Dance before the British stole it I'm intrigued by this, mostly because it introduced me to the idea that parts of other stone rings and "henges" were moved to create new ones. Such as the postulated movement of stones from Waun Mawn stone circle in Wales to Stonehenge. I wonder how often stones were moved, and if it was an act of conquest, religious revivalism, or something else.
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Brawnfire posted:I'm intrigued by this, mostly because it introduced me to the idea that parts of other stone rings and "henges" were moved to create new ones. Such as the postulated movement of stones from Waun Mawn stone circle in Wales to Stonehenge. I wonder how often stones were moved, and if it was an act of conquest, religious revivalism, or something else. stealing cultural artifacts is a proud british tradition
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# ? Mar 28, 2024 05:32 |
zoux posted:Current one is sublime
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Brawnfire posted:I'm intrigued by this, mostly because it introduced me to the idea that parts of other stone rings and "henges" were moved to create new ones. Such as the postulated movement of stones from Waun Mawn stone circle in Wales to Stonehenge. I wonder how often stones were moved, and if it was an act of conquest, religious revivalism, or something else. Merlin's orders.
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The new book arguing that enslaved people co-authored the Bible Looks interesting, but I don't know enough about bible history to tell if it's guff or not.
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