Mysterious Mysteries
The fourth pharaoh of Egypt’s 5th dynasty was Shepseskare, an anagram for Shakespeare (actually for Shakespear; the Egyptians were good mathematicians but terrible spellers). He reigned from 2426 to 2419 BCE, exactly 4,000 years before Shakespeare decided to marry Anne Hathaway.
Coincidence?
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Coincidence, you ask? I think not, if for no other reason than in Ptolemaic Egypt the phoneme we know of as “sh” was actually pronounced like an “l”. Since the rest of the letters in thi guy’s name hadn’t been invented yet, people spelled using pictures of cats and birds, along with the occasional trowel (used when a seer wanted to lay it on thick).
Comment by Steve Alber — May 9, 2009 @ 5:21 pm
That guy’s been around forever. A veritable Ahasuerus. He was definitely around shortly after the Flood at least (’Sees Ark heap’), but may go back way before then, pushing monkeys out of trees to get them started on evolution (’Ape shakers’)
Comment by Mark — May 9, 2009 @ 6:36 pm
The plot thickens. I knew there was trouble when the goddess Isis was invoked by Bill Clinton asking what the meaning of is is. And, although I’m not certain yet, I have reason to believe that Imhotep is an anagram for Monty Python. It’s a matter of which way Steve’s bird pictures are facing.
Comment by Al — May 9, 2009 @ 7:02 pm
PS — Was the Ahaseurus a featherless bird?
Comment by Al — May 9, 2009 @ 7:05 pm