Today I had a private tutoring session with an adult student. She uses a magazine designed for students of English, with a recommended reading schedule. However, due to some recent business trips and such, we're way behind schedule, so as it happened today -- the day after I posted about Island Pharaohs, with a photo of Ramesses II -- we discussed the article for January 15-17. Here's the first page:
The first thing that caught my eye was the illustration in the upper right corner, which is a statue of none other than Ramesses II.
This same Pharaoh's name also appears in the text, in boldface, in connection with an island:
On Agilkia Island, I'd continue toward Abu Simbel, home to giant statues and temples built by Ramses II.
I'd never heard of Agilkia, but apparently it's an island in the Nile. Ramesses never built anything there; rather, according to Wikipedia, it is "the present site of the relocated ancient Egyptian temple complex of Philae."
Two paragraphs later, there is a reference to the Greek island of Paros:
The Greek islands have been on my radar primarily because I have a friend in Athens. I love the idea of skipping Santorini and Mykonos and opting for low-key Paros.
Paros is pretty close to Pharaohs, especially if you consider that the Hebrews and the Egyptians themselves pronounced that title with a hard /p/ rather than an /f/ sound. The word translated "Pharaoh" in our Bibles is transliterated as Parʿō.
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Ramesses II coming up twice now continues a fairly direct link right to Pharazon.
Before getting to the specific name and link, it always struck me as interesting after first reading Daymon's theory the Numenor was the OG "Egypt", that Pharazon's name was so phonetically similar with that of Pharaoh.
Anyway, Ramesses means "Son of Ra", and Ra itself means or represents the Sun, Light, etc. This obviously made me think of your recent Sun Man link, commentary around that, and just Pharazon's over predilection for dressing up like the Sun. The name becomes an extremely direct link, however, when considering Pharazon's Quenyan name.
By Pharazon's time, the Numenorean kings refused to formally take on a Quenyan name as had been tradition, due it being Elvish, but they still recorded those names in the Scroll of the Kings. There, they recorded his name as Tar-Calion.
We've seen Cal, the root of that name, and its form Kal, before in other links, like with Superman, so it is appropriate we see it here since Pharazon was dressing up as the Being symbolized by Superman. Cal/ Kal means "Light, to Shine" etc., with that light being that of the sun - sunlight And Calion, then, means "Son of Light".
So, in terms of this name game and symbolism, Tar-Calion literally gives us the same meaning as Ramesses. In this symbolic link and your Island Pharoah connection, Pharazon = Ramesses (again, only for symbolic purposes here... not that Pharazon was actually the historical Ramesses II)
What is even more remarkable about that connection is the Ramesses II is (without really any historical evidence at all, as I understand it) traditionally shown as the Pharaoh which Moses confronted in freeing Israel... such as in The Ten Commandments, Prince of Egypt, and lots of other story representations. That is interesting to me because of 2 Nephi 3. In Joseph's prophecy, he likened the Seer to Moses, and it is that same Seer who I believe Pharazon was dressing up as. This gives us another link between that Sun Man image/ meme, and the connection between the Seer and Pharazon.
As I was thinking about that movie Prince of Egypt, I had a phrase that the Ramesses character would use come to mind. He refers to himself repeatedly as "the Morning and Evening Star". In one scene he tells moses that he will not be dictated to or threatened because he is the Morning and Evening Star. Here is the only clip I could find - it's long but I couldn't find anything more specific in a quick search. You can just go to just before the 6 minute mark:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MZlgdbKEtg
The Morning and Evening Star is a reference to Venus, and also to Jesus, who in biblical accounts referred to himself as "the bright and morning star". Lots of symbolic connections have been made between Venus and Jesus for that reason and others, but the connection struck me due to your earlier post also linking that Sun Man (Pharazon) to Jesus and some of the discussion around that.
Interestingly, that phrase has some LDS connections via WW Phelps newspaper that was titled "The Evening and the Morning Star", which run under that name from 1832 - 1834. Of note, though, and of some symbolic importance, I think, is that the paper would be republished/ renamed as "Messenger and Advocate"... same paper, just rebranded.
William,
If you recall I've shared many comments about my
personal connection to the color yellow/gold.
One of the connections is that in the Black community
a person, like myself, with light ( tan/ 'sand 'color )
complexion is known as Yellow or High Yella. ( see link )
My original hair color ( which I never liked and darken my hair)
is reddish-brown which
in the Black community is called; sandy.
Copy and paste: (see link )
"Yellow" is in reference to the usually very pale undertone
to the skin color of members of this group,
due to mixture with white people."
~~~~~
'Coincidently' my very first used car my aunt
bought me for high school graduation in 1973 was
a yellow 1965 Ford Mustang for 500 dollars.
500 dollars was a lot of money back
in the day.
I also had a used yellow Mazda when I
started working at the bank in 1979.
Note that in each instance I didn't 'pick'
the color of the cars. My cars were used and
therefore affordable. Perhaps
it was just a 'coincidence' they were both
yellow color at 2 very significant times
( graduation and working at the bank ) in
my life.
Also in my many comments recall I mentioned
my lifelong fascination with Gold.
I wear a bevy of gold and copper bangles
that I've been slooowly collecting for
many years on my right arm.
Copy and paste: ( see link )
"The gods were typically represented with gold skin,
reflecting the belief that gods did, in fact, have gold skin.
An exception to this is the god Osiris who is
almost always shown with green or black skin
symbolizing fertility, regeneration, and the underworld."
and this: Blue (irtiu and khesbedj) - one of the most popular colors,
commonly referred to as "Egyptian Blue", made from **** copper
and iron oxides with silica and calcium, symbolizing
fertility, birth, rebirth and life and usually
used to depict water and the heavens."
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The only reason why I'm sharing this again
on your blog is because of your 2 Ramesses' posts.
I woke up from sleeping and decided to look at
my phone and saw your new Island Pharaohs post
and something 'told' me to search
Ramesses and yellow/gold.
Of course yellow and black is the color of the honey bee,
which produces honey ( gold), no ? :-))))
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_yellow
https://www.worldhistory.org/article/999/color-in-ancient-egypt/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramesses_II
In Chinese, each of the five naked-eye planets is named after one of the five Chinese elements, and thus Venus is called the Gold Star -- coincidentally fitting very well with the Homeric epithet "golden Aphrodite." So yet another yellow/gold connection.
Due to my background in linguistics and symbolic logic, my first association with "the morning and the evening star" is Frege's puzzles.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frege%27s_puzzles
In connection with sun symbolism, one also thinks of the famous last sentence of Walden: "The sun is but a morning star."
William,
Lo and behold, the sync fairies just showed up again.
How so?
After I published my post I re-read the High Yellow wiki
article and saw something that I did not see before
which is an illustration of sheet music from
a song from the 1880 's
titled Whistling Susanna.
Here is the caption below the illustration:
Sheet music for "Whistling Susanna," which
begins "I court a little yellow girl, her name's Susanna,
she's from Savannah, she's happy as a bird."
~~~~~~
When I saw that caption I immediately thought;
Wow!! What's the odds?
There's a whole bunch of my puzzle pieces
in that song.
Susanna meaning Lily which I've commented
a gazillion times about my Suzy dream.
And happy as a 'bird? Language of the Birds
perhaps?
Also the name Savannah which has been heavily
mentioned in the news recently because
of the NBC Broadcast Journalist
Savannah Guthrie and her missing mom Nancy.
Here's the lyrics:
WHISTLING SUSANNA.
Words and Music by Frank Dumont.
I court a little yellow girl. her name's Susanna,
She's from Savannah, she's happy as a bird,
I tell you she's a daisy when she starts a-whistling,
Sweetest I ever heard.
The nightingale and robin and the big green linnet,
Oh, they're not in it, she drives 'em all away;
She never stops a minute, but she keeps right at it.
And this is what she whistles all the day.-(Whistling Chorus.)
I've never tried to kiss her, for her lips are going,
A-puck'ring, blowing, I never get a chance;
She sits upon my knees, but then she keeps on whistling,
Only to make me dance.
Her mouth is getting crooked and it looks like blubber,
Of "injun" rubber, and **** shining**** like the moon,***
Oh, even while she's sleeping you can hear her whistle.
To save her life she couldn't change the tune (Whistling chorus.)
~~~~~
Also interesting in the song to my many puzzle pieces
about the Shining Ones ( EL's ) and my many
comments about the moon.
Also I found interesting the reference to Susanna,
being 'a daisy when she starts a-whistling'.
,Recall in the movie 2001 A Space Odessey
Hal 9000 'sings' Daisy: A Bicycle Built for Two. ( see link )
Recall my many comments about two cycles ( Bi-cycle)
And last but not least, this in the lyrics:
" to save her life she couldn't
change the tune'.
First of all I've never heard this song before
or anything about it.
As I've shared I am convinced that if there is something
that I need to know, even if it is just a 'wink' from
the sync fairies to let me know that I'm on
the right track ( and not to succumb to ridicule and/or ghosting )
especially where it concerns
my belief in the paranormal, it never fails the
sync fairies will show up.
If it wasn't for your 2 posts about Ramesses
and my comment researching yellow and gold
I would have never found this new information,
so thank you for my new puzzle piece.
I also searched the etymology of whistle and found
the information about the nautical term,
'whistle in the wind' interesting meaning:
'to try unsuccessfully to change something
which can not be changed.'
While that may be true, Suzy certainly
tries and that last sentence in the lyrics ;
" to save her life she couldn't
change the tune' is right on point,
at least to me.
https://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/songster/29-whistling-susanna.htm
Deactivation of Hal 9000
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8N72t7aScY
The day after I read this post I signed into a certain social media website, which I don't do everyday, and one of the first posts I saw was photos an acquaintance took while traveling with his wife in Egypt. I hadn't come across a post by this man in many years. I clicked to look at all the photos. One of them showed his wife in front of the Ramses II statue featured in this post, from the same angle.
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