Sort-of OT reference about Names

[peggybaratto]

No: HPFGUIDX 57315

> This probably had no effect on JKR when she was composing her great 
> works. 
> 
> But a rather well known fact of Egyptian history has the famed King 
> Akhnaton, the King who tried to turn the polytheistic culture to a 
> monotheistic culture, was, by later Kings, stricken from the names 
of 
> Kings. 
> 
> An obscured fact is that in order to refer to him, one had to say 
`He-
> Whose-Name-May-Not-Be-Spoken'.
> 
> Chris

Chris,
Do not be so sure of the lack of Rowling's research and mythological 
knowledge.  These books are filled with mythological references and 
allusions.  
>From what I have read in a few "critical" writings (and books) she 
was well aware of this fact.
~~~~~~~~~~~Peggy