Sort-of OT reference about Names

Fred Waldrop fredwaldrop at yahoo.com
Fri May 9 01:43:18 UTC 2003


No: HPFGUIDX 57403

 "xmezumiiru" <xmezumiiru at y...> Chris wrote:
<<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'.>>

Hello all, Fred Waldrop here;

I was reading a book earlier about Greek Mythology and found the 
saying, "Argus-Eyed". In Greek Mythical, Argus had a hundred eyes 
with which to observe things.Mercury killed Argus, and Juno, 
Mercury's wife, turned Argus into a peacock. That is how it happens 
that a peacock tail has a hundres eyes.
I am pretty sure that is why the name Argus (Filch) was used.

Fred Waldrop





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