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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