The Greek name of Jesus IESOUS CHRISTOS anagrams to OSIRIS SET CHOUS (Chous, "a measure of capacity equal to 12 cups")
I was prompted to anagram Jesus' Greek name when I noted that in Romans 1 it spoke of believing IN/ON the "name of Jesus Christ" ... why not just "believing in Jesus" I thought?
Later I found that St Paul's name SIMWN PETROS anagrams to MORTWS PENIS (cf. Latin, Mortuus penis, "dead penis")
In one of the later (Roman times) variants of the very ancient Osiris myth, in which Osiris was chopped up into little pieces and then reassembled by Isis, ahe couldn't find his penis (it was eaten by a fish).
I smell the mind of a single individual who founded a cult which evolved into what we have today.
As far as the Osiris myth is concerned maybe Osiris is Summer, Set is Winter, Isis is Spring, and Nephthys (Set's wife) is Autumn, the myth having has its origins in more Northern climes where the seasons are more pronounced?
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When one plays with anagrams, one can come up with amazing results.
Eleven plus two == Twelve plus one
Desperation == A Rope Ends It
The eyes == They see
Laxative == Exit lava
and ...
To be or not to be: that is the question, whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune.
Comes out as ......
In one of the Bard's best-thought-of tragedies, our insistent hero, Hamlet, queries on two fronts about how life turns rotten.
Tony Blair, the onetime British PM's full name ANTHONY CHARLES LYTON BLAIR anagrams to I SHALL CONTROL EARTH BY NANNY. During his tenure as PM he was accused of trying to set up a "Nanny state".
Obama's name BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA anagrams to ABU KHAN BOSS AMERICA
Reagan's name RONALD WILSON REAGAN anagrams to INSANE ANGLO WAR LORD
He he
Scifi writers often use anagrams. Ron Hubbard's 1970s script for a film he never made had XENU ETRAWL as its central character, which anagrams to WE R LUNATEX. Xenu is now a Scientology "God".
ELVIS LIVES
some anagrams of SeniorCitizen
Hi SC007,
Please do the same thing in, say Latin, Greek, Arabic, Russian, Mandarin and Thai, and then report back. If the coincidences are language-independent, then that will be interesting.
I read somewhere that the 1st and 2nd century BC Greeks were very much "into" anagrams ... and considered them to be "sacred". My birth name anagrams to something rather alarming ... which has the words Devil, rape, and Satan in it ... so I've added an extra letter ... just in case. He he.
How fun! Let’s do crossword puzzles next!
The answer to the title of this topic is, "Yes".
Who gives a flying shit! Nothing from the first century has any influence in my life.
Damn, chimp3. Thanks. That is kind of what I thought but was too afraid to post.
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