Posted on 10/16/2009 5:19:36 PM PDT by decimon
“Tanis”
It’s Greek for BFE...
Zoan:
(Old Egyptian: Sant= “stronghold,” the modern San). A city on the Tanitic branch of the Nile, called by the Greeks Tanis. It was built seven years after Hebron in Palestine (Num. 13:22). This great and important city was the capital of the Hyksos, or Shepherd kings, who ruled Egypt for more than 500 years. It was the frontier town of Goshen. Here Pharaoh was holding his court at the time of his various interviews with Moses and Aaron. “No trace of Zoan exists; Tanis was built over it, and city after city has been built over the ruins of that” (Harper, Bible and Modern Discovery). Extensive mounds of ruins, the wreck of the ancient city, now mark its site (Isa. 19:11, 13; 30:4; Ezek. 30:14). “The whole constitutes one of the grandest and oldest ruins in the world.”
This city was also called “the Field of Zoan” (Ps. 78:12, 43) and “the Town of Rameses” (q.v.), because the oppressor rebuilt and embellished it, probably by the forced labor of the Hebrews, and made it his northern capital.
Thanks Fred Nerks. This could *almost* be one of *those* topics, but in any case, I’m surprised there are no Indiana Jones pics yet. ;’)
http://www.varchive.org/ce/theses.htm
210. The tribute imposed upon Judea and the imprisonment of Jehoahaz are referred to on an obelisk of Tanis.
211. The first march of Necho-Ramses II toward the Euphrates is related on the obelisk of Tanis and on the rock inscription of Nahr el Kalb near Beirut, written in his second year. The rock inscriptions of Ramses II are not as old as that of Essarhadon on the same rock.
If I got a grant from the Mellon Foundation, would that make me a Mellonarian?
And, just how are Mellonarians rated or related to them Building Burger guys?
Also, about that...
Is the fact that America was founded by, for and because of sekrit societies the reason we eat so many burgers?
I think that grant would make you a Mellonaire. And your worries would be over. Nice cars, hot chicks. No more taxes to cheet on.
Gonna have to do a little search, even re-search, if necessary, on M to BB connection.
And that last is definitely food for thought.
I did hear those mooslums have interduced a new burger on an open sesame seed bun. Troublesome times...
“And your worries would be over. Nice cars, hot chicks. No more taxes to cheet on.”
Does it come with a sekrit decoder ring and a hat? No ring and hat, no joy. I know the whats and hows. Gotta have that special bling and accoutrements to be official.
Oh, and...
The mooslums went ahead with the sesame option? That’s it. Gloves off!
But, I guess it could have been worsted. There is one clutch of furrin devels that put “beet root” on their burgers. How barbaric (or kinky, depending on translation/interpretation) is that? They’re probably Illuminati. Illuminati are weird like that.
Thank you, my FRiend!
It DOES come with ring and tin foil hat. RUN AWAY!! You will be misteakin for Illuminati!!! RUN AWAY!!
I think a nice hog ring would keep those furrin devils from rootin’ around so.
Wasn’t Tanis the girlfriend goddess of the first movie Mummy?
Tanit was a Phoenician goddess but it looks like the Greeks named the city Tanis, so that won’t do. Also I believe “tan” in some form is the Hebrew word for whale, but it can’t have been much of a whaling town. Anyway I do wonder about these things :)
Well, Moses was the adoptive grandson of Pharoah and the son-in-law of Jethro, so Jethro was sort of related to a Pharoah.
That’s cool. I was thinking of Jethro from the Beverly Hills when you mentioned “Cement Pond”. Didn’t know there was a Pharoah.
Tanis was either the Greek or Roman name for the area. In that time it was called Per-Ramses.
Jethro Bodeen was probably named after the Biblical Jethro.
Any reports of fish in it?
Mybe I was thinking of the name of the Mummy, Klaris in the Abbott & Costello version.
"Tanis was actually its Greek name. We are told that its ancient Egyptian name was Djanet." From: http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/tanis.htm
Tanis: Greek from the Phoenician Tanith, meaning "serpent lady"
"In Egyptian, her name means Land of Neith, Neith being a war goddess." More here: Tanit
Thank you! “Tan” seems to refer to a large reptile rather than a whale, so Tanit may have been originally a serpent goddess of the Middle East, the local deity of the city.
C'mon, she may have been a Mut, but...
You are welcome, Neighbor. BTW, I’m certain my dad has a pic of me standing next to fallen chunk of obelisk at Tanis.
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