Newton's Cat

It is, of course, a coincidence that Jesus' Greek name:

IESOUS CHRISTOS

.... anagrams to OSIRIS SET CHOUS (CHOUS means "grave").

... and the fact that St Peter's Greek name:

SIMWN PETROS anagrams to MORTWS PENIS doesn't have any significance whatsoever.

Don't waste your time thinking that the above is worth bothering your head about. The mythology about Osiris' penis doesn't have anything at all to do with Christianity.

... or does it?

Ben C Smith

More anagrams:

Dormitory = dirty room.
Snooze alarms = alas, no more z's.
Eleven plus two = twelve plus one.

Coincidence or conspiracy? You decide.

Ben.

S.C.Carlson

Conspiracy of anagrammers? Other conspiracies are more careful....

Ben C Smith

I think this conspiracy would have to go deeper than the anagrammers, from the hoary roots of the modern English language (the numbers eleven and twelve, the Latin basis for dormitory, the archaic word alas) to the formation of our more contemporary vocabulary (z as a representation for snoring). It would not be the anagrammers themselves, but rather an international and multigenerational Anglophilic consortium of powerful individuals leaving clues for the anagrammers to stumble upon later.

Ben.

Chris Weimer

Is alas really archaic?

Toto

Newton's Cat has made this same observation numerous times on this board and a few others that google turns up. Is there a point? Is there a BCH connection?

Mageth

An anagram for Newton's Cat:

Wanton Sect

Hmm...

Newton's Cat

There are no "significant" anagrams in the original text of Mark's Gospel. Whoever drastically added to and altered the text, thereby founding the cult which became Christianity, introduced the anagrams.

Jesus of Galilee, King of the Jews, the central figure in the fictional story (play?) used as a vehicle for the author's socio-political criticisms of contemporary Jewish society became Jesus Christ, Son of God.

There are two very different minds at work in Mark's Gospel - what scholars call the Paulinian and the Petrine "influences".

gstafleu

I could see a link with Osiris in a general fashion, Osiris being revived by Isis and hence "resurrected." But specifically with his penis? If I recall correctly, Isis couldn't find the penis and therefore fashioned one out of wood, attached it to Osiris and then boinked the resulting assembly--in the process inventing the word "woody," which was later incorporated into the English language and is hence even more archaic than "alas," although legend has it that this was Isis' first utterance upon discovering that the part was missing.

But back to Christianity and the penis. I take it Simon Peter is supposed to be the penis analogue? He was the dumbest part of Jesus' retinue, so perhaps this is a biblical exhortation not to think with one's penis? Otherwise I'm hard put to see a connection. Let's see, if we equate Jesus with Osiris and Peter with his penis, then Jesus was denied three times by his penis, the third time being when the cock crowed, that fits. Plus it may make some feminists happy.

If Jesus is supposed to be the grave of Osiris, things turn a bit more morbid. We could see the resurrection as an early Viagra-like solution to Isis' and Osiris' marital problems, where the newly revived penis issues forth from the empty tomb like a ballistic missile, no doubt aimed at Mary Magdalene, which might explain why only a bunch of discarded clothes were found in the tomb. But would God really want someone like that to sit at His right hand?

Gerard Stafleu