volgadon Posted December 4, 2009 Posted December 4, 2009 I know there is the debate over the suffix an, but has anyone tried to read the name as Pa-Horon? Horon was a Canaanite, or rather, Semitic god also popular in Egypt. http://www.jstor.org/pss/542437 The two Beit-Horons of the Bible were probably a cultic center of this divinity.
Bernard Gui Posted December 4, 2009 Posted December 4, 2009 I know there is the debate over the suffix an, but has anyone tried to read the name as Pa-Horon? Horon was a Canaanite, or rather, Semitic god also popular in Egypt. http://www.jstor.org/pss/542437 The two Beit-Horons of the Bible were probably a cultic center of this divinity.Are you calling our beloved Pahoran a two-bait horon?Bernard
Joseph Antley Posted December 4, 2009 Posted December 4, 2009 When I saw the topic title I thought this was a personal thread and I was about to board nanny it up.Fortunately for you, it was not. So carry on.
volgadon Posted December 5, 2009 Author Posted December 5, 2009 Are you calling our beloved Pahoran a two-bait horon?BernardThat was terrible!
volgadon Posted December 5, 2009 Author Posted December 5, 2009 Any Egyptologists amateur or otherwise care to comment?
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