Esus in Algeria (fighting the French, I'm sure)

[chronarchy]

Ladies and gentlemen:

I mentioned that I found an inscription relating to Esus recently. Well, PICTURES!

They're on my "About Esus" page that I've built (Quick Link to the spot on the page).

If you just want to look at the pictures I found, and don't care about what I think about them, then they're here:

Pic 1
Pic 2
Pic 3What really catches my

Comments

Son Of A Sailor

[snakesinspace]

How much you want to be your Esus = Jesus fans say the anchors are really crosses? ;D

Re: Son Of A Sailor

[chronarchy]

Jesus = Esus = an anchor = the calm in the storm = my faith in God.

That totally makes sense. I'm going over to the dark side in 5. . . 4. . . 3. . .

Re: Son Of A Sailor

[triskele]

not only that, haven't you guys ever heard about the jesus-sand dollar connection?

http://www.catholicsupply.com/existing/prsanddollar.html

(there's actually a christian store called Sand Dollar)

da-dum-da-DUM!

jesus IS esus!

[tanrinia]

THAT REMINDS ME!

at a church on the main street near my house, they had one of those cheapo signs that you can put letters on to say clever things. or not, because for about two weeks it just said 'jesus.'

UNTIL ONE DAY! when the J was gone and all that was left was 'ESUS.' there was always too much traffic for me to pull over and take a picture, but if that's not proof of the connection, i don't know what is!

Re: jesus IS esus!

[chronarchy]

irrefutable!

[singingwren]

Good job, man.

Now all you need to do is figure out what your patron's secret hand-sign is and we will be unstoppable!

[chronarchy]

If I told you, he'd prune my legs off and feed me to the cranes.

[singingwren]

You're too tall anyway.

'Fess up!

I know I can take it -- I single-handedly beat all three of my housemates plus Frankie simultaneously with one paper-rocks-scissors move!

[chronarchy]

No, no: the technical term for that is cheating.

[singingwren]

Psst, those birds have short tails and therefore look way more like wrens than cranes. So I propose we change our name to Three Wrens Grove. You know, out of historical accuracy and fairness.

[chronarchy]

I think that the stonecutter here just wasn't nearly skilled enough to manage "cranes", so he drew "birds", if they are related.

Another thing, though: we don't need two more wrens. I assure you, one is far too many for us to handle as is.

[singingwren]

I don't know that that's a fair assumption. Cranes are easy enough to depict rudimentarily -- just lengthen the neck. The tree has enough detail to suggest that that would be possible. If it appeared near/with the sand-dollar one, they DEFINITELY had potential, although I think these were separate. Hmm.

As for more wrens... shucks. You mean to tell me you wouldn't want six dirty feet instead of just two?! Think of the money we could bring in...

[chronarchy]

[singingwren]

Don't ask me why, the 'reply to comment' link is down. :P

Anyway, I still don't understand. Picture 2 -- were those three separate reliefs found in three separate places? Or were the first and third togther? I'm confused as to where these came from and if they were all related to Amanda. Because if that one inscription is a memorial, birds (are especially doves) are common on graves. Now, I'm not sure when that started, how Biblical it got, and all of that, but I do know knowing that piece of infromation is relevant.

Also... anyone gonna translate that French? I can't take French without my parents hating me, but damn how I wish I could read this kinda dealie...

[chronarchy]

"Il existe à Cherchel trois plaques ou fragments de plaque présentant ces symbols"

=

"There exists in Cherchel three plates or fragments of plate presenting these symbols"

Basically, these plates were all found in Cherchel. I'm unsure preceisely where in Cherchel they were found, though.

[singingwren]

Ah, cool.

Let's go to Africa sometime and see this stuff for ourselves. We'll get some Esus shoes for good look and just go roving until we find the key.