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Relationship between Menes and Men? Modern incarnation of Men[edit]

Is there a relationship between the old Anatolian Moon God Men and the Old Egyptian king Menes?

By the way: With my apotropaic performance as Moon god Men (see my costume) in Carcassonne on December 20, 2012, I was able to save the world (i.e., to fight off the aliens who were just about to land in Bugarach and hence to dispone the end of the world so feared by Nancy Spiegel et al.).

See my video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6UGAeSy-N0

The first journalist to write about this "curious performance" was Alain Pignon:

http://chroniquesdecarcassonne.midiblogs.com/archive/2012/12/20/happening-a-la-cite-de-carcassonne-avant-l-apocalyste.html

Interestingly enough, no body (except for the ones having seen me in Carcassonne on December 20, 2012) will ever have known that it was ME (costumed as the old Moon god Men) who has saved the world... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.2.29.194 (talk) 13:32, 7 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Circumflex?[edit]

We could also move the page to Mên. The name often so appears in English works, to avoid ambiguity with "men". Q·L·1968 ☿ 23:24, 16 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Examples with circumflex:

Ulrich W. Hiesinger (1967). "Three Images of the God Mên". Harvard Studies in Classical Philology. 71: 303–310.
Cornelius Vermeule (1958). "An Equestrian Statue of Zeus". Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts. 56 (304): 69–76.
Charles L. Quarles (2014). The Illustrated Life of Paul. B&H Publishing Group.
Jocelyn M. C. Toynbee (1934). The Hadrianic School: A Chapter in the History of Greek Art. p. 127.

Examples without circumflex:

Eugene N. Lane (1997). "Chrysippus, Philodemus, and the God Men". Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik. 117: 65–66.
Jules Cashford (2003). The Moon: Myth and Image. Basic Books.
Rachel Alexander (2014). Myths, Symbols and Legends of Solar System Bodies. p. 100.
Sir William Mitchell Ramsay (1897). The Cities and Bishoprics of Phrygia: Being an Essay of the Local History of Phrygia from the Earliest Times to the Turkish Conquest, Volume 2. Clarendon Press. p. 626.
Sir James George Frazer (1907). Adonis, Attis, Osiris. Macmillan. p. 238.

That's four instances of Mên in the first nine sources I can find from JSTOR and Google Books. Anyway, it's an idea. Q·L·1968 ☿ 19:45, 31 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]