Homer
The name of the poet Homer, whose name & life are an enigma, is likely a pun with a Semitic word for “veil”. It is found in Arabic as ḫmr for “veiling” & “concealing”, and in Hebrew & Aramaic as ḥmr / kmr for “piling” & “covering”.
- One clue to detecting this pun is the poet Homer’s modern namesake Homer Simpson, invented by Hollywood spooks.
- Simpson is a variant of Samson, and Samson is also a pun with “veil”. Homer Simpson is thus a doubly-veiled pun.
- The word Homer itself also occurs in Samson’s story: as the famous donkey’s jawbone, because the donkey also puns with “veil”.
- Finding Semitic puns in the names of famous Greek poets is more evidence for the Phoenician roots of all later empires.
Arabic, Hebrew, Aramaic ḫmr, ḥmr, kmr = veil, cover, hide, pile on
خِمَار ḫmˀr ḵimār : veil, cover of women — Arabic (Wikt)
خمار ḫmˀr khimar : a woman’s veil or head-dress — Arabic (Catafago)
خَمَرَ ḫmr ḵamara : to cover, to hide, to conceal; to brew to ferment, to leaven, to cause to rise chemically — Arabic (Wikt)
חמר ḥmr : to cover with asphalt — Hebrew (Klein)
כמר kmr : to pile on, do again; to cover something to keep it hot; to hide, keep safe; to do something again and again; to be turned around; to be returned; to have compassion — Aramaic (CAL)
כמר kmr : to hide, keep warm; to shrink, be wrinkled; to feel compassion — Hebrew (Jastrow)
חמר ḥmr : heap; ‘homer’ — name of a dry measure — Hebrew (Klein)