Blossom

🏷 Semitic pun · symbol — by Gerry · Sep 2020 · 151 words

On Phoenician steles, you regularly find generic blossoms that don’t seem to depict any particular flower. These seem to be instances of non-spooky puns like they were common in all religions before spookery: Semitic פרח prḥ means “flower”, but also “flying away”, and by derivation “passing away”. That’s why these blossoms are found on gravestones. Modern-day spooks showed them in a the film Annibale, though I’m not sure if they had a special reason.

Phoenician funeral stele with blossoms, from Athens. — Phoenician funeral stele with blossoms for Abdmelqart aka Noumenios,
from Athens.

Hannibal movie with Phoenician blossom column — Italian movie Annibale about the Phoenician general:
This wide-screen shot was used to sneak in Phoenician blossom symbols.

Hebrew, Aramaic prḥ = blossom, flower ornament, flying away, passing away

פרח prḥ : blossom, flower, an ornament in the shape of a flower — Hebrew (Jastrow)

פרח prḥ : to fly; to move along very quickly, sail; to depart, be gone; (in death); to blossom; to be wasted — Aramaic (CAL)

🏷 Semitic pun · symbol