Greek

27 entries · click on a title to read the article

Aeneas

is the same spelling as “bronze”, hinting at Phoenician bronze traders founding Rome

Angel

puns with “mockery”

Athena

is a multi-pun with “intelligence”, “gazing” and similar words

Atlantis

puns with “unnoticed” & “hidden”

Chaos

is bad because it puns with “truth”

Claudius

puns with “locked up” & “disappeared” in Semitic

Columbus

puns with kollubos for “exchange”, and collybista for “banker”

Cyclops

means “circular eye”, but also “eyes of the crowd”, so he’s an enemy

Fasces

pun with “possess” & “fiscus”, and with “breaking” & “alotting” in many languages

Griffin

is a multi-pun with “cryptic” & “Phoenician”

Hippocampus

puns with “boasting”

Hippogriff

puns with “disguised” & “unknown”

Horn

puns with “mockery” & “enacting others” in various languages

Introduction to punnery

including some admitted examples

Jew

means “leader” & “majesty”

Josephus: War of the Jews

is about how the nobles started pretending to be subjects, especially religious outcasts

Levi

means “moneylender”, and puns with “mocking” & “playing”

Newton

translates as “Carthage” in Phoenician

Owl

puns with “spying”, as does Athens

Pegasus

puns with “winged horse”, but also “coaxing by flattery” — in Semitic!

Phoenician

may be derived from “turners of wealth”, and puns with “finance” & “fraud”

Poseidon

puns with pseudon, which means “falsehood”

Semitic

script is really used as a semiotic script

Triskelion

is a synonym for “banking”

Trojan horse

puns with “wooden horse”, and also with “bait” & “decoy”

Unicorn

tamed by a virgin is a smutty pun with “piercing” & “penis”

Wolf

puns with “liar” in Hebrew, “veiling” in Latin, “shell” in Greek