Extemporaneous musings, occasionally poetic, about life in its richly varied dimensions, especially as relates to history, theology, law, literature, science, by one who is an attorney, ordained minister, historian, writer, and African American.
Tuesday, November 11, 2014
PHILAE REDUX
http://news.discovery.com/space/asteroids-meteors-meteorites/first-time-comet-landing-no-sure-bet-141111.htm?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=dnewsnewsletter#mkcpgn=emnws1
'PHILAE," the name of the European Space Agency probe expected to land on this comet, was also the name of the sacred island in Upper Egypt in the middle of the Nile River , where the final Egyptian priest who was able to read the hieroglyphics, was murdered by Christians to facilitate the spread of its religion, according to the book, STOLEN LEGACY, by George G.M. James. "ROSETTA," the comet probe's mothership is name of the famous stone, deciphered by Champollion, of France in 1822, containing hieroglyphic, Greek, and Demotic inscriptions; enabling him to crack the hieroglyphic code, after its absence of almost 2,000 years. How paradoxical!