AFTER EACHof Wizard’s visits the whiteboard in West’s study would be overflowing with notes.
After one such visit, it had this on it:
THUTHMOSIS V
Renegade priest of Akenaten regime; monotheist;
Rival of Rameses II; exiled by him under threat of execution.
Note Egyptian name-element “mosis” meaning “son of” or “born of”; this element is usually followed by atheorific, or divine, element.
So: “mosis” or “moses” or “meses” = “son of”;
Rameses = Ra-moses = son of Ra.
Thuthmosis = Thoth-moses = son of Thoth!
WHEREABOUTS OF TWIN TABLETS OF THUTHMOSIS
Who knows!! Temple of Solomonarca foederis Menelik Ethiopia
Templar quest to Ethiopia inA.D . 1280 Churches of Lalibela? Templar symbols all over them. Are the Tablets in Ethiopia?
NEETHA TRIBE*
Remote tribe from Democratic Republic of the Congo /Zaire region; warlike; much feared by other tribes; cannibals;
Congenital deformities in all members, variety of Proteus Syndrome (bony growth on skull, similar to Elephant Man);
Found by accident by HENRY MORTON STANLEY in 1876; Neetha warriors killed seventeen of his party; Stanley barely escaped alive; years later, he tried to find them again, but strangely he could not locate them.
Possibly the same tribe encountered by the Greek explorer HIERONYMUS during his expedition into central Africa in 205 B.C . (Hieronymus mentioned a tribe with terrible facial deformities in the jungles south of Nubia. It was from the Neetha that he stole the clear spherical orb that was later used by the Oracle at Delphi.)
BEST KNOWN EXPERT:DR. DIANE CASSIDY, Anthropologist from USC. But her whole 20-man expedition went missing in 2002 while searching for the Neetha in the Congo.
Cassidy found this cave painting in northern Zambia and attributed it to ancestors of the Neetha:
Seems to depict a hollowed-out volcano with the Delphic Orb at the summit but its meaning is unknown.
And finally, the entries that intrigued Lily the most:
EASTER ISLAND
(a.k.a. “RAPA NUI”: “THE NAVEL OF THE WORLD”)
CO-ORDS: 27°09'S, 109°27'W
BIRD-MAN CULT ( “TANGATA MANU”)
Annual competition, held near Rano Kau, the southernmost volcano of Easter Is, whereby a young champion would compete on behalf of his chieftain;
Each champion had to swim to islet of Motu Nui, grab the first tern egg of the season and then return across the shark-infested waters. The winner’s sponsor became Bird-Man, or Chief of Chiefs, for the next year.
ARISTOTLE’S RIDDLES
Series of strange axioms left by Aristotle as “life-guidance” for his students.
Aristotle’s authorship of them is disputed, since they find no correlation elsewhere in his works. They begin with:
What is the best number of lies?
(One, since to support one lie means telling more)
What is the best number of eyes?
(Again, one, after the All-Seeing Eye of Egypt)
What is the best life to live?(The afterlife—key source of Christian theology)
What is the direction of Death?
(West—Egyptian origin)
Lily particularly loved to read through West’s books on Easter Island; she could stare for hours at the great statues, the famous moai, that gazed out over the barren landscape of that distant island, the most remote on Earth.
It was not uncommon for West to find her asleep in the corner of his office, an open book lying across her lap. On those occasions he would gently pick her up, carry her to her room, and put her to bed.
The introduction of Alby to Lily’s life brought not only fun and good times, but also new reading material.
While Lily had been a longtime fan of The Lord of the Rings, it was Alby who introduced her to a boy wizard named Harry Potter.
Lily devoured the Harry Potter series and constantly reread them. In fact, whenever she traveled—either back and forth to school, or overseas to visit her Capstone teammates—the entire Harry Potter series always went with her. Always.
But as ever, the greatest source of mystery to Lily—even now after he had adopted her—was Jack West Jr.
DURING HER adventure with the Seven Wonders, Lily had learned a lot about Jack—except when it came to his family.
