Hod

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  • hod: a V-shaped stemmed trough carried over the shoulder to haul bricks, mortar, etc
  • Finnegan's Wake: (song) "And to rise in the world he carried a hod." → "he" is Tim Finnegan
  • hard: erect → sexual puns throughout the next few sentences
  • hod, cement, and edifices: HCE, in his guise as a builder of cities
  • man of hod: Deuteronomy 33:3: "Moses, the man of God"
  • Michael: Man of HOD, Hod is the eigth sphere of the tree of life and is inhabited by Archangel Michael
  • Hod: majesty, splendor (Hebrew); Hod is the 7th sefirah (category) in the kabbalistic Eitz Chaim (Tree of Life)