Mastabatoom

• mastaba: a flat-roofed clay building used to mark a burial site in ancient Egypt; the forerunner of the pyramid → this paragraph corresponds to Vico's third age, which is characterized by the institution of burial
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  • Evolution of Egyptian Tombs

• Mastodon: a now extinct large mammal similar to an elephant distinctive because of its nipple shaped teeth, and whose name it greek masta-dont means tit / breast teeth; implying breast feeding

• batou: (Japanese) sword or scabbard (possible phallic imagery?)

• toom: (adj.) empty; (v.t.) to empty → the empty tomb as a sign of Christ's resurrection

• toom: (n.) a rubbish tip → the kitchen midden, or rubbish tip, in HCE's backyard → see Dumb!

• teem: toom is the anglo saxon for teem → teem in the sense of being pregnant / spawning 'teeming with life' or overflowing → so mastab tomb teeming with life → resurection of Osiris

• toom phonetics: (anglo saxon) pronounced as TOM see Peeping Tom and Mastabadtomm

• tomb: (n.) a "mastaba tomb" would be a burial site → this paragraph corresponds to Vico's third age, which is characterized by the institution of burial

• Atum: Early Egyptian deity - the first god, who created himself (suggestive of a ricorso). A hermaphrodite. Created the other deities either by coupling with his own shadow or out of his own semen (suggesting a masturbatory act), depending on the tradition. Had two aspects - one as the 'young' rising sun and one as the 'old' setting sun (a cycle of death and rebirth)
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  • Nefertum

• masturbation

• Mastabatoom: an onomatopoeic word representing the sound of Tim Finnegan's fall