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* '''had Shem and Son''' → '''had Hem or Sen''' → '''had Jhem or Sen''' → '''had Jhem or Shen''' ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=article&did=JOYCECOLL.HAYMANFIRSTDRFT.I0010&id=JoyceColl.HaymanFirstDrft&isize=L A first-draft version of Finnegans wake] * '''had:''' "Had! The manifestation of Nuit" - First line of Aleister Crowley's Liber AL Legis. Had is a shorthand for Hadit, the Thelemic version of Horus. Notice it happens [[Vico|four]] times in this page, and al (the key to the Book of the Law) happens four times on the previous one ([[Page 628]]) : "The keys to. Given! A way '''a l'''one '''a l'''ast''' a l'''oved '''al'''ong the". * '''[[Shem]]:''' one of [[HCE|Earwicker's]] [[twins]] * '''Shem''' (''Hebrew'') ''ha-Shem'' "the name", i.e. God. One possible pronunciation for the Tetragrammaton YHWH. * '''Shem, Ham & Japhet:''' in Genesis, the three sons of Noah ** '''Noah planted the vine and was drunk''' – Joyce, in a letter (15 November 1926) to [[Harriet Shaw Weaver]] * '''Jhem or Shen:''' Jameson → John Jameson & Sons Ltd, Dublin whiskey distillers → [[twins|twin]] of Arthur Guinness & Sons Ltd, Dublin brewery * '''James''' * '''[[Shaun]]:''' one of [[HCE|Earwicker's]] [[twins]] → sometimes identified in FW with Stanislaus Joyce, and sometimes with the author's would-be elder brother, who died in infancy in 1881 before James Joyce's birth (see Ellmann, ''James Joyce'', p. 21) * '''shen ?:''' (''Chinese'') god, spirit [[Category: Shem the Pen]]

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