Mastabatoom

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  • Mastodon: a now extinct large mammal similar to an elephant distinctive because of its nipple shaped teeth, and whose name it greek masto-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!
  • tomb: (n.) a "mastaba tomb" would be a burial site
  • 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)
  • masturbation
  • Mastabatoom: an onomatopoeic word representing the sound of Tim Finnegan's fall