25: Sleepwatch
Dec20
Well I’m sure that giant, creepy eye is totally normal… Right?
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Well I’m sure that giant, creepy eye is totally normal… Right?
Be sure to come back on Christmas Eve for a super cute bonus filler. 🙂
Looks perfectly normal to me.
Nothing to see here giant floating spectral eye, just a normal talking cat enjoying its afternoon nap.
A giant floating spectral eye, Sauron maybe?
Not Sauron, I don’t see any fire around the eye..
He’s entering Hypnos, whatever that entails.
Error: “Seriously! How bad it can be?!!”
Corrected “Seriously! How bad can it be?!!”
AH, yes. Thanks. I knew that line looked odd, but I couldn’t place my finger on why.
OK, I have no idea exactly what Kazom’s saying in Panel 4, although I can guess that he’s probably cursing or something similar. (Or maybe reciting a spell to enter Hypnos.)
The letters are Greek, although there are several other languages that are also written using the same alphabet. (Coptic, Lydian, Aramaic, Phrygian, occasionally Hebrew, etc.)
It’s Greek, appropriate for Hypnos, I guess. I don’t speak or read Greek, but anyone with some algebra and astronomy can recognize the Greek alphabet. If you replace all the upper-case Greek letters with lower case, Google translate spits out:
yom aig atpop nit etxiona sonpych
“of the United Nations”
Ambassador Kazom?
Also, Kaz? How have you lived to be as old as you are and not know that you never tempt Fate like that? It does love a challenge . . .
I’ve got “the main driver of the car” … I suspect google translate is not reliable for this one.
I think the actual phrase is “ΥΟΜ ΑΙΓ ΑΤΡΟΠ ΝΗΤ ΕΤΞΙΟΝΑ, ΣΟΝΠΥΧ”, but I haven’t got a clue as to what it means – I can’t find any of those words in an online Greek dictionary, and I don’t know anyone who speaks Greek.
Of course, given Kazom’s age, it could easily be Ancient Greek, which had different spellings.
Carlos, can you provide an English version?
I can’t tell. It’s Greek to me.
Wow. How did I not think of that horribly awesome pun?
I’m actually ashamed.
Could Nellah “that crazy cat” be a sneaky reference to Krazy Kat? That was a comic strip that featured a cat in love with a mouse who kept throwing bricks at her and was very surrealistic, like a dream.
I will be honest, short after coming with the “crazy cat” line, I did thought of that comic, but still, that was after the fact.
If anything, Nellah and Kazom are more of a reference to “the sword in the stone” from Disney.
So, Nellah is supposed to be mad, mad, mad, mad, mad, mad, mad Madam Mim, huh?
Well, she did say she could make herself pretty. I’ll take it.
@He Who Abides oh no, Madam Mim comes later! I was mostly thinking of the squirrels.
Cool. I need to rewatch that movie now.
It’s a tough life being a cat.
Greek has been around for a long, long time. Really Ancient Greek we know about from writing from over 3,000 years ago. The Greeks learned their literacy from the Minoans and Hittites–and then they lost it when most of the great Bronze Age civilizations fell apart. Writing reappeared after a few centuries, but it was based on the Phoenician/Old Hebrew Alphabet, and nobody figured out how to read any of the earlier Greek writing until less than a hundred years ago.
All the letters, however, are modern Greek. I suspect Carlos lifted this phrase whole from something to do with the United Nations.
BTW, there’s a reproduction of the surviving parts of the Hittite copy of the treaty on display in the United Nations building in New York City. It’s from 1259 BC. Ramses II left giant statues of himself and got to be played by Yul Brynner in The Ten Commandments.
Ok guys, confession time, I was thinking on telling you the translation to panel four, buuuuut, the actual trúe is far lamer that what you all got so far (BTW, you are not even close), so I will just leave the mystery cause it seems better this way, I will just say that @Kattgirl got right her second theory, it is a spell to enter Hypnos.
Still, if you insist to translate this lame riddle, I will give you this one clue: Just in the comments you already have all you need to translate the exact text of the spell to open the door to Hypnos.
If someone actually translate the text, please, don’t comment it and instead let me know at hollumdusk@gmail.com, if you have it right, I will make a simple Greek themed pic of any MC character of your liking to keep the secret!… though this offer is only valid until January 19, once I come back from my trip.
And remember!… the trúe is actually really lame u_u
Nice to see Sauron still getting work after the whole ‘ruler of middle earth’ thing failed