what is in a name?

i guess many of you wonder "why the hell did this guy use such a strange name?"

perhaps you may also consider it to be yet another manifestation of my deranged self and the word being yet another gobbledygook i produced, perhaps when i was being administered shock therapy!!!

possible, but not quite.

horemheb http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horemheb was the last king of the ancient egypt's 18th dynasty. people who are slightly interested in metaphysics and esoteric mystery stories may know his more famous predecessor, tutankhamen aka tutankhaton aka King Tut in popular lore.
horemheb was the military general and mentor of the boy king tut and the appointed successor to the throne of egypt.
he was an exemplary diplomat and army general. some say king tut was assassinated by horemheb but that is unlikely as the immediate successor was another general named ay who tried hard to get rid of horemheb. but after 4 years horemheb, in a move i adore, struck and killed off ay and his designated successor and became the pharaoh of all egypt!!!

he became a legendary ruler restrengthening a much weakened egypt that had seen unhealthy over centralization, corrupt religious revolution and a much more corrupted religious priestdom under King Tut's uncle akhenaton whose consort was the legendary beauty nefertiti!!!!!

under horemheb egypt became stronger and richer.

so this is why i chose the name horemheb as my alter ego!!!!

after all who better than a man vilified by all historians for crimes he never committed but was a better king and ruler than his more legendary counter parts!!!!

the name first struck my mind about 11 years earlier when i read a book on egyptian history at my uncle's house in trivandrum. the uncle being a renowned scientist was a more benign and charming character then and the collection of books he had was absolutely impressive!!!!

and of course the very strangeness and nature of the name captivated me!!!!

so this is the genesis of the name "HOREMHEB".