Good additional, and agreed. As noted, I have little solid there, so most of it shouldn’t be taken as “true” per se, just pointing at a lot of smoke.
"Kazaam" is not an independent word (great is "akbar")
Derp. Yes. It’s been a while since I did that dig. Really thought I did find something solid on it, but yes it might not have been “great”. Shaq (father is Muslim) did a movie called Kazaam also. (Or perhaps Sinbad made it, for some of us)
Yes. For completeness, here is the searchable Magic Words, which attributes the sesame link to Walker's encyclopedia, 1983, so I think that pretty well confirms that her odd interpretation is the source. A Japanese site that mentions this source seems to attribute the seshemu data to (Wallis) Budge page 58, but naming that respectable author could mean many different books. The closest hit I find is Gods of the Egyptians in which Shesemu (not seshemu) is a divine butcher on page 50; that's much different and doesn't justify any of Walker's wild assumptions.
Funny, the next Magic Words after "sesame" are "shabukalakazam", "shallakazam", "sharing", and "shazam". Coincidence of course.
Last bizarre point: "Allahu akbar" in Hebrew cognates is just "El-Gibbor", a Biblical term for the great God. Arabic Christians have no trouble referring "Allahu akbar" to the Christian God and meaning the same thing as the Hebrew, but that's not yet the majority definition of "Allah".
Good additional, and agreed. As noted, I have little solid there, so most of it shouldn’t be taken as “true” per se, just pointing at a lot of smoke.
Derp. Yes. It’s been a while since I did that dig. Really thought I did find something solid on it, but yes it might not have been “great”. Shaq (father is Muslim) did a movie called Kazaam also. (Or perhaps Sinbad made it, for some of us)
Yes. For completeness, here is the searchable Magic Words, which attributes the sesame link to Walker's encyclopedia, 1983, so I think that pretty well confirms that her odd interpretation is the source. A Japanese site that mentions this source seems to attribute the seshemu data to (Wallis) Budge page 58, but naming that respectable author could mean many different books. The closest hit I find is Gods of the Egyptians in which Shesemu (not seshemu) is a divine butcher on page 50; that's much different and doesn't justify any of Walker's wild assumptions.
Funny, the next Magic Words after "sesame" are "shabukalakazam", "shallakazam", "sharing", and "shazam". Coincidence of course.
Last bizarre point: "Allahu akbar" in Hebrew cognates is just "El-Gibbor", a Biblical term for the great God. Arabic Christians have no trouble referring "Allahu akbar" to the Christian God and meaning the same thing as the Hebrew, but that's not yet the majority definition of "Allah".