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From: Roy Stockdill <>
Subject: FASCINATING PAGES
Date: Sun, 1 Aug 1999 10:54:30 -0400


Chris Newall (thinks - should that be KNOWALL???) wrote...

>>In article <>, Roy Stockdill
<> writes
>big snip...
>Having seen all the sights and with nothing much else to do,
>Pepe joined up as a corporal in Ramses' army and served with outstanding
>distinction at the Battle of Kadesh, actually saving the Pharaoh's life
>when a giant Hittite was about to fillet him with a long spear.
>big snip...

Not so - in the descriptions of the battle of Kadesh it was stated that
'his majesty alone, with no help, with none one else near, attacked and
defeated the Hittites'. No mention of Pepe anywhere. Unless, of course,
he was cunningly disguised as Ramesses pet lion which was picturesquely
named 'tearer of his enemies to pieces'.

Actually the battle of Kadesh was a score-draw - Hitties 1 : Egyptians 1
- anyone successfully predicting this on their pools form for 1299 BC
might well have won a Hittite princess. Perhaps Ramesses cheated and won
the jackpot - he certainly married a Hittite princess a few years later.
Ramesses is also known in Egyptological circles as 'the great
chiseller', which lends support to the suspicion that he may have been a
match fixer.

There are, of course records of Pepi (aka Pepe?) in the 6th Dynasty.
Pepi II is reputed to have reigned for 94 years - but even this
longevity would not have extended into the New Kingdom 1000 years later.<<

ARE you casting nasturtiums on my knowledge of Ancient Egypt and the
Pharoahs? Naturally, the vital role played by Pepe Alvarez Rodrigo
Concerto d'Aranjuez in saving the life of Ramses II was hushed up at the
time, since the Pharoah was supposed to be all-powerful and it would not
have looked good to his subjects to know that he had only been spared a
fatal filleting from a giant Hittite by the timely intervention of a humble
cobbler's son from Montevideo. However, Ramses himself knew the truth and
this is why he treated Pepe so generously. I expect you are wondering also
what a chap from Uruguay was doing in Egypt in 1299 BC. Well, people
travelled much more widely in those days than has been imagined, and long,
long before the Vikings or Columbus discovered America from Europe, a race
of advanced Indians from South America were paddling across the Southern
Atlantic in their huge dugout canoes made from the trunks of giant trees
from the rain forests. They then made their way up the coast of Africa and
along the Mediterranean until they found Egypt. Pepe actually arrived there
as a member of the Uruguayan camel racing team and liked Egypt so much he
decided to stay.

The beautiful Nubian dancing wench whom Pepe married, BTW, was the secret
illegitimate daughter of the Hittite king, Cyril the Incontinent. Thus, it
was a marriage of convenience as far as Rames was concerned, since it kept
the Hittites off his back for a few years. As I mentioned in my earlier
message, the descendants of Pepe and Nefertitite are legion throughout
Europe. The present head of the UK branch of the dynasty is one Albert
Scroggins, who has a tobacconist's shop in the Walworth Road, South London.

Roy Stockdill
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