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uh, why? ~ etaoin
…“His image was that of a vessel with a human head; a legend runs that this image was developed by his priests to counteract the adherents of a Chaldean fire-god, who was supposed to consume the images of other gods. These priests took a pot, put the head of an old god image on top of it, stopped up the holes in it with wax and filled it with water. When fire was applied to it, the wax melted and the water put out the fire. Another story says that a jar with a human head was a manifestation of Osiris.
This image, of a jar with a head, was confused very early on with the completely unrelated jar which contained organs, and the name 'Canopic jar' was coined. Completely inaccurate, it is one of those terms which has remained in the vocabulary.”
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Carpal Tunnel
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thanks, dixbey! gotta love religion... 
formerly known as etaoin...
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Head on a jar = rebus?
rebus
n.
5Fr r=bus < L, abl. pl. of res, thing (see REAL1), lit., (meaning indicated) by things6 a kind of puzzle consisting of pictures of objects, signs, letters, etc., the combination of whose names suggests words or phrases !a picture of an eye followed by an L followed by an ampersand is a rebus for “island”"
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