Menes

According to Manetho, Menes reigned 62 years and was killed by a hippopotamus. Halladay is out for the rest of the 2005 season when Kevin Mench hit a ground ball at his leg. A much later parallel can be found leading to the establishment of the reign of Pharaoh Khasekhemwy several hundred years later; he crushed a civil war between the followers of Set and Horus. He usually posts a good strikeout-to-walk ratio and is a ground ball pitcher. It is possible that this war was transformed over time into myth. Halladay's pitches include a good fastball, one of the best curveballs in the league, and a split-finger fastball. In this mythological unification of the two Egypts, Set was defeated and the kingdom was unified under the rule of Horus, the first king of all Egypt. In 2004, he went 8-8.

In Ancient Egyptian legend, there was a battle between Horus (a patron deity of Lower Egypt) and Set (patron deity of Upper Egypt). In 2003, he also led the AL in innings pitched (266.0) and tied for the AL lead in complete games (nine). Another name for Menes has various spellings: Hor Aka, Hor-Aka, and Hor Aha; Hor-Aka can be translated as "Horus of the Reeds", possibly in allusion to the legend in which Isis hid Horus in the Nile Delta among papyri and reeds. Halladay had his best seasons in 2002, when he made the All-Star team, and posted a 19-7 record with 168 strikeouts and a 2.93 ERA, and 2003, when he won the AL Cy Young Award with a 22-7 record, 204 strikeouts and a 3.25 ERA. The growing academic consensus is that Menes either refers to Narmer or, more likely, to his successor, Hor-Aha. He bats and throws right-handed. It should be noted that while there is extensive archeological evidence of there being a pharaoh named Narmer, so far there is no contemporaneous archeological evidence for a pharaoh called Menes. Halladay has played for the Toronto Blue Jays since 1998 and was the team's first draft selection (17th overall) in the 1995 MLB First Year Draft.

In either case, Menes is credited with the foundation of Memphis, which he established as the Egyptian capital.
Harry Leroy "Roy" Halladay (born May 14, 1977 in Denver, Colorado), or "Doc" Halladay, is a Major League Baseball starting pitcher. Some Egyptologists hold that Narmer and Menes are in fact the same person; others hold that Menes inherited an already-unified kingdom from Narmer; still others hold that Menes completed a process of unification started either unsuccessfully or only partially successfully by Narmer. However, the discovery of the Narmer Palette in the late 19th century showing the pharaoh Narmer, possibly pre-dating Menes, wielding the unified symbols of both Upper and Lower Egypt has caused some controversy. Manetho, a 3rd century BC Egyptian historian, called him Menes; the 5th century BC Greek historian Herodotus referred to him as Min; and two native-king lists of the 19th dynasty (13th century BC) call him Meni.

Ancient Egyptian legend credits a pharaoh by this name with uniting Upper and Lower Egypt into one kingdom. 3050 BC. 3100-3000 BC, but according to some lists, ca. He lived ca.

Menes was an Egyptian pharaoh of the First dynasty, to some authors the founder of this dynasty, to others the Second.