Menes

According to Manetho, Menes reigned 62 years and was killed by a hippopotamus. At John F.Kennedy High School in Granada Hills, California, Jon Garland won All-State Player of the Year twice, and won high school All-American honors once. 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. Garland was selected to his first All-Star Game in 2005. It is possible that this war was transformed over time into myth. Through 4 September, 2005, Garland was 17-8 with a 3.28 ERA. 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. After five mediocre seasons with the White Sox, going 46-51 during this time, Garland finally started pitching up to his potential.

In Ancient Egyptian legend, there was a battle between Horus (a patron deity of Lower Egypt) and Set (patron deity of Upper Egypt). He was acquired by the White Sox in a 1998 trade with the crosstown Chicago Cubs, who had selected Garland with the 10th pick of the 1997 amateur draft. 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. Jon Garland (born September 27, 1979 in Valencia, California) is a right-handed starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who has played with the Chicago White Sox since 2000. The growing academic consensus is that Menes either refers to Narmer or, more likely, to his successor, Hor-Aha. 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.

In either case, Menes is credited with the foundation of Memphis, which he established as the Egyptian capital. 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.