María: What do I think? If you don’t have the power right now, you should work on figuring it out, that’s what! Also, while you’re working on being nice to Saxon? Give him a more normal name!
Some of the nicknames you give people are innocuous —
[Simeon Ben Judah, a.k.a. “Rocky”]
María: — but anyone who knows Latin is wondering what kind of sinister thing Saxon did to be called “Knifey.”
Josh: Ooh. What’s a good non-controversial name?
María: Try something patriotic.
Josh: Saxon! From now on, you also answer to “Judah”!
Saxon: Yes, Lord!
María: As for figuring out how to change him . . .
Are these your only notes from your travels? Your handwriting is terrible.
Josh: Hey, you’re the scribe, not me! If you had come along on the trip like I asked, we wouldn’t have this problem.
Disciple 1: Are we sure they’re not secretly married?
Disciple 2: When I write all this up for history, I’m referring to María as “the disciple Josh was totally into.”
Oh my oh my. And here I thought I was way over Anderson references.
Same here. Daaang HAHA.
Wait, so are we saying that Saxon goes on to be Anderson? Since regenerative abilities and possibly immortal blablabla…
Saxon goes on to help someone found Iscariot and continues to be employed there in. That is actually a very possible fusion in this universe!
So now Saxon is Judah… aka Knifey… and the latter nickname is in Latin?
O.O
If memory serves, the Saxons are named for the scramasax (or just seax), a large knife/short sword that was pretty common in the part of Germany they came from. I’m not sure they were a thing quite this early, though.
All correct! In-universe, Saxon is named for a kind of blade that would have been around in Josh’s time. Like the towns, his name has been translated/modernized, to a name that also basically means “knife guy” but doesn’t sound too exotic to modern readers.
Erin is a very clever author, giving us all these wonderful puzzles to play with!
This sounds like the comment of someone who has just realized what Saxon’s deal is =D
But, Simon, son of Judas? Not well-versed in Christian texts… ._.
Or Simon, son of Jonah?
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2016&version=NIV
It’s Petrus. Petrus actually means rock and is his nickname, hisproper name is Simon/Simeon in the New Testament.
Or, you’re likely more familiar with Saint Peter. Sorry, different backgrounds in bible knowlege and all.The name Peter comes from Petros (Latin Petrus) and that coes from the ancient greek for rock.
Oh hah man, I don’t have very much Biblical knowledge, really.
Special guest drawing skills from XCKD.
“are you sure they aren’t secretly married?”
First of all, Oh gods, “Josh” has fan boys, and they ship XD I love this so much.
secondly, While I know they aren’t married…they are so married XD They may not have had a ceremony, they may not have slept together, but they are so married…
Simon “The Rock” Jonah, my favorite WWF character!