2014-11-13

Patron of U.S.A.

Sammy (n.)
British slang for "U.S. soldier in World War I," 1918, a reference to Uncle Sam.
A Sammie may be defined as an American soldier as he appears in an English newspaper or a French cinema. It is a name he did not invent, does not like, never uses and will not recognize. ["Stars & Stripes," March 29, 1918]
Uncle Sam (n.)
symbol of the United States of America, 1813, coined during the war with Britain as a contrast to John Bull, and no doubt suggested by the initials U.S. in abbreviations. "[L]ater statements connecting it with different government officials of the name of Samuel appear to be unfounded" [OED]. The common figure of Uncle Sam began to appear in political cartoons c.1850. Only gradually superseded earlier Brother Jonathan (1776), largely through the popularization of the figure by cartoonist Thomas Nast. British in World War I sometimes called U.S. soldiers Sammies.
 Parallels between the ancient Roman Empire and the United States of America:

(1) Same alphabet
(2) Senate
(3) Motto: E pluribus unum
 
(4) Symbol: eagle
(5) Symbol: fasci (bundle of sticks with axe)
(6) Capitoline Hill - Capitol Hill
(7) Saturnalia - Christmas
(8) Republic
(9) Secret society for trade guilds, civil government and military: Mithraism - Freemasonry
(10) Epicureans vs Stoics - Liberal Democrats vs Conservative Republicans
(11) architecture
(12) decadence and excess
(13) gladiators - MMA, American football
(14) bread, wine and circuses
(15) militarism
(16) foreign policy of global domination

If Samael was the patron of the Roman Empire and the United States of America is the modern Roman Empire, i.e. the reborn phoenix, then is Samael the patron of the United States of America?
 
16 parallels!
 
No no...
 
Patron of U.S.A. is ... Mary (as Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception[33])
See 
 
33. Bunson, p. 215.
 
 ... Uncle Sam, according to legend, came into use during the War of 1812 and was supposedly named for Samuel ... Wilson.

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