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Buenos dias, nerds. I'm Weryllium, and today we're gonna sit down and crack open one of my favorite articles, SCP-3794 - "Salsa Hammer", by Weryllium.
On the surface, this seems like a fairly straightforward article. But beneath that short and sweet surface lies a twisted, fractal path of allegory, symbolism, and lore. Let's get started.
Item #: SCP-3794
Object Class: Safe
First things first. 3794 factors only into 2, 7, and 271. In Biblical numerology, 2 often means "witness", and 7 means "totality" or "completion". These two themes will both recur throughout this analysis. Astute Weryllium fans will no doubt observe that SCP-3794 is chronologically his 27th posted skip.
Duality is a strong concept across many of Weryllium's works, with many of his articles involving the number 2 in their number.
SCP-3794, if you swap the last two numbers, becomes 3749, another weryllium SCP with similar Biblical allusions and thematic symbolism. 3749, to spare another declass, is ostensibly a Sword of Death; the polar opposite to 3794's Hammer of Life. We'll come back to this in a bit.
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-3794 is kept within a standard item locker. Testing is currently suspended.
The use of the word "currently", clearly implies that the suspension is only temporary. We'll see why when we reach the end of the SCP.
SCP-3794 is a sledgehammer that converts living tissue to pico de gallo salsa when swung with sufficient force.
Not just any salsa, the article specifically mentions the "pico de gallo" variety. For those of you not in the know, pico de gallo [lit. "chicken beak"] is a primarily Mexican item, and is often called by the names *salsa mexicana* ["Mexican salsa"] or *salsa bandera* ["flag salsa"] in its home country, the latter of which due to its red, white and green constituents that mirror the colors of the Mexican flag.
A common correlation in the minds of many American readers is the one that exists between Hispanic immigrants and manual labor; the identity of the item being a sledgehammer is a clear nod to this.
Note the words "sufficient force". The scientific Foundation does not include the lower bound of force required to produce the effect, because they do not know it, and can't know it until testing resumes.
Hammers. They possess a dual nature, of both creation and destruction. The word "hammer" and its derivatives appear 22 times in the Bible [This declass uses the New King James Version, for posterity.] Of those 22 instances, only two of them relate to the use of a hammer on a *person* rather than an object or a metaphorical entity. We turn now to the story of Jael.
The Book of Judges is the 7th book of the Old Testament. Chapters 4 and 5 chronicle the era of Deborah's tenure as judge of Israel. For those of you whose Bible knowledge doesn't extend past chick tracts and Christmas carols, this is post *Prince of Egypt*, pre-Samson and David. King Jabin of Canaan, through his general Sisera, was the antagonist of the day.
Through the guidance of the prophet Deborah, the enemy army was defeated. Sisera fled the battlefield, seeking refuge in a tent belonging to a man named Heber. Here's wife, Jael, offered Sisera milk, and a place to rest. When he was asleep, she took a tent peg and its hammer, and performed an impromptu and fatal trepanation on Sisera.
The further theological implications of this story, and the following chapter recounting it in song form, are beyond the scope of this text, and are the domain of men more learned than I. The main takeaway here is the use of a hammer to end a regional conflict.
Clearly, this article was written with heavily reliance on both Biblical allegory and the concept of racial identity. Onward, nerds.
