Because I can make things up, too.
Rhona is an actress, famous enough to have made it into some movies you've actually heard of. Shooter, with Wahlberg. One of the Underworld movies. Some lesser known classics like Beowulf with the incomparable Rutger Hauer(Correction, Christopher Lambert) and Doomsday. And guest spots in recent TV shows. She has a huge....talent and cool accent.
What we have here looks like a full blown Pythonym. It's at least the level just below, or pseudopythonym , a pseudopythonym being something attributed to someone that had nothing to do with it.
This goes back to the 2017 Burning Man festival where it seems some bloke chose to set himself on fire. The festival, being set during the summer solstice, was deemed to be and gematrified as a pagan solar solstice ritual with SOLAR MAN = 93. Which has a lovely fit like a tailor made sun dress to the other 93= Sun references quoted and misquoted.
The problem is, it doesn't really see to exist. Researching Free To Find Truth there's a single reference to Manly P. Hall using the term Solar Man. The Internet doesn't seem to agree. A search engine look into "Solar Man festival" or "Solar Man pagan" or the like doesn't yield much support. It hits the Burning Man festival, probably because it coincides with the solstice. There are oodles of solar power companies looking for business, including solarmanaustralia.com and the comic book character Solar Man. Even when specifically looking for a pagan ritual.
Now here's where Rhona's good name gets sullied by being dragged into this. Other than that my fondness for her has elevated her. (I believe I might have mentioned her before, I'll have to check.) Unable to leave well enough alone, the first commented on the accompanying video calls MITHRAS the Roman precursor to Solar Man. Congratulations. You win a Sunshine Hydrox cookie. However, this also appears to be completely made up. Which with the overlap between Greek and Roman culture may elevate this to a full Pythonym, attributing the creation of something to Pythagoras he had nothing to do with. (Reference Pythagoras the Horny.)
I won't go that far. Let's call it a Mitranym. You can never have enough -nyms when dealing with these nymrods.
Searching MITHRAS you find MITHRAISM. A mystery cult. Because historians aren't sure what they were all about. Secret initiation rites and litanies, lots of feasting and booze. Surely some spanking and role play must have happened, but who knows for sure. The name is mysterious. Lots of cultures have a MITRA or similar Mithraic equivalent in name. There's a Hindu Mitra, which is a sun deity. This is unlikely to have made it's way to Rome. I especially like the bits in Wikipedia that specifically mention that MITHRAS activity coincided with the solstice, but didn't specifically have anything to do with sun deity pagan worship. And, get this, they uncovered evidence of mystery cult activity in dark, underground rooms.
Because nothing says Sun worship like doing it in the dark.
I could forgive the solar man gematria with it having a historical precedent via the Hall notation, but now you're just stretching it too far. If you ever did actual research instead of just hiding behind the facade of what real historians call, "making shit up" there's a perfectly good alternative available. I'm not making this up. In addition to the solar power company there's an Australian sun deity, Gnowee. (Hmmmm...there's a lot of letters of Wollongong in there, can't be a coincidence.) And GNOWEE = 93.
Shappens.
Let me check........Manly Hall.....hmmmm....gematria advocate....me....still not so much. Nope. No change here. My obscure reference trumps your more obscure reference.
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