Remember that in Hesberian, aj is pronounced similar to ai in English. When followed by another vowel, a y sound is slightly vocalized on the second vowel. In short, the name is me-nai-yen.
Menajen was a generation removed from Eristotle and yet learned at the school he founded shortly before his death. Menajen was fascinated by numerology and tended to shoehorn all knowledge into his “principles of numbers”. Started from the principle that all things conformed to a pattern of sevens, he sought to redefine the world.
Observing a rainbow, he stated that there were seven colors. Studying music, he argued that a five note scale was really an incomplete version of a seven note scale. In medicine, he agreed with Onhedius that there were seven major body systems, seven fluids in the body, etc. He even went so far as to describe the seven humors and their effect on personality. There were seven shapes though the last two were perfect forms that did not exist in the real world, the ‘supersphere’ and the ‘supercube’. He named seven oceans, seven types of sentient species, seven major gods, seven minor gods, seven realms, etc. etc.
Specifically in music, he demonstrated that a seven note scale contained the notes from the two types of pentatonic scales. If you imagine the seven notes as 1 -7, he argued that a major pentatonic was notes 1,2,3,5,6 while the minor was 1,2,4,5,7. When critics pointed out Pythagoras’ circle of fifths demonstrated harmony mathematically and that his seven note scale did not follow a similar harmonic, he simply denounced Pythagoras as a ‘drifting sophist without practical learning.’
The list of gods he provided was incomplete. For this reason, it is believed that the offended god struck Menajen down. Ironically, he neglected the god of wine and died from alcohol poisoning.
His work would have been completely lost except for the emergence of magic centuries later. The numerology of his work appears to explain unknown areas of magic more easily than Eristotle or his followers. The fact that Menajen’s theoeries have been demonstrated to be inaccuarate in most areas of knowledge, including magic, has not deterred interest in his writings. Every generation produces at least one mage trying to create a ‘circle of sevenths’ that explains Pythagoras’ circle of fifths and corelates with the magic septagram.
As a result, an inept magician is usually called ‘Menajen’, a ‘seven-seer’, or worse. His works are associated with the ‘unlearned’ in the magic community.