Twos-day: San Ramon, another Walt, and flying into the Sun

I am here at SFO airport waiting to fly a red-eye back home.  I flew out to California directly from my son's hockey tournament in Philadelphia.  I dropped him off on a flight going back home to Minnesota, and I got on a different plane out here to San Francisco for some meetings yesterday and today in San Ramon.

It was kind of interesting being out in San Ramon because this is where I was born (I guess technically I was born in a hospital in Walnut Creek, but our house was in San Ramon).  My parents moved up to Oregon when I would have been less than 2 years old, though.  I have never been back, so I have no memory of living here.

I called my folks when I landed and let them know I was going to be in San Ramon for a couple days.  They went down memory lane talking about where we used to live.  Apparently they had passed through again quite a few years ago, and had gone by our old house, but it had been torn down and a much larger house had been built in its place (a 'monstrosity' as my Dad called it).   They mentioned the street it was on, and that it had been just a block or two down the street from an elementary school named Walt Disney Elementary School.

I looked it up on a map and decided it wasn't too far to go on a run one morning from my hotel before my meetings started to go check it out.  Why not.

This morning I went on a run over there, found the elementary school. and took a picture of the sign by the school's park so I could send it over to my parents.  I then found what I thought might be the house that was built in the place of the one we used to live in (I haven't sent it over yet to see if my guess was right or wrong).

I was in a hurry to get back in time for my meetings, and I was pretty busy the rest of the day with meetings, so I didn't really give it too much more thought.

Later, after everything was wrapped up and I was headed to the airport, I pulled up the picture again of the Walt Disney sign and noticed that it featured a picture of a bird that one might imagine as flying into the sun.  It turns out that this is the logo of the city of San Ramon.  I believe the bird is meant to be a crow.  Given that I have used or noticed other imagery of things flying into the Sun on this blog (Rabbits, Star Ships, and even my dream where I walked into the Sun), it stood out to me.  Here is my picture of the sign, followed by a larger logo image for the city I pulled off the internet:

Here is one example of something else flying into the Sun that I used in one of my Star Trek posts:

And I just noticed as I was pulling in the Walt Disney picture that we have another reference to a Walt or Walter.  Go figure.

Interestingly, Ramon as a name has come up on this blog in the form of some of my 2020 words that I've shared in a couple places, most recently in the post  An Usher roller skating around a Black Hole.  In that post, I noted the name of the singer Usher was Raymond, and that this was a form of the name Raymon that I had written down on March 28, 2020, and which I believe applied to Faramir-Eonwe.

Birthdays and I'm feeling 22

Maybe because I was born in San Ramon and I was on a flight going there, I suddenly realized another connection to the number 22.  That is the day of the month I was born.  July 22nd.  I only realized this because while sitting on the plane, I looked at the safety card in the back of the seat and it indicated it had been revised on 02/22.  I mean, I knew I was born on July 22nd, I just hadn't ever made any connection between that as a date with 22 as a number as it has come up in dreams and other things, for whatever reason.  It must have been seeing 22 in the form of a date that made me finally think about it in this way.

In any case, 22 has come up for me in dream phrases and games, such as the little girl asking her father to play at "2 tonight", which I changed into Tutu night, or Tudu night.  However, in thinking about this now, perhaps "22 night" also works.  In this other way of writing it, you would have night mean dark or dim, and come up with "22 Dark or Dim", which I think has some meaning here.  "22 Fragrances" was another phrase in my dreams with that number, and of course, The Rock played up 22 in his WWE promo.

The other interesting thing about flying out yesterday (Monday) and finally noticing that 22 was the same number as my birthday, is that over on William Tychonievich's blog, he wished a singer a happy birthday.  Birthday thoughts were in the air, apparently.

But, there was another interesting connection to this number I thought of.  A few days ago, William wrote a post with the simple title of "Tuesday".  I had left a comment turning the word into "Tiu's Day", and noting some interesting translations or meaning of the word, specifically in context of Orion, since that character has been on my mind.

However, I realized that there was another game with Tuesday:  Twos Day.  As in the Day of Twos.  There is only one day of the month, obviously, that multiple Twos and thus can be called Twos Day, and that is the 22nd.

Further, I noted a little funny symbolism with the actual date of my birthday that could be an interesting little wink that this story of Orion and the 7 Daughters is perhaps on the right path.

July is the 7th month of the year, and you would write out my birthday as 7-22 in numeric form.  In looking at in in this way, I noted that you would accurately say that 22 follows after the number 7.  In my post on Remmirath (the Netted Stars), I wrote that just as Orion follows the 7 Daughters through the sky, Faramir-Eonwe would follow the 7 Daughters.  Here, in numeric form, you have 22 following 7.

But why the number 22 here for Orion?   Well, one reason might be the fact that he comprises one member of two sets of twins that seem to form the parentage of the Family of Light.  You have Asenath-Nimloth and Faramir-Eonwe, and Ilmare-Eowyn and Joseph-Lorien, as the sibling pairs, and these pairs are joined together by marriage.  So, in my mind, perhaps the 22 is symbolic of this group, as in he is a "22".

This makes more sense than I probably even give it credit for, honestly, and thus makes those earlier dream references with the 22 number and word games also make more sense.  The 22 Dark (night) for example is a good description for the current state of Faramir-Eonwe, actually.  If he is on this Earth, as I suspect, then he will be Dark in the same way I have argued that the Lamanites were Dark... he will not be a luminous or shining Being of Light, but rather with a body that is Dark - like ours.  A skin of Blackness.  

Further, think of the symbolism of the Oreo Cookie.  In my post likening Faramir to the symbolism of the Oreo, you have a Black Sun.  A symbol of an eclipse and New Moon shining, yes, but also a Sun with no Light.  Black.  The Oreo Cookie is Black on the outside, but White on the inside.  Pied, after a manner.

This then also points to the symbolism of the San Ramon logo at the beginning of this post.  A Black bird (crow) flying into the Sun.

Orion and his most excellent pose

In a post about a month ago titled Dancing on the Ceiling, I explored some interesting things regarding Lionel Richie's song by that same name.

One of the things that I called out in that post, that only struck me in the course of writing it, was a dance move and pose that reminded me of a scene from Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure.  I called it another Easter Egg at the time, but didn't have any additional ideas or insights into the link other than I have called out some individual story elements from both videos (for the Bill and Ted rough allegory, see this post)  

Here are the two relevant pictures that I had in that post from Richie's video and the scene from Bill and Ted's.

In that post, you can get a better view of the dance move and pose in the videos that I also included there (I added the Bill and Ted scene again toward the end of this post).

Anyway, in both scenes a sign is made by extending the left arm out, while the right arm is raised above the head.

In Dancing on the Ceiling, this is the sign or motion that was made by the dancers once Lionel Richie had entered the room.  In the case of Bill and Ted's, a smaller guitar motion was made by the floating, seated tribunal.  After Bill and Ted reciprocated the sign, then a large group of people came out to greet them using the same sign and motion (the guitar strum).

I was looking at a picture of the Orion constellation the other day, and what do you know, guess who is also striking the same pose as he walks across our sky?

That's right - Orion is exhibiting the same pose as we see in these other videos.  The right hand lifted high, and the left extended to the left.  

I went back and rewatched that Bill and Ted scene, and another thing struck me that reminded me of the LDS temple drama.  In the endowment session, Adam is given a name which he is told not to disclose, but there is a sign associated with it that he can.  As mentioned in my earlier post, when Bill and Ted arrive at this future spot the 3 floating beings simply call them "you" ("It's you!"), to which Ted responds "Yeah, it's us!" and then asks Bill "Who are we?" to which Bill merely shrugs.  

Thus, no names are disclosed, but the floating beings respond to this inability to express their names by demonstrating the sign.  The sign is in response to the question of "What are our names?" essentially.  In other words, the sign is given by the Beings to specifically answer Ted's question without verbally speaking the name.   Bill and Ted respond with the same sign, and it is at this point that the group gathers around them and gives this same sign.  

This is actually pretty much how it happens when Adam and Eve meet with Peter, James, and John in the temple drama.  No names are exchanged, even though they are asked for, but the sign associated with that hidden name is in fact given.  It is after giving the sign that these Beings known each other, and can trust each other.  Adam will actually say, once having seen this sign, that he knows these Beings are true messengers, and encourages others to hear them.

This bears out in Bill and Ted's experience.  Once this sign is exchanged - the one that is associated with Orion and which the Elves, according to Tolkien, would have first seen when they woke up at Cuivienen - the floating Beings wish for Bill and Ted to say something, or teach them, which they oblige by sharing some profound wisdom.

Here is the video again in case you want to check this out:

What I will now suggest, and perhaps explore in a later post as part of my thoughts around Orion and the Being he represents, is that the name that this sign represents is likely THE NAME.   The name of redemption, specifically the redemption of the Eldar, who woke up seeing the promise of that sign in the sky.  It is both their beginning and it signified "the end", in that Menelmacar-Orion was a sign of the Final Battle at the end of days, and the ultimate victory of the Family of Light.

Alpha and Omega.  Beginning and End.

Anyway, be excellent to each other, and party on dudes.

Liberty Bell Follow-Up: The Liberty Bowl

As I was wrapping up my post earlier today on the Walts and Pharazon, I looked up at what my son was watching on TV in the hotel room as we were taking a quick break here after his last game.

A football game was on the screen.  It was the new UFL, the NFL-wannabee league that plays during the NFL's offseason.  An image of the Liberty Bell, which I had just been writing about, flashed on the screen very briefly.  It was on a stadium scoreboard in the background of the TV image, and it was just a brief shot, but I realized that the game was being played in Memphis, Tennessee at the football stadium where the Liberty Bowl is played.

In college, I played in exactly one bowl game during my own football career, because the other years we were pretty much hot garbage.  That bowl game?  The Liberty Bowl.  Here is their current logo, with AutoZone now as the chief sponsor (it was AXA back in the day for me):

Anyway, I thought it was an interesting little sync that as I was literally wrapping up my post in writing about the Liberty Bell, here on the TV was a game being played in the stadium where the Liberty Bowl game is played (the stadium itself is called Simmons Bank Liberty Stadium), and that I recognized it and the brief symbol that I saw on the distant scoreboard because I had played in that stadium in my one and only bowl game.

My mind kept going, though, which brought me to Elvis and Graceland for a few reasons, but this is meant to be just a short note, so I am going to stop here.

Walter White, Walt Whitman, and Pharazon

 I've been in Philadelphia for most of this week for a hockey tournament my oldest son is playing in.

The hotel we are staying at is by the airport in Philadelphia (and thus in Pennsylvania), but all of the hockey rinks he has been playing at are on the New Jersey side.  Consequently, I have become well acquainted with the Walt Whitman bridge over the last several days, as this has served as our primary artery in commuting back and forth.

I have never been to Philadelphia before, and wasn't even aware there was a bridge named after Walt Whitman.

I first noticed the bridge's name because here we had yet another WW name, and this has come up before with Walter White and Willy Wonka.  I then remembered that Walt Whitman had actually come up before in my earlier posts about Walter White (from Breaking Bad).

In my second post discussing the analogy and character of Walter White (who I likened to Saruman in that instance - though I am going to expand our analogy for this character, as you will see in just a minute), I included a video clip from Breaking Bad, where Walter's brother in law is trying to figure out just who the WW is that is written in the notebook of they guy they caught who everyone thinks is the criminal by the pseudonym Heisenberg.  Here is the clip again:

So, Walter White here suggests that the WW stands for Walt Whitman, and interestingly the poem in question deals with stars.

I didn't realize until now (although this is apparently common knowledge to fans of Breaking Bad), that Walter White and Walt Whitman are essentially the same names.  Whitman means "White Man".  Walter White Man and Walter White.  Same name, but two different people, obviously.

Recall also that White, as I have used it many times on this blog, can mean "Shiny, Radiant, or Bright", which is how it was commonly used archaically.  This has been in the context of both Stones (White, or shiny, Stones), as well as people (Nephi describing people as "White" likely meaning more having to do with Light than color).

Here we have two Walters who are White.  Walter, as discussed in my earlier post on Bald Men and where Walter White was introduced here, "Breaking Bald and Omuruc", means "Power, Ruler, or Commander of the Army".  Using our more archaic meaning of White, we have "Bright or Radiant Commander".

In those past posts, I limited the analogy and comparison of Walter White as an imposter (a drug dealing criminal) with Saruman.  I believe this still holds very well, given Saruman's obsession and desire for power and to be the Chosen One, whatever that means.  He even admitted to Gandalf when he lured him into his trap, that he foresaw the coming age of Men, and that it was his intent to be the one that ruled and managed their affairs.  He would of course get his wish, in my story, being now our Devil on this world, but in a different form than he envisioned (as a result of his death and the ensuing blockage and expulsion of his Being from the West).

But this analogy also extends to Pharazon, who has entered into my story and sights in a big way as of late.  In my earlier post comparing Pharazon with Humpty Dumpty, I used a quote from Words of the Faithful to emphasize his belt.  I will use it again below to emphasize something else about him:

Martalion he was called in songs of praise, a Foretold One like unto the mighty men of old, of Turambar and Tuor his sire over the long years.  In gold finery he covered his nakedness, gilded in sunlight so none could withstand him at mid-day, and girded in true-silver of Mithril, an emblem it was said of the portended Noble that would restore the land and its people to the glory that was sung of the gods in yesteryears, when the magic sun and the silver Silpion gave light and truth to all the Fair Folk.  Indeed, among that people it was held out in a final hope that in the exceeding vanity of this "Chosen one" (for that title was carved into the belt of silver) - though the wise said in whispers that the belt alone had been chosen - in him some new relations of Man and Eldar might unfold, as indeed came up them in Eressea.

So, the imagery here is that Pharazon dressed in such a way as to appear as bright as the Sun, and implies that others could not look at him due to the light the came from him (or more accurately, was reflected off of him - he was not actually a source of light, but relied on his clothes and armor to reflect the Sun).  The comparison to the Sun itself is obvious.

El-Anor, the Sun Stone, has been a prominent Stone featured in my writings here, as well as the Being who I associate with that Stone:  Faramir-Eonwe.   Thus, the comparison between Pharazon and Faramir-Eonwe here is completely unmistakable.

As I have articulated in earlier posts, Faramir-Eonwe would have been the Being, at a much earlier time, who was 'chosen' by Eru.  Here, however, we have yet another example of a character, in this case Pharazon, who desired to be that chosen Being.

And not just desired, but actually ended up acting as if he were him.  I suggested earlier that this was aided by a combination of true prophecy and the influence of Sauron.  Meaning, that there really is a Being that is spoken of in this way.  Jesus seems to be referring to this Being, for example, in referring to his servant who will be exalted when he spoke to those at Bountiful.   The "Sun of Righteousness" will in fact lead some Beings away from this world and home to Aman, like calves to the stall.

At some point, Sauron's whisperings were likely successful in convincing Pharazon that he, in fact, was this chosen one, and that his leading the Numenoreans to Aman was the fulfillment of prophecy.  If the Valar or Gods would not give Eternal Life and a place for Men on Aman willingly, then it was Pharazon's destiny to give it to Men, so the reasoning would have gone.   Pharazon's own journey to Aman was a complete perversion of this prophecy, however, resulting in death, destruction, suffering, and a breaking of the world.  And I suppose that in fact he did usher in a new relationship between the Eldar and Men, but not in a good way.

But Pharazon definitely dressed the part, girding himself in gold and silver, and becoming bright and shiny.  Perhaps it was even pointed out that his name could mean Great Hunter in Elvish, and he looked up at Orion and assumed that was him, complete with the belt.

But where there are imposters - whether Saruman, Pharazon, Brigham Young, or whoever - there may still be the real deal.  Eonwe, in a previous age, was also a Bright Commander of the Army of Heaven, which he led to Middle-earth and defeated Melkor and his forces, and is the one, I believe, that Orion likely symbolizes.

Getting back to the Walt Whitman bridge, there are two points of symbolism relative to it that I have been thinking on it the last few days that I want to quickly mention.   

First, bridges as a means to bridge a gap over which people can go from one place to another.   We used the example of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, and its collapse, in past posts to perhaps reflect Saruman's intent and objective, which is to cut of or destroy and such attempt at bridging a gap that would allow some Beings to escape to a place of Freedom.

Second, the interstate that runs over the Walt Whitman bridge is Interstate 76.  '76 is short for 1776, the year the Declaration of Independence was signed, which was actually done here in Philadelphia.  Independence or freedom is what is promised as Beings would journey across the Bridge that will be established, I believe, and the Declaration of Independence, as a symbol of this story element, has come up quite a bit on my blog, including the day it was signed, the 4th of July, being the first day that my strange Elvish words started.  Recall that on that day Gim Guru's name was invoked, and I have associated that name and Being with Faramir-Eonwe, who apparently will have some task in building that bridge and leading others across it.  Independence will be found in crossing that bridge.

In between hockey games yesterday, my son and I took a few minutes to go see the Liberty Bell.  It was pretty underwhelming, honestly.  I am not sure what I was expecting in seeing a bell, I guess.  Anyway, for those not familiar with it, the bell was hung in Independence Hall, where the Declaration of Independence was written.  Tradition has it that it rang out at the first public reading of the Declaration, but the bell is also famous for its massive crack, and it isn't certain that it actually rang that day due to the condition it was in.

It was permanently retired in the 1800s due to the crack damage making it impossible to recover its tone.  So, now you can stand in a line and go shuffle past it and listen to its deafening silence.

On the bell is inscribed a scripture from Leviticus:

Proclaim LIBERTY throughout all the Land unto all the inhabitants thereof

The bell is quiet, as is liberty on this Earth for all who live here, being subject to all sorts of Beings, those we see and believe in and those that we don't.

But my view is that the bell of liberty rings again at some point, and a proclamation that freedom can once again be available for all those who will make the journey.  This calls to my mind Joseph's own words regarding the dead, and which I have brought up before:

Brethren, shall we not go on in so great a cause? Go forward and not backward. Courage, brethren; and on, on to the victory! Let your hearts rejoice, and be exceedingly glad. Let the earth break forth into singing. Let the dead speak forth anthems of eternal praise to the King Immanuel, who hath ordained, before the world was, that which would enable us to redeem them out of their prison; for the prisoners shall go free.

Redemption and freedom was the vision that Joseph has, and it remains unrealized.  We are the Dead, here, in my opinion.

To conclude these last thoughts, and to tie into my own story, there was a short phrase from back in very early 2022 which dealt with the sound of a 'ring' (as one would hear from a bell) and with redemption.  That short phrase was:

I was there for your birth

And heard in it the ring of the power of redemption

There was a second meaning I would later realize regarding these words, having likely to do with Amazon's show "Rings of Power".  I haven't seen the show.  It would air later that year in the fall, and I had not heard of the show's name until sometime well after this words.  I understand it was intended to have something to do with the 2nd age and the history of Numenor (though I hear it is not good if you are a Tolkien fan and may as well be a fictional story).  But I find the reference interesting given that some many things in my writing are touching on Numenor, and lately with Pharazon.

I also now assume the speaker of those words is addressing Faramir-Eonwe, and the the redemption spoken of will in some manner involve restoring what was lost and broken in what occurred as a result of Pharazon's actions.

Urkel, Alice, Humpty, and Physiognomy

I mentioned in my post last night that Steve Urkel from the show Family Matters had come to my mind, of all things.

It was actually in the process of writing the post that this happened.  I had written that Pharazon, like Humpty, had fallen and couldn't get back up.  As I typed this, I remembered that this was an Urkel tagline.  It actually originated, I believe, with a commercial from a US company called LifeCall, which featured old people needing emergency care.  In one scene, a woman named Mrs. Fletcher is lying down in the bathroom, and says the (in)famous phrase.  Here is the original spot (Mrs. Fletcher is midway through):

The phrase went on to be used in all sorts of things (it was ultimately trademarked by LifeCall), including the show Family Matters as one of Steve Urkel's lines.  Here is a compilation with a few examples of him saying it:

It was this that came to my mind as I wrote about both Humpty and Pharazon's fall.  It also brought to mind something else that was interesting, and tied directly back to Alice and Humpty Dumpty.

On January 3rd of this year, one of William Tychonievich's blogger friends, Francis Berger, published a post commenting on the appearance of then-president of Harvard, Claudine Gay.  It was a very short post showing Gay's face, followed by Stever Urkel's.  Berger mentioned that when he first saw Gay, he thought he was looking at Steve Urkel.  Here is the post:

https://www.francisberger.com/blog/the-upside-of-not-being-fully-up-to-date-on-the-news-cycle

A commenter by the pseudonym "physiognomycheck" followed up with another Urkel tagline "did I dooo that?", and then proceeds to, from what I can gather from quote they brought in, call Gay ugly.

The interesting thing about this was up until 2 weeks ago, I had never even read or heard the word "physiognomy".  So, I was interested to see it here as the name for this commenter - literally only the 2nd time I had seen it in my life within a span of 2 weeks from the first time.

How did I read it the first time?  I received an email from someone asking for a photo of another person wanting to know about their physiognomy.  

Since I had never heard of the word, I looked it up.  The meaning is something like assessing the character, personality, and identify from their appearance, specifically their face.  So that made sense, and that was definitely the context the request for the picture was made in.

So when I saw it as the pseudonym for this commenter, I understood the context it was made in.  They had adopted the name for the specific comment only in order to go along with their comment:  that this person who apparently looked like Urkel had been assessed by this commenter, with their opinion of the ugliness of Gay being part of their 'physiognomy check', or assessment of her.

I am not interested in the private motivations or the actually takeaways of this person's physiognomy check in this post.  I am more interested in the fact that this came up in the context of Urkel.

Again, I had written about Humpty and Pharazon both having fallen and not being able to get up, which brought up the imagery of Steve Urkel.  In Humpty's interaction with Alice, Alice actually specifically cited her use of physiognomy to identify Humpty, as well as to give her own opinion about how a person might be able to tell if they have ever met someone before:

However, the egg only got larger and larger, and more and more human: when she had come within a few yards of it, she saw that it had eyes and a nose and mouth; and when she had come close to it, she saw clearly that it was HUMPTY DUMPTY himself. ‘It can’t be anybody else!’ she said to herself. ‘I’m as certain of it, as if his name were written all over his face.’

And:

‘I shouldn’t know you again if we did meet,’ Humpty Dumpty replied in a discontented tone, giving her one of his fingers to shake; ‘you’re so exactly like other people.’

‘The face is what one goes by, generally,’ Alice remarked in a thoughtful tone.

 

Humpty Dumpty and the Fall of Pharazon

This will be an interlude before we get to Menelmacar-Orion, I guess.  I am going to make this post as short and sweet as possible.

I woke up early this morning with the Humpty Dumpty nursery rhyme going on in my head.  The one that goes:

 

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall
All the king's horses and all the king's men
Couldn't put Humpty together again

Well, now we really are going to go Kabbalistic and find meaning in a nursery rhyme, I suppose.

In waking up as this rhyme was being recited in my head (I say it that way because that it felt - like a reading from someone else in my mind), I also had the distinct impression that the nursery rhyme - at least in its usage at the particular moment - was speaking of Pharazon specifically, and the Numenoreans generally.

I am not saying that is the right interpretation, necessarily, or even what was intended, but just that is how I understood it.

And it kind of made sense at first, but then made even more sense as I looked into it just a bit more.

We visualize Humpty as an Egg thanks to Lewis Carroll, I believe.  I've referenced his books on this blog before, and used other characters of his to illustrate points or make analogies (e.g., The White Rabbit) and here Carroll's stories pop up again.

Anyway, Humpty being an Egg gives us another analogy for the Bald Man who wants to reach the Sky.  Eggs are pretty bald.   I've covered that in other posts, though, so I don't think there is anything more to say on that specific feature right now.  You can look those up if you want - I am too tired tonight to link them.

However, as Alice notes in her encounter with Humpty, it is the face that one goes by in identifying people, and she could tell who Humpty was from a long ways away as if 'his name was written all over his face'.  It is also important to note that Alice did not say that Humpty Dumpty was an Egg, only that his physical appearance greatly resembled one (a point she emphasizes with Humpty).

In this encounter, Alice quotes a version of the nursery rhyme that is a bit different than what I just wrote above.  Here is how her version goes:

 

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall:
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the King's horses and all the King's men
Couldn't put Humpty Dumpty in his place again.

I've bolded the last line, which is the important change.   Whereas the other version calls to the mind a Being who has broken into many pieces from his fall, this other version simply states that whatever happened to Humpty, it was now not possible to place him back to the location where he was before his fall, which would have been sitting atop a wall.  He had fallen, and could not get back up, no matter how many horses or men were used.

Anyway, the analogy should be pretty clear to the case of Pharazon and the Numenoreans.  They fell, and for a few reasons, cannot be put back in their place.  One of those reasons being their former home is not there to be placed back up to.

Also of interest, is that Alice notices or makes note of a belt that Humpty Dumpty is wearing.  Humpty wants to clarify that it is not a belt, but a cravat, of course.  Whatever.  It serves as both, since Humpty's waist and neck are pretty much the same thing in the state that he is in.

Why interesting?  Well, one of the defining features of Orion-Menelmacar is his shiny belt.  Pharazon too, in Words of the Faithful, was known by his own shiny belt on which he had inscribed his perceived status of being the Chosen One:

Martalion he was called in songs of praise, a Foretold One like unto the mighty men of old, of Turambar and Tuor his sire over the long years.  In gold finery he covered his nakedness, gilded in sunlight so none could withstand him at mid-day, and girded in true-silver of Mithril, an emblem it was said of the portended Noble that would restore the land and its people to the glory that was sung of the gods in yesteryears, when the magic sun and the silver Silpion gave light and truth to all the Fair Folk.  Indeed, among that people it was held out in a final hope that in the exceeding vanity of this "Chosen one" (for that title was carved into the belt of silver) - though the wise said in whispers that the belt alone had been chosen - in him some new relations of Man and Eldar might unfold, as indeed came up them in Eressea.

And here Humpty is also sporting a belt that was nice enough for Alice to notice and make mention.

Pharazon would usurp Miriel's throne in leading the Numenoreans (and this world) to ruin.  I am also suggesting he attempted to usurp, or believed he was, the one who would lead people back to Valinor.  Meaning, the prophecy was real, but he was not that Being.  In other words, his belt symbolically connects him to Faramir-Eonwe, or Menelmacar-Orion, but as a fake or imposter of that Being.  

 I am not saying they were wrong about the belt - Orion has a pretty shiny one - just that they believed in the wrong Man.

The name Pharazon is also an interesting name game for the Being he was acting as.  Phara-, the first part of this name, is the same thing as Fara-, from Faramir.  Faramir's name can mean Jewel Hunter, as guessed at elsewhere on this blog.  Pharazon's name is said to be Adunaic, and means something like Golden One (again, perhaps in copy of the Sun/El-Anor).  But, if looking at it as a word game in Elvish, would mean The Great Hunter, this name representing who he wished to be (and who Sauron likely ended up convincing him that he was).

I don't know.  Just some thoughts, and I had some more, including a reference to Steve Urkel, of all things, but I'll save it for later.  Might be a fun/ interesting short call out.  Basically, I am tired and just want to wrap this post up.  Humpty Dumpty was an unexpected little bit of thinking this morning, so logging some quick thoughts was all I wanted to do.   I suppose it was also timely given that I had been planning to turn to Orion-Menelmacar next.

Remmirath and the Netted Stars: The Seven Daughters of Asenath

Yesterday I introduced Rimmirath and Menelmacar (also known as Menelvagor) as two important constellations.   I also bought up Sirius, as this will be important, I think.  Sirius is known by the Elvish name of Helluin, and for all intents and purposes appears to have been considered part of Menelmacar to the Eldar (i.e., the Man and his Dog were part of the same story), thus all 3 of these constellations were represented in that scene from the Lord of the Rings I quoted in my last post.

I am going to completely disregard most of the modern mythological stories about them (what we have from the Greeks and Romans), however, and focus or reintroduce a few things about them that I think are important for our story.

I will start with Rimmirath because I think they are mentioned next in my words from 2019.

On October 29, I had a dream involving a woman lying on a couch.  As she was lying there, she said something that sounded like Apo to ji, with to sounding like one would say toe.  Again, this was verbally said so I how I have the phrase there is how I originally wrote it down as I sounded it out.

In rewriting it today, I would write it as:

Ap odo dye

The dye in that phrase I believe is sounded out just like the ji I wrote down, and it will show up in other parts of my words so I think it is a good guess.  There isn't an Elvish word that really starts with J, so something with an alternative spelling is what I would be looking for anyway.

The translation to this could be something like "after seven ancient", but there are a few different versions for Ap and Dye.  For instance, Dye could be "to gaze or look", and that still works here, I think.  In fact, as I will explain shortly, I think "look at" would be a very accurate translation, and in that case I would translate the phrase as "concerning seven to look at", with seven here representing not the total of seven, but the seventh member or the number 7.  So, I think both translations work and are applicable.  The important thing to note is Odo, which means Seven.

In thinking how I want to tackle this, maybe I just want to cover two very specific aspects of their story, and then in later posts we will see if other things come up.  Those two things are their number, and the their relationship with Orion, because these both relate to that phrase above - very directly, I feel.

First, their number, or even more specifically, confusion around their number.

Seven is definitely the number of Daughters/ Sisters associated with Remmirath and the stories around it (I am just going to mainly use the Elvish name going forward... it is easier for me to spell!), but to the naked eye there are only six stars.  In fact, Subaru is the name for this constellation in Japan, and those familiar with the car brand of that name would have seen this symbol:

You will note that there are only 6 stars in the logo.  The seventh is missing.

And, if you want to get technical, there are something like 1,000 stars comprising Remmirath that you can pick out depending on what kind of telescope you have trained on it.  But, in terms of mythology and stories, the constellation was meant to represent the 7 sisters, with only 6 of them being visible to watchers looking at them with the unaided eye.

The case of the missing 7th Daughter is integral to the story, I propose, and I've brought this up in previous posts, such as in"Sammy and the Dinosaurs (and it all comes back to Xanadu)".

In my story, the symbolism of the Seven Daughters being represented by six stars is based on one of them going 'missing', or becoming invisible, in that she leaves her place among the stars and once again condescends to join us in this world.

Why does she do this, though?  Well, part of their own task is to assist Faramir-Eonwe in the mission he was given.  As we will get to in a later post, I associate Orion-Menelmacar with this Faramir character we have been discussing.  I will get into the detail then, but for now just be aware that even in names we have an interesting connection that shouldn't be easily ignored:  Another version of Eonwe's name is Urion (very similar to Orion), and he was said to be the greatest Being in Valinor relating to 'arms' or weapons, including the sword, which is what Menelmacar bares in his flight through the skies as the Swordsman of Heaven.  Indeed, it is said that Manwe himself gave his own sword to Eonwe to use against Melkor and his Hosts in the War of Wrath.  But again, I will get into some of that in the post on Orion-Menelmacar.

These Seven Daughters have offered their help to Faramir-Eonwe and the nature of his need would be one reason that one of the Daughters came to this earth.  In my story, to provide the assistance that Faramir would require involved one of the Daughters voluntarily coming down and providing it in person.  The other Daughters would do what what they do - whatever that is - while this 7th would provide help in a different way.

In Greek mythology, Orion chases the Seven Sisters through the sky because he is amorously interested in them.  It is actually the reason the Sisters were placed in the sky in the first place, according to the Greeks.  Orion was too persistent in his advances to them (and to their mother!), and so Zeus stepped in, turned them into doves (a sign of the Holy Ghost), and they ascended to heaven and become stars free of the pursuit of Orion.  Orion would later day, and Zeus would set him in the sky as well, as a man formed by stars, who would pursue and chase the Sisters through the sky as they travelled from East to West.  But, of course, Orion can never catch them.

My story, and I believe Varda's intention and doom with these constellations, is different.  Rather than chasing them, Menelmacar is following them.  The Sisters are literally leading him on a path as he attempts to rise.  The future ascension of Faramir has been central to what I have written here, as well as the fact that I have settled in my mind that this will be as one travelling to the "West" (not East!), just like Orion's path through the sky.  And here in Menelmacar's relation to Remmirath it is revealed that Sisters will be guiding him as this happens.  And not just guiding, but clearing a path for him.

This notion, then, as I just realized in the last couple days, likely gives us our answer as to why Asenath is telling her brother Faramir-Eonwe that he will be "enmeshed/ ensnared" as part of her "plucking" him up (see my "Im Fahrten" post for those words dealing with the October 27 words) .  It will be her Daughters who will be involved in this plucking, and that he is to follow them.  Remmirath literally means "mesh-net jewels", where we get the Netted Jewels or Stars name from.  Rema is the words from Oct. 27 that is the same root for Remmirath - to mesh or net (as to catch).

This is also an interesting play on Faramir's name.  Recall that I have it as meaning Jewel Hunter in one translation and that this is involved in some way with the gathering of the Family of Light.  But, we see it also is potentially a reference to his hunting after or following the Jewels of the Remmirath into the sky. Or perhaps their hunting of him as well, and thus the enmash/ ensnare wording?

I will get even more specific from my words to illustrate the relationship of these Seven Daughters with Faramir-Eonwe.

Fast forward several months to May 2, 2020.  As overall context, this is just a few days before I go to the hospital and things turn a bit upside down for me for an extended period of time.  These were the words from that morning.

Eru to speak my son
I am he faithfully executing your commands to raise up Finwe house
when you were born 7 to help
evacuation to begin
a storm breaking
May 16 a sign in the heavens
a new star

These were strange words at the time, and I remember when I got them feeling like something was really imminent, and quite frankly I acted like something was going to happen immediately.  The mention of May 16, two weeks away, certainly didn't help when it came to thinking through 'an evacuation', a 'storm breaking'.  Of course, May 16 came and went and nothing happened and no sign in the heavens, and what that phrase ultimately meant or pointed to, I don't know for sure.  Four years later, no evacuation or storm breaking, or a new star, at least in a way that is recognizable to me.

But I cite this not necessarily trying to answer that part, though, but to point out the mention of the Seven.

To orient ourselves, in this dialogue I believe this is Eru introducing himself to his son, as in "Eru (who is I) to speak, my son" - in other words, he is referring to himself in the 3rd person in addressing his son (which is not unusual given other quotes attributed to him in other words and books, so this makes sense to me).  I have said in earlier posts that my guess is both Asenath and Faramir are twin children of Eru from a time long before, so the son here that is being addressed is Faramir.

The next line would be spoken by Faramir in response, the "I am he..." line.   Faramir has been given a command to raise up Finwe's House, it is inferred by the response (Israel, but again I would chart this house to a time before this world, and not just to Finwe's physical offspring as outlined in Tolkien's stories) and he is asserting that he is faithfully trying to do this.

Eru responds by saying that he is not alone in this task.   When Faramir was born to try and raise up Israel, now scattered on this world, and likely others, the Seven Daughters offered to help.  That is the important part to call out here as it relates to our story of these constellations.

Faramir is to 'rise' up, and not only just him, but as he said in his response to Eru-Jesus, he will raise up all of Israel (literally) as well.  The Daughters will help him in that work.

That is the story, and that is why we see Orion following the 7 daughters in our sky, as a reminder or prophecy of this.  Thus, the ap odo dye means those two things:  to follow after the Seven, but also to gaze or look at the seventh.  This seventh is the missing Daughter - the one that we can't see in the sky, but who will be revealed as this story unfolds as she joins Faramir-Eowyn in his work down on this earth.  My belief is both are here now.

To conclude, there is an interesting little sync or connection that seems to reinforce this story of the Remmirath and the Seven Daughters.   It has been a busy couple weeks on the farm as spring now is here.  We got our new batch of chicks.   These will replace our existing flock this fall when those birds go to meet the big chicken in the sky.   Our pigs for the year are now out on the pasture, and I got our bees to replace the one hive that didn't make it through the winter into their hive just yesterday.

Anyway, our two younger kids always like the new chicks when they first come home, and pretty much spend all afternoon and evening holding them and naming them.   The chicks must think they are rockstars.

Here is my daughter acting as a hand model holding her favorite chicken (who was the only one to receive a name that first day, that I can remember).  

What is the name, you might ask, that she gave this chicken?

Remy.

She told me that it was after the character from the movie Ratatouille.  I didn't think anything of it until I was thinking over this post and realized that she had named the chick as a shortened name for Remmirath, or Remmi.

We took all of the chicks out to the barn later that evening to put in the brooder.  As we walked back outside, there was a rainbow that had appeared in front of our house that had an extraordinarily deep color that even came through for the most part on my crappy iPhone camera:

She Ran

Just a very short post to log something from the morning that will come into play in a little bit once I get to some words later in November 2019.  Right now I am on October 29th, which I will get to in my next post as a launching point to some thoughts on some constellations and their stories, as mentioned in my last post.

At this stage of my words, my guess is that it is Asenath speaking.  Following November 2nd (and actually concluding that evening/ morning), it is my guess that the voice switches to Eowyn for a period of time.  So that switch will happen fairly soon in terms of the timeline I am walking through in my words - in just a couple days.  It seems that Asenath kicks things off, and Eowyn jumps in fairly soon in the process.

In my dream this morning, I was reading a paragraph of words, and highlighted in big bold letters was simply the phrase "She ran".  Fairly straightforward in English.

But this is another double-meaning/ play on words.  I can't help looking into Elvish meaning for English words (and vice versa), and this was no different.

We have already associated Eowyn-Ilmare with the Moon and Ithil Stone, and even mythological figures associated with the Moon, such as Artemis/ Diana.  

What does Ran mean in Elvish?  Moon.

So, "She [is the] Moon".  Or something like that.  She, who is the Moon, ran, putting those two meanings together.  Ran also means "to go on an uncertain course", and thus also a potential reference to both her ascension and her journey and search out in the Void.

This will come into play at least by my Nov. 11 words - maybe sooner.  We'll see how it works out.  I just wanted to log this now both as a personal reminder for when that comes up, and also referencing the dream as a potential confirmation that my thinking is on the right path in terms of the transition of speaker to Eowyn by that time and in relating certain things.

Connecting Dots: Born looking up at the stars and the stories they tell

The constellation Orion has been on my mind for about the last week or so.  Yesterday, the constellation representing the 7 Daughters of Asenath was front and center for me, known to us as The Pleiades but among the Elves as Remmirath (the Netted Stars).  This is due to the fact that next up in line from the re-exploration of my words from the fall of 2019 is the first mention or allusion to these Daughters. 

 William Tychonievich even wrote about stars and constellation over on his blog, in response to a question I had for him relating to 'connecting the dots'.  He used constellations in discussing that metaphor or phrase, which I thought was timely based on things on my mind.  I left a brief message over there to that effect, and mentioned that Orion had been one of these Beings and stories I have been thinking through.

Orion and The Pleiades are connected in modern mythology, of course, just as they are connected in truer stories that have been mostly lost to us I think.  Depending on how this goes, I might take a couple posts to talk about my thoughts relative to Remmirath, Orion, and maybe we'll even throw in Orion's dog Sirius, who has come up a few times here and for other folks.  We will see how it goes.

I even started writing a draft on Remmirath and the Daughters, but decided that before I do down that path, I wanted to focus on the stars in general and how they fit into Tolkien's mythology, specifically in relation to the Elves.  Just really briefly, as I am sure there are whole discourses and academic papers on just this area.  I just want to introduce the overall concept.

For those who have read the Lord of the Rings, we get a first sense of how the Elves view and behave regarding the stars and the constellations from Gildor and his fellow High Elves' reaction to various constellations appearing in the sky.  Found in the chapter "Three is Company", at this point the Hobbits had encountered Gildor's group in the woods at the edge of the Shire after their narrow escape from being found by one of the Ringwraiths.

After travelling with the Elves for a time to the woods above Woodhall, they stop and the Elves then withdraw into themselves and take no more notice of the Hobbits.  Pippin falls asleep.  They are not ignoring the Hobbits, however, they are just waiting.  For what?  The appearance of Menelvagor (Orion) in the sky, apparently:

Away high in the East swung Remmirath, the Netted Stars, and slowly above the mists red Borgil rose, glowing like a jewel of fire.  Then by some shift of airs all the mist was drawn away like a veil, and there leaned up, as he climbed over the rim of the world, the Swordsman of the Sky, Menelvagor with his shining belt.  The Elves all burst into song.  Suddenly under the trees a fire sprang up with a red light.

'Come!' the Elves called to the hobbits. 'Come! Now is the time for speech and merriment!'

Menelvagor, or the Swordsman of the Sky Orion, held a special place for the Elves due to the story he represented.  I will save some of my thoughts for that in a later post, but just use the above to illustrate that the stars were important to the Elves.  And not just individual stars, but the stars connected or grouped with other stars that made shapes, Beings, and stories.  I want to give a very brief background, or at least part of it as I understand things, for why that is.

Awakening under the Stars

The Elves came before Men, in Tolkien's stories.  The First, with Men being the Last. They were born before the Sun was the primary source of light for this world, apparently, which I mentioned before in my post on Gim Githil and which is why they reverence the Moon more than the Sun in their stories.

Their 'awakening' happened at Cuivienen, or "The Waters of Awakening". Before this happened, and knowing the time for their arrival was near, the Vala Varda, Queen of Heaven, was said to have performed the greatest of all of the words of the Valar up to that time:

Then Varda went forth from the council, and she looked out from the height of Taniquetil, and beheld the darkness of Middle-earth beneath the innumerable stars, faint and far.  Then she began a great labour, greatest of all the works of the Valar since their coming into Arda.  She the silver dews of Telperion, and therewith she made new stars and brighter against the coming of the Firstborn; wherefore she whose name out of the deeps of time and labours of Ea was Tintalle, the Kindler, was called after by the Elves Elentari, Queen of the Stars.  Carnil and Luinil, Nenar and Lumbar, Alcarinque and Elemmire she wrought in that time, and many other of the ancient stars she gathered together and set as signs in the heavens of Arda:  Wilwarin, Telumendil, Soronume, and Anarime; and Menelmacar [the same as Menelvagor] with his shining belt, that forebodes the Last Battle that shall be at the end of days.  And high in the north as a challenge to Melkor she set the crown of seven mighty stars to swing, Valacirca, the Sickle of the Valar and sign of doom.

What is important to note here, is that Varda not only created new stars, but she specifically gathered them together (it is said) into shapes that told stories.  Not just any stories, though, stories of the future.  These were dooms and prophecies as the related to the story of the Elves and of this world.

It is important to remember that this was done for the benefit of the Elves, and that new 'light' here doesn't just mean the physical light of stars that shone down on these first Elves, but actual knowledge.  Stories!  In the sky, she painted knowledge and stories of the future.

The Elves would have awakened looking up at those stars, and more importantly, at the stories they were meant to tell.  Of all Beings, it seems the Elves love stories, and perhaps this is one reason why.  They were surrounded by them, in the form of stars and constellations, when they first opened their eyes.

And they understood many of those stories in the beginning, with knowledge likely being lost over time.  William in his blog likened the effect of having lost an understanding of the stars to having lost a key.  This notion of a keys definitely seems to be an ongoing theme.

Keys are found on maps, and are used as a form of interpretation and understanding.  If you have the Key, you can understand the Map.   You can 'connect the dots' in the way I think is necessary:  not just seeing the stars, not even just seeing the the shapes they form as you join them together, but understanding what those shapes mean in the form of stories.  Why are they there and what do they tell us?

In our day, we have completely lost the Key to what our own stars were meant to say, and quite frankly lost the knowledge that they were mean to say anything.  We have retained some knowledge of the shapes in which they came (e.g. Orion), but the stories have become lost and utterly corrupted.  Varda's work still stands, but our ability to understand her language is gone.  The Map remains, but we have no Key.  

Just as with the awakening of the Elves at the beginning of this world, it may be that our own awakening will be to see and understand the stars here now at its potential ending.  It may be that we first understand them and their stories from our vantage point here on Earth, preceding our future understanding of them in a completely different way as we find ourselves out among them.   I don't know, but that is what I imagine. 

In the next couple posts, I will try and restore at least some of these lost starry stories as they relate to those Beings and characters I highlighted above.  I don't mean that in terms of anything definitive, you should know by now, but just in terms of my own thought processes and guesses.  We will start with the Asenath's Daughters and see how it goes from there.  I have some ideas on where this ends up based on everything I've thought through so far, but I've been surprised many times in the course of thinking and writing, so I am interested to see how it goes.

Autel: Asenath the Ainu of the End (or of Without End)

I actually feel pretty good about where we are with the translation of those first few days.  We'll see if it sticks.  It does seem to support and build out the story I have explored on this blog, which isn't to say it is right, only that I can see that story in those words without too many issues.  And if this is the case, then everything is working backwards - the story is helping with the word translation, and not the other way around.

This next one is a bit speculative, but I also feel pretty good about it, and it has to do with the word autel.  This word will come up multiple times in the first month or so, and has always been tricky.  If you look up that word in Eldamo, you won't find anything in that form.  You will have aute, which means rich or wealthy, which could tie into this, but given the context of the word and how it came, nothing off the shelf seems really satisfactory.

Here is the next set of words from October 28, continuing on from the last night.

sah-kee ainu tel en ainu tel essen (autel)

There is an important note to this that will help in deciphering what is said here, or my guess as to how to decipher it.  That note reads:

‘Ainu tel’ phrase - Seen as a caption on the bottom of a picture from something like an encyclopedia page or newspaper; had difficulty nailing down the words, as they seemed to shift on me as I looked directly at them, thus some confusion between “ainu tel” or “autel”

In essence what was happening as I was reading that phrase in the dream is that it was shifting between Ainu tel and Autel, as if they were interchangeable phrases.

First of all, before I go further, I need to say what a godsend finding this old Word file on a USB key has been for these earlier words.  I had transferred some of my notes or observations about the words and their associated dreams into this document in early 2020 as I was going through all of this.  Since the notebooks that these words come from aren't available anymore, this is the closest thing I have to how I wrote them down and was thinking of them at the time, which is important for me now as I approach the words even if I didn't understand what was going on then.

But why have the words shift like that as part of my reading them?  In my notes, I had even written in parentheses:  "or autel instead of ainu tel?".  My answer to my past-self's question is it is both, I think.  To help answer this riddle, I looked at the other instances of where autel showed up in my words.  I found two other instances that were direct uses of the word, and then a third word-game in which after I solved it, or realized what it was, seemed to clearly also say autel.  That last word-game was a fun one, in that once I understood it, it made a bunch of other things make complete sense, including the identity of Autel.

That's right:  I view Autel as a name - code-name perhaps - for a Being, specifically Asenath-Nimloth.  

Which brings up the question as why we have all of these disguised names or word-games at this point.  We have had Nom (Aule-Tom B.), Mbasse (Eowyn), Eriol (Faramir), Un Im (Joseph), and now Autel (Asenath) showing up in this first week of words.  I am not sure.  Maybe for similar reasons that Joseph Smith called himself Baurak Ale in some of his writings?  Perhaps so that the names could be realized at a certain time, and not before?  Again, I don't know.

But note that with those names, in addition to Abraham (Tom), we now have all four of the Beings I have associated as the parents of the Family of Light now mentioned (or will by Nov. 2 - that is when Mbasse and Eriol come up).  This was somewhat remarkable to realize just now.

Anyway, we will get to those other Autel mentions, including the word-game, in another post - for now, I am just focused on the October 28 words.

The potential meaning of Autel is interesting, and actually we can dive into those unpublished words of Doug's for a supporting clue as to Asenath's story to derive its meaning. 

In one of those stories, Asenath is known by a prophecy regarding her arrival in Eru-Place.  The fact that she brings these 'crumbs' (Stones) into Eru-Place sends a signal to people who know things, apparently (Seers), that this girl will be the 'end' of that kingdom or realm.  Meaning, when she shows up, the clock is ticking as to that world vanishing or coming to an end.  At least that is how those people back then and in that place interpreted the prophecy surrounding Asenath.  Based on that interpretation, by the way, at one point she seems to be literally kicked out of the place, perhaps in a hope to forestall the end.  It is hard to fully follow because the writing is terrible and written by Beings who seem to think they are more clever than they are, so it isn't fully clear what happened.

She is even given a nickname in that story, though, as Joseph sits down to write his prophecy regarding her scooping up her family and saving them at some point in the far distant future from that time.  The nickname is "End-bring-maker".

Keep this in mind as we look at this name.  Let's actually start with Ainu Tel, the phrase that appeared prior to shifting to Autel.  Ainu means "Holy One", or even "Holy Spirit", which again given what I have guessed about Asenath (i.e., that she and her brother comprise the Holy Ghost) is interesting to see here.  But in terms of the general use of Ainu, this refers to either one of the "Gods" of Tolkien's mythology, either a Valar or Maia.  It is a type of Being, and that is how it seems to be always used.

So we can infer we are dealing with a Being, and that they are an Ainu.  Next is Tel.  Tel  means "to end, finish, close, complete, come to an end".  So with Ainu, we could have something like Ainu of the End, or Ainu that Finishes, or simply End/ Final Ainu, or whatever description or title of an Ainu who will or is associated with an end or finish to something.

Back in 2019 when I got this, and had no access to Doug's words, this wouldn't have made any sense.  I eventually adopted an alternative definition for Tel as 'sky', since even by this early the concept or theme of Beings being raised to the sky had been in my mind.   But, I think with some of the references in those writings as a key of sorts, my belief is that this does mean "end", and that this is a hidden or obscured reference to Asenath, the End-Bring-Maker, or she who was assumed brought the End.

The phrase would shift to Autel in my dream, as mentioned, almost perhaps as an easier nickname or abbreviation for Ainu Tel.  Perhaps it is also a play on words for Asenath's close association with Aule (Abraham- Tom B.) whose name looks extremely similar to that and literally means "Maker".   Aute is also buried in that name also (becoming it when you lose the L), which means "Wealth, Rich", which is the same meaning as another name for her husband Joseph:  Ausir.

So, there could be a few reasons why the name of Ainu Tel was first shown and then was alternated with Autel.  But, again, I take it currently that Autel is the "Ainu Tel", and that this is Asenath.  Later words seem to bear this out, but as always I write with full knowledge that my guesses might be wrong.

[NOTE:  After publishing this post, I realized maybe the most important reason that this name was changed to Autel.  I don't know why I didn't think of it earlier, but it hit me as I was quickly re-reading looking for the many typos I always leave on my posts.  Au, in Elvish, means "without, away, off".  Thus Autel can literally be translated as "Without End".  In this way, Asenath is actually correcting or changing what she represents.  Through her, and her plan which included Stones, she is saying rather than a Being who Ends, she is one who brings a future Without End, thus using her previous nickname to illustrate what she and her Stones or Crumbs that are all that is left of the world that 'ended' really represent.]

Going back to the phrase at hand, though, the rest of it, namely the word "essen", seems to bear out that the speaker is actually introducing themselves as Autel.  Given that German showed up the day earlier, it is tempting to think that this might be another German word.  It might be (it means to eat, meal, cooking, food, etc... which is not completely out of bounds for other things that have come up), but for our purposes in this post I will use it as Elvish.

In that context, it means "Name my" (Esse-en), or more clearly, "my name".  I am going to skip the first word "Sak-kee" right now, and just pull together the rest of the phrase, which would go something like:

Ainu of the End, or Autel, I; Autel my name

So, "Autel is my name" is essentially what the speaker could be saying here.  We had the clue the day earlier relating to the 'lasting paths or Stones", but here, if we believe the translation is marginally correct, she is directly stating who she is and that she is speaking.

The next day, I believe, she will mention her Daughters, and then we are on to another phrase I have covered before about a Stone and Juice, but I actually am going to make an important change to what I have assumed about those words.

I will do that, however, in another post.

Im Fahrten: The Germans, journeys, and drives and introducing the search for Joseph

OK, so I got lazy in my last post and just focused on the first phrase of those October 27 words before calling it quits.  Today I am going to cover the rest and focus on the strange appearance of that German phrase amidst all of this Elvish.

We closed off with Asenath-Nimloth discussing her intent to 'pluck' her brother Faramir-Eonwe from this world, which was the translation of As-te-gey Ir-ruke.

The next few words that fall between those words and the German are not super clear, necessarily, even if I assume some kind of translation.  Those words go, along with my proposed translation:

ezna entu rema

out to be again enmeshed/ ensnared

"Out to be" seems to work well relative to this 'plucking' that Asenath mentions she intends to do.  "Enmeshed/ ensnared" is a bit more cryptic and honestly didn't make much sense when I first tried to work that out.  There are a few other options, but this seems to be the cleanest.  I also think it might be correct because I would receive English words on December 21st in a strange way that started off with "Net-ensnare".   I will go over that if and when I get to those words, though.  As a preview, though, we are talking about Faramir, and part of his name means 'to hunt', so this might be a play on words, where the hunter becomes the hunted, in a good way.

So, all that is fine; Asenath intends to pluck Faramir 'out' to once again be ensnared.  Great.

But, as I mentioned in my last post, she then says "First I".  I take this to mean like the english phrase "But before I do that, I will...", and the rest of the phrase indicates what that is, potentially.  So, in other words, hold on to your horses, Faramir.  

Here is my translation of the rest of the phrase, including my combo Elvish/ German take:

Ash-ni ka ka-pen-hur un im fahrten/ farten

First I act forlorn royal elf without vigour or readiness for action in journey/travel to hunt for

I am happy to walk anyone through that translation if needed - it seems pretty straightforward.  There are a few other options for that ka or ka-ka, potentially, but the general meaning holds above regardless.

But what does that mean?  What is she saying here?

Well, my guess is this refers to Joseph-Dior, who is the forlorn royal, high elf (Un Im), and there are a few clues in the sentence that indicate this might be the case.

First and most obviously, the reference to a royal elf.  Im has come up before, you might recall, with our friends Gim Guru and Gim Githil, the Gim seeming to be a title or order identifier, perhaps.  The Gim G's.  Here we have another Gim, which is the Gnomish way of writing or saying Im.  It is after I understood that we have the Gim G's that I was able to see see this Im word for what I think it points to.

This Gim would be Joseph, but he is described as Un.  Now, frankly, this could have evil or bad overtones here if you look at the possible words, but our story hear deals with a rescue mission so this works better describing the Being to be rescued.

Joseph's story in Words of the Faithful gives us a preview to one of his themes, for lack of a better word.  He leaves his blissful home with Asenath back in the 2nd Age at some point and heads out alone to try and accomplish some good plan that he came up with.  It was not successful, and he found himself alone and forsaken.  He even happened upon his Daughters down in the depths and used his last light to save them.  After that, he was completely alone and as the story says "his separation was complete, total, and all his life now seemed a false dream, and this gloom his only existence.... no light bore he any longer, and quickly his mind eroded".

He would be saved by Thingol eventually, but having spent what seems to be a considerable time alone and without hope.

This would be echoed, it seems, later in a plan or journey he took in our day.  Words of the Faithful actually makes a reference to it, but doesn't give any additional context or insight.  Here it is:

Zimulof Kloshtuz [another name for Joseph] with desire for this - to retrace down this first crafted star of stone

And that really is it, as the words (also derived from Elvish translations) move on to other thoughts and fragments.  So, we have to fill it in with our imagination and some other clues.

I already covered in my last post how the 'paths' mentioned in conjunction with Asenath were actually Stones, and that she created them - or crafted them, you would say.  My opinion is the 'first crafted star of stone' mentioned above is none other than the Sawtooth Stone.  By 'first' here, I think this might mean the very first one that Asenath created, which would seem fitting since it would be associated with her husband Joseph.  In my words in other places it seems he is called "Eldest", so the first Stone might make sense in that way as well.

At some point, in my story, Joseph would have gotten the notion to come back down here to this world in search of that Stone.  I don't know what happened in the search, but it wasn't successful, apparently.  We 'know' this because it would be Asenath and the Disciples who would later find and recover it, per some previous posts on this topic, such as "Asenath vs. the Son of Baal-ox within the Sawtooth Mountains".

So, Joseph was once again on a journey that left him forsaken after an unsuccessful errand, and he needed to be rescued (as all of us do, by the way - we all need some form of rescue).  What Asenath is explaining to her brother in the words above is that she is going to launch a search and rescue mission for Joseph.  They need to find him (later words seem to strongly suggest they don't know exactly where he is), and then bring him back.  That is the essence of Asenath's message here in these words:  "Brother, I intend to raise you up, but we need to find and rescue Joseph first".

The Germans

Up until this post and my last one, I think the only mention of Germans was in reference to the word "Milkommen", the word that WJT had some insight into.  But that was much later in 2022.  One of the reasons, though, that my mind went so quickly to a German play on words was because of how much German worked its way into my words from 2019 and 2020.

The emergence of these guys in the story and as speakers is just strange.

Here is the very first time that language shows up, and it does so now in a way that is a play on words.  Im Fahrten can mean "in driving/ driven" or "in journeying", I think - something like that.  And as I also said, it means quite straightforwardly "a Gim to hunt for" in Elvish.

But why the German in this instance?  Well, before I get to that, the German words came from a dream in which I saw the phrase.  Here is how what I copied from my now not-extant notebook into a word file:

      Im Fahrten – when seen, immediately assumed as German and was confused; seen in a dream on an old TV set at the bottom corner of my vision. The image on the TV was of something like navy ships on the waters, and a caption on the bottom of the screen (like a news channel caption) with the words “un im fahrten”.

The imagery and symbolism now makes sense (I think), but at the time I didn't know what to make of it.  

When someone is lost at sea, often the Navy and/or Coast Guard is called in on a Search and Rescue mission.  I believe that is the imagery I was seeing on the TV in my dream.  Joseph was lost from the perspective of Valinor and Asenath, and she was going to launch a rescue mission across the Great Sea, and it was portrayed as a Breaking News segment or something because that is what it was - news being delivered about the mission.  Beings would come from where she was to our world to find Joseph and bring him back.  

The German words, I believe, were used to primarily identify the Rescuers and isolate their words from other Speakers.  When I see those words, I know (or assume) that these are the Beings who were being referred to in Asenath's statement.  It is essentially a key to help identify whose words are being conveyed.

Interestingly, Fahrten also means 'driving' as part of its usage.  I have compared Stones with Cars in previous posts, and I believe the Germans travelled with a Stone as part of their journey, thought I think they had to make a modification to it as part of their trip.  Or rather, Asenath made a modification to it.

The first German phrase almost two months later on December 18 touches back directly to this fahrten/ fahrt word.  On that day, we have a German speaker out of the blue say:

Ich gehen gefahrt un ein gestatt

I took German in high school - 2 years of it.  Three, actually, if you count that I had to repeat German I twice.  Not because I failed it (let's be clear!) but I took it in 9th grade at Junior High, didn't take a language in 10th grade, and when I went to take German again in 11th grade I had to repeat Level I because I had forgotten everything.  Languages aren't my strong suit, and at the time I felt it was particularly cruel to use German.  I could just hear my German teacher, Frau Johnson (who hated me) in these words.

I recognized Ich, gehen, and ein, and of course fahrt in there.  I had to look up everything else.  Here is where I've landed with it for the first part (there are umlauts I am sure in the words above, but I am too lazy to find out how to write them right now):

I go driven vehicle-carriage . . . 

and then there is un ein gestatt, but I am not sure what to make of those.  It was sounded out, so gestatt could be anything... geschatt, gestatt, gestadt - I am not sure, and have just left it as one of the Germans saying they are going to go on their rescue mission in some kind of vehicle-carriage.  I am up for suggestions on the rest of the meaning.  Unlike Johnny English, I am not a linguist.  I don't even think un is a standalone German word.  Maybe an Elvish stowaway?  This is being conveyed in German to mark these speakers - it is likely these aren't really German speakers at all, so who knows.

So, let's leave it off there.  Asenath indicates that she will raise our character Faramir, but first she needs to rescue her husband Joseph, and we get a preview of the Germans who will be engaged in the effort. They will come up quite a lot more as we get into the rescue, but again that is a couple months off at this point in 2019.  Meaning, even though we get a preview and a stated intention from Asenath, things don't get rolling in terms of people departing on the rescue until the very end of December, or at least that is how I interpret things.

The paths that Asenath wrought

 In my post titled Exploring what happened in the time following Sawtooth, Part 2:  Stone on the move from back in September 2023 (last fall), I shared my thoughts on what may have happened to the Sawtooth Stone after it had been recovered in Idaho.

In this story, the Stone is brought to Tom Bombadil's House in the spring of 2021.   During that time, there were very snort snippets of dialogue that were captured on March 18 and then 22, in what I now believe came from a discussion between Tom, potentially, and the Stone Couriers.

On the March 18th, the specific mention was:

To be gathered

To be counted

Followed up on March 22nd with:

Designated as the paths which Asenath wrought

You can go back and visit that post if you want a refresher on the story (which, of course, includes France), but the mention of a path and its association with Asenath I think ties in well to my current re-exploration of the 2019 words.

In my last post, we reviewed Faraica, which was the strange name I gave to an Evil Being in my dream.  That was on October 26th, 2019.  Quite a few more words were received the following night, as now we are pretty much doing this every night and morning for the next several months:

October 27th, 2019

As-teh-gei ir-ruke ezna entu re-ma ash-nay/ne ka ka-pen-hur un im fahrten

Most of these were again audible, so I wrote them down as best as I could sound them out.  The exception is the last phrase "im fahrten".  This was read.  For those familiar with German, yes, you caught it:  that is a German phrase (or at least a play on words - I take it to be both German and Elvish).

This would be the first instance of German, and remained a mystery to me as to why this popped up here.  I think I may understand now, but it is still a guess.  Could be wrong, as always.  

This remained the only instance of German until 'speakers' with complete German phrases will show up at the end of December and keep showing up occasionally through the beginning of February, after which the German goes away.  My sense is the German phrase captured here in October is connected to the story of the Germans when they arrive on the scene a couple months later.  But I will get into that later.

Let's break down the phrase above as best I can (a few words I don't really have a good idea on) and see what this might mean.

Plucking with everlasting paths

As-te-gey ir-ruk-ke (how I would write it now to show the Elvish words as potentially written) can be pretty cleanly translated as "With path everlasting intend to pluck you".

It is this mention to both a path and the notion of 'plucking' that I think we our first clue as to speaker.  In the previous days we have covered, I indicated that this wasn't Eowyn speaking, I don't believe, but rather Asenath.  In that phrase are two reasons why.

First, the path.

As I mentioned above in the post, it seems that Asenath made 'paths'.  Etymonline's definition of a path is a 'narrow passageway or route'.  A straight and narrow road?  Maybe having something to do with that I think.

But paths, in plural, were mentioned.  It is as if those that are numbered and counted from the March 18 words (who I take to be Jesus' people or family) will used the paths that were mentioned on March 22.  That, at least, is how I imagine it.

So, what exactly are these paths?  I don't have a definitive view, but my guess is that these are literally Stones, or at least involve them.  Joseph Smith taught that every person who goes to the Celestial Kingdom (Aman) will have a Stone, and I have indicated before that this Stone may be the means or the Key to how they arrived there.   And as a bonus, if you believe Matthew's account in the New Testament, or at least that some truth survived, we have John the Baptist telling people that Abraham's children will be raised (which I take literally) by Stones.  Again, just a guess really, but it seems to make sense for now.  

In this story, why we can confidently say that not one of Jesus' Family or the Family of Light will be lost is because they all have Stones, bearing their Name (a New and Old Name) - meant for them as an individual.  That is how they will be gathered, counted, and raised to their home.  And these Stones, and the Beings associated with them, would be thus a known number.  All that is involved then, is finding these Beings and delivering their Stones to them, it seems.  I am not sure how that works, or if it is more complicated or involved than that, but in a weird way it makes sense to me right now.

Recall that strange doodle picture I drew with a Stone-Hole-Passage on that woman's forehead, that I included in my post There's a hole in my bucket-face! AND Harry Marsh and the Sorcerer's Stone.  In that same post I also included a picture of Earendil wearing a Stone (in this case a Silmaril) on his forehead, and that this is what enabled him to sail across the 'sea' and find Aman.  As I said in that post, I think that the reference in D&C 133, where names are sealed to foreheads might tie into this, and that Stones, which contain the Name, would be involved.

So, the 'everlasting path' mentioned in these words is a reference to a Stone, in my interpretation.  Some lasting thing designed and made by Asenath for the very purpose of gathering back her family.  Again, I am not sure how that works in practice, but my belief is that the Stones will be involved.

That was the first thing from my words.  The second, is this mention of 'plucking', and what that ties into.

This word also brings to mind this notion or idea of being raised by these Stones, but it is also a strong tie back to Asenath from another story, and one of the reasons why I place the speaker of these words as her.

Unknown to me at this time in the fall of 2019, there were additional writings from Doug that covered quite a few different characters and situations.  In the month prior to my Independence Day "Gimguru" word, he finished off writing about Nimloth (assumed to be Asenath) and Joseph (called Ishbar in those writings).   I wouldn't see those writings until January 2020 when he shared them via email (at the time they hadn't been published - I don't know if they are now), so a few months after these words. 

Those writings closed with a prophecy from Ishbar-Joseph regarding Nimloth-Asenath.  In looking at those writings, I noted at the time that the date given for this prophecy was June 17, 2019.  My Gim Guru name/ word occurred two weeks later on July 4.   Here it is:

Poor beggar, Crumbs handful spilling,
Did lighten, brighten even Baradhi’s stones, i
Starry striken, always a glint, sparkling;
Crumb Child, houseless to Powers, came, housing
Ill-omens, of their perpetuance;
Crumbs, all this realm’s lasting holdings,
Hope here, too, is come, that we in her gentle
Scooping, may rest, and safe, save she its health,
In love’s revealing.

It's not going to make sense right now without the rest of the context, so don't worry about that right now, but I use it here to illustrate a couple important things that do matter for our story

There is a 'scooping' talked about, which is tied, I believe, to the 'plucking' from my words.  Both are talking about this raising out or away from a place to go somewhere else.  The scooping would be more of the general gathering of this Family, or separating out the Wheat from this world, whereas plucking is specific to the person who Asenath is addressing in my October words, this person likely being her brother Faramir.

You will notice 'crumb' is used multiple times in the quote above.  One of Asenath's nicknames came to be Crumb Lady, in how she gathered crumbs (likened to Jesus' Bread... bread being a theme lately) and brought them back to Eru-Place, in what I view as a type for the future gathering of the Beings associated with those 'crumbs'.  Crumb, besides being specifically associated with Bread, also means a 'small fragment' or simply 'a small thing'.

In Joseph's words, these Crumbs would be all that remained of a life or world that was ending at that time, but that in these Crumbs would also be hope for rescue and for restoration.  He called these Crumbs 'lasting', just like the path is called from in my October words.

What I am trying to convey is that the Crumbs are the Stones, I believe, and that the future gathering and exaltation of the Family of Light will be by means of Stones bearing a Name, restoring them to what once was but had been stolen from them.  That is part of the plan, and is another example of a salvation or exaltation that was prepared prior to this world.

So, going back to my words, what I think the first part of that phrase is saying is that by means of a Stone (the Everlasting Path), Asenath, who is the speaker, intends to raise someone.

However, there are things that need to happen first.  Ir-ruke implies an intention, but not an immediate action (intend to or mean to, is how Ir seems to be defined).  This seems to be confirmed a few words later with the phrase "Ash-ni" (which I wrote down as Ash-nay or Ash-ne originally, not knowing the exact pronunciation or spelling).  This means "First I".  So, she is intends to pluck someone, but first something else must happen, maybe.

What that something is, the second part of that phrase may speak to, and this is where the German words and the meaning for their use comes in as well.  As alluded to earlier, I now take the phrase to be a play on words between Elvish and German (meaning, you can translate it as both Im Farten and Im Fahrten).

But, I think I will cover that in a separate post because I need to wrap this one up.