Come and buy pumpkins

Every fall we sell pumpkins we grow on our little hobby farm.  It is the only thing we either grow or raise on our farm that we sell to the public.

We sell about 500 - 600 pumpkins each year at the budget price of $3 each.  We used to sell for $2 but, you know, inflation.  

The kids love it because they get to split all of the proceeds.  The rule has been that they save half of their share, and the other half they call "Pumpkin Money" and they get to buy whatever they want with it (within reason).  It is fun, and they like going out to the cash box every night to bring in and count the sales.  Though we also Venmo now.

Why am I writing about selling pumpkins?  Not sure, but William Tychonievich's latest post referenced a goblin-alien selling pumpkins in the overall context of his post titled "Come buy, come buy," was still their cry.  

There are some other interesting things in that post, including his stringing some spreadsheet words together to form the phrase:

Ask these, for when many water[s] them their every need did [provide], why then [did they] come buy?

Because Humpty-Pharazon and Numenor is a theme these days, and on my mind among many other things, I read this phrase and instantly understood it or imagined it as a question from the Eldar living on Eressea posed to or about the Numenoreans.

In essence, they are asking why, when every need and blessing was provided to the Numenoreans (except power over death, of course), as they sat among the 'many waters' lifted up from Earth on their own Paradise, did they still 'come buy'?  By "come buy" we can probably assume this is a play on words or double meaning.  Come buy, but also come by.  Buy, meaning as to 'procure', usually with an exchange, but also 'by', as in arrive at their place?  Why did the Numenoreans break the Ban and 'come by' Eressea, taking what was not theirs?

They stole some things, basically, and although we might not think of this as a 'purchase' or someone 'buying' something, it did cost them - dearly.

William wrote a post a couple months ago titled "A loaf of bread is dear".  Dear can mean expensive, as he pointed out, which is what someone says when purchasing or thinking about purchasing something.

In Words of them that Slumbered, it is said that the Numenoreans drank and destroyed nectar and light associated with Lilies grown on Eressea.  The Wolves that were unleashed on that island "consumed there all the fruits and bulbs gathered, and drank up the pooled light of ancient vintage".  Pharazon himself, as the island of Eressea was split in half, drank from these lilies;

And yet now bereft of his soldiery fearsome even to the gods, he having drank his fill of the lilies cup, gilded though in his hand had it turned, so Pharazon bolted the heart firm to Thu's [Sauron] plan, and purposed then and there to row, if alone as king maybe, upon the shore of Lands Undying, and finally claim title wrongfully withheld for all the ages of Man...

... King of the World, and over every breath there taken in, and every cry to hear, so he named himself, Willful, Chosen, Fated:  Three in One, King of Air, Earth, and Wave.

So, they drank of the lilies, and then burned it all up.  Pharazon indeed was a Sitter o'er the Sea of Flame, as William's Humpty proudly proclaimed, as a Holy Land was burned.

This nectar, or whatever we should think of it as, we learn in another part of the story was used to make the Bread of these inhabitants of Eressea.  When they found and took care of Asenath, they fed her bread that they specifically mentioned was leavened by the light:

Thus she [Asenath] was of the fall of your flesh much redeemed, and healed' being renewed upon the land, for our bread is leavened of the lilies that long ago drank up the light blessed, castabout the Magic Trees Remembered...

So the Bread is Dear, indeed, I am afraid.  And Pharazon and the Numenoreans bought it all, not fully understanding the price they were paying.

Anyway, I originally was just going to post a picture here to show the pumpkins we sell since you can't include pictures in comments (I was just going to leave a picture in William's comment section), but then my mind started going down this Pharazon and Numenorean path again.  

With that pretty interesting string of words from William's excel sheet, with the Elves asking that question, basically, I guess that even though I said that repentance is available for Pharazon, there are still some unanswered questions that these Elves might have related to what was done to them, perhaps.  Why did you do it?  How could you do it? 

There will be an opportunity to come and buy milk and honey "without money and without price", I think.  Notwithstanding our broken world.  As Nephi wrote (similar to Isaiah) in 2 Nephi 26:

Behold, doth he [the Lord God] cry unto any, saying: Depart from me? Behold, I say unto you, Nay; but he saith: Come unto me all ye ends of the earth, buy milk and honey, without money and without price.

Coming and buying, though, will be done in quite a different manner than the way in which Pharazon and the Numenoreans attempted to do it.  Clearly.  And I think that is where the story I have been thinking through points to.  

 

Can Pharazon repent? AND a frozen egg up high on a wall

 After I finished up my last post, I went over to William Tychonievich's blog and read a poem he had posted about Humpty Dumpty. He changed the meaning of fall to refer to the season, rather than Humpty actually falling off of the wall.  Humpty wouldn't come down from the wall (even though it was the law that he do so), choosing instead to enjoy a nice Fall sitting on top of the wall.

He would meet his end, however, when Fall transitioned to Winter, and the poor Egg froze.

I thought it was really good.  Clever and funny, just from changing the meaning of 'fall'.

We raise chickens, and in Minnesota I am well aware of what happens to eggs in the winter months when they freeze.  They crack.  So, the end result for Humpty was the same.  Well, almost.  As long as he remained frozen, from a distance he would look just fine and hold together well (unlike his unfrozen, alternative-universe-self who fell and would have shattered and made a mess).  Only in the Spring when he would thaw would we see him completely fall apart.  Sometimes in the winter I will miss a crack in a frozen egg and just lay it on my counter, where it will in short order become a mess as it thaws to room temperature.

Anyway, a few interesting things crossed my mind as I was reading his poem.  I have a few minutes now, so I am going to get them down so I don't have to later.

In his poem, William specifically calls Humpty "unrepentant".  This really jumped out, because for probably a little over a week now I have been thinking through the idea of whether or not it is possible for Pharazon to repent.  In my original Humpty Dumpty post, I went to some lengths to tie the character of Humpty Dumpty to Pharazon specifically, and to the Numenoreans generally.  And here we had a reference to Humpty and his unwillingness to repent and follow the King's orders.

In the context of the poem, this lack of repentance ties very well to the actual story of Pharazon and the Numenoreans.  Disregarding all warnings and counsel, both from actual messengers for the Valar (and Manwe as King) as well as signs, those people committed to a path that would see them try to obtain and remain high above all other things.  Nothing would dissuade them from their path, and Sauron was in firm control of the situation.

Anyway, I won't rehash it all here, but I saw in William's re-write of that story perhaps an even better allegory to Pharazon and the Numenoreans.

But, as to the question, can the unrepentant Humpty-Pharazon ever repent?  Is it too late for him, or is there another opportunity to repent and make things right?  I think the answer has to be yes, he can repent.  That is the conclusion I have come to, at least.

There is a difference between being the Shadow, and being sick and influenced by it.  I believe Pharazon and those damned Numenoreans were in the latter category.  Yes, he was prideful and arrogant, and he ended up doing very terrible things, including human sacrifices, burning the White Tree, assaulting and burning half of Eressea, and ultimately breaking the entire world.  I mean, it is hard to top that list!

But, this was also all under the evil influence of Sauron, who used him as a tool for his own purposes.  Pharazon's pride (and fear) was Sauron's entry point, but all of those terrible actions did not originate in the heart of Pharazon.  Many were planted by Sauron.  Given that, I do think there is an opportunity for Pharazon to repent.  This is a redemptive story.  If Asshat was given a chance or two by Gandalf after doing pretty horrible things in LOTR, I think Pharazon can also have a chance.  What would redemption look like for Pharazon, though?

Well, I think in the future at some point the world will be restored as it was, creating once again a path for people to ascend to Heaven or Aman, if they choose  This will include the restoration of Numenor, part of the 'highway' that will come out of the depths, as the wave that covers it is rolled back.  For Pharazon, perhaps repentance and redemption would involve playing a role in making that happen.  Righting the previous wrongs, and fixing what he was responsible for breaking.  It would be a good story for him.  It would be a similar arc to that of Alma the Younger and the Sons of Mosiah, who Mormon called the 'vilest of sinners', but who ultimately repented and worked all their lives to bring souls to God.  I think the path could look something like that for him.

Repentance is something that must happen as a living Being with a body, so if this were to actually be a reality, than Pharazon would need to also be around on our Earth, I think, as events would unfold.  So, where we would see some of the other characters I have mentioned returning (Joseph-Pippin, Hyrum-Merry, Faramir, and even other Numenoreans like Queen Miriel), we might also expect to see Pharazon hanging around.

I think this makes sense.

Europa and the frozen egg

Moving on from Pharazon, and to Numenor as a whole, I had this strange thought and picture come into my mind as I thought through this notion of a frozen egg sitting on top of a wall from William's poem,

The image that came to mind was Europa, which orbits the planet Jupiter.  

Europa has come up before here.   I mentioned the planet briefly in discussing Numenor, when I suggested that the world might be now something similar to Europa, which is on of Jupiter's moons covered by a large ocean and surrounded by a sheet of ice.  In that post, I wrote:

I have Numenor still sitting 'under the wave' that destroyed it in the first place.  By this, I mean, that not only was it sent out to space somewhere and submerged into that kind of 'great sea', but that it is also literally was submerged or surrounded by a sea of water and ice.  At least that is the image that comes to my mind now, for whatever reason.  As in, I literally have this sense or image of Numenor as a planet surrounded by ice that just developed today.  I really don't have anything to back that up other than a hunch.  And by a planet of ice, I was thinking something that would be similar to a planet like Europa, one of Jupiter's largest moons.  Just as an example - I am not trying to identify a specific planet here, just illustrating that at least one such planet exists.

So that is where my mind went with Numenor, and I think it has remained that way, though I haven't really given it more specific thought.

Europa is actually constructed, in some ways, like an egg.  It has a rocky core, submerged under an ocean, which is then surrounded by a shell of ice, with estimates varying as to just how thick that ice is.   Interestingly, scientists believe the ocean is liquid salt water, just like ours.  They estimate that there is about twice as much water under that ice shell than all of Earth's oceans combined, at least according to a few online sources.

So, I first pictured this cracked, frozen egg on top of a wall that could not come back down, per William's poem, and then this image and thought was replaced by the planet and concept of Europa.  Here is a picture taken recently by Juno in 2022:

The surface is covered by fissures and cracks, potentially a reaction of salt, water, sulfur, and radiation, but not entirely known.  For my purposes, though, we have an ice shell that has developed cracks, just as you would see happen on an egg that has been sitting on a wall too long into winter.

I feel like I am channeling something very Velikovsky-esque here, but any chance Europa isn't just an example of Numenor, but is in fact Numenor, still buried under the wave and surrounded by ice?  The frozen egg sitting on top of the wall that at some point will need to both come back down and be put back together?

If I take seriously that these worlds existed and still have to be in a physical location somewhere, I guess why not.  Just throwing it out there.  As with everything else, we will see.

For trivia, close-up high resolution photos NASA was able to get of the moon-planet, as well as Jupiter and the other moons, were from Voyager 1 and 2.  These were twin spacecraft (another twin theme), and they year they reached Jupiter and Europa was in 1979.  Voyager 2 sent back the first close pictures revealing ice cracks on July 9.

Alpha and Omega, and the 144 or gross

 So, I was heading back down the track of my Fall 2019 words, and have been pulled back toward Orion again.  In this post we will still incorporate some words, but they will be from the Fall of 2022, instead.

Recently, William Tychonievich noted that I had written my post on Orion the same day that a magazine wrote an article involving Orion.  The magazine has an article for each day, with this article assigned to May 6 and 7.  Those dates, interestingly as well, are Monday and Tuesday... Moon-day and Twos-day or Tuis-day.

I had published my post on May 5, but at 11:03am, meaning that in Taiwan time it was 12:03am on May 6, so things ended up lining up to the day.  Lucky I didn't hit publish 4 minutes earlier...

William noted this, and would later write a seemingly unrelated post about Hesiod and Revelation.  He started reading Revelation on the same day that he noted the Orion sync (May 14).  This stood out to me because Revelation is the only book in the Bible where we get the name or title Alpha and Omega and in my post on Orion which William linked to, I suggested that Orion is the Being associated with Alpha and Omega:

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.

As a quick additional comment, William also followed up with the interesting insight that Hesiod, which he had also started reading, has to do with the Beginning, and Revelation deals with the End.  So this all seems to line up well thus far.

As a reminder, I have assumed that the character of Orion or Menelmakar is Eonwe-Faramir, who was also known as Urion, which is obviously very similar to Orion.

In Revelation, it is assumed that the Being speaking to John and referring to themselves as Alpha and Omega is Jesus.  I am going to go a little blasphemous here and suggest that this is not so, but at least my view will be consistent with what I have written earlier and with my guess as to the identity of Orion.

Rather than being Jesus (and again, this is the Bible, so I am not sure even how much of Revelation is trustworthy or worthwhile, if anything, but doesn't mean we can't use it), I think this is the Holy Ghost, speaking for and as Jesus.  In an earlier post on the Holy Ghost, I suggested that this Being will literally be sent in the name of Jesus, speaking and acting as if he were him.  I view the discourse in Revelation as an example of this.

Trying to demonstrate that, though, isn't the purpose of this post - I just think that is how it is, and it makes sense to me.

What I did want to mention, however, is the concept of the "144" and how this ties into Orion-Faramir and the End, as I am thinking through it.

I believe I've mentioned before that The Lord of the Rings actually starts with symbolism regarding the number 144.  At Bilbo' birthday/ farewell party (held on September 22), while the entire town was invited to the overall celebration, there was an invitation-only dinner party for 144 individuals comprising Bilbo and Frodo's extended family.  The party within the party.

Incidentally, this number, 144, would be the combined ages on that day of Bilbo and Frodo (Frodo had the same birthday).  Bilbo was 111 and Frodo 33, adding up to 144.

Bilbo referenced this in his speech, and referred to the combined group as a 'gross', which some attendees took as disrespectful, thinking that the only reason they had been invited was to fill up that number, "like goods in a package".

144 is also mentioned in Revelation, but with 1,000 after it.  The 144,000 Beings who will be 'sealed' from all the tribes of Israel, and then are listed as 12,000 from each of the 12 tribes.  My intent is not to necessarily adhere to whatever that is, but to merely mention this concept of 144 and Israel.  It is important for our story, I think.

In earlier posts, I've brought the Cuivienen, of the Awakening of the Elves.  There were 144 of them, ultimately divided into 3 main groups of families.  They would be ultimately invited back to Aman, where of those 144 who began the journey, roughly 2/3 accept the invitation (1/3 would not even start on the journey).  On the way, some of the shese would drop off, so that by then end fewer Elves actually reached Aman than those who did not.

Throughout this, the 144 remained as a symbolic number to represent the Eldar in total, as even by the time they were invited back, there were more Elves than that.  Numbers and divisions of 144 were meant to represent proportions of the total number, and not actual headcount, as far as I understand.

Now, recall that that the beginning, when these 144 Elves first woke up, it was Menelmacar or Orion that they first saw in the sky, among all of the stars and constellations that Varda set.  In this way, he was the "beginning" for them, and their fate and redemption from the very outset seems to be tied to that Being.

The number 144 would also show up in my words in October of 2022, along with a mention of Orion, I believe, by another name that we have covered on this blog.

Recall that there were a few other sporadic words from earlier in August, including my dream of the Honeycomb and the Sawtooth Stone.  It was quiet, or at least I don't have any notes I see, until October 10, which is strangely my wife's birthday, as I think about it right now.  Here is what I have from that morning:

October 10

Jan eh [Jah ni?] sola gross determino ascertain to come back 

Stone - there is so much hurray about Jesus Christ

Pas gar 96

Alight, so acknowledging I am not entirely sure what this means, lets dive in and connect this back to a few things.

I wrote Jan eh, sounding out what was spoken.  Afterward, I wondered if that actual word was Jah ni.  I think this is the case (though could be wrong), and if so, then we have a name that has been covered here before.

Jah-ni hah is a name found in Joseph Smith's Alphabet and Grammar of the Egyptian Language, and which in prior posts I have identified as the Holy Ghost-Faramir-Eonwe.  This also means we are referring to Orion, then, if my guess is correct.  Joseph Smith gives the following various translations for this Being (or title that a Being can hold):

One delegated from the highest source acting in or being clothed with the power of another; one sent from the Celestial Kingdom; one that with delegated and redeeming power, and second in authority; being a swift messenger going before, and having redeeming power, as second in authority: and stands next to or on the right hand of power

Again, this is consistent with the role of the Holy Ghost, to be sent in and act under the name of Jesus, and the servant that Jesus mentions to those at Bountiful in the Book of Mormon.

This is also consistent, then, with the rest of the words that follow from October 10.  

Sola gross determino I would translate as "only 144 to define/ mark/ conclude" (sola and determino seem to be Latin-based, and we have already covered gross above).  This would give us, then, 

Jah-ni hah only 144 to define/mark/conclude ascertain to come back

Does the "only" mean just 144, or does it mean only Jah-ni?  Probably both.  There are 144 to mark, and it is Jah-ni's responsibility alone to do so, perhaps.

Again, by Jah-ni, we are referring to Orion for our purposes (just as a reminder for how this ties in).

And 'ascertain' means to make certain - so perhaps it is his role to ensure they come back?  This would seem to coincide with Jesus' statements that Israel will be saved, and he will not lose any of his sheep.

The next line is interesting, and I am not sure if this just refers to the Sawtooth Stone or the Ithil Stone (the Stone Eowyn would have used to aggregate and compile currently 11 different accounts of Jesus).  But if I had to choose between the two, I think it must be Eowyn's stone, and she is referring to what she has already been able to compile, even without the addition of the Sawtooth Stone.  In other words, the Story she has pulled together is a good one, and it has a lot of 'hurray' about Jesus.

By the way, we will get back to some specific references where it appears that Eowyn is recounting her experiences in compiling this record when we return to the Fall 2019 stories.

This may, then, also give us a clue as to who is speaking, but it is hard to know.  If it is the Ithil Stone, and a reference to what is on it, then it could stand to reason that this is Eowyn speaking.  My current guess, but just a guess.

I think we have Elvish with the last phrase, pas gar 96.  I actually didn't even realize or notice that 96 was 2/3 of 144 until maybe a couple months ago.  I had been wondering what this number was.  I think, however, it refers to the proportion of the 144, so 2/3 would be 96.  In Tolkien's actual account, the number that began the journey to Aman was 88, so slightly less than 96.  How to explain the discrepancy?  I am not sure.  Maybe it was actually 96 instead?  Maybe just intended to refer to the 2/3 proportion?

In any case, pas gar can mean something like "Juice to hold" or "Juice place".  Pas seems to mean Juice, very clearly, but gar could be a couple things.  Either could work, and it seems to suggest that 96 (of the 144?) will hold Juice or be in a Juice place, which I am guessing would be Aman.  Maybe this is an initial number of the 144 - at first, the original Beings on the Great Journey return, and then other ways are found for the remaining 1/3?  I don't know.  However it works out, having the Juice as being something that Beings are brought back to, and as potentially a place where it is, seems to support my change to where Juice or any drinks being administered are not in our world, but in Aman - the Juice Place.

I am up for other guesses on the 96, but that is the best I have so far.

Anyway, stepping back this entire story in some way also helps explain the Alpha and Omega reference to Orion.  He was there at the very beginning (his sign), and will lead them at the very end.  Further "determino", as it turns out, in Latin is quite literally to set bounds, or to limit (de-terminus).  Or, in other words, to set a Beginning and an End, which is setting bounds and limits.  Alpha and Omega.  So, Orion will be involved in all of this.

I am not sure where else I want to go here.  It can seem pretty strange, but could also make sense and is consistent with other things I have been thinking through.  We'll see where it goes.

"One had to stay": Eowyn takes over on Words

Next up are the Nov. 2 words, which we have already covered in detail.  These are the Mbasse words, were I believe we are dealing with Abraham-Tom Bombadil (Nom), Eowyn (Mbasse), and Faramir (Eriol).  As a reminder, this is what we had:

nom mbassa eriol ge-ime-as heart-issa

And this is still Asenath speaking, I believe, and as explained in that earlier post as part of an update at the end (I had originally thought this phrase was from Eowyn).

However, the speaker will transition after this phrase, and we will actually now be hearing from Eowyn for the next little bit, starting with an additional English phrase from that morning which I did not cover in that last post.

These words were interesting in that they were spoken very clearly by a woman as I was waking up.  Up to this time, everything had been in dreams, where this was more 'awake' than anything, as in I had just woken up and was aware of my surrounding when I heard this phrase.   Here is how I captured what the woman spoke:

One had to stay, one had to come here in order to fulfill the will of Eru

At the time, I hadn't yet understood the meaning of the Elvish phrase, and that this represented some manner of binding or sealing together between Eowyn and Faramir at Tom Bombadil's before their separation.

Now that I think that this is the case, this English phrase makes perfect sense in following those Elvish words.  The woman is stating clearly, in English, that there was in fact a separation that occurred.   This also fits in very well with the words that immediately follow over the next several days.

The words that follow and that I will cover in later posts also are what seem to confirm that this is now Eowyn speaking.  What seems to have happened is that Asenath started out with the initial story, and once the narrative had reached mention of Eowyn and Faramir, Eowyn jumped in and is now driving the story for the next little bit.

In this phrase, she is saying that Faramir had to stay, and that she is the one that had to 'come here'.  As I have mentioned elsewhere, the 'here' she went to or eventually ended up in is Eru Place.

Pretty straightforward in hindsight.

I think it is Honeycomb and not Juice; and also understanding Starerios

So, my current thoughts have me back to reviewing my words from the Fall of 2019.  We took a little time there to set up the discussion about Orion, Sirius, and Remmirath, with my words from October 29, 2019 guiding us that way based initially on the Remmirath post Remmirath and the Netted Stars:  The Seven Daughters of Asenath.

Coming up in my words will be further opportunity to discuss Sirius and Orion, and some stories involving them, so I figure let's get back on track with the words and see where they take us.  As I said earlier, it is kind of rewarding for me to take these and see certain things in them several years later.  

To review where we are in terms of the story, as of the last words we reviewed in October 29, I believe we still have Asenath as the primary communicator of the words I am receiving at that time.  The story that seems to have unfolded thus far is that Asenath intends to raise up her twin brother Faramir-Eonwe, but first there is a rescue mission that must be performed, with Joseph being the primary target of this rescue.  He is lost (by the way, Debbie in her comments on a recent post referenced the movie "Lost in America", and that is exactly the situation Joseph was in back at the end of 2019, as we will see in more detail in future posts if we get to them).  His rescue must happen before Faramir is brought back home (and which I think happened in the spring of 2020).  Asenath seems to explain this, and introduces herself by the name of "Autel" and references her 7 daughters, who will have a role in leading Faramir home, just as Orion follows the 7 sisters (Remmirath) in a Western journey through the sky.

Debbie also had mentioned the reunion of Twins in one of her comments, and that this is an event in the future, in whatever story she is thinking through.  While I can't speak for or necessarily know the other details she has expressed, I do agree with the overall theme:  The end result of Orion being led home is that Twins will be reunited, and this is in the form of Asenath and Faramir, sister and brother, reuniting in Aman (at one of the two Holy Places).  They will be joined by their respective spouses, and that the two sets of Twins will be together again (another specific reference to the 22 number).  I think it goes something like that at some point.

OK, so lets pick up where we left off

On November 1, I received the following words:

Sardi ar dyenido starerios aman-ore

If you recall, we have already covered these words, way back last September in my post "Ancient Juice as something that will be brought with the Sawtooth Stone".  In that post, I focused on dyenido, and translated it as 'ancient juice' and determined that this is something that will be brought with the Anor Stone to Faramir.

I am going to revise that guess in this post to something that I think makes a bit more sense, and is more consistent with other words and dreams, including dreams from just the past few weeks.

To arrive at Ancient Juice for dyenido, I assumed the translation for nido was "juice".  It is not a bad guess, because that is actually one of the translated words.  However, I don't think it is right.

Nido can also mean "Honeycomb" (based on the root word nidh), and thus dyenido can rather mean "Ancient Honeycomb".

Back in 2019, such a phrase wouldn't make sense.  I hadn't yet seen all of this Bee imagery in my words yet, including references to Eowyn-Deseret, and so Honeycomb would have been strange and random, and likely why I didn't go down that road.  It wouldn't make any sense.

Recall, however, a dream I had from the fall of 2022, which seemed to be from the perspective of the Sawtooth Stone, and that I related in my post  "Exploring what happened in the time following Sawtooth, Part 2: Stone on the move"., also written in September of last year.  In that post, I wrote:

I was lying on something like a table or stone slab, with individuals around me and leaning over me.  It felt like I was in something like a dark cave.  The individuals were carefully examining me.  They began using instruments to remove what looked like dark and rocky chips or fragment from off of my skin, which I now noticed completely covered me.  As they removed a piece of this rocky fragment, I looked at the area where I should have expected to see my skin now exposed.  Instead, I saw a yellowish-grid covering, which was alarming.  

I then had a dream that I was in negotiations with a mysterious professor regarding a final assignment that needed to be done next week, but that I was behind in completing.

When I woke up, I thought more on the yellow covering that my skin appeared to be, and realized very clearly that it was honeycomb.

The dream, I would explain or guess at, was from the perspective of the Stone as it was undergoing repairs and restoration at the hands of the Druadan.  They were doing work on the surface of the Stone, and revealing the Honeycomb underneath, with the Honeycomb being symbolic for the stone itself, what it contains, etc.

The Sawtooth Stone in question is 'ancient', and thus Ancient Honeycomb would be an accurate description or alternative name for it, at least based on the symbolism of that dream.

Further, everything I understand now has any Drink or Juice imbibing happening not here in this world, but somewhere else.  In other words, the Drink won't be brought with any Stone for Faramir or anybody else, but will only be had once they reach their destination.  Think of the Xanadu scenes.  Everybody knows Sonny needs a drink, but he doesn't get it until the end, once actually in Xanadu, or Aman.

Thus, I now propose that dyenido does in fact mean Ancient Honeycomb, and it is a play on words for the Sawtooth Stone.  Interestingly, if this is true, it is yet another example of something I wouldn't have been able to understand at the time, but only with additional time and other experiences could reach some sort of better story or conclusion, even over the course of writing on this blog.  We understand things, I think, when it is time to understand them.

I think we may need to also change Sardi, but am going to leave it for just now so I can think on it a bit more before changing.    I still haven't settled it in my mind yet.  But, for our purposes here, we have two Stones mentioned:  Sardi (one Stone) and Dyenido (Ancient Honeycomb).  Using these Two Stones, Starerios will rise to Aman, or something like that.

But what does Starerios mean?

In that same prior post, I suggested that Starerios is yet another name or title for Faramir.  In addition to the words I captured from November 1, I also recorded an important note relative to how the Starerios name was received, as well as recorded another dream about a very high cliff.  Here are the notes I captured in the Word doc:

Starerios – first seen as one word, but then again with first syllable replaced with “Star”; cannot remember what it replaced; whether an English replacement of what was in first syllable?

A dream written as:  "Also, a dream of a high cliff standing over the sea... first seen as a drawing or sketch, then as a real cliff, sheer sides, very high, on the sea shore" 

Regarding the dream, my guess is the cliff itself represented Aman.  Just a guess, but it seems to make sense with everything else.

In terms of Starerios, as noted, this was visually shown to me in the dream.  The original word first appeared, but it was switched out before I get fully understand it.  When it reappeared, it now looked something like this:  [Star]erios.

The bracket seems to replace whatever was originally in that first syllable.  But what?

I have a creative solution that seems to make sense, and it will involve Sirius.

First, I believe Star, as written in the brackets, is an English word.  So, simply a Star.  In looking at what it replaced, I look first to Elvish.  El, obviously, I've used before in other instances to mean star, including in other word and name games.  For instance, Kal-El, the name for Superman which can mean Bright Star in Elvish.

In this instance, though, I think the original Elvish word [Star] replaced was Elen, which seems to be basically the long form of El in Elvish, and means the same thing.

This is where the name game gets interesting, at least to me.  Elen, some of you may recognize, is also a name in English, spelled Ellen.  The name Ellen means "Bright One" or "Shining Light".  This is interesting in an of itself, because we have an instance where the Elvish word Elen means something very similar to the English name Ellen.

But the really interesting thing to realize is that Ellen is short for Eleanor.  Elanor.  El-Anor.

Cool, huh?

Here I think we have something.  As covered many times already on this blog, I have guessed that El-Anor is the name for the Anor Stone.  But, I also saw that Man playing a piano in my dream, who introduced himself as El-Anor (a name I first understood to be Eleanor, and which confused me as it seemed a Man was introducing himself with a female's name).    Once I figured out it was El-Anor, the question was then does this name refer to a Man or the Stone.  The answer is both.   El-Anor is both the Stone and the Being that the Stone belongs to.

So, Starerios could be rather written as Elenerios, I guess.  Now, was that how it appeared originally before it was replaced by [STAR]erios?  I have no idea, but I believe that the little name game above solves at least part of the riddle of the Starerios name.

What else do I see in that name?  I think a reference to Sirius,which is written in Greek as Seirios, and thus having a similar ending to Starerios.  In fact, remove the 'tar' from Starerios, and you pretty much have the same word or Star name.  Maybe seems like a random link or bit of stretch, but the connection will make sense, I think, in later posts.  Thus, I think the second clue or meaning of the [STAR] insertion is a signal that a specific, actual Star might be represented here by the name.   So, both a mention of El-Anor, but also of the Star Sirius.

Sirius is a dual or twin star, with one of these stars being extremely bright, and the other being a dead, burned out star and thus very dim by comparison.  This symbolism will matter a little later on, as I believe it has something to do with what will happen just a couple weeks later in that same November of 2019 to the Anor Stone under the direction of Asenath and as part of the rescue mission she sends off for Joseph.   Remember, part of my story regarding the stars and constellations is that they hold stories or symbolic elements regarding future events.  The current state of Sirius, with one Star very bright and the other Star very dim (dead even) symbolically ties to my story here, I think, and to the fate and current state of El-Anor.

This won't happen until November 17th, though, so we have a few more words to go through until we get there.  If my guess is right, it is a pretty big deal, one that I clearly didn't understand or appreciate at the time.

Darth Vader, Doug, and Dark Water

I was thinking about getting back to the rest of the Orion and Sirius posts, but I couldn't conjure up the motivation today.  On Orion, I feel like I've been touching on him tangentially anyway in some of these other posts, so I might got to Sirius here next at some point, and then get back to the 2019 words which I think we can continue to make some headway on.  Some of the Sirius symbolism seems to tie very directly to words from 2019, as well as to fairly well known prophecy, as I have thought more on it.  We will see.

For today, though, I figured why not write a quick observation relating to the character of Darth Vader.  Star Wars has come up on this blog before, so why not.

Several weeks ago, I had a brief dream about Darth Vader.  I was in a duel with him, actually, though I don't remember much of the detail about the duel itself.  I vividly remember, however, how it ended.  At some point, something like a loud yell or cry starting coming from my mouth.  It just burst out of me.  It is hard to describe the sound, but it was like a thousand lions roaring - probably the closest thing I can relate it to.

As this happened, Vader turned and ran as fast as he could trying to get away.  I then proceeded to chase him, with the sound still coming out of me, which was kind of funny as this was happening.  Meaning, the imagery started to feel comical and light-hearted.  It was in the process of chasing him that I woke up.

A little bit later, I started to wonder just how Darth Vader got his name.  What did it mean?  For those who read my blog regularly, you know that this is pretty much my go-to... looking into names and word meanings.

I had always thought Vader was something like "Father", and thus an allusion to Vader's relationship with Luke ("I am your Father!").

This meaning was actually retconned by George Lucas himself many years later in an interview in, what else, Rolling Stone magazine (too funny).  In that interview, Lucas says simply that Darth is a variation of "Dark" and Vader is a variation of "Father", so it simply is "Dark Father".  Here is the quote:

How did you get the name Darth Vader?
“Darth” is a variation of dark. And “Vader” is a variation of father. So it’s basically Dark Father. All the names have history, but sometimes I make mistakes – Luke was originally going to be called Luke Starkiller, but then I realized that wan’t appropriate for the character. It was appropriate for Anakin, but not his son. I said, “Wait, we can’t weigh this down too much – he’s the one that redeems him.”

Except, of course, this is Lucas making something up to try and tie everything back and reinforce that he must have had a master plan or story from the beginning.  This is, in fact, not entirely true.

As envisioned in the beginning,  Darth Vader was not going to be anyone's father, and the role and his relationship with Luke changed during the writing and filming of the movies, even after the 1st movie.  Early drafts of Empire Strikes Back had Anakin Skywalker as a separate person than Darth Vader, even having Anakin (Luke's father) appear on Degobah and assist with Luke's training with Yoda.  I won't go into all of the details here, because it isn't important, only to say that Darth Vader was definitely not originally intended to mean Dark Father.

What is potentially important and perhaps relevant for my purposes and in understanding my dream was the first version of Darth Vader's name:  Dark Water.  In fact, most evidence suggests, and Lucas' earlier interviews confirm, that Darth Vader came about as a modified name that was a twist on or sounded like Dark Water.  Here is another quote of his from much earlier:

“[His name] sort of appeared in my head one day. I had lots of Darth this and Darth that, and Dark Lord of the Sith. The early name was actually Dark Water. Then I added lots of last names, Vaders and Wilsons and Smiths, and I just came up with the combination of Darth and Vader.”

Well, this is interesting then.  Dark Water is a name that has shown up here on this blog many times, but some of you might not recognize it in that form.

Doug is the name I have given to Daymon Smith.  I got the name from a dream sequence, and have just used it ever since.  In fact, I kind of had to force myself to write out Doug's actual name there, for no other reason than I just don't like writing or saying it.  But, I think it is appropriate to use here so there isn't any confusion as to who I am talking about.

For those who haven't noticed or looked it up earlier, the name Doug means "Dark".  But Doug is short for Douglas, which is a form of the Gaelic name Dubhglas, apparently.

What does the glas translate into, you might be wondering?  Water (and other forms of it, like stream or river).

Thus, in the name Douglas we have "Dark Water", or the original name of the character of Darth Vader.

I used to have dreams of Doug at various points, a few years ago at least, and I would always see him in a recognizable form, though as the dreams went on his appearances became more grotesque, for lack of a better word for it.  Always Bald, also, by the way.  Fortunately, it has been quite awhile since I've had a dream directly about him or seeing him in that way.

I think, however, given this Dark Water/ Darth Vader tie-in, that Doug made a return to my dream in the form of Darth Vader, after a long absence.

I typically don't look for ways to write about him too directly.  You will find, however, different references to him in various forms and names on this blog if you know what you are looking for - I've left enough clues that understanding this shouldn't be an issue, and should be fairly straightforward if you just look (with another key being provided in this post).  But, I like figuring things out and putting puzzle pieces together, and the Darth Vader-Douglas-Dark Water game was a fun one to figure out, or at least see the connection, so I thought it was worth a post.

02/22

No joke, I was sitting down to write a post about the 02/22 reference, and I responded quickly to a comment that Debbie had left on my Twos-day: San Ramon, another Walt, and flying into the Sun that also ended with another 02/22 reference.  Must be meant to be that I should get this 02/22 post out tonight.

In her comment, Debbie mentioned Trump as a divider.  I responded that this shouldn't be surprising given that my guess is that Trump is Coriantumr reincarnated.  I think linked the post in which I put forward my point of view, only to realize that post was published on February 22, or 02/22.  Crazy, huh?

But Trump really doesn't have much to do with this post, although Ether does, and per other posts and comments, he is linked to the number 22., so perhaps there is a connection there somewhere also.

In any case, on to the real reason I wanted to write about 02/22.

In my Twos-day post linked earlier, I mentioned seeing the data 02/22 on a safety card while sitting on an airplane, and in seeing the number 22 in date format, I suddenly realized that my birthday is on the 22nd.  Like, strangely hit me for the first time, whereas 22 has come up multiple times before.  I was so struck by the thought, that I ended up taking a picture of the safety card.  Here it is:

I then imagined all sorts of stories on the back of this Cicada...  I mean, this safety and information card.   Let's take a look.

As mentioned, I noticed the 02/22 first and thought of my birthday.  I then noticed the word next to it:  revision.  Normally this means 'to change' in everyday use (or at least how I use it) but in this case I saw it and understood it in its true root words:  "to see again".  Per Etymonline, that is the basis for this word, after all, with "re" meaning "again", and "vision" meaning "to see".  Pretty straightforward, and I understood this line to have something to do with the Being I have associated with the number 22 (Faramir-Menelmacar) seeing again.

My eyes were then drawn to the number 321, and I saw it as a countdown, as in 3-2-1, liftoff.  I wrote a few posts on the recent eclipse passing over church historical sites, including upstate New York and the Kirtland Temple in Ohio.  In upstate New York, a religious group known loosely as the Remnant was holding a conference and they referenced that the eclipse would pass over at 3:21, and I mentioned I thought that this seemed like a countdown, 3-2-1.

Interestingly, though, in place of 'liftoff' on this card, was the word 'neo'.  I instantly thought of Neo, the character from the Matrix.   He showed up in a dream of mine awhile back.  But, I realized that Neo was an appropriate replacement for liftoff, as this is what Neo did at the end of the first Matrix movie.  

Before he lifts off, however, he informs 'the Matrix', who he is speaking to on the phone, that he will "show these people what you don't want them to see".  So, here again we have this concept of vision, and people being able to see things that they hadn't been able to before.  After hanging up the phone, he steps out of the phone booth and then ascends to the sky.  He literally 'lifts off' straight into the sky as a rocket would do.

Here was my brief summary of the Neo dream, by the way, from my post Fiber optic cables, ceramics, and ethernet conversions: A stone metaphor.

In the dream, I was back in the house I grew up in (and that my parents still live in).  I was talking with my dad about something, and I started to say something like "It just feels like things are close, because I can hear you guys upstairs on your ceramics making a lot of noise".  As I was saying this, my dad's face transformed into that of Keanu Reeves as the character of Neo in the Matrix movies, which was a bit strange, and I found that it was difficult to tell whether the words I said were coming from me or the person I was now facing as Neo.  As soon as I became aware of this, I woke up.

OK, so all this is great, but why did I decide that I wanted to write about 02/22 tonight?  Well, one of our favorite movies, National Treasure, comes bounding back into the picture

The vision to see the treasured past

Tonight was Friday movie night, and wouldn't you know, my two youngest wanted to watch National Treasure again.  Looking up my previous posts on this movie, it looks like it was about 2 months ago they watched it.  They wanted an adventure movie and this one sounded good for them.  I was tired because it has been a long work week, so even though I have seen it recently (and written a few posts on it) I sat there with them and watched.   I actually figured I had seen most of the interesting things in the movie, but I turned out to be wrong.   It gets pretty interesting.

After arriving in Philadelphia, they try to crack yet another code/ clue in the form of a riddle.  Riley reads Ben and Abigail the following:

The vision to see the treasured the past

Comes as the timely shadow

Crosses in front of the house of Pass and Stow

The answer, of course, is the Liberty Bell.  The same Bell that I visited with my son last week and wrote a couple posts on as well.

We have here this concept of "vision" and "seeing" again, and it is about to be explicitly linked to 02/22.  

They figure out that it must be at a certain time ("the timely shadow"), and find that the right time is on the etching of the Independence Hall Clock Tower that is on the back of $100 bills.

That time?

2:22.

That clue then leads them to the clock tower where they find a brick that contains what the clue was referring to:  a pair of spectacles.

These are the same spectacles I wrote about before, and compared to the Urim and Thummim in my National Treasure post linked earlier, and here is the picture of what they look like:

This is a pretty direct link with the 02/22 'revision' story that had developed in my mind, with the clue in this movie involving the time of 2:22 leading to glasses that would allow one to have a different vision of things, specifically hidden things.

It was also interesting in that I have linked up Faramir-Eonwe-Ether with this 22 number, and here we have the character of Ben ('the son') directly associated with that number.

Here is the National Treasure clip.  The part really starts at around the 1:10 mark.

The Houses of Hair Man and Bald Man

 This concept of the "Bald Man" has been a bit of a mystery to me.

I mean, I had a bit of a negative experience with one Bald Man who I have dubbed Doug, but that didn't seem to fully account for this overall storyline and set of themes relating to some characters and their baldness.

Whether with the symbolism and story of Walter White, the imagery of Jeff Bezos and his black feathered and ball-less rocket, or other interesting characters, events, dreams, etc. involving baldness (such as my Mr. Potato Head dream or my post on Bald Men Phobias where some things rolled up into a few strange syncs), it has been a theme that has had me wondering just a bit.  The references keep coming up.

I should have recognized the first clue as to what this could refer to with the mention of Harkonnens.  Although, after I typed that sentence I did a search on my blog for where I mentioned them, but alas, it looks like I only thought I had written something about them.  So, a few quick paragraphs for background...

Harkonnen was a name that came up a couple years ago, and I didn't really do anything with it.  For those of you familiar with Dune, this is the House that fought against and almost eradicated House Atreides.  I tried reading the book once, but I couldn't get too into it, and at the time I knew that JRR Tolkien hated the book, so that was enough for me to have an excuse not to pursue it further.  What I know of the book comes from some vaguely remembered scenes from David Lynch's movie adaptation, and the new Dune movie, Part 1. I haven't seen Part 2 yet.

Anyway, there is something strange and relevant for our purposes with respect to the Harkonnens.  In the new movie adaptations, the conscious choice of the director was to make them all bald.  A complete race of hairless, bald Beings.  This was not how it was in the book, I believe, nor how they were conveyed in the Lynch-1980's version (red or blonde hair was the thing).  But in this recent version, they were made to be all bald:

And they were bad guys, and the Bald Man theme in my dreams and various connections seemed to also be tied to bad guys.

But why?  Does this all go back to Doug?  That would be a bummer.  But no, I don't think so.  This is a bigger problem

Before I go further, I should also clarify that to be Bald is different thing than being bald.   Meaning the Bald that I am concerned with has to do with one's identity or House from a very long time ago, and not whether one has male pattern baldness in their physical body here and now.  There is Bald, and there is bald.   Doug is both, by the way, Bald and bald, but that doesn't mean you have to be, necessarily.

But again, with the Harkonnens we have a whole race or family of Beings that are cast as Bald Men.  I can't remember what I was thinking about last week, but I landed on Finwe, and I remembered that a variant of his name was also Finn.

Then it hit me.

Finn means "Hair", and this also goes for Fin (with just the one N), and this is our second clue. Traditionally, Finwe's name has meant something like Crafty or Skillful Man (Fin-we), but alternatively it can simply mean Hair Man or Hair Being.  

I have guessed that Finwe is likely the name for the Being we know as Israel, and that this is also the Being who Jesus called Father, and we would know as God the Father.  Thus, "Israel", in this sense, would refer to the House of the Hair Man, or literally the House of God.  Which would obviously be the opposite of Bald Man, or House of the Bald Man, who is the bad guy and evil.

The possession of or absence of hair, then, in this story becomes a symbolic marker of a character's association with Israel or their enemies.  Hair = God and his family.  Bald = the enemies of God's family.

Anyway, I think this is it.  When I have seen Beings in my dreams, or in some of these symbolic representations, I believe it is mean to illustrate the Family of which one belongs.

Let us also, then, call these Bald Beings "Gentiles".  These Beings fought against and tried to destroy God' Family and people in a time long before this world.  This world is an extension of that conflict (a continuation of a much different version in my mind of the "War in Heaven" than is found in LDS theology), and it is here where the House of Finwe finally prevails, through means previously not thought possible or likely.  A curious work of redemption.

And this redemption extends to the Gentiles, but the way, in the story in my head.  Just because someone was Bald doesn't mean they can't switch sides and choose to be good.  It is all choice, and although past choices may make future change less likely, it is not impossible.  Repentance is extended to the Gentiles, and they can be forgiven and be numbered among Israel.  Israel will have all of the 'hairs' or their heads restored to them - that is their promise, to be reunited with their Family - and the Gentiles that repent and come to Jesus may find hair growing on heads that used to have none.

Lex Luthor

In this game and ultimate struggle between Good and Evil, there may also be Beings who disguise themselves as being of the House of Hair Man, but are actually not.  The character of Lex Luthor brought this to mind.

In the first Superman movie, Gene Hackman plays Lex Luthor.  Luthor is traditionally a Bald Man - the enemy of Kal-El on this Earth.  However, for most of the movie, Luthor actually has hair.  The real reason for this is that Hackman refused to shave his head for the part.  So, as part of the plot, Luthor is portrayed as having hair the entire movie, though we get random shots of wigs in his underground hideout below Metropolis for no readily apparent reason.

Only at the end is the big reveal made:  The wigs were there because Luthor is actually Bald.  He was just pretending to have a full head of hair.

Why is that detail important?  I just mention it because I think at this time it is very hard to, for certain, tell who is or is not Bald, and some disguises are pretty good, spiritually speaking.  Remember my dream of Mr. Potato Head, where the big message is that this ultimately Bald and Smooth Being can don many different faces and disguises.  Sneaky.   So, we have to be a bit careful, I think.

Thin Spaghetti

The definition of Finwe with Hair might also at least partially explain the 'thin' imagery with respect to people and places.  This has come up over on William Tychonievich's blog, as well as over here.  For instance, my son drew that picture of a monkey named Spaghetti, a long, thin noodle.  William writes of a skinny planet, with little skinny people and Beings.  Lots of skinny references.

"Finn", besides meaning Hair, can also just refer to a single strand of Hair, or a filament, as Eldamo points out.  Or, a long, thin thread.

So, when we speak of Beings, or even places, and refer to them as being thin or skinny, we may also be referring to the same thing as when we speak of Hair in our analogy above.  The Beings in question are the threads the comprise the tapestry of God's House.  I don't know - just thinking creatively at this point, but there could be something there.

In any case, I do think that to be Bald, in the sense I am describing, is to not be numbered among God's house:  Hair-less.  But, this is a redemptive work, and it doesn't need to remain that way.  Even enemies can repent and become Hairy.

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.