The Brittany Spears: A quick follow-up

 Early this evening I was out in our barn cleaning up some of some bee hives, frames, and equipment.   I had to put a new box of frames on one of my hives, and I had made a mess when I had been rummaging through my existing frames to put together the additional box for the bees.

Anyway, as I was restacking boxes and frames, the Brittany Spears name popped up in my mind again, but this time I distinctly interpreted the phrase as having to do with multiple Spears - like the noun, as a weapon - and they were in Brittany.  Before, I had linked Spears almost like a verb, I think, like skewering or spearing someone or something.  Now, it came across as something like the Spears of or in Brittany.

I mentioned I had dropped the location assessment or angle earlier because I don't really know where to go with it anyway.  Brittany is in France, and France has played a remarkably prominent role in both the story of the Sawtooth Stone, the history of the Shire and Tom Bombadil, and other tied syncs like Francis Bacon and Francis Scott Key, so it seems there is some relevance there, but it is unclear exactly what.

Anyway, so I looked up Brittany again.  In one overview of the region, it was noted that Brittany comprises 1/3 of the French coastline.  This stood out to me based on the fact that I have our Stone Couriers sailing across the Atlantic and arriving in France with their cargo.  Now, I guess they could land anywhere in Europe and make their way to France and wherever Tom's house might be, but it seems that perhaps the simplest way would be to land in France itself.  It is a more direct route and if they were trying to avoid too many complications or chances of discovery, intrusion, or loss/ theft, then sailing as close to their final destination may have been the way to go.

So, in that scenario, the fact that Brittany comprises so much coastline of France, and has several harbors and inlets scattered around for large and small ships alike, straight math not factoring anything else says they had at least a 33% chance of landing in Brittany.

Then it would have been a question as to how far overland they had to go to reach Tom's House.  Perhaps they didn't have to travel far, and their rendezvous with Tom was still within the confines of Brittany, and perhaps not even too far from where they landed?

In an interesting word game, I found out this evening that the word for "Key" in French is Cle (with an accent over the e, but I am lazy and don't know how to type that).  Recall that I had that little sync or instance with the newspaper that one day where I saw the words "Find Key House".

If we substitute Cle for Key, we then have Find Cle House.

In Elvish, C and K are pronounced the same, so Cle House could be spelled Kle House.

Where have I seen Kle before?  Oh yeah, in words that first gave me this notion of the Family of Light.  In those words I had Kle Family, or Light Family.  that is how I translated it at least (you won't find Kle exactly in that form in Eldamo, but I am fairly confident, as much as I can be, that Kle is Light here).

So, that would give us Find Light House, in that little newspaper message I saw, or a lighthouse.  I thought that was an interesting little game, but what made it even more interesting is that I then found out that Brittany has the highest concentration of Lighthouses in the entire world (I assume by concentration they mean lighthouses per mile of shoreline).  I have to rely on online sources for this, but it was cited in multiple places.  There is even a famous Lighthouse Route/ Road that is cited as a major tourist attraction.  From Brittany's official tourism site:

The Brittany coast has the largest concentration of lighthouses in the world, with a record in Finistère. From Ile Vierge to the Stiff lighthouse, via Pointe Saint-Mathieu or Petit Minou lighthouse, climb to the top of these sentinels of the sea and marvel at the extraordinary panoramas!

-- Brittany "On the Lighthouse route" site 

 

Anyway, so if we can swallow a Sawtooth Stone travelling with Couriers to the eastern seaboard of the US, and then across the sea by boat on its way to France, it isn't out of the realm of possibility for them to have landed in Brittany and to have even been guided by these lighthouses.  They indicated, per my thoughts on the pieces of that dialogue I captured, that they needed to write instructions down.  Maybe they were heading to a specific lighthouse as a marker or waypoint on their journey.  Who knows.

I just found it was an interesting play on words to get from Key House to Light House, and to find that Brittany is famous for its lighthouses.

Back to Spears, though.  We have more than one, since plural form of the word, and spears pierce through things, whether object or Being.  That is what they are designed to do.

I shared some of my January and February 2022 words in a series of post several months ago.  In Part 1, I related how it seems that a secret plan was now being shared with certain Beings.  As part of this secret plan, it seemed like someone and/or something would cross a divide and perhaps cause something to shine, light a beacon, or something like that (which I have touched on in a few different ways in different posts).

In those phrases is a word ter, which I translated in that instance as "straight and/or through".  But there is another related meaning which is simply "to pierce".  Interestingly enough, this concept of "piercing" also comes up in my 2019 and 2020 words, though I don't think we have gotten to any of those here, thought I will go back and check.

I am not even going to put those 2022 words here an rehash them - you know where to find them if you want to look them up.  The important thing I want to log here is that it seems that 'piercing' some divide, chasm, darkness, whatever as part of this return home is required.  And to pierce something, you must have something that will do the piercing, perhaps.

That is where the Spears come in, and my current guess is that these would be rather strange Spears indeed since they aren't likely to be very sharp in a physical sense.  Far from it - round, like a globe.  It is the stories and power that is pulled out of them that will do the piercing, like a sharp sword or spear.  Basically, I think the Brittany Spears are referring to the Stones, and in this case I guess it would be the Sawtooth and Anor Stones.  These would be the Spears that pierce whatever darkness, veil, or obstacle that exists, I guess.  

And so, if that is true, then this must mean that the Stones are currently in Brittany.  Hey, it is in France, and quite a few of these little syncs point to it, so I think better than zero chance, though obviously highly speculative and we will see where things go.