What is even more amazing than a talking dog? A spelling bee!

I've danced around Sirius a bit, and even started a post or two that I just haven't been able to really get traction on.  There is an interesting and funny little wink to Sirius in Xanadu I was going to post on yesterday, but I didn't have a good way yet to pull the video clip I was going to use, so I went ahead and switched course to write about Star Trek, Voyager, and Europa.

I didn't know that Sirius was a binary star until very recently.  The first time the star came up on this blog was in my Man in Black post back in November, and at that time I can tell from how I phrased my reference to the star that I was under the impression that Sirius was a single star.  So sometime between then and a little bit ago I discovered that Sirius is actually comprised of Sirius A and Sirius B.

Sirius A is basically the one that we can see at night.  It is the brightest star in our sky, and is measured to be about 25 times brighter than the sun.  Sirius B, on the other hand, is about 10,000 times dimmer than Sirius B.  It wasn't even discovered until the mid to later 1800s, and came as a surprise to astronomers when they discovered it.  It is so dim that scientists weren't able to estimate its mass until 2005, with some help from the Hubble Telescope.

What I will propose is that Sirius A and B stand in for or represent the Ithil and Anor Stones, respectively, as well as their owners, or the Beings attached to them.

In my words, Eowyn was called at one point Lorien's 'shiniest twin', who was in Eru-Place (maybe still is?).  Sirius A is both the shiniest star in our night sky, as well as a twin or dual star.  Eowyn has also, on her Ithil Stone, perhaps gathered 11 or more individual stories relating to the truth about Jesus, which is another thing that makes here Stone or Star the "shiniest" - it has the most truth, and truth is light.

The Anor Stone, however, we learned was 'smoked' or darkened back in 2019.  So, rather than having the same luminosity of its companion Stone, it is now presently dim and dark, just like Sirius B.

That part of the analogy or story contained in Sirius makes sense to me.

It gets complicated in my mind a bit, though, in who is who in the zoo relative to the Anor Stone.  I mean, technically Eowyn's twin is Joseph-Lorien, but I have associated the Anor Stone with Faramir-Eonwe.  Which is it - who does Sirius B represent then in terms of Being and Stone?  

Perhaps both.  Recall in the prophecy of Joseph of Egypt (Lorien) that Lehi relates to his own son Joseph in 2 Nephi, that Joseph of Egypt indicates that the Seer who will come at a later day to restore his people and family will both be named after him, but also be like him:

And his name shall be called after me; and it shall be after the name of his father. And he shall be like unto me; for the thing, which the Lord shall bring forth by his hand, by the power of the Lord shall bring my people unto salvation.

They may have similar stories and thus similar symbols.  We know that Joseph was sick and needed to be rescued, and is still in need of some restoration.  His own star and Being has been dimmed.  It is likely that Faramir is in a similar condition, though not in exactly the same state or situation, if that makes any sense.  Both will be lifted up - this is what Asenath seems to have been telling her brother Faramir in those October 2019 words, and that it would be Joseph who would need to be found and rescued first, with Faramir's own ascension happening sometime later.

Thus, I can see both Beings attached to the Anor Stone, as it seems the Stone is involved in both of their stories.  The Stone was initially dimmed, I think, in order for people to come and rescue Joseph.  That same Stone will also be used by Faramir, at least in my current thinking.

I probably completely pretzeled that, but what I am trying to say is there are potentially a few layers or meaning to these stories that the stars are saying.  The important thing is that Sirius B is a dim and dead star, that used to be bright, just like the Anor Stone.

Both it and the Ithil Stone are involved in the 'sky-walk' or Menelmacar-Orion, who quite frankly can also have connections to both Joseph and Faramir, very cleanly actually.  So, again, I can focus on one element of the story and talk about Faramir and his future sky-walk or ascension, but that doesn't preclude other additional characters or details that come into play in other ways or in other times.

OK, that is clear as mud.

The Spelling Bee

What actually prompted me to at least get something out related to Sirius today was schoolwork my son brought home yesterday but that I didn't see until this morning.

One thing to note before we get there, though.  Sirius is known as the Dog Star to us.  It is a part of Canis Major, and thus its nickname.  Canis Major is one of Orion's two hunting dogs that follow him in the sky.

However, to the Elves, Sirius went by a different name and was connected to a different animal.  It was known as Nielluin or Nierninwa.  This translates to "Blue Bee" or "Bee of Azure".

Rather than a Dog, the Elves associated Sirius with a Bee.  When I discovered this, I thought it was a nice little tie-in to Sirius A and its association with Eowyn-Deseret.  Eowyn, we have covered, is associated with Bees, and I have also associated her, and her Stone, with Sirius, the brightest star in our sky.  So, this all works out very well.  I was going to make a point of this fact in the post I started but did not finish yesterday before turning to the Voyager entry.

Anyway, so this morning after dropping off the kids at school, I walked by the kitchen counter, and a school assignment belonging to my youngest son was sitting on the edge.  It was a math assignment, where you solve problems to get specific number answer, each answer or number is associated with a letter, and there is a riddle at the bottom where the answer is represented by blanks with various numbers below them.  You enter the letter you got for each answer above into the blank below that has that same number, which then reveals the answer.

The title of the homework is "The Amazing Talking Dog".

The question he had to solve at the bottom was "What is even more amazing than a talking dog?".

The answer was "A spelling bee".

Here is the picture:

Not only do we have the Dog (who is a Pied Dog, by the way!) and Bee connection with Sirius, but we also have this concept of 'spelling', which was a few potential meanings.  One is obviously how you write words, but it can also be something like 'casting spells'.  A Bee that casts spells would be a witch, if it was a female (I guess wizard if a male). In Words of the Faithful, Izilba (who is Eowyn, but who I also refer to as Deseret) was rumored to be a witch.  Many times she is called this by different characters, with even Izilba and Zhera' (Faramir) getting in on the joke.

But, there is another meaning to spell beyond writing words and being a witch.  Spell, per etymonline, can literally mean "Story, tale, or saying" and even "Sermon or religious instruction".   Izilba defeats witches with the use of a story about Eru or Jesus that defeated these dark Beings.  It seems like this will also be the case in the future - where she will have another, more complete, story about Jesus to share.  The word Gospel comes from Good Spell - a Good Story.  So, the Amazing Spelling Bee with a Good Spell to share with us?  I think so.

This meaning of a Bee who has a Good Spell to share - the Spelling Bee - also then ties back to the symbolism of Sirius very directly and the association with the Ithil and Anor Stones.  As I have guessed at in previous posts, it is through the link of these Stones that these Good Stories will be shared.

Anyway, just some random thoughts.  When I saw my son's homework, I thought I better at least make mention of Sirius and the Dog and Bee connection.  If I figure out a good way to get it, I will post the Sirius clip from Xanadu also, and then I guess we can see if there is anything else about Sirius to cover at that point.