I coach my youngest son's soccer team, and we had our final game of the season on Monday night. It was a crazy late game for 8 and 9 year olds, with a start time of 8:30pm. Usually he is going to bed at that time.
The game was also all the way across town, a little under an hour away. Games last about an hour, so this meant that we weren't getting home until 10:30pm or so.
I thought my son was going to be super tired on the way home since it was so late, and I told him to try to go to sleep while I drove home. He was in the back with his eyes closed, and I thought he might be nodding off. I had the radio playing quietly, tuned to Kool 108 which plays 80s and 90s songs.
"The Final Countdown" came on, and my son started singing along to it with his eyes still closed, or at least the chorus part where they say "It's the final countdown", and then you get the classic synthesizer riff. When the song was over, he asked me if I could play it again. I initially told him no for two reasons: it was on the radio, and I can't replay those songs, and he really should be trying to sleep. He said he wasn't tired anymore, though, and really wanted to listen to that song again.
After hearing arguments from both angels on either shoulder about what to do in this situation, I said screw it, why not jam to some Final Countdown on the way home? So, I pulled it up on Spotify and we spent more time than I'd care to admit blasting Final Countdown. My son pretty much views it as one of the greatest songs ever now, right up there with his other top hits of "Right Now" by Van Halen and "It's Raining Tacos" by I don't even know (he is a man of varied tastes). We did let Spotify take over for a bit. "Take on Me" by a-ha was next (covered on this blog before). "Thunderstruck" from AC/DC came on, and that was a big hit for a bit, but he said that Brian Johnson's voice had gotten a bit scary for him and was going to give him nightmares (I can see that), so we moved on. Anyway, The Final Countdown was the clear winner. At one point he asked if we could get him a lyric sheet so he could learn all of the words, and not just the chorus part.
I tend to pay a bit of attention to where his mind is going with certain things, particularly after our discussion about Francis Scott Key. In this case, I didn't pay as much attention to the song since we were just jamming out, but the next morning (yesterday) I went for a run and kicked it off with The Final Countdown, because why not. In listening to the song, I remembered my son asking about getting a lyric sheet, and so I payed attention a bit more to what the words were actually saying.
I think we have a pretty good fit here with recent storylines, actually, including the gathering off of this world to somewhere else. I am not going to go into line by line analysis, but just posting the song here for anyone interested.
In putting together the phrase "Behold, God's Gift! Peter-Pharazon to come back together with John", I used the word-names from the photo that William Tychonievich shared (because that, of course, makes complete sense and isn't crazy at all).
Because I was focused on Pharazon-Peter in what I was thinking through, and the realization that he may in fact be going back with John, I interpreted Jessie as not representing a name or Being, but rather an introductory phrase to the action of Peter returning with John.
However, in pulling this sentence together, I had a thought that perhaps Jessie represented a person, and in exploring this further, I think this thought was, in fact, correct. Thus, I am amending my earlier phrase, and we will have Jessie as a character.
That person, as I mentioned in my response to Leo, is the Holy Ghost. This works out fairly well in my story, and I feel better about the whole thing in making this change (as good as one can feel divining stories from shoe cubbies).
As mentioned in that earlier post, Jessie has a few meanings attached to it. If Jessie, the female form of the name, it is short for Jessica. This name apparently means "Foresight" or "To Behold", which is why I included it in that form in my first sentence rendition. This is actually the name that had me first thinking that this could perhaps be a reference to the Holy Ghost. Remember in my story that the Seer that Joseph of Egypt himself foretold of is the Holy Ghost (Faramir). Seers foretell things, and they use Stones with which to do this.
If Jesse, the male version of the name, we have either "the Lord exists" or "God's gift". These phrases are also descriptive of the Holy Ghost, in a few ways. According to Abinadi, it will be prophets as Beings standing on Mountains and publishing words with "Beautiful Feet" who proclaim to Zion that "Thy God Reigneth!". Abinadi, who again I also have as this same reincarnated Holy Ghost, is one of these Beings, and recall that I have him standing before Noah exercising one of the exact missions that is associated with the Holy Ghost: bearing record of the Father and the Son, which Jesus at Bountiful would later specifically teach as that Being's role.
The Gift angle of Jesse brings to mind what the Holy Ghost will bring and which must be 'received', what is often referred to as the Gift of the Holy Ghost, which I think is probably not really interpreted very accurately in modern Mormon theology. A Gift, interestingly, also refers or points to the Seer of Joseph's prophecy that I just alluded to.
When Ammon found the people of Limhi, Limhi asked him if he could translate Ether's 24 plates which they had found. Ammon replied that he could not, but Mosiah could, because he had the 'interpreters'. In explaining what a seer was, Ammon says this:
And behold, the king of the people who are in the land of Zarahemla is the man that is commanded to do these things, and who has this high gift from God.
And the king [Limhi] said that a seer is greater than a prophet.
And Ammon said that a seer is a revelator and a prophet also; and a gift which is greater can no man have, except he should possess the power of God, which no man can; yet a man may have great power given him from God.
There is no greater gift from God, in Ammon's opinion, than that of being a Seer, and in this story the Holy Ghost is sent back to this world as part of his mission to take on that Seership (and, again, part of the definition of being a Seer is the possession of Stones).
Lastly, with respect to the name of Jesse-Jessie and why I think it may allude to the Holy Ghost is the nature of the name itself. It is a gender-neutral name that can apply to both a boy and a girl, we we've just seen above. In the strange story element I have explored here, I have the Holy Ghost being something of a dual entity, comprised of two Beings, a set of Twins comprised of a man and a woman, who are in this case, Faramir-Eonwe and Asenath-Nimloth. Thus, the choice of a name applicable to both a man or a woman makes sense.
OK, so with this change, we now have a phrase that reads:
Holy Ghost and Pharazon-Peter to come back together with John
With the addition of the second name and companion of Peter, even the translation of yoyo makes a lot of sense, particularly the use of "together". Yo definitely means 'together' in Elvish, but the translation on Eldamo suggested that this sense of together refers to 3 or more things or individuals. I didn't think it was a big deal, and even with just Peter and John I thought it worked fine, but now we have 3 individuals and it fits even better, perhaps.
The other things I really like about this change, and the update in my story, is that these two Beings I also have identified as Gim Guru and Gim Githil: The Gim G's, as I have referred to them as. This phrase now has them returning home together.
What of the Two Elves, Glorfindel and Gildor? They are Beings I have identified as ushers, perhaps specifically for Faramir, or one of the Gim G's. I don't think that changes. They know where Tom's House is, having found it before, and so they lead the Gim G's to its location in France. They may also accompany them further "West", but even if so, it seems that John is going to take the lead on that particular leg of the journey, perhaps. So, I think we are still good, but we will see how things unfold.
It does, however, if true, eliminate Pharazon as a candidate to be the "Man among the Gentiles" who sails across with a corrupted book. That doesn't work here. We've first tried Brigham, and now Pharazon, but neither seems to fit for different reasons. I am down in the count at two strikes. So, that spot opens up for another Being to step into, and we'll just have to see how that plays out, and wait for the right pitch to swing at.
To conclude, the picture of the two Pandas on the sandals in Yoyo's cubby has me thinking this is a wink that this new interpretation of having both Gim Guru and Gim Githil return with John make sense. We have two Pied Beings together, and this Black and White reference has seemingly been a theme or reference for both individuals.
So, I think the shoe cubby reading works better this way: Gim Guru and Gim Githil accompany John back home.
This will also make more sense in the story, I think, after I go through a little of the evacuation from the May-June 2020 timeframe that I believe I see. 82 of the 96 Numenorean Elvish Fathers are apparently safely somewhere and accounted for. 14 are still not, and I believe these are the Vanyar, or the First. The numbers work out for it to be so, at least. They Firs shall be Last, it is said, and it is their group that still remains ungathered if my guess right now is correct. Gim Githil in my story is one of these 14, since he is Ingwe, the head of the Vanyar who led everyone back home to begin with, and so it makes sense that he has yet to go home if the others of his clan or group have not yet either.
Even though 14 are still left, 15 are mentioned as still needing to come home. The 15th is, in my view, Gim Guru, who will also return as part of this initial scene, potentially acting in the capacity of advocate and counsellor on behalf of the 96 as a story might potentially be shared that will change things in both Heaven and on our Earth, and the these Beings may be re-deemed, in the fullest sense of that word.
That is another post, though, but this alteration of my earlier guess to now include the Holy Ghost in this phrase leads nicely into it in my mind.
I was going to cover this dream from last night in the last post I just wrote, but felt it was too much of a tangent in terms of scope to drag that one on longer just to cover. So, I will do it here instead. The tie back to that post, however, just to keep in mind, is this concept of 'footwear' and slippers or slip-shoes, which extends all the way back to at least the Xanadu posts about needing new shoes to roller-skate on, and even a day before that over on William Tychonievich's blog where he had a reference to a running shoe called the Gel-Nimbus.
So, the dream:
I was with my two youngest kids at something like a shopping mall. I had to leave them in a store for some reason that I forgot, and I told them that I would be back to get them and they needed to stay there in the store until I returned. No wandering off. I went off to run an errand or something (I can't remember exactly where I went off to or why), and I eventually returned to the store.
Upon returning, I found my daughter walking around the store and she came up to me and said my youngest had not been really behaving as well as she thought he should have been. This wasn't surprising given my youngest son's energy and tendency to get into mischief (as well as my daughter's tendency to try and get him into trouble). I went to go find him, and found both him and a person I took to be the store owner. As the store owner saw me approaching, he turned to my son and simply said "You need to go now, [son's name]". He then turned and walked away into a back room. My first instinct was to think that my son really must have been misbehaving to get that kind of treatment (but I reconsidered this upon waking up, and felt that the store owner was just telling my son that since I was back, it was time for him to leave).
We left the store, and were a little way down the street when I realized I had forgotten my shoes. This is now the 2nd dream in the last few days involving shoes for me (maybe I will recount the other one here also, now that I think about it). As I was deciding what to do, two assistants from the store we had been at came running up behind us with my flip-flops (the kind of footwear I had been wearing). I thanked them for tracking us down and returning them, and then said something like "I wouldn't have gotten very far without these!".
The specific flip-flops I wear are OluKai brand, and it was these same sandals in the dream - this was prominently shown to be what they were carrying. The symbol for OluKai is the Makau, or fishhook:
Straight from OluKai's website, they say the Makau symbolizes "safe passage over water":
Regarded as a symbol for safe passage over water, the makau, or fishhook, brings good fortune and strength to those who wear it.
One of the assistants also had a single shoe in their hand, and I looked down and saw that my daughter was only wearing one shoe. The shoe the assistants were carrying belonged to her. My daughter is always forgetting things in real life, and I asked her how she could have both left her shoe and also failed to recognize this fact as we were walking ("How could you not realize you were walking with one shoe on!?"). She simply replied that she hadn't thought she would need it. I then told her to take the shoe from the assistants anyway, because a person really should have two shoes on, and even if she didn't want to wear it or think she needed it, we should bring it with us just in case.
I then woke up.
Alright, so there is some pretty obvious symbolism here that ties into other things noted on this blog, but also on William's. I am not even going to go into them right now, though, so am just logging the dream.
Here is the dream I had a few days ago also related to footwear.
I was playing football for my college team again, though not like back in time - just now and obviously older, or later in time. This was made obvious by my old defensive coordinator going out of his way to say to me "It is good to have you back!". The arrangement seemed strange, but I guess I got used to in in the dream-reality. And I actually had fun playing again, with the added benefit that I felt really young again, even if I knew I was older.
I ended up playing in multiple games, it seemed, or maybe it was during halftime, but I found myself in the locker room unable to find the cleats I had been wearing. I assumed someone took them by mistake, so I asked around and checked with the equipment manager.
I was directed toward a pair of cleats that, if I remember correctly, were suggested might be mine. They were white, like my missing cleats, and were my size, but that is where the similarities ended. I had been wearing Nike cleats, and these were definitely not Nikes. As I inspected the cleats closer, I saw that they were a brand I had never heard of before. Running along the back heel of each cleat was the brand name (or what I assumed was the brand name) "ACE" in all caps like that.
I turned the cleats over to look at the condition of the actual cleats or studs themselves. What I found was surprising. While the shoes definitely had studs on the bottom, they were covered by a sheet of special material that was stretched over them, running along the whole sole of the shoe, so that for all intents and purposes the surface was flat (i.e., the sheet didn't follow the contours of the studs, but just was laid flatly over them). The material that covered the cleats looked like they were meant to run on something, for sure, but it didn't seem like it would be grass, given that the studs would not be able to provide any traction or dig into the ground with the sheet in the way. They looked like they were almost meant to slide or glide over something. Thinking that this must all be some kind of mistake, I set the cleats down, and then woke up.
Well, the shoe cubbies at William Tychonievich's language school have become a source of messages and stories. I guess we should have seen this coming.
In his original post titled Leo, Egbert, Peter, he noted that the order of name labels for 3 of his students' shoe cubbies matched up with the first 3 names the title of my post Leon Egbert, Pharazon, and Sun-Moon Time. This is only true, however, if we assume that Peter is another name or identity for Pharazon, which is of course what I have hypothesized here on this blog, and specifically in that post that William linked to, to no one's greater surprise initially than my own, honestly.
So, perhaps a wink that this guess has some wings to it.
It gets even a little more interesting though based on recent developments.
I left a comment on that initial post with respect to the types of shoes William mentioned that he has his students change into: Slippers. Rather than retyping it or just linking it, here is what I wrote so we have it here:
I wonder if the fact that these labels are on shelves that the students use to change their "shoon" before going upstairs is meaningful?
Slippers comes from the term slip-shoe. To slip can mean both to 'escape, or move softly and quickly', but also 'to glide or slide'. In this definition, it is somewhat of a synonym for 'skate', which also means to glide (as well as to escape, or get away with something), over ice with ice-skates, or along the ground with roller-skates.
Wearing new shoes that slip or glide in order to be able to go somewhere has come up before:
To summarize, when I saw the shoe cubby, my mind went to two things: William's earlier post regarding 'shoon' (shoes), and the movie Xanadu, where I have made a big deal in the past about people needing new shoes to go to Tirion-Jerusalem, as symbolized by people gliding around on roller-skates. I first did this in the post I linked in that comment, and then continued with the analogy in posts like "Ho!" and "X marks the spot" and in other posts as well.
I will touch on William's Shoon poem at the end briefly because of a dream I had last night, but I wanted to quickly touch on Xanadu and then bring it back to the latest image William shared of those shoe cubbies and the story I see there.
In Xanadu, my own view is that the character of Danny McGuire is meant to represent John-Thingol. As part of this role, and within the analogy, we actually see Danny-John as the one who leads the Xanadu procession on roller-skates at the end of the movie. He is the Master of Ceremonies, and gets everyone on their feet and following him as they skate around and slippers on their way to Xanadu.
Here is the video in case you haven't watched the spectacle lately.
It is Danny-John who is clearly leading the procession, as shown by the Gene Kelly zoom-in here at the outset, before he starts skating around and encouraging everyone to follow him:
OK, but why I am I bringing up John in this context - what does he have to do with William's shoe cubbies? Well, his name shows up there, based on the latest image that William posted.
In the images and commentary that William shared, we have 6 names: Jessie, Leo, Egbert, Peter, Yoyo, and Ivan.
So, let's see what this says, shall we?
William already covered the original 3 names, and combined those into one Being: Pharazon-Peter. I agree with this interpretation, so we'll leave that as is.
Turning to the top, or beginning, we have Jessie. Jessie is a name with a few different meanings. As a translation of "Jesse", you have a hebrew name like "Gift of God". It also, however, can mean "foresight" or "behold" if a short form of Jessica. So, I've lumped those all in together to have this word mean something will - certainly - happen in the future, and it is due to God's gift.
The object of God's gift and grace and this future event is Peter-Pharazon, as is captured in the next 3 words.
The final two words suggest what it is that God's grace and gift now allows.
Yoyo is the next word, and William mentions this is a common English name adopted by his students, thanks to the cellist Yo-Yo Ma.
William also connects this yo-yo with the yo-yo toy in his latest Animalia art reading. In seeing this, my mind instantly went to the function of a yo-yo. You throw it down, and it returns back up. It is hooked to the finger with a string, and all it requires is a 'pull' and the yo-yo comes right back to your hand. The yo-yo analogy was already going through my mind with respect to Pharazon and the rest of the Numenorean-Elvish Fathers relative to a 'return' when I looked up the word to see if it meant anything, which it does.
The yo-yo name apparently comes from the Philippines, where it means "come, come" (I pulled this from the Smithsonian website which has a history of the yo-yo). Other translations have it mean something like "come back" or "return". Any of these work for our purposes as we string these words together.
Interestingly, as a piece of trivia that might blow your mind given the subject matter, the yo-yo is cited as first being introduced to America by a Filipino immigrant in San Francisco named Pedro Flores. Pedro, of course, is the Spanish form of Peter.
"Yo" has also come up before in my Elvish words, however, sufficiently enough for me to know that it means "together, with" in that language. And that is how I also saw this word as I looked at the shoe cubby image, meaning we had a double word here in both Filipino and Elvish.
Lastly, we come to Ivan. Ivan is the Russian form of John, and this is where we see his name.
Interestingly and as somewhat of a tangent, given all of the Gorilla and Sasquatch references lately, there is a popular book and a movie based on that book called The one and only Ivan, about a Gorilla named Ivan who is freed from captivity at a shopping mall after remembering his life before captivity and making artwork conveying the word "home". I think relevant, but again, a tangent for this post.
Putting that all together in a sentence that might mean something, we have (as in the title of this post):
Behold, God's gift! Peter-Pharazon to come back together with John.
This is a remarkable sentence that we can easily derive from these shoe cubby words, and it is remarkable not only because of the Xanadu analogy. John, based on his role and mission, perhaps, seems to play a role in the collection of members of this Family and their return Home. It is referenced once in Doug's writings, as well as one time in my own words.
At the end of Words of Them that have Slumbered, Thingol (who is John, in my book) comes to the island of Tol-Morwen in order to get Nienor and take her home to Aman, where ills done to her and her house will be healed. At first, Nienor resists and tries to frighten away John, but he persists and tells her he isn't going anywhere without her:
... come, and see
In the waters, new hope, estel living come to thee, Daughter-Hurin
It is I, Thingol-Elwe Singollo....
Come daughter-Hurin, and find in my paddling, assuage
Of ill done to thee and thy house, I will bear thee
Far off, to lands where thy parentage proceeded,
And where thou may likewise enter a flame-bath
And among Vala-kind, take thy place
In my own words, it seems initially the plan was for Joseph to return home with Thingol back in 2020, as conveyed in words I received on January 19, 2020, and which I covered in an earlier post:
Benu au doriel mit Thingol luke elanor
Which, I have something like: "Husband away land-daughter with Thingol [and] enchanted El-Anor". In other words, Joseph would have El-Anor, the Darkened Sun Stone delivered to him by Heavenly Messengers, and Thingol-John to personally escort him home. Again, this seems very similar to both the account of the rescue and gathering of Nienor, as well as with an earlier finding and rescue of Joseph by Thingol in the depths as captured in Words of the Faithful.
This is also consistent with John's mission as Joseph Smith understood it, and as what seems to be captured in the analogy of Xanadu, which is the gathering of Israel.
In D&C 77, Joseph interprets John eating the little book (from Revelations 10), as him accepting his mission to gather Israel:
Q. What are we to understand by the little book which was eaten by John, as mentioned in the 10th chapter of Revelation?
A. We are to understand that it was a mission, and an ordinance, for him to gather the tribes of Israel; behold, this is Elias, who, as it is written, must come and restore all things.
And so, in our story, and in the analogies explored on this blog, it would be entirely consistent for Pharazon-Peter to return home in the company of John. Whether that is an individual escort, or as part of a larger group, I don't know, but William's shoe cubbies seem to suggest and support the point that not only is Pharazon the same Being as Peter, but that he will come home in the company of his old partner, friend, and Kin: John.
I actually think this will be an individual escort, honestly, as I think about it. If I am right that Pharazon-Peter is also Gim-Githil or Ingwe, and thus one of the original three who went back to Valinor, in the company of Thingol (John) and Finwe (maybe the Being we know as God the Father), then I think it is a nice touch in the story for those three to be reunited in Aman, with Thingol escorting him there.
I don't know - we'll see how that works, but that is how the story plays out in my mind at the moment, partially thanks to those shoe cubbies.
Also, I do want to note, but not get into, the presence of the Black and White pandas - another Pied animal - on the sandals of those shoes in the Yoyo cubby.
OK, this post turned out long enough, where I am going to cover my dream in a separate post right after this one, just to keep the scope and message of this one a bit tighter. So, that is a wrap.
