"Life was good for the hunter gatherers. Palaeolithic hunter gathering people didn't suffer from famine and malnutrition like the Neolithic farming tribes that followed them... Archaeological evidence from the Dordogne region of France shows they used lunar calendars giving the phases of the moon. Solar calendars do not appear until the Neolithic period...The hunter-gatherer affluence came about because they needed very little in the material sense in order to be content and produce beautiful art - which is an expression of a deep philosophy..." ['Elen of the Ways' / E. Sentier].

Question. Philosophy of what? In the 'intuitive' sense of the word or in the scholarly sense. Think about it in relation to that ''bit''. Something {experienced?} internally that needed an external expression for it - in the natural order of things - in order to assimilate it. Hindsight/foresight by way of the subjective/objective process? Could that lead to an answer as a 'difference' between Neanderthals and Cro Magnon man? and as to why one outlasted the other? Enlarged elsewhere.

Among others try ''deer'' and ''horn'' before allowing those first impressions to {dictate?} something else. Begin in Part 2.

A working example: ''In search of textual references to a monumental lion at Giza predating the
Old Kingdom, we focused our investigation on the earliest use of three ancient Egyptian  hieroglyphs depicting the frontal and caudal halves of a lion and a fissure-like symbol. These symbols first appear in Egypt’s proto- and early dynastic era and form part of Egypt’s earliest known set of written language symbols. During the First Dynasty, these symbols were both carved into ivory tags and painted onto jars to designate the quality of oil shipped as grave goods to both royal and private tombs. The same iconography and symbols appear in the creation story recorded on the frieze and upper register of the Edfu Temple’s enclosure wall, where the frontal and caudal animal parts are used to name two of seven personified creation words, the so-called ḏ3jsw1, uttered during the act of creating the world from the primordial flood Mehit-wrt by Ptah.'' ['Major Geological Fissure Through Prehistoric Lion Monument at Giza - Inspired Split Lion Hieroglyphs and Ancient Egypts Creation Myth' / Scientific Research Publishing {PDF FILE} / Manu Seyfzadeh + Robert M. Schoch].

And/or: ''In the same tomb, couchant lions are depicted in raised relief on the lintel over the sarcophagus chamber (Figure 6) demonstrating the close association between these two animals perceived by these early dynastic tomb designers. In later depictions, the baboon is usually shown facing east, towards the Sun, and was believed to be a manifestation of Thoth. Baboons are well known for their loud morning call when they issue “contest wahoos”
(Fischer et al., 2002: p. 1465). Edfu’s Memphite Creation Myth. It is this behavior which may have inspired an aspect of the Memphite creation myth where baboons personified the seven uttered words (ḏ3jsw) of Ptah in the act of creating the world and the first seat of the gods on Earth from the waters of the primordial flood (Kurth et al.,2014, pp. 23-26; Chassinat, 2014: pp. 14-15, 18). The seven counterparts of the ḏ3jsw in the myth are the seven ḫnmw, the potter spirits who shape the words into beings from clay. The western half of the north frieze on the inner girdle wall of the Edfu temple has been translated into German by the Edfu Project (Kurth et al., 2014: p. 322/Émile Chassinat 181, 11) and here, we provide the English translation: This is a faithful reproduction of the text which Thoth prepared according to the speech of the Ḏ3jsw of Mehit-Wrt and which one calls “specification of the places of the first epoch”. [Same].

"The key idea we want to convey here is that according to the Edfu texts the seven baboons represented the first seven words of creation as the ḏ3jsw and the material substance from which these words were made “on the lips of Ptah” so to speak was the primordial flood water which drowned the previous rebellion of man against the Sun. This flood was named Mehit, the same name given to the lioness guarding the provisional administrative tent of the first kings of Egypt, which we previously located at Giza (Seyfzadeh et al., 2017)....These seven ḏ3jsw are individually named and depicted together with the two ṧbtjw (see below) on the upper third register of the western inner girdle wall of the Edfu Temple (Figure 7). Their epithets/names are (from top right): The Hurrying One, The Bull, The Falcon, The Speedy One, The Perfect Front, The
Equipped End, The Lord of the Red Ones (Kurth et al., 2014: p. 296)."

'Holly' / 'Swell' to enlarge.

"Semantically, we perceive elephants in terms of their ivory [Greek elephos]. In Sanskrit, however, 'hasta' is ''hand'' and hasti, meaning 'the creature with the hand', is the elephant {the trunk being the hand}... Whence from the Hindustani comes the Anglo-Indian 'hatty' for an elephant...Tennyson, in 'Merlin and Vivien', wrote of elephants; 'serpent hands'...The Roman etymologist Varro in the 1st century B.C. - wondered why the elephant was known as the 'Luca bos', in which 'bos' is ''ox'' but 'Luca' possibly ''light'' from 'lux'...It is curious that Varro didn't refer to the elephants in the triumphal march after Caesar's conquest of Gaul [58-51 BC]. Suetonius wrote that Caesar - 'ascended the Capital by the light of forty elephants on the right and left bearing lamps [Lychni]'....

Andrea Mantegna, in his painting commonly known as 'The Elephants' [c. 1500-1506], showed three elephants; preceded by an ordinary bos, or ox; with garlands on their heads and tall flickering torches mounted on their backs. If this doesn't provide an etymology 'light oxen' it does at least suggest that Caesar was following the logic of such an etymology." [Taken from the book 'The Book of Babel'. Mentioned elsewhere]. Question. Did Caesar know something? The tail end of something begins {the process?} of something else? As with the 'tail' end of a 'dog' and/or 'bear' ? Try 'Homer's Secret Iliad'.

Recall ''plumes'' on other heads.

The author therefore attempting to speculate on the possible connection between ''elephant'' and the ''ox'' or Great Bear {by way of ''the Plough'' constellation}. North in relation to South?

''Thailand in S/E Asia is said to be shaped like an elephants head.''

Refresher: East is a beginning, west its ending.

''The first historically recorded elephant in northern Europe was brought by emperor Claudius during the Roman invasion of Britain in AD 43 to the British capital of Colchester.''

Side note: Born in London, Jane Taylor lived with her family at Shilling Grange in Shilling Street, Lavenham, Suffolk, where her house can still be seen. Her mother was the writer Ann Taylor. In 1796–1810, she lived in Colchester, where she is believed to have written "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star", which was first published in 1806 {in the attic}. A less convincing claim is that it was written in New House, Ongar, as suggested by some descendants of the Taylor family. The Taylor sisters belonged to an extensive literary family. Their father, Isaac Taylor of Ongar, was an engraver and later a dissenting minister. Their mother, Ann Taylor (née Martin) (1757–1830), wrote seven works of moral and religious advice, two of which were fictionalized

Continued: "The most notable gift of all was an Asian elephant named Hanno (Italian: Annone; likely a derivative of aana, which means ‘elephant’ in the Moorish trainer’s native Malayalam language. According to zoologists, elephants do not respond to ‘pet’ names). In 1514 Hanno’s journey from Lisbon to Rome with the Portuguese ambassador Tristão da Cunha caused quite a sensation. He was the first elephant to be seen in Rome since the Roman Empire! It is said that when Hanno entered Rome in a grand procession, he stopped in front of Castel St. Angelo (where Pope Leo was watching) and knelt to the ground. After barking 3 times, he plunged his trunk into a nearby trough and filled it with water; he then raised his trunk high in the air and sprayed the pontiff and nearby spectators. Leo was delighted, and Hanno immediately became the pope’s favorite pet.

Pope Leo was delighted! For two years Hanno stole the show in numerous Roman festivals, processions, and spectacles; he was so popular, in fact, that Leo commissioned from Raphael a life-sized mural of Hanno at the entrance to the Vatican (this was later destroyed by the construction of Bernini’s colonnades for St Peter’s Square). Other Hanno art cameos (still visible today) in the Vatican include a wood mosaic on the door between the Stanza della Segnatura and Stanza del Incendio del Borgo, on the Adoration of the Magi tapestry, part of the “New School” series in the Stanza degli Arrazzi, and on 2 frescoes in Raphael’s Loggie in the Apostolic Palace. You’re probably wondering if Bernini’s elephant in Piazza della Minerva has anything to do with our dear Hanno? Even though Bernini might have been aware of Hanno’s saga, his inspiration came from elsewhere: from the manuscript Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, published in 1499 by the Dominican Francesco Colonna. This obscure text contains engravings depicting the protagonist’s dreams, one of which is an elephant carrying an obelisk on its back.

Refresher: The strongest emotion will pull you first."

Hanno’s death in 1516 came as a shock; after days of constipation, he was given a laxative laced with gold, which in effect poisoned him. Leo was so devastated about Hanno’s death that he wanted him buried right where he resided in the Vatican: under the Belvedere courtyard. Believe it or not, during the 1962 construction of the Vatican Library’s new heating system, several elephant bones were excavated! Portugal later attempted to gift a rhino to the Pope, but sadly the boat that carried the rhino was shipwrecked off the coast of La Spezia.

Side note: The Lord Mayor's Show is one of the best-known annual events in London as well as one of the longest-established, dating back to the 13th century.^[1] A new lord mayor is appointed every year, and the public parade that takes place as their inauguration ceremony reflects that this was once one of the most prominent offices in England and subsequently the United Kingdom.

The show is named after the Lord Mayor of the City of London, a city and ceremonial county within Greater London and the historic centre of the wider metropolis. This is distinct from the Mayor of London, the elected head of the Greater London Authority (a position which has existed only since 2000). The City is London's main financial district, widely known informally as 'the Square Mile'.

The Lord Mayor's Show is centred on a street parade, which in its modern form is a light-hearted combination of traditional British pageantry and elements of carnival. On the day after being sworn in, the Lord Mayor and several others participate in a procession from Guildhall, via Mansion House and St Paul's Cathedral, in the heart of the City of London, to the Royal Courts of Justice on the edge of the City of Westminster, where the new Lord Mayor swears allegiance to the Crown. Until 1882, the procession went to Westminster Hall.^[2]

Originally, this journey was mostly made by barge on the River Thames, the usual method of transport for this route in those days. Pageantry and display gradually grew around the trip, comparable to the far less frequent Royal Entry parades that usually followed a coronation or royal wedding.

In the 16th century the "show" become a major entertainment for Londoners.^[3] This rests significantly on the shoulders of the Lord Mayors Sir Rowland Hill and his friend Sir John Gresham, in revival of the Marching Watch or Mid Summer Watches in London. In these pageants 15,000 citizens all in bright harness, with coats of white Silk or Cloath, and Chains of Gold, passed through London to Westminster, and round St. James's Park, and on to Holborn.^[4] The long daylight of June caused the civic government to fear disorder; the Watch was originally a show of the city's policing force with armed men marching in the streets., but it evolved into an annual festival of street pageantry which reached its spectacular peak in Hill's time and evolved into the Lord Mayor's Show.^[5][6] These developments are recorded in Lady Long's household-book at Hengrave, Suffolk, which notes that Henry VIII watched these marches from Mercers Hall with Jane Seymour; "the presence of more than 300 demi lances and light horsemen" were a particular highlight.^[7]

In London, the show occurred annually on 29 October.^[8] In 1751, Great Britain replaced the Julian calendar with the Gregorian calendar; the Lord Mayor's Show was then moved to 9 November. In 1959, another change was made: the Lord Mayor's Show is now held on the second Saturday in November....

Side note: One of two wooden figures in the Guildhall in London, carved in 1709, that replaced wicker and pasteboard effigies traditionally carried in the Lord Mayor's Show. They represented Gogmagog and Corineus, and were later known as Gog and Magog. Both were destroyed in the London Blitz in 1940; new ones were carved in 1953.

Continued: Formerly, the route was varied each year so that the procession could pass through the Lord Mayor's home ward; since 1952, however, the route has been fixed. The Lord Mayor rode on horseback or went on a barge via the River Thames, based on the route chosen. The river transport for the Lord Mayor's Show gave rise to the word "float" when used in the context of parades.^{[citation needed]}

On more than one occasion, floats have been used as puns on the Lord Mayor's name; in 1616 John Leman had a lemon tree in the procession, while the following year William Cockayne had an artificial cock crowing and flapping its wings. More recently, Sir Murray Fox in 1974 had a large model of a fox in the procession.^[2]

Lord Mayor Gilbert Heathcote was unseated from his horse by a drunken flower girl in 1710, breaking his leg. A stand-in coach was used for some years until 1856, the last occasion on which barges were used...

The side panels of the Lord Mayor's State Coach were painted by Cipriani, who also painted those for the monarch's Gold State Coach. It is pulled by six horses, two fewer than the monarch's. The escort to the Lord Mayor's coach recalls the waterborne transport of the Lord Mayor. They are liveried watermen carrying oars: formerly, the Mayor's barge was rowed by members of the Company of Watermen and Lightermen. Riding postillion on the Lord Mayor's State Carriage are two winners of the annual Doggett's Coat and Badge rowing race.

In the abstract SENSE of the word {i.e., 'nuggets' to be found}: "The Buddha's own life story is another version of the story of the man shot by an arrow.....

The queen of a small kingdom in Northern India had a dream that she was carried on the wind on a long journey to a lake in the Himalayas. There a white elephant, wise and powerful and with six tusks, entered her left side. She was being 'overshadowed'. Later the pregnant {'pause'?} queen set off to stay with her parents feeling her time was near. Her mother would look after her, she thought. On the night of the full moon in May she was passing through gardens and orchards. She went over to look at some flowering trees. It was time. A fig tree leaned towards her so she could grasp it and steady herself {'anchor'}. She looked down to see that her son had already been born and was standing on his feet. Siddhartha took four steps to the north, south, east and west and announced his arrival with the roar of a lion: 'I am the greatest, {I am} the first, I have been born for all that lives'. That night all the creatures in the woods and orchards were silent and at peace. The baby was born the size of a six month old child and grew with astonishing speed..." [ Page 152 'Sacred History' / J. Black].

Big Fish Movie.

The voice of truth in a person that has not yet awakened to spiritual life, is the ''still small voice'' { a ''golden'' one?} that may be felt in the heart, listened to by the imperfect; as a half conscious dreamer may listen to the ringing of bells in the distance; but in those that have become conscious of life, that have passed through the first 'resurrection' of the spirit in their own heart, and received the baptism of the first initiation, administered by themselves, the voice of the new born 'ego' has no uncertain sound, but becomes the powerful Word of the 'Master'. [Emphasis this readers. Chapter 1, from the book by F. Hartman]. Link to the word ''teacher'', of 'Dead Sea Scroll' fame. Enlarged elsewhere.

First born.

First child.

Side note: During her last season of excavation in the HK6 cemetery, Barbara Adams discovered Tomb twentythree, the largest tomb of the Naqada IIAB (c. 3600 BC) period yet known. It was surrounded by a large rectangular wooden enclosure, which is the earliest example of above-ground funerary architecture in Egypt and clear forerunner of complexes later constructed in stone, such as the Step Pyramid at Saqqara (see Nekhen News 13: 4–6). To the east of this tomb, fragments of an unprecedented life-sized limestone statue were recovered, while to the south the distinctive bones of an elephant were found lying on the surface. At Hierakonpolis, as our time was limited, we concentrated our efforts around a large depression with the densest accumulation elephant bones, and by the end of the week we hit pay dirt. The bones were highly disturbed by ancient plundering, so we were unprepared for what we found on the floor of the grave when we finally reached it, some 1.2 m below the surface. On it lay three large bones that essentially filled the entire space of our 2.5 m2 test trench (see cover), leaving little room for the workmen, and certainly no room for a basket boy or—frustratingly—an Egyptologist. I watched from the side as the workmen gradually revealed the articulated front leg of the elephant, part of its massive pelvis, and a shoulder bone that had been knocked out of place. I could also make out a dark stain spreading across the floor and the bones. When I could take it no longer, I jumped in to see what this was and I was astounded by what I saw: a fine layer of textile both above and below the bones, enveloping a remarkably well-preserved layer of blackened elephant skin! Now that we had the floor, we soon uncovered the entire extent of the elephant’s elaborate tomb (Tomb 24). With sloping and stepped walls, it was roughly oval in shape, and m e a s u r e d approximately 3x4 m. Four large postholes were found, one at each corner, two still containing remnants of acacia tree trunks over 50 cm in diameter. While these posts may have supported the roof, their size suggests they formed a superstructure above the grave or had been used to immobilize the animal for sacrifice.''

''Full clearance of the tomb floor revealed more of the elephant’s pelvis with the upper part of the legs still in articulation. Most of the tail, with the outline of the skin, flesh and fabric that once surrounded it, was also still in place. These bones along with the articulated foreleg, vertebrae and ribs, found in correct anatomical order along the southern edge of the burial, show that the elephant had been placed on its left side, facing down wadi towards the river. The thick layer of elephant skin and a strange substance that looked like bone but felt like soap, later identified as elephant fat (adipocere), confirmed that the elephant had gone to its grave fully fleshed. Although elephant bones were found scattered through all levels and over an area about 10 m in diameter, almost every bone of the animal was recovered, from tusks to tail. Clearly no expense had been spared in the creation of the tomb or its expensive contents. These included a fragment of a painted bowl (Petrie’s C ware), several black-topped beakers, and a distinctive jAR imported from the Maadi region near Cairo.....Microscopic examination by Dr Ahmed Fahmy of the organic matter collected from the elephant’s pelvic region shows that during the last days of its life it was fed mainly on rushes of the genus Juncus and another marsh plant, Ceruana pratensis. Considering its requirements, it is perhaps not surprising that cultivated plants like wheat and barley were not provided, although gathering such a large quantity of marsh plants would not have been an easy task...''

Bog 'Iron' to enlarge.

Continued: "Since the days of antiquity, observers of the skies around the world have arranged stars into patterns, and always for the same reasons - to bring order and understanding to the heavens. Some groups of stars are so striking that they have been seen in a similar way in cultures widely separated in distance and time. A common strand of human thought is seen, for instance, in the way in which three different societies perceived the shape of the seven best known stars of Ursa Major that are predominately known today as the 'Plough' or 'Big Dipper'. In Homeric astronomy they represent the wain or wagon on which King Priam took Hector's body back to Troy. Edna Leigh wrote: ' Among the Arabians, the Big Dipper represents a bier and mourners. The four stars which form the wagon or cart represent the bier, and those in the handle are the mourners'. A similar funereal image was seen by the Sioux, native American Indians." ['Homer's Secret Iliad'].

A working example: ''The Ox {a 'domesticated' bovine} was central to Chinese cultural celebrations in 1997 and 2009 and will be again in 2021.'' ['Chase the Case'].

''Twelve' link''?

Side note: ''The MUSICAL 'Paint your Wagon' was all about prospectors 'mining' for gold.''

A work in progress: ''To get things done. John, you still haven't closed that deal; you need to paint that wagon now!''

"A draft animal is an animal that has been trained to do work – specifically to pull heavy loads. The two most common draft animals are horses and oxen or working steers. On farms, draft animals can be used to plow fields, pull wagons, stone boats, and logs.''

Side step: ''The Third-Class Carriage (French: "Le Wagon de troisième classe") is the name of at least three oil paintings entitled made by the French painter Honoré Daumier . In a realistic manner, Daumier depicts the poverty and fortitude of working class travellers in a third class railway carriage.''

Continued: Death / rebirth? Represented with Achilles friend - 'Phoenix' of the Iliad ? Recall what Achilles represents.

Question. ''order and understanding to the heavens'' = the very first representation of it? i.e.,from the 'oral' tradition? Therefore ''top/down''. Think about it relation to the Nazca Lines as 'seen from that monument {top of?} on the opposite side of the river'. Bottom/up? That desert {wilderness?} where no rain falls.

SIDE NOTE: "Icknield Way - no one has a clue what it means. Some say from the word ''Iceni'' - others from the ancient word ''oxen'' - the Oxen Way. But what i love, is the fact that we have this roadway snaking through all these counties, but at its heart is a mystery that none of us can decode." [ Quote from the narrator of 'Britains Ancient Tracks']. Enlarged elsewhere.

Side note {and/or refresher}: "Will the wild ox consent to serve you. Or will he spend the night at your manger?" Job.39:9. ['Book of Job' / Melissa Lees].

'Wild' in relation to 'domesticated' as a means...?

The Icknield Way - that follows a chalk line. Why. What does 'chalk' represent. If only within this subject? Question. Which came first. Subject material or landscape or put another way - the ox or the cart? East-West? IF SO - what would S/N be represented by?

A work in progress: ''Gordium, the ancient capital of Phrygia, had a temple to Zeus, where a strange cart was kept. According to legend Zeus had once, through an oracle, instructed the Phrygians to take as their king the first man to ride to his temple on such a cart. The lucky man was a peasant named Gordion and he was indeed made king, his vehicle {'car'?} being taken into the temple. The cart was very special for it was held together by a strangely knotted length of cornel bark. Legend had it - that whoever succeeded in untying it - would become king/master of all Asia.'' [Page 118 'Magi: Quest for a Secret Tradition'].

'The Wain' to enlarge.

''It is a medium to large deciduous shrub or small tree growing to 5–12 m tall, with dark brown branches and greenish twigs. The leaves are opposite, 4–10 cm long and 2–4 cm broad, with an ovate to oblong shape and an entire margin. The flowers are small (5–10 mm in diameter), with four yellow petals, produced in clusters of 10–25 together in the late winter (between February and March in the UK),^[1] well before the leaves appear. The fruit is an oblong red drupe 2 cm long and 1.5 cm in diameter, containing a single seed.'' [Wiki].

Side note: These interruptions in the chalk are wide valley mouths, which in effect are but enormous funnels marking the confluence of the gathering tributaries from the watersheds in the Weald, whereupon they muster enough force to cut corridors through the chalk, downland to reach the Kent coastal plains and the Thames estuary. The first of these breaks in the chalk escarpment is the breach cut by the river Stout on its way to Canterbury, and the second and much wider breach is known as the Medway Gap...In the Medway Gap, not only do we find evidence of prehistoric settlers that may have been frequent users of the North Downs trackways, but we also find a concentration of the structures that they built to house their dead...It is pertinent to the Pilgrims Way story that the seven Medway megaliths - chambered tombs, found close to the North Down trackway - are considered by some to be the most important of the British Neolithic...they may have held a wider significance than simply being burial sites, although archaeologists are unsure of the meaning they hold...These megaliths of sarsen stones are the remains of the architecture that formed numerous long barrows...FOUR on the east side of the river Medway and THREE on the west side {'three and four'?}…." [Pages 24/25/31 'The Pilgrims Way' / Derek Bright].

''In a military unit, a muster roll, is an official list of soldiers.'' ['The Chase'].

Refresher: 'One often sees great things from the valley, only small things from the summit. Actually, come to think of it, the whole mystery of life lies within that one word. 'Seeing'!..''

Follow the title of the book to 'see' it in its {watershed'?} context.

Side note: The Weald together with Forest of Dean and the Jurassic Ridge {Leicestershire} - were the three big sources of Iron in the Iron Age {700BC} = Ploughs made of it {''iron tipped ploughs''} - that changed the landscape...Why was metal so much more than making tools {ask's Alice Roberts}: 'Its value was as much symbolic as practical...something weird going on at this time....to create something from a ROCK....Bronze and iron age metals had otherworldly qualities. Religious offerings made from it which were often buried near water or placed directly into it. Water was spiritually significant...to become 'hidden' within it.'' ['Digging for Britain: Age of Bronze and Iron' ].

''Water was very important to those Iron Age people. In a way thats really difficult to get at and fully understand.'' [Same].

Something 'set in stone'. Recall the Help section.

''Ploughing the waves''.

Philosophical Stone.

'See' it?

Side note: "The key essential element for growth has always been change {via motion}, and so we must, if we wish to grow, constantly strive to escape from the comfortable congestion of our daily lives - we must attempt to climb into a ''larger box'' {chamber?} whenever we can, like a snake shedding its skin through successive cycles of growth....We must actively think our way out, and the best way to do that is to constantly question - to test and probe the 'concreteness' of our world....We are engulfed in a sea of mystery which is normally never thought about or considered due to the well constructed walls of our defences." [Page 18 of the book by D. Monroe].

Try Static/dynamic as a means....?

And/or: "The structures are particularly unusual for the enormity of their chambers. It is also noteworthy that this small area had the highest density of such structures found in the south of England outside of Salisbury Plain. Paul Ashbee noted that: 'The Kentish sarsen stones, mostly upon Blue bell Hill were, as they are now sorely depleted, the largest southern English concentration of such stones, apart from Northern Wiltshire'...'' [Page 26, same book}.

Hare Bell?

Try ''Bluestar'' or ''Morning Glory''.

AND/OR: ''Ring the BELLS that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.'' {Prologue: 'Dreams of Isis' / N. Ellis].

Famine Stela?

1547 Dance of Death {woodcut engravings} - Hans Holbein.

Present day analogy? Items found in 'pits' at the double henge recently discovered at Bulford - opposite Woodhenge, i.e.,east as opposed to west. With a river in the 'middle'. Axe heads and chalk balls found in most but in some the bones {leg/thigh?} of the prehistoric Auroch were found. The etymology of which links to both the German and British ''oxen.'' Such quotes are made by the narrators Alice Roberts and Phil Harding as: ''Putting one {i.e.,axe head} in a pit seems like a huge sacrifice." and/or ''To throw away a perfectly good axe. Why do it?'' and/or " Not on the average take away menu.'' {In reference to the Auroch bones}. Also found in one of the henges the large skull of a dog or wolf. ['Digging for Britain'. Episode 1]. All enlarged elsewhere.

Side note: Also in same program Albert discovers Auroch hoof marks PURPOSELY preserved {Blick Mead - one mile away}. Antlers of same either side to the southern entrance to Stonehenge. The Orkneys {N. Oliver} recently discovering Cattle {cow?} bones North of this island. North {'female'?} South {'male'} OR Vice versa? as a means....? Question. Where would the midpoint be between those two poles? Try ''furrow'' / ''Taurus'' to attempt a mind set.

And/or: In situ blue stones left unfinished N/Wales. Stones left in situ at Orkney. Obelisks left in situ at Aswan / Egypt. Same applies on Easter Island and in the Mayan/Aztec cultures. Marble stones in Greece,

Finished/Unfinished to enlarge.

A working example: ''The Sphinx Temple was built on the foundation of the preexisting northern enclosure wall of the Valley Temple. This wall was entirely removed apart of a small portion, which was incorporated into the Sphinx Temple. Unlike the Valley Temple, both the Sphinx enclosure and the Sphinx Temple remained unfinished.''

''The Sphinx was intended to be part of a much larger temple complex. But Pharaoh Khafre's vision was never fully completed. In 1978 in a corner of the Sphinx's quarry excavations found three stone blocks, abandoned as laborers were dragging them to build the Sphinx Temple.''

Recall the 'three' boulders on Elephant Island.

And/or: "He who aspires to be a sage and to know the Great Enigma of Nature must be the heir and despoiler of the Sphinx: his the human head, in order to posses speech; his the eagles wings, in order to scale the heights; his the bulls flanks, in order to furrow the depths; his the lions talons, to make a way on the right and the left, before and behind." [Quote taken from the chapter entitled 'The Candidate' from the book by E. Levi].

REFRESHER: ''The cheerful brilliance of the morning lent youth to Earth's old bones, touched the peak with gold, gleamed along the river and put the gardens en fete..." ['Her-Bak']. Try ''horn'' {i.e.,Al-Qurn].

Analogy: {and/or: something hinted at}: "To get a clear view will require a lot of hard work, for in one sense you will be embarking {'harbour'?} on a voyage of discovery, climbing a new peak of personal experience, and that is no easy task." [Page 12 from the book by Marian Green].

And/or: "Many years ago the English psychologist, F. W. H. Meyes, suggested that - ''hidden in the depth of our being is a rubbish heap as well as a treasure house''.

"I will give you the treasures of darkness and the secret places." {Isaiah 45,7}.

Refresher: "To sacrifice a 'lower' value to a 'higher' value is to give substance and power to the desire which has been 'sacrificed'. If this higher value is of a 'spiritual' order, the spiritual power is attracted by this desire, and givers to the sacrificer a power of domination over his lower states." ['Journey into the Light'].

"In basic form an altar is simply a table; a focus of consciousness."

TABLE MOUNTAIN? and/or {in its lower form} a foundation to build on.

"The altar of sacrifice demonstrates that where your treasure is there will your heart be also."

Among others try ''Axe'' / ''Labyrinth'' - all as an external expression of something internal?

As is: ''Her new husband will be the suiter who wins her in a sporting contest - involving archery and 12 axe heads. Whoever could string Odysseus's great bow and then fire an arrow through the 12 axe heads would win her 'hand' in marriage." ['Gods and Monsters: Homer's Odyssey / Simon Armitage].

Odds/evens.

Mind set?

12 = solar. Arrows = lunar?

Benjem Stark? {Game of Thrones}.

As an example: "I have mentioned the fact of the three axes of the Temple, but not the significance of them. An axis is an imaginary and ideal line about which a moving body revolves; in geometry, an axis is equally imaginary, a line without thickness, an abstract moment. The axis is 'occult', immaterial, a mental point of reference. It is an invention of man designed to make the principle of the axis comprehensible to our reason. Esoterically, the axis represents the Absolute, the still center of all movement throughout the universe, from atoms to Galaxies." [Page 181 'Serpent in the Sky'].

To understand the above generalisation of information - which the above author uses constantly throughout his book - try ''horizontal/vertical'' in the external sense of the word and ''yoke'' in the internal sense - in order to ''get ones head'' around that mind set. But most important of all - ALL IN RELATION TO THAT UNIVERSAL ''bit''.

Stonehenge-woodhenge-Bulford = an 'arc' shape - like the crescent of a moon? More importantly N/E - S/W. Hence the reason ''openings to the North'' if only in the construction {development?} -- in its early stages {'elder'?}. Just as the same with all those monuments on the Giza complex.

Side note: ''North is the quarter associated with Law {Moses link?}, the Element of Earth, powers of purification, reflection, and 'death'." ['The Prophetic Vision of Merlin'].

Sermon on the Mount?

N.B. Moses pulled from a 'basket' in Tanis - N/E Nile delta. Try that one.

Question. IF north = 'Law' - then south = 'Grace'?

S/W or S/E?

 

Continued: "Ploughing is repetitive work, furrow after furrow, furlong [a furrows length] after furlong. But now its time to stop work for a while, 'elevenses' as the English say, the time 11a.m.,called in Malay, 'tulih tenggala', - ''when the plough is idle''. ['Book of Babel'].

'Eleven' relative to 'twelve' relative to 'thirteen' with an understanding in mind. Representational of. And/or...

''Eleventh hour'' in relation to ''noon'' = an impending result - one way of the other = 'high noon'? {i.e.,zenith}.

Side note: {something hinted at?}: ''The European quest for the Philosophers Stone began on the 11th February 1144. On this day a certain Robert of Chester finished the first translation of the Arabic chemical text into Latin. Called the Book of the Composition of Alchemy - it was written by Morienus, a Christian ascetic who taught the Art to Prince Kallid ibn Yazid, one of the first Moslems to study our Philosophy.'' [Page 99 'Mercurius' / P. Harpur].

Refresher: 'The Twelve Keys' by Basil Valentine. [Chapter thirteen 'The Chemistry of Alchemy' / Cobb/Fetterolf/Goldwhite]. See it?

'The White {chalk} Horse'. Question. What does the 'horse' represent?

"...But as soon as something happens which does arouse and challenge us, our previous and unnoticed passions immediately break out like uncontrolled horses that have long been kept unexercised and idle..." ['The Philokalia'].

A {working?} example in the 'Micro' sense of the 'word': "Possibility is one thing, and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing. Let us now try to see what this possibility depends upon and what its realization means.' Then G. repeated briefly all that had been said before about the 'structure' of man and the world. He drew the diagram of the ray {key} of creation and the diagram of the four {key} bodies of man. But in relation to the four bodies of man he introduced a detail which he had not mentioned before. He again used the Eastern comparison of man with a 'carriage', a 'horse', a 'driver', and 'master' {''teacher'' link} - and drew the diagram with one addition that was not there before. 'Man is a complex organization,' he said, 'consisting of four parts which may be connected or unconnected, or badly connected. The carriage is connected with the horse by shafts, the horse is connected to the driver by reins, and the driver is connected to the master by the master's voice. But the driver must hear and understand the master's voice. He must know how to drive and the horse must be trained to obey the reins. As to the relation between the horse and the carriage, the horse must be properly harnessed. Thus there are 'three' connections between the 'four' sections of this complex organization. If something is lacking in one of the connections, the 'organization' cannot act as a single whole...

Side note: " A few years later he [Wolfgang Pauli] was to come across the same numbers again in Carl Jung's psychology, based as it was in alchemy. He was adamant that ''in neither case was it by any means Mr. C. Jung who suggested it to me, nor was there an advance conscious intention for me to grapple with figuring out the problem of three and four. Consequently i am rather certain that objectively there is an important psychological and, perhaps, natural philosophical problem connected with these numbers." Enlarged elsewhere.

In story form: "Gault, the Bronze smith {examined} 'the polished bronze mirror with blue and green enamel on a finely-chased back, and a handle of braided silver' { given as a gift by the Chieftain to his 'Lady wife' }. He sat turning it to the light, tracing with his fingers the flowing lines, the three and fourfold curves that sprang from each other and curled back into each other again. 'This is a good pattern', he said. 'It will make a fitting pattern for a shield boss." [Page 38 'Sun Horse, Moon Horse' / R. Sutcliff].

And/or: "What's really nice about this Henry III 'cut' half penny {1250-72} is that before it was broken it had evidence of being folded slowly over time by hand. And there is some study in archaeology and from historical sources, that coins are often in an act of devotion folded over during pray." ['Digging for Britain: Anglo Saxon Gold and Nuns in Central England.' / S11 EP2].

Folded /UNfolded.

The archaeology site is at Ankerwycke {on the north bank of the Thames} - S/E of Winsor but WEST of the CITY of London.

"On the south bank is where the Magna Carta was signed between the king and the rebel barons. And, of course, the Archbishop was there orchestrating it all. It's a very male story. Over on the north bank we have a more hidden history - involving women." [Alice Roberts].

Analogy: Amun ='hidden'. Question. What represents the female aspect?

""On the opposite bank of the River Thames are the meadows of Runnymede and the Yew tree is said to have been witness to the sealing of Magna Carta. The tree is also said to be the location where Henry VIII courted Anne Boleyn in the 1530s."

"The British halfpenny coin was worth 1/480th of a pound sterling. At first in its 700-year history it was made from silver, but as the value of silver increased the coin was made from base metals. It was finally abandoned in 1969 as part of the process of decimalising the British currency.....

It was long considered that the first halfpenny coins were produced in the reign of King Edward I (1272–1307), with earlier requirements for small change being provided by "cut coinage"; that is, pennies cut into halves or quarters, usually along the cross which formed a prominent part of the reverse of the coin. However, in recent years metal detectorists have discovered a few halfpennies of Kings Henry I (1100–1135) and Henry III (1216–1272) – these are extremely rare and very little is known about them; they have all been found in the London area, where they circulated alongside the more common cut coinage, and while it is possible that these coins were patterns or trials, it is clear that they did see circulation. It is possible that there are other coins or issues still to be discovered."

And/or: At Huntingdon {near Ermine Street and the town of Godmanchester}- a sacred area enclosed on three straight sides {trench} that was occupied during the late Roman Period {Dark Ages}. Finds include smashed pots placed purposely in shallow ground {'stacked'?}. The 'handle' of a decorated fired vase {flagon} purposely broken off before being buried {"missing its head"}. Brooch found with pin. Paintwork "smudged," artwork unfinished {Tutankhamun link?}. Other items found: hand sickle / scythe {with handle}- snake rings + a  'little' ring with spirals at each end. Very similar to the one found in the 'Valley of the Monkeys' {West branch of Valley of Kings}: "An industry could have been present selling 'small' miniature reproductions of the real thing as votive offerings." ['Digging For Britain'].

'Mother of Pots'?

"Three and One?"

'Emptiness' / 'headless' to enlarge.

Decommissioned?

'Iron {fire} in the ascendency?

What's the remedy?

And/or: Meditation in Luxor Temple: "Perhaps there is a room near or below your heart or in your middle area. Maybe the space is a little cluttered with old baggage and worn-out unused things. Once you have found this space, see what you have to move to clear it....Now in this cleared space, we begin to create our inner temple. It will take its new shape as we focus our minds eye within....Notice that there is an altar here that has been prepared for you. It is bare {'naked'?} and ready to recieve your sacred items. Bring the items you hold sacred: crystals, candles, statues, bells, drums etc....You see a doorway that you had not noticed before. It may be beyond your altar or in a different part of the temple that you had not explored. As you approach this gateway, you observe how it is made. There may be something writen on the door or on the lintel...THERE IS NO HANDLE on this door. It can only be opened with the mind...." [Page 213/14 'Invoking the Scribes of Ancient Egypt'].

Eye of Horus.

REFRESHER: "He who aspires to be a sage and to know the Great Enigma of Nature must be the heir and despoiler of the Sphinx: his the human head, in order to posses speech; his the eagles wings, in order to scale the heights; his the bulls flanks, in order to furrow the depths; his the lions talons, to make a way on the right and the left, before and behind." [Quote taken from the chapter entitled 'The Candidate' from the book by E. Levi].

And/or: ''These 'angels' are described as a composite of Ox, Lion, Eagle and Man. They are the 'Elements' themselves on a higher level, being the Fixed signs of Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, and Aquarius...Strength and Patience for the Ox, courage and nobility with the Lion, swiftness and aspiration with the Eagle, and intelligence and devotion with Man.'' [Page 31 'Ladder of Lights' / W. Gray].

From a different perspective: ''Approximately 5500 years ago CAUSEWAY camps like Crickley Hill and Robin Hood's Ball were abandoned {decommissioned?}, their decline heralded the end of hostile activities in Britain, and in the relative peace that followed, monumental construction in and around Stonehenge began once more - with the digging of huge oval ditches {'ecliptic' and/or 'Precession' link?}. The largest of which is the Greater Cursus...Interpreting the Cursus has been very difficult....Over two and half kilometres long - required a huge area to be cleared - before 20,000 tons of chalk was excavated to form its immense ditch....Flint axes used in huge quantities."

Squares / Circles. Arcs and straight lines as a means.....?

Huntingdon is a market town in the Huntingdonshire district of Cambridgeshire, England. The town was given its town charter by King John in 1205.....

Huntingdon was founded by the Anglo-Saxons and Danes. It is first mentioned in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle in 921, where it appears as Huntandun. It appears as Huntedun in the Domesday Book of 1086. The name means "The huntsman's hill" or possibly "Hunta's hill".^[5]

Huntingdon seems to have been a staging post for Danish raids outside East Anglia until 917, when the Danes moved to Tempsford, now in Bedfordshire, before they were crushed by Edward the Elder. It prospered successively as a bridging point of the River Great Ouse, a market town, and in the 18th and 19th centuries a coaching centre, notably at the George Hotel. The town has a well-preserved medieval bridge that used to serve as the main route of Ermine Street over the river. The bridge only ceased to be the sole crossing point to Godmanchester in 1975, with the building of what is now the A1307 (formerly A14) bypass."

Continued: "Things like Google Translate can match the hidden patterns between different human languages and translate them....AI tools can find these invisible patterns that we cannot see and link them to patterns between languages....It finds the shapes of certain phrases - from billions of data - without the need of a dictionary. It does not even know that it is dealing with a language." ['Royal Institution Xmas Lectures' / 2023].

'Heraldry'?

Could it be used someday for a mindset - within {say} a curriculum?

Continued: "Jung emphasizes that the phenomenon of fourfoldness is not just an invention of the conscious mind but a ''spontaneous product of the objective psyche''. A fundamental theme of mythology could be understood by referring it back to the inorganic in man....The answer to the question about the origin of the exact divisions into four can only be sought where fourfoldness and threefoldness appear, as psychic activities and just physical events {The combination of both as the twelvefold division of the world-clock, whether read from the sky or not, is a remarkable mental achievement}. It is not only the psychologist that finds fourfoldness and threefoldness side by side, Ancient records speak of the part played of the number three in the layout of cities....And/or: Always three animals were sacrificed on the altar four in the pit." [Pages 17-20 'Science of Mythology' / Jung and Kerenyi ].

Higher/lower? i.e., in the metaphysical SENSE of the word.

Refresher: " I make no secret whatsoever of the fact that my rather revolutionary model of the atom came to me in a dream.'' Niels Bohr.

Think about it all in relation to that universal ''bit''. Something that the author of 'Fingerprints of the Gods' does not. Believing the remains of a 'lost' civilization will be found beneath miles of ice due to a past 'geological' cataclysm. The originators of all the 'esoteric' literature - that he discusses with John West the author of 'The Serpent in the sky'. Questions that lead to more questions. All that ''information'' in the form of symbols/archetypes is WITHIN man/woman. Always has been, always will be.

And/or: "An atom is a moment of equilibrium. So is a cat. Equilibrium is a state in which positive and negative forces are balanced. Modern science with its doctrine of entropy and negative entropy, expresses the principle without recognizing its functional significance. The Western astrological zodiac expresses the principle both precisely and completely. Libra, The Balance, is the seventh sign. Seven signifies {symbolizes?} the union of spirit and matter - of Three and Four. One of the forms that traditionally expresses the meaning of Seven is the pyramid - square base symbolizing four elements and the triangular sides the three modes of spirit." ['Serpent in the Sky'].

A working example {synchronistic?}: Callie from Flat Head Valley, Montana. North-West Montana. Has a very large fresh water lake. Embroiders seven porcupine quills in a garment: ''Seven is a number important to me. The seven represent the directions - North, South, East and West together with above, within and below." ['Alone: Over the Edge' / History Channel. 2020].

''A sign for Libra represents the setting sun. This was the land of Hyperborean, which was north of the Danube's source, and was the great center of the cult of Boreas, the north wind. The golden apples of Hera are the stars." [Page 53/54 'Pathways to the Zodiac'].

''The Iron Gate {''towards the end of it''} - is the name of a gorge on the River Danube.'' ['The Chase'].

Delta?

Alexanders 'gate'? {wall}.

Continued..."The connections are therefore no less important than the actual 'bodies'. Working on himself man works simultaneously on the 'bodies' and on the 'connections'. Work on oneself must begin with the driver. The driver is the mind. In order to hear the 'masters' voice, the driver, first of all, must not be 'asleep', that is, he must wake up. Then it may prove that the master speaks a language that the 'driver' does not understand.....

The driver must learn this language. When he has learned it, he will understand the 'master'. But concurrently with this he must learn to 'drive' the horse, to harness it to the carriage, to 'feed' and 'groom' it, and to keep the carriage in order...The horse is our emotions. The carriage is the body. The mind must learn to control the emotions. The emotions always pulls the body after them. This is the order in which work on oneself must proceed. But observe again that work on the 'bodies', that is, the driver, the horse, and the carriage, is one thing. And work on the 'connections', that is, on the drivers understanding, which unites him to the master; on the reins, which connect him with the horse, and on the 'shafts' {yoke} and the 'harness', which connect the horse with the carriage - is quite another thing." ['In Search of the Miraculous'].

"Symbolically, the number three refers to the establishment of a relationship between two previously unrelated or opposing principles...'Understanding' is an emotional, rather than an intellectual, function. It comes from the heart rather than the head. We could say that the number 'three' is a quality of the soul {'carriage'?} rather than of the spirit. The more we understand, the more we are able to reconcile and relate." Continued elsewhere. [Page 122, 'Mapping the Psyche' volume 1. C. Martin].

'Tripod' to enlarge.

A working {oxen?} example - but now in the 'Macro' sense of the 'word': "Other aspects of the constellation directed her eyes to the coastline, to Mount Ossa and to Mount Pelion, while its strangely shaped 'head' and 'legs' projected an image of the Bay of Pegasus itself. She then turned to the Catalogue of Ships. Of the region surrounding the Bay of Pegasus, Homer says the regiment of men came from 'Pherae and the populous city of Iolcus', and they were led by Eumelus. She delved into the Iliad for other references to Eumelus, and discovered that the descriptive narrative she found could be linked to the visual qualities of Pegasus and its relationship to adjacent constellations. Eumelus is famous for his 'matched' pair of horses, described thus: 'Eumelus mares were foremost in the chase, fierce in the fight their nostrils breathed a flame. Their height, their colour, and their age the same.' The E. V. Rieu translation says that the horses were joined by a yoke that was as true as a plumb line. A modern chart of the constellations shows that two of the brightest stars in Pegasus {Scheat/Markab} are indeed the same colour and brightness. What is more, when the constellation is at its highest point as it crosses the sky Scheat lies almost directly north of Markab in the Square of Pegasus and an imaginary line drawn from them down to the earth {'horizontal'} - would make an angle of almost 90 degrees. Later we were to find evidence of the astronomical association of Eumelus, when during the funeral games in Book 23, his yoke breaks...Scheat {one end of the yoke} is a variable star that can be seen with the naked eye - which is identified, by Homer, as the 'snapping yoke'...Eumelus then tumbles from his chariot and falls beneath its wheel - {represented?} with ''the Circlet of Pisces that lies below Pegasus in the sky." ['Homer's Secret Iliad'].

And/or: ''In Greek mythology, two giants piled Mount Pelion on Ossa (Kíssavos or Óssa), another mountain in Thessaly, in order to scale Olympus (Ólympos), but Apollo killed the giants before they could make the attempt. Pelion was also the legendary home of Centaurs.''

'Tower of Babel' to enlarge.

And/or: ''Nor are fatuous and befogged sparklings wanting in our own day who dream that they are stars and are thought equal to the sun. May such arogance and climax of ambition be far from Eugenius. It were surely to pile Pelion upon Ossa.'' [Page 3 'Works of Thomas Vaughan: Eugenius Philalethes].

N.B. Picture = Northern Crown with his {her?} companions.

Top/down - bottom/up? Recall what ''23'' represents {in relation to ''45''?}.

Side note: "Twentythree foot long; from bow to stern - deep seated with men.'' William Bligh Journal.

''Funeral games'' relative to: "In time-honoured tradition, Achilles sponsors funeral games in which such events as a chariot race, wrestling, running and archery are held in memory of Patroclus."

Working example: ''In golf, the right to tee off first when playing a hole is called The Honour.'' ['The Chase'].

Side note: Recall Gilgamesh's 'best' friend? Link it to the word ''memory'' {i.e., what it IMPLIES within subject material}.

REFRESHER: The oldest known texts - of the Ten Commandments  - known anywhere on the planet, are to be found in the Dead Sea Scrolls....with one alteration to the norm - ''Remember'' the Sabbath instead of ''keep'' the sabbath.'' ['Expedition Unknown : Mysteries of the Dead Sea Scrolls' / Sat. TV].

Sabbath, (from shavat, “cease,” or “desist”), day of holiness and rest observed by Jews from sunset on Friday to nightfall of the following day. The time division follows the biblical story of creation: “And there was evening and there was morning, one day” (Genesis 1:5). Hebrew: Shabbat.

Side note: "And indeed, we have been condemned justly, for the sentence we received corresponds to our crimes, but this man has done nothing criminal." Then he said, "Jesus, remember me, when you come into your kingdom." He replied to him, "Amen, I say to you, today you will be with me in Paradise."

A thief who woke up in the morning on his way to hell had his eternal destiny changed with a simple plea to the Savior. “Jesus, remember me.”

Essene members?

A working example: ''Hermeticism, in so far as it is a 'living' tradition - owes its life to the commandment 'Honour thy father and mother'. For this commandment brings 'longevity' with it - as, moreover, is said in the text: 'Honour thy father and mother, that thy days may be LONG in the land given to thee by the Lord' {Exodus xx,12}. It is in honouring the 'transcendent' god {''Our Father who is in Heaven''} and the soul of non fallen Nature {''the Virgin Mother''} that Hermeticism has survived - in order to make spiritual 'gold'....The 'Virgin' is not only the source of creative elan {that universal ''bit''}, but also of spiritual longevity. This is why the West, in turning away more and more from the Virgin, is growing old, i.e., it is distancing itself from the rejuvenating source of longevity.''

Smith/Jones to enlarge.

Upper/Lower =  a final Union?

Hence: ''The fundamental law of Hermeticism is 'meditation', i.e., the practice of remembering the sabbath day - to keep it 'holy'. Meditation is sanctified rest, where thought is turned towards that which is above.'' [Pages 293 - 7 'Meditations on the Tarot'].

As an example: {that 'universal' one}: ''Stars fade like memory the instant before dawn. Low in the east, the sun appears golden as an opening eye. That which can be 'named' must exist. That which is named can be written. That which is written shall be remembered. That which remembers lives. In the land of Egypt Osiris breathes. The sun rises and mists disperse...'' [Page 43 {Kindle} 'Awakening Osiris' / N. Ellis].

Above or below the clouds?

Understanding the above tells US that a 'written' record was indeed left BEHIND by the ancients. By ALL ancient cultures.

From a different perspective: ''Once a place of celebration, 600 years after it had been built - Stonehenge became a place of remembrance.'' ['Blowing Up History'].

'The Sacred Origin of Sports and Culture' / Ghazi bin Muhammed.

Try the ''Battle of Marathon''.

Working example: ''Sometimes even though u think the answers in there. It just doesn't stick, you just can't remember it.'' ['Who Wants to be a Millionaire' / 2022].

Side Note: As {ONE} example: A game with a ball that predates modern football - some say its origins - called Royal Shrovetide Football match {Ashbourne/Derbyshire}. Played twice a year: Shrove Tuesday and Ash Wednesday. Eight hours each day {''16''}. Goals three miles apart - Upstream = East {boundary?} of town. Downstream = West boundary. To score a goal one has to tap a millstone {wheel} in the center three times - which is in the river. ['Football: Brief History' / Alfie Allen. History channel]. Coincidence or a meaningful one?

And/or: ''The Gilles are the oldest and principal participants in the Carnival of Binche in Belgium. They go out on Shrove Tuesday from 4 am until late hours and dance to traditional songs. Other cities, such as La Louvière, have a tradition of Gilles at carnival, but the Carnival of Binche is by far the most famous. In 2003, the Carnival of Binche was proclaimed one of the Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO......Around 1000 Gilles, all male, some as young as three years old, wear the traditional costume of the Gille on Shrove Tuesday. The outfit features a linen suit with red, yellow, and black heraldic designs (the colours of the Belgian flag), trimmed with large white-lace cuffs and collars. The suit is stuffed with straw, giving the Gille a hunched back.^[1]

Side note: ''Carnivals are street festivals that happen most years in Rio before Lent and Notting Hill at the end of August.'' ['Reddiculous'].

Gilles also wear wooden clogs and have bells attached to their belts.^[2] In the morning, they wear a wax mask of a particular design. After reaching the town hall, they remove these masks for the afternoon. During the afternoon parade, Gilles throw blood oranges to the crowd or at its members, and some wear large, white, feathered hats made of ostrich feathers. Gilles carry ramons, tied bunches of twigs that are said to ward off evil spirits, and baskets in which to carry the oranges.^[1]

The Carnival of Binche dates back to the 14th century and is listed by UNESCO as a Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity. The carnival transforms the Belgian town of Binche from Sunday to Ash Wednesday, but the most important day is Shrove Tuesday.

''Lent comes from the Anglo Saxon word lencten, meaning “lengthen” and refers to the lengthening days of spring. The forty days represents the time Jesus spent in the wilderness, enduring the temptation of Satan and preparing to begin his ministry.''

''The name Shrove Tuesday comes from the old Christian tradition of confessing your sins before Lent, becoming 'shriven' of them, and while modern Ireland generally refers to today as Pancake Tuesday, the term Shrove Tuesday is still used....Other words for 'shriven' could be pardoned, aquitted - let off the hook....And/or: Shrieve. / (ʃriːv) / noun. an archaic word for sheriff....And/or: *skrībh-, Proto-Indo-European root meaning "to cut, separate, sift;" an extended form of root *sker- (1) "to cut."

Side note: Robin Hood is a legendary heroic outlaw originally depicted in English folklore and subsequently featured in literature and film. According to legend, he was a highly skilled archer and swordsman.^[1] In some versions of the legend, he is depicted as being of noble birth, and in modern retellings he is sometimes depicted as having fought in the Crusades before returning to England to find his lands taken by the Sheriff. In the oldest known versions, he is instead a member of the yeoman class. Traditionally depicted dressed in Lincoln green, he is said to have robbed from the rich and given to the poor.''

Sheriff Woody Pride^[1] is a fictional pull-string cowboy doll who appears in the Disney–Pixar Toy Story franchise. In the films, Woody is one of the main protagonists, alongside Buzz Lightyear and Jessie. He is primarily voiced by Tom Hanks, who voices him in the Toy Story films, short films, and TV specials. Tom Hanks' brother, Jim Hanks, voices him in Lamp Life, video games, attractions, and other merchandise.

Woody was created by directors and writers John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton, Pete Docter, and Joe Ranft. His facial features are based on the former Disney animator Tone Thyne. Woody was designed by Bud Luckey, and is based on John Lasseter's Casper pull-string doll he had as a kid, as well as the Howdy Doody puppets from the 1950s show. Woody is named after Woody Strode, a character actor known for many roles in western films. In August 2009, Toy Story 3 director, Lee Unkrich, stated in his Twitter feed that Woody's last name is Pride and has been since the making of the original movie.

In the films, Woody is Andy Davis's favorite toy and is the leader of Andy's toys. When Andy gets a new toy called Buzz Lightyear, Woody’s position is jeopardized until he later becomes friends with Buzz. He figures out he used to be in a popular TV show called Woody's Roundup and is asked to stay with the group, but he decides to remain with Andy's toys; all but one member of the group also join Andy's toys. When Andy leaves to go to college, he decides to give his toys to a little girl named Bonnie Anderson; he had initially planned to take Woody to college, before seeing that Bonnie loved him. When Bonnie's family decides to go on a vacation, he finds his long-lost girlfriend, Bo Peep....

Little Bo-Peep has lost her sheep,

And doesn't know where to find them;

Leave them alone, and they'll come home,

Wagging (bringing) their tails behind them.^[1]

Common variations on second-line include "And can't tell where to find them." The fourth line is frequently given as "Bringing their tails behind them",^[2] or sometimes "Dragging their tails behind them". This alternative version is useful in the extended version, usually of four further stanzas. The melody commonly associated with the rhyme was first recorded in 1870 by the composer and nursery rhyme collector James William Elliott in his National Nursery Rhymes and Nursery Songs.^[3]

Continued: The biggest attraction of the carnival's parades is costumed performers known as Gilles. Clown-like figures are dressed in clogs and suits embroidered with heraldic symbols. They also wear large hats with ostrich plumes. About 1,000 Gilles in their bright costumes, wax masks, and wooden clogs march through the streets from Tuesday morning to the grand finale of the carnival. In the afternoon they carry baskets of oranges throwing them into the crowd. The oranges are supposed to bring good luck.

There are a few theories regarding the origin if Gilles' unusual appearance. According to one of them, Queen Mary of Hungary, who ruled the city in the 16th century brought Incas to perform at the carnival, and their flamboyant costumes have become a tradition ever since.''

And/or: "At the back of the Trouvere revised edit of the Arthurian myth was the QUEEN Venus cult which was kept secret and later developed into the witch-cult, which contained features not recorded by the historians; that there was a highly developed cult of the woman which showed itself clearly in Trouvere and Troubadour literature and in the Courts of Love, but which was discretely ignored by the worthy Malory. Chretien used Trouvere material  and  demonstrates more insight.....

Ashtoreth was the forerunner of Queen Venus, and Guinevere was her successor; the records have been deliberately expunged. So we take their bones, in this valley of dead bones {'White Desert of Libya'?}, and clothe them with the Mysteries, so that bone cleaves to bone and they become alive again." [Page 40 'The Arthurian Formula'].

'Swaddling' cloth?

Refresher: ''The Queen, is the only person to travel overseas without having to present a passport.''

From a different perspective: ''The Right Honourable the Lord Lyon King of Arms, the head of Lyon Court, is the most junior of the Great Officers of State in Scotland and is the Scottish official with responsibility for regulating heraldry in that country, issuing new grants of arms, and serving as the judge of the Court of the Lord Lyon, the oldest heraldic court in the world that is still in daily operation.

The historic title of the post was the High Sennachie, and he was given the title of Lord Lyon from the lion in the coat of arms of Scotland.^[1]

The post was in the early nineteenth century held by an important nobleman, the Earl of Kinnoull, whose functions were in practice carried out by the Lyon-Depute. The practice of appointing Lyon-Deputes, however, ceased in 1866.''

A working example: ''Why all this produced a strong impression on me, and why i almost automatically behaved  so strangely, i still cannot make out, though during recent years, particularly on the days known as 'Shrovetide' , i have pondered over it a great deal, trying to discover the reason.'' [Page 26 'Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson' / Gurdjieff].

Side note: For the ''cricket'' equivalent see page 98 'Fruits of the Moon Tree' / A. Bleakley.

Continued....Put it all together and/or from a different perspective: "It is not that the sense life is to be negated or outwardly discontinued, as impractically taught by some Sankhyas. It is an inner withdrawal that is to be practiced, a withdrawal to 'higher levels' that will in itself bring that outer harmonization which is essential if the buddhi is to be attained. In the old symbol of the chariot, the horses of the senses are to be held back [ nigrihita] by the reins of the mind, but it is not intended that they be unyoked from the chariot or that their movement should be stopped altogether..." Enlarged elsewhere.

Something hinted at: "But who or what was Gogmagog….The neighbourhood of Wisbech is incidentally celebrated for the grave in its vicinity of the hero, or giant, Hic{cath}rift or Hiccafrith. This warrior, who fought a battle with a wheel for a buckler and an axel-tree for a sword, seems to me to have been 'The trust of the Hiccas' or 'Iceni', and was probably a Celtic god. His grave was pointed out, and a stone, known as his candle-stick, preserved in a Marshland Church." [Page 16, 'Gogmagog: The Buried Gods' / T. C. Lethbridge]. Anything?

Side note: King John and his lost 'treasure' travelled through many towns on that 'fatal' journey. One of which was Wisbech.

Continued: " Brown also says that the Euphratean Sugi, the Chariot Yoke, was identified with 'a' + 'b' of this constellation, which remind us by sound and signification of the Zuyov and Jugum of Greece and Rome respectively, and that astrology adds evidence in favour of a Chaldean origin, for it has always claimed Libra - the Northern Scale at least - as a 'fruitful sign', taking this from the very foundations of astrology in the Chaldean belief that ''when the Sugi stars were clear the crops were good''. In modern astrology however, the reverse of this is held, in the case of the Southern Scale....In classical astrology the whole constituted the ancient House of Venus....the planet appeared here at 'creation'....and the goddess bound together human couples under the yoke of matrimony...." [Page 274 {under Libra} ' Star Names their Lore and Meaning'].

Side note: "The word 'conscience' {''con-science''} contains the idea of balance, for it implies "simultaneous knowing," i.e.,knowledge of the facts of the two scales suspended at the extremities of the beam of the balance. Conscience is neither a product nor a function of character. It is above it. And it is here - and only here - that there begins and there is found the domain of freedom." [Letter viii 'Justice' from the book 'Meditations on the Tarot'].

"What we call a symbol is a term, a name, or even a picture that may be familiar in daily life; yet that possesses specific connotations in addition to its conventional and obvious meaning. It implies something vague, unknown, or hidden from us. As an example take the case of the Indian who, after a visit to England, told his friends at home that the English worship animals, because he had found eagles, lions, and oxen in old churches. He was not aware {nor are many Christians} that these animals are symbols of the Evangelists and are derived from the vision of Ezekiel, and that this in turn has an analogy to the Egyptian Horus and his four sons...Thus a word or an image is symbolic when it implies something more than its obvious and immediate meaning. It has a wider ''unconscious'' aspect that is never precisely defined or fully explained." [ 'Man and His Symbols'. Enlarged elsewhere

Question. Lion = Mark / Eagle = John / Ox = Luke. Which of the four sons of Horus represent the Egyptian equivalent of the ''Ox''? AND WHY? Try ''four''.

A working example: "Even when constellation boundaries remain the same from culture to culture, the ways in which those constellations are seen can be very different. Thus the ancient Egyptians knew the constellation that we call the Great Bear, but represented it with the foreleg of a bull. They saw the Little Bear {Ursa Minor} as a Jackal. They depicted the constellation of Cancer as a scarab beetle. The constellation of Drago, which we see as a dragon, was figured by the ancient Egyptians as a hippo with a crocodile on its back..." ['Magicians of the gods'].

''On its back'' in relation to ''under ones belt'' {enlarged elsewhere}. Attempt to 'see' what the above author cannot {other than the obvious},i.e.,try ''crocodile'' of which the 'Jackal' {i.e.,in one form or another} plays its part. Others highlighted.

As {one} example: "At Edfu, the great mystery Play of Horus is fully inscribed on the outer west wall of the temple quarter. It details the complete Horian mythos acted out by Pharaoh and his retinue at an annual festival which included the sacred drama...The 'play' depicts the triumph of Horus over Set, in the form of, hippopotamus, oryx, and crocodile." ['Sacred Tradition in Ancient Egypt' / R. Clark].

''Play'' in relation to 'outer' {external} - understanding core elements of which = that ''inner'' something - relative to the self,i.e.,as one example - ''quarter'' in relation to 90 degrees; therefore right angle symbolism etc. Enlarged throughout.

Try 'Feast of Fools' for its universal appeal - if only in defining subject material.

Demeter/Persephone and Hades?

As seen from a different perspective: { a correct one?}: "Aratus, who was one of the primal sources for mediaeval star-imagery {as opposed to star-lore used in astrology, which was derived ultimately, though by circuitous routes, from Ptolemy}, makes the observation that the stars of Taurus do really mark out the 'head of the ox'. For Aratus, the Hyades is 'in the forehead of the bull', and one star marks the tip of the left horn, as well as the right foot of the Charioteer. Indeed he says 'not by other signs would one mark the head of an ox'...In the esoteric lore the relationship between the patterns of the stars and the images they represent is explained in quite a different way. It is suggested that the areas of sky marked out by certain star groups were first experienced as areas of 'spiritual influence'. It is likely that such 'experience' would not be available to all men, but would be available to those initiates who had endured the disciplines {study?} and spiritual 'enlightenments' {eureka moments?} of those teachers in the mystery schools...Here we shall merely note the fact of its zodiacal series being constellational rather than tropical..." ['The Secret Zodiac'].

Understanding that final sentence defines Homers method of 'story telling'. That same method - by way of those universal constants - that have; and still are; being applied generation after generation. Since the written word came into common use. An unknown factor to such authors as G. Hancock.

Side note: ''Pantheon = Oculus = ''Bulls eye''.

And/or: "The lion of St. Mark is the image of Leo. The eagle of St. John is the eagle of Scorpio, which sign {alone of all the twelve} has two images - the eagle the symbol of the redeemed and spiritualized Scorpionic nature, and the scorpion its fallen, unredeemed and earth-bound nature. The winged human of St. Matthew is the waterbearer of Aquarius: the waterpot which poured spiritual substance for all humanity...The bull of St. Luke is the animal Taurus. These four images are derived from the four fixed signs of the zodiac. Representing the four fixed elements in mediaeval astrology. Leo is fire, Scorpio is water, Aquarius {for all its name} is Air, whilst Taurus is Earth." ['The Secret Zodiac'].

Abraxas?

''The Gnostic Jung' / S. Hoeller].

A side step...In the Hermes / Asclepius, Hermetic text, Hermes talks about a 'transformation' that is "wrought inside the process of time",[chapter six. 'The Source Field Investigations]. The author speculates about same, in relation to 'the Precession' cycle. Think about it, in relation to 'groove' and 'repetitive' symbolism, [benefit of, in relation to the 'Ka']. Knowing that 'time' in its basic form could be described as 'segments' ['spine' link] within a learning process. Each 'learning curve' is a 'step' by step process, where time is relevant both external and internal, in relation to that 'development' . The most important point, however [according to this subject, that is, once again by implication] is that... 'benefit of'... is especially relevant in 'B', in order; through a 'learning process', [by way of a positive / negative aspect 'understanding'] to get to 'C'. Should B/C exist of course. Remember objectivity at all times, i.e.,at least attempt it ,rather than allowing those emotions to dictate where on that learning curve you find yourself {'arc' link}.

N.B. 'The Thigh of the Ox' {or bull} in the shape of the Egyptian Adze. Question. What 'ceremony' was associated with it?

Question 2. Play time addicts?

Side note: The author of 'Imhotep the African' points out the association of the 'thigh' in relation to Letopolis and 'its' relation to Giza and Heliopolis {i.e.,as a 'right angled triangle'}. No mention of the symbolic intent of the 'Delta' to {say} in relation to the 'Sea'. Salt water in relation to fresh. All as a means...?

To go beyond his Sothic Cycle hypothesis - try 'Pyr'-amid and/or 'right angled triangle' and/or ''hypotenuse'' and/or ''N/E -S/W'' {i.e., between Giza - Heliopolis} in relation to ''line of sight''. ALL in relation {relative?} to the most important aspect of a 'mind set' as mentioned above.

Question. Top/down or bottom/up?

'New Model of the Universe' / P. D. Ouspensky. {Geocentric?}.

Cleopatra identified with the ‘Triple Uraeus’, [explained elsewhere, i.e., A-C. The full S/P ]. Notice...A few decades later ‘Jesus’ arrives on the scene. He his now able to learn all the above in his ’missing years’. To be ‘applied’ between 30-33. Both significant numbers, [ see number symbolism etc ]. Proving that through objective research / analysis rather than leaving all to those first impressions...a certain logic ‘shines’ through, [a link to the true meaning of the "shining ones", i.e., ’Devas’, [explained elsewhere, together with that words link to 'music' symbolism, explained within]. Proving again the viability of the subject regardless of ones opinion of it. Ones first impressions of it.

"...the 'nails' of objectivity - which give conscience to thought." The symbol of which is the Crown of Thorns, i.e.,"The 'thorns' of the crown center function as the 'nails' of objectivity..." [Taken from 'letter 5' from within the book by Tomberg].

"All the celebrated songs of India have been composed by devotees of the 'divine'. The Sanskrit word for ''musician'' is bhagavathar, - ''he who sings the praises of god."...Because man himself is an expression of the Creative Word..." try ''logos'' to see it from a different {western?} perspective {i.e., 'angle'}.

Part of the purpose within the ‘design’ is to impart that same information to others. According to these authors it is part of the ‘course’. A prerequisite of attaining that ultimate goal, i.e., [C]. Hence the reason why; in most cases; its freely given. Misguided anthropology / Philanthropy? False altruism?

"It is from god, so hear! and to 'god' do you return! When you hear what i bring, learn! Then with understanding see the details in the whole, then give it to those who seek it, and stint not. This is the mercy that encompasses you; so extend it." [Preface by Al-Arabi to the book 'The Bezels of Wisdom'].

Question. Mercy in relation to 'grace'. What figure represents it - Is associated with it?

Side note: A lectern is a reading desk with a slanted top, on which documents or books are placed as support for reading aloud, as in a scripture reading, lecture, or sermon.

A lectern is usually attached to a stand or affixed to some other form of support.

To facilitate eye contact and improve posture when facing an audience, lecterns may have adjustable height and slant. People reading from a lectern, called lectors, generally do so while standing....The pulpit is generally reserved for clergy. This is mandated in the regulations of the Catholic Church, and several others (though not always strictly observed). Even in Welsh Nonconformism, this was felt appropriate, and in some chapels a second pulpit was built opposite the main one for lay exhortations, testimonies and other speeches.^[3] Many churches have a second, smaller stand called the lectern located in the Epistle side, which can be used by lay persons, and is often used for other Scripture lessons and ordinary announcements. The traditional Catholic location of the pulpit to the left side of the chancel or nave has been generally retained by Lutherans and many Anglicans,^[4] while in Presbyterian and Baptist churches the pulpit is located in the centre behind the communion table.^[5] Many modern Roman Catholic churches have an ambo that functions as both a pulpit and lectern.

Logos / extend to enlarge.

"Perhaps it is the ancient importance of this Dog on the Nile that has given the popular name - the Egyptian X - to the figure formed by the stars Procyon and Betelgeuze, Naos and Phaet - with Sirius at the vertices of the two triangles and the center of the letter. On our maps Sirius marks the nose of the Dog...Some have called it Mazzaroth of the Book of Job..." [Info. on Canis Major 'Star Names and Their Meaning'].

Dog - rose?

'Market place'?

Side note: The ''nose'' of something {regardless of species, including the human one} relative to the ''tip'' of {say} a tail. All as a means...?

'Face on' in relation to 'in profile'?

Side note: ''The holly king is primary a sacrificial king. As a winter counterpart for the oak king, he ensures the safety and provision for the tribe under his protection....Where the holly king can be seen as an element of the antlered gods like Cernunnos, we can see the horns as reflecting this rise in power and potency. The great rise in energy the holly facilitates allows great things to be achieved....Holly's fire is metaphysical as well, being fuel for the life force and leading to illumination of the soul. The holly's use in Smith craft links it with the Celtic smith god Govannon {Welsh} / Goibniu {Irish}, who possessed the mead or ale of eternal life, as well as the Saxon smith god Weyland....It eventually gives rise to both enlightenment or 'the shinning brow' of poetic vision and shamanic inspiration.'' [ Pages 109/110 'Celtic Tree Magic' / D. Forest].

Sacred Oil?

Continued: Something to ponder on: "Now, it is true that we moderns have arrived at a critique of the 'Empire of the Eye' and of the privileged primacy of sight, among all the senses, in the discourse of 'Western Civilization'. Charles Fourier, who was himself a kind of Hermeticist {and much admired as such by certain Martinists, Illuminists, and Masons of his era}, may perhaps claim the honour of first challenging the monarchy of the Eye with the democracy of the Nose. Most immediate of the senses, smell has none of the abstract alienating qualities of sight; moreover, the organizing principle of Fourier's cosmos is aroma, or rather the 'aromal rays' which connect all things through a subtle but palpable eros, from stars to flowers." [Page 312 'Alexandria' Vol 3. / D. Fideler].

Djedefre to enlarge.

Side note: ''In golf, the right to tee off first when playing a hole is called The Honour.'' ['The Chase'].

''Hole'' = 'pit'?

Khafre to enlarge.

''For the feminine gender is no shame for the sun, Nor is the masculine gender an honor for the crescent moon.'' [Annemarie Schimmel].

Anima/Animus to enlarge.

And/or: ''When someone talks about a long face, they usually mean a face that expresses sadness, stress, or exhaustion. But this is different from long face syndrome, a medical condition that deals with the actual structure of the skull.''

A working example: "Is this what Imhotep meant by: 'his temple opens southeastward; Re {the sun}, rises in its face every day?' That is, on the suns annual journey, moving north and south of due east, it never rises further south than the axis of this S/E facing temple, and so rises 'in its face every day'. " [Page 113 'Imhotep the African'].

Excellent research especially on sunrises/sunsets in relation to the Big Dipper and ''foundations''. But until this subject is taken into account FULLY no end result can be got.

As an example {ONE example only}: "These temples are however, on the east bank of the river - representing the involutionary cycle of creation - the field of the gods - whereas the west bank = the evolutionary path travelled by man." Cancer/Capricorn?

Smith/Jones to enlarge.

Try ''u-turn'' to add something extra to that excellent research.

And/or: ''The seven stars of Ursa Minor - as the 'handle that turned the quern'. " [Page 202, 'Esoteric Egypt' / J. S. Gordon]. Try those two.

Question. Understand subject material to give a possible location for all that material that was taken out of the now ''dry moat'' that surrounded the Step Pyramid.

REFRESHER: "....Sirius being the star of Horus, and the Step Pyramid complex being named Horus Is the Star at the Head of the Sky." [Page 134 'Imhotep the African']. Recall what was found at Abydos. Question. Where would his 'feet' rest?

Continued: Representation / symbolism of that ‘giving back’ takes different forms, depending like all else on time / place and culture. Its main example given by the same person mentioned above, [the Jesus chap]... ‘returning for 40 days’. To be seen by his close friends and strangers. Indicative of something being verified. Indicative of a ‘potential’ accessible to all. ’Four’ and multiples / series of., i.e., 4/40/400... indicative of the physical world. Especially in relation to the 'Venus cycles' {of which the Mayan culture had a vested interest in}- relative to the 'morning star' representing an awakening of something. As explained in such books as 'The Sacred History'. Mentioned within {parenthesis, this readers].

"Still another astronomical explanation of the importance of 40 can be found in the 40 aspects of Saturn which, according to the Bible, is the star of Judah." ['Mystery of Numbers'].

Side note. Green jade in relation to Venus and teeth {i.e.,the same embedded in the teeth of 'Kings']. Try ''teeth''. Think about it relative to the precession - as indicated within such works as 'Galactic Alignment'. Mentioned elsewhere].

As is same with the character shown on the ’hangmans card’ of Tarot fame. One leg in the shape of a figure ’4’. Notice the expression on face. Indicative of a willingness to learn [ ‘return’.] From understanding something of ’the above’. To imparting it below. Symbolic of that ‘position’...The upside down one. Or even the head [and therefore 'expression' ] of the Sphinx; in relation to the Great pyramid. The 'horizontal' at the lower end of the 'vertical'. The upside down cross. Imparting that knowledge, indicative of north / south, ['dry' way link. Also take note...all 'entrances' on all three pyramids....on the North side]. South to North being indicative of that return journey.

And/or: ''Because of our past karma and childhood wounds the ego is formed as an adaptation. When we make 'the turn' we become ready to change perspective....the willingness to surrender the ego's agenda to a higher perspective....old beliefs changing.'' [Page 114/5 'Shamanic Mysteries of Egypt' / N. Sully + L. Wolf].

180 degrees?

The beginning of which is represented by the 'offset' pyramid, indicative of the 'fallen' state. Hence the reason why they only align when the figure of Orion is ''upside down." [Discovery channel 2015]. That same intent that is represented with the ‘Quernstone’...but now in relation to the ‘journey’. The later represents the individual effort, [Micro]...as the former does to the collective one, [Macro]. Explained elsewhere.

Try ''quern'' for other examples - to see if you agree or disagree.

Side note: "As Lord of the nethermost, Saturn views the world from the outside, from such 'depths of distance' that he sees it all ''upside down'', and to this view {objective view?} the structure of things is revealed." ['Saturn and the Theoretical foundations of an Emerging Discipline'].

Hindsight / foresight ?

Side note: In the Sphinx temple statues of Khafre were found ''upside down''. Pure coincidence?

Question. What material {and/or colour?} were they made from. Any link to 'Saturn'?

Question 2. If Saturn = Khafre; what are the others represented by and why?

Try ''Saturn'' to see it from a 'beginners' {leaden?} point of view. It also gives clues as to the possible start {and/or end?} date of something.

''Turned it around on its head'' - in reference to the crossbow bolt found on Oak Island {'Curse of Oak Island'].

Question. 90/180 or 360 degrees?

And/or: "The Giant generally has been represented with his back towards us and face in profile, armed with a club, or sword, and protected by his shield...Durer drew him facing the Bull, whose attack he is warding off; but the Leyden Manuscript has a slightly clad 'youth' with a short , curved staff in the right hand, and the Hare in the background. The stars make up the head, shoulders, left foot and right knee. But Sir John Herschel observed from southern latitudes that the inverted view of the constellation well represents a human figure; the stars that we imagine the shoulders appearing for the knees, Rigel forming the head, and Cursa of Eridanus, one of the shoulders." [Page 308 'Star Names and Their Meaning' under Orion].

Upside down statue of Khafre in the Sphinx Temple?

Side note: "The wild bull represents untamed inner {usually represented as sexual} power. The actual 'sacrifice' of the bull is a symbolic representation of a necessary inner, spiritual quest." [Page 87 'Serpent in the Sky'].

''Second childhood''?

Podrick Payne? {Game of Thrones}.

Something to ponder on: "Sahu-Orion was often depicted as ''he who walks backwards'' and the decan list describe him as facing Sothis-Sirius, that is, facing the horizon. Since Orion moves east-west it indicates that Sahu was visualised as moving across the sky, walking backwards. James Frazer, in the 'Golden Bough' tells of a people on a remote island of New Guinea who have a very interesting ceremony....

Side note: ''The Latins occasionally wrote the word Scorpios, but usually Scorpius, or Scorpio; while Cicero, Ennius, Manilius, and perhaps Columella gave the kindred African title Nepa, or Nepas, the first of which the Alfonsine Tables copy, as did Manilius the Greek adjective, Walking Backward. Astronomical writers and commentators, down to comparatively modern times, occasionally mentioned its two divisions under the combined title Scorpius cum Chelis; while some representations even showed the Scales in the creature's Claws.''
Question. What two aspects is the ''scorpion'' known for?

Recall its 'relationship' with Orion.

Continued: He goes on to describe a mock sacrifice....death/rebirth....and 'learning' from scratch - represented by ''walking backwards''. [Page 210 'Death of the Gods in Ancient Egypt'].

And/or: ''It has long been suspected that Hathors return from Nubia in the Goddess in the Distance myth is a 'solstice' return. Her role in 'turning back' the years and rebirth by day is as old as the Pyramid Texts, as the king proclaims in Utterance 405: {the legs walking backwards} - when identifying with the Eye of Re: For i am that eye of yours on the horn of Hathor, which brings back the years through me.'' [Page {'seventyseven'} 77/278 'Hathors Alchemy'].

'AFAR'?

'Cancer'  / 'Book of Day' to enlarge.

A working example: Many statues on Easter Island found ''face'' down {downhill} and lying on their ''backs'' {uphill}. An even number found in BOTH positions on level ground {''fallen'' aspect?}….''Probably just left them'' - in answer as to WHY. Experts believe it has to do with the legend that the statues ''walked'' to their place of rest - being the platforms {'foundation'?} that they are renowned for - Facing out towards the HORIZON. But looking upwards towards the heavens {horizontal/vertical?}. Some 'facing' inward {'Seven'?}. Or vice versa? All made from within an extinct volcano {compressed ASH}. Always made in the horizontal position {'awakened'?} before being ''walked'' to THE foundation spot in the vertical one. Pot bellied {'pregnant'?}. Also discovered a ''right angle'' between eyes and forehead that allowed a third rope to be engaged {'overhang'?}.  ['Lost Empire of Easter Island' / Nat. Geo / December 2019].

Inward/Outward. Uphill/Downhill. Forwards/Backwards. Others elsewhere. That ''duality'' clause - as a means....?

For the ''shadow'' to learn?

'Navel' to enlarge.

Question. Did those early explorers that 'found' Easter Island ALREADY know of its natural 'resources'? {Polynesians}. What was the real/original {primordial?} reason for deciding to move and live on that ''island''. Enlarged elsewhere.

''The Malekulans believe that the newly dead person will arrive at a cave by the sea, where a traditional labyrinth design is traced....Now the person who has 'danced the maze' throughout his/her life knows the pattern well, and dances the maze, thus completing the pattern in the sand. This leads one to the cave entrance {'giant' to enlarge}, where the same tusked boar that is sacrificed at the persons death now appears.....Whence the soul may be taken by the ferryman to a volcanic island that is a rebirth. Dancing the labyrinth is to unpick the knot of life {the Ankh}....Labyrinths are always connected with caves....The labyrinth is a reflection of the labyrinthine canals of the inner ear that regulate balance on the ground, for to slay the minotaur, or engage with the vitality of life, is to do so in a balanced way, in a way that harmonises the VERTICAL of the quest, the journey for vision, and the HORIZONTAL of the ground {sensation}....'' [Page 198/201/2 'Fruits of the Moon Tree' / A. Bleakley].

''Piglet'' to enlarge.

Question. Reason for the chose of Island? Recall the ritual each year of collecting the first egg of the season. Next stage up?

And/or: Volcanic Islands in relation {versus} ancient 'sea bed' ones, i.e., as one example those White Cliffs on THIS island and/or the Giza Plateau - supposedly the middle {'navel'?} of the earths land mass.

Side note: ''Piglet represents an anxiety disorder. Tigger represents attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Eeyore represents major depressive disorder. Rabbit represents obsessive compulsive disorder.''

From a different perspective: ''The Russian saints are never ecstatic. They are entirely without that mysticism which so many mediaeval saints of Western Europe show. A pure breath of the spirit proceedes from them, a mild and high severity. They seek above all, to attain to the light of the Holy Spirit. No single one of the Russian saints can show the stigmata. This is connected to the special mission of the Russian people. The risen transfigured Christ seeks the Russian soul. The Russian land is an EASTER ISLAND; it awaits the resurrection. The mediaeval soul of the west experienced quite especially deeply the sufferings of Christ, His Passion. The Art of that period glorified the Crucified One. The East, on the contrary, has had, the resurrection more in mind. These are two different stages of perception. Rudolf Steiner says in one of his lectures that the Russian soul experiences the archangel of its people through the flowers and grasses.....'' [Page 7 'Russia: Past, Present and Future' / R. Steiner].

Side step: ''The Titans would always be the enemies of Jupiter. They failed to 'kill' him while he was still an 'infant', but they did not cease to wage war on him....until finally Jupiter {'Zeus'} defeated them, and imprisoned them underground. There these great forces of 'materialism' became part of the very structure of the earth, and whenever volcanoes rumbled and threatened to erupt the ancients heard their discontent. With the Titans imprisoned , Jupiter became king of the gods and god of a new age. He shook his magnificent locks, and was the only god strong enough to throw the thunderbolt." [Pages 105/116 'The Secret History of the World' / J. Black].

To 'swallow'' ones pride?

''Zeus who hid 'fire' from earth.''

Prometheus who 'stole' it back.

Athene {i.e., soul/anima aspect} - born from his head ''fully armed'' or his thigh.

Question. What does that say about 'Zeus'? Higher range ONLY of the lower aspect?

Question 2. How does 'He' get above that 50% ?

And/or: ''Not only did malachite eventually produce red copper, it also, when crushed, provided the Egyptians with their striking green eye paint. Hathor tells the pharaoh at Denderah: 'I give you the mountains charged with what is in them, the two mountain chains {'horizon'?} birth for you their products'. The word for the mighty 'mountain chains' {mnty} recalls an Egyptian word for 'thighs' {mnty}, suggestively linking together 'mountains' and 'goddess' birthing. Mountains are like caverns or wombs. They are said to be 'pregnant' with the minerals gestating within them, and like, a pregnant woman, they bring forth their hidden treasures.'' [Page 151 'Hathor's Alchemy'].

A working example: A mummified hip-thigh and knee joint belonging to a royal woman {left side} found in the west branch of the Valley of the Kings {'Valley of the Monkeys'} - belonging to the era of Amenhotep III ['Valley of the Kings: The Lost Tombs' / Discovery Science].

And/or: The ancient Holy Saturday liturgy recalls Jesus’s descent to the dead, where he preaches the good news of his triumph over sin and death, releasing all those bound since the time of Adam and Eve. The Author of Life descends into darkness to bring light and salvation (CCC 633-635).

In the spiritual life, Christ calls us to a deeper transformation and conversion of heart. The long Sabbath wait and empty tomb experience are God’s way of integrating us into the Paschal Mystery. The painful longing gives birth to the gift of hope that sustains us through a seemingly empty and dark void. But the emptiness and darkness that we feel is pregnant with the hidden presence of Christ. While we wait in patience, the Lord is at work. Hope itself places us in the presence of who we long for and gives us a taste of the salvation that is ours if we persevere, for “in hope we were saved” (Romans 8:24). [🙏 Day 7 - The Sabbath Wait and Empty Tomb | Novena | Magdala].

Side note; Taweret is the goddess who protected pregnant women in ancient Egypt. There were no temples, shrines, or priests dedicated to her; nevertheless, throughout the pharaonic period she was more popular than any other god. Her only rival was Bes, the god who protected babies through childhood....Taweret means the Great One. She was a composite creature: a pregnant hippopotamus with pendant human breasts, lion's claws, and a crocodile tail.... She was typically displayed with her lion-claw hands holding the sa, the ancient Egyptian version of a lifebelt, which was also the hieroglyph for protection. A tripartite wig further defined her as a divinity. In some instances, she was embellished with a sun disc and cow-horn crown, too, which affirmed her affiliation with Hathor, the goddess of love and sexuality. This further suggested her power was cosmic, and not simply limited to the household....

This article features a rare, perhaps unique, magical vessel that was used to assist pregnant women. The statuette is made of a faience-like unglazed material and is 20 cm tall. The top has a fairly wide opening and is drilled down the centre to connect to a channel leading to Taweret’s right breast. When fluid was poured in the top, it would emerge through the statuette’s breast. The fluid would bring with it the magical power of the goddess.  The roughly hexagonal shape of the breast opening suggests that the vessel may have contained a stopper, or held a shallow ‘pill box’ crown, since the goddess is sometimes portrayed wearing that or the more elaborate crown evocative of Hathor. Unfortunately, we know nothing of its ancient history; where it was found, and when it was used, are unknown. It probably dates to the Ramesside Period or possibly later in the Third Intermediate Period. It was donated to the Cincinnati Art Museum in 1947 by Dikran Kelekian, a well-known antiquities dealer. The museum deaccessioned it, and I was able to buy it in a sale at Sotheby’s in New York on 14 December 1994.

Taweret was the saviour of pregnant women, who relied on her from the Old Kingdom through to the Ptolemaic era. Her amulets are ubiquitous. Even during the Amarna Period, when Akhenaten closed all temples and demanded worship exclusively for Aten, the gods who protected pregnant women and their babies retained their power and popularity. We know this because factories in the royal city of Amarna produced amulets of Taweret and Bes for the local population. Women wore these around their necks....To garner the magic of the gods, women gave birth in a specially decorated room in the house, or in a similarly decorated bower outside it. The depiction of Bes was standard. When labour was prolonged and self-care ineffective, it was time to call in a professional. But that was a serious problem for ancient Egyptian women. There is no ancient Egyptian word for obstetrician, midwife or birth attendant of any sort. Women in labour were accompanied by family members or close friends. Perhaps in a difficult delivery, a woman from the village who had borne multiple babies might be consulted....

The only professional who might be called was a heka or magician. We have excellent data showing at least some hekas specialised in helping pregnant women. Flinders Petrie excavated the house of a ‘magician’ at Kahun during his 1888-1889 season. He found several items relating to birthing, the most important of which was a mask of the god Bes. It was made of cartonnage and had obviously been used multiple times. The right eye aperture had been enlarged to help the magician to see more clearly, and the mask had been repainted, indicating repeated use. It is now in the Manchester Museum. In addition, he found a statuette of a naked woman with pendulous breasts wearing a Bes mask. Petrie and James Quibell also found a similar statuette in the ‘Tomb of the Magician’ beneath the Ramesseum during their excavations in 1885-1886. That, too, was a mature naked woman with pendulous breasts, suggestive of having borne children. She holds snakes in her hands showing that she had power over evil intruders. That statuette is also on display in the Manchester Museum. No Taweret mask has been found, but we do have several similar statuettes depicting naked women wearing Taweret masks. Their pendulous breasts suggest they too had borne babies....

We have no clue how the fluid from Taweret’s breast was used. In my years practising obstetrics, I found that women uniformly dislike the development of stretch marks. It is possible the fluid was rubbed on the abdomen in the hope of preventing them. There are special unguent vessels known by their German name Gravidenflaschen (‘pregnancy jars’), which are believed to have held a balm for that purpose. Those vessels may also have had magical properties. I am inclined to believe this magical Taweret vessel was reserved for more significant problems. Its fluid could have been ingested or rubbed over the abdomen in hope of enhancing contractions in labour, or in hope of making the head come down. It could have been applied to the mother’s breasts to promote lactation, which was essential for the newborn to survive, as there was no substitute for human breast milk in pharaonic times. Regardless of the nature of the problem or how it was used, we can conclude that this magical vessel was an important talisman to treat problems in pregnancy by drawing the power of ‘the Great One’, Taweret, to aid women in peril during pregnancy. ['Ancient Egypt' / March-April 2024].

A practical example: ''The variety of Gnosis propounded by Jung {in his Sermons} -  is a 'way' that has been described as the Faustian path, as outlined in Goethe's masterpiece....He walks the perilous but ultimately rewarding highway {'hogs back'?} - that leads to the reservoir of vitality and power, the sole true source of transformation. He 'invokes' the spirit of Earth, the amoral, energetic force of nature, which is unfettered by the inhibitions and high sounding maxims of the intellect. He descends into chaos and tribulation, into the realms beyond the limits of convention and human laws where the seething MAGMA of raw transformative energy resides in its unrefined and undiluted state {molten rock?}. It is only by way of this commitment to darkness, error, suffering along with ecstasy, passion and battle, that he attains to his ASCENT into the realms of light, guided by the transfigured Sophianic spirit of Margaret {Beatrice?}. It is thus that he can say that it is ''wisdoms'' final say - that freedom and life belong to that man solely who must reconquer them each day.'' [Page 73 'The Gnostic Jung and the Seven Sermons to the Dead' / S. Hoeller].

''Set in Stone'' = 'Philosophers stone'?

Side note: ''Margaret means 'pearl' in Greek.'' [Page 172 'The Left Hand Path' / S. Flowers].

{M}argaret = Cassiopeia link?

Mentes-Athena? {'The Hero and the Goddess: The Odyssey as Pathway to Personal Transformation' / J. Houston].

{Something hinted at in 'prose' form}: "Hark! A swift war-like commotion through the stellar spaces ran, as all the heavenly planets overheard the little plan: 'We will not have this rebel loosened on earth', protested they. We will not countenance such a 'revolt'. Man must our laws obey!' {Moses link?}. They all recalled the 'many lives' they'd helped him live before {'east' relative to 'west'?}. They all looked back on ages past, and then - they sternly swore....Then they all reversed their motion {static/dynamic?}, and walked backward, ONE BY ONE - endeavouring to escape the thing the karmic gods had done. But, retrograde or not, the word went forth to shake the earth {'Poseidon'?} - and Gee-OR-Gee, {the Gold in Earth} came to the HOUR of birth! And ever since, the planets as they 'GRACE' his horoscope, have kept their faces towards him, walking backward, 'VOID' of hope. For he upsets all theories, and their age old thought he jars, preaching a new age eternal - in defiance of the stars! 'He' came to slay the dragon, and to span the bridge of time - to find the chemicals of 'LIFE' {''bit'' link}, and blend their force sublime. To unlock the earths grim secrets - facing 'revolutions' strife - and scaling highest heaven to demand immortal life." [Poem by Edith Painton taken from the book 'The Zodiac and the Salts of Salvation' / Inez Perry].

Question. Which would represent ''backward'' - up or down 'stream'?

'Overthrowing the Old Gods' / A. Crowley.

And/or: ''void'' in relation to: ''Awareness isn't something within your experience. It is an emptiness that contains all you are experiencing." ['Lucid Living' / T. Freke].

''You cannot hide. I 'see' you. There is no life in the void - only death.'' ['Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring'].

Question. Whats the remedy?

From a different perspective: " According to the Sarcophagus of Seti I, the Duat is the body of the god Asar, which is pictured as a man bending backwards into a circle, touching his toes with his hands {Aries/Pieces?}. It is said to have 14 Aats or regions.

The ultimate destination of those departed is the region of the Duat called Sekhet Yaru - meaning ''Field of Plants'' {therefore 'vegetation' link?}. It is located within the region called Sekhet Hotep or ''Field of Peace''. Hotep may be translated as peace and/or offerings which make peace." [Page 230 'Egyptian Book of the Dead' / M. Ashby].

Try ''14'' and/or ''grace''.

Nunbers 14:14... and they will tell the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that you, O Lord, are in the midst of this people. For you, O Lord, are seen face to face, and your cloud stands over them and you go before them, in a pillar of cloud by day and in a pillar of fire by night.''

And/or: "The reason is that each religion or philosophy that comes into the world is a Benjamin of humanity and insures its own life by 'destroying' its mother. It is because the symbolic serpent turns ever devouring its own tail; it is because, an essential condition of existence, a void, is necessary to every plenitude, space for every dimension, an affirmation for each negation: herein is the eternal realization of the phoenix allegory." ['Transcendental Magic' by E. Levi].

''Kings Mother''?

Try Part 1 {'mother'} and especially 3:8 before those first impressions hiss something else. Then link it all to 3:1 {under ''phoenix''}.

Try 'Trickster' character....as a means....?

Refresher: ''Life can only be understood backwards, but must always be lived forwards."

'Patriarch' / 'Matriarch' or vice versa? As a means....?

Side note: "You have three guesses: why does the proverb say ''Good things come in threes'', and why does the psychologist think that 3 restores the damaged 2 has caused by dividing? The reason , as Ludwig Paneth has stated, is that the triad leads to a new integration, one that does not negate the duality preceding it but rather, overcomes it, just as the child is a binding element that unites the male and female partner." [from the chapter: The Embracing Synthesis {3} / 'Mystery of Numbers' / Annemarie Schimmel].

Duality?

"It has almost become a cliché of these post Freudian times that 'life' is a continuum, a single thread, begun in an act of loving and ended in an act of dying. So we speak of the 'little death' of orgasm and the 'kiss of death' The Celtic goddess Arianrhod stands at both ends of the thread of life - because the ends meet. The Celts believed that life was an endless cycle of birth, death, and reincarnation. To symbolize this cycle, the Celtic kings wore a brooch in the shape of a wheel." [Pages 51/2 'Arachne Rising: The Search for the Thirteenth Sign of the Zodiac' / J. Vogh].

Question. How would that ''forward'' movement be represented? Precession?
Static/dynamic?  Janus?

And/or: ''All one has to do is turn around the arrow of ones attention. The Katha Upanishad puts it this way: 'God made the senses turn outward, man therefore looks outwards, not into himself. But occasionally, a daring soul, desiring immortality {or understanding a 'mind set'}, has looked back and found himself. In fact the ''daring soul'' doesn't lack encouragement. He's surrounded by countless reminders and opportunities, countless means of reversing the arrow of attention - if only he's sufficiently inquisitive about his true identity, and only if he's willing to drop for a moment opinions about himself based on hearsay and memory, and imagination and to rely on the PRESENT EVIDENCE...." [Page 56 'On Having No Head' / D. Harding. Parenthesis, this readers].

Arrow of Time?

Continued: Nordic mythology ‘starts’ off from that ‘intention’. Odin learns...in order to give back. Very well explained, from both an objective and subjective point of view, relative to "turning points in the evolution of consciousness", and that 'development' throughout the ages, within the book 'The Sacred History' by Jonathan Black.

Side note: "It happens that we know the Norse name of Gwydion's horse, if Gwydion was indeed Woden or Odin. It was Askr Yggr-drasill - the 'Ash tree that is the horse of Yggr'...." [Page 57 'The White Goddess'].

The Ash tree from which spear shafts are made. ''Pierced/wounded'' link?

All in relation to the Battle of the Trees which Mr Graves defines as: ''....What seems to have been the most important religious event in pre-Christian Britain."

'See' that ''battle'' in the context of the whole.

A working example: {i.e., in respect of a mind set}: ''Each tree or plant for the Druids, had numerous spiritual and magical associations with it: The Birch = New beginnings. The Rowan = Protection. The Willow = Intuition. The Ash = Interconnection. The Oak = Strength. The Holly = Balance. The Hazel = Wisdom. The Apple = Abundance. The Yew = Transformation.

So to seek the above energies that the tree represented to be applied into their own life's, a Druid if he was seeking {say} 'abundance' would eat apples, use a wand {in ritual} made from apple, meditate under an apple tree, etc etc.'' [Page 68 'Idiots Guide to Paganism' / C. McColman].

A more practical example; now represented in its physical form; is the American medal of Honour. The ‘upside down’ Star/pentagram. That word pentagram; if allowed to; can play on the imagination because of those undisciplined first impressions. Due to the environment that we live in. Sometimes called the upside down cross. Its negative attribute given by some because of ‘Peter’ being crucified in the upside down position. Remember ‘Peter’ was giving back. Imparting those new ideas to anyone who would listen. Some stories say...It was his assailants who chose his final resting position. The ‘unconscious’ aspect of the same. Thinking cap time, i.e.,possible synchronistic link.

A working example: ''The star has five appendages {resembling people} in Egyptian art precisely because the starry realm is also the realm  of human souls...In the duat when stars drop below the horizon, they continue in an attitude the inverse of that in which they rose above the opposite horizon. It is an upside down netherworld. The stars have turned over, and it happens that they will turn over again and right themselves.'' [Page 204 'Imagining the World Into Existence: Ancient Egyptian Manual of Consciousness' / N. Ellis].

Those same 'stars' that can be seen on the inside of the Step Pyramid.

And/or: ''The text begins at the tomb entrance on the left-hand wall and goes down to the end of the second corrider, where it 'wraps around' and turns on the right hand wall, coming back UP the stairs so that the text ends on the wall opposite from where it began. This is but one graphic example of the great turnaround in which a world depicted one way flips and becomes its complementary opposite.'' [Page 203 same book].

''Second Nature''?

Refresher: "Error runs down an inclined plane, while truth has to laboriously climb its way up hill".

Side note: On the Right 'pillar' to an entrance of the 'caves' at Gebel el-Silsila can be seen the impression of a handprint.

'Right hand of god'?

And/or: ''The ritual role of Hathorian royal women {including Ankhesenamun} as 'gods hand'....'' [Pages 22/129 'Egypt's Anointing Mysteries' / A. Roberts].

That same unconscious aspect that can be represented with salt water. That American ’upside down’ star/medal that has the Roman ’goddess’ Minerva, [explained elsewhere], as its central emblem, regardless of army / navy / pilots, i.e., Land / Sea / Air. Think about it. ‘Minerva’ in relation to ‘the self’ in relation to the ‘whole’. What better example [as a representation of something], could there be of someone who ‘returns’...In order to help someone else. Co-incidence? Or a ‘meaningful’ one.

"In classical antiquity '17' appears in connection with warfare and heroism." [i.e., Hiram Abif link]. Enlarged elsewhere.

A {working?} example: "According to Plutarch , Osiris was killed by Set on the 17th of Athys, {month of Hathor} - which falls in November / Scorpio, the cycle of death and transformation. He died in his 28th year, an allusion to the number of days in the lunar cycle which governs organic life. In all, 14 parts {half of the lunar cycle} of the 'dismembered Neter were collected by his sisters - and taken to the mythic island of flame to be 'reassembled' - a transformation that became the prototype of Egypt's funerary tradition." [Page 94 from the book by R. Clark].

And/or: "The sacred lunar numbers seven {7}, fourteen {14}, and twenty-eight {28} were prominent in Osiris's cult. The lunar cycle of 28 days correspond to his descent into the underworld and ascent to heaven: 14 days each way, or 14 days on the mystic Ladder. Buddha's ladder of descent/ascent had 14 steps...." [Page 752 'The Women's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets' / B. Walker].

And/or: "Mythologically the Hydes {i.e., S/E of the Pleiades} were the daughters of Atlas and Aethra, and hence half sisters of the Pleiades, with whom they made up the 14 Atlantides..." ['Page 387, 'Star Names: Their Lore and Meaning'].

Ebb and flow?

N.B. Orion who was killed {'wounded'?} by a scorpion. Now on opposite sides of the zodiac. All as a means....?

Side note: "Now, the only glyph on the outside of the pyramid {north side} was that on the portal of the double arch, cut into the 17th course of the exterior of the pyramid. This hieroglyph is the horizontal line." ['The Zelator']. Try ''horizon{tal}''.

 

 

Synchronistic?...'The 15:17 To Paris. A True Story...' - Spencer Stone. Recall what ''15'' implies.

15th September 1940 ?

A working example: "This fight is clearly regarded by the scribes as an event shrouded in mystery. In the Book of the Dead, especially in spell 17, it gives an account of the battle between Horus and Set over a period of 80 years. Horus loses his 'eye' and Set his 'testicles' {'fire'?} - the gods meanwhile are sorely vexed as to decide the rightful heir to the 'vacated' office of Osiris." [Taken from the book 'The Death of the gods in Ancient Egypt'].

Spirit {'fire'} and soul {'eye'} all as a means....?

Question. Why 80?

And/or:  "This is the beginning of the praising's and glorifications for going out and coming into the Neterkhert, glorious in Amentet, the beautiful place. These words are for allowing one to go out into the light in all the forms that a person may desire, to play the Senet game in the resulting booth, and to go forth as a living soul.....Who is this person that is being spoken about? [[Page 178 ' Egyptian Book of the Dead' / M . Ashby].

Akhet to enlarge.

Chapter '17' is to some the most important in the same book.

The author of 'The Ancient Secret of the Flower of life' does the same on page 145 of Vol 1. Mixing up numbers like 17.5 years and 45 degrees with the left and right eye of Horus. All in story form.

'Thirtyfive' ?

Eastern equivalent?..."In the East, the realm of Pre-eminent Happiness is Bhagavan Vajra-Sattva Akshobhya, who is pictured as blue in colour, seated on a throne supported by elephants, and holding a five pronged dorje. The dorje is a Tibetan form of magic wand, being a thunderbolt sceptre. For Westerners this could easily be regarded as a wand, with a star or pentagram at its tip; a five pointed star that has all the implications and power of the 'lightening flash' of the Qabalistic Tree of Life, that traces the descent of force from the heights of creative power. This buddha is known as the hero-minded one, or one of indestructible mind. In short he is a veritable Heracles. He is embraced by the Mamiki the Divine Mother, and from them radiates the white light of the principle of consciousness." [Extract from the book by G. Knight].

'The White Goddess' / R. Graves.

"The Tibetan system proceeds to elaborate very considerably upon the five-fold wheel."

Question. Where have you seen the elephant before relative to the number 'five'? Put all the other {keys?} together to understand something further. It also defines the Greek equivalent of same principle - and/or therefore the ''number'' it relates to? Proving the viability of subject material regardless of ones {first?} impressions of it.

Question 2. What would the principle of UNconsciousness be represented by?

And/or, i.e.,analogy of same principle - but from a different 'angle' [key] ..."Spiritual teacher = 'The Guru Gita': verse 17 aptly describes the guru as ''dispeller of darkness'' [from gu, ''darkness,'' and ru, ''that which dispels'']." [Extract from the book 'Autobiography of a Yogi'].

Egyptian equivalent?: "Since the cosmic Bull had 'rule' over the human neck and throat, it also had rule over human speech. It is recorded that the temples of Serapis were so built that, during a certain time of the year a beam of sunlight fell onto the lips of the statue of Serapis within the temple. The lips were of course the outer symbol of the Word, and the Egyptian hieroglyph 'ru', which was used to denote the lips, as well as the 'birth passage', was adopted into the early Christian symbolism of the ankh cross...This rule was extended to the Word itself...It became an important element in the symbolism of pulpit lecterns from which the Word {'Logos'} of God was read...This symbolism has been missed by the majority of art historians ." ['The Secret Zodiac'].

'Standing'?

"The mysteries were one brotherhood and they influenced one another much more than is realised, because men made pilgrimages and GRAFTED the ideas brought back on to their primitive cults, so that mystery cults are largely interchangeable. The traditions of Egypt will throw light on these cults." [Page 66 'The Arthurian Formula' / G. Knight].

'Blood of the Vine'?

"In thy blood - Blood is equivalent to "life" Genesis 9:4. The clause is equivalent to "Thy mother is a vine, living in thy blood," i. e., in the life of thee and of thy children. The excellency of a vine is in her fruitful branches; the glory of a mother in her noble children."

"Rhacotis (Egyptian: r-ꜥ-qd(y)t, Greek Ῥακῶτις; also romanized as Rhakotis) was the name for a city on the northern coast of Egypt at the site of Alexandria. Classical sources from the Greco-Roman era in both Ancient Greek and the Egyptian language suggest Rhacotis as an older name for Alexandria before the arrival of Alexander the Great....The original city may have included the island of Pharos, a harbor mentioned in Homer's Odyssey as the kingdom of Proteus.^[5] Plutarch writes that this reference influenced Alexander in his decision to found a new capital at the harbour of Pharos."

"The root of the name, qd, means "construct". The prefix r-ꜥ can be used as a derivational morpheme forming nouns of action from infinitives, so a likely interpretation of the name as a whole is "building site" or "construction in progress".^[2] Michel Chaveau of the École pratique des hautes études argues that Rhakotis may simply have been the Egyptian name of the construction site for Alexandria;^[3] while John Baines contends that the style of the name and its linguistic context indicate that the name is older."

Analogy of same with all the above [keys ? principles?] in mind..."The method of the initiatory system is both synthetic and analytic, in constant application. It brings ideas and experiences together and it breaks them apart, repeating and recycling...In the Tarot, the Hierophant and the Hanged Man are the most appropriate cards for depicting the method; the former, a revealer of the sacred mysteries, and the latter, the 'sacrifice' that must be made in order to receive those mysteries. One is the teacher, who must interface with the divine and maintain position as a bridge; the other is the candidate or initiate, whose world must be 'turned upside down'. " [Extract from the book 'The Magister' by M. Katz ].

S/E?

The study of the subject gives the same result, i.e.,the student becomes his own [inner?] 'teacher' by understanding those universal concepts [''repeating and recycling'', i.e.,revision] in order to define something. In order to understand the parts within the whole. The ''micro within the macro''. The self within the bigger picture. Possibilities of. Nothing more.

''The whole gamut of human experience {and/or emotions}''. Question. What animal represents that final word? ...Why?

Side note: A working example {in the present tense and moment of the WORD}: ''I do podcasts about theories and stuff - weird and wonderfull stuff....One of my theories is that i believe hieroglyphs are actually from the future and their basically just emoji's - because we are getting to the point where our words are getting shorter as when we send messages etc....So i think the pyramids are from the future and its hieroglyphs are just emoji's. Thats how we are going to talk in the future because we cant be bothered to write.'' [Scarlett - 'Pilgrimage' / BBC2 / 2022].

Continued: A ''synchronistic'' example of same [if only for this reader, and/or 'UNmanifested'?] could be the ''primordial scream'' omitted, in the upside down position, that allowed Mr M. Oldfield; of 'Tubular Bells' fame; to experience - in his own words - ''a rebirth''. Which became the beginnings of his own recovery. From darkness to light. From a negative to a positive. That internal struggle. Represented by the film that those ''Bells'' became associated with - 'The Exorcist'. [ 'Tabular Bells: The Mike Oldfield Story'. BBC Four]. Strangely enough those 'Bells' that form a figure 4, as well as the 'heart'.

AND/OR: ''Ring the BELLS that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.'' {Prologue: 'Dreams of Isis' / N. Ellis].

"The haunting tones of the church bell beckoned across the wet fields as the ancient oak came into view..." Douglas Monroe.

"The voice of truth in a person that has not yet awakened to spiritual life, is the ''still small voice'' that may be felt in the heart, listened to by the imperfect; as a half conscious dreamer may listen to the ringing of bells in the distance; but in those that have become conscious of life, that have passed through the first 'resurrection' of the spirit in their own heart, and received the baptism of the first initiation, administered by themselves, the voice of the new born 'ego' has no uncertain sound, but becomes the powerful Word of the 'Master'. [Emphasis this readers. Chapter 1, from the book by F. Hartman]. Link to the word ''teacher.''

Cranes?

And/or..."You may care to dwell upon the parable which indicates that 'God' is not to be found in the strong wind nor the earthquake, nor in the fire but only within the silence of the still small voice." [From the book 'The Silent Road'. Mentioned elsewhere].

''Ishon'' to enlarge.

A working example: ''You cannot do it all in one step. But if little steps are taken in the right direction - much can be accomplished. It takes patience and time.'' [Desert Father: Abba Climacus: St. Catherines Monastery - Sinai].

And/or: ''Abbot John of Raithu on the shores of the Red Sea, asked Abbot John to write about the spiritual life: ''Show us the way to Heaven, the way Jacob saw the ladder.'' [Day 'nineteen': Pilgrimage of Freedom: Lent 2023: Magdala: Israel].

From a different perspective: ''Wherever metallurgy is practised in traditional cultures, it is shrouded in secrecy, and ancient Egypt is no exception, though a cryptographic text in Ramses {Ramesses} VI's tomb at Thebes, orientated towards the Book of Day's iconic scene of the 'Little Re' gestating in Hathor's womb - LIFTS the veil a little on Egypt's metallurgical lore, giving out secrets rarely disclosed about the sun gods birth {i.e., in the 'corridor' of the 'first hour of birth'}. Ramses seems to have been a king particularly steeped in Hathor's copper mysteries...Further more, Re 'is on the way to the stars which the book {called} ''Dissolution'' has named, stating: Sothis -18 stars are behind her and eighteen stars in front of her....This is the division of the year after 180 days {i.e., each of the thirtysix decans representing a ten day period}....He is born in that mysterious dawn time between night and day, the first hour called 'She who Raises the Beauty of her Lord'.'' [Pages 137/151-2 'Hathors Alchemy'].

Refresher: ''Tabular bells comprises 18 metal tubes.''

Sistrum?

"Procyon appears on the flag of Brazil, symbolizing the state of Amazonas.^[48] The Kalapalo people of Mato Grosso state in Brazil call Procyon and Canopus Kofongo ("Duck"), with Castor and Pollux representing his hands. The asterism's appearance signified the coming of the rainy season and increase in food staple manioc, used at feasts to feed guests....The constellations in Macedonian folklore represented agricultural items and animals, reflecting their village way of life. To them, Procyon and Sirius were Volci "the wolves", circling hungrily around Orion which depicted a plough with oxen."

Sheep decans?

Wolves / hunger.

A working example {that very first one?}:"The principle of the city came to me as an expression of a cosmic pattern, rather after the fashion of Dion Fortune's the 'Cosmic Doctrine'. First a crossways of two elements, a road and a river {'fording'?}, causing a center that is then ring fenced by a city wall or Ring-Pass-Not and then the pointing upward to the heavens of all the spires and towers of the little parish churches, of which there were very many in London. Along with this came the significance of towers and bells, and the esoteric powers of sound - which can be of considerable practical interest in the technicalities of bell manufacture. The dimensions of which affect the type of sound that goes out - and also the principle of change ringing - in which a mathematical combination is pursued throughout its entire course of possibilities. This is a phenomenon unique to Britain, as on the continent the practice is for carillons of bells that play tunes. All this seemed to have some connection with the mathematical researches and angelic tablets of Dr John Dee. In pursuit of this, i found myself much concerned with St Mary Le Bow, and other churches constructed by Wren after the great fire of London. As part of the conference i was able to lay on a guided tour to a selection of his churches around St Paul's cathedral - St Martin's on Ludgate Hill, St Sepulchre opposite the Old Bailey, St Vedast's Foster Lane, St Mary Le Bow, St Mary Aldermary, St Nicholas Cole Abbey, St Benet Paul's Wharf, St Andrew by the Wardrobe, St Brides Fleet Street, in a clockwise circumambulation that ended in St Paul's cathedral itself at a power point marked by a brass grating directly under the midpoint of the dome and over the crypt. There was some talk of Sir Christopher Wren being associated with a secret society of his time called the Fedeli..." ['I Called it Magic' by G. Knight].

Question. 'Higher' of the Greater Mysteries? And/or ''Ring fenced by a city wall'' - recall the wall {white?} around that very first pyramid. Representation of same concept?

'Catalogue of Cities' {'White Goddess' / R. Graves}.

"Everyone has an internal thought process: that silent other self who speaks to you; the one you debate with." [First sentence; first paragraph; first page of the book by Q. S. Lam ].

Side note: "Don't you know,'' asked the Sage, ''that important secrets must be hidden under an apparently trivial aspect. Now Senen-Mut {Hatshepsut's 'teacher'} attracts the attention of the seeker by saying explicitely that this symbol 'has not been found since the ancestors', by which remark he wants to indicate that it corresponds to the particular case of this 'moment'. '' I do not want at this moment to develop the whole meaning of this symbol, but i may tell you this much, that this Sage confirms in it the androgyny by the Queen Hatshepsut who, for a period of her reign, takes upon herself the role of masculinity, whereas the name and role of Senen-Mut, by a curious crossing, gives to this Sage - although he was a man - a feminine aspect in his role as foster-father of the royal maid." [Page 242 'Her-Bak: The Living Face of Ancient Egypt' / Isha Schwaller de Lubicz].

Nephew/Uncle. Niece/Aunt?

A working example: The custom of fosterage was almost universal among the Celts: a child was raised by a noble family and taught household customs and given a general education.....Pendaran Dyfed appears in Triad 'twentysix' as Pwyll's foster-father, and the one to whom Pwyll gave the swine which came from Annwn. Pryderi is said to have tended them during HIS fostering. There is a piece of anachronicity between this branch and Branwen, where Pendaran is described as a young page-boy {Aquarius?}, left with Bran's son to govern Britain in his absence. Yet among those seven who return from Ireland is Pryderi himself!

Piglet movement from one sow to another, known as fostering, is done frequently when the number of piglets a sow gives birth to does not match her rearing ability. Circumstances may also arise where piglet relocation is required such as sow illness or death, or when a piglet fails to thrive on their birth sow.

AND/OR: "I would like to POINT something out. As we come down these very dramatic steps, towards the Tomb of Mary - on my right in an alcove {half way down} is the burial place of a Byzantine Queen called Millicent and {later on?} her daughter. About 800 years ago at the time of the Crusaders. Eventually it was taken away and in its place is an altar to Mary's mother and father all in accord to the commentary of The Gospel of St. James. And on the other side opposite in another niche where there would have been another tomb - is dedicated to the FOSTER father of Jesus, the spouse of Mary to Joseph. Now lets continue down to the tomb which is looked after by the Greek Orthodox and Armenians priests. " [Day Nine: Tomb of Mary/ Jerusalem: Pilgrimage- Lent 2024].

Melissa?

Working example: "Today the fishermen of Huanchaco, still use simple nets, while riding traditional reed boats, a way of fishing inherited from their ancestors. By using the nets bought/exchanged from the people of Caral they were able to catch more fish - and the fish they didn't eat they began to trade with. One of the most important aspects of the origins and beginnings of a civilisation. It tells more about an open community - being able to trade with excess goods. The people at Caral traded nets for fish a thousand years earlier. The first flowering of trade in the America's. When you exchange products from different regions you are actually fostering one of the principle elements of civilisation. That is, on the one hand, social interaction and at the same time you are increasing the economy." ['Blowing Up History: CARAL' / S3 EP2].

Mind set being another?

"Caballitos de totora are reed watercraft used by fishermen in Peru for the past 3000 years, archaeologically evidenced from pottery shards. Named for the way they are ridden, straddled ('little reed horses' in English), fishermen use them to transport their nets and collect fish in their inner cavity. The name is not the original name, as horses were not introduced to South America until after the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire. The ancient Mochica name of the watercraft is tūp. They are made from the same reed, the totora (Schoenoplectus californicus subsp. tatora), used by the Uru people on Lake Titicaca, and considered part of the Peruvian's National Cultural Heritage since 2016.....

The Swamps of Huanchaco are an ecological reserve about 14 kilometres (8.7 mi) northwest of the historic center of Trujillo, Peru. From this ecological reserve, people extracted the raw material for the manufacture of the ancient caballitos de totora used since the time of the Moche culture for fishing. Huanchaco fishermen still use materials from these swamps to make their fishing boats."

Jonah.

 

Practical example: "It may feel like a bit of a cliche but appreciating the progress you're making along the way instead of fixating on the end result can be freeing {'freedom'?}. It's an approach Ford has adapted. 'I now focus on the process much more than the outcome; i take time to celebrate and acknowledge the smaller steps and choose a kinder narrative....I get clear on my motivators and my 'why' and check in with myself as to how I'm feeling along the way, rather than being swept into a narrative of providing something to someone else. I feel much more self aware, and kinder in my self talk....Enjoying the journey can be difficult in a world that has become increasingly outcome-obsessed. But their are many ways we can foster this approach in our lives. The first one requires slowing down a little and realizing that joy comes from the doing, not the completing. So instead of rushing for it to be done, take a moment to enjoy the doing, and remember that lots of things in our lives are never truly done - but constantly evolve just like we do. Another vital step is acknowledging the small wins. Have lots of stepping stones to a big goal to pause on. Celebrate each new stone,  look back and celebrate how far you have come from the first one {Karnak} - and look forward to the many stones in front." [Page 59 'Readers Digest' / April 2022].

Fostering / adopting?

 

“Adopting a new name” refers to the legal act of changing one’s name to a different name ¹. The procedures and ease of a name change vary between jurisdictions. In general, common law jurisdictions have loose procedures for a name change while civil law jurisdictions are more restrictive ¹. The reasons for changing one’s name can be diverse, such as marriage, divorce, immigration, or simply a general dislike of one’s name."

"The intuition alone of divine 'love', with its effect on moral consciousness is - they teach - the sole experience to which one should aspire."

 

Due to a connectedness of something?

Where within a landscape would that {concept?} be represented?

Hence..."The joy of good conscious is the accord between the moral rhythms of the 'lower' and 'higher' self. The beatitude [Matthew v,8] promising those who have a pure heart that they will 'see' god - signifies the accordance of their basic rhythm with the 'divine' rhythm. Joy is therefore the state of harmony of the inner/outer rhythms - of rhythm below with that of above..." [Extract from the book by Tomberg. Emphasis, this readers].

Simply put -positive over negative? IN RELATION TO...’'A symbol is an energy-evoking and direct agent’'. Think about it. In relation to those positives/ negatives within a ‘river’. [ J.Campbell. ’Flight of the Wild Gander’. Chapter five. Part seven]. That link to the word ''archetype.'' Question. Autopilot?

 

Something extra: "....This evening learn the meaning of the word 'wab', PURE. Wab means the widening of an individual nature freed from all....." [Page 203 'Her-Bak' / same book].

And/or: ''Perfection is not a boring, self righteous state in which you criticize everyone about you, but a widening of all your HORIZONS." [ Marian Green book. Page 42].

Astronomy equivalent and or a {work?} in its early {reflective?} phase - {the very first one?}: "Homer draws attention to the physical appearance of the Moon in the guise of Hera when on several occasions he associates it with human feelings and a popular , even child - like, image of its face. When all of Hera's schemes are going well in the closing lines of Book 1 she is said to have a 'smiling face', but then thwarted in Book 8 she shakes with rage. Confronted with Zeus anger in Book 15, she is forced to control her feelings, and signs of both happiness and bad mood are combined. We believe Homer was recording an unusual astronomical phenomenon when he has Zeus sternly remind Hera, 'Do you not remember how once upon a time i had you hanged? I fastened two anvils on to your feet, and bound your hands in a chain of gold which none might break, and you hung in mid air among the clouds'. These lines suggest a lunar phenomenon when four other 'moons' can be seen in the skies. Known as 'parselene' - 'mock moons' or 'moon dogs', these are small diffuse images that can be seen at twentytwo degrees on either side and north and south of the moon. They are caused by the refraction of light by ice crystals in the atmosphere, and, although it is possible to see several moons, it is most common to see only one or two at a time, like the anvils tied to Hera's feet. Hera is also associated with such events as conjunctions..." ['Homer Secret Iliad']. Try ''anvil'' to see something from a different perspective {refraction?}.

Follow the title of the book to 'see' that unknown {quantity OR quality?} become a known one. Throughout ALL cultures. From darkness {'moon/silver'} to light {'sun/gold'}.

Something extra:  "Tree worship is the subject of several Minoan works of Art, and Ariadne, the Cretan goddess, is said to have hanged herself as Attic Erigone did. Artemis, the Hanged one, had a sanctuary in Arcadia, and Helen of the Trees, whose sanctuary at Rhodes....may be variants of the same goddess. That all of these hanged goddesses were worshiped in forest sanctuaries must mean that forest dwelling astrologers first discovered the importance of the Spider. By analysing the legend attached to that constellation, we can discover how it came to be called the Charioteer....and its connection to the Labyrinth. While Theseus was in Crete 'hunting' the Minotaur.... " [Page 57 'Arachne Rising'].

And/or: "Just so did frail Ariadne help outwit the powerful Minotaur and help Theseus escape certain death.....Ariadne's suicide by hanging {when Theseus failed to 'marry' her} is {easily?} explained if she is another aspect of the spider goddess." [Same book].

Question. Why frail?

And/or: "The image of a hanged figure and fertility doesn’t seem to work quite right at first and so we consult Robert Graves who writes that dolls were hung from fruit trees to ensure good crops, a practice recounted in Crete, Mycenae, Rhodes and Arcadia ¹. The sanctuary to Artemis the Hanged One was at Condyleia in Arcadia "

"The astronomical poems and their commentators discuss the various genealogies and changing aspects of Virgo-Astraea. The parentage of the 'Virgin' is obscure {as all things are}; some call her the daughters of Jove and Themis; others the daughter of Astraeus and Aurora; others call her Erigone, a daughter of Icarus, a pious virgin whose 'little' dog led her to her dead fathers body."

Procyon.

Other key words for Astraea: 'Silver Bower' / Month of August / "headless between Leo and Libra" / "her righteous balance hanging bee {be?}." "The lion giving to Astraea the flying year." / Syrian goddess / "Inventress of justice, foundress of the city." [Pages 31-33 'Astraea: Imperial theme in 16th Century' / F. A. Yates].

'Brand' to enlarge.

Side note: ''Auriga, the celestial charioteer, has neither chariot nor horse. Instead, he's drawn as a man holding the reins in his right hand, with a goat on his left shoulder — the star Capella — and two baby goats in his left arm. Look for him cruising high across the southern evening sky in January and February.''

''Auriga is Latin for charioteer of the antique racing car and is a beautiful collection of stars shaped in the pentagon and located north of the celestial equator. The main star of this constellation is named Capella and it is the third brightest star in the North. Auriga is associated with many Greek mythology characters like hero Erichthonius of Athens, who happens to be the son of Hephaestus (was known for being raised by the goddess Athena). Erichthonius invented the quadriga (the four-horse chariot) which he used in the battle that made him king of Athens.
Since Ptolemy’s time, Auriga constellation remained the one that is officially recognized by IAU today...Auriga is the 21st {'twentyone'} biggest constellation in the night sky.''

''The first record of Auriga's stars was in Mesopotamia as a constellation called GAM, Capella is associated with the mythological she-goat Amalthea, who breast-fed the infant Zeus. It forms an asterism with the stars Epsilon Aurigae, Zeta Aurigae, and Eta Aurigae, the latter two of which are known as the Haedi (the Kids).^[18] Though most often associated with Amalthea, Capella has sometimes been associated with Amalthea's owner, a nymph. The myth of the nymph says that the goat's hideous appearance, resembling a Gorgon, was partially responsible for the Titans' defeat, because Zeus skinned the goat and wore it as his aegis.^[12] The asterism containing the goat and kids had been a separate constellation; however, Ptolemy merged the Charioteer and the Goats in the 2nd-century Almagest.^[16] Before that, Capella was sometimes seen as its own constellation—by Pliny the Elder and Manilius—called Capra, Caper, or Hircus, all of which relate to its status as the "goat star".^[19] Zeta Aurigae and Eta Aurigae were first called the "Kids" by Cleostratus, an ancient Greek astronomer.''

'Star of ones being is rising'?

''Auriga is the 21st biggest constellation in the night sky. It is located in the first quadrant of the northern hemisphere and can be seen at latitudes between +90° and -40° - east of Taurus, and bordered by the Giraffe in the north, by Gemini in the south, and by the Lynx in the west. The best time to spot is during evenings winter time.

Auriga belongs to the Perseus family of constellations, together with Andromeda, Cassiopeia, Cepheus, Lacerta, Pegasus, Perseus and Triangulum.''

Continued: Someting closer to the 'mark' could be: ''Many of her songs show that Hydra Lerna has always been able to turn a lyrical phrase inside-out and use some evocative imagery ‘…hold me like a bed of nails… I think I found my holy grail…’ and explanation ‘….it is all in our flawed design…puzzle pieces with jagged lines…’. But the situation described here is sort of equal, with the slightly sinister pay-off ‘…when we’re hanging in the balance….I’ll have the photographs of you…’ It is a lyrically dense and thought-provoking song and the music reflects the ebb and flow of the words; based around two six note keyboard figures there is a deep bass counterpoint and subtle percussion. Hydra Lerna is a talented harp player.'' [Cambridgemusicreviews].

Side note: "The Isis" (/ˈaɪsɪs/) is an alternative name for the River Thames, used from its source in the Cotswolds until it is joined by the Thame at Dorchester in Oxfordshire. It derives from the ancient name for the Thames, Tamesis, which in the Middle Ages was falsely assumed to be a combination of "Thame" and "Isis".^{[note 1][1]} Notably, the Isis flows through the city of OXFORD.'' [Wiki].

Side step: ''Dressing is an individual act but also a deeply social one. Clothing is not merely a demonstration of our relation to one another, it is a crystalization of them. When you watch a spider spin a web, it appears over time to be walking over AIR. How does it get from point to point? How does it travel the distance between two firm holds when there is nothing connecting them? It makes a bridge as it goes with the thread it produces! The thread itself is what provides a safe passage between two impossible points over an untraversable distance. An everyday ordinary miracle.''  { 'Worn: A History of Weaving' by Sofi Thanhauser / Radio 4. 28.1.22}.

The spider is not seen everywhere as a goddess or even as more than human {hint, hint} - In Africa the spider is male, a trickster hero, lovable, frail and human. He seems completely unlike Arachne, except in his habit of defying the gods, as she defied Athena...A Jamaican legend tells how the spider rescues himself and his children from the god of death by climbing nimbly to a roof beam. And when Arachne 'hanged' herself, the gods {'higher' self?} turned her into a spider and the rope into a cobweb, up which Arachne climbed to safety.'' [Page 76 same book].

Question. ''Athena'' born from the head of Zeus {hence 'wisdom'}. Therefore Arachne {female} a different aspect to 'wisdom'? In competition with - therefore shadow aspect? Theseus = anima or animus?

And/or: "Except 'seven' - none returned from Caer Sidi'. We know at least two who did return: Theseus and Daedalus..." [Page 106 'White Goddess' / R. Graves].

''Caer Sidi in the Spoils of Annwm is given a new synonym {new 'name'?}, in each of the seven stanzas. It appears as Caer Rigor {'the royal castle'} with a pun maybe on the Latin rigor mortis; Caer Colur {'the gloomy castle'}; Caer Pedryvan {'four cornered castle'}, four times revolving; Caer Veditvid {'the castle of the perfect ones'}; Caer Ochren {'the castle of the shelving side' - i.e., entered from the side of a slope - i.e., in profile?}; Caer Vandwy {'the castle on high'}. I do not know who the canonical 'seven' were, but among those eligible....." [Page 106 same book].

For this reader the names are unimportant. ''Caer Sidi'' in relation to 'frolic' or 'unrestrained' {by way of ''wontonness'' and ''dalliance'' enlarged elsewhere}. In other words a more solid foundation is required before a forward 'motion'. As a means....

Towards incarnate/reincarnate represented as 'east/west'. Try ''jones'' / ''smith'' to get that ''forward motion'' towards a MINDSET.

What's the difference between castle/palace/temple?

Apply the above to define the following: "There is scarcely a stone of the original basilica which does not play its part in the profound symbolism of the zodiac. As we shall see eventually, this symbolism so unites the interior and exterior of the church that they together participate in three rhythms: first, in the daily apparent movement of the sun; second, in an astonishing annual phenomenon of the sun, when the solar body stands in a particular relationship to Florence, and third in a distinctly powerful configuration of planets which might be regarded as signifying a new age, such as that which was inaugurated in Florence after the building of San Miniato..." ['The Secret Zodiac']. Try ''Saturn''.

Analogy?: "This collection i.e.,The Ramesside Books {dating from the beginning of the New Kingdom in Dyn. 19} is distinct among the funerary literature of the period and of Egyptian history overall. Combining philosophical, 'magical', and deeply religious themes, the works reflect Stella, Solar-Horian, and Lunar-Osirian objectives for the 'deceased', often within the same tomb. The cosmology of the Ramesside books appears to be derived from the Heliopolitan Stella theme...from the Old Kingdom." [Pages 280 and xxii 'The Sacred Tradition in Ancient Egypt'].

Try the title to get a flavour {rhythm?} of the overall composition.

"The 'good life' is a process. The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction, not a destination. The good life constitutes a direction selected by the total organism, when there is psychological freedom to move in ANY direction." [Taken from Part three, 'on matters of existence' from the book, 'Striking Thoughts' { Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living} by J. Little. Try ''line of sight''.

A working example: "There is only one tradition, and that is the evolution into enlightenment which creates people of compassion, maturity, wisdom, and self-transcendence. Every generation must discover the paths that lead to authentic transformation. It isn't about creating new tradition, but about being genuine in one's efforts to reach ones highest potential." ['Wisdom of the 4th Way']. Continued elsewhere - compare it - 'see' it - in relation to all other ''paths''.

Hence the final paragraph of the 'Work' : "The Work is not for the elite {i.e.,the word esoteric means inner not secret}, but for anyone who has a sincere desire to reach a connection with a deeper part of themselves that opens on to encounter with that which is greater than themselves. Emotional healing and purification, self transcendence, conscious effort, awakening from sleep are the birthright of all who ''hunger and thirst'' for Truth and right action in the world." [Same book].

"The 'chaste' mind [objectivity link, i.e.,single mindedness] seeks the truth and not [just] the joy of revelation of the truth, [the author {i.e.,Tomberg} defines that 'negative' as ''intoxication'' represented with the symbol or sign of a 'mirage'] - just as chaste love seeks union with 'the loved one' and not the carnal pleasure of union." [parenthesis, this readers].

"The stream of knowledge," Sir James Jeans writes in the 'Mysteries Universe' ''is heading toward a non-mechanical reality; the universe begins to look more like a great thought than like a great machine." Twentieth century science is thus sounding like a page from the hoary Vedas. From science, then, if it must be so, let man learn the philosophic truth that there is no material universe; its warp and woof is 'maya' illusion. Under analysis all its mirages of reality dissolve." [Extract from the book 'Autobiography of a Yogi' ].

Question. Nothing more than an overplay [ pretensions?] of ''moralistic'' values? Affectation?

"The joy of good conscience is the accord between moral rhythms of the lower self and the higher self. The beatitude {Matthew 5, 8} promising those who have a pure heart that they will ''see god'' signifies the accordance of their basic rhythm with the divine rhythm." [i.e.,the understanding of A-C in relation to 'divine bit' and its relevance and/or use - to each individual, i.e.,what it means to them; what they apply it to, i.e.,as an example - a self interest or shared]. All four quotes [including the one below] taken from within the book by Tomberg]. Recall what ''see'' implies.

''In cookery, bread that does not rise properly is said to be sad.'' ['The Chase'].

Bread and Wine?

Side note: Practical/working example: ''Hello everyone. Hope you are all well. You may be asking yourself while you are watching this: 'Why is Callie so happy and always smiling? How can she be so in the cold freezing Artic. Shouldn't she be cold and miserable? Well i have a secret - its K. G. Sparkle'. I have a  sister who is amazing and hilarious. Those are magic words....whenever she hears them she laughs hysterically for a good twenty minutes. So if i think of K.G. Sparkle i hear her laugh - and that makes me so happy. So if i ever get down i just sprinkle a little K.G. Sparkle on it and it becomes all good." {Callie/'Alone'/2020}.

Continued: That final sentence [if understood correctly] defines the following..."The sources of joy are deeper than those of suffering. They still spring from the river which ''flowed out of Eden to water the garden. 'Joy' is more ancient than 'suffering', and the world of joy preceded the world of suffering." [i.e.,'source' - and therefore what it implies - relative to ''the fall'' - and what it implies]. Top down in relation to bottom up. The beginnings of which is represented within a u-turn. Along the way 'back' - a 'connection' is made. That union of the two - of two opposing 'paths' - but with one eternal aim [''crossover'' point and/or 'dark night of the soul' ]. Which finally becomes [in its physical form?] what is termed as the philosophers stone. Question. Fact or fiction; a possibility or not? At least the understanding of a subject is got.

Understanding the above; defines the following quote within the book by Tomberg..." Consequently the use of the word ''magic'' is quite justified, if at least one understands by magic the power of the invisible and 'spiritual' over the visible and material." i.e., Bottom - up; in relation to top - down. Question. Which is which?

From a diffeent perspective {something extra learned}: "Contrary to what might be considered logical, the mineral kingdom is not situated at the bottom, of the lowest register of the temple walls that explains the phases of becoming. As the first corporeal form, the metallic or mineral kingdom is the closest to the origin, closer to the spirit that animates everything. Because it is created and not procreated. It is located at the uppermost register of the tableaux. The personages at this highest level symbolize non-procreated principles and are depicted without navels. The lowest register portrays Royal Man, symbol of the ultimate aim of creation. Between the two {'void'?} is located the register of pure Number, corresponding to the plant kingdom, and next is the register of combinations or geometry of Numbers, the animal kingdom. The temple is fashioned by man in the image of the heavens, in the image of his world...The incarnation of the universe in man is the fundamental theme of all religions...." [Page 27 'The Egyptian Miracle: An Introduction to the Wisdom of the Temple' / R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz].

Try ''incarnation/reincarnation'' - as a means....?

"Error runs down an inclined plane, while truth has to laboriously climb its way up hill". Benefits of.

"According to the Guinness Book of Records, the steepest street in the world is located on the South Island of New Zealand {Dunedin} and is Baldwin Street, with a slope of nineteen degrees. Can you imagine what it must be like to live at the top?"

A {practical} example: ''The road ahead will be long - the climb steep.'' [Election victory speech/ Barack Obama].

It also defines concave or convex relative to the earth [and/or 'observer' ] - when ALL is taken into account. Try ''polarities''.

"...the opening of the knowledge of the masculine and feminine potencies necessary unto the manifestation of all things." Potency in relation to polarity?

Convex / concave in relation to the causeway between Stonehenge and the river Avon. Many speculate as to why it is in the form of a u-shape rather than as ''straight as the crow fly's''. Concave in relation to the crescent of the moon {i.e.,waxing} and/or ''bottom up''?

From the river Avon convex? From Stonehenge to the river concave? Representational of? i.e.,outer / inner and /or external / internal?

''Avon in Welsh means ''river''....''

Question. Chosen name for the river that those ''blue stones'' were taken to?

Try ''fir'' to enlarge.

"The Agnisuryans respond to the sound. The waters ebb and flow. Let the 'magician' guard himself from drowning, at the point where land and water meet. The midway spot, which is neither dry nor wet, must provide the standing place whereon his feet are set. When water, land and air meet there is the place for 'magic' to be wrought {'fire'?}."

"When i began drawing the mandalas - i saw that everything; all the paths i had been following; all the steps i had taken - were leading back to a single point - namely to the mid-point. It became increasingly plain to me that the mandala is the center. It is the exponent of all paths. It is the path to the center, to individuation...I knew that in finding the mandala as an expression of the self, i had attained what was for me, the ultimate. Perhaps someone else knows more, but not me." [C. G. Jung].

''The ego {personal identity} is at the center of consciousness''.

Refresher: "The word 'conscience' {''con-science''} contains the idea of balance, for it implies "simultaneous knowing," i.e.,knowledge of the facts of the two scales suspended at the extremities of the beam of the balance. Conscience is neither a product nor a function of character. It is above it. And it is here - and only here - that there begins and there is found the domain of freedom." [Letter viii 'Justice' from the book 'Meditations on the Tarot'].

Try ''yoke''.

Analogy?: "The universe and everything within it constitutes 'god'. The universe is a gigantic human organism and man is a tiny image of it, a toy replica of god. Because he is a miniature of the universe, by a process of spiritual expansion a man can mystically extend his own being to cover the entire world and subject it to his will. It is because all things are aspects of the one thing that all things are grist to the magician's mill...He has reached the center, where man becomes god. The achievement of this is the Great Work..." ['The Fourth Dimension'].

Center in relation to that universal framework and 'bit'.

Cleopatra will be found with Mark Anthony, [Pagan equivalent, i.e., indicative of helping someone to understand something]...outside the boundaries of Alexander. Indicative of that return journey to ‘C’. Outside the boundaries of A/B...but within striking distance, [ ’Sting in the tail’ link, i.e.,the tail end of something together with the beginning of something else, i.e., in relation to a 'development' of something. The micro within the macro]. Hence the reason why she will not be found within those boundaries whether sunken or otherwise.

Refresher: "Achilles has a trio of fine horse...Two of the horses, Xanthus and Balius are 'immortal' and mark stars in the Milky Way. Pedasus is 'mortal' and, although said to be every bit as as good as the immortal pair, his star is just outside the Milky Way. The configuration of these makes the familiar triangle of one of Homer's chariots." [Same book].

And/or: "Pollux is orange and red in colour. Castor is bluish {i.e., very hot}. Something of a mystery is connected to these two stars. Castor is a young star, Pollux an old one. Some 2000 years ago some Arabic and Greek astronomers agreed that both stars were of the same brightness but in the present day they are not, so the speculation is that something has changed in the brightness of the Pollux star itself." ['Night Sky in February: 2024' / Mirthy].

"Castor^[a] and Pollux^[b] (or Polydeuces)^[c] are twin half-brothers in Greek and Roman mythology, known together as the Dioscuri or Dioskouroi.^[d]

Their mother was Leda, but they had different fathers; Castor was the mortal son of Tyndareus, the king of Sparta, while Pollux was the divine son of Zeus, who raped Leda in the guise of a swan. The pair are thus an example of heteropaternal superfecundation. Though accounts of their birth are varied, they are sometimes said to have been born from an egg, along with their twin sisters Helen of Troy and Clytemnestra.

In Latin the twins are also known as the Gemini^[e] (literally "twins") or Castores,^[f] as well as the Tyndaridae^[g] or Tyndarids.^[h] Pollux asked Zeus to let him share his own immortality with his twin to keep them together, and they were transformed into the constellation Gemini. The pair were regarded as the patrons of sailors, to whom they appeared as St. Elmo's fire. They were also associated with horsemanship, in keeping with their origin as the Indo-European horse twins."

Genghis Khan. Representative of that subject that some say is the origin of all the mystery clubs. Its most ancient. Shamanism.

That one word that is never used; throughout; in the book 'The Sirius Mystery' but implied [knowingly or otherwise] by the words..."male initiates" in relation to the Dogon tribe, [chapter two]. The star system 'Sirius' being ''The 'source' of all their 'information'', [authors opinion]. Or the quote used by the same tribe 'the shaper of the world' and that link to "shape-shifters" of which 'shamanism' is renowned. That same link to the 'female' equivalent, i.e.,anima,['unknown']...being the Greek 'goddess' Circe, who 'changed' her 'enemies',[negative aspects] into 'animals', i.e.,'lower' from the 'higher' i.e.,another word associated with the same, being the word 'falcon', as discovered in the same book, by the same author, [chapter five].

If the author had included within his 'hypothesis' alternative 'credible information' such as that which would be found within such publications as 'The Aquatic Ape Hypothesis' by E. Morgan and/or 'The Hidden Messages in Water' by Masaru Emoto, then that 'personal' hypothesis may have stood 'the test of time'.

Side note: On his 'return' journey home Odysseus lands on an island {accidently or would that be synchronistically?} inhabited by Circe. The only island named with 'vowels'. Is kept 'prisoner' for a ''year and a day'' - his men turned into pigs {therefore ''lower'' and 'otherworld' link; in the 'unknown' sense of the word, i.e., nothing LEARNED from it. Nothing learned or wisdom gained from his experiences}. Experiences of ''Cauldron'' in relation to ''head and shoulders'' and/or ''silver studded chair'' {Seat of first Occasion?}. ['Gods and Monsters'. BBC4].

Try ''Odysseus'' to unravel ''myth'' in an attempt to define that universal mind set.

Continued: The final link however, as to the most likely possible 'source' of their 'information', when 'weighing' up all the available evidence [circumstantial or otherwise, including the meaning of such obvious, in your face; evidence, such as the meaning of 'Circe']... will be found; at least for this reader; within Mr Naydler's book 'Shamanic Wisdom of the Pyramid Texts'. Or further information on the Dogon tribe in order to evaluate correctly can be found on page twelve onwards within the book 'The Ancient Secret of the Flower of Life', [Vol. one]. Using his understanding of 'fish' symbolism to entice the reader to a deeper understanding...especially that 'inner' [symbolic] meaning of the 'dolphin', of which he constantly uses throughout; in one form or another; in the book. In the same vein as Plato and Gurdjieff, but now in 'story telling' form, i.e.,"because it is one of the best methods i know to give and receive information", [chapter 10, same book, vol 2].

The concepts of 'iron' and 'blacksmiths' very important. As indicated in chapter eight of 'Hamlets mill'. The ‘forging’ of something. The blacksmith being the older brother of the shaman. Think about it in relation to the 'younger'. Ptah / Imhotep being the Egyptian equivalent..."responsible for the final stages of the 'divine' creative outpouring of form into the physical world" {'son of' link?}....."who channelled the spiritual into material embodiment", Hence the link to his ''cap''. Representational of same. Found elsewhere. [chapter seven. 'The future of the Ancient World'/ J. Naydler]. Think about it, in relation to the Hebrew word 'Shekhinah', relative to the Egyptian 'Ka'.

"...Then, in the Memphite myth, when the divine blacksmith Ptah {the Greek Hephaistos} actualized the 'creation' of the world by means of the Desire of his heart and the Word of his speech.'' [Extract from the book by L. Lamy]. Try ''logos''. Egyptian equivalent.

To vulcanize something by ‘fire’.[key. Mentioned elsewhere]. That same ‘substance’ that the trickster character ‘stole’. Think about it...especially in relation to one of its other 'forms'...the Hare and/or fox, i.e., in relation to the many different ways,[forms] of understanding something...in getting an understanding across....in an attempt to define something, for an understanding to take place, i.e., 'to be' made aware.

"Serious mysteries may be describable only in terms of paradox, or in what passes for jest."

"If god ever calls me to a holy war - i want Joe Frazier beside me." Muhammad Ali.

A {working?} example: "Gurdjieff's silence regarding his sources gives birth to a suspicion that he is silent for a reason, because he follows a purely personal goal. This is the very opposite to the accomplishment of a mission. Why would one who fulfils a mission hide his sources? It is perhaps here that is found the meaning of the phrase ''Maybe i stole it...". It could be interpreted as the admission that he was not asked to diffuse this teaching, neither in the East nor in the West. It was a personal initiative on his part, to satisfy a personal interest." ['Wisdom of the 4th Way']. Continued elsewhere. Try ''method'' to see 'it' from different perspectives.

'Mans Search for Meaning' / Viktor Frankl.

''Trickster'' character?

Refresher {Part 2}: "The fourth way is sometimes is called the 'way of the sly man'. The 'sly man' knows some secret which the fakir, monk and yogi do not know. How the 'sly man' learned this secret is not known. Maybe he found it in some old books, perhaps he inherited it, perhaps he bought it, or stole it from someone. It makes no difference. The 'sly man' knows the secret and with its help outstrips the fakir, the monk and yogi." ['In Search of the Miraculous'].

The Dogon tribe do the same in relation to their own stories that contain that very same framework...by way of the 'Pale Fox', i.e.,"The fourth Nommo [Nommo being the "collective name for the 'great culture hero' and founder of civilisation". Chapter two, i.e.,trickster character. See P. Radin book for verification]... is the 'naughty' disrupter named Ogo or Nommo Anagonno. As he was about to be finished [being created] he rebelled against his creator and introduced disorder into the universe. Eventually he will become the 'Pale fox'. Which is the image of his fall". [Chapter nine].

The 'leaping' fox as seen on the pillar{s?} at Gobekli-tepe? [Chapter two 'Gobekli Tepe' by A. Collins].

Something extra:{and/or refresher}: "What is remarkable about all this is the way that the 'mill' {which continues to serve as an allegory for cosmic processes} stubbornly keeps on resurfacing, all over the world, even where the context has been jumbled or lost....Among the Cherokees, whose name for the Milky Way {our own galaxy} is 'Where the Dog Ran'. In ancient times, according to Cherokee tradition, 'the people in the South had a corn mill', from which meal was stolen {trickster type?} again and again. In due course the owners discovered the thief, a dog, who 'ran off howling to his home in the North' with the meal dropping from his mouth as he ran, and leaving behind a white trail where now we see the Milky Way, which the Cherokee call to this day - ''Where the Dog Ran''....In Central America, one of the many myths concerning Quetzalcoatl depicts him playing a key role in the regeneration of mankind after the all destroying flood that ended the Fourth Sun. Together with his dog headed companion Xolotl, he descends into the underworld to retrieve the skeletons of those 'killed' ….the bones are brought back....There like corn, they are milled into a fine meal on a grindstone....blood is added by the gods thus creating the flesh of the current age of man.....Dogs are numerous throughout {Odysseus is recognised by his 'faithful' dog on his return to Ithaca} - as are foxes which are members of the dog family i.e.,Samson and 300 foxes.....Santilla and von Dechend are confident that all this 'doggishness' is deliberate: another piece of the ancient code, as yet unbroken, tapping out its message from place to place...." [Page 253/4 'Fingerprints of the Gods' / G. Hancock].

Think about it, in relation to the primary aim/purpose of the 'trickster character'. Any trickster character, of which Hermes and Thoth and therefore by the same implication 'Solomon' are identified with. The result of which, becoming those inspirations/aspirations that could lead to a possible understanding...from a 'fallen' state, [benefit of].

'Hermes The Thief' {the evolution of a myth} by Norman Oliver Brown'.

"Consciousness is that which one carries within oneself, which rules from within to without until it has totally enlightened us, and it never leaves us stranded, regardless of the neglect into which one might have allowed it to fall." ['Journey into the Light'].

Example of same, as shown throughout by Mr R.Temple of the 'Sirius Mystery' fame. Using his knowledge of the Dogon story, to entice the reader to understand that deeper/inner meaning, within the overall subject. This one. His main interest being the geodetic aspect. Latitude and longitude within all landscapes. Showing all those connections between north and south. East and West. In the same 'vein', and with the same intent as Gurdjieff and Plato do... With the reader in mind. Even though he is off the mark; if only for this reader; with his final 'hypothesis'. [Also verified by the author of the 'Cygnus Mystery', page 284].

Latitude/longitude = 'lozenge' ?

''A lozenge (/ˈlɒzɪndʒ/^[1] LOZ-inj; symbol: ◊), often referred to as a diamond, is a form of rhombus. The definition of lozenge is not strictly fixed, and the word is sometimes used simply as a synonym (from Old French losenge) for rhombus. Most often, though, lozenge refers to a thin rhombus—a rhombus with two acute and two obtuse angles, especially one with acute angles of 45°.^[2] The lozenge shape is often used in parquetry (with acute angles that are 360°/n with n being an integer higher than 4, because they can be used to form a set of tiles of the same shape and size, reusable to cover the plane in various geometric patterns as the result of a tiling process called tessellation in mathematics) and as decoration on ceramics, silverware and textiles. It also features in heraldry and playing cards.''

The lozenge motif dates from the Neolithic and Paleolithic period in Eastern Europe and represents a sown field and female fertility.^[3] The ancient lozenge pattern often shows up in Diamond vault architecture, in traditional dress patterns of Slavic peoples, and in traditional Ukrainian embroidery. The lozenge pattern also appears extensively in Celtic art, art from the Ottoman Empire, and ancient Phrygian art.

''Running the Fields''?

A baseball field, also called a ball field or baseball diamond, is the field upon which the game of baseball is played. The term can also be used as a metonym for a baseball park. The term sandlot is sometimes used, although this usually refers to less organized venues for activities like sandlot ball.

Side note: In 1983 UNESCO declared a unique jewel in the history of the West to be a "World Heritage monument": the Templar Castle and Convent of the Knights of Christ of Tomar. Built upon a site of Roman cult, this vast monumental complex is the testimony of seven centuries of the History of Portugal and of great moments in the History of the Western civilisation.

Afonso Henriques, the first king of Portugal, donated a vast region between the Mondego and Tejo rivers to the Knights of the Temple of Jerusalem. Legend has it that in 1160, the knights who arrived in the region chose a hill to build a castle and gave it the name Tomar....

The Church of Santa Maria do Olival (English: Saint Mary of the Olive Grove) is a Roman Catholic church in the city of Tomar, in Portugal. The Church has been characterized as National Monument since 1910.^[1]

The church was built in the second half of the 12th century by the provincial master of the Order of the Knights Templar in Portugal, Gualdim Pais. It was used as a burial place for the Knights Templar of Tomar and, later, by the Knights of the Order of Christ, which succeeded the Templars in the 14th century. Gualdim Pais is buried in the church, and his original tomb slab, dated from 1195 and bearing a gothic inscription, is still preserved inside.

It’s not often to get to say your city was founded by the Knights Templar in 1118, but Tomar is that exception. A beautiful town with a rich and mysterious history makes it one of my favorite places in Portugal. The Convent of Christ in Tomar is a combination of a castle and a convent. It’s a Unesco World Heritage site and one of the most important medieval sites in Europe. With its fascinating atmosphere and odd architecture, you feel like you’re traveling back in time.

From Unesco: “Originally designed as a monument symbolizing the Reconquest, the Convent of the Knights Templar of Tomar (transferred in 1344 to the Knights of the Order of Christ) came to symbolize just the opposite during the Manueline period – the opening up of Portugal to other civilizations” [click here to read more]....

The Praça da República is the main square in Tomar. The Church of St. John Baptist is in the main square of the town. It was built between the 15th and 16th centuries and has many interesting artistic details, like the flamboyant Gothic doorway. The Manueline style clock tower is from the 16th-century.  There are also several panels painted by Portugal’s best Renaissance artists, Gregório Lopes in the 1530s. Both the church and the clock tower were given to Tomar by Manuel I of Portugal, who was also a Grand Master of the Order of Christ.

The Church of Saint John the Baptist (São João Baptista) is in the main square of the town, in front of the Municipality (17th century) and a modern statue of Gualdim Pais. The church was built between the 15th and 16th centuries.” [click to read more].

Continued: The lozenge symbolism is one of the main symbols for women in Berber carpets.^[5] Common Berber jewelry from the Aurès Mountains or Kabylie in Algeria also uses this pattern as a female fertility sign.

In 1658, the English philosopher Sir Thomas Browne published The Garden of Cyrus, subtitled The Quincunciall Lozenge, or Network Plantations of the Ancients, in which he outlined the mystical interconnection of art, nature and the universe via the quincunx pattern. He also suggested therein that ancient plantations were laid out in a lozenge pattern.^[6]

Lozenges appear as symbols in ancient classic element systems, in amulets, and in religious symbolism. In playing cards, the symbol for the suit of diamonds is a lozenge.

As seen from a different perspective: "There was also Tros, the son of Alastor - he came up to Achilles and 'clasped his knees' in the hope that he would spare him and not 'kill' him but let him 'go', because they were 'both' of the same 'age'. The implication behind this last remark is that the personal star of Tros {Cetii} is close to the same altitude in the sky as Sirius, and would have appeared on the horizon visible from Greece at about the time Sirius appeared in the sky." ['Homer's Secret Iliad'].

Therefore a link in some form {to a representation of something} - by way of - an heliacal rising?

Side note: ''To engage with Nature without losing our unique sense of being human is to stand {'upright'?} in the middle of a Medicine Wheel. Plato talked of the eight spheres of 'heaven', that are attached to a spindle that ''turns on the knees of necessity''. This spindle is the world tree, and our own axis. From this perspective we view the eight major directions about us that join in a circle to form the perimeter of our world view.'' [ Page 215 'Fruits of the Moon Tree'].

Question. What do 'shoulders' and 'knees' represent?

Middle ground = ''navel''?

A working example: ''In the sandstone relief at Abydos of the Temple of Ramses II - the Nile god Hapi appears as a long haired hermaphrodite...bent down on one knee, holding in his hands  the flowering lotus and papyrus...Who floods the fields to nourish all those who thirst....They seem to say that when the waters of the unconscious rise toward the realm of consciousness {wet/dry'?}, then we have come to our time of renewal...Dawn always begins in the BONES.....The search for higher ground may be metaphoric for the search of a higher spirituality.'' [Pages 124-130 'Dreams of Isis' / N. Ellis].

'Mountains low. Valleys high'?

Karnac to Gebel el Silsila?

Libyan White Desert.

Khnum to enlarge.

Side note: ''The sea hare, a marine gastropod of the family Aplysiidae (subclass Opisthobranchia, phylum Mollusca) that is characterized by a shell reduced to a flat plate, prominent tentacles (resembling rabbit ears), and a smooth or warty body. Sea hares eat large seaweeds, and all are simultaneous hermaphrodites.'' [Wiki].

Continued: From a different perspective: ''Shortly AFTER THE MONSOONS arrive on the Colorado Plateau and the Katsinam depart for their home on the San Francisco Peaks.....Orion rises due East to repose for a few moments on the horizon....the belt hovers vertically above the dark silhouette of the sleeping land {i.e., an hour before the sun in early July and three hours before by late July}.'' [Page 44 'The Orion Zone'].

A work in progress: ''As i stood peering into the deep well of Kom Ombo, i felt i was peering not only into my past, but into the antiquity of Egypt, my little self {'ishon'?} caught between two eternal realms....In my minds eye, i watched an imaginal shape of myself descending those circular {'spiral'?} stairs which led down into the abyss that once held the sacred crocodile. I saw how the dark waters of the well reflected the blue sky. In a moment the image seemed to flip. Those same stairs that a moment ago were descending into the abyss, now were leading me out of the abyss towards the light. In truth, the ancient steps of the Nilometer were used in antiquity to determine the height of the 'flood' and the breadth of the inundation, but that day at Kom Ombo, they seemed also to say that when the waters of the unconscious rise toward the realm of consciousness - then we have come to our time of renewal.'' [Page 124 'Dreams of Isis: A Womans Spiritual Sojourn' / N. Ellis].

Understanding the above defines the purpose - in the spiritual SENSE of the word - to the longest 'tunnel' in the Valley of the Kings.

Seti 1st to enlarge.

Side step: "The design of the artifact known as the Bush Barrow Lozenge, and the smaller lozenge , has been shown to be based on a hexagon construction. Both the shape and the decorative panels appear to have been created by repeating hexagons within a series of three concentric circles." [Wiki / 'Bush Barrow']. Try among others ''hexagon'' and ''three''.

A working example in fable/story form: ''At the moment of my appearance on gods earth, at which moment - through a hole in the window pane made by our crazy lame goat - there poured vibrations of sound from an Edison phonograph in the neighbours house, where the midwife who delivered me had in her mouth a lozenge saturated with 'cocaine' of German make....which she was sucking to the sound of the music without the proper enjoyment.'' [Page 8 'Beelzebub's Tale to His Grandson' / Gurdjieff].

Death/rebirth? Of Spirit or soul?

Balance of the two?

''Three types of penny have been found which were issued in Ceolwulf's name. The bulk of them were minted at London and of the type designated as Cross-and-Lozenge, which was also in use by King Alfred of Wessex.^[14] Ceolwulf's coinage appears to be closely related to that of Alfred of Wessex, and it has been suggested on this basis that the two kings co-operated against the Vikings.^[15]

A united England?

''The Royal Mint was at Tower Hill.'' ['The Chase'].

Side note: Llantrisant (Welsh pronunciation; "Parish of the Three Saints") is a town in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, within the historic county boundaries of Glamorgan, Wales, lying on the River Ely and the Afon Clun. The three saints of the town's name are SS. Illtyd, Gwynno, and Dyfodwg. Llantrisant is a hilltop settlement, at an altitude of 174 m (565 ft) above sea level. The town is home to the Royal Mint.....An ancient tradition called the Beating the Bounds, where local children are bounced by elders on to the boundary stones of the old borough, still occurs every seven years and has its roots set as far back as the 14th century. The rite was intended as a reminder to each generation of the importance of the borough boundaries. The children in question are held under the arms and the legs, and their backside is bounced on each of the stones of the old borough. It is believed that the Beating of the Bounds started in 1346, when Llantrisant was awarded its Royal Charter....The focal point of the town is the Bull Ring, a commercial square in the centre of the town that was used for bull-baiting, until it was disallowed in 1827 due to unruly crowds.^[11] The square contains a statue of Dr William Price a pioneer of cremation.''

Continued: ''Simon Keynes and the numismatist Mark Blackburn initially suggested that in about 875, Alfred was the sole recognised ruler in London, while Ceolwulf's involvement would have come about only towards the end of his reign, 879.^[16] However, in 1998, the same year that their discussion was published, another Cross-and-Lozenge penny struck in Ceolwulf's name came to light, which appears to be contemporary with Alfred's earliest coinage.^[17]

In October 2015, the Watlington Hoard of coins, jewellery and silver ingots was found near Watlington, Oxfordshire. The find, dating back to the 870s, included coins carrying the image of two Roman emperors accompanied by the name of either Alfred or Ceolwulf.'' [Wiki].

And/or: "We knew that the lozenge itself was an arcane symbol. The four bounding lines were symbolic of the four elements which according to arcane knowledge, frame the outer structure of the phenomenal world. The space they bound is the Etheric, or life force {'quintessence'}, hidden behind the elemental four. It is a 'space' invisible to ordinary vision...The lozenge is one of the basic symbols of esoteric lore, representing as it does as a sort of doorway into the etheric spiritual world...This symbol of the etheric plane is nowhere no more openly announced than in Notra-Dame, France...A figure is displayed within a huge lozenge, the bounds of which are decorated with small lozenges. Altogether there are 41 lozenges in this single architectural detail..." ['The Zelator'].

"The lozenge in heraldry is a diamond-shaped rhombus charge (an object that can be placed on the field of the shield)...The blason Lozengy is a form of variation of the field or of another charge (for example a chevron lozengy) which consists of lozenges semée, or sown like seeds (Latin: semen, a seed), or strewn across the field, but in an organised contiguous pattern. The arms granted to the Canadian John Francis Cappucci bring an example of lozengy voided, the same as "lozengy" but with a smaller lozenge-shaped hole cut out of each segment."

 

Someone closer to the mark; for this reader; using the same knowledge of latitude and longitude within this subjects symbolism will be found with the author Stecchini, as explained within the book 'Secrets of the Great Pyramid' by P. Tompkins.

Analogy? "In practical terms, any journey must take place through some kind of landscape. So the next stage of our practical work with 'magical' images is to use them in a linear way that will take us through an initiatory journey or story. Such journeys are common in all myth and legend..." ['Magical Images and the Magical Imagination' / G. Knight].

A working example: "A Latin inscription covering the entire width of the 'fireplace' can be read above the symbolic panels which were up to now the subject of our study. It is composed of 'three' words separated one from the other by two pyrogenic vases forming the following epigraph: Nascendo quotidie morimur { In being born, we die every day}….the unfortunate fate that life has in store for us....the walk to the sepulchre as the essential condition of the earthly sojourn, the coffin as the raison d'etre for the crib?....It is the only written word written in the Mutus Liber....A simple examination of the inscription shows that of the three terms which contribute to form it, two are preceded by a special sign, the words quotidie and morimur. This sign, a little lozenge, was called by the Greeks Rombos {to be mistaken or go astray - to turn around}....Nascendo gives the idea of generation or production i.e., in order to generate.....The parents of the Hermetic child speak....The stone of the philosophers is born from the 'destruction' of the two bodies - the philosophers stone - or our 'mercury', its next matter - is also born from the fight....the essential operations of the art always has two principles producing a 'third' one {Son of?}, and that generation depends upon a preliminary decomposition of its agents. Further more philosophical 'mercury' itself, sole substance of the art can never yield anything unless it dies, ferments, and putrefies at the end of the first stage of the Work." [Pages 239/40 'The Dwellings of the Philosophers' / Fulcunelli].

Side note: Mercury = moon/female/wet. Sulphur = sun/male/dry. All as a means....?

The word / name ‘Fulcunelli’ ['ten' letters ], some say is a play on the words Vulcan / Falcon, together with ‘elli’. A beginning / end. All symbolic of a ‘beginners’ journey {linear?}. All within one word. Like the words...Blacksmith / Hammer and Anvil. All symbolic within the blacksmiths ‘Apron’. [use the 'find' indicator]. The author of the Zelator suggests something different,

Side note: ''Apron'' in the guise of something else? Try ''veil''.

A working example: "...Yet no one prior to Schwaller de Lubicz seems to have asked if the apron had special significance. He carefully measured 72 {'seventytwo'} of these 'aprons' - almost all of them within the covered Temple of Luxor....found to be precise mathematical considerations. ['Serpent in the Sky'].

Define those keys to define something beyond ''mathematical considerations''.

Egyptian equivalent... short 'kilt' worn in the 'sed jubilee' as indicated in 'Shamanic Wisdom in the Pyramid Texts. Mentioned elsewhere. More often than not, made of 'leopard' skin. Use the 'find' tool , to understand why, before asking that bigger question, i.e.,why, why go to all this effort. Ritual? Nothing more?

Vulcan: the patron saint of alchemy, who introduced the same to mankind. Falcon: ''The Lord of the skys.'' Eli: meaning ''Ascent'' or ''Yahweh is the most high god." The author of the Zelator offers a different interpretation by way of the Hebrew word ''Ishon'' and this subjects main representation of the symbolic intent of the ''apple.'' The end result, however, regardless of which interpretation one agrees with; is the same. An understanding of something. That inner one. The micro within the macro.

"The Hebrew 'Ishon' means 'dwarf', but in the authorized version of the bible it is translated as 'apple of the eye'. The association is almost certainly linked with the hermetic 'kore' [see part one]. In The Lamentations of Jeremiah [ii, 18], the translation offered is 'let not the apple of thine eye cease', suggesting that the apple of the eye is weeping. However, it could, with a much deeper meaning, be translated, ''let not the small man within cease.'' [Bibliographic notes to the final chapter].

Try 3:8 to enlarge.

Analogy of same. Kore = "The virgin of the eye is a reference to the Greek Kore, which besides meaning the 'pupil of the eye' also means 'maiden' or 'virgin'. Just so, the English 'pupil' can also mean 'someone who is learning'.

The beginning {''virgin''} of something?

Side note: "The hebdomad is the only number within the decad {apart from the monad} which neither generates nor is generated by another number within the decad; hence it is called by Pythagoreans ''virgin, not born of mother''.....Moreover, the hebdomad consisting of the dimensions and the four limits makes manifest corporeality and organic life. The limits are point, line, plane, solid; the dimensions are length, breadth, depth." [Page 186 'Alexandria' Vol 3. / D. Fideler].

'The Eye of Heart' by Frithjof Schuon.

"But again, the movement runs both ways - for what one surrenders is, mystery, the same as what one gains. The eye which Odin offered to Mimir was a pledge given in exchange for water from the well; but the well itself is also called ''the pledge of Odin.'' Similarly, the Celtic languages can use the same word to mean ''spring'' or ''pool'' and ''eye.'' Thus the famous hot springs at Bath [Aquae Sulis] in Somerset were in Roman times named ''the waters of the eye'': like the Boyne they were sacred to a Goddess, in this case one identified with the Roman Goddess of wisdom, Minerva."[Taken from the chapter, 'The Waters of Vision and the Gods of Skill.' Mentioned elsewhere]. Put ''Minerva'' in the box. Then try ''Boyne.''

'Sulis' a link to the Irish suil, meaning ''eye.''

'The Waters of the Gap: The Mythology of Aquae Sulis' by R. Stewart.

A working example: ''He sacrificed his eye in Mimir's well and he threw himself on his spear Gungnir in a kind of symbolic, ritual suicide. He then hanged himself - upside down - on Yggdrasil, the tree of life, for nine days and nine nights {3x3?} in order to gain knowledge of other worlds and be able to understand the runes.''

And/or: ''The 'soul' is suspended between heaven and earth; it experiences complete solitude. For here it is not a matter of ordinary solitude where one is alone in the world, but rather of complete solitude where one is alone because one is outside of the world - the celestial as well as the terrestrial...'Like a lonely bird on the house top' {St. Teresa}...This is the zero point {'void' and/eclipse i.e., solar one?}, between the fields of terrestrial and celestial gravitation. It is from here that the soul is either elevated in contemplation of 'divine' and celestial things {archetypes?}, or descends to act in the human and earthly domain {wet/dry?} - but this zero point is certainly the place of its permanent sojourn. After elevation or after the accomplishment of an act, it returns there. The solitude of the desert between the two worlds is its abode. The other characteristic trait of the spiritual man is that he is upside down. This means to say, firstly, that the 'solid ground' under his feet is found ABOVE, whilst the ground below is only the concern and perception of the head...His will is connected to heaven...in such a way {so to speak} that his WILL 'knows' things that his head {his thinking} - still does not know.'' [Page 316 'letter xii: The Hanged Man' from the book 'Meditations on the Tarot'].

Side step: "Dion Fortune's concerns with the Arthurian legend begins and ends at Glastonbury. Here she settled in 1922 at the foot of the Tor, at Chalice Orchard. She celebrated her love of Glastonbury and its legends, in a book called 'Avalon of the Heart,' which she first wrote about in her 'Inner Light' magazine......"

Any ''birds'' within it?

'Berber' to enlarge.

Egyptian equivalent: 'Intelligence of the heart'? Enlarged elsewhere.

Side note: {A work in progress}: ''The Jewish Talmud, a 4th century AD source, referred to Magdala as Migdal-Nunya, meaning ''tower of fish''....This is one explanation for the origin of the town's name, Migdal, meaning tower.....'The lake supplies fish for pickling, and on its banks grow fruit bearing trees resembling apple trees' {Strabo}.... The harbor, most likely in use up until 67AD....Archaeologists believe that shortly after the conquest, flooding covered the northern side of Magdala, burying thus preserving it for 2000 years.'' [Pages 16/25/30 'Mary Magdalene: Insights From Ancient Magdala' / J. Ristine].

Question. What does the ''flood'' represent within that universal mindset?

Continued: "There are many different 'roads' leading to our English Jerusalem, ''the holyest erthe in England.'' We can approach it by the high road of history, which leads through a rich country......Its influence twines like a golden thread through the story of our Islands. OR we can come to Glastonbury by the upland path of legend. In and out twine the ancient folk stories, full of deep spiritual significance to those whose hearts are turned to their key. AND there is a third way to 'Glastonbury,' one of the secret Green roads of the soul [ or Green Language] - the 'mystic' way that leads through the hidden door [or 'chambers'] into the land known only to the 'eye of vision.' This is 'Avalon of the heart......' [Introduction to the book 'The Arthurian Formula' by D. Fortune and others]. Can you by now see why [as in this example] the author uses such phrases as 'Chalice Orchard' or 'Avalon of the heart.' Can you 'see' that inner meaning?

"Analogy of same; but more KEYS to {contemplate?}..."I saw a building jutting out like a great white ocean liner toward the blue brine, {'horizon/peninsula' link?}. First, speechlessly, then with ''Oh's!'' and ''Ah's!", finally with man's insufficient vocabulary {'gnosis' link, i.e., what it implies} of joy and gratitude, i examined the Ashram: sixteen unusually large rooms, each one charmingly appointed. The stately central hall, with high ceiling windows, looks out on an altar of grass, ocean and sky: a symphony in emerald, opal and sapphire. A mantel over the huge fire-place of the hall holds pictures of Christ, Babaji, Lahiri Mahasaya and Sri Yukteswar; bestowing, i feel, their blessing on this tranquil Western ashram. Directly below the hall, built into the very bluff, two meditation caves confront the infinities of sky and sea. On the grounds are sunbathing nooks, flagstone paths leading to quiet harbours, rose gardens, a eucalyptus grove, and a fruit orchard..." [Extract from the book 'Autobiography of a Yogi'. All emphasis - this readers].

West in relation to 'altar'. Grass in relation to emerald and/or Ocean/opal - Sky/sapphire - All of which i.e.,represented within 'gardens and groves' = the ''fruit of ones labours.'' Look up ''16.'' to understand ''its'' implication.

Joyous Garde?

A working example: ''The idea, too, that i am living in all likelihood in an alchemist's house makes me look at the place with new eyes. It doesn't seem quite real. Why did he hide the manuscript in the well? Was someone supposed to find it or not? Basically, i'm thrilled.'' [Page 98 'Mercurius' i.e., 'Eileen in relation to ''Solution'' }.

''The great task is to become aware of our UNconscious projections - to make them conscious. This enables them to be withdrawn into the subjective realm where there belong. The more the unconscious projections are made conscious, the less power they have over us. Consciousness is enlarged and, simultaneously, we begin to percieve the world more as it is and less as we have been colouring it. In other words, the withdrawal of projections promotes both self knowledge and a knowledge or reality.'' [Page 96 , same book].

"...but if you are armed with the 'wand' of intuition, the 'cup' of sympathy, the 'sword' of reason and the 'pentacle' of valor, you will find there {the legends say} the Medicine of Metals, the Elixir of Life, the Philosophers Stone, True Wisdom and perfect happiness." [Extract from the book 'The Cosmic Trigger' by R. Wilson. Emphasis, this readers].

''Medicine of Metals'' = 'Metal of the mind'? If so, what represents it And why?

The real questions however remain the same. WHY GO TO ALL THIS EFFORT?

'The Apples of the Hesperides'. This penultimate labour takes Heracles so close to the center of things that it is sometimes cited as the last labour. However, this is esoterically incorrect, for the final labour must be the harrowing of hell and the overcoming of the powers of Death. To approach the garden in the far West where the Tree of Life grows in the form of an apple tree bearing golden fruit is, however, a similar feat of overcoming natural inner boundaries, the one symbolized in the Old Testament by the angel who prevents mankind returning to the Garden of Eden, the earthly paradise." [Extract from the book 'The Rose Cross and the Goddess: The Quest for the Feminine Eternal Principle' from the chapter entitled 'The Heroic Quest for the Hesperides' by G. Knight].

'The apple of the eye'.

REFRESHER...'Sulis' a link to the Irish suil, meaning ''eye.''

Medway Gap?

And/or: "Here then, is the first twist in the Pilgrim's Way story, because at Farnham, Belloc's prehistoric travellers did not forsake the chalk for the valleys of the River Wey and the Itchen and make for the area around Winchester. Instead, Belloc argues that they kept to the chalk on the higher ground and from Farnham took an ancient trackway that has become known as the Harroway or Hoar Way. The derivation of the name varies greatly depending upon who you refer to. Timperley and Brill suggest it is one of the oldest roads in Britain and refer to it as the Harrow or 'Hard Way'. Jacetta Hawkes believed it to be one of the main east-west thoroughfares used by prehistoric man....It is the Harroway that took Belloc's prehistoric travellers westwards towards Salisbury Plain and Stonehenge. For Salisbury Plain is where all the great chalk ridges of southern England converge....The Harroway served as a key east-west trackway that extended across southern England." [Page 30 'The Pilgrims Way' / Derek Bright].

Question. What would represent south-north or would that be north-south?

Question 2. Recall the substance of 'chalk' I.e., seashells and flint. Something below a 'salty' waterline but NOW above it {'Island'?}. Wet/dry?

'Flint' = the spark of something? With what direction in mind? 'Horizontal or vertical'?

Question 3. Is that {Island} 'floating' or 'fixed'? All as a means to determine a MINDSET?