Back-to-back "parad" posts

These two links appeared one after the other on Synlogos -- meaning that the two posts were published very close together in time, probably separated by minutes rather than hours. (Both are dated February 12, with no more specific timestamp.)

I read "The Epstein Inquisition" first. If the web address is any indication, the original title of this post was "It's not psychopathy"; Vox has coined a rather opaque new term for what a more adventurous wordsmith once dubbed the Hangman Rope Sneak Deadly Parroting Puppet Gangster Playboy Scum On Top:

They’re not psychopaths. They don’t have a disease of the soul. They are, rather, paradopaths, or individuals who have surrendered their spirits to forces of greater evil. At the lower levels, they seek wealth, women, power, and fame. At the higher levels, they seek to transform themselves into what the Bible describes as “unclean spirits”.

I wasted an unreasonable amount of time trying to figure out the etymo-logic behind this coinage. If the point is that they don't have a disease, why does he keep the -path ending that implies that they do? And what is parad- supposed to mean? Is it meant to be a modification of parodos or parody? A clipping of paradosis or paradise or paradox or paradigm or parade? None of those possibilities bears any clear relation to the meaning assigned. Is it just the prefix para-, with a random do- interposed for no particular reason? In the end, I conceded defeat, but not before racking my brain for every possible meaning for this mysterious parad- morpheme.

I read the paradopath post shortly after it was published. I didn't read "Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided" until just now. It includes this paragraph:

One interpretation is that this division is merely political, but that doesn’t hold up to scrutiny. Genesis already describes ethnic and territorial separations using the verb parad (Gen 10:5). In Gen 10:25, however, the verb palag is used, a term associated with splitting or cleaving. The lexical shift suggests that something more structural than ordinary dispersion is in view.

I don't think this parad can be what Vox had in mind, either, but it's quite a coincidence.

Not in the well

In "Update: Some additional pebbles have been seen," the name Lassie came up as being symbolically related to Colleen, as both names originated as common nouns meaning "girl" used in Celtic countries. In a comment, WanderingGondola noted the further connection that the most famous Lassie is a collie, which is quite phonetically similar to Colleen.

In "A Lassie-like library lion, and a ceiling fan on Mars," I wrote:

The one thing everyone knows about Lassie -- even if, like me, they've never read the book or watched the TV series -- is that when little Timmy falls down the well, he sends Lassie to get help, which she does by barking until someone follows her to the well and saves Timmy. That's who Lassie is: the dog who ran to get help for someone who had fallen.

 

I was trying to find a suitable picture of Timmy telling Lassie to go get help, but all I could find were various parodies. Eventually, I found this YouTube video claiming that this iconic episode never actually happened. Apparently it's some sort of Mandela Effect.

The YouTube channel I found thus was Ceiling Fan Man. I would go on to discover that Ceiling Fan Man joined YouTube on August 6, 2019 -- the very day (accounting for the time-zone difference) that my own ceiling fan was destroyed by a poltergeist. As related in "The spider, the rat, and the poltergeist," this geist claimed to be the devil, said its purpose was death, and manifested visually to my wife as an enormous spider. The symbolic (and perhaps more than just symbolic) connection to Ungoliant, the being Bill Wright has identified with Colleen, is obvious.

I was thinking about all that early this morning, and I reread the post about how I discovered Ceiling Fan Man while looking for the apparently nonexistent Timmy-in-the-well episode of Lassie. I had been looking for something like this:

Less than an hour later, I was asked to read a story to the preschoolers: Wake Up, Sun! by David L. Harrison (on YouTube here). A dog and a pig (see "The horrible hairy homeward-hurrying hogs of Hieronymus" for the Lassie-pig connection), having woken up in the middle of the night, think that it is morning but that the Sun has gone missing. Perhaps it has fallen down the well.

But of course the Sun has not in fact fallen down the well, just as Timmy in fact never did so.

The idea of the Sun being at the bottom of a well is symbolically interesting, though. It suggests the Heart of Gold deep underground, and also Zenos's prophecy that the Sun would be shut up in a sepulchre, causing three days of darkness. (See "Zenos was quoted by Joel, Nephi, Alma, Malachi, and Paul.")

Update: Some additional pebbles have been seen

First, some comments by others on "All the pebbles I have seen," pasted here for searchability and ease of reference.

William Wright (WW) said...

When I read the line about "precious stones for Colleen", the image that actually came to my mind was Ungoliant. Specifically, the scene in which, after she and Melkor kill the Two Trees, Melkor is forced to give Ungoliant all of the Elvish gems and precious stones he stole from Formenos. It was based on an agreement Melkor was forced to make in order to recruit Ungoliant's help. She made him give her all of his stones, except the Silmarils, which he refused and almost was destroyed by her over it.

Anyway, so I associated this Colleen with Ungoliant, and I then tried to see if there was a name connection that could help explain the instant association. Colleen simply means "woman, young girl", so not super specific or helpful. However, I then remembered a word game I had done with Ungoliant some time ago, and it seemed to make sense.

As you know, both roots of Ungoliant's name - Ungol and Liante means "Spider", which seems strange to have Spider-Spider as the name. Ungol, however, can refer to something else. I actually tied it to Uncle Jay (my Ungol - Unkle game), and thus also Ahab at the time (which means Uncle).

Ungol, in one Elvish language, can mean "Darkness", primarily from Ung- but we can get after it from a different angle looking at the root "Gol". We see this root in Thingol, and it means a "Cloak", which is an apt part of Ungoliant's name meaning in that she is specifically mentioned as being able to cloak herself and others in a cloud of darkness that allowed them to evade detection. So, Ungol (Ung-gol) literally means "dark cloak", and thus Ungoliant "Dark Cloak Spider". At least that is what one version of her name I've arrived at.

In any case, it is interesting because a form of Gol is Coll/ Kol, meaning the same thing (which also gets back to the Unkle-Unkol word game). And Coll- is obviously right there as a root in Colleen

Seemed to fit, at least backing into it.

February 12, 2026 at 9:02 AM

William Wright (WW) said...

The Dark Cloak Spider also fits well with the Octopus symbolism. The Octopus evades detection by use of its dark cloud of "ink".

The ink, to me, is also highly symbolic since Ungoliant has and will use "ink" - as in the things that are written - to take away light and truth, as in with the Book of the Lamb.

February 12, 2026 at 9:06 AM

William Wright (WW) said...

The singer/songwriter of the song you feature here "The Summer Day Reflections", also seems to tie into this theme.

Donovan Leitch.

Donovan means "Dark/ Black".

Leitch is an interesting pairing. At first, it looked like it simply meant "Doctor", but even that is more complicated as it can refer to sorcery, per Etymonline, with words like "Enchanter, Conjurer" or "one who speaks magic words". So, something like a Wizard, perhaps. The Dark Wizard.

But, it turns out the name has a folk etymology that connects this name with Leeches, which seems natural. Some argue it came about because doctors use to be the ones who would apply leeches to suck people's blood, and thus the bloodsuckers got the name Leech/ Leitch from the doctors themselves. Who knows.

But it is interesting to have this reference to a Leech, or "Bloodsucking aquatic worm". Ungoliant has been directly compared to a Vampire in other interesting symbols and songs (e.g., Vampire Weekend), the most famous kind of bloodsuckers.

So, an aquatic Dark Bloodsucker is what Donovan Leitch can give us.

Which then makes the title of the song also interesting in looking up various meanings of "reflections".

February 12, 2026 at 11:49 AM

William Wright (WW) said...

And I have a good solve for the full name Colleen now looking at the back half of the name, so this is looking pretty solid.

As mentioned, Coll- in Elvish is "Cloak".

"Line" (the "Lin" would be said just like the Leen in Colleen, then add the "a" sound at the end thanks to the e), can mean "Cobweb", it turns out. In the discussion on Eldamo for this word, it was said to derive from the earlier, primitive "sligne", which meant "spider, spider’s web, cobweb".

So, Colleen understood in the form of the Elvish Coll-Line can mean "Cloak Spider". I should have seen it earlier, actually, because if you take off the "Ung" part of Ung-Gol, which gives you the "Dark/ Black" definition, you are left with Goliante for her name, or Koliante. You can hear Colleen in that name, particularly as you leave off the -te, which gets you back to something similar to that original "Line" form.

"Precious stones for Coll-line"

February 12, 2026 at 12:03 PM

WanderingGondola said...

As this post makes connections to a passage involving Joseph of Dreams, and those song lines came about through the Three of Pentacles -- its meanings including learning, growth and collaboration -- I'm inclined to think there's a much more positive connotation to "Colleen" than Ungoliant, of all entities.

February 12, 2026 at 12:30 PM

William Wright (WW) said...

I've been thinking more on the Three of Pentacles/ Coins here and its role in that phrase the came to William's mind and the tie in to my hypothesis regarding Ungoliant.

The card features a Stonemason, which is interesting given some of the recent LDS temple endowment symbolism (the endowment is said to be based on Freemasonry rites, which trace back to the stonemasons guilds).

This could be a tipoff to what the Book of Mormon calls Secret Combinations. When the Book of Mormon was first published, that term was so tied to Freemasonry in the US, many assumed the book itself was anti-Masonic and thus a product of its day, particularly given how the book's Combinations had secret signs and oaths they gave.

William, you recently brought up Cain again, interestingly, citing Moses 5, which has some interesting things to say about Secret Combinations, and that Cain first instituted them among men. In that chapter, the author speaks of those combinations working in the dark:

"For, from the days of Cain, there was a secret combination, and their works were in the dark, and they knew every man his brother."

The Three of Pentacles shows these men working literally in the dark - the men are juxtaposed against a completely black background and environment while they discuss their plans. As WG notes, the card can refer to collaboration, which is a synonym for or same meaning as combination, in that you have a group of people united and working toward some end. In the case of the Secret Combination, this collaboration was held together via oaths and signs, and with the ultimate objective to "get gain".

The LDS endowment prior to 1990 had penalties associated with breaking the oaths, which involved hand motions where recipients would slit their own throats and disembowel themselves, in that they would die in those ways if they broke the oath. This gets right at how Satan first sets up the Secret Combinations with Cain, who is forced to promise "by his throat" and die if he revealed Satan's secret:

"And Satan said unto Cain: Swear unto me by thy throat, and if thou tell it thou shalt die; and swear thy brethren by their heads, and by the living God, that they tell it not; for if they tell it, they shall surely die"

Again, these types of penalties are found both in Freemasonry and in earlier versions of the LDS endowment, so the presence of a Stone Mason in the Three of Pentacles, and them all working in the dark, at least teases at the possibility that this 'collaboration' is not necessarily ultimately good.

And Secret Combinations bring us right back to The Great and Abominable Church, and its Mother Ungoliant, who is also called the "Mother of Abominations". In that story in Moses 5, Cain's works were specifically called abominations. And on the Three of Pentacles, the men are working on/ in a Cathedral or Church.

February 13, 2026 at 12:32 AM

I think Bill's dot-connecting is quite solid here, and I'm inclined to think he's on the right track. WG says that the synching passage I read in The Words of the Faithful seems to suggest a more positive meaning (and she has a point; more on that below), but as I kept reading in that book, just a few pages later I found this:

While [Miriam and Doral were] thus contemplating the ends of each choice, and the fruits of wise decisions thus far received, a hawk or phantom of one, flown over high up, descended in a swoon, and landed, wrestling a many tentacled sea-creature. When come upon by the women, curious to discover such an odd thing (as one) from the sky fallen, to vapor they turned, being blown away west upon a breeze, as if running to the falling sun thither. Of the eight tentacles, but seven were seen to remain, and the wing of the bird was broken, clipped and tangled in a mesh.

As always, the writing is confusing (the creature turned to vapor and blew away but left behind seven of its tentacles?), but eight tentacles makes the thing definitionally an octopus, a symbol that has been closely associated with Ungoliant. The hawk is closely related to the kite, a bird which was mentioned in my post and will come up again in what follows.

After this strange augury of a hawk wrestling an octopus, "much was said of the sign, or omen . . . It was decided that all things were now entangled, good and evil . . . ." Colleen seems like a positive symbol but also seems to represent Ungoliant. The kite (Garuda) is connected to Flight of the Gargoyle, the movie that gave "abomination "new meaning, but Bill has also proposed a positive take on the gargoyle symbol.

When I opened my browser to compose the present post, I saw that I had the latest Duckstack, "Irrigation Regardless," open in a tab and still unread. Should I read it first or do the post first? In order to help me decide, I scrolled down to the bottom of the Duckstack to get a feel for how long it was. At the bottom of the page, I found this juxtaposition:

The last link on the page is to a post called "Spite Kite." The reference appears to be the toy ("We're flying our emotions today. The sky is blue"), while the kite I am interested in is a bird, specifically Garuda. Take a look at the accompanying illustration, though. It shows birds, one of which is attacking a snake -- a snake which unexpectedly has a hand instead of a head.

The fingers give impression of a many-headed snake, or hydra. See also my 2022 Tarot post "Lightning from the Sun?", which concludes with, "That's an extremely specific coincidence! The same thing can resemble either a hand or an eight-tentacled 'octopus' depending on how you look at it." See also the hand-octopus-Sun link in "The power of the Sun in the palm of my hand."

More to the point, though, the bird-snake-hand combination is a direct link to the Garuda image I included in "Flight of the Gargoyle," though in that image it is the bird rather than the snake that unexpectedly has hands.

Just above the "Spite Kite" link is one to "Intermission - Grit Grave," with this illustration:

Prior to reading Bill's "secret combination" comment, I had just been listening to the early chapters of Helaman, where the Gadianton robbers are introduced. Since Bill had been talking about ungol as an element in Ungoliant, I wondered whether there could be any connection between Ungol-iant and Gad-iant-on. The name Ungoliant is etymologically complicated. Apparently, Tolkien first analyzed it as Ungo-liant, with the second element meaning "spider," but later decided that ungol meant "spider," implying that the name was actually Ungol-iant. The second element in this latter analysis was never defined but would presumably mean something related to gloom and darkness. That works well for Gadianton, since gad- can mean "to join, connect, unite," and -on is just a masculine suffix. So interpreted as Elvish, Gadianton could literally mean "the secret combination guy."

Coming back to WG's point that the connection to Joseph should give "Colleen" a more positive meaning, in the passage I quoted, Joseph sees a vision of Taurin, who we are told is "called by the records, Katumin," that being the name of a princess mentioned in the Kirtland Egyptian Papers, where she is also called Kah-tou-mun. The name Colleen just means "girl, maiden" in Gaelic. What would be the equivalent in GAEL-ic? Maybe Zi-oop-hah, which means "young virgin, unmarried woman" or "virgin princess." Closely related to this is Ho-oop-hah, which can mean either generically "princess, queen" or specifically "Queen Kah-tou-mun." A bit roundabout, maybe, but I think there's a link between Colleen and Katumin.

Another name which means "girl" and, while not Gaelic, is thought of as distinctively Scottish, is Lassie. See, among other posts, "Lassie Come Home" and "Lassie and Uncle Balty."

Sometimes they still surprise me

In 1964 a hospital in the United States carried out a series of experiments on dream telepathy. While one person slept, another person would attempt to transmit telepathically a randomly selected image. The sleeper would then report his dreams, and a panel of judges would decide which of eight possible target images best matched the dream imagery described. They conducted 450 such trials with a hit rate of 65%, for odds against chance of 10 billion to one. As Dean Radin recounts in The Science of Magic, one of the target images used was the painting Descent from the Cross by Max Beckmann, and . . .

The telepathic sender was given this randomly selected image, and to further motivate him to get emotionally involved with the task, he was also given a small wooden crucifix [sic], a Jesus doll, some nails, and a red marker. He was invited to nail the Jesus doll to the crucifix, then use the red marker to color his body with blood.

Wait, what? What kind of sicko designs a telepathy experiment that involves crucifying a voodoo doll of Jesus Christ? I flipped back a few pages to check.

Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York.

"Jewish physics" may not be a real thing, but Jewish parapsychology apparently is.

All the pebbles I have seen

As I was contemplating the Three of Pentacles, two lines of an otherwise forgotten song began playing in my mind:

All the pebbles I have seen

Precious stones for Colleen

I began to hear it in my head as a round, with two voices repeating the two lines endlessly, but staggered, so that one voice sang "All the pebbles I have seen" while the other sang "Precious stones for Colleen." The effect was quite hypnotic.

After I finished my contemplation, I looked up the song. It's "The Summer Day Reflection Song" (1965) by Donovan:

As I read through the lyrics, the second verse caught my eye:

Dragon kite in the sky

Wheel and turn, spin and fly

Attacked by rooks and never fails

To cry the sound of fairy tales

The cat is walkin' in the sun

The "kite" reference got my attention because Garuda is a kite, and in "Ahab at Ezion-Geber" I had just revisited "Flight of the Gargoyle," which discusses Garuda. The line about the cat "walkin' in the sun" also stood out because last night, in between Blue Öyster Cult and the Pixies, the YouTube Music algorithm had randomly served up that ridiculous "Monkey Brother" song:

The lyrics begin thus:

Monkey Brother, Monkey Brother

You are so grea-tuh

The Mountains of Five Elements can't hold you down

Popped up a Sun walker

That's the Chinese surname Sun, meaning Sun Wukong, the titular Monkey Brother, but it still seems synchronistically connected to "walkin' in the sun."

Later, I read this in Words of the Faithful:

And he cast before the boy, as in mockery, a handful of gems, and of crystals, and stones, scooped forth from a cauldron near him, until it was emptied, and about the boy the floor glittered.

This seemed relevant to "All the pebbles I have seen / Precious stones for Colleen." Here's the next paragraph:

The boy bent and reached for one resting before him, and held it; holding it to eye, and looking upon the king, raised high upon dais, and a golden bench, lain as one dead, and mourned by funeral-criers. As in vision, flames arose and consumed the halls, the pillars, the furniture, and all that sat or stood there, and being burned away, a behind-scene was revealed; wherein rested upon a bed stacked high with flowers, Taurin; wilted then the flowers crumbled, and the girl was suspended aloft, then her body dropped, and she dangled from a rope braided with golden threads.

And here's the fourth verse of the Donovan song:

Jeweled castles I have built

With freak feelings of guilt

And the words stab to the hilt

Pick the flower and it will wilt

Cat is shifting in the sun

I note also the description of a visionary experience in which "a behind-scene was revealed." As I wrote in "Visions as irruptions of dreaming consciousness into waking life":

There is a sense that the visual field "opens up," as if one is seeing behind a backdrop, and when I read Smith and Cowdery's language about a veil being taken away and the heavens opening, it seemed to me that they had to be describing the same kind of experience.

Ahab at Ezion-Geber

As I was falling asleep, I thought of a scene from Flight of the Gargoyle in which a girl had an improbably large percentage of her body eaten by a demonic creature (a razor-toothed "mermaid" with the lower body of a leech rather than a fish) while the girl herself remained alive and conscious. I thought, In real life she would have died from blood loss. There must have been something in the monster's saliva to stop the flow of blood. And with that train of thought, I segued from hypnagogic musing into dreaming proper.

I saw a large primitive amphibian -- like an Ichthyostega but much larger -- emerge from a swamp and bite off a man's right leg at the knee.

Ichthyostega

The beast immediately withdrew into the water. The man did not bleed. The stump of his leg was pink and bloodless like uncooked chicken.

I then saw this same man, supporting himself with a crutch, organizing a group of people he called "the assembled Firstborn." There were roughly a hundred of these people, all blond, all very young -- ranging from toddlers to twenty-somethings. They were sitting down in the grass near the seashore, waiting for a ship that was coming to take them to safety. The one-legged man was telling everyone where to sit. Some of those who had sat down first had to scoot over a little bit to make room for the others. The place where they were was called Ezion-Geber.

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Upon waking, I asked myself who the one-legged man was and though, "Ahab, I suppose. Or Peg Leg Pete." (My thinking wasn't very clear, as I had just awoken, and I had a vague idea that Peg-Leg Pete was a character from Peter Pan who had lost his leg to the same crocodile that had eaten Hook's hand. Looking him up now, I see he's a character from old Mickey Mouse cartoons, with no backstory as to how he lost his leg.) I though about how Ahab means "uncle" and connected him with Uncle Jay in the singing and dancing telegram (see "Mr. Johnson, ho, ho, ho"). I also remembered that Ahabb means "more beloved" in Arabic and appears in the Quran referring to how Joseph and Benjamin were more beloved than their ten elder brothers.

I then turned my attention to Ezion-Geber. I recognized it as a biblical place name but couldn't remember anything about it. I was surprised to find that it is associated with ships, and that Ahab is mentioned in the next verse:

Jehoshaphat made ships of Tharshish to go to Ophir for gold: but they went not; for the ships were broken at Eziongeber. Then said Ahaziah the son of Ahab unto Jehoshaphat, Let my servants go with thy servants in the ships. But Jehoshaphat would not (1 Kings 22:48-49).

The Vulgate spelling of the place name is Asiongaber. I have been rereading Daymon Smith's Words of the Faithful, in which he twice renders the Tolkienian name Yozayan ("Land of Gift," i.e. Numenor) as Azoyan and connects this with the name Zion. In Mormonism, both Zion and the "assembly of the Firstborn" are associated with Enoch, so there may be some connection there.

Awake, arm of the Lord!

My last post, "Wounded Rahab," quoted this verse from the Book of Mormon, in which Jacob quotes Isaiah:

Awake, awake! Put on strength, O arm of the Lord; awake as in the ancient days. Art thou not he that hath cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon? (2 Ne. 8:9)

Today I had a nasty migraine and spent most of the day sleeping and vomiting. When I woke up around 9:30 p.m., I finally felt better and was able to tolerate light and sound again. Thus, although it was late in the evening, I had just woken up when I checked Synlogos and found a link to an Ann Barnhardt post titled "Sexagesima Sunday: Wake up! Why are you sleeping, Lord? Wake up!" Calling the Lord himself to wake up seems like a pretty unusual theme -- we associate that more with Elijah's taunts to the prophets of Baal -- so I clicked through. She quotes two passages from the Bible:

At that time, Jesus got into a boat, and His disciples followed Him. And behold, there arose a great storm on the sea, so that the boat was covered by the waves; but He was asleep. So they came and woke Him, saying, Lord, save us! we are perishing! But He said to them, Why are you fearful, O you of little faith? Then He arose and rebuked the wind and the sea, and there came a great calm. And the men marvelled, saying, What manner of Man is this, that even the wind and the sea obey Him? (Matt 8:23-27)

and

Arise, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, and cast us not off to the end.

Exsurge; quare obdormis, Domine? exsurge, et ne repellas in finem.

Why turnest thou Thy face away? and forgettest our want and our trouble?

Quare faciem tuam avertis? oblivisceris inopiae nostrae et tribulationis nostrae?

For our soul is humbled down to the dust: our belly cleaveth to the earth.

Quoniam humiliata est in pulvere anima nostra; conglutinatus est in terra venter noster.

Arise, O Lord, help us and redeem us for Thy Name’s sake.

Exsurge, Domine, adjuva nos, et redime nos propter nomen tuum.

(Ps. 44:23-26, numbered Ps. 43 in the Vulgate)

The passage from Matthew seems particularly synchronistically relevant, since after Jesus wakes up he "rebuked the wind and the sea." Rahab in the Isaiah passage is generally understood to be a monster representing the chaotic sea, the Hebrew equivalent of Tiamat. Marduk's battle with Tiamat is central to the Babylonian creation story, and hints of a story of that kind can still be seen in the Genesis 1 creation story.

Bible critics have noted that the "Sea" of Galilee is in fact just a lake, comparable in size to Lake Tahoe, and that the description of the "great storm on the sea" must be an exaggeration. Or a supernatural attack.

As mentioned in "Rock my Audible," I have been listening to an audio version of the Book of Mormon. Today I started playing it where I had left off yesterday and found that, strangely, it was in the middle of a verse, so that the very first word I heard was Awake.

And the things which I shall tell you are made known unto me by an angel from God. And he said unto me: Awake; and I awoke, and behold he stood before me (Mosiah 3:2)

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Here it is not the Lord being called to awake but a man, Mosiah. What about the Isaiah passage, though. Isaiah actually apostrophizes the arm of the Lord, which is why the King James Version says, "Art thou not it that hath cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon?" The Book of Mormon changes that it to he, implying that the Arm of the Lord is a person.

If the Arm of the Lord is not the Lord himself, who might he be? The most obvious guess would be Michael, who in Revelation is given the role of fighting the dragon:

And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, and prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him (Rev. 12:7-9)

Here, as in Isaiah, the dragon is not killed but "cast out" and presumably wounded.

The dragon combat alluded to by Isaiah probably has to do with the creation story, but the Mormon temple ceremony gives Michael a role in that story as well -- and also has him fall asleep and wake up:

NARRATOR: Brethren and sisters, this is Michael, who helped form the earth. When he awakens from the sleep which Elohim and Jehovah have caused to come upon him, he will be known as Adam, and having forgotten all, will have become a little child. Brethren, close your eyes as if you were asleep.

ELOHIM: Adam, awake and arise.

NARRATOR: All the brethren will please arise.

ELOHIM: Adam, here is a woman whom we have formed and whom we give unto you to be a companion and help meet for you. What will you call her?

ADAM: Eve.

The first word Michael says after awakening as Adam is, "Eve." As it happens, those names are juxtaposed in an image I included in my last post:

The ceremony says that when Michael becomes Adam, he "will have become as a little child." Mosiah 3 (the chapter with that "Awake" verse) also refers to this idea, shortly after a reference to Adam:

For the natural man is an enemy to God, and has been from the fall of Adam, and will be, forever and ever, unless he yields to the enticings of the Holy Spirit, and putteth off the natural man and becometh a saint through the atonement of Christ the Lord, and becometh as a child, submissive, meek, humble, patient, full of love, willing to submit to all things which the Lord seeth fit to inflict upon him, even as a child doth submit to his father (Mosiah 3:19).