Today it occurred to me to search the /x/ archive on 4plebs to see if anyone else had ever had a yellow pterodactyl experience. The search string yellow pterodactyl returned only one result, from 2017, beginning, “I’ve seen a UFO, a pterodactyl, and a ghost.” The word yellow appears in the description of the UFO. He saw the pterodactyl “this year Valentine’s Day.”
Possibly relevant: In a comment to my recent post “What if Dot got in the Green Door,” I connect the story title “Bad Cat” with my sister Kat Valentine because BAD = 214 = St. Valentine’s Day.
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Green Lantern’s yellow pterodactyls live on Venus (goddess of love), and after defeating them he has to hurry back to Earth for a date with his love interest. This syncs with the modern connotations of “St. Valentine’s Day.”
A comment on one of my Green Lantern posts led me to Duncan Barford’s blog, where I read this post:
https://oeith.co.uk/2022/01/09/depressive-hedonia/
Barford discusses at length the 14th arcanum of the Tarot (ptero) as interpreted by Valentin Tomberg.
I see tomorrow is Tomberg’s birthday.
That /x/ post syncs somewhat with both the Green Lantern comics you posted. First, the small one -- the anon's ghost was blue, and so were the cavemen in GL #88.
Second, in his ptero story, our anon said "The air felt REALLY hot and smelt of sulfur or brimstone". I knew sulphur is yellow, but didn't realise brimstone (with a lemniscate in its alchemical symbol!) was a historical name for the element. As for the heat, that brought me back to the boiling lake early in GL #30. On a hunch, I went looking for "boiling lake" and Wikipedia gave me an actual place, but (though it does mention sulphur multiple times) I didn't immediately read that and tried "hot lakes" instead. This article only uses sulfur once, when describing the second of three hot lakes; the first was the aforementioned Boiling Lake, and the third is located in Yellowstone National Park (part of which I've discussed with you before, and probably will again).
Ooh. In addition, the lights on anon's UFO flashed "red to blue to yellow" -- and all three colours are represented in the second photo on Wiki's sulphur page.
@WG
Good links!
On a boiling yellow lake as a portal:
https://narrowdesert.blogspot.com/2022/03/moon-river-synchronicities.html
On stinking pterodactyls in literature (Tolkien, Charles Williams, Arthur Conan Doyle):
https://notionclubpapers.blogspot.com/2013/11/tolkiens-stinking-nazgul-pterodactyl-in.html
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