Doge of Venice

My last post included a Spanish painting of Columbus before the Senate of Venice. Partially visible above the Doge’s throne is a lion holding a book. This is the symbol of the patron saint of Venice, St. Mark — whose name, as Bill recently pointed out in connection with Karl Marx, means “of Mars.”

I had included this picture as a link between Columbus and Musk’s DOGE. Musk is closely associated with the planet Mars, so that’s another link.

A more important link is that the Doge meme is a yellow dog. The image of a lion with a book has appeared on this blog before, and on the cover of that book, Lassie Come Home, is a yellow dog.

It gets better. One of the links between Elon and Columbus in my last post was the prophecy in 1 Nephi 13 about a “man among the gentiles.” Mormons traditionally understand this person to be Columbus, but Leo recently proposed that he might be Elon. Whoever he is, he is described by Nephi as bringing to the Lehite remnant a book “that proceeded forth from the mouth of a Jew.” My earlier posts had identified Lassie Come Home — which proceeds out of the mouth of a lion, emblem of the House of Judah — with that very book.

Such wow.