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This morning, I was teaching some very young children the "short u" sound, using a little book that had several words with that sound, each with an example sentence and an illustration. For the word "bug," the sentence was "A bug has six legs." The illustration was of two insects: a ladybird, and a generic black bug with a roundish body, perhaps meant to be some sort of beetle."Is that one a spider?" asked one of the kids in Chinese."No," said one of the others. "It has six legs. If it has six legs, you can be 100% sure it's not a spider."So that would seem to be a clear "no" from the sync fairies to the theory that the ladybird and the black WOW represent Ungoliant rather than Our Lady.'
Here's a photo of the page I was talking about. As you can see, the black "bug" really does look a lot like a six-legged spider:
Bill protested that a spider could have six legs, if it had lost some of its original eight, and in support of this he connected the spider with the octopus and brought in the logo of Hydra, an evil organization in Marvel superhero movies, which looks like an octopus with six tentacles and which has definite Ungoliant energy:
I found this synchronistic reasoning convincing. I noted that the the smaller ladybird illustrating the word bug in the sentence above even has four legs, reinforcing the idea that leg-counting is not an infallible way of classifying arthropods.
At first, like Bill, I lumped the ladybird and the WOW together, thinking that if one represented Ungoliant, both did. Later, as discussed in "Intercepted prayers?," I decided they probably represented two separate beings. The black WOW corresponds to the black "bug" which is actually a six-legged spider, and the ladybird corresponds to the ladybird, which in no way suggests a spider.
The book with the "bug" illustration is not mine but is at Diego's school. I was there this morning and took the opportunity to photograph the "bug" page. While I was doing so, a child brought me another book, which had been damaged, and asked me if I could fix it. I opened it up and found this illustration:
That's a ladybird -- again, nothing spider-like about it -- sitting on the seed head of a dandelion. Just last week, I had posted "Lions, dandy and otherwise, and a ladybird -- plus, I eat a lot of bees." Here we have a dandelion and a ladybird juxtaposed again.
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I think I agree that the ladybug symbol and the spider are two separate Beings, with the latter trying to impersonate or counterfeit the former. The picture you posted here is really helpful showing the two together.
As potentially some support for this, and tying very directly to that last image of the ladybug on the dandelion, I was driving with my daughter last night listening to the radio, and she wanted me to switch to a Spotify music mix. One of the songs that came up was titled "Dandelion" by an artist named Ruth B. She used to listen to this song a lot a couple years ago, but hasn't come up at in recent memory.
Anyway, she was singing to it, and I paid more attention to it because of the Dandelion theme that has come up over here. It also made me visualize them differently than I had. Rather than just the yellow flower, we had the white 'globe' with the seeds that people blow on to make their wishes. The song has been in my head since.
In the chorus the singer repeats that they are "wishing on dandelions", which is an interesting phrase and when taken literally one can picture an individual sitting on a dandelion making a wish. And here you have a picture with a ladybug doing just that - sitting on a dandelion.
Seeing this image then made me more curious, so I looked up Ruth B's name. The first connection I made was obviously the "B" phonetically giving us Bee (and funnily enough when I came here to post this comment noticed you had just followed up with a Bee post). The Bee in my story is associated with the Ithil Stone, which could be symbolized with that white globe the ladybug is sitting and wishing on.
This seemed further supported by what the B actually stands for. The artist's last name is Berhe, an Ethiopian name which apparently means "Light, to Shine, Brightness". Ruth means "Friend, companion, compassionate friend". Again, all positive things that also have direct links back to the Bee.
Further, going to some of the repentance theme, Ruth is also based on the word "rue", which can mean to repent or feel remorse for something that happened.
Lastly, and I think notable, while the song was playing, it showed the cover art including the title of the album the song is from, which is "Safe Haven". A Safe Haven that the Bee helps gather people/ calves to is central to the story.
This is pretty fascinating:
After posting this, I became curious if there was a music video for the Dandelion song. There is an official lyric video, that didn't seem all that interesting, but then I saw a link to something that seemed to be an official music video.
It turns out the "official" video is anything but. It is a fake that someone spliced together and tried to make look official. It used scenes from a movie. Care to guess what movie? The Amazing Spider-Man. So, the fake copy of the Dandelion song involved spiders. Too good.
And it took me a minute to realize it was fake. For a moment I was a little bit confused because I had just written the comment supporting the distinction between the ladybug and the spider, but here a music video tying them back together. How to reconcile, or just ignore? Then I looked at all of the clues (the terrible video quality, the name of the poster, the fact that the singer's lips don't actually sync with the words, etc.) and realized it was completely fake.
Seems like a pretty good link to the issue at hand.
Here is the real lyric video, followed by the fake music video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7tHZ3WeJAw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtlfQyzvqMQ
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