Bill interprets the colors of the three letters thus:
Further, the 1 Red and 2 Blue letters would map to one narrative of the story in terms of who or what is being raised. A Red "A" has been a symbol repeatedly showing up, whether in the Red Alvin, Ace of Hearts, or the "Red One/ Alpha", that Being will be raised up. One form of his name I've guessed is named after John, or Elias, and so we shouldn't be surprised to see that Red A sitting in the name Jack.In addition, that Red Being will ascend with 2 "Blue Wizards", which has been a pretty consistent part of the story, even if the identities of all 3 of these individuals are in flux. This maps also to William's story of Patrick, Tim, and William Alizio as well as Daymon's story of Joseph and the Two Wizards. These stories all mention two wizards sent to bring a third Being back home.
Just as the red A is part of the name Jack, the blue M is part of the name Wm written backwards -- corresponding to Bill's current guess that I am one of the Blue Wizards.
Bill notes that the red A is associated with the Ace of Hearts. The Tarot equivalent of that card is the Ace of Cups, which is conceptually "blue" (associated with water) and features a W that looks like an inverted M:
Note that this card also shows lotus flowers and a dove carrying something. See "Shaved by Tessa while contemplating a Rose or Lotus" and "Carry that weight." (The first graffiti image in the latter post includes the word dove together with "You're goma [sic] carry that weight," misspelled so that it includes an M.) Given Bill's emphasis on baptism, see also my 2022 post "The Ace of Cups combines baptismal and Eucharistic imagery."
Coming back to the title of this post, though, note that the U stamp is a lighter shade of blue than the M. That, combined with the diagonal orientation, means that the AMU corresponds to one and only one location on a Scrabble board:
Scrabble is played with square white tiles marked with letters of the alphabet, very close to the appearance of the stamps, so I think this connection is relevant. Bill has conceptualized the AMU as moving up and to the right. Based on the Scrabble color-coding, then, these three characters' destination is the black star (black hole?) at the center of the board.
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The Scrabble connection was a great find. Fully concur with the symbolism of the black or dark star here.
Incidentally, I scored the word, even though I know diagonal words aren't allowed. With the triple and double letter scores, combined with the double word score, AMU gives us a solid 24. Not bad.
Two comments on this Blue Wizard thing - one highlighting a connection to Simon-Peter, and one a question I do not have an answer for. Here is the first on the connection:
A few weeks ago I "finished" the main part of a puzzle game I had been playing called The Blue Prince. It was a well done game, with good puzzles. I also appreciated the various word games associated with the story. For example, The Blue Prince title is a word play/ homonym for The Blueprints. Things like that, which actually correlated with the style of many of the word games I've blogged about and commented on in real life. It felt very "Elvish", in other words.
This morning, I thought of the game and couldn't remember the name of the main character you play, who ultimately is the Blue Prince. Turns out his name is Simon Jones.
You really can't get a more Simon-Peter name than that. Peter is either the son of Jonah or son of depending on translation and book. In John's gospel, we have Simon son of John, I believe. That is the meaning of Simon Jones. Jones means Son of John.
Despite that last name, he is also a "Sinclair" through his mother's side, which means Saint Claire. Seemed also relevant.
Anyway, a bunch of things about the game that are pretty synchy, but to list them here would make your eyes glaze over. At the end of the main game, you reach Room 46, your objective. In that Room are the answers, and Simon can't receive his inheritance (from the Baron Sinclair... as in Saint Claire) until he reaches this room. I will include the ending cutscene, which won't make sense without more context, but in some ways that is better because you can look at the symbols in a different way.
The cutscene shows Simon opening the door (Peter has been associated with doors and their opening), with the voice of his mother reading him a book that she had written for him. In the game, you come across this book initially in the form of a Red Book (of course), but it was the version she was forced to write and publish, not the one she intended. Now in Room 46, we get the real version, with the ending completely changed. Simon is now not meant to be the Red Prince (in the game Red is associated with an oppressive and bad regime that is opposed to Blue), but to step into his inheritance as the Blue Prince.
So, again, we have this association of Blue with Simon son of John (just like the Chip Monk Simon as well).
Anyway, there are quite a few symbols of note in the clip, which is why I am including it, and again I think stripped of context is even better in some ways for sake of imagination.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9llSLH8rjY
Second comment which is more of a question or a wrinkle in the riddle I don't have a clear answer for.
Stepping back quickly, the Blue Wizard story (meaning the wizards who come to take someone home, not necessarily the same Blue Wizards in LOTR) mapped to both your story and Daymon's account of the two Maia dressed in blue who arrived from another world to take Joseph home. I had called out the similarities back in 2023, and you also noted them in your own writing and thinking.
In both stories, however, the Beings who came did so from another world. They weren't already here. Unless you aren't telling us something, my guess is you were born here and didn't arrive here in possession of any Stone that helped you get here, or on some spaceship.
That was a major hole, in my opinion, in imagining you as one of the Blue Wizards in the story. Meaning, it seemed the pattern of the story is that Two Beings dressed in Blue arrive from somewhere else to take a Third home.
Even as I was working this other Pharazon-Peter angle last year with you as the focus, the alternative story in my mind, and in some ways simpler story, was to have the Stone Couriers as these two Beings. There were apparently two of them, they came from somewhere else, they seem to have been ditched here in 2020 and didn't go back, and it seems like they still have a role to play in the story of the Stone.
Further, if there was a Peter connection to these Blue Wizards, perhaps this was actually in relation to Glorfindel, who I had as one of these two Couriers. His background is so opaque and was even an unsolved mystery to Tolkien, that tracking him back to Ingwe even (one of our Gim G's that I had been thinking through with Peter) was not that big of a leap to imagine.
So, that is a story that could make sense to me. As much, and in some ways more, than placing you as one of these Blue Wizards, or these Chip Monks. Each story or version has something going for it, and some problems as well.
I am not actually sure what the question is there. Perhaps just to highlight an issue with you being a blue wizard in this tale, and see if you had any thoughts on how to reconcile.
I don't have any good way to reconcile things yet. There are multiple problems with me being a Blue Wizard, and yet the idea keeps coming up in syncs.
On a hunch, I searched the /x/ archives for "blue prince." There was only one result, referring to "some cartoons featuring insect characters parodying the adventures of el Qixote and Sancho Panza, with Sancho being a ladybug and an epic banjo sountrack. . . . We referred to it as 'the blue prince'."
https://archive.4plebs.org/x/thread/40342589/#40348376
The original post in that thread highlights the name Jay and a pumpkin.
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