“Did you mean Megalodon?” I asked. “The giant shark?”
The boy hesitated a bit but nodded. I wrote the correct spelling on the board and, since most of the students had never heard of this creature, I briefly explained when it had lived and how big it was, using things in the classroom to demonstrate the size of its teeth and jaws. (Yes, I knew those details off the top of my head. To paraphrase King Arthur, “Well, you have to know these things when you’re a teacher, you know.”)
After the class, the boy confessed that he’d never heard of a Megalodon and had just written a random string of letters that he thought looked “English.” So this is, like “Jack dry stolen,” potentially a message from someone else.
What might it mean? When I was a kid and imbibed most of my giant-shark knowledge, Megalodon was still considered to belong to the same genus as the great white and was thus known as Carcharodon megalodon. In Tolkien, one of the Silmarils was swallowed by the wolf Carcharoth, and another was thrown into the sea by Maglor, a name which closely matches the beginning of Maglodan. (In fact, dropping the final R from Tolkienian names is something Daymon Smith often does.) Jason Statham’s Meg (for Megalodon) movies have also come up on this blog a time or two. Not sure what that all means; just noting possible leads.
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Last night, I dreamt that I was teaching a class of teenagers. One of the students raised his hand and said something that at first made no sense at all. After a few seconds, though, I realized he was making a joke connecting something I had just said to “Immigrant Song” by Led Zeppelin. (Unfortunately I can’t remember exactly what either of us had said.)
As the blank look on my face finally became one of comprehension, I said, “Oh, right! Led Zeppelin!” I then began doing a vocal imitation of the opening guitar riff, and the student accompanied me, doing his best John Bonham on the desk with his fingers. Then this impromptu jam session began to sound more and more like an alarm clock, and I woke up.
I realize that to a man with a hammer of the gods, everything looks like a nail, but come on — “Our only goal the western shore,” “Valhalla, I am coming” — hard to miss the Pharazonic overtones there.
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Speaking of Page — for in imitating the guitar in “Immigrant Song” I was taking on the role of Jimmy Page — one more thing to add to this miscellaneous post. Last night, I was looking for an image of a particular Page of Coins Tarot card, but when I’d typed “page of c,” the first autocomplete suggestion that came up was not coins or cups or chalices but chips.
Page of Chips? I guess I can easily imagine a theme deck where the suit of coins/pentacles/discs was realized as poker chips — and I’m currently reading Last Call, which is about poker and Tarot and has a main character who is “a Jack.” The page or valet of Tarot is historically the same as the Jack or knave of the poker deck.
I pressed enter just to see what would come up. Most of the results were for “coloring page of chips” — line drawings of French fries or potato chips for children to color in with crayons.
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The Led Zeppelin dream would seem to be a link to that Merlin character from The Kid Who Would Be King. Merlin wore a Led Zeppelin shirt the entire movie, and I had tied that character specifically to Pharazon via some mental gymnastics.
And I agree that "Immigrant Song" comes across as very Numenorean/ Pharazonic. Made even more so, I guess, by the fact that Led Zeppelin apparently wrote it while imagining the Viking invasion of England.
In his early envisioning of Eressea, Tolkien imagined that it eventually became the British Isles.
And we had that song by Shrek where he wished to be a Viking.
Immigrant Song has some hopeful ending lyrics, at least. And perhaps a message to those on Eressea that despite their losses, the answer is not continued conflict with those you raided their shores, but rather "peace and trust" and the opportunity to "rebuild all your ruins".
I have some additional thoughts and commentary, or at least some data points, on Madlodan in case it helps us, but will need to post those later.
OK, so on Maglodan, there will probably be 3 or 4 more comments from me just to get some thinking out. This first one just looks at Maglodan on one level as an Elvish word. In some follow up comments, I'll touch on both Maglor and Maeglin which I think are also potentially referenced here as additional layers of meaning. But in this case, I think we could have a very specific Pharazonic reference, so fitting that it is written in red marker on this white board, I guess, in some ways.
To make this work, I do have to allow for a modification of a suffix for one of the roots, but in joining words and roots together, this seems to be common practice - things get modified (I am just not good at it, though, so I tend to be more conservative in how I translate words...).
"Magli" is the name for a Bear in elvish, but it is literally translated as "Honey Eater". "Dan" means "Back to, Return again" etc. Putting those together would be Maglidan, but I am changing Magli to Maglo in combining the words.
In this interpretation we have a Honey Eater who either has or will return somewhere. So, in the current or past tense, we have a Honey Eater who has returned - getting to my other comment I just left about some Beings able to "return" or be born again. It could reference that.
However, it could be a future reference, and this is where I lean as it also ties to my overall story of Eressea restitution and the Immigrant Song. I think it could mean simply that the Honey Eater will return or go back to the place from whence he ate the Honey, which would be Eressea (#2 - the Book of Mormon Promised Lands).
The Honey Eater is Pharazon. The pollen and nectar of the lilies has compared to Honey sufficiently to make this a good connection. The image or analogy of a Bear climbing a tree to raid the a beehive of honey also is a very good one for Pharazon (and fits in with other themes, such as Jason Statham as the Beekeeper wishing to protect the hive from invaders).
The Book of Mormon has several references to people crossing the Great Sea and reaching the Promised Land. There they will, if they repent, have the opportunity to help the people on that land build something, which will ultimately result in the New Jerusalem being on that land (which will then join or link with Jerusalem on another "land").
My guess is Pharazon is among those who go to Eressea #2, and this "Maglodan" along with the Immigrant Song alludes to this.
So, that would be the first meaning of Maglodan: Pharazon returns to Eressea.
And this would make sense in light of the other interpretation of "Jack dry stolen" and AMU. Jack does not ascend to the "dark star" and where that leads initially (which represents an entrance to Valinor/ Tirion). Rather, Jack's journey will first take him back to Eressea to take part in events there, perhaps.
It all eventually goes to the same place (Home), but we just have a different routes to get there, and different jobs or things that need to be done. Pharazon's would include the opportunity to repair what had been broken, though I am not sure how that works, honestly.
This notion of a Being who can't be contained or kept back from returning also has strong Mr. Mxyzptlk connotations.
This ability, following this line of thinking, would extend back to reiterations before Pharazon, which gets to Maeglin/ Meglin.
A couple months ago, I connected "The Meg" as in the Megalodon pictured in the Jason Statham movies/ images, with Maeglin. Really experimental thinking, but I woke up one morning with this thought that The Meg was short for the name Maeglin. Not everything I think is correct (obviously) so it has just been something I've been looking into. In this thinking of Pharazon, I had an earlier incarnation of that Being as Pharazon, which I mentioned in the comments section over on Leo's blog when I answered your question and dropped the bomb on the whole Pharazon-You hypothesis.
At first, I had linked the Meg to Saruman, since he is specifically known as "Sharky". Made sense. But then I suddenly started seeing Meg as Maeglin, and my thinking shifted and that is where it has largely stayed.
in Elvish, Maeglin can mean "Bear-like", and thus also a Honey Eater, referring to my comment above. So this makes complete sense to tie him to Pharazon the Honey Eater. It also means Dark or Sharp Glance.
In any case, there were other similarities in Maeglin and his story that stood out and made the thought at least something worth entertaining, and that is what I have been doing since.
So, it was just interesting for me to read of this incident where a word "Maglodan" was written, you interpreting this as referring to a Megalodon and writing it yourself on the whiteboard, and then teaching the class about them. It was interesting because I had already been toying with the idea of The Meg/ Meglin/ Megalodon representing you in some way.
This then takes me to Maglor, who you also brought up in thinking about this. I mentioned he may tie into this as well, and I wonder now if this isn't his signature, so to speak, or some of his influence? It is worth an investigation, maybe. I mentioned I thought the stamps seemed Elvish. Maybe it, and the whiteboard, are the result of his influence.
In a follow up comment, I'll highlight how Maglor came into my words in 2020. He is directly associated with words of/ from the Stone Couriers, and who I now think are more likely represented by the two Blue Beings (at least the ones featured in AMU...). I don't have the best translation of those specific words, but will share what I have and how it might fit.
Just working through puzzles.
Sorry, I meant to say in the 3rd paragraph:
"In this thinking of Pharazon, I had an earlier incarnation of that Being as Maeglin, which I mentioned in the comments section over on Leo's blog when I answered your question and dropped the bomb on the whole Pharazon-You hypothesis."
Maglor, who you brought up as a possible link, came up in my words on February 9, 2020.
Just two days earlier on Feb. 7 was when I first had the idea that the Liahona was a Stone. This was based seemingly solely on the cryptic phrase "Bor Drau" (or Bo Er Drau... I wrote both versions down) I wrote down early in the morning. I won't go into all the details, but thinking on and digging into Drau is what led me to this thought. The Drau River is named after Dravite, which is a crystal family that can take the form of many colors, including those that resemble the color of brass.
It would be 3 days later, that the much more understandable but still cryptic words came from who I now guess as our Couriers, in which they expanded on my thought of a couple days earlier and said that the Liahona was not metal at all, as Nephi guessed, but a crystal that appeared to be metallic:
"A Palantir it was; a globe of crystal, metallic-seeming, royal ancient sunlight beaming"
Since we are dealing with, in my guess, Beings with telepathic powers, I can only guess that the idea that formed in my mind a few days earlier came from these same Couriers. It would be later still I would guess this to be the Anor Stone.
Anyway, the discourse on the Liahona-Anor Stone was on Feb. 10, and this was from the Couriers. Back to February 9, I wrote down this:
"Hyaglorm er ista Maglor inis insta ali wake up ar sedi".
Because this was in this period of the Stone Couriers actions and communications, and the next day would have the English communication, I assume this is attributed to them as well (but could be wrong).
Tough words, and I don't have it perfectly mapped out, honestly. But you see Maglor in there. What is his involvement and connection to the Couriers, and why do they mention him?
"Hya-" can mean "here by us/ that by us". "glorm" has no real word, but "glor" means "Golden". Given that I believe that one of the speakers is Glorfindel, I think this might be a variant of Glor. So, "Here by us golden", or maybe "Here by us the golden ones", something like that.
"Er" means "one/ alone", and "ista" means "to know". I think a period then comes after this as a complete thought: "Here/ this by us (the golden ones) one to know"
Maglor refers to Maglor. "Inis" means "though, inner mind" etc. "insta"... I don't know, so leaving it blank. Something. Then we have "Ali". Back then, I hadn't yet come across "Ali with an I" from Karate Kid and all of the other references, but this is probably a code name/ double meaning as the Being I have called Eowyn. It fits too well with the other word games in this context, I think. We then have "wake up" followed by "ar sedi", which means "high/ beside to rest".
So the full phrase would be: "Here/ This by us one to know; Maglor thought (desire? plan?) -- Ali (Eowyn) to wake up high beside to rest".
It's the best I've got, but I think it could make sense. The question remains how Maglor is directly involved, but it seems the Couriers are in some way working with him as well. Which is why going back to your stamp message, the AMU word, which points to one "red" individual being brought back with two "blue" individuals seems, for some strange reason, that it could be Maglor-ish. This seemed further supported as a guess worth exploring with the appearance of the word Maglodan, and the inference of Maglor in that word.
Multiple meanings out of the word, which include both the subject (Pharazon and aliases in this case) and the mind author or influencer (Maglor).
In Daymon's writings, Maglor is further connected with Joseph, as he in someway or method received his Silmaril for safe-keeping, perhaps. He may have it now, and this could explain his involvement.
This is probably boring, but I will follow up with one other comment on another reason why I peg the Stone Couriers as the Two "Wizards" that are symbolized in the AMU.
During the spring of 2020, I've guessed that I picked up on Stone Courier communication, but also, from what I've gathered, Disciple communication. This next statement I attribute to one of them as my best guess. On March 22, I captured this:
Jewel zimel link
Back and east to come it profit your house
Them dual iskwendi to know
Suggest usher toward home a story to tell
So, the first link speaks of "link" that happens with Jewels. I have guessed this relates to the linking of the Rose and Ithil Stones. The "back and east" would be the directions to Tom's House in France, and then in the 3rd line we have reference to dual "iskwendi". "kwende" is the word for "Elf", and so I figure Iskwendi means something like "Elves who Know", with "Is" meaning "to know", further supported by the English phrase that follows saying that exact thing. "Dual" means "Two", so Two Elves who Know (as opposed to other Beings who don't know - like us).
The suggestion is made that these Two Elves should "usher" or lead a Third individual home so that that person can tell a story, which in my opinion is the "Aria" in question, or the song that will be shared to the other side of the road, while the Book of the Lamb is also shared back across the road.
I believe those Two Elves would be the Stone Couriers, and that this scenario is played out in that AMU word on your stamp message. They would know the way, since I think they went there in 2021 with the Rose Stone already.
I've interpreted the AMU phrase as pointing to three people, but it can also point to the change that occurs with one person. The "red" is changed to "blue", and this color or symbolism change comes up in the form of Jesus' own transformation as described in Daymon's writings. Interestingly, it has to do with Jesus drinking the same lily nectar that Pharazon drank. I'll share that in a follow up comment, because it just recently came to my mind.
Actually, I'm going to scratch sharing the whole thing, because in reading it again I am not sure what to buy or not, and what to get out of it. I will note, though, that it mentions the transformation of Red to Blue in the form of Jesus' Blood. It was Red, and thus a symbol of mortality, but then changed to "Water", which is symbolized by the color Blue. I remembered that example, and since I've imagined the Rose Stone in combination with an ancient drink, it seemed maybe relevant.
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