In a comment, Bill put the dream and the song together, noting that the etymological meaning of muesli is “mush-like food,” that people who are always bombing the Middle East could be called “boomers,” and that tart is an example of “round food.”
This brought back a memory of a dream I had back in the late 1980s. This was a non-participatory, movie-like dream, in which I watched a montage of people showing various emotional reactions to “sandworm rounds,” from a fist-pumping “Aw-right! Sandworm rounds!” to a disgusted “Yechh! Sandworm rounds” to a measured “Yes, I see. Sandworm rounds.”
“Worm rounds” came from Dungeon Master, an Atari ST computer game that I was playing at the time. There’s a monster called a Magenta Worm, and when you kill one, you get some “worm rounds,” which are circular slices of worm that can be used as food. “Sandworm” of course comes from Frank Herbert’s Dune novels, which I had not read at the time but knew of indirectly through allusions in NetHack. Sandworms are enormous, up to 40 meters in diameter, so “sandworm rounds” would be much too large for anyone to eat.
Note added: I thought this juxtaposition on the Synlogos aggregator was funny:
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Dungeon Master on the Atari ST was the absolute best.
The Sandworms are an interesting connection, and I think do tie back to Dr. Sand's All-Sand Tarts. My guess was that the Tarts themselves linked back to Joseph-Ausir-Lorien (Dr. Sand) and the lilies on Eressea, and noted that the dust or pollen of those lilies had the effect of giving dreams and visions to those who not only ingested it but to whom it came in contact.
This maps very directly to the effect of the "Spice" in Dune. I mean, fairly clearly now that I think about it. In its creation, Spice becomes mixed in with the desert sand itself, and this "Sand" causes psychedelic and hallucinogenic visions, dreams, pre-cognitions, etc.
The Worms create the Spice, so perhaps some symbolism there. Worm comes from Wyrm, which can refer to "snakes, serpents, dragons, reptile". So, both positive and negative symbols depending on how we look at them. GIven that I already associated Dr. Sand with Joseph, I will lean toward positive.
I've brought up the Caduceus, most recently in that Deuce of Cups card, which has the symbol of the two snakes wrapping up each other. This has also been linked to Moses' staff, which had the serpent that healed anyone who looked at it.
This has me thinking that the perhaps the All-Sand Tarts are not only linked to events of the past (the lilies) but to the future - specifically many Beings receiving their own Stone, which are the White Stones of Joseph Smith's writings.
I've guessed that these Stones are the "Crumbs" which Asenath, Joseph's wife, created to gather people home. Crumb refers to a fragment of Bread, which is a tie to Tarts, with that word an alteration of Torte/ Torta, which means "round loaf of bread".
Thinking of Spice from Dune had me remember another Spice connection from a few months ago.
Leo had called me his "spicy friend" in response to some comments I had left on your blog. He then, unknowingly, made a link between those spicy comments and a man whose name means Spicer. He had brought up the Jay Leno and Jimmy Kimmel incident, in which Kimmel went on Leno's show and called him out for not giving up the Tonight Show to Conan. In his analogy, you were inferred to play the role of Leno, and I was Kimmel.
I had then called to his attention that Kimmel's last name means "Caraway" and was used as an occupational name for someone who was a Spicer. So, the name fit exactly with his use of the phrase "spicy friend".
Caraway is an interesting word, and when I look at it now I can't help but have that word game thing happen to me and see the word as Car Away. Stones are many times symbolically seen as Cars in my dreams, and here we have a word that seems to refer to a Car going Away. This is how I have imagined these Stones working - the Wheat being gathered home by means of the Stones, so this fits.
Caraway also gives us an interesting word play similar to Anne Hathaway (Anne Hath A Way). We have a Way associated with the name Cara. The Cara Way. Cara is a name in Gaelic that means "Beloved, Friend". It is also a version of another name Kira, which has come up multiple times (e.g., in Xanadu, Dark Crystal) and it is said to be a version of Katherine or Kate, which we have seen in multiple forms as well (including in the name Nancy).
The Cara = Katherine = Nancy link (in that they all can mean the same thing or are versions of the same name) takes us full circle back to Anne Hathaway. The name Anne was originally created as a diminutive of Nancy. In other words, following that stream of analogous names, the name/ phrase Anne Hathaway is the same thing as Cara Way/ Caraway.
Pretty neat how that works out.
In any case, this continue to make me thing that these cookies/ tarts, while alluding to or including the lilies of Eressea, also point to the Way created by Asenath for gathering her family back home.
To spell out the rather convoluted name game Bill is playing here: Nancy can be a diminutive of either Anne ("grace") or Agnes ("pure"). (Anne was not created as a diminutive of Nancy; Bill has that backwards.) Cara can be Italian for "beloved," Irish Gaelic for "friend," or a diminutive of Katherine ("pure").
Anne = Nancy
Nancy = Agnes
Agnes = "pure"
"pure" = Katherine
Katherine = Cara
Thus, the via many intermediate steps, Anne = Cara, and the way that Anne hath (Anne Hathaway) can be identified with Caraway.
Yes, I wrote that Anne/ Nancy relationship backward, both here and in my comment on your other post.
But, not convoluted at all. Put simpler, all of these names mean the same thing, which is "Pure". The chain was meant to illustrate examples of where we have seen the symbols or characters, and thus their own connection. Anne/ Nancy not only means Pure, but add the additional meaning of Grace, and so one additional reason for listing it out like this was also to tie all of these names to that added meaning, which seemed relevant given the "Seal of Grace" theme on your other post, which I read after I posted here.
In any case, both "Names" or phrase allude to this Way that was created for Beings to return to a place, which I've guessed is the literal fulfillment of Lehi's dream of the Tree of Life. The Little Mermaid actress' name of Eva Menander in your dream I think supports this. I'll leave that comment on that post.
Well, yeah, it is a little convoluted. Neither Anne nor Cara means “pure.” We need to go through Nancy, Agnes, and Katherine. I agree it’s a good link, but it’s not obvious, and I thought spelling it out would be helpful.
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