Student A: (undoing his man-bun and letting down his hair) Romeo, Romeo, let down your hair!Student B: That's Juliet, stupid! Romeo didn't have hair!Student C: I thought it was Rapunzel.Student D: No, Shakespeare! Even I know that.
I had typed the above out as a draft but decided I wasn't going to post it because it was just too random and irrelevant even by my standards.
Well, the sync fairies have decided otherwise.
My recent post "Seals, the Blue Flamingo, and the Multidimensional Dumpster Phoenix" introduced the theme of the blue flamingo. Since searching the /x/ archives for "blue prince" turned out to be so fruitful, I decided to do the same for "blue flamingo"; I found a badly translated excerpt from a Russian children's novel, Children of the Blue Flamingo (1981) by Vladislav Krapivin. I found the Russian-language Wikipedia article for it (the original title is Дети синего фламинго) but couldn't find the text of the novel itself anywhere. After trying several places, I decided to search archive.org for blue flamingo in English. (I had already tried and failed with the Russian.) One of the results that came back was a novel called Beyond the Golden Stair by Hannes Bok, with a note in the metadata saying that it had been "previously published in shortened form under the title The blue flamingo."
The cover art is pretty exact match for the blue flamingo pin I found yesterday:
Besides the blue flamingo and the giant spider, what got my attention was the title itself: Beyond the Golden Stair. I remembered that as a kid I watched a Rocky and Bullwinkle "Fractured Fairy Tales" version of Rapunzel where the witch and the prince say, "Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair!" and then, while climbing the hair, sing, "That I may climb the go-olden stair!" This was a potential link to that ridiculous Romeo/Rapunzel conversation -- but was that line about climbing the golden stair a standard part of the Rapunzel story? I'd never encountered it anywhere but in the Rocky and Bullwinkle spoof. I ran a search for "that i may climb the golden stair" and got this:
That's right, the second result is a site called Rapunzel and Juliet, which is devoted to comparing those two characters and appears to be a middle school assignment. The title exactly complements the Samoan students' conversation. The Samoan had said "Romeo, Romeo, let down your hair," when (almost) everyone knows it should be, "Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair." The Weebly site is called Rapunzel and Juliet, when everyone knows it should be Romeo and Juliet. Although the site is saying that Juliet is a Rapunzel-like character, the title actually places Rapunzel in the role of Romeo.
Replacing Rapunzel with Romeo and vice versa -- how often has that happened, like, ever?
So I think Beyond the Golden Stair is my next sync-fairy reading assignment.
5 comments:
Perhaps a tangent, or maybe not, but it struck me as I read this that Romeo and Juliet, just looking at the names, are a tie-in to Julius Caesar. Juliet is a form of the name Julius. Romeo means "a Roman". So far, Julius Caesar is the best known Roman by that name showing up in our symbols.
I also thought of Peter in terms of another Roman that has come up, and his symbol of Roman Reigns.
Could mean both - A Roman and Julius. I've guessed that it is from the Lion's Head that one has to make the leap, like Indiana Jones, and this Lion has been tied to Peter, so that could be something in relation to a staircase or path.
In bringing up Peter as a Roman again, I thought of this in the context of your Seal syncs.
Bible tradition has Peter as the one who was given the power to seal things in both heaven and on earth, and this had something to do with "keys":
"And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven."
It says bind, but it is a very LDS thing to talk about this as the "Sealing Power".
The keys of the kingdom and their related sealing power was one tie we used in connecting Peter to Thomas Marsh.
And even though Caesar himself suffered from premature male-pattern baldness (“Romeo didn’t have hair!”), his name means “hair,” which ties in with Rapunzel.
William,
In addition to my comment about the singer Seal, I just
remembered the Seven Seals and the seventh seal
connection to cups .
Copy and Paste:
"The seven bowls (Greek: φιάλας, phialas (acc. pl.),
nom. sing. φιάλη, phialē; also translated as
*******cups or vials)
are a set of plagues mentioned in Revelation 16.
They are recorded as apocalyptic events that were
seen in the vision of the Revelation of Jesus Christ,
by John of Patmos. Seven angels are given seven bowls
of God's wrath, each consisting of judgements
full of the wrath of God.
These seven bowls of God's wrath are poured
out on the wicked and the followers of the Antichrist."
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_bowls
William,
Also regarding the Flamingos I thought you
may also find this interesting about the 2023
Netflix apocalyptic movie Leave The
World Behind ( bankrolled by
the Obama's production company Higher Ground
with Barack serving as consultant).
As you know I've mentioned this very cryptic
movie a gazillion times here on your blog and
I don't want to wear out my welcome beating,
what appears to be a dead horse,
but it's interesting , at least to me, how the symbolism ,
and I believe to be clues, in Leave the World
Behind continues to connect with the big picture
and many puzzle pieces, including the flamingos
in your new sync stream.
I've shared with you last week about my
recent deer visits
which are continuing almost every other day.
The two fawns are coming closer to me.
The other day, they laid down and went to sleep
in the garden with me sitting Very close. This lasted
for about 2 hours!!!
What's interesting is that in the movie,
the young girl ( whose name is ROSE )
is intuitive. Recall my
recent comment about my connection
to a Rose in particular the Rosicrucian's.
Rose also seems to
have telepathic connections with deer.
The deer seem to be helping her
through the chaos, which the chaos
begins with a cyber-attack.
The first clue is when an oil tanker
( the White Lion ) runs aground onto the beach
where the protagonist Amanda, her husband
Clay, son Archie and daughter Rose are
relaxing on vacation. Rose is the only
one who is aware of the oil tanker's presence.
In one of the scenes flamingos appear
in the swimming pool where Amanda and
family are renting from George Scott,
the owner of the house. The house is
in Long Island, not Florida and flamingos are not
migratory birds, right?
Keep in mind that Georges are earth tillers.
They till the soil so as to
plant new seed.
What new seed do you think is being planted
in this movie.??
And yes, I recall that you said
that you didn't have Netflix
but perhaps one of your readers may find it interesting?
Everything is connected to a much bigger
picture, no?
Here is a YouTuber's review of the movie
focusing on the deer and the flamingos.
The Meaning Of THE DEER In LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPh1rEcZA_M
Leave The World Behind Trailer ( note all the blue-green)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMVBi_e8o-Y
Another Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvWUroNu61E
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