My first thought on waking was that Lozano is similar to lozenge and may tie in with "The lozenge is the servant of God." My second thought was that Lozano is the name of a gangster-turned-Mormon-missionary in the 2005 Richard Dutcher film God's Army 2: States of Grace. I've never seen it, but I remember the trailer, which emphasizes the name Lozano and has a scene where Lozano takes of his shirt and reveals a big tattoo of his name across his upper back.
Lozano is a servant of God in that film -- a member of "God's army" -- so that's consistent with the lozenge connection. I looked up the name and found that it can be Spanish or Italian. As Spanish, it can mean "luxuriant, vigorous, healthy" or can be "a nickname for an elegant or haughty person." As Italian, though, it refers to the city of Locarno, Switzerland. I looked up that city, and the first thing I found was:
Locarno is an Italian-speaking resort city in southern Switzerland, on Lake Maggiore at the base of the Alps.
A pretty direct hit for "foothills of the Alps."
The idea that a question should have been addressed to foothills, as if the hills were sentient beings that could answer questions, made me think of the line "the hills are alive" from The Sound of Music -- another film I've never seen, but one Debbie has been bringing up in comments recently. Looking it up, I found it is set in Salzburg, Austria. That city's Wikipedia entry begins thus:
Salzburg is the fourth-largest city in Austria. In 2020 its population was 156,852. The city lies on the Salzach River, near the border with Germany and at the foot of the Alps mountains.
That's an even more direct hit for "foothills of the Alps," as it even uses the word foot.
When I was looking for the trailer with Lozano, I had forgotten it was God's Army 2, so I first watched a trailer for the original God's Army. It includes this little exchange:
"You know we're missionaries, right?""Sure.""So you know what we do.""Yeah, you're kinda like nuns, but you're men?"
Debbie's recent comments about The Sound of Music have emphasized the fact that the main character is a nun.
If it is to hills that are alive with the sound of music that my question should have been addressed, that suggests the "mental jukebox" method of divination. If only I could remember what the question was!
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I know you won't want to hear this, but I did find it interesting that I just left a comment about Abinadi and King Noah, and the Isaiah discourse on your other dream post. The Isaiah quote that kicks off Abinadi's discourse is the reference to feet on mountains: "How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings".
We have this mention of Mountains and Feet, and so that was already on my mind when I then saw this new post and a mention of "Foothills". That would be a pretty direct play on words for a Foot on a Hill, or Feet on Mountains. I went and confirmed on Etymonline that the definition of Hill originally also included Mountains.
That play on words may be why these foothills were personified, or the question should be addressed to them, or a specific foothill, since Abinadi used the imagery to refer to prophets and their published works. Or not. Just thinking.
William,
And speaking of the icemen...
Guess who else was in the alps in 1965?
The Beatles - Ticket To Ride | Help! (1965)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJBesRuthzY&t=6s
Why wouldn't I want to hear that? It seems like a good interpretation to me, and I can't see anything in it that would be offensive or unwelcome.
I just looked up the etymology of "Alps," which is uncertain, but one proposal is that it may be related to a Greek word meaning "white flour." Interesting in connection with all the Flour Boy stuff.
William,
Also note in the Ticket to Ride video,
the Beatles are all wearing black,
and George ( the Dark Horse) a Top Hat.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_hat
William
These sync fairies be busy!!
How so you ask??
Check out my recent comment on your Rub-a-dub-
post about the Magician Tarot Card in both Rider-Waite
and Oswald Wirth's deck of cards
and your Aries/Mars illustration on your viper post.
In my comment I make reference to the
Hermetic principle of the Magician's hand gesture;
As above, so below.
Well lo and behold, guess who
makes that same gesture in the alps
on the album cover of Help!
Answer: RING--0
I had the Help! Album. Actually I had just
about all of the Beatle's albums.
I wish I still did.:-(((
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help!
ooops ,
Here's a better Help! wiki link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help!_(film)
I was trying to acknowledge the potential for annoyance.
Placing this comment here as it potentially ties to the foothills thing, and some other overall earlier symbols and themes.
My son and I have been working on a puzzle that has images of all of the US National Park badges. As a side note, puzzles are a nice change of pace for me from this stuff as you have a picture you start with and you know exactly when you get a piece of the puzzle right because it both clicks into place and matches the picture you can see. Works out really nice. Very unlike these other kinds of puzzles. I digress.
I mention this just because it likely influenced the dream. In the dream, I saw what looked to be a National Parks patch. The name of the park was "Circle of the Forest Way of Cantaloupe". The park's emblem or logo in the center of the patch had an animal with antlers, and I understood it to be a play on words between Cantaloupe and Antelope.
After waking up, I focused first on Cantaloupe and this brought me over to France. The only time Cantaloupe has shown up for me before is in the dialogue I ascribe to the Stone Couriers in which they compare the Rose Stone to a Cantaloupe before then bringing it over, I've guessed, to France.
In earlier attempts at having fun in guessing where they might have gone, I had focused on the eastern side of the country, in what would be considered the foothills of the alps or the transition between the , and several of the potential locations have fallen within Regional and National Parks. Some kind of tie? I don't know (again, we don't have a nice picture on the box to match things to), but I have been looking into potential areas. We'll see if anything pops. The park badges just seemed to be relevant.
So, it could be that "Foothills of the Alps" refers both symbolically on one level to this Isaiah reference, and also literally to a geographic location, and of course both types of references tie together since we are talking about Tom B.'s Study where apparently records, including the Stone, are kept. Thing that have and will be 'published'.
But, get this, as this will tie directly to the Four Horsemen:
I took a look at the word Cantaloupe, because suddenly I wanted to interpret it as an Elvish word, for whatever reason. I thought I had done this before, but I couldn't find anything. It comes out pretty clean - we have Canta-Lop (there is no "loupe" in Elvish, but Lop would be very similar, if not identical, phonetically):
Canta: Four
Lop: Horse
Cantaloupe gives us "Four Horse".
If you plug that back in to the park title, replacing cantaloupe with "Four Horse", you get some kind of reference to a "forest way" for the Four Horsemen, potentially.
Realizing this had me look at "Forest" to see if we had anything else than something referring to trees. Apparently, Forest potentially comes from the latin "Foris", meaning "Outside", in the sense of something foreign. So, some Outside or Foreign Way, which fits very well, since the Rail Road is meant to go outside or away from this world. Further supporting this and tying back to the Park theme (the patches), Etymonline gives the specific reference of "Beyond the Park", oddly, in meaning something beyond some main fenced area.
Apparently, Forest can also trace back to a word meaning a judgement or court.
The annoyance comes from the minor Tolkien characters I can’t seem to keep straight no matter how many times I schlep through the Silmarillion. Major BoM figures, not a problem.
That cantaloupe horsemen link is wild.
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