This got me thinking of Mars as our planet's Cold Brother -- "brother" because it was in the past the most Earth-like of planets, with oceans and all that, before some sort of cataclysm a few million years ago.
That, in turn, reminded me of the statement "Mars was murdered." This message was delivered by some nonhuman entity to an occultist or alien abductee or something, but I couldn't remember who exactly had been involved. When I googled "mars was murdered" in quotes, the first result was this paywalled New Scientist article:
The emphasis on Tuscon, Arizona seems quite unusual. Having a city-name dateline like that at all in an article about another planet is a little strange. Also, the usual format is to have the dateline in the same font as the rest of the article, with a dash after it, but in this article they wrote it in huge bold type, nearly as big as the headline.
Arizona has appeared in two recent dreams ("Cold Brother" and "Among the giants"), in both of which I was serving there as a Mormon missionary. My real-life mission was mainly in Utah but did include a bit of Arizona, down to the north rim of the Grand Canyon. That part of the country even looks a bit like Mars, so much so that Barsoom (from Edgar Rice Burroughs's Mars novels) was used as a slang term for the southern Utah town of Moab.
As for Tucson specifically, my main association is the Beatles song "Get Back," which continues the gender-bending theme from "Lola" and "Walk on the Wild Side."
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The word Murder came up very specifically in one of my dreams from yesterday morning, so I'll leave it here since it was then pretty interesting for me to see that word in the title of your post.
In the dream, I was till lying in bed and had been woken up by my son. Although it was completely dark, I could sense him standing right next to my bed. He spoke and said "I'm sorry I have to murder you". In saying it, however, he also said murder backwards, which (after waking up) I realized invoked the scene from The Shining. I specifically heard him say it both forwards and backwards.
This obviously concerned me, and I reached out in the dark to see if I could physically touch him. I don't remember if I could, but he then started laughing, like it was all some kind of joke. I thought perhaps he had been kidding, but I was still unsettled, as this was definitely not something in character for him or anything he has joked about before. I eventually woke up, still lying there and realized that my son wasn't actually standing there and it had been a dream.
The Shining scene that was seemingly partially referenced was this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wkvlV2cndA
It wasn't until this morning, after waking up from some other dreams, that I realized one very specific link with saying and writing Murder backwards as Redrum: Mr. Mxyzptlk, and his association with inverted or backwards words.
It was interesting then to see murder mentioned here in conjunction with Mars and Arizona - two symbols that have been specifically associated with a Being who was in fact murdered in my story in the form/ incarnation of Abinadi being burned to death by Noah and his priests (contributing to our Phoenix symbolism).
Which then makes the mention of "Tucson" potentially interesting in this context, if I apply an admittedly creative word game. The name apparently comes from the Native American "Cuk Son". I couldn't help but see that in a specific way. Phonetically, applying a long "u' sound, you have the phrase "Cook Son", which is what Noah did to Abinadi, just looking at that phrase in English.
Is The Shining the one where the big bad is called Tac because that's Cat backwards and thus the opposite of Dog backwards, which is God? I saw a few minutes of a Stephen King movie about that.
No, I don't think so.
But, interestingly, just to check I googled "the shining tac backwards", and the very first result was a reddit thread of a theater in - where else - Tucson who ran a screening of the film in which they had the movie running forward and backward at the same time, overlayed on top of each other. I guess there is a theory the Kubrick's use of mirror images, twins, etc. in the movie extended to the structure of the movie itself. Sort of like the LDS version of finding Chiasmus in scripture, I suppose:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Ijustwatched/comments/1eb2v3/ijw_the_shining_1980_backwards_forwards/
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