You ever watch "3rd Rock from the Sun"? Me neither, but you should look it up and Gordon-Levitt's character name. See if you get anything from it.
I looked it up. Gordon-Levitt's character is called Tommy Solomon. I'm not sure what Bill thinks that name should mean to me, but I googled it and found this:
Tame Horomona Rehe (7 May 1884 – 19 March 1933), also known by the anglicised name Tommy Solomon, is believed by most to have been the last Moriori of unmixed ancestry. Moriori are the indigenous people of the Chatham Islands.
This afternoon, I was browsing /pol/ and there was a thread about that Maori war-dance thing in the New Zealand parliament last year. Or no, looking it up now, it looks like they just did it again last month. More fun than a filibuster, anyway.
I scrolled down a bit and found this comment:
New Zealand already had people here before the Maori. They were called the Moriori people. Maori people came and colonised it and ate the natives. They were also terrible at sailing and couldn't get back home.
I don't think I'd ever heard of the Moriori until today. Taking a page from Bill's playbook, it looks as if it could derive from Elvish roots meaning "dark" and "rise" -- and I'm currently reading a book called Dark Star Rising.
Note added: The name Christchurch (with or without a space) serves to link this post to the previous one, "An intense wish to see Barbados."
9 comments:
William,
And yet another circle back to the Nigredo, no?
Polynesians aren't Negroes per se, but Tommy Solomon looks like he could have passed for one.
William,
The alchemical Nigredo has nothing to do
whatsoever with the American Negro.
The American Negro was an Alchemical experiment.
E. Pluribus Unum. In America miscegenation was 'permitted'
for the Planters so as to create a new race
for the New Atlantis we currently know as America.
Why do you think there are so many multiracial
peoples all over the world, including Barbados?
Ask yourself if Africans or any 'Black' person especially
in America or even around the world
were considered Beast of Burdens i.e. animals
by the White conquerors why would the conquerors
have 'intimate relations' with an animal?
I mean, just sayin...
Copy and Paste:
"In alchemy, nigredo, or blackness, means
putrefaction or decomposition.
Many alchemists believed that
as a first step in the pathway to
the philosopher's stone,
all alchemical ingredients had to be
cleansed and cooked extensively to
a uniform black matter.
In analytical psychology, the term became
a metaphor for "the dark night of the soul,
when an individual confronts the shadow within.
... and this about Jung:
"For Carl Jung, "the rediscovery of the principles
of alchemy came to be an important part
of my work as a pioneer
of psychology". As a student of alchemy,
he (and his followers) "compared the 'black work'
of the alchemists (the nigredo)
with the often highly critical involvement
experienced by the ego,
until it accepts the new equilibrium brought about
by the creation of the self."
~~~~~~~~
In my comment today and all the many
comments I've made about the Nigredo
concerns the big picture of transformation.
Everything is symbolic.
And yes, I do agree that Polynesians aren't
American Negros, per se', however Queen Liliʻuokalani
sure looks like a whole lot of Negro women in the hood.
Again, just sayin'.
I also found this interesting about the
Austronesian people having a connection
with the Polynesians and the Taiwanese indigenous
people. In the first two wiki photos of the two indigenous
Taiwanese women, they too look like many
women in the 'hood' of America.
My opinion of course.
E. Pluribus Unum indeed!
My point being and has always been.
Everything is connected. Especially
where it concerns the paranormal.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigredo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lili%CA%BBuokalani
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austronesian_peoples
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwanese_indigenous_peoples
That wasn't where I was going with Tommy Solomon, but it works really nicely.
Tommy means "Twin". Solomon means "Peace". "Twin Peace" is meaningful if we remember that "Peace" has come up before as a name for Asenath. Tolkien named her Vala incarnation as Este, a name which means "Peace". So the Twin of Peace, is how I take this reference, which takes us right back to Eonwe, who I have positioned as Asenath's twin.
Eonwe was also known as Urion, which I have previously connected with Orion, the Swordsman in the Sky, also known in Elvish as Telimektar, and which fits nicely with your last Moriori word game. As you mentioned, Mori-ori can be an Elvish word game for "Dark Rise". Orion is itself another word game which has that same "Ori" base, conveniently. In the case of Orion, we have "Rise Son" or the Rising Son (Sun).
This gets to your sync of the Red Book with the title of Dark Star Rising. You probably wouldn't remember but Dark Star was the name of an airship in the opening scene of Top Gun: Maverick. In that scene, we see another Tom fly the Darkstar in order to reach "Mach 10". I had word-gamed Mach 10, seeing it as a homophone for the Elvish "Makten", a word which literally means "To strike or cut a line/ direction". I saw this as a reference to the path that others will need to commence on at some point. Here is that scene again - I re-watched it, and it was even more interesting, beyond other dialogue/ symbols I had noted, given your more recent mentions of Cain. It is a man with the name of Cain (Ed Harris) who attempts to stop Maverick from taking off in Darkstar.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ql2oHbGsG1Y&t=47s
Also of potential interest would be an earlier post you had written as we played our mini-scrabble game using that stamp message. You titled it "Ascending to the black star". Might be worth a re-look. Here is the link:
https://narrowdesert.blogspot.com/2025/06/ascending-to-black-star.html
I just quickly skimmed that post again, and you mentioned the Blue Wizards, and the possibility that you are one of them. Irrespective of whether that is true or not, or if so, whether the implications you highlight are correct, a Dark Star and a Blue Wizard sets up an interesting image/ link from two days ago, which I will share in a follow-up post.
Two days ago while running, a song I had never heard of before found its way onto my running mix. The song is called "Devils in the Canyon", by a band called The Strike, and for whatever reason I found myself replaying it over and over again.
I eventually looked at the cover art on Spotify, and saw a pretty interesting image. Here it is:
https://wearethestrike.bandcamp.com/album/the-lost-years
It was yet again another Eclipse/ Black Hole image. Further, we see a man dressed in a bright blue suit attempting to run away from this Dark Star. It appears, however, that both he and the road he is running on is being pulled (in pieces) back into the Black Hole. I hadn't really noticed the Blue Man symbolism, but when I read your "Ascending to the Black Star" post and the mention of the Blue Wizard, I thought of this man running away.
The image made me think also of what Joseph Smith wrote about the Being I have associated with this Black Hole imagery: Eonwe, but called by the title "Jah-ho-e-oop" in the Grammar and Alphabet of the Egyptian Language. There we read of him:
"An ambassador: one delgated with Kingly power; one authorized to execute judgement for the King; a swift messenger one whose power cannot be escaped; one next to supreme"
It fits with the image - this man dressed in blue attempting to escape or run from the the Black Hole, but being unable to.
Interestingly, The Strike is actually comprised of a bunch of Mormons, which I didn't realize until this morning. The bio I had found just had mentioned they were from Los Angeles, but I dug in a bit more, and noted that they got their start in Utah. The lead singer, Chris Crabb, went to BYU. That name struck me as interesting, by the way. It would be a reference to Christ and to a Crab.
I also found the band's name "The Strike" was interesting in context, given my association of the Dark Star with "Makten" which as mentioned above, references a Strike.
Here is the song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_39M4ji7dEc
One other follow up on the lyrics of the song, because they were fascinating to me for a number of reasons. I won't bore you with all of them, but one example is with the title and repeated phrase of "Devils in/ through the canyon". A canyon, besides also referring to a narrow passage (via its definition of a "Gorge") also refers to a "tube", per Etymonline, giving us imagery of a conduit or tunnel.
With Devils, we have a potential reference to those escaping through said tube or passage, and this points to the symbolic reference to Black individuals going all the way back to your Arnold Schwarzenegger meme/ image. Apparently, Devils were originally thought of as black in color, which I picked up from Etymonline. The specific reference to this was fairly interesting: "Playful use for 'clever rogue' is from c. 1600, on the notion of mischievous energy and cleverness. The sense of "errand-boy in a printing office" (1680s) is from this, perhaps reinforced because they often were blackened by the ink (devils then being popularly supposed to be black)."
A clever individual who is an errand-boy involved with a printing office is pretty spot on here in reinforcing this sense that the "Devils" passing through the canyon are the "good guys". An "errand-boy" refers to a messenger or servant, and one of those is the Jah-ho-e-oop I mentioned above, or Swift Messenger.
The singer references these Devils hiding "from the angels in the mountains" as they ride through this canyon.
This brought to my mind very specific imagery from a dream I had referenced maybe one time from several years ago. Here is how I wrote about it on my Coats of Skins blog:
"Someday, someone will have a stone and a story that will allow them to slip past those angels that stand as sentinels that Mormons learn about in their temples. We have for too long assumed those sentinels are Good Guys. I tend to think of them more now as prison guards. I had a dream about this once. It was a curious one and somewhat confusing before I started developing more of my thoughts on Brigham Young (that he is evil).
"In the dream, I was standing in a long white hall. At the end of the hall was Steve Young. For non-Americans (or those who aren't American football fans), Steve Young is both a descendent of Brigham Young and a famous Hall of Fame quarterback in the NFL. He stood standing very still like a statue and staring straight ahead with glowing eyes. I found myself transported to just below Young, in that I was suddenly at the end of the hall crouched down at his feet, but didn't recall walking down the hall to get there. He continued to stare straight ahead down the hall with those glowing eyes. "He can't see me!" I thought to myself in relief, and I found that there was an open door off the hallway to my right (Young's left), and I quickly slipped through"
Basically, the dream imagery and my interpretation of the symbols seem to support my reading into these lyrics: that the Devils in the Canyon are who we would want to be - the good guys - and the Angels in the Mountains, who these Devils will hide from - are not so good.
Very interesting, Bill. I'll give that song a listen when I have time. I'd never heard of the group before.
Devils in a canyon reminds me of this post from 2021:
https://narrowdesert.blogspot.com/2021/04/gadianton-canyon-syncs.html
I also just read a book called Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon about the darker side of the Los Angeles hippie music scene, including of course the enormous amounts of free LSD distributed there by the CIA. My Gadianton post includes a still from a Star Trek movie in which Kirk says that Spock "did a little too much LDS" in the sixties.
I think the "Dark Star Rising" phrase gives more credibility and clarity to that aspect of your Stamp message. We had "Amu", an Elvish word that means "to rise", and you placed that on the Scrabble board leading up to the Dark Star/ Black Hole, and considered this as a destination.
However, Dark Star Rising, and the imagery from that Top Gun movie, suggests that it is the Dark Star itself that rises or ascends, which I think makes sense.
In addition, after commenting here, my attention was further drawn to that man dressed in blue running away from the Black Hole. He wears a yellow shirt under the blue, which I took for a shirt made of gold. We've noted a character before dressed in gold - Pharazon.
That connections becomes even more of a possibility when I realized that man is shown only with one leg. It might be angle, and the running leg trailing behind, but you can also imagine that the leg has been already atomized and sucked into the Black Hole, with the rest of the man following.
The missing leg is important because that has come up before in our symbols, including Captain Ahab and Moby Dick. Just a few days ago I had I guess what would be more or less a nightmare involving a one-legged man.
Your reference to printers' devil's, together with the wild-eyed Maori MP in the post, made me think of this memorable guest on Groucho Marx's show.
https://youtu.be/GmnnLs0v9_s
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