Gators, frogs, bathroom privacy, and the Heart Sutra

This morning, I was asked to read two stories to the preschoolers. The first was Alan's Big Scary Teeth by the mononymous Jarvis. This page caught my eye:

I brought up crocodilians in the December 2 addition to the post "Dinosaur of the month, dinosaur of the year." This had to do with Suchus (the Egyptian crocodile god Sobek) rhyming with tuchus, and the sync of my having recently posted pictures of the tuchus of Pepe the Frog (associated with the Egyptian frog god Kek), in "Gary Lachman spreads dangerous misinformation about Pepe the Frog!" Yesterday's post "Public urination, and unlawful possession of a cured vehicle" takes those connections as its starting point and received a long comment from Debbie, beginning in her trademark style:

And speaking of TOP EL's and L's,  and frogs sitting on its tushie

on top of a Sookie, Sookie, and cold blooded gators and see you

laters ( Hello Goodbye) and pulled down pants  and can't do thats,

OH MY! . . .

She went on to clarify that the "Sookie, Sookie" on which the frog was resting its tushie (from tuchus) was the pad of the "lotus lily" -- the connection being that the name Sookie ultimately derives from a Hebrew word often rendered "lily" in English.

So the cold-blooded gator scaring frogs off their lily pads in the book was a bit of a sync.

More specific syncs came from the second book I read, which was this version of one of Aesop's fables:

I don't own this book and can't find any images of the contents online, so I'll just have to report what I read from memory. I'll see if I can get some photos later and add them to the post.

In this version of the story, City Mouse arrives in the country, and complaining that traveling on the dusty country road has made him "dirty, messy, and muddy," he asks if he can take a bath. Country Mouse shows him the bathtub, which is outdoors.

"Everyone can see me here!" protests City Mouse. "Don't you have a door?"

"Sorry," says Country Mouse. "We don't use doors in the country."

While the two mice are bathing, a frog surfaces in the bathtub and asks to borrow the soap. City Mouse, who has never seen a frog before, is terrified and thinks it's a monster.

This is a pretty major sync, since my Pepe post is about a frog and being seen in the bathroom, and I particularly focus on the bathroom door. Wikipedia claims that Pepe left the door open while urinating (and Gary Lachman has him "urinating in public" with no door at all!), but I point out that in fact he has closed the door but someone else opens it on him.

Debbie's comment brought up the Steppenwolf song "Sookie, Sookie" (cf. Suchi, the genitive of Suchus). I didn't know the song. My only association with the name Sookie is the nursery rhyme:

Polly put the kettle on,

Polly put the kettle on,

Polly put the kettle on,

We'll all have tea.

Sukey take it off again,

Sukey take it off again,

Sukey take it off again,

They've all gone away.

The ending of the rhyme made me think of the haunting ending of the Heart Sutra -- gate gate paragate parasamgate bodhi svaha -- "gone, gone, gone beyond, gone utterly beyond, enlightenment, hail!" By a strange coincidence, it is common to write the text of the Heart Sutra on teacups and teapots.

Of course the "lotus lily" is a central symbol in Buddhism: