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 tushieon top of a Sookie, Sookie, and cold blooded gators and see youlaters ( 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:
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William,
VERY INTERESTING INDEED!
I found a video on youtube which is a read aloud bedtime
story of Alan's Great Big Scary Teeth and interestingly the
part of the story about the frog leaping off the lily pad
and the monkey and parrot were mentioned twice in the story,
so I'm thinking that the frog and the lily pad is more than
just a slight sync.
Keep in mind, a true sync is something meaningful
that happens out of the ordinary. That fact that the
frog and the lily pad were mentioned twice is very meaningful,
at least it is to me given that I have many puzzle
pieces for lilies.
Also, I think the most important reason why the frog lily
sync is meaningful to me is because it
supports my perspective about the paranormal.
In this case telepathy and 'seeing' into the future.
I've never heard of this book or the author,
so thank you for posting this.
Interestingly it's the frog who comes up with the idea
that things were going to 'change'. New rules.
Which again a change is a transformation.
Cold blooded Alan thought he ruled the 'seas(sees)'
by using fear, but the frog, monkey, parrot
and Barry the beaver proved Alan wrong
and exposed Alan as a deceiver.
Regarding the door and the city and country mice.
The door is a portal, a point of transformation.
Going through a door is changing
from one place to another.
Also regarding the tea.
Recall I shared my 2003 dream I titled Tweed.
In the dream, Tweed was following me in a cave, wearing
a tweed sports jacket and carrying
a tea cup and saucer. In the dream
Tweed told me that he would be with me
for 9 more years which 2003+ 9 is 2012.
My 2003 Tweed dream( and a gazillion other paranormal
experiences and dreams in my lifetime )
was the reason I went to Monroe in 2005.
Also, 'spilling the tea' is a metaphor for disclosing
hidden and/or sensitive information.
In the nursery rhyme you posted,
note that Polly( Pollyanna?) puts the tea kettle on
but the Sukey ( Sookie aka Lily ) takes
it off.
On/Off
Hello, Goodbye
And speaking of Hello, Goodbyes
note that in the video of the Beatles
performing Hello, Goodbye ( which I recall
watching on TV back in the day! )
note that the Beatles transform from black
and white to vivid color where it appears they
have transformed into Sgt. Peppers.
A Pepe is a Piper and a Piper is a Pepper.
Exchange the vowels.
Copy and paste from wiki:
The word pepper derives from Old English pipor,
Latin ***piper***, and Greek: πέπερι.
The Greek likely derives from Dravidian
pippali, meaning "long pepper".
Sanskrit pippali shares the same meaning."
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Note Paul and John ( the two 'songwriters' )
are wearing blue-green.
Also note the lilies in the illustration you posted are pink.
Pink is the creation of opposites. Red King and White Queen.
Sync fairies be very very busy, for real.
Alan's Big, Scary Teeth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jg65k8c8J-Y&t=2s
The Beatles - Hello, Goodbye
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rblYSKz_VnI
William,
A few more tidbits about Steppenwolf.
The song Born to be Wild, one of the
Easy Rider movie sound tracks,
was recorded by Steppenwolf.
Jack Nicholson (the Shining) as well as Peter Fonda, both
starred in Easy Rider and were Laurel Canyon buddies.
Nicholson still has a house there.
On the cover of Steppenwolf's album At My Birthday Party
check this out:
"This photo of the band was shot by Henry Diltz,
and it shows the band sitting in the remnants
of amplifiers and equipment in a charred house
which had belonged to Canned Heat.
(A 1969 fire ripped through Canned Heat's house
and rehearsal studio on Lookout Mountain Ave
in Laurel Canyon, Los Angeles, California.)"
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My fav Steppenwolf is Magic Carpet Ride.
Steppenwolf - Magic Carpet Ride
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPE9a_epmWw
Steppenwolf - Born To Be Wild
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMbATaj7Il8
https://centerforaninformedamerica.com/inside-the-lc-the-strange-but-mostly-true-story-of-laurel-canyon-and-the-birth-of-the-hippie-generation-part-vii/
William,
Oh My! I just noticed something.
In the photo of Alan you posted it shows that Alan has
11 teeth!! and 4' toes' with yellow nails.
And of course Alan is green And blue.
What's the odds?
The Sookie/lotus lily thing reminded me, in my paperback edition of Last Call (which I picked up last February, but only got around to reading recently) there's this odd little "Questions for Discussion" thing in the back. In one of the questions it mentions that the character Susan "comes to manifest as a symbol of alcohol and Death" and that the name Susan is etymologically associated with both the lily and the lotus flower.
As far a I could remember, I thought the point was that the lily symbolizes death (through its common usage in funerals) and the lotus intoxication (in Greco-Roman mythology), but when I just went back and looked at it, it specifically says "The two meanings in turn symbolize both joy and the powerful opiate from The Odyssey," which I thought kind of broke parallelism.
That question struck me when I read it, because I was like, wait, does this question reflect the author's thought process? I thought it was just kind of a generic name choice.
(If you're curious, the actual "question" part was "How does Susan represent these two meanings as a character?")
William,
Update:
As I was reading all of this wild sync stuff to Marshall
including my comment about Laurel Canyon and Steppenwolf's
album cover photo taken at the charred remains of the group
Canned Heat house, I suddenly remembered the 1970's song
by Canned Heat titled: Going up the Country,
which made me think of the City Mouse, Country Mouse
book you made reference to.
Copy and paste from the 1970 song Going Up the Country
lyrics:
I'm gonna leave this city
Got to get away
I'm gonna leave this city
Got to get away
Well, all this fussing and fighting
Man, you know I sure can't stay
~~~~~
Yet another 'goodbye' reference?
In the video note the flute begins the song.
The flute being a wind instrument. Recall my
comments about Pan's panpipes.
Stairway to Heaven by Led Zeppelin also
features an iconic flute solo.
Note starting about marker/frame 0: 45
or so an image of a Nigredo is superimposed
on the screen right before the wind instrument'
plays.
Note the focus on the flute player , especially
his eyes. Recall in your post the Nigredo playing
the flute/clarinet? A wind instrument.
Canned Heat - Going Up The Country
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBhpiUFSYWI
Henri, how very strange! The name Susan doesn't actually have anything to do with lotuses; it means "lily" in ancient Hebrew and "rose" in modern Hebrew. The author's proposed train of thought, then, is: This character represents alcohol, which is intoxicating, as is the lotus tree in Homer, which shares a name with the unrelated sacred lotus, which superficially resembles the unrelated water lily, which is called a "lily" in English, as are unrelated Lilium flowers, which in ancient Hebrew were called shoshana, which is the source of the name Susan.
This reminds me of a classmate of mine back in college who proposed that part of the meaning of the title of the Chekhov story "Толстый и тонкий" is that it can be Englished as "thick and thin," which sounds similar to сукин сын, which means "son of a bitch."
William,
I just found this and it's quite interesting
and yet another perspective regarding why a lily,
water lily, lotus and a rose, Oh My! are all one
in the same.
Copy and paste: asterisks mine.
"Rendering in the Bible of the Hebrew word (I Kings vii. 19)
or (II Chron. iv. 5; Cant. ii. 1; Hosea xiv. 5),
which is probably a loanword from the
*** Egyptian ****"s-sh-sh-sh-n" = "lotus"; the white lily,***
Lilium candidum Linn., growing wild in the Lebanon
and other regions of northern Palestine.
In a figurative sense the word "shoshan"
is used of the capitals of the pillars
and of the molten sea in the Temple (I Kings vii. 19, 26),
and in the Mishnah of a nail-head and the knob
on the Etrog; in the Targum it connotes "flower" in general.
Sometimes, however, Targumic diction,
followed by the Zohar, gives "shoshan"
the meaning of "rose."
~~~~~~~~
As you are aware, I have a personal
connection to the name Suzy because of my 2008 dream
that I titled Suzy, which I've shared many times
on your blog.
In real life, I don't know anyone named Suzy or Susan
and it was only because of my research of
the symbolism ( in the dream )
that I found the connections of the Lily, the El's
and The Shushan Gate in Jerusalem.
All subjects that I did NOT know before the dream.
I believe that the paranormal
can not be explained logically or scientifically
because it's a Universal Language all of its own,
the Sacred Science Knowledge and
in the paranormal everything is interconnected.
Can telepathy be explained logically? Or premonitions?
If so, I would love if someone would explain
why and how to me.
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/9987-lily
Alan is indeed blue-green, which I had somehow failed to notice. One of the many proposed etymologies for Alan is that it come from the Irish for "little rock," which ties a blue-green Alan to the Blue-Green Crystal Ball, which was originally called a "Stone."
https://narrowdesert.blogspot.com/2025/09/a-turquoise-stone-and-suns-moons-and.html
Hours before this post, I was reading some recent-ish posts on Vox's Arkhaven Substack. I only looked at one about a movie for the anime, Chainsaw Man, because I had no idea what it was about (it doesn't sound like my thing) and figured Dark Herald would include a synopsis (eh, kinda-sorta-not really). He wrote that the movie "uses Aesop’s fable of the Country Mouse and City Mouse extensively", although it's not all that clear how that applies to the main character.
arkhaven.substack.com/p/the-dark-herald-recommends-chainsaw
Besides the nursery rhyme, Sookie is the name of the protagonist in the TV show True Blood and the books it was based on. I only know this by cultural osmosis so can't say what either series is like.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Southern_Vampire_Mysteries
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