Not in the well

In "Update: Some additional pebbles have been seen," the name Lassie came up as being symbolically related to Colleen, as both names originated as common nouns meaning "girl" used in Celtic countries. In a comment, WanderingGondola noted the further connection that the most famous Lassie is a collie, which is quite phonetically similar to Colleen.

In "A Lassie-like library lion, and a ceiling fan on Mars," I wrote:

The one thing everyone knows about Lassie -- even if, like me, they've never read the book or watched the TV series -- is that when little Timmy falls down the well, he sends Lassie to get help, which she does by barking until someone follows her to the well and saves Timmy. That's who Lassie is: the dog who ran to get help for someone who had fallen.

 

I was trying to find a suitable picture of Timmy telling Lassie to go get help, but all I could find were various parodies. Eventually, I found this YouTube video claiming that this iconic episode never actually happened. Apparently it's some sort of Mandela Effect.

The YouTube channel I found this was Ceiling Fan Man. I would go on to discover that Ceiling Fan Man joined YouTube on August 6, 2019 -- the very day (accounting for the time-zone difference) that my own ceiling fan was destroyed by a poltergeist. As related in "The spider, the rat, and the poltergeist," this geist claimed to be the devil, said its purpose was death, and manifested visually to my wife as an enormous spider. The symbolic (and perhaps more than just symbolic) connection to Ungoliant, the being Bill Wright has identified with Colleen, is obvious.

I was thinking about all that early this morning, and I reread the post about how I discovered Ceiling Fan Man while looking for the apparently nonexistent Timmy-in-the-well episode of Lassie. I had been looking for something like this:

Less than an hour later, I was asked to read a story to the preschoolers: Wake Up, Sun! by David L. Harrison (on YouTube here). A dog and a pig (see "The horrible hairy homeward-hurrying hogs of Hieronymus" for the Lassie-pig connection), having woken up in the middle of the night, think that it is morning but that the Sun has gone missing. Perhaps it has fallen down the well.

But of course the Sun has not in fact fallen down the well, just as Timmy in fact never did so.

The idea of the Sun being at the bottom of a well is symbolically interesting, though. It suggests the Heart of Gold deep underground, and also Zenos's prophecy that the Sun would be shut up in a sepulchre, causing three days of darkness. (See "Zenos was quoted by Joel, Nephi, Alma, Malachi, and Paul.")