First, I failed to note earlier that the brand name is Potato Cat in English, 土豆貓 in Chinese. In "Same aloo gobi (actually different aloo gobi every time)," I noted that aloo (Hindi for "potato") was not only transliterated but also translated differently on the two menus I saw: once as 洋芋 ("ocean taro") and once as 馬鈴薯 ("horse bell potato"). Here we have a third Chinese word for "potato": 土豆 ("earth bean"). In Taiwan, that's actually a dialect word for "peanut," but it means "potato" on the Mainland, which is apparently where these pastels were made. (Notice also the simplified character 画, where the Taiwanese would use the traditional 畫).
Since different ways of rendering "potato" in Chinese had just come up in connection with aloo gobhi ("potatoes [and] cauliflower"), I wondered what the Hindi for "cat" might be. It's billi. So Potato Cat would be aloo billi -- what you might say to your hounds when you're hunting roe deer in western France.
In yesterday's post, I noted the significance of the blue book with a gold heart on the cover but said I wasn't sure how the word Banana on the spine fit in with that symbolism. Actually, it fits perfectly. Vidya is a major gap in my cultural literacy, but luckily I've got Bill and WG to fill me in when necessary. It turns out that "Breaking Through (Heart of Gold)" is the main theme song of the 2025 Nintendo game Donkey Kong Bananza.
Bananza isn't just the name of the game. The word also appears in the lyrics, shortly after the only mention of a "heart of gold":
Look at us, so big and smallTwo together through it allHeart of gold, a wish come trueYou and me, unbreakableBananzaBananza
Other parts of the lyrics are interesting, too. The first line is:
This strange world, it's so vast and deep
Which reminds me of a translation from Nietzsche I did back in 2019:
O man, give ear!Deep midnight speaketh; canst thou hear?"From sleep, from sleep,From dreaming deep I woke and rose;The world is deep,More deep than day would e’er suppose.How deep her woe!Joy—deeper still than heartache, she.Though woe cry, 'Go!'All joys long for eternity—For deep on deep eternity!"
Although the lines quoted earlier refer to "Two together through it all," another repeated line is:
We'll strike a chord that's gonna break us free
Two can't make a chord; it takes at least three. This syncs with something that happened this morning. I was listening (again!) to "Aloo Gobi" by Weezer and came to these lines:
You are not aloneYou are not aloneSomeone else will be there with you, be there with youYou are not aloneBe there with you, be there with youYou are not alone
As this was playing, a stack of books on my desk caught my eye:
I saw "We Are NOT Alone, Child of Fortune." As I have mentioned before, "Child of Fortune" is the meaning of my last name, Tychonievich. "You are not alone" can be true if there are just two people: you and someone else. "We are not alone," like a chord, requires three.
At the bottom of the stack is The Secret Language of Birthdays, which I have posted about before ("Squaring the circle, and more red and blue eyes"). I bought that book for the newspaper clippings the previous owner had put in it, but in the context of the present post, what is significant about it is the cover art, which is a colorized version of a detail from the Flammarion engraving:
The Donkey Kong Bananza song, remember, is called "Breaking Through (Heart of Gold)." The Flammarion engraving depicts someone "breaking through" into another world, and I included this image in my 2022 post "Break on through to the other side":
Coming back to the "strike a chord" reference, though, the heart of gold has been associated with one particular chord: A minor (ACE). In fact, my "bright eyes" post quoted and linked to my 2024 post "I've been A minor for a heart of gold." That post begins by referring to an earlier post with a nearly identical title, "I've been a miner for a heart of gold," and cautioning the reader not to confuse the two. The idea of a pair of "twin" posts with nearly but not precisely identical titles also came up in the "bright eyes" post.
More Donkey Kong lyrics that got my attention:
You and me (We're my favorite band)My hand in your hand
Given that the song has "Heart of Gold" in the title, this is a link to the Grateful Dead song "Scarlet Begonias":
Wind in the willow's playin' "Tea For Two"The sky was yellow, and the Sun was blueStrangers stoppin' strangers, just to shake their handEverybody's playing in the heart of gold band, heart of gold band
That song has come up a lot, but most recently I think in "Blueberry Hill and the Golden Age," because the Fats Domino song "Blueberry Hill" also references a song being played by the "wind in the willow" -- and that brings us to the strangest connection with the Donkey Kong lyrics.
When "Blueberry Hill" first came up, I remembered a Tori Amos song that said, "Too bad 'Blueberry Hill' was premature." When I looked it up, though, I found that I'd always misheard it. The song is "Mr. Zebra":
The final line is in fact:
Too bad the burial was premature, she said and smiled
The meter of the song requires Tori to stress the last syllable of burial, making it sound like "berry hill," and I guess I just hallucinated "blue" to make the lyrics make some sort of sense.
Here's how the song begins:
Hello, Mr. ZebraCan I have your sweater?'Cause it's cold, cold, coldIn my hole, hole, hole
And here are lines from the Donkey Kong song:
When it all seems so dark and bleakWhen the hole looks so cold and deep
So they both have a cold hole and a roundabout connection to "Blueberry Hill." Not that impressive -- until I scrolled down on the lyrics site I had been using and saw this:
Yes, this same video game has another song called "Zebra Bananza" -- played, apparently, when Donkey Kong transforms into a zebra. I guess he transforms into lots of different animals in this game -- there's an "Ostrich Bananza" song, an "Elephant Banaza" song, and so on -- but "Zebra Bananza" was the one the lyrics site thought I might also like.
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The other thing that caught my attention about the package is that it is for 12 color oil pastels.
The number 12 is going to catch my attention due to the connection with the number of Jesus' apostles, and so I was interested in what we could trace a 'pastel' to, since it those that there are 12 of.
According to Etymonline, pastel actually can be traced back to the Latin word pastellus, which is the diminutive of pasta. This then reminded my of my son's drawing from many years ago of a monkey holding a banana (obviously on theme for this Donkey Kong Bananza-inspired post) who he had strangely named Spaghetti.
I had taken that symbol and run with it in conjunction with the Black Hole imagery/ symbolism and the 'spaghettification' that theoretically occurs as one travels through one and experiences space and time in a different way, and of Men, wearing their monkey bodies, going on some kind of long journey across spacetime.
Based on other dreams and guesses, I have additionally had the thought that each Apostle (and in fact other people) have a Stone associated uniquely with them that are of various colors. For example, in one dream scene, they were presented like dyed easter eggs, each one a different color.
So, seems possible that maps to the imagery of 12 colored oil pastels, or 12 Spaghettis, and refers to the Apostles in some way.
That stack of books is pretty loaded, too, building on what you wrote about the Son of Fortune connection to yourself. In the image, the son of fortune sits directly on top of the Tower of Alchemy.
Alchemy, it turns out, is thought to potentially come from an old name (again per Etymonline) for Egypt - Khemia - which means "land of black earth" or the Black Lands. My view is that Egypt - the original "Egypt" - is a reference to Numenor, which we've touched on a few times, including similarities in the Pearl of Great price Egyptian mythology to the Numenor creation myth (a new land rising out of the sea, giants or tall men, etc.).
The Great Tower of both Bible and Book of Mormon tradition which led to the flood, I've also placed on Numenor - and is the temple that Pharazon built after Sauron took over the kingdom. So, you have Tower of Alchemy = Tower of Numenor, with a Son of Fortune directly on top of it. Tradition has it that the people tried to climb the tower to Heaven, whereas in my opinion that is the garbled tale of Pharazon's ascent to Heaven/ Aman, via means of what was done with/ from that Tower or Temple.
And, of course, the ultimate goal, or Great Work, of alchemy was to find the Philosopher's Stone. Ultimately, alchemists believed that the Philosopher's Stone would produce the Elixer of Life, and grant them immortality. Immortality is exactly the driving force behind Pharazon and the Numenoreans' actions.
A few books below you have Hughes (Hugh, Hugo) come up again, with the title "The True Image". Hughes, and its variance, is a name that specifically refers to the Holy Ghost in my own symbolism, and I've even used the exact phrase "True Image" to describe the Holy Ghost in past writing, for a few reasons. One was Anchorman, with Ron Burgundy and Veronica Corningstone (Veronica means "True Image") and a dream I later had involving the name or phrase that meant "Best Image". In addition, my own belief that Jesus and the Holy Ghost were the two Beings who visited Joseph during the First Vision, and Joseph observed that the Holy Ghost was an exact or true image of Jesus.
William,
From a metaphysical lens:
and speaking of Alchemy Towers
and the albedo, zebras of black AND white
( different but the same ) and the
Alchemical Fortunate Child/Son Michael Jackson
breaking through to the other side,
and You are not alone Oh My!
Check this out:
Copy and paste:
"Albedo allows the transformation of lead into silver,
acting in the phase following the dissolution of matter
and recomposing it into a higher synthesis,
following the alchemical
motto solve et coagula.
It represents dawn and rebirth, sometimes
***symbolized by a woman or a white rose***.
On a macrocosmic level, the white of albedo is associated
with the Moon, an image of purity and femininity,
and among metals, with silver."
Another planet typically alluded to in albedo is Venus,
formerly called “Lucifer,” meaning the bearer of light,
as it radiates the white of light and knowledge
in contrast to the darkness of nigredo
~~~~~~~~
Blue is also symbolic with the moon and the female.
IMHO, maybe that's why in the red and blue syncs,
especially the Ben Franklin ' granny glasses' syncs,
the Rubedo ( the red eye/male energy/sun ) is symbolic
of humanity being on the precipice of The Great Reset,
when the moon replaces the sun.
Big picture :Lunar worship replaces sun worship.
I think that's why Shiva , the Destroyer is outside
of CERN.CERN'S logo and Shiva are
both blue.
Recall Marcon's red eye 'replaced'
by the blue aviator glasses.
Recall my recent comment about the white lilies
and white roses in the Nick Cage movie,
National Treasure: Book of Secrets
and the twin Resolute Desks.
In the video below of Michael Jackson - You Are Not Alone
note the blue and red and also note that
the black shirt Micheal is wearing forms
a V on his chest. Venus. The female V/ Vulva and the cup of
the Star of David and the Masonic V in the Square
and Compass.
Venus is also known as 'earth's twin' or sister.
I believe Michael Jackson was chosen to be
symbolic of the Alchemical experiment and
the Great Work as was the
American Negro as was the American
Empire. That is, E. Pluribus Unum
I believe that's why, in the video, Michael's on stage.
All the world's a stage.
I noticed that abt marker/frame 5:17 or
so in the video Michael was able to sneak in the
Karana Mudrā ( sign of the horns).
Michael also does The Chauka Posture as well.
I believe that Michael Jackson also brought
to his incarnation the message of:
we are more than our physical bodies,
to which I absolutely concur.
You are Not Alone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAyKJAtDNCw
Albedo in Alchemy: The Second Stage of Magnum Opus - Malevus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sign_of_the_horns
Also, you may have already written about it (I can't remember) but you should check out the cover art to Tower of Alchemy as well given these symbols. It is artwork from Splendor Solis (The Splendour of the Sun) which consists of 22 different images, I guess. The particular image featured on Tower of Alchemy features a King and a Queen, who are below a Red Sun and a Silver Sun, respectively. The king is dressed in red and stands on a fire, and the queen is dressed in white and blue, and stands on a full moon, and they both hold scrolls and speak to one another.
Conjures up the story of the Rose and Ithil Stones, and what comes of that interaction. The caption even reads "The universal way, with the particulars".
Look at the queen's shoes as well - one red and the other blue.
Splendor Solis is where the background image in the Arnold Schwarzenegger "Reality Temple" meme comes from. Specifically, it's redrawn version of the "Arma Artis" image from Splendor Solis (cf. your dream about Ana de Armas).
https://narrowdesert.blogspot.com/2025/04/the-sources-behind-reality-temple-meme.html
I hadn't noticed the woman's mismatched shoes in the "Mercury and Sulphur" image. It looks like the left shoe is red and right black.
Was going to say those "Aloo Gobi" lines echo the chorus of MJ's "You Are Not Alone", but I guess Debbie beat me to it.
Yeah, on the shoes, I think depends on what image/ version you look at, as the color/ shading seems to vary. Some images definitely make it look black. In the one I first looked up, it looked like a dark blue/ navy. But as you have written yourself in other posts, black has been synonymous with blue in other settings. But it the colors aren't on the correct feet.
Just this morning, my wife and son were talking about something, and my son referred to an object and said it was black. My wife corrected him and said she thought it was actually navy.
On the Arma Artis image, I hadn't recognized it as the basis for that Reality Temple meme without shirtless Arnold in it.
The shoes being switched on the queen also map to the sun and moon being reversed from other images.
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