Her eyes, and a single glance seduces,Are merry and bright like an octopus's.-- Unto Deep
In my last post, "The power of the Sun in the palm of my hand," also paired an octopus with remarkable brightness -- Doctor Octopus, with one eye looking remarkably bright, talking about the power of the Sun:
Thinking about octopuses and the power of the Sun reminded me of something I read in René Guénon somewhere, about how the octopus represents Cancer and the summer solstice, while the dolphin represents Capricorn and the winter solstice. The makara is the connecting link between the dolphin and Capricorn, I think, but I don't remember the logic behind the octopus-Cancer mapping. (As it happens, the lines I quote at the beginning of this post, comparing a woman's eyes to those of an octopus, are about a woman born under the sign of Cancer. I hadn't yet read Guénon when I wrote that poem. The connection was an empirical one.)
By Guénon's logic, if the octopus corresponds to the bright Urim eye, the dolphin should be associated with the dark Thummim eye. As it happens, less than a week ago I posted this image juxtaposing dolphins with a dark eye, in "My plans for a sync experiment."
The title of this post comes from the Bonnie Tyler song "Total Eclipse of the Heart," with a weird music video showing lots of people with glowing eyes.
I was only thinking of bright eyes at first, but then I realized that total eclipse imagery is not unrelated to the spectacles syncs. My 2024 post "Turning suns into black holes" featured two photos that were stuck inside my secondhand copy of Antonin Artaud's book The Peyote Dance. One was in it when I bought it, inside a handmade envelope glued to the inside of the back cover:
The other photo was one I'd put there myself to use as a bookmark -- a photo of my own bloodshot right eye given to me by an ophthalmologist:
A red right eye fits the sync pattern. But, though it's not very clear in the photo, my irises are blue -- so the eye in the photo is simultaneously red and blue, just as the Sun in the other photo is both bright and dark.
Ophthalmology came up earlier today, in the post "Twins, twins, and more twins," which was about two professors of ophthalmology (both named Thomas, meaning "twin") who for some reason collaborated on a study of telepathy between identical twins.
The reason I posted my "black hole sun" photo was that it had a "twin" -- a very similar photo posted by Bill Wright on his since-deleted blog:
In fact, the post was itself a "twin," one of two posts with almost exactly the same title. As I wrote:
I have pinched my title (only changing the capitalization so as to conform to the FTND style guide) from William Wright's February 29 post "Turning Suns into Black Holes."
(Note: The style guide has since been updated. We capitalize Sun and Moon in most contexts now.)
"Total Eclipse of the Heart" is from this album:
This is driving me crazy, because I know I've very recently seen a very similar image, with laser's coming out of someone's ears -- a man's, I think -- but I can't for the life of me remember where. Someone's blog? YouTube? 4chan? A dream? If anyone has any leads, drop a comment. I think it may have been some sort of AI-generated Star Wars video where a character had lightsabers coming out of the sides of his head, but I can't find anything like that in my watch history; maybe a dream.
I ran across this at my school today. One of my employees had bought some oil pastels, transferred them to a different container, and left the empty box on a shelf.
It caught my attention because one of the eyes in the spectacles looks like an octopus's.
Then I noticed that he's reading a blue book marked with the golden heart. I recently emphasized the blueness of the Book or Mormon in "The blue and scarlet books," and back in 2024 I posted, in "I've been A minor for a heart of gold," part of a poem by Theodore E. Curtis which, apostrophizing the Hill Cumorah, refers to the Book of Mormon as its "heart of gold":
And Moroni, clothed in gloryCrowns your visage old,To reveal the ancient story
Written in your heart of gold.
The book also says "Banana" on the spine. Not sure how that fits in with the rest of the symbolism.
"Bright Eyes" is also the name of an Art Garfunkel song, which I believe came up on Bill's blog, and which was released on an interesting date.
Art Garfunkel is another AG, too.
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i had just finished watching a musical analysis of the song Black Hole Sun by Soundgarden (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjlMRvt5fVQ), then went on synlogos and read this post mentioning a black hole sun.
The Soundgarden song talks about the Sun washing away the rain, when normally it is the rain that is said to wash things away:
Black hole sun
Won't you come
And wash away the rain?
Last night, for sync-inspired reasons, I listened for the first time to the whole Weezer album OK Human. One of the songs is called "Here Comes The Rain," with these repeated lines:
Here comes the rain
Oh, it's gonna wash all my troubles away
I thought of this as a playful reference to the Beatles song "Here Comes The Sun." They changed the sun to its opposite, rain, but with a similar metaphorical meaning that things are going to get better.
one more minor sync is the Soundgarden song lyrics start with 'in my eyes'.
"Heart of Gold" is one interpretation of the mother name of Finarfin (Inglor/ Ingalaure), and came up very specifically in the context of Donkey Kong Bananza and its concluding song named Heart of Gold.
You linked the Heart of Gold here to that post "I've been A miner for a heart of gold". That Bananza storyline involved the characters tunnelling further and further down into the earth to find the Heart of Gold, which of course was also analogous to my strange words and experiences from 2020 which seemed to place people mining below a mountain in Idaho searching for a Stone that belongs to Joseph-Ausir.
Looking back on that post reminded me of the Ants, which sometime later I word-gamed as a homonym for Aunts, as in Aunt Nancy from your Kanye dream. This then, strangely, was a tie to one of my dreams from this morning.
Another form of Nancy is Anne, which both mean "Grace, favor". Anne Hathaway, for example, has symbolically stood in for the Holy Ghost, with her last name suggesting that she "hath a way", which I linked to the Iron Rod and the path to the White Tree, and ultimately the Stones she created.
Anyway, my dream this morning started with what was apparently the First Vision. There was a young boy in a grove of trees, with two shining men hovering above him, so that seemed to be what was going on, at least from what I could tell. I then noticed that Ana de Armas, an actress, was also there, but off to the side, and acting as a witness or secret observer of the whole thing. And then the scene ended.
Ana is another form of Anne, and thus Nancy. "de Armas" is interesting as it means in Spanish "of the arms/ weapons" and was used as an occupational name for an armorer, or someone who manufactured weapons. In thinking on this later, it seemed to make sense, and once again point to the Holy Ghost.
De Armas was there in the dream as a witness of Beings who presented themselves as a Father and a Son, which is a role the Holy Ghost is said to have.
Further, in my own guesses, the Holy Ghost, specifically Asenath, created the Stones that will ultimately bring her family home. These Stones have been compared with Spears, Swords, etc, so calling her an armorer is on point.
That's my guess on the random appearance of Ana de Armas in the First Vision scene, and I think it has potential ties to some things referenced here.
Ana de Armas can also be an Elvish word game. Ana de arma in Elvish would be "Alongside you ray of sunlight". In the the Sun/ Moon symbolism we've been exploring, it is the Moon that sits alongside the Sun.
As an update, I remembered that I had seen a short clip of a movie preview on Netflix this past weekend with Ana de Armas in it, and thought maybe this was why she showed up in the dream.
The clip was for the James Bond film "No Time to Die". So, I looked up the cast list to see if there any additional clues with her character/ name in the film. De Armas plays a character named Paloma. I wasn't familiar with this name, so looked it up. Paloma means "Dove, Pigeon", which is the sign attributed to the Holy Ghost. Seems consistent with my guess as to her role in the dream scene.
As another point, the First Vision imagery carries on the Twin symbolism on another level. Even though the personages identified themselves by a Father and Son relationship in the PofGP version, in the Wentworth Letter, Joseph described more in terms of Twins, as in two Beings or things that are identical:
"I was enwrapped in a heavenly vision and saw two glorious personages who exactly resembled each other in features and likeness, surrounded with a brilliant light which eclipsed the sun at noonday."
Bill, interesting that that sentence you quoted from the Wentworth Letter uses the imagery of an eclipse of the Sun -- but a bright eclipse rather than a dark one, a similar reversal to that of "Black Hole Sun."
Jonah -- a recent sync theme for me -- is also a name that means "dove."
When playing Wuthering Waves recently, I've been exploring a new region called Lahai-Roi (name probably deriving from the well in Genesis 16:14), located deep underneath one of the planet's arctic poles. The region is strongly connected to a gargantuan robot of alien origin; in particular, the robot's removed power core serves as Lahai-Roi's artificial sun. On Tuesday night, I ran through a storyline quest that involved ensuring success of a project to launch a man-made replacement "sun" into the sky, so the power core could be returned to its home.
Even before said quest, I'd been vaguely intrigued by the use of solis in the name of several things in Lahai-Roi -- most notably some strange creatures called Soliskin -- as I've only seen the more common sol and solaris used in other games. The later comments on "Sync bananza" helped me recall solis is just another variation on the theme.
wutheringwaves.fandom.com/wiki/Soliskin
During the quest, things got a little more synchy. At one point the player character has a brief vision of... well, it's sort of an eye -- mostly blue, but with a reddish tint on one side -- and sort of a black hole. For more context I've also linked a video containing the relevant cutscene. (While looking for that, a thumbnail in the sidebar reminded me one of the game's main characters also fits the red and blue eyes theme. His real name may be interesting.)
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youtube.com/watch?v=bc4zEP1SvaM (1:11:45 - 1:14:28)
wutheringwaves.fandom.com/wiki/Abby
Shortly after that scene, the player can enter the Solisylum. Inside, six chosen people work with a device called the Heliogyre that apparently utilises a lens from the giant robot. Makes sense that the centre of the thing is practically an eyeball.
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After eventually finishing that quest, I looked at others I hadn't done yet and decided to make a start on an older one involving fishing. I wasn't surprised to see multiple NPCs were named after Moby Dick characters, nor that a previously encountered whale-like creature ("Cetus the Tidebreaker") would be involved at some point. What got me was the blue octopus; in the below screenshot, it's posed at a similar angle to the one on the cover of Remarkably Bright Creatures.
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And for a bonus: I have software set up to choose a random recent featured Flickr photo for my second monitor's wallpaper, changing once an hour. While looking through vids for this comment, I was served a photo of a snowy owl, titled "The 'Eyes' Have It".
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There is another potentially interesting connection to the symbol of an Octopus I stumbled across in looking at some old LDS endowment history.
The pre-1990 endowment had the role of a minister or preacher who was aligned with Satan in trying to lead Adam astray. At one point, the minister asks Satan if there will ever be apostles or prophets again on the earth. Satan says no, but that some will claim to be, and that the minister should give them a test:
"... just test them by asking that they perform a great miracle, such as cutting off an arm or some other member of the body and restoring it, so that the people may know that they have come with power."
What a random way to show power. But then I thought of our symbol of the Octopus, which is one of the relatively rare animals that can indeed have its arm cut off and restore it. Meaning, it is the kind of test an Octopus might set up.
The storylines of James Bond and Marvel have had the symbol of an Octopus represent the bad guys, with Spectre and Hydra, respectively, as mentioned in other comments. Hydra is a strange name for a many legged animal as it was originally used for a many headed monster, but its etymology supports the water link (Hydra from Hydro, i.e., "water"), which I had used in the past as one support to Ungoliant or the Great Whore who sat upon the many waters.
Thinking of the link between many heads and many arms, and treating them as synonymous given the name, then brought the satanic test given in the temple back to Revelation, and it didn't seem so random. In Revelation 13, the Beast is introduced, who has many heads (like the Hydra), and one of these heads is fatally wounded, but then healed, which causes the people to worship him and the dragon, because it was evidence of divine power, just as Satan told the minister cutting off an arm and restoring it would be.
And of course the Hydra is also known for its ability to regenerate severed heads.
Apparently many spiders can also regenerate lost limbs. I hadn't realized that.
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