In "Clavis avis" -- Latin for "the bird's key" -- I posted this picture, noting that a third rhyme was provided by the last name of the artist, Davis.
Despite that third rhyme, I did not immediately connect it with the earlier "Key of David" syncs, even though those were focused on Guillaume Postel's Absconditorum Clavis, which uses the same Latin word for key.
The picture above, which I originally got from the Duckstack post "Spite Kite," first appeared here in the post "Update: Some additional pebbles have been seen." Because of the bird-snake-hand imagery, together with the fact that Garuda is a kite, I linked it with this book on Tibetan Buddhism:
So the Davis painting shows a bird holding a small golden key, and I linked it to a book on Tibetan Buddhism. Not until last night did I make the should-have-been-obvious connection to "The Tinleys and the Small Key of David." That post features another Tibetan Buddhist book -- The Small Golden Key by Thinley Norbu -- and connects it, with its reference to Vulture's Peak, to my story about two knights named Tinley and a griffin that lives on a mountain peak. That post also includes this quote from Johnny English Reborn, in which Johnny is talking about a small key:
Now I know what you're going to say: It's a pretty small object. Well, it's often the little things that pack the biggest punch. After all, David killed Goliath with a pebble. The mighty Vortex has been slain by my possession of this small key.
Johnny compares the small key to, of all things, a pebble. The Davis painting with the small key originally appeared in a post called "Update: Some additional pebbles have been seen."
The reason I bought the Thinley Norbu book in the first place was that, as described in my post "What's the second key?", I was pursuing the symbolism of a set of two keys, one of which is the Rosary, with the other key unidentified. The two keys were associated with color contrasts: gold vs. silver, and red vs. white (as in "Sync homework: Dead Reckoning") or green. I assumed that the Rosary was the red key, since roses are red. Norbu's book had caught my eye because of its reference to a golden key. Not until today did I think to look up other books Norbu had written. Lo and behold:
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This post mentions Guillaume Postel, about whom I knew nothing except that his "Key of David" diagram had, via Eliphas Levi, influenced the design of one of the Rider-Waite Tarot cards.
Just now, I read in Hugh Nibley's book Enoch the Prophet that Guillaume Postel was one of the first Europeans to report rumors of the existence of the Ethiopian Book of Enoch.
Small world, isn't it?
Postel's birthday is March 25, the day before this post.
This might be a dumb question, but... Seeing as Claire spoke up while you were handling your Rosary, have you considered that the second key could be another physical object?
Yes, given recent syncs I'm leaning towards it's being a stone of some kind, perhaps the BGCB.
What about before recent syncs? Anyway, I have a developing hunch on the key's identity (not the BGCB). I'll let you know how/if it works out.
The only physical object I'd associated it with before was the Tarot deck I found on Joan's Day 2024.
https://narrowdesert.blogspot.com/2024/05/yeats-joan-and-claire.html
Hm, another thing: what do you think the keys are for?
I assume that the keys are to be used together as a way of acquiring knowledge or understanding, as that seems to be the significance of "key" in several of the syncs (e.g. Thinley Norbu's key to the dharma, JS's seer stones as a "key" to the BoM, etc.). Of course there are other possibilities, too.
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