Monday, April 27, 2026

Happy God Is a Whale Day

On April 27, 1584, John Dee and Edward Kelley had their vision of a "Whale . . . full of eyes on every side," representing "the spirit of God." Dee himself was symbolized in the vision by a "naked man."

On April 26 or 27, 1966, Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys took a large dose of LSD and "claimed to have seen God."

In 1989, Paul Quarrington published Whale Music, a fictionalized biography of Brian Wilson, in which the Wilson character is always naked and constantly refers to himself as "the Whale Man."

On April 27, 2014, I posted "A beast with many eyes," reporting my dream of the previous morning (April 26) in which I had seen "a whale with many eyes." Not until 2022 would I discover that "I posted my many-eyed whale dream on the 430th anniversary of Dee and Kelley's many-eyed whale vision," and that either the post or the dream itself also came on the anniversary of the Whale Man's theophany.

Today, April 27, as luck would have it, I gave a group of very young students a quiz focusing on a few common digraphs, one of which was wh. These two items appeared together:


After the quiz, one of the students said, "Who!" and then, pointing up at the sky as if indicating God, "Who is he? I don't know."

3 comments:

Ra1119bee said...

William,
Whale ( well ).... whale... whale, another female sync, no?

What ya gonna do when the well( whale) runs dry?

The water is the intuition's conduit and helps
us escape the illusion. Which
I'm sure Dee and Kelly knew.

We die when our well runs dry.

When reading your post about whales I couldn't
help but think of the 1957 song by the 'king of the
eighty- eights' himself, Fats Domino.
The song is called : I'm Walkin'.

Here's the chorus :
***What you gonna do when the well runs dry?
You're gonna run away and hide
I'm gonna run right by your side
For you, pretty baby, ***I'll even die
~~~~
Recall I brought a Fats Domino sync into one of your posts
last year or so because of the connection of Blueberry Hill.

I’m Walkin’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaPYuUMLFIM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fats_Domino

Wm Jas Tychonievich said...

I just noticed that before the blanks had been filled in, the whale was labeled simply "ale." Ale is the way Joseph Smith rendered the Hebrew word more usually transliterated as El, meaning "God." Saying ale where most people say el syncs with the pun with which Debbie begins her comment: "Whale, whale, whale" instead of "Well, well, well."

When we used to play the MS-DOS artillery game Scorched Earth as kids, it somehow became conventional for whoever was playing the blue tank to use the name "Well Well." I have no idea how or why that happened, but to this day when I hear "Well, well," I hear "blue tank."

Ra1119bee said...

William,
Note that well, well, well is usually spoken in threes.

Telepathy fairies be real busy too, no?

https://vintage.tn/where-did-the-phrase-well-well-well-come-from/#google_vignette

Happy God Is a Whale Day

On April 27, 1584, John Dee and Edward Kelley had their vision of a "Whale . . . full of eyes on every side," representing "t...