Today I lunched at a restaurant called Caribou, which made me think of that, because caribou have antlers, and one of the old syncs was specifically about a reindeer, which is the same as a caribou. That specific word, caribou, also reminded me of the fact, previously noted in "Glimmerings, and disappearing stars, at the window" (June 2024), that "cherub is believed to derive from the Akkadian karibu, which I assume would be a near-homophone of caribou." Eleven times in the Old Testament God is referred to as the one who "dwelleth between the cherubims," giving special meaning to Christ between the antlers of a caribou.
Sure enough, I saw at the restaurant an image connected to those ideas.
The Chinese is 神奇, which means "amazing." However the first character taken alone -- the one that is directly above (though too wide to be actually between) the antlers of the caribou -- means "God."
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