Black stars are a recurring theme around here (e.g. "Strange is the night where black stars rise"), so I looked up the lyrics to Bowie's song "Blackstar." One of the annotations on the lyrics site included photos of Crowley and Bowie -- two White men -- dressed up as ancient Egyptians.
Roughly an hour before finding this, I had reposted this meme, in "North Carolina Saves Mummy":
I had written in that post:
The headdress used in the meme to convey the idea of "Pharaohs and such" is in fact mummy imagery, taken from the famous mummy case of Tutankhamun.
This sync made me think of my somewhat precognitive 2014 dream "Moses contemplating a human skull." That post also refers to "the stereotypical Egyptian headdress seen, for example, on King Tut's mummy case"
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Interesting that your comment referenced above is time-stamped 10:00 AM, to which you allude, and in this post you advance the Ten of Swords as emblematic of March 15. The Ten of Swords certainly is a perfect corollary to the Ides of March, 44 B.C. (44 is, of course, 22 x 2.) I'm a little surprised that in that comment you defend yourself against the implication you are a racist and misogynist-- I thought we didn't give a f*** about racism or misogyny here...!?!
Furthermore, by that very comment, I guess I stand corrected (again)-- I didn't know that the sync-stream had established the fabled Ungoliant to have six legs rather than the essentially spidery eight, as I just recently averred. Of course, I bow in deference to the sync-stream. And thus the appearance of a six-legged spider is perhaps, as you speculate, an eerie development.
According to Google, the fellow in the "We wuz Pharaohs..." meme is Antony Starr, who is most famous for his role as "Homelander" in a TV show called "The Boys". Just a few weeks back, someone mentioned to me that they were watching The Boys and that it was a good show. I had never heard of it before. A TV show that I myself have been watching released its series finale last Friday night: "Outlander". Its last season, for the most part, was set in North Carolina during the American Revolution when it really was wilderness.
Sorry, I actually meant for the above comment to go under "North Carolina Saves Mummy". Further reflection, however, finds the sync between Blackstar and Antony Starr to be intriguing.
And "Antony"... Another "Ides of 44" allusion.
Also: The association of Mark Antony with Egypt.
I wasn't defending myself against those made-up crimes, any more than I would earnestly refute a charge of gnostical turpitude or of being enturbulated; I was explaining why I interpreted the spider the way I did.
Since you mention it, though, I'm obviously not racist and can prove it. Would a racist listen to song expressing the hope that Black people would "neber die"? Checkmate.
William,
If Wade and you are referring to my comment,
as you well know William
I've never considered my perspective as a made- up crime.
As I explained in my comment my perspective
really has nothing whatsoever to do with
race or gender bias as I've explain
many times about the archetype of the shadow.
Racism and gender are either/or duality ego pursuits
which I try to distance myself from as much as possible.
As far as Black people and neber die? The very essence
of the Nigredo is transformation which mean's dying
to the illusion.
Gotta go through the dark to get to the light.
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