Saturday, October 18, 1997 12:39 PM
Starhawk MAKES Me Do This Dept.
Hiyas.
Just one more thing on my mind, really, since I have my brains leaking
out all over the floor anyway...
Okay, so I've pitched in a little about what Magic has to offer us if
our house burns down, how do ya fix that?
But back when I was hawking Babylonian terra cotta devil traps as
*something*, I was talking about using them to prohibit such rampant
combustions as this in the first place, even while the candles are
permitted to burn, as opposed to what may still be to some, too little
too late...
Not oblivious here that wiser ones than I on Arcana jumped right in and suggested they
could be programmed to do Anything... that’s so cool!
I was reading the other day, probably in Matthew's Night Chant book,
that some of the Games had come to the people as games, but then someone
had a vision and realized that they had some higher significance.
Whether or not that's just a shy, dodgy way of expressing a reality
there, the principle in general may be valid...
Hence, I assure folks there's a good chance that the use of animal traps
may follow a similar bent, that in general there are some very good
designs to do by the Magical Wireless Art what scientist have done this
century in putting out flames using radio, (hmm muste Rex Research
again? Where's that confounded catalog?) that this carries all the way
also to the way they are treated; certain herbs used by various tribes
for rustproofing traps may go Far beyond that for this application
interestingly enough. Likewise, certain Great Lakes tribes report some
stiking and obvious properties of herbs for example, in the way fog
behaves around water lotuses, that proceed perhaps in this direction...
And what will Chroni try to read into Yew trees next?
Therefore, as the people in question speak, the actual public practice
and its history is irrelevant, it is the vision that matters.
True to form, the devices would be distributed throughout the woods, and
would be catching all sort of animals of the allegorical Coptic or
Gnostic sort. The difference in practice is that the traps are jammed in
miscellaneous ways so that no actual animals are harmed in the making of
this magic.
I suspect hazelwood will once again find application here, although I am
speculating.
The decentralizing of such a utility as this of course promotes the
assurance of its dependability and success.
Perhaps other variations on this theme will also be used to help
preserve the environment, such as mediating the mischiefs of those
ungodly Postvorta and Antevorte? Or the methanous f*rts of surly
Epimetheus? Or???
Just a thought...
B*B
Peace!
Chronos Apollonios // ~~The World Seed Fund,
c/o Abundant Life Seed Foundation, PO Box 772, 1029 Lawrence St., Port
Townsend, WA 98368~~Rex Research, PO Box 19250, Jean, NV 89109
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Saturday, October 18, 1997 2:00 PM
More stuff Starhawk makes me do...
Howdy (he said, twisting the weed between his teeth...)
Rather than ingratiate myself with society, in the Literal-minded House
of Sun-in-Libra with an extensive round of Demeter-bashing for
hyper-protein diets contributing to everything from arthritis/
rheumatism to oxygen-deficit disrders, those who are wiser ones than I
tell me...
...and no doubt I will live to see the day when the consensus may be
that Amaranthus hypochondiacus wages any battle against hypochondria for
containing protein competitors more than for containing protein???...
...I thought I might honor Chronos on his day with another whack at the
art of conservation: Hail, Saturn, keeper of the hidden, who enfolds
green worlds within a single seed and keeps life within them...
Not only am I finding that the logical extensions of Prometheus' legend,
that seed being even more important than fire (!), that he is a bearer
and keeper of seeds, and his particular vessal of this duty has
chemicals that affect seed life...
(advertisement for Helios' myth re: reforestation here)
..the experts tell me of course that *a dark cool dry place* has
extremely little absolute value for the plant kingdom in general...
...but the directions it leads, such as bamboo, having chemistry even
closer to what is used by horticulturalists today to get unusual
germinations of difficult seeds...
...are not limited to the mythologies of Greece and Rome, but as I
encounter the more helpful texts on Meso-American mythology, the
appropriate icons appear there as well, as if this has been a Major
concern of mankind for countless centuries, and remarkable progresses
might have been made in the area...
Largely, the icon keys I recognize are those tubular receptacles of
vegatable origin that would serve this purpose; likewise the mythos of
giants concerns those techniques by which seeds might be
preserved for the benefit of the hopelessly marooned... which I have
tried to illuminate previously, somewhere about where the word
Nephelheim was in use I think... above all, "Giant" is travestic for the
tiny seeds...
...and maybe a good place to ask what moly is,
since mallow would be another stalk whose pith is easily removed for
this purpose...
...the concept of burnt reeds against a deluge--ie, prevent of humidity
from damaging seed life?-- appears in conspicous places... and
mountainous caverns, *all they had for refrigerators and freezers in
them thar days*; in mesoamerican lore, the euphemism of the flute is
notably used for *seed tube*
...I repeat what I told Arcana long ago, that this fuss must have begun
with the difficulties of growing those most striking Grecian orchids of
the genus Ophyrs, whose images embody the stuff of legend, as Dittany
embodies Diktyanna's tale... above all the tragic fate of the
self-sterile orchid immortalized as Oedipus, who is most endangered of
all, as well as of greatest notoriety and travesty...
This is only the tip of the iceberg, mind you... though it (disclaimer)
IS just a Vision I am making up...
>>>I go now to dance with the corn>>>
Peace!
Chronos Apollonios // ~~The World Seed Fund,
c/o Abundant Life Seed Foundation, PO Box 772, 1029 Lawrence St., Port
Townsend, WA 98368~~Rex Research, PO Box 19250, Jean, NV 89109
*****
Saturday, October 18, 1997 6:12 PM
Magical Household Stuff
Hey there.
Okay, there was one other thing which as everyone knows I haven't the
chutzpah or personal power or whatever to kick off to a rousing start...
but of which I am hauntingly reminded since it's getting d*mn cold out
there...
I'm quite convinced (and why shouldn't I be?) that before man invented
windows and started cutting down the trees for fires, that some peoples
initiated feilds around their windows and doors-- not only capable of
zapping incoming pathogens, pumping out dust and dust bunnies, but of
serving to act maybe like Maxwell's demon, even to the extent of keeping
in the warmth, keeping out the cold, letting in the good air and letting
out the bad. That might warrant a doorway deity, maybe.
Not the first time I think I've mentioned this I think that MHO is that
the incident of annointing doorways with blood in the story of the
Hebrew Exodus alludes to the use of various herbs for this purpose...
not only that these aromatics and related plants kept mosquitoes and
other pestilence-carriers from waltzing in a doorway with no door but
the very (electrochemical?) properties that made them effective lent
themselves "serendipitously" toward having further applications in the
same realm.
Having spoken of unusual properties involving lotuses and fog, these too
sound reminiscent, (as does the mythology of cedar--in Native American
mythology a *doorway* to the underworld, it's analogous plants have been
noted by yours truly to hold a cloud of aromatic around them in a
rigidly defined area even months after by all apearances they were stone
cold dead.
Perhaps this may lead us to speculate that an important door annointment
in this respect was made from the Egyptian Blue Water Lily; it too has
qualities that may be no different than these other unusual occurances,
and may proceed all the way to the unusual toughness of the acorn; (like
Kushi's unrustable, alchemically produced iron, and perhaps the very
iron in Knotgrass itself, Exotic Matter may be involved) likewise, the
ancient custom of doorbluing may be inferred from the myth of Hercules'
wedding (reading in the occurance of Litmus moss), some of the copious
ancient alusions to Knotgrass, virtually synonymous with doorways
(=Doorweed), and much mythology of Zeus as Michael Faraday's studies of
static and cavities may have been first seen as applications of Thale's
teachings to the lighning-like cracks in rocks dedicable to Zeus from
which his daughter's Dittany proceeds forth, to another patron of
threshholds, Chiron the ferryman.
No doubt in having Mana on my mind, to speak of this in caverns would
imply some usable aspects to treat a cave this way; but I should lke to
further proceed that the icon of the womb, cauldron etc, further befits
use as a symbol of creating this formidable pocket of habitability. No
doubt some reading this now, have preferences toward magic circles for
this purpose, and yet the amount of lore, hence, theoretically,
additional information that occurs under these symbols would be
exhaustive...
But how would the sacred and powerful spirals serve here? Indeed, these
operations can move substantially close to benefiting from inclusion of
the concept of thermocouples... some uses of the mineral Zeolite allow
the *more Mundane* to approach these providences as well...
Now all that's left is to figure out which operation keeps the kids in
the house when you're too poor to afford doors and windows... O two
faced Ianos, who oppresses our freedom, that we might live long enough
to appreciate it... No cattle prods here... We really would be talking
force feilds here wouldn't we?
Wow! Sure beats that old pagan Celt trick of Opium-in-the-oatmeal... tsk
tsk...
May all paraclausithyrons keep you and yours warm
this way...
...So having all THAT out of the way, what's everyone serving for
Samhain? And what are y' dressing up as? (cackle)
"Not the kind you have to wind up on Sunday",
Peace!
Chronos Apollonios // ~~The World Seed Fund,
c/o Abundant Life Seed Foundation, PO Box 772, 1029 Lawrence St., Port
Townsend, WA 98368~~Rex Research, PO Box 19250, Jean, NV 89109
*****
Saturday, October 18, 1997 9:27 PM
Sea Goat Having Dry Spell?
Okay, that last post, about the door blueing? Everyone knows the
Norwegians do this, the Maya did it and I don't know who else... the Oak
wood works if you *know what you're doing*, right? Leaves me right out,
but oh well.. At least the twelve sacred Druid herbs of the cauldron
might see double duty as the twelve sacred herbs of staying warm, if I
ever find out what they are... Suffice to say, I have some really gnarly
and in-context suspicions about wreaths and mistletoe customs right
about now... like, just how non-inductive a resistor might this lotus
pigment stuff be, anyway?
Is this why the Huastec Maya still observe a *certain* blue pigment with
lunar phase observations?
Okay, rubber rabbit brush and thick air at the Kiva ceremony, okay
Quantum elasticity and materialization... that was like, in one quantum
leap you fool the rubber band into thinking it was Already stretched and
so it pulls back, Whammo! Pop-tart...
but the Maya/Aztec Rubber Incense is connectable to the door blue,
somehow. Haven't owned Morley in many moons... so its more of the
"Precipitation" group, right?
Okay, Persephone is one of those Greek myths connectable to Janus, given
the elements; add Perseus, try Medusa. Ossified pathogens? I think
Pomegranate is a source of Pom (one of the names of Maya incense was it?
I'm starting the rumour here that another, "puk-ak" is actually the same
as peacock, so you can Invoke Hera here somehow...)
but I just threw a Rosebud in Peroxide and it won't turn blue, darn
those Rosicrucians anyway (Pssst! Hey kid! Wanna buy a used Ephemeris?).
Tried vinegar too, squished the petals to break the cell walls, I dunno.
However, I've no doubt that the feild in question acts Like peroxide,
only picks on critters and not their hosts... now y'all remember the
last mention of Dolmens and Menhirs I made, right?
Anyway, if you have a limber enough imagination (we all do, right?) this
blue crap might as well be the same as in Palingenics, and it might as
well be the same operation. (hase conjugate novelty filter? I really
don't know this one...)
No doubt this doorway of oak gives blue "witches" milk, makes thousand
of Julienne fries and... smarter than vitriol and prettier than Ironwort
(oops...)
Now what I wanna know, I promised granny I'd make her one of those
brooms like Mickey Mouse has in *The Sorcerer's Apprentice", so can I
use Quantum Elasticity to work it's associative memory functions, or is
it enough that it has magnetic memory like Thor's hammer and therefore
not only knows the way back to Aasgard, but actually goes there too
(ee U.S. Army files on PROJECT DUSTBUNNY for this variation of the
Philadelphia Experiment for those who insist on doing things the hard
way... okay, just kidding)
You see, it is Good to help little old ladies across streets, open doors
for them and wipe their fannies when necessary; it is Not Good to turn
off their electricity in the middle of the friggin' winter. It is Good
to devise ways to facilitate their independence; it is Not Good to stick
um in a *home* to wallow in their own...
SoOoOoOo... be back next week to discuss Reduced Vapor Pressure Dynamo
Technology, Reprint my Long-Siphon Post, advocate Radiometers larger
than Scientist's brains, and cunning-up what crafty old witches do with
weathervanes, if anything...
...in hopes that Muon Claus, er, Santa Claus will come down our Chimney
this Krishnamas while we are cooking our disselfink and hazelnuts are
leaping out of an open fire and heading down to the DMV for vehicle
operators licenses and all that... As we rivet down our levitating yule
log and it gives off considerable heat for no reason obvious to those
with an eye for a profit, without actually combusting... Actually we
were so poor, we had to consecrate a rock for this...
Now about those other matters... Those pink elephants in tutus?
Definitely estrogen. Seriously.
Incorrigibly yours,
Peace!
Chronos Apollonios // ~~The World Seed Fund,
c/o Abundant Life Seed Foundation, PO Box 772, 1029 Lawrence St., Port
Townsend, WA 98368~~Rex Research, PO Box 19250, Jean, NV 89109
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