Hourglass Code

Friday, May 20, 2016

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Filed under: General — Tags: Hourglass Code — m759 @ 2:14 am

"… Thursday morning at 7:30 a.m. at a hospice
in Danvers, Massachusetts."

From a search for Danvers in this journal, two quotations
for Stephen King fans …

"Danvers is a town in Essex County, Massachusetts,
United States, located on the Danvers River near the
northeastern coast of Massachusetts. Originally known
as Salem Village, the town is most widely known for its
association with the 1692 Salem witch trials. It is also
known for the Danvers State Hospital, one of the state's
19th-century psychiatric hospitals, which was located here."

"The summer's gone and all the roses fallin' "

[CHORUS]
In a world gone mad it's hard to think right

Illustrations: Thursday's 3:28 AM ET post and …

THE HOURGLASS CODE
(Sketch for a favicon)

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Thursday, May 19, 2016

I have seen it, I have seen it!

Filed under: General — Tags: Hourglass Code — m759 @ 3:28 am

The title is a quote from Sir Galahad in
"Monty Python and the Holy Grail."

Immediately following these words …

Note also posts on The Hourglass Code .

This post was suggested by an album cover
mentioned in tonight's New York Times story
on the May 11 death at 73 in London of one
David King , a graphic designer and design historian —

"For the third Hendrix album, 'Electric Ladyland,'
Mr. King commissioned a photograph of 19
nude women, in various sizes and shapes, which
he intended as a rebuttal to the Playboy image of
women. In the United States, it was regarded as
risqué and was replaced with a head shot of Hendrix."

— William Grimes

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Saturday, May 14, 2016

The Hourglass Code

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: Hourglass Code — m759 @ 1:28 pm

A version of the I Ching’s Hexagram 19:

I Ching Hexagram 19, 'Approach,' the box-style version

From Katherine Neville's The Eight , a book on the significance
of the date April 4 — the author's birthday —

Axe image from Katherine Neville's 'The Eight'

The Eight by Katherine Neville —

    “What does this have to do with why we’re here?”
    “I saw it in a chess book Mordecai showed me. The most ancient chess service ever discovered was found at the palace of King Minos on Crete– the place where the famous Labyrinth was built, named after this sacred axe. The chess service dates to 2000 B.C. It was made of gold and silver and jewels…. And in the center was carved a labrys.”
… “But I thought chess wasn’t even invented until six or seven hundred A.D.,” I added. “They always say it came from Persia or India. How could this Minoan chess service be so old?”
    “Mordecai’s written a lot himself on the history of chess,” said Lily…. “He thinks that chess set in Crete was designed by the same guy who built the Labyrinth– the sculptor Daedalus….”
    Now things were beginning to click into place….
    “Why was this axe carved on the chessboard?” I asked Lily, knowing the answer in my heart before she spoke. “What did Mordecai say was the connection?”….
    “That’s what it’s all about,” she said quietly. “To kill the King.”

     The sacred axe was used to kill the King. The ritual had been the same since the beginning of time. The game of chess was merely a reenactment. Why hadn’t I recognized it before?

Related material: Posts now tagged Hourglass Code.

See also the hourglass in a search for Pilgrim's Progress Illustration.

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