Friday, October 19, 2012

Wickerman and Catherine Wheel

One of the less obvious points I like to make about the KingKill theme is how often the event is paired with a "Catherine Wheel." It's often not the easiest thing to explain the correlation, but it is so consitant that I've placed it with equal value to the KingKill itself in my upcoming Suicide Kings book, which is subtitled ATOR ROTA ORAT TORA TARO (The Catherine Wheel Speaks the Law of the Tarot).

Well, the first image I saw after Texas State Fair icon, Big Tex, was consumed by fire today, was this modern-day Wicker Man paired with the fated Rota Fortunae.
Note also the "Dickies" shirt and belt he wears, signaling the groin wound of the Arthurian Fisher King or the missing phallus of Osiris etc.



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The Rota Fortunae:

The wheel of fortune from the Burana Codex; The figures are labelled "Regno, Regnavi, Sum sine regno, Regnabo": I reign, I reigned, My reign is finished, I shall reign
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9 comments:

  1. Brizdaz (Darren)October 19, 2012 at 11:43 PM

    I only recently watched Tim Burton's
    "Nightmare Before Christmas" and realized the Tarot journey is the main thing alluded to as far as the plot of the movie goes.
    There is even a 'Wheel of Fortune'/King kill scene where the Bogie man has the king of Christmas,Santa
    (that is king apart from Jesus of course.-)
    tied to the roulette wheel while he spins another Wheel of Fortune to decide the king's fate.

    I did a post on the obvious similarities in the movie and the Tarot,but there is lots more,too.

    http://brizdazz.blogspot.com.au/2012/10/a-nightmare-before-christmassteppin-off.html

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  2. Brizdaz (Darren)October 20, 2012 at 12:18 AM

    On the subject of the
    "Wheel of Fortune",another movie I'll have to re-watch is "Rainman" (Reign-man,king),where Rainman is always yabbing on about
    "Wheel of Fortune".
    Rainman;s name was Raymond Babbit,and 'Babbit' was a novel by Sinclair Lewis -

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babbitt_%28novel%29

    "Largely a satire of American culture, society, and behavior, it critiques the vacuity of middle-class American life and its pressure on individuals toward conformity."

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  3. Brizdaz (Darren)October 20, 2012 at 8:04 AM

    Loren Coleman has an interesting post called "Big Tex Burns" at his blogsite -

    http://copycateffect.blogspot.com

    ,where he talks about the Scottish band "Texas" who headlined the Wickerman Festival in Scotland on the 20th July this year.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tyZMPBb46s&feature=related


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  4. Alan Abbadessa-GreenOctober 20, 2012 at 7:21 PM

    UPDATE:

    The Fisher King's kingdom has turned to a Wasteland:

    http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/kingfisher-airlines-licence-suspended-by-aviation-regulator-282104

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  5. Alan Abbadessa-GreenOctober 20, 2012 at 7:22 PM

    Great links. Thanks Darren!

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  6. Brizdaz (Darren)October 20, 2012 at 8:05 PM

    It's funny Alan that you mention the Kingfisher story,because a Kingfisher flying into my window was what started me blogging in the first place -

    http://brizdazz.blogspot.com.au/2011/03/bird-that-flew-into-window.html

    Before that I was just a reader of blogs,not a writer of a blog.

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  7. EnkiOctober 21, 2012 at 12:00 PM

    It is interesting that you called attention to the Ferris wheel, as that is a thread in the sync web along which I have been traveling since posting the Big Tex Holmes/Holmes/Holmes article on Loren's blog that Darren mentioned. The first Ferris wheel debuted at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, which was where serial killer Dr. Henry Howard Holmes trolled for victims. Robert Downey, Jr. acknowledged the historical inaccuracy of filming a fight scene near a Ferris wheel in the 2009 movie Sherlock Holmes, which was set in 1890. Interestingly, while working as a film projectionist, the only time I ever accidentally spliced reels out of order was when I built a print of Sherlock Holmes, thus creating another kind of temporal disorder. Also, James Holmes made a presentation at a science camp on temporal illusions.

    Lots of other syncs pop up when one looks further. On London's Baker Street (where Sherlock Holmes resided), at Park Plaza Sherlock Holmes, is the Aurora Spa. A sailing vessel called the Aurora appears in the Sherlock Holmes novel The Sign of the Four. The sign of the Four consists of four names and four crosses, and the symbol for the Process Church of the Final Judgement, the group allegedly tied in with the Manson and Son of Sam murders that I discussed in the post on the Twilight Language blog, is a kind of four pronged cross. The most notorious member of the Four Pi movement, an offshoot of the Process Church, was cannibal Stanley Dean Baker.

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  8. EnkiOctober 22, 2012 at 11:12 AM

    Speaking of spas and mass death, now this:

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/22/azana-day-spa-shooting-radcliffe-haughton_n_2000198.html

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  9. dboyNovember 6, 2012 at 6:04 AM

    didn't i see enki and rainman linked somewhere else this week ;-)
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FCT2SDacpU

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