Month: July 2023

Dragons

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I think about dragons every now and then, and the fact there is some kind of legend or myth about them across most continents. So, like the other articles Giants, Fairy Tales and Myths, Monsters & Legends, I try to piece together what it is about it that makes me thinks there is something to it. It was particularly the fire breathing aspect that I kept mulling over, because we have lizards today which almost fit the bill, small ones with flaps of skin looking like wings, large heavy set lumbering ones without any form of wings. But while discussing the phoenix the other day, and descriptions of it bursting into flames, I thought of a fire breathing dragon. Then I thought of a few other mythological creatures that seemed similar once I lined them up in my head. And when put together as below, you can see why I thought of all of them all in turn.

Phoenix – a magnificent creature that was a symbol of renewal and rebirth.

Sphinx – mythical creature with the head of a human, the body of a lion, and the wings of an eagle.

Griffin – mythical creature known as a half-eagle, half-lion.

Chimera – a monstrous fire-breathing hybrid creature, composed of different animal parts.

Dragons feature in all sorts of stories though, Archangel Michael slaying a dragon, St George known for the same. Each of the ancient stories and fantastical tales featuring a winged creature, that had the ability to kill you on the spot or some great power to overcome and defeat.

Sphinx Gate – Neverending Story
Ark of the convenant

Another came to mind based on its description, although the visual portrayal I had for this myself was from a movie, so didn’t fit until I gave more thought to the aspect of serpents in all these stories. Medusa being the most ‘famous’ of these I believe.

Gorgons – snakes for hair, wings, claws, tusks, and scales.

If we did happen to find any remnants of things like that today, we might think they looked like dinosaurs or pterodactyls perhaps, or just a plain old snake or bird – or a snake eating a bird, if you have both in the same fossil. Maybe. I know it sounds like reaching a bit, but I like to consider all options. So of course, they really could just be fantastical and outrageous stories we like to retell and pass down through the ages. For no reason other than to entertain it would seem, and to make us think of a time that never was. Or, there is the far-fetched possibility that we really did have a more fantastical time that came before, and something they haven’t been able to get rid of, so rewrite them instead, giving them different names and meaning, scattering the truth to the far-flung corners of the earth for it to be diluted and lost. Until such time of course, that it comes back, as truth often does…

Gorgon

(c) K Wicks

The Old World

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There are scatterings of the old world throughout the lands and even submerged off coastlines. Relics, buildings, monuments and rather grand things to show we missed quite a spectacular time. These are what are being called Tartarian currently, to represent grand things of a time past. It is mentioned on maps and was known as a region, now covering Russia, China and lots of Europe. As the range of photographs from the 1800’s and early 1900’s show, they are all over, and the buildings we have left to speculate on about their true nature, show a grandness and beauty we are simply not capable of today. Or it would appear that way with our modernistic, square and unflattering building techniques. Very much built not to last, or look good in any way, often barely even functioning for its purpose.

In the last 100 years or so, many of these old unique buildings and monuments have been destroyed, burnt, bombed and demolished – throughout various countries. Some of them strangely not long after construction apparently. World fairs being a classic example of build something grand and disposable, quickly at great cost, then tear it down. Although some of the ‘temporary features’ built still stand today. But we lost the skills of that time it would seem. And world wars seemed to have served as a great cover to get rid of others that would have been noticed and probably stopped otherwise. Ancient, not so ancient and modern alike, sweep and clear missions hold no regard for what has come before.

And of those previous skills, I still find it difficult to get my head around there being enough skilled craftsman, and materials available to find their way to every continent, and multiple countries to build all these architectural masterpieces within what seems to be a relatively short time frame. The similarities are striking. Post offices, city halls, asylums, schools etc. Seemingly way too large for the communities and infrastructure of the towns at that time. Dirt roads and pillared giant neoclassical buildings, for a population of only a few hundred in some cases, or less. Where we are also led to believe people were rather illiterate, and didn’t get pushed into formal education until early 1900s. Someone was writing a lot of letters, or there was a great need for shipping things around small towns though for there to be so many massive post offices. And a big need for overly large buildings, and somewhere to house all the people deemed crazy or unfit for their new society rolling out. Maybe I’m missing something there.

The other rather splendid buildings we have, which are earlier it is said and we also have plenty of, are churches and cathedrals. So even further back, less people because of all the plagues and wars, yet grand building projects requiring money, time, people, skills, construction etc. Seems to defy belief really when you really think it through. Or maybe it’s just the timeline I have been taught doesn’t quite add up, thinking we had Romans building great things, then the skills just disappeared for a few hundred years during some ‘dark ages’, followed by peasants and medieval Europe, the crusades etc. Leading us to believe people again were just poor and busy trying to live, with skirmishes, revolutions, wars and religious domination also occurring. The 1493 papal decree, the inquisition, the church of England split and the war on monasteries. Oh, and chuck in some plagues, huge fires engulfing entire cities, invasions, fall of empires etc. Just seems like what we see, and what we are told don’t quite match up. And we must have had great numbers of people to keep losing millions, every decade and century to what we would call ‘an untimely end’.

When you realise potentially lots of people have been deliberately removed, from either society or the records, it would be much easier to retell it as you want it remembered. Because you would want a certain version of events to be carried down, the chosen history to be taught and retold. Usually children would be very important to that, and being separated from their parents of course, makes this much easier. Funnily enough, there was a fair amount of movement of that nature in the 1800 and 1900s. Check out my article A Train Of Thought for more on that. But again, many countries and continents have moved a great number of children under the guise of for your ‘safety & health’, or for just plain old social experiments or excuses for ‘education’, displacing natives and trying to eliminate cultures, language and traditions that way. It’s a tried and tested method, still going on today unfortunately.

So, given what we know of how those who control society behave, and their methods and motives for things, I find it easy to understand why they wouldn’t want beautifully crafted buildings around to remind people of what came before. Also, whether they are a representation of a mysterious time or not, they are of a previous time and mindset, and one they don’t want people having anymore. To start over, you need to get rid of what came before. And people can be very good at remembering, but only if they actually knew in the first place…

Tartarian Architecture

(c) K Wicks

Television

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I have already speculated on TV’s being portals in my article A Portal, and mention some of the following films in it –

Nightmare on Elm Street

The Ring

Pleasantville

Mike TV from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Where there is a merger between the two, or the lines that usually separate the two become blurred, or disappear altogether and one crosses into the other. And what of that ‘other reality’? The one we think is safely behind a screen, 3D images being presented on a 2D screen for us to perceive as a form of reality. To entice and influence, to entertain and distract. Giving us a condensed, fabricated, edited and glorified version of ‘life’. Or at least the version they have written for us, just as they have with history, people realise they have doctored the past to fit what they want people to ‘know’. And so to with the present, so even now what you think is happening or becoming ‘history’ is tainted. It will be written how they want it to be remembered, not with what actually happened. you can see how handy being able to label something as misinformation can be.

But looking beyond the somewhat fictional aspect to the first part of this article and knowing that in our physical realm, we can’t go into the TV and what is presented on the screen can’t escape and take form. We can easily understand how it is used to manipulate and expose people to ideas and concepts they would otherwise not encounter. Helping the wheels of Consumerism greatly and how they sought to reshape society on a basic level, through mass ‘entertainment’. The First Fad covers the motivators and methods for that, and Turning off the TV covers the realisation of it and taking steps to not be part of that particular angle of programming going forward.

Because it’s been with us for more than a few generations now, and people’s attachment to it and what it represents to them, seems to be very ingrained now for many. I have pointed out before how for some, their expectations of themselves and others are based on a carefully crafted, scripted, edited and simulated version of real life. Possibly leading to frustrations, confusions and a general lack of understanding of people, or the actual expectations real life would have demanded. Because even that is now subject to change, like the people who shape society, are trying to make it more ridiculous like you would see in the fictional set ups. Crazy ideals and people allowed to take centre stage, to dictate and be in charge. If this were a TV show, you can believe they would have lost their audience long ago, and would have had to cancel the show, it would have been slated in the reviews and anyone playing a part, would have faded into the mist. But as these ‘players’ are actually the heads of countries, and whoever wrote the script for this seems to be desperately trying to hold it all together, almost writing new characters and storylines as each day goes on. Adding even more ridiculousness to the crazy and unbelievable episodes we find ourselves in, many of us wondering, when is someone finally going to pull the plug…

(c) K Wicks