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Eventually, all the bets are covered. The
Heisenberg Principle demands it. Entropy needs balance to feed upon. The
Nail that Sticks Up is the one that gets nibbled…well, hammered down.
Occasionally, as a. Nail, you become uncomfortably aware of a certain
uncertainty as to your status in that context.
Sometimes you feel like a Nut, sometimes you don’t.
Whatever cards you bring to the table, whichever
hand you play, there is a game out there with a seat reserved. Your
assertion that the Universe should bend to your Will is an assault on
Order, a proposal for disruption- so, sit right down.
Ante up some Novelty.
There is a port called Cydonia. It is on the
northern coast of the island of Crete. There is a place once called
Sidon, on the coast of what is today called Lebanon, not so far away.
Are the names related, are both of Greek origin, does that mean
Phoenician, which might mean...?
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The
famous Big Heavy Stone of Baalbek. Usually said to have been
unused because it broke- or it would have been even bigger.
Looks like it belongs alongside those two in the background. |
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Yes, it does strangely appear that there are faces
on that stone. The light has to be just right to see them. This
is an old photo-it is from before the stone got cracked (again,
in recent years)- the new
photos show it in much worse condition. |
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Here's
the old ( I think Old Culture) base blocks the Romans and
everyone else just used for foundations. Notice they show the
same image embedding as the fallen stone... but the later
building on top does not. I did not paint anything
into this image. Sometimes, there are things visible in photos
not easily seen in person Sometimes, it is the other way around.
Sometimes, no one looks. |
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One
more Baalbek item for now. Notice the figures on the stone work
in the background. The main item here is probably presented to
tourists as an altar of some type. Might actually be a
column top. |
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There are a few
other similar place names scattered around the Mediterranean and in the
Middle East. If you are an accomplished player of the Word Game, you
might be able to find linkages with the roots of the word insidious,
too. Or not.
There is also another place called Cydonia, on the
planet Mars. Is it odd that none of the permutations of that name
gracing Earthly locations are as widely known to the general public as
the one on Mars? Most people could not really locate Cydonia on a map of
Mars without some help, but they have heard the name. What makes
a small corner of Mare Acidalia so famous with non-scientists? An
apparently human face, staring up into the sky, that’s what.
In the summer of 1976, the Viking mission arrived at
Mars. There were two orbiters, and each sent a lander down to the
surface. There were devices on these to test for various things,
including a clever mechanism to test for the presence of Martian
microbes, and there were cameras. Oh, yes, there were cameras. All that
Science stuff was very nice, but to the majority of people it was the
pictures that drew the most interest. Of course, the Official Opinions
of Important Scientists were that we would see a somewhat alien
landscape, barren and lifeless, but that isn’t what many
non-scientists were hoping for. After all, this was Mars.
Schiaperelli and Lowell had looked through their telescopes and seen
what might have been evidence of civilization there, hadn’t they?
Well, not precisely, but it was a wonderful notion. |
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