#cosmic confluence fact

[cosmic-confluence-confessions]

hey here’s a confession for everyone

Saturn used to be a snake

I can’t really find any of the concept art of them when they were? But they had Medusa hair and all. But I decided I wasn’t too big on snake imagery for them which is how we wound up with snake Gaea instead; but if you look close enough in Saturns design you’ll see they have a snake lapel pin as a little nod to that :]

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[talonabraxas]

Mercury Enters Capricorn, January 13th, 2024

The entry of Mercury into Capricorn on January 13, 2024, signals a cosmic rendezvous that promises to influence our thoughts, communication, and strategic thinking. As we prepare to embark on this astrological journey, let's explore the unique dynamics of this alignment and how it might shape our lives in the coming weeks.

Mercury in Capricorn: A Confluence of Energies

Mercury, the planet of communication, intellect, and adaptability, takes its place in the disciplined and pragmatic realm of Capricorn. This collaboration between the swift messenger and the steadfast earth sign is poised to bring a blend of quick-witted communication and methodical, ambitious energy.

Impacts on Communication:

During Mercury's stay in Capricorn, communication is likely to take on a grounded and practical tone. Conversations may revolve around long-term goals, career matters, and strategic plans. It's a time when precision and efficiency become the guiding principles, urging us to articulate our thoughts with clarity and purpose.

Rational Thinking and Decision-Making:

Mercury in Capricorn encourages a rational and strategic approach to decision-making. This period favors well-thought-out plans, meticulous analysis of facts, and the pursuit of tangible results. It's an opportune time for individuals to focus on their career aspirations, set realistic goals, and commit to a disciplined execution of their plans.

The Power of Positive Self-Talk:

In the midst of this cosmic alignment, it's essential to recognize the influence of our internal dialogue. What you say to yourself becomes your reality. As Mercury traverses Capricorn, individuals are encouraged to cultivate positive and empowering self-talk. Aligning our thoughts with the disciplined energy of Capricorn can be a powerful catalyst for personal growth and manifestation.

Challenges and Opportunities:

While the partnership between Mercury and Capricorn holds immense potential, it's crucial to navigate potential challenges. The heightened focus on practicality may lead to a resistance to change or a reluctance to embrace spontaneity. Striking a balance between structured thinking and adaptability will be key to maximizing the opportunities presented by this celestial alignment.

Mercury

Quicksilver God! Streaming like liquid fire Through the hidden veins Of existence.

Hermes Trismegistus “Thrice-Great” Talon Abraxas

[parsley-the-crow]

so whatd i miss

Cosmic Confluence has a Wayne fictive now. Gibby is so so annoyed about it. I continue to try to convince them and Muzi that they can rely on me to talk to since I am in fact very stable and someone that they should do that with. I also got Waffle House yesterday.

Not much.

[gatorinator]

College is wild I love Canvas discussion boards. Can I share with you all. The greatest paragraph ever written of all time.

“In the context of Tesla, the electrifying confluence of autonomous hyperbolic quasar-driven innovation has sparked a cosmic dance of superluminal singularity, transcending the boundaries of the ordinary and propelling us into the unknown reaches of the automotive omniverse. As self-driving quasars engage in quantum-turbulent fusion, the very fabric of vehicular reality is rewritten, and the symbiotic algorithms of self-aware electrons harmonize with the aurora borealis of sustainable propulsion. In this Tesla-verse, the galactic autopilot orchestrates symphonies of orbital trajectories, while the bioluminescent dashboards whisper secrets of electric enlightenment. As the flux capacitors of disruption continue to warp the space-time continuum of the automotive industry, Tesla steers through the wormholes of possibility, navigating a path where past, present, and future intersect, making the unimaginable reality”—my classmate

This is the greatest thing I’ve ever read.

Does he realize? Does he know he’s written the greatest piece of satire to grace this good world? Does he take pride in the fact that he managed to say absolutely nothing in 5 sentences?? Did he choke as he swallowed the thesaurus? Also he did not answer the prompt at all

[reginrokkr]

→ Study 𝐕𝐈𝐈𝐈: Cosmic serpents across different cultures— Ouroboros, Jörmungandr and Shesha.

It’s interesting that Dain’s constellation (snake ring) alludes to the concept of a serpent that can bite its tale. Its symbology may vary from culture to culture but today I’ll focus on three of them and point out characteristics that apply to them, all plausible potential for Dain as constellations are shown as some sort of mirror of their aligned characters:

Ouroboros → In Genshin, this serpent already exists as a deity that the people of Enkanomiya worshipped prior to Orobashi’s arrival. Whether Ouroboros was worshipped before the land’s descent to the abyss or not remains unknown, but the prospect that there was a faction of knights in Khaenri’ah by the name of Black Serpent Knights suggests that knowledge about it is quite spread. In Enkanomiya particularly, Ouroboros is also known as the Cosmic Serpent or a scaleless serpent.

Ouroboros, in essence, is a positive symbol that represents unity. What ties everything in one being from the beginning to its end in an eternal cycle that connects everything irregardless of whether there are opposing forces or not like the materia prima and the Philosopher’s Stone, the above and the below, the male and female, the human and the divine. Said eternal cycle includes the cycle of life, death and rebirth. Its skin represents metempsychosis or reincarnation via the transmigration of a soul whose body perished into a new body. Moreover, Ouroboros is also known as the most ancient alchemical symbol.

Jörmungandr → While Ouroboros is a renowned figure within Greek and Egyptian historical representations, Jörmungandr is said to be a direct parallel to it in Norse mythology. Ironically, an older term for Irmin[sul] in old Norse goes by Jörmunr.

Given how large this serpent grew, it received the name of World Serpent due to the fact that it can circle the whole world and bite its tail. It’s said to be an initiator of Rägnarok by thrashing its tail and provoking the sea to be at unrest, thus causing its waves to inundate the world from which it’ll spring anew fertile. Besides this, it’s also said that with its brother Fenrir it was to confront the gods, though eventually it dies in a battle against Thor who also passes away due to the serpent’s poison.

Shesha → Shesha is known for being one of the primordial beings of creation in Hindu mythology and for holding all the planets in each of his hoods. It is said that when he uncoils, time moves forward and creation takes place; when he coils back, the universe ceases to exist.

Due to the fact that his brothers were cruel by nature and took great pleasure in inflicting harm upon others, he underwent severe austerities and penance which earned Brahma’s favor, the Creator within the trinity of supreme divinity. It’s said that Shesha watches over Vishnu in his sleep atop himself, the Preserver within the trinity of supreme divinity and also a god that represents creation. One of the requests he performed as per Brahma’s wish is to descent to the underworld and stabilize it. Moreover, it’s known for reincarnating in different avatars alongside Vishnu’s. Curiously enough, it’s said that Shesha may be one of Vishnu’s manifestations.

In view of all of these characteristics, I can’t help but think more and more about Dain’s importance considering the many similarities between the former and canonical facts about him alongside added twists I gave him.

From Ouroboros there’s the premise that he’s been the captain of the Black Serpent Knights and that Khaenri’ah was big in alchemy. He also has the title of Confluence between the past and the future, two aspects that tie nicely with the concept of union attributed to the cosmic serpent. And as part of my own gist to it (that will be referred to later for Shesha as well), the prospect that the missing Shining Shade’s soul transmigrated into Dain.

From Jörmungandr we have the interesting curiosity of the ancient spelling of Irmin and Dain’s glaring connection to Irminsul as the Bough Keeper (one day I want to dive into the implications of being such in view of Irminsul’s characteristics known so far and tying it to Yggdrasil). This one is something I discussed sometimes in the past, but the relation between Ragnarök (Twilight of the Gods) and his own title Twilight Sword is pretty neat.

And lastly but not least from Shesha, this one is what hit me the most with the aforementioned gist of the Shining Shade’s soul being within Dain as a creation of the Primordial One, Phanes. Not only due to this but also due to the similar prospect of Shesha having wicked brothers and undergoing a penance vs Dain being surrounded by people he once protected that became evildoers and that he’s also going through a penance. He also counts with the favor of Irminsul as something akin to the soul of the very world considering its importance to the planet at large. Once again for the Shining Shade gist, which is known for being created on the image of Phanes, Shesha is suspected to be one of Vishnu’s manifestations. And there is one last thing more deeply connected to the Pale Princess and the Six Pygmies which is the Night Mother’s revelation that the second heir of Celestia will become her greatest foe and will put an end to her reign. Considering that I’ve started Dain’s blog with the premise that he’s the second heir of Celestia as something strong in my portrayal, this is a great enabler to me.

One last detail I’d love to mention about all of this is that prior to his birth, Phanes was in an egg which according to the Egyptian-Greek mythology is surrounded by a snake— another premise already seen in the Hindu culture concerning a snake watching over a creator.

[onewomancitadel]

I was crying again over the Dark ending yesterday and bf offered an interpretation which made me cry more but also completely transforms the ending for me and now I'm absolutely dead sure it was an intended interpretation and I'm going to claw my eyes out.

The confluence between Martha -> Martha and Jonas -> Jonas (the deaths/alternate selves) to me suggests a direct psychic/spiritual confluence, that is, they're not separate entities but the same (reincarnating) self, and the last scene where Jonas and Martha are together <3 and disappearing into angel dust <3 is kind of them both dying and living at the same time, because then it cuts directly to Hannah pregnant with Jonas (: and her recognition of the yellow rainjacket, which represents both Jonas and Martha.

So it's not even just a small promise of them finding each other again, it directly mirrors the previous ways Martha and Jonas had died and then reborn again. I hadn't twigged this element and it feels really intentional (that Martha dies -> Martha appears, Jonas dies -> Jonas appears, Martha and Jonas disappear into angel dust -> Hannah is pregnant with Jonas and the rainjacket is there). Then bf also pointed out that the same things happen in different ways in the alternate world, and it stands to reason that this is true of the original one.

Also I had originally read the angel dust scene as them dying, but it's not really that, and I was crying over the fact that Jonas and Martha are actually spared the mortal curse in the story, after they had been punished repeatedly. They're angels and cosmic mother/father of the world and they saved everybody and they're going to be reborn and find each other again (:

[papermachedreamballoon]

@p33p33p00p00

i ADORE how in the start its immediately just like introduction to the snow (minus the piano that plays in itts), but the lyric change is so important to me so increidbly important..... "for merely dreaming we were snow" is likely referring to how they just wanted a nice, happy life, pure like snow, but they didnt get that because they were too carefree. "a siren sounds like the goddess who promises endless apologies of paradise" is probably talking about the sirens that are luring him to his death, as they sing in the voice of stella, who was like a goddess to him & promised that their lives together would be paradise. "& only she can make it right" instead of "knows only two can make it light" is foreshadowing his death, because "right" is said instead of "light", likely meaning that because there arent two of them anymore, he has to die so he can be with stella again (the light that most people apparently see before death). & THEN. my favorite line in the whole fucking song BECAUSE of the way i interpret it - "so things are different tonight". which doesnt seem like much at first, until you look at its corresponding line in itts; "you'll live forever tonight", because it directly references the fact he's going to die. he won't live forever this time. "we'll go together in flight" is about death by falling, in his case falling in love, because his love for her was sort of the reason he died. "its now & never, a reverie endeavor" is talking about how he is actively trying to die, because he has accepted the fact stella is dead, & its the only way he'll ever see her again. he's daydreaming about it often. he'll see her again very soon ("it's now") but he'll never see her again in his life ("& never"). "awaits somnambulant directives to take the helm" means he's drifting into a daydream again, however it's mostly guided by the sirens, & he's more hallucinating than anything, so they're practically controlling him. "believe me, darling, the stars were made for falling" is both a sort of dark line & a sweet line, meaning that their love was practically written in the stars because of how certain it was, but it was always meant to fall apart somehow (stella fucking died). "like melting obelisks as tall as another realm" is similar to the previous line; their love was pretty much written in stone, but it was never meant to last. "a group of children, the galaxies extend, garden of imagination" (originally in french but idk how to type it in french) is a line that was in "space station level 7" where stella ascends to heaven after being killed in "murders". this is likely where simon started to die, although he wasnt fully dead at this point. "bridging the gap, skating past the moon, watch as we evolve" (also originally in french) again, he's starting to die, not to the point where he sees the actual light you see before you die yet, but he thinks he is (he thinks thats what the moon is, because he cant see clearly). he's starting to 'bridge the gap' between him & stella, though. "it feels like flying, but maybe we're dying" is a reference to "we'll go together in flight" - he's aware his love for her was the literal death of him, although he isnt saddened by the fact he's dying; in fact, he's quite happy about it. he's so euphoric that he'll get to see stella again that he feels like he's flying. "a cosmic confluence of pyramids hologrammed" is probably meaning that while he thinks he's seeing stella again then & there, it's actually just the sirens that are mimicking her voice. "she knows you heard her, staging music murder" is where he fully realizes that he's dying in the hands of sirens. the sirens are aware of this now & begin to try & speed up his death. it's also a reference to an earlier song in which stella dies, murders, only now he's the one being killed. "(children born of one emotion)" is talking about how they were so focused on  their love for each other, "(our devotion's deepest ocean)" & they were deeply in love, "(no division)" but they were divided (again. stella fucking died. also the sirens are trying to lure him back into their song again to make it easier to kill him, so they're trying to make him daydream about a better reality where they were never divided) "(reasoned we'll be free)" is also referencing his daydream; what if being carefree lovers never hurt them? "to know we are beyond a bow" is referencing an earlier song, black rainbows, where they realized they were in love with each other. but in their deaths (simon currently dying but whatever), they're beyond that love. "& lo, the hues arrange to show its perfectly clear" is a line in black rainbows that's repeated here, only instead of them realizing their love for each other is 'perfectly clear', simon realizes their love never truly ended, as stella has been with him all this time, only she was unable to interact with him (her guiding voice in 'labyrinth' is a hallucination). he's at peace after this, & he realizes he'll be able to see her again if he only accepts his death. he now feels ok with doing so. the "oohs" before the long descent in notes signals the sirens luring him back into their song fully & the descent in notes signals his long awaited death. "you look quite divine tonight" is him talking to stella, as she is very beautiful now, having been restored to her previous state because she has departed from her body (which is a rotting corpse as we speak). "here among these vibrant lights" is referring to the stars, only they're much more vibrant than they were in their lives because they aren't on earth anymore (fucking obviously), & are in a paradise that closely resembles their final resting place; hawaii. only it's a black & white version, with nothing but them, the stars, & a rainbow showing color (the album cover pretty much). "pure delights surround us as we sail"  is them sailing off again, however this time they really don't need to worry; it's their paradise. nothing can go wrong anymore, & they're delighted about this. "signed, yours truly, the whale" is referencing isle unto thyself (the music video only), where simon is represented by a whale. it signals that he's the one talking. its also referencing joe hawley's twitter @, which is a fucking anagram or whatever of his last name (hawley). "joy mirages kingdom come" the first 2 words represent how he daydreamed & hallucinated for most of the final days of his life, & the last 2 words represent how he finally doesn't have to daydream anymore; he's now "living" his daydreams. "no-one left at stake" means that they're now together. stella isn't left alone anymore ("stake" referencing how people were killed on stakes in medieval times (why did he fucking reference that)). "now that existence is on the wake" is talking about how they're both dead & living in their own paradise/heaven. it's their existence now. "let's see what we can make" is them going to live out the life they always wanted but never got the chance to have (again they fucking died). "apart is wholly ending" their time apart has ended. "a line in any final song" dream sweet in sea major is the final song on hawaii part ii, & every line in this song can be related back to at least one of each song on the album (there's humming before the black rainbows line. this humming was the same humming in "stranded lullaby". everything after simon's death can be related to time machine, specifically the line "you've been waiting forever, but you can make ever wait for you. do what you wanted to/wanna do") "so long, so far" the song is 7 fucking minutes long. there's still like another 2 minutes left but this is one of the last lyrics in the song. it really is so long so far huh. also i have a theory for it being 7 minutes long on the dot but ill say that in a second. "we will be atoning" theyre apologizing to each other. how sweet (DREAM SWEET IN SEA MAJOR. ILL TALK ABOUT THE MEANING BEHIND THE TITLE TOO BTW that will take like 30 seconds probably). "at last, eternal through the past" they're finally 'eternal', meaning that they'll never have to part again like they did in the past. "above a blinding star" is a reference to the "blinding shining star" line in isle unto thyself, where simon helped her realize she was not in fact unlovable. it's also talking about the light you see before you die. they're both dead now, so that light is there forever. i like to think that that's what the moon they're seeing is, rather than the earth's moon, despite the fact they look identical. "bye, hi. sigh, hawaii" is talking about "aloha", which is a hawaiian word for either "hi" or "bye" depending on the context. the last 2 words are about that & also the next line, which youll see how in a second. "we never meant to part, sublime, thy art" they never meant to part after he sailed to hawaii. they never wanted it to be this way. but it really ended up making their love a beautiful work of art (referencing how hawaii part ii tells a story of 2/ii lovers, who parted in hawaii after one sailed there & they met). "one light, higher than the sun, invisible to some until it's time" (fucking long ass line) is referencing that same light that's been mentioned 3 fucking times before. or 2 i dont remember. the "time" being seconds away from death. that's the end of the song ok. ONTO the title. "dream sweet in sea major" the song is set in the key c major. the story is set in hawaii & thus has a lot to do with the sea, especially this song, since he's being killed in the sea. he daydreams a lot in the beginning/middle of the song as well. they have a sweet reunion in the end. they really do dream sweet in sea major after all huh. ok hold on let me say one last thing. the song has so many references to other songs because 1: its the final song in the album & its fucking cool to reference all of the other songs. & 2: the references are all simon remembering/recalling his life with her, because he feels like it was the only part of life that made it worth living. he sailed to hawaii because he had nothing better to do, so his life pretty much felt like it started there. this is also the reason its 7 minutes long. apparently, the last 7 minutes of brain activity left while you're dying are spent remembering your life. that & with that many references 7 minutes is like the minimal amount of time for it.

ok keep in mind this is just my interpretation of it :3

[wishing-well-writing]

“Believe me, darling. The stars were made for falling,”

Written by: 🍡

Fandom: Genshin Impact (SAGAU)

Character(s): Rosaria, Albedo (mentioned), Kaeya (mentioned), others mentioned

Warnings: sagau typical existential horror, Dragonspine as it’s own warning, implied game typical non-permadeath

Summary: The effects of the Player, from an outsider’s perspective. Aka, more co-op shenanigans with 🦷 and another friend of ours but make it spooky

A/N: something short and sweet while I die from a cold lol

Like melting obelisks,

As tall as another realm.

-/-/-

It was always Albedo, thought Rosaria, as she trudged through the snow of Dragonspine for the what, fifth time that month? Archons above she hated overtime. Alas, it was something she had to do to keep the peace and safety of Mondstadt. So that’s what led her to tailing the Calvary Captain, the Chief Alchemist, and a visitor from Liyue of all places.

She wasn’t quite sure when things started to get... weird, around Mondstadt. Probably when the traveler came around was her conclusion. It was when she started seeing veils of stars glittering on the shoulders of people. Rosaria felt it call for her too, yet she didn’t answer. Didn’t want to know what would happen if she did. The hazy, not-quite-there gazes from those affected haunting her.

So, Rosaria stayed a few paces away, as she watched the two be led by Albedo to his workshop. Indistinct conversations between them lost to the howling winds of the mountain. That was the other thing that made her skin crawl, the way their own personalities were flipped on its head. The fact that they were no longer themselves. She had once witnessed Albedo drag Kaeya off to somewhere by the hand, both all cheerful chatter and bright eyed, no longer the aloof alchemist or the scheming captain.

Perhaps this was only the natural conclusion. She had seen it start with Amber, then Lisa, then Diluc and Sucrose and Diona. Part of her wanted to join them, clueless and happy. Part of her was scared of what would become of her. Become of her mind. Rosaria wasn’t sure what to think, when every part of her yearned for this so dearly, yet her mind reeled at the idea of being made the puppet of something other.

She’s ripped away from her thoughts by rambunctious laughter, and the visual of Albedo being pushed off a cliff in Dragonspine. Stifling laughter (or a scream?) she reminded herself that they would be fine, even as she ignored the way their body twisted, red staining the layers of snow.

This was going to be a long night, wasn’t it.

-/-/-

It feels like flying,

But maybe we're dying...

A cosmic confluence of,

Pyramids hologrammed.

Now playing: Dream Sweet in Sea Major by Miracle Musical

[askvectorprime]

We know from reading your answers that there are universes we know nothing about, other than the glimpses you give. But are there universes which you cannot see or give details about?

Dear Unknown Unknown,

For the sake of argument, let us imagine a universe does exist that I cannot provide information regarding. The very fact that it exists is itself a notable characteristic, is it not? Thus it is impossible for me to answer your question in the affirmative. As for realities occluded from my own view, I have noted these from time to time—particularly at the fringes of the Megaverse and beyond, but it’s not unheard of for temporal anomalies or interplanar phenomena to hide a once-perfectly-perceptible universe from would-be voyeurs. Often, when such realities return to my sight, a perfectly rational metaphysical explanation for the lacuna presents itself.

In conversation with beings possessed of a similar multiversal awareness to mine, I have been made aware of some frightfully obscure realities. I was always delighted when this occurred, but sometimes I found myself unable to replicate whatever circumstances allowed them to observe the reality. Sometimes, it was a matter of their biology being suited for dimensions that are utterly foreign to mine; I was able only to view a “projection” of the reality, or otherwise make inferences about it based on how it interfered with my domain.

Often, though, it was just a case of being at the right place at the right time—to witness a rare confluence, like a Klud breaching the waves, dimensional media frothing into fine structure and rippling into nothingness. To find only that lost media, part of the cosmic background, with none of its resonance… it does upset me, in truth. Oh dear, look at me going on—I must seem very silly to you! I am blessed with a rare perspective, and thankful for it, but I am far from omniscient. There must be so much of existence that I cannot even begin to fathom.

[obscureoldguy]

All of it — the rings of Saturn and my father’s wedding band, the underbelly of the clouds pinked by the rising sun, Einstein’s brain bathing in a jar of formaldehyde, every grain of sand that made the glass that made the jar and each idea Einstein ever had, the shepherdess singing in the Rila mountains of my native Bulgaria and each one of her sheep, every hair on Chance’s velveteen dog ears and Marianne Moore’s red braid and the whiskers of Montaigne’s cat, every translucent fingernail on my friend Amanda’s newborn son, every stone with which Virginia Woolf filled her coat pockets before wading into the River Ouse to drown, every copper atom composing the disc that carried arias aboard the first human-made object to enter interstellar space and every oak splinter of the floor-boards onto which Beethoven collapsed in the fit of fury that cost him his hearing, the wetness of every tear that has ever been wept over a grave and the yellow of the beak of every raven that has ever watched the weepers, every cell in Galileo’s fleshy finger and every molecule of gas and dust that made the moons of Jupiter to which it pointed, the Dipper of freckles constellating the olive firmament of a certain forearm I love and every axonal flutter of the tenderness with which I love her, all the facts and figments by which we are perpetually figuring and reconfiguring reality — it all banged into being 13.8 billion years ago from a single source, no louder than the opening note of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, no larger than the dot levitating over the small i, the I lowered from the pedestal of ego. How can we know this and still succumb to the illusion of separateness, of otherness? This veneer must have been what the confluence of accidents and atoms known as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., saw through when he spoke of our “inescapable network of mutuality,” what Walt Whitman punctured when he wrote that “every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.” One autumn morning, as I read a dead poet’s letters in my friend Wendy’s backyard in San Francisco, I glimpse a fragment of that atomic mutuality. Midsentence, my peripheral vision — that glory of instinct honed by millennia of evolution — pulls me toward a miraculous sight: a small, shimmering red leaf twirling in midair. It seems for a moment to be dancing its final descent. But no — it remains suspended there, six feet above ground, orbiting an invisible center by an invisible force. For an instant I can see how such imperceptible causalities could drive the human mind to superstition, could impel medieval villagers to seek explanation in magic and witchcraft. But then I step closer and notice a fine spider’s web glistening in the air above the leaf, conspiring with gravity in this spinning miracle. Neither the spider has planned for the leaf nor the leaf for the spider — and yet there they are, an accidental pendulum propelled by the same forces that cradle the moons of Jupiter in orbit, animated into this ephemeral early-morning splendor by eternal cosmic laws impervious to beauty and indifferent to meaning, yet replete with both to the bewildered human consciousness beholding it. We spend our lives trying to discern where we end and the rest of the world begins. We snatch our freeze-frame of life from the simultaneity of existence by holding on to illusions of permanence, congruence, and linearity; of static selves and lives that unfold in sensical narratives. All the while, we mistake chance for choice, our labels and models of things for the things themselves, our records for our history. History is not what happened, but what survives the shipwrecks of judgment and chance. Some truths, like beauty, are best illuminated by the sidewise gleam of figuring, of meaning-making. In the course of our figuring, orbits intersect, often unbeknownst to the bodies they carry — intersections mappable only from the distance of decades or centuries. Facts crosshatch with other facts to shade in the nuances of a larger truth — not relativism, no, but the mightiest realism we have. We slice through the simultaneity by being everything at once: our first names and our last names, our loneliness and our society, our bold ambition and our blind hope, our unrequited and part-requited loves. Lives are lived in parallel and perpendicular, fathomed nonlinearly, figured not in the straight graphs of “biography” but in many-sided, many-splendored diagrams. Lives interweave with other lives, and out of the tapestry arise hints at answers to questions that raze to the bone of life: What are the building blocks of character, of contentment, of lasting achievement? How does a person come into self-possession and sovereignty of mind against the tide of convention and unreasoning collectivism? Does genius suffice for happiness, does distinction, does love? Two Nobel Prizes don’t seem to recompense the melancholy radiating from every photograph of the woman in the black laboratory dress. Is success a guarantee of fulfillment, or merely a promise as precarious as a marital vow? How, in this blink of existence bookended by nothingness, do we attain completeness of being? There are infinitely many kinds of beautiful lives. So much of the beauty, so much of what propels our pursuit of truth, stems from the invisible connections — between ideas, between disciplines, between the denizens of a particular time and a particular place, between the interior world of each pioneer and the mark they leave on the cave walls of culture, between faint figures who pass each other in the nocturne before the torchlight of a revolution lights the new day, with little more than a half-nod of kinship and a match to change hands.

Introduction to  “FIGURING”  by MARIA POPOVA

Available on AMAZON

[tomasorban]

Did the ancients somehow know about DNA?

Conventional history tells us that the double-helix structure and base-pairing characteristic of the DNA molecule was not "discovered" until the twentieth century, based upon the work of scientists Rosalind Franklin, Raymond Gosling, James Watson, Francis Crick, and Erwin Chargaff, primarily in the 1950s and 1960s.

Erwin Chargaff (1905-2002) in particular was responsible for the insight that DNA molecules contain roughly equal proportions of adenine and thymine (one of the "base pairs" in the DNA molecule) and of guanine and cytosine (the other "base pair").  Since that time, high school students everywhere have had to memorize the letters A-T and G-C in conjunction with their introduction to the molecular structure of DNA.

It is fascinating to note that the first four signs of the zodiac wheel after the ecliptic "crossing" of the celestial equator at the spring equinox (shown in the diagram above) are Aries, Taurus, Gemini and Cancer (readers who astutely note that the motion of precession has long ago "delayed" the sky and moved the constellation Pisces into the heliacal rising position once occupied by the constellation Aries during the Age of Aries should note that in astrological terms, the "signs" are considered to remain in the positions shown above, for cogent reasons that are beyond the scope of this particular post).

Is it mere "coincidence" that the base pairs of the DNA molecule begin with the same four letters as the first four signs in the zodiac (A, T, G and C), and that they actually "pair" in a manner consistent with the order of the zodiac signs (A with T, and G with C, just as Aries is next to Taurus and Gemini next to Cancer)?

Of course, skeptical readers will note that the names for the DNA nucleobases were generally given by different researchers operating in different decades during the mid- to late-1800s, and that their names almost certainly were not chosen in order to relate in any way to the zodiac signs (adenine, for example, was named after the pancreas, from which the first samples in which adenine was isolated were taken and which organ in Greek is named aden, while guanine is apparently named after the word for bird droppings or guano).  And so it would seem on the surface that the connection between the zodiac and our modern understanding of the DNA molecule and its structure and base pairing is purely coincidental.  

Nevertheless, even if no plausible argument can be made for an actual connection between the letters A-T-G-C in the DNA molecule, and the letters A-T-G-C in the first four constellations of the zodiac cycle, it certainly seems to be a singular example of serendipity, synchronicity, or the collective unconscious working itself out over the course of thousands of years.

Further, while the letters A-T-G-C may not be among the evidence which argues for ancient understanding of the DNA molecule long before the work of Franklin and Gosling, Watson and Crick, and that of Erwin Chargaff, there is in fact other evidence which suggests that the ancients did in fact display flashes of insight which make us wonder whether they might somehow have had inexplicable knowledge of the importance of the DNA molecule, and even the structure of DNA.

One oft-cited example is the fact that the ancient symbol of the caduceus features two intertwined serpents very reminiscent of the double-helix structure of DNA.  Further, some ancient art including the images from ancient Sumer and Babylon depicted on this page (disregard the discussions of "Nibiru," "Planet X," and the "Annunaki" as outside the scope of this particular post as well) clearly seem to be very suggestive of modern understanding of the structure of DNA.

Jeremy Narby, author of Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge has an interview on the web located here in which he discusses a theory which attempts to explain how the mankind may have acquired knowledge of the importance of DNA and its helictical structure long before the advent of "modern science."  He believes that it is very possible -- and that in fact there is evidence to conclude -- that shamanic techniques can give human beings access to knowledge which modern scientific methods only confirmed much later, in recent decades.  In fact, he notes that shamans regularly describe visions involving intertwining serpents, and associate these serpents with something shared by all the multifarious life-forms in our world. In the interview, he makes the assertion that:

Both shamans and molecular biologists agree that there is a hidden unity under the surface of life's diversity; both associate this unity with the double helix shape (or two entwined serpents, a twisted ladder, a spiral staircase, two vines wrapped around each other); both consider that one must deal with this level of reality in order to heal.  One can fill a book with correspondences between shamanism and molecular biology.

Note that in an image about four-fifths of the way down that long web page, Dr. Narby includes an image from the tradition of western alchemy which he believes has clear resemblance to chromosonal DNA, and which certainly predates the work of Franklin, Gosling, Watson and Crick by centuries.

There is other evidence, particularly from ancient sacred traditions and mythology, which strongly suggest that mankind somehow knew far more about the importance of DNA than we moderns have been led to believe. This evidence will be addressed in my next book.

This evidence has nothing (directly) to do with the synchronicity involving the letters A-T-G-C and the first four signs of the zodiac, although the ancients clearly taught that mankind reflected the cosmos on a "microcosmic" level, a concept discussed in previous posts such as "

The extra-zodiacal decans in macrocosm and microcosm," "

More on macrocosm and microcosm

Human internal organs connected to solar system planets?

Okeanos

The judgement of Paris

Giordano Bruno, 1548-1600

If each strand of our DNA is composed of base pairs whose initials reflect the initials of those first four zodiac signs (each of which is considered the "leader" of a grouping of three other signs, categorized as the Earth, Air, Fire, and Water signs of the zodiac), then we can truly say that -- however the serendipitous confluence came about, the naming of the DNA base pairs symbolizes on a profound level the fact that each of us embodies a tiny cosmos.

addendum:

DNA has the geometry of ten interpenetrating dodecahedra spiraling along the helix. It requires ten Phi spirals to create the top view of DNA. The basic geometry of DNA is that of a dodecahedron. Since Daniel Winter assumes that the universe is one huge super hologram and that everything in the universe is connected with everything else by means of Golden waves, he believes that DNA is electro-magnetically coupled with the Earth grid and the Zodiac by means of the fractal dodecahedron shapes of energy.

[nadsy222]

Do you know why it is forbidden to fly over the Kaaba🕋 and there is no airport in Mecca The information will surprise you This is the information that brought many people to Islam, especially the scientists The Kaaba🕋 is the center of the earth It is the middle of the earth without any difference of strain And because it's the center of gravity it naturally attract magnetic load to this place This is the first point to welcome sunrise⛅ For this reasons and the fact that the Kaaba is the center of the gravity on Earth a centre of attraction and confluence of cosmic rays of gravity on the surface of the earth the vacuum zone in the layers of air So it's impossible to fly over the Kaaba whether it's by birds🐦 or even by planes✈️ because it's a magnetic attraction center This is indeed confirmed by science that planes✈️ and birds🐦 can't fly over the Kaaba because of the magnetic attraction And this is why in Saudi Arabia there is no airport in Mecca This also explains why despite the large number of birds in the surrounding of the Kaaba, they only fly around the Kaaba not above! Praise be to Allah(ﷻ) who is greatest It should be noted that the Kaaba is the light of the earth The light that comes from the Kaaba passes through space and through the sky in the light of the house of Allah in the sky (it is Baytil Ma ' love) that is perpendicular to the house of Allah in the world (that is - saying Ka'abah on the earth) Allah(ﷻ)is Greatest As Allah(ﷻ)has blessed the Qur'an among the books the Kaba among the Mosques the Prophet S A W among Men the Zam Zam among the Waters the Earth among the Planets May Allah(ﷻ)bless you in the same way and give you the biensfaits of what you seek Aameen 🤲🙏 https://www.instagram.com/p/CPa7cnvFVTT/?utm_medium=tumblr

[kumail-fan]

DOUBLE NATURE

DOUBLE NATURE9 (rene-adolphe-schwaller-de-lubicz)

The double inheritance of this Strasbourgeois borderland is further mirrored from the dual affinity for science and art which could play an integral part in the alchemist's upbringing. According to his spouse's 1963 biography, the youthful René split the leisures of his childhood involving'reveries from the woods, painting, and chemical experiments at the lab of his dad'. [7] All these past-times would prove crucial to his older work, an alchemy participated both as a sacred science along with a royal artwork. At origin of the two endeavours establishes a metaphysics of understanding that adopts both instinctive and philosophical faculties. This desire to understand the transcendent heights of fact through concrete phenomena remains a hallmark of Schwaller's oldest experiences. His life's work surrounded a surprisingly varied spectrum of action, from the development of alchemically stained glass into the archaeology, architectonics and symbolic evaluation of Egyptian temples. The understanding of all outstanding things,'from mineral to man', as detained stages of a dwelling cosmic alchemical response was, for Schwaller, the basis of the panentheistic Weltanschauung. Herein, everything which exists--the incredible world as a whole--was viewed just as a response to some metaphysical action. 'Life' to get Schwaller has been'the school of responding ',' [1] and this comprised the metallic and mineral kingdoms. 'The Universe is just consciousness', he comments,'and its looks gifts nothing but an development of awareness , from its source to its end, the end being a return to its own origin'. [2] [3] Schwaller would get two names in the span of his lifetime: the chivalric name" p Lubicz" along with also the initiatic appellation" Aor". The narrative of those names will show much. For the time being, however, it's very important to realise he was first and foremost Alsatian. His character is an exact reflection of this property --or instead, borderland--to which he had been born: Alsace, the longitudinal strip of property characterized from the Vosges from the West and from the Rhine from the East. In the conclusion of this Franco-Prussian warfare (1871--72), France gave up the majority of the area to Germany, and it was , at Reichsland Elsaß-Lothringen (Imperial German Alsace-Lorraine) which Schwaller was born. Regardless of its Germanic temperament, the area remains defiantly French, as did René Schwaller. Really, his part-French, part-German title reveals the bi-fold lineage of not just the land but its own people: his dad, Joseph Schwaller (a pharmacist), was of Swiss-German source while his mum, Marie Bernard (initially from Asnières), was French. [4] And while the bilingual milieu to which Schwaller was born could provide him fluency in two languages, he wrote and spoke in his mother's tongue. As Christopher Bamford opinions in his introduction to the English translation of Schwaller's very first publication, A Study of Amounts :'His life that he wrestled with this inheritance, ongoing, as it were, to"believe in German" but write French'. [5]'In the stylistic standpoint', opinions Emmanuel Dufour-Kowalski (commenting in a similar vein),'one shouldn't neglect to mention that the proper strategy of the writer, allergic to a number of or poetic sayings, never hesitating to supplement his philosophical language with technical neologisms'. [6] Finally, such as the wine of the area, the near yet uncomfortable confluence of the Romance and Germanic simultaneously pervaded his character.

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[senescenceandsensibility]

Give and Take

Things had been going well. Almost too well, am I right? It had to happen sometime. The brick wall. The spike strip. The nose dive.

It wasn’t one thing, it never is. It’s a confluence of things. And I was due, it must be said. This was perhaps the longest period of time I’ve gone without a significant depressive episode in memory. It was too much to hope that it would last forever. I’d begun to wonder what I was ignoring, so curious was I that I hadn’t dipped.

But dip I did. Likely catalyzed by a forced drop in caffeine intake, which comes with side effects that include irritability, my brain chemistry was in No Mood for bullshit.

A big part of it, too, is the fact that we’re almost to the end of this terrible time. And I can get to whatever line that’s been drawn. I can do that, call up reserves and just keep going. But I will need at some point to process everything it took to get there. To let it all out eventually. And you can’t always predict how that is going to shake out.

And once you’re sad or, you know, looking, you can usually find things that are wrong or fraying. I’ve said, and it’s true: If you’re basically unhappy, everything feels like a burden. If you’re basically happy, nothing does. I can take the odd disappointment. The small annoyance. It’s when they pile up. Last straw and all that.

At work, my job is to help people get their jobs done. I do that by handling the irritating and picayune day-to-day tasks. And this works for me, as it dovetails with my pathological need to sell my worth through helpfulness and putting others first. But I still end up as the official provider. I’m mostly fine with this, as I said, until I’m not, and when this happens, it only lasts a little while. Because it is a pathological need to be helpful. And I’m overpaid. So it’s pointless to complain about any of it.

But now that we’re closer to the end of our exile from normal life, I am a bit behind in terms of, you know, a normal life. I moved here, away from everyone I knew, and then went into quarantine. I am emerging from a bunker, as it were, and I’m going to be expected to build a life now. I truly like almost everyone I work with, but though we’re friendly, I’m not sure we are going to be friends. It’s hard to feel on even ground with people you ultimately have little in common with. Brilliant people, experts in their fields…people I (essentially) pick up after.

My first thought was to volunteer somewhere. It’s a good way to meet like-minded people, depending on the organization, but it’s also a good way to build yet another one-way street from me and my efforts to a new and different group of recipients. I was seriously considering hospice patient visiting (I still am) and even I, with no therapy degree or license, can see there are issues here. Who am I likely to meet who won’t break my heart? Hospice and social workers report a high level of job satisfaction, I know that. I was a caregiver to a terminal patient – I already know that it’s rewarding, not to mention valuable as all hell. But what will I get from that that won’t also hurt? What kind of person does that to themselves, volunteers for it?

I remember someone once telling me about someone he knew who’d died by suicide. And he said, “he was the most helpful guy.” And it stuck with me. Because he obviously needed help, right? I want, more than anything, to get what I give. Not at work, I understand that contract. But in general, cosmically, on balance, I’d like to know what it feels like to be on the receiving end of the kind of giving I like/need to provide. A reciprocal, mutual give and take.

Anyway, sometimes the light at the end of the tunnel is a klieg light. Sometimes it’s a train.

[stargazer1682]

Buffy’s Calling

There’s a reason Buffy was overlooked as by the Council before she was called as a Slayer; she was never technically on their radar to begin with.  She was never a conventional "Potential Slayer," but rather Celia was.  Celia was Buffy’s cousin from "Killed by Death," who died when Buffy was 8.  Buffy was with her when she died.  It was Celia who was actually a Potential; and she died at the exact same instant the active Slayer at that time died, calling Celia.  Such an improbably confluence of circumstances had never happened before; and as a result, the Slayer powers rebounded and connected with Buffy, a young girl with raw, untapped potential, and in close proximity to Celia when the powers became unmoored; all of which made Buffy a sort of lightning rod for the Slayer powers.

The bigger twist in all of this would be that Celia's Watcher was none other than Hank Summers, Buffy's father.  It was because he was assigned to be Celia's Watcher that he ended up in Joyce's life - Joyce being Celia's biological aunt.  Hank's marriage was only partly a cover, as he truly did fall in love with Joyce.  And he naturally cared very much about Celia, as most Watchers do with their charge; and her death was very difficult for him. The death of the previous Slayer would of course be a big deal for the Watcher's Council, they would need to identify who the new Slayer was right away, so they could receive all the necessary resources and attention, but by all accounts none of the Potentials that they had been training around the globe appeared to have been activated; no active Slayer could be identified, it was unprecedented.  Ultimately their only conclusion was a rogue Potential; someone they managed to overlook for whatever reason and who, despite all the odds that favored one of the Potentials in their care, had been called as the new Slayer.  It had never happened before; at least not in recent memory and certainly not since the Council had begun taking steps centuries ago to hedge their bets by training so many Potentials, but at least some knew that it was bound to happen sooner or later.  The Council began employing all manner of mystical tools to search for the Slayer; probably similar to the techniques shown in season 7 for identifying Potentials.  In fact it may have been the exact same process, the only problem being that the world is large, there's a lot of people in it, and the spell that finds the Slayer also identifies Potentials, so it's not so much like finding a needle in a hay stack, as it is looking for a specific needle in an immense hay stack, riddled with other types needles. Meanwhile, Hank Summers, dutiful Watcher who's lost his charge, is helping with the search.  He's reviewing the case information, studying when the last Slayer died and search for any correlating events around the same time or shortly after that might help narrow the search, just like every other Council member.  But unlike the experience for ever other member, something does stand out to him - the last Slayer's time of death is the same time Celia died.  It's not even Hank who realizes this, not entirely and not first.  Hank is working late at home when lil' Buffy has come down stairs after having a bad dream; she asks what he's doing and he explains it's something for work.  She sees the date mentioned in his files and asks if it had something to do with Celia, because that was the day she died.  As he's about to dismiss the connection, a flash of insight occurs to him; Celia died the same day the last Slayer died, but surely that's a coincidence.  He plans to check for the estimated time of death of the last Slayer after tucking Buffy back into bed.  She gives him a hug that's surprisingly firm for an 8 year old girl and Hank's mind is racing. Hank digs deeper and finds out the best estimate of the time of the previous Slayer's death and also finds out the time Celia died and as best he can tell they both died at the exact same time; a convergence of circumstances that were astronomical.   But did it mean anything?  Could Celia have been the one called and what would it have meant for a Slayer to be called at the same moment of their death?  He confided these suspicions in a fellow Watcher; a man he trusted more than anyone else in the Council.  A friend from his Watchers Academy days, the man who had been raising concerns about their methods for identifying Potentials and even how the Council treated an active Slayer for years - Rupert Giles.  Giles was brilliant by any standard, but even he was baffled at what Hank was proposing.  It's possible, he tells Hank, that if what he was suggesting did in fact occur, then it was equally possible that because the powers were unable to fully take hold in the new Slayer, Celia, before she died, the ability to call the next Slayer after her may not have had the opportunity take hold either, let alone be triggered; and, "without some sort of anchor or mechanism to redirect the powers, presumably the Slayer powers may well be lost. Permanently." The prospect that the Slayer line may have not only ended, but ended with his charge, because he failed to prevent Celia's death, weighed heavily on Hank; as did Rupert's mention of an anchor.  What did he mean by that? "Someone who might have inherited the powers if they rebounded; a person the powers could find purchase in," Rupert tells him.  "Someone who wasn't a Potential?" Hank asks.  "Theoretically.  At least not in the conventional sense. But it couldn't just be anyone; physical presence would probably be keen, but there would need to be more than that; much more.  A Potential isn't just some girl who might one day become the Slayer just because a spell says so; it’s not a cosmic lottery or whim of chance. The spell used to find new Potentials identifies certain traits that the Slayer powers are drawn to.  The moral compass, strength of character and most importantly the potential to wield the power of the Slayer judiciously.  To be a Potential is much more than just possibly being a future Slayer; it’s a description of their character; they have potential.  Someone could have been standing three feet away from her when she died and I dare say the odds would be virtually none existent of anything happening; unless they measured up to some pretty exacting standards.”  “Someone... Somebody extraordinary?” Hank asks.  “Perhaps a bit overstates, but for a lack of a better description, I should say they’d almost have to be,” Giles replies. “Does anyone come to mind?" Hank began putting two and two together and after covertly testing Buffy his suspicions were confirmed; his daughter was the Slayer.  It was still early days as far he could tell.  Most Slayers who were called were older, but only slightly.  The few on record that had been called before adolescence didn’t come into their full powers until they got older and reached puberty; which only made Hank wonder just how much stronger Buffy was going to get. He had spent years preparing to become a Watcher, had been a Watcher for his entire adult life, his mother had been a watcher and her mother before her.  He had even expected Buffy to become a Watcher one day, possibly attending the Academy in a few years, like he did.  Hank knew the risks, he knew the dangers in the world that most weren't aware of, he’d faced a few of them as  Watcher; including the loss of his charge, which is the single worst thing any Watcher has to prepare themselves for.  But no Watcher ever had to face the prospect of their own daughter being chosen as the Slayer.  As far as he was aware, nothing like this had ever happened before.  

It was hard enough to train a protégé in the form of a Potential, some random girl who may or may not ever be called; and they say not to become too attached to a Potential or to their Slayer if their charge is called, but that's always easier said than done.  It never makes losing them any easier.   But this is his daughter, his flesh and blood.  Being the Slayer meant she wouldn’t be attending the Academy; she probably wouldn't even live long enough to finish school and even if she did....  ‘God, the Cruciamentum... why does the Council even do that anymore?  Why did they ever do it?’

Hank knew what he had to do, he was going to hide Buffy from the Council, do everything he could to ensure they never knew she was the Slayer.  On some level he knew that his plan would never work long term, but he had to try.  He used enchantments to cloak Buffy from any detection spells; God help him, he even eventually decided to use the drug cocktail the Council had designed for the Cruciamentum, to dull Buffy’s heightened abilities, so she wouldn’t start asking questions either.  Even scaled down to a child’s dose, he was surprised at just how much needed to be administered for Buffy's enhanced strength to be sufficiently suppressed.   He began to overindulge Buffy, doing his best to give her anything and everything she wanted, to the point that she became rather spoiled. This put a strain on his relationship with Joyce. Over time it became difficult for Hank to administer drug cocktail as often and slowly her powers, the strength and coordination, began to manifest, though still dulled.  Eventually the Council located Buffy and identified her as the Slayer, sending her first Watcher to engage her.  After she confronted the vampires at her school, and after the death of Merrick, Buffy felt her only recourse was to tell her parents and confided the truth to her father.  He made a plea with the Council; surely there must be a way to remove these powers and transfer them to someone else, an actual Potential, since she was never meant to receive them in the first place.  The Council's explored this with tests, disguised as a psychiatric hold; a measure Hank immediately resented, prompting his resignation from the Council and removing Buffy from the facility. By this point Hank and Joyce's marriage was strained to its breaking point; they were separated and he knew the end of the marriage was near.  He saw to it's ultimate end by making up an affair he confessed to Joyce.  They divorced and Hank conceded custody of Buffy to Joyce, knowing that while the Council probably wouldn't hesitate taking Buffy from him, they'd have a harder go of it justifying removing Buffy from her mother, who knew nothing of their world.  He planted the idea of moving away with Buffy to get a new start after the issue of Buffy setting fire to her school and getting expelled.  He'd done some research and identified a quaint, medium sized college town not too far away from LA, that by all outward appearances posed few mystical threats for the Slayer to face - Sunnydale. Hank helped front the money for Joyce to start the gallery like she always dreamed of doing; and Hank pulled some strings to have Rupert Giles assigned as Buffy’s new Watcher, though Hank insisted that Buffy never know the truth about him or that he and Giles ever knew each other.   Meanwhile, Hank set out on a quest for peril.  He was determined to face any and all danger he could find that might eventually need to be faced by the Slayer; and stop it before it ever got that far.

[templepurohit]

Panchabera's, the five idols of Venkateswara - TemplePurohit.com The image here is of Utsava Bera at Tirumala. || Om Namo Venkatesaya || Vaikhanasa worshgip is mainly concerned with worshipping Lord Vishnu. According to Vaikhanasa worship, Lord Vishnu is worshipped as an all pervading cosmic energy. By inviting(Avahanam) Lord Vishnu, is nothing but praying Lord Vishnu to come along with all his attendent deities(Saparivaram). So worshipping Lord Vishnu is nothing but worshipping all gods. " Atha: Vishno: archaa sarva dEvArchAbhavathi The significance of Vaikhanasa mode of worship lies in the fact that the prominence given to worshipping Lord Vishnu, in his Vishnu form rather than in Vasudeva form. It is the essence of Vaikhanasa worship, Comprehensive and all pervading signifies Vishnu Tatvam. This can be seen in the temples following Vaikhnasa mode of worship. Lord Vishnu himself self-manifested in the Archa form to give abhayam to his devotees. In every Vishnu Temple, there will be a fixed Dhruva Beram( Mulavirat), along with 4 other Beras or murthies. These five beras are called as 'Pancha Bera', They are 1. Dhruva Beram, 2. Kautuka Beram, 3. Utsava Beram, 4. Snapana Beram and 5. Bali Beram The stone idol which is installed as Archa murhty is nothing but Sarvasakthi samanvitha Saakshat Vishnu murthy. As the Vedas says " TreenipadA vichakramE vishnu:" from the mulavirat the cosmic energy will be transferred to other three beras, Kautuka, Utsava, Snapana. This is integral and allpervading. Among this three beras, Kautuka bera will receive Nitharchana, Utsava Bera will receive kAmyArchana, Snapana bera will receive naimittikArchana. It is very interesting to know about these 'chaturmUrthi tatvam' of Lord Vishnu. The main idol is 'Vishnu', though he is sarva vyApi, this bera is fixed. To receive pUjas(rituals) from devotees(thru Archaka mukham), the cosmic energy(vishnu tatva sakthi) will be transmitted from mulavirat to the kautuka bera on the archA peetham. This is first step. After this when the worship is going on and when the need for abhishekam to idols ariarises, the vishnu tatvam will get transmitted in to Snapana beram. This is second step. And in the third step, the Utsava deities are taken for a procession around the temple out of Garbha griham, and the vishnu tatvam now get transmitted from the mulavirat to utsava beram. " nithya pradhAna pUjardham kautukam sankalpayEt snapanam snapanArdham cha vyutsavArdham tadhautsavam|| For the daily rituals(nithyArchana) kautuka beram, and for abhishekams snapana beram, for utsavams utsava murhty has to be installed in a temple Apart from these three beras, there will be a fourth bera called 'Bali beram' for the procession of bali. To offer bali to all the deities in the temple avaranam this bali bera is useful. " nityantu baliyAtrArdham balibimbamcha mukhyatha:" while offering bali daily this 'bali beram' is important. " sarvatra sarva bhogArdham bhoga bEram cha kanchanA" For offering sarva bhogas, a bhoga bera has to be installed, which is other wise called as 'kautuka beram'. Though there are four idols of lord Vishnu or 5 idols, they are not seperate idols. In the sanctum, the fixed idol of Dhruva beram will be always worshipped as Lord Vishnu's Archa svaroopam. And this Dhruva beram is inturn is an 'Adi murthy' for the other 4 idols. The kautuka bera which is useful for offering worship of nityArchanam is inturn an 'Amsa' of main idol and after the main idol(Dhruva bera) this is an important beram in all rituals, and that all these 5 idols or 'Pancha Berams', are one as said in, " Dhruva kautuka mOraikyE dhruvArchana mudAhrutam|" (Bhrigu's Kriyadhikaram, 8-146). The confluence of dhruva and kautuka is treated as dhruvarchanam. " dhruvabEranu rUpam cha kautukam parikalpayEt|" (Kriyadhikaram, 3-21). The cosmic energy is transferred from dhruva beram to Kautuka beram. In the same way from kautuka beram to utsava beram, utsava beram to snapana beram, also snapana bera to bali beram. " yathAgArhapatnyadau AhavanIyAdi shvagnimpraNIyajuhOti| tathA dhruva bErAt kautuka bimbAdishu samAvAhyarchayEt||" (kAsyapa gnAna kAnda) As the agni from gArhapatyam is taken to AhavanIyam and other agnis and homas are performed, in the same way the cosmic energy from dhruva beram is transferred to kautuka and other beras and worship is offered Sage Bhrigu has compared this Panchamurthy ideology (one god and five forms) to Panchagni sampradayam or the Pancha Pranas in our body. " yathA karmana Ekasya kalpithA panchavahnya:| yathA chaika sarIrasya vAyu panchaka kalpanam| tathaivaika vimAnasya panchabErAni kalpayEt|| " (KriyAdhikAram, 9,7-9) In Sage Marichi's Vimanarchana Kalpam( 89th patala), it is said that: Just like for an agni, there's dakshinAgni, gArhapatyAgni and other Panchagnis( sabhyam, AhavanIyam, anvAhAryam, gArhapatyam, Avasathyam), And just like for a one body there's pancha vayus( prAnam, apAnam, vyAnam, udAnam, samAnam), in the same way for the same Vimanam in the temple, Pancha Berams has to be installed. These five idols are similar to the Pancha Bhuthas (Prithivi, jalam, agni, vayu, Akasam This information was given by Sriman Ramakrishna Deekshitulu Swamy. https://ift.tt/2UdoI2M