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Nanami pondering her egg. https://t.co/jtTrV17GEb
Pondering the orb."That young lady, the Alchemistic Girl Medieval, is a time traveler. Just like the Comte de Saint-Germain clad in red, she’s appeared right now in present day, present time." https://t.co/DKP4MZGjt0https://t.co/uUlxi42aKj
Hmm"They include beliefs that he is immortal, the Wandering Jew, an alchemist with the "Elixir of Life", a Rosicrucian, and that he prophesied the French Revolution."https://t.co/dWecRuoSvP
Howl's Moving Castle?https://t.co/6Iq7shQVvE https://t.co/doF1j722Sl
An echo?"Perhaps the author of the original Howl's Moving Castle book, Diana Wynne Jones, is a fan of Rosicrucian scholar Frances Yates, in whose book The Rosicrucian Enlightenment we first encountered this striking image."https://t.co/DdUbEXUhJ2 https://t.co/eLTc9x7AMw
Do you think baba yaga's house could lay eggs?https://t.co/3AgV9EZui2
Chicken & Egg(Sami style store house, and a 'gaohti' turf hut recreation)https://t.co/3SlF13XNHb https://t.co/IjfzJxnPBr
"The task of the alchemist was to reproduce these natural conditions in an artificial earth within the hermetic egg by art in a laboratory whereby metals could be produced or transmuted"https://t.co/GuNxdULHlJAquinas => Sulfur and Mercury you say?https://t.co/M47aZWiebl https://t.co/PlU31lb7QZ
Turf based furnaces, with a string rapped around it, used to smelt metal.https://t.co/poQDBsqxIX
Breaking into the furnace to see what has been made.Cracking the egg.https://t.co/lU3vNSZFhr
Charcoal Kilns have been shown to date back to about 3500 BCE.Funny looking earthen egg.https://t.co/QqUErhyngQ
The problem with modern chemistry is they only teach you the alchemic origins stemming from the 1500s onward.We must dig deeper. What were those alchemists studying? What did they overlook? What did they get wrong?https://t.co/cMfKonI3Ll
Silvery egg?"In the Aithír, Time formed a silvery egg, the offspring of Aithír and Kháos."https://t.co/4Q3ubnZIjy https://t.co/XaEVeGWcnG
What does "water of life" mean, anyway?https://t.co/pT3gjDW5ir
Yellowing bad."things were going yellow and then they were just like oh there's just fucking gold in my reaction. no that makes fucking sense!Alchemy is trying to turn things yellow, and chemistry is trying to avoid things turning yellow."https://t.co/CcwR7Kf2ua https://t.co/WN5YeoOHAP
Which castle? Howl'shttps://t.co/YqChn8bouk
"You probably didn’t think of the wattle-necked pelican. But if you were a seventh-century medieval monk [...] the pelican would have seemed to be one of the most important animals to call the Nile home."https://t.co/MEshS30wXnhttps://t.co/UOJMrCUtCo
Something funny in this rhyme. It was also believed that semen was made from 40 drops of blood. So a pelican to sacrifice blood for the good of the child is a sort of allusion to the idea of a nuptial gift.https://t.co/2jMLUri6wN
"The goddess of love, Aphrodite, was born out of seafoam. As she rose out of the sea, the foam turned to white roses."https://t.co/mSNo4BmQQS
Something that stands out to me that I can't place (yet) within my mental model of alchemy-as-metallurgy-as-dirt-egg:When you make a compost pile, one way to start the transformation process is to use gallons of piss on it. The other is using blood or a dead animal.Nitrogen.
What was Isaac Newton doing?https://t.co/K6HVo0n50W
We assume Newton was into pseudoscience. Every single source referencing him in popular discourse seems to laugh at him for being into alchemy.What if they're wrong?https://t.co/zNcKUYSZh0
Every school child is taught Newton was wrong.Has anyone ever bothered to actually test this theory?https://t.co/nkcZ1rKr8E
Getting misinformation into the supply chain of knowledge, like the Whigs who rewrote history books. Or priests trying to sway their flock against the truth by calling someone a witch or a demon worshiper.https://t.co/y7W3cCzvnw
Ishtar, Aster, Aphroditie, VenusWhite and Red Flowers.Amazing.https://t.co/6YifiFXA0W
Did ishtar know about the Dog rose?https://t.co/PLaJzT96VA
She was a keeper of dogshttps://t.co/vDSiRdzvb6
Ooh, I wonder if the bird Thoth is patterned after self-sacrifices as well. Could the Pelican imagery be a wandering myth?https://t.co/A9JF7wHNq4https://t.co/sj384Dw8vq
Winged Serpents? Huh?"Pliny the Elder tells us that it was said that the flies that brought pestilence died immediately upon propitiatory sacrifices of this bird."https://t.co/XzGaoVUVqQ https://t.co/7gihxz8Ifb
Whenever I read about pelicans in mythology I think about Canadian Greece. https://t.co/EoYfZFEog0
"Because of that belief, the pelican became a major symbol of self-sacrifice and charity. Early Christians had adopted it by the 2nd century and started using it in texts and images, making it a very special bird."https://t.co/gBnsDPBpRShttps://t.co/1oNiv68NHT https://t.co/9R1lXvU9EJ
Cuz this stuff is all greek to me.https://t.co/lX3tIrzgGU
Have you considered having a goose?https://t.co/mHqOgcxKJq https://t.co/Cl2tDAVpjH
YouTube recommended a very old TEDx talk to me. Herein, JBP depicts a creature acting as "pelican", bleeding from what appears to be a 'wound' in it's stomach.An analog of an alchemistic demiurge? Could this be were the self-sacrifice frame comes from?https://t.co/yW7emKg5nh https://t.co/rT3PD6Coap
Amazing."I'm the queen on the chessboardAnd the red upon the roseAnd you like me the mostYou follow me the most" 🎶https://t.co/JBOtxfPZEFhttps://t.co/bxiFKnO3RJ
I wrote this poem with help from a friend back in 8th grade.'On going insane...'https://t.co/QQIaVHPc7b
That was around the same time I was memorizing every demon's name thanks to many lists on the internet.My memories are corrupted.https://t.co/WPOAZqRQw1
"A demon of plague, the Asag was known to dwell in the human body and cover the person like clothing. The monster was especially known for causing head fevers. In the end, the Asag would end up paralyzing the person he had infected" https://t.co/Jt7v9SqNgk https://t.co/a9FNOoYsTH
Hunter, Dog Keeper. Red eyes. https://t.co/ZB2QgMgn6h https://t.co/zqnOwPColG
Hmm. King Arthur and the holy grail, but as a lewd allegory to alchemical thought?https://t.co/EskvkED7Ud
Every rose has its thorn.https://t.co/O9i1UvR3cb
Magic spells and incantations. Experiments with blood and chocolate.https://t.co/SQjk2AZ56L
Whelp.https://t.co/DYfgEaRhMM
Leaving this up my computer screen so my GF sees it and laughs.https://t.co/CDhTTZ7uhG
Next up in "weird shit ape learns while watching anime reviews with his GF"An alchemist reviews Full Metal Alchemist and even quotes Paracelsus in reference to Mercurius. 👁️https://t.co/HpkMLg5cakFound it on Project Gutenberg https://t.co/B2jx58V1tS https://t.co/V9W1c8YaAx
He was reading alchemy. https://t.co/85nrNpLNVW
If my pure coincidence alchemy is actually a misunderstood model of Ancient Chinese medicine and it's impact on life giving bacteria and epigenetics, it's gonna be funny. https://t.co/GfioiBr5Xt
Now we're learning about Ancient Mesopotamian "demons" that seems to be a very loose model of infectious disease ala pathogens, but also include commensal spirits.https://t.co/ipl5fKGRan
I know this. It's a unix system.https://t.co/qfma0eWrlq
"The ease by which the same specific demonic figure could act benevolently or malevolently suggests that they did not possess fixed natures, but should instead be considered and classified by their actions."https://t.co/8rQpUaqbYx https://t.co/ZcyaWonlSr
Don't mind me, just evoking a literal GOD to fight DEMONSAnd by that i mean, the Ancient Mesopotamian doctors would use Garlic to treat infections.https://t.co/stHVQZJ5hZ
GF tells me Ereshkigal (Hekate) liked offerings of garlic and honey after I told her that The moon goddess must be associated with garlic somehow.https://t.co/zVdHTvqNYE
Jokes, no even once.https://t.co/MLBd4718U3
I have no idea what I'm doing."In fact, Newton was so immersed in divine knowledge, numerology, and the hermetic lore of ancient times, that John Maynard Keyes once referred to him as “the last of the Sumerians.”"https://t.co/tQyBKC3Z0r
Can I decompress latent knowledge from ritual prayer meant to 'exorcise demons'?https://t.co/ZXwcDCgNry
@AliAbdaal @rudrakshborana Ancient Egyptian healers would recite prayers and poems as they did their healing rituals. Digging deeper into many of these things, it seems like they were forms of mnemonic devices. One thing I found neat was that there is consistency between stars/planets and different organs.
Homunculus as small human being? Nah. That is a misinterpretation of the alchemy. https://t.co/CXJTOfkgLH
My hunch was right, and now I can literally quote a passage from Paracelsus as a reference to prove it... thanks to Full Metal Alchemist.https://t.co/MgGLPBjBWG
Was that garlic being worshiped as a god, or was Pliny the Elder just mistaken?https://t.co/NeGre31in0
Don't mind me just summoning some wisdom from our ancestors on how to deal with demons.https://t.co/x1U0q7F1eQ
Answering my own questions like some kind of masturbatory web of ideas.https://t.co/FKOpjjHPQ5
Tying ideas together across time and space.https://t.co/hybg2BvnQi
Ideas to be in harmony. Happy thoughts.https://t.co/drHVcWKrtA
Bad thoughts lead to bad poops. Simple as.https://t.co/OdcOad83eh
He don't want no traumahttps://t.co/dSjBRYsVLX
no no no no trauma.https://t.co/GR1bFl3sKChttps://t.co/OlUcczwNxJ https://t.co/bJDEHMJN9U
@re_kin_dled I'd like to know if CPTSD in autism is partly driven by gut bacteria impacting mTOR related pathways thus challenging brain plasticity & locking in trauma responses due to something akin to autism's rigidity in thinking but applied to behavior.https://t.co/yaQvr6ESwm
Big crystal energy, lmao.https://t.co/1FM6pOYhZW
"A soy sauce with high levels of GABA, isoflavones, and total polyphenol was developed using germinated soybean. Stenotrophomonas, the typical pathogen found in the control, was reduced dramatically and replaced by Bacillus"https://t.co/fgGYDkP9Mm 😂https://t.co/jUpWpRr8OB
Found where I got the hunch about garlic being used as a way to worship the moon goddess.https://t.co/MDVVRJKA9j
"Once upon a time, the whole world was like a giant egg, all dark and blurry." https://t.co/CLylxPMk3V https://t.co/lDXUWDitJo
Giants? Titans? Eggs? Yellow?相传很古以前，世界上本没有天，也没有地，只是一团混黄的大气团，人们便把它叫为“混沌”。有一位名叫盘古的人，睡在里面https://t.co/3oyAfNXfYi
An axe that can cleave the heavens from the earth.https://t.co/OrYJ2lfWq0
@TASTEforTEA_ "In some versions of the story, Pangu is aided in this task by the Four Holy Beasts (四靈獸), the Turtle, the Qilin, the Phoenix, and the Dragon. In others, Pangu separated heaven and earth, which were already yin and yang, with his axe." https://t.co/5HYWPHN1U7 https://t.co/AJMOWkXeIF
"One egg's lower half transformedAnd became the earth below,And its upper half transmutedAnd became the sky above;" https://t.co/hzAt3xTI2U
"Let the games beginAre you ready for it?" 🎶https://t.co/ccbqXhS5nT
"I'm in loveWith thе greatest gamerBut he'll always love the gameMore than he loves me" 🎶https://t.co/ngWgUPjwXl🥺https://t.co/Fx2HM7u4VJ
I told my GF that she would be my greatest puzzle, and that is why I would always be interested in her. https://t.co/ZbPvcvDGd9
Ever wonder if alchemists extracted philosopher's wool from fecal matter while trying to explore homunculi? https://t.co/4bnFQObmU0
My friend is practicing welding using some galvanized steel, so I am learning a lot about zinc oxide fumes and their impact on health. Thankfully we are in a well ventilated area, and have a metal vapor proof PPE.https://t.co/0g7tXZyVOX
"Another […] of Egyptian cosmogonies is the familiar figure of the cosmic egg, […] One variant […] teaches that the sun god, as primeval power, emerged from the primeval mound, which stood in the chaos of the primeval sea" https://t.co/5nUn0MFXJS https://t.co/HM2e2Pawx7
"The representation of properties, rather than structures, became a major feature of European alchemical imagery. [...] alchemists developed elaborate sequences of allegorical illustrations that allowed informed readers to decipher basic processes."https://t.co/HKfziahUK9
"Apparently, fourth century Chinese medicine worked out that by having an unwell person drink a liquid suspension of a healthy person’s faeces this would result in a transfer of gut bacteria and potentially save that ill person’s life." https://t.co/h4lJvzrSpc https://t.co/M0PEkekhLB
The interesting thing happens when you start to explore the history of fecal medicine. It dates back to Ancient Rome, Ancient Egyptian, And its in some of the Talmuds. Thats well before Ge Hong's works.Dog shit is spoken about even in cuneiform tablets!https://t.co/mxU40GmFEU
All my ideas are shit (and that's good 😤).https://t.co/XycGH4a4Rh
Science has no idea what is going on because we're still doing mice trials.Meanwhile in Ancient Mesopotamia, a goddess of medicine was represented as a dog. (Ninisina/Gula) https://t.co/6Uts4HGhRp(Picture from: https://t.co/Nx8biNHhHp) https://t.co/Sz3SqdaZkV https://t.co/iJfMWkLHXM
What does that set of cuneiform " 𒀀𒇻𒍣𒉡" mean?=> water (of) man life without=> Your cum doesn't move bro=> you are infertile=> Get fucked.https://t.co/aKtv4FsYss
While you min-maxed, I was eating soy biscuits.While you struggled to gain muscle mass, I was learning how to heal muh dick with dog shit.Now the world's fertility is in decline, you have the balls to come to me to remove plastics from your cum?https://t.co/s3KBzcG37Q
The sky cod's cum rains down onto the earth god's womb, and from it life springs forth.https://t.co/W9DrcFHVlL
Make the world fertile again.https://t.co/QmzQvKW8ig
Thinking about calling an ice cream "Gaea's fart", and making it out of honey-garlic wine and a bit of salty water. It should promotes bile health, but smell like ornamental pear.kikikikikihttps://t.co/RYrh4SWjFW