Opening the Stargate via Gremlins

Just for fun, let's see how many different synch-topics I can connect the Gremlins movies to... Almost all the links in this post are to other posts about various synchromystic or otherwise symbolic themes. If you're not already familiar with all of them, then please click the links, but I warn you - there's a lot!

Gremlins opens with the familiar Warner Bro's sheild. Gremlins 2 goes a step further by bringing back the long forgotten WB cartoon intro featuring the WB logo and tunnel. The cartoon features WB mainstays, Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck. The familiar WB cartoon logo includes a "birth canal" stargate of concentric circles, and the Warner Bro's sheild. Then from this tunnel pops out the white rabbit, Bugs, whose prescence hints to us that we are about to take a trip 'down the rabbit hole,' whateverthat might be...

WB=23/2, 23/32 enigma

Bugs and Daffy fight over who should be the main guy of the WB logo. The logo consists of golden letters on a blue sheild. One blue shield I'm familiar with, from a recent post, is the Magen David, or Shield of David, also known as the Star of David - the 6-pointed star is shown in blue on the flag of Israel. (Warner Bro's was started by Jewish immigrants from Poland.) Daffy Duck decides to take over as the one who rides the WB logo down the tunnel, but while trying to get situated, he ends up getting stuck in the portal with his butt and legs facing the audience. Daffy's black butt resonates the Black Star or Black Hole of the center of our galaxy. He stands up and is now wearing the portal as a set of rings around his waist.

Another "black star" is the planet saturn which has always been related to the color black, and to death (the stargate/veil we all pass through). Notice in the above picture, Daffy clearly resonates the "lord of the rings," saturn. The Duck, black star, and stargate all remind me of a movie from my childhood, a notorious bomb, Howard the Duck. The antagonist of that movie is played by Jeffrey Jones, seen here in Stay Tuned with blackstar/saturn imagry:

In the first Gremlins movie Gizmo, a Mogwai and the host for the later gremlins, is in the care of an elderly Chinese man who sells various trinkets from the Orient in his small shop in Chinatown, New York. The Chinaman's son sells Gizmo to an inventer who gives him to his son Billy Peltzer (Zach Galligan) as a Christmas gift. There are 3 rules for taking care of a Mogwai: #1 Don't let them be exposed to bright light, especially sunlight which kills them, #2 Don't get them wet (or else they spawn additional mischevious Mogwai), and #3 Don't feed them after midnight (or else they morph into large green violent gremlins). Also, if a Mogwai has already turned into a Gremlin, and it is then splahsed with water, it will spawn additional Gremlins, instead of Mogwai. The natural language of the Mogwai appears to be that of singing various tones. They are fast learners (like a Ferby) and pick up human language quickly, but are even faster at learning how things work - which is what makes a gremlin so dangerous to a technology dependent world.

The modern idea of the "gremlin" goes back to World War II, where they were blamed for inexplicable malfunctions in aircraft. In Cantonese Chinese, "mogwai" means demon or gremlin. The idea of gremlins has been used in both a Twilight Zone episode ("Nightmare at 20,000 Feet") and the Twilight Zone movie.

Gizmo (zo/oz resonator, also part 2 takes place in NY/OZ) was named by an inventor, presumably after the "gizmos" found in his inventions. It's also interesting to note that the word means "Something whose name is either forgotten or not known." Gizmo must be an alien species, and therefore of unknown origin. If he were a native to Earth, gremlins would have over-run the planet after the first rainfall, then died when the sun rose; he doesn't seem compatible with this planet; though he might be from somewhere deep inside the planet. In part 1, Gizmo is kept inside a locked box. His emergence from it could be seen as a movement into a new dimension, our dimension. In Part 2 Gizmo kept in a small cage, but at the end of the movie he is put back into a box; Gizmo is going back to his world/dimension now, the box is closed and that's the last you see of him.

The first Gremlins film is set during Christmas. Billy Peltzer drives a red Volkswagen Beetle, which is constantly dying; fitting for a solar symbol during winter (red color, and scarab-beetle resonator). The car has a stereo with the name Sapphire XI. Sapphire is a birthstone for September, and XI is the Roman numeral for 11. Also, the radio tunning bar lies between 9 and 11 (9/11):

Billy's dog Barney (real name Mushroom) gets strung up in Christmas lights by the Mogwai which spawn from Gizmo. Billy thinks it was Mrs. Deagle, who hates his dog and threatened to kill it. Mrs. Deagle was intentionally made to reference the wicked witch in The Wizard of Oz: "...and your little dog too!" Billy's mother kills most of the original gremlins. Billy decapitates the second to last with a sword from a twin-sword display on their wall, but "Stripe" gets away and jumps into the pool at the YMCA creating hundreds more. Also, Stripe calls Gizmo, "Gizmo-Caca" which is a CC/KK synch, thanks Bartholomew. After wreaking havok all through the small town of Kingston Falls, the gremlins (some wearing Mickey Mouse ears) congregate at the movie theater to watch Snow White and the Seven Dwarves. Snow White happened to be Hitlers favorite movie, and Hitler even owned a copy of Snow White on film reels. He had a private theater in his mountain top retreat which had a view of another mountain which has a long history of folk tales involving dwarves and elves. Gremlins themselves, in folk tradition, were "elf-like creatures." Billy then blows up the movie theater, but Stripe is again safe because he was out getting candy at a department store. Billy and Stripe fight it out through the department store until finally Gizmo opens the blinds revealing sunlight and killing Stripe. The gremlins are gone... for now.

Gremlins is spoofed in Family Guy episode "The Tan Aquatic with Steve Zissou," which references the movie "Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou," which features a yellow submarine. In the Family Guy episode, Peter feeds his Mogwai after midnight and it turns into Fran Dressure, who plays Mrs. Levine in TV series Entourage. Peter kills her by stuffing her into the microwave! Fran Dressure is also in Spinal Tap, where she forces the band to change their album cover to what ends up being just a plain black square - saturn symbol.

Gremlins references many movies, including The Howling via a smiley face on the fridge. The smiley face topic at the synchromysticism forum sees the smiley face as a death omen, and here in Gremlins 1 the smiley face is seen as Billy gets chicken to feed the Mogwai after midnight, which turns them into the violent gremlins. The town's theatre marquee is showing a double bill: "A Boy's Life" (the working title for Steven Spielberg's E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial), and "Watch the Skies" (the working title for Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind). The theater, which gets blown up, is the same theater which Michael J. Fox (as Marty McFly in Back to the Future) smashes into with Doc Browns vehicular time machine (after lightning is harnessed to send the time machine 'back to the future'). In the first Gremlins movie the inventor who buys Gizmo, Mr. Peltzer, goes to an inventors convention where someone in the background disappears in a working time machine (the same one from the movie, Time Machine). Could I get any more stargate resonating themes from this movie? Probably not, so moving on...

The opening aerial shot of New York City was stock footage from Superman.

"New York New York, the city so nice they named it twice" - Brain Gremlin

In Gremlins 2, we meet up again with Billy Peltzer who has moved to New York to work as an artist for industrialist Daniel Clamp. He is living in an apartment with his now girlfriend Kate, and they are expecting a visit from their old friends the Fudderman's who survived the havok in Kingston Falls in part 1. I didn't mention it, but Mr. Fudderman is the source for Billy's naming of the green monsters "gremlins," because M. Fudderman kept going on about foreigners putting gremlins in various pieces of technology like his snow plow and television. Gizmo is back in Chinatown living with the ailing Chinese shop owner who is resisting being bought out by Clamp, who is buying up all of New York City as part of his building projects.

The Clamp Tower, and other branches of Clamp indusries, such as the Clamp Cable Network (3,3,14(5) =11), use the octagonal "C" with Earth being squeezed by the "clamp." Looks to me like Earth is either going into, or being shot out of, the octagonal stargate. The building's address is 101, and the number can be seen on the outside as well as right inside on a "lightning bolt" zig-zag shape.

random hexagonal lights in Clamp Tower.
72 lights in each hexagon (3days=72hours, death/resurrection theme)

The old shop owner eventually dies and the building is demolished and Gizmo escapes into an alley. Here Gizmo is found by indentical twins who work in the Clamp tower, in an office that does genetic research:

Splice of Life, SOL
The "music staff" reads "designer genes"

The Clamp Tower is like the smart building in I, Robot; you give it a command and it will open a door, turn on a light, or move an elevator. However, the building is riddled with "bugs in the system" and everything keeps malfunctioning. It's a monument to Man's ego. The character of Clamp was based on all the typical super-ego personas like Donald Trump and Ted Turner. Billy's power hungry supervisor is named Marla Bloodstone, who is named for Marla Maples, Trumps (ex-)wife. By the end of the movie, Clamp has decided he doesn't want to make super-towers anymore, but places for people, like Billy's small town of Kingston Falls:

Billy Peltzer: Sir, I'm... I'm sorry about the building.
Daniel Clamp: I'm not.
Kate Peltzer: You're not?
Daniel Clamp: For one thing, we're insured for the damages. For another, maybe it wasn't a place for people anyway. It was a place for things. You make a place for things... things come.

All the Gremlin activity, with one excetion, takes place inside the Clamp tower. Gizmo is brought inside by the twins from the genetic research lab, kept inside by Billy who hides him in his desk, and then he is splashed with water by a janitor who is trying to fix a water fountain. (Janitor from Janus: doors, gateways.. It is also the turning point in the movie when he splashes Gizmo and creates new Mogwai.)

When Kate arrives in Billy's office looking for Gizmo, she finds mogwai Daffy (named for Daffy Duck) on the top of the Clamp Tower model playing with some airplane toys located over him. This is a homage to King Kong. (Sorry, I didn't get a picture!). The other new Mogwai venture out into the building and eventually find food (after midnight) at a yogurt stand named Penguins, where one pops out of a bowl of what might be M&M's.

Very soon after, there are gremlins tearing through the many electronical componants of the building. A fire alarm is set off and all the people flee the tower, but because it is still daylight, the gremlins stay inside and wait for night.

In the genetic laboratory, the green-skinned (Osiris/Nature representing?) gremlins find out that they can morph into new gremlin-beings by ingesting genetic material from plants and animals. One drinks a "vegetable medly" elixer and sprouts a garden on his body. One drinks some spider DNA and becomes a huge spider-gremlin, and another drinks and elixer of bat DNA and grows bat wings. This is similar to another alien species, specifically the one in the Alien movie franchise. They take on some characteristics of their hosts, like the dog-alien in Alien 3. All the aliens in that movie are male except for the queen who produces eggs. All the gremlins are male, except for one who drinks a DNA elixer of male+female DNA and becomes a female (or perhaps a hermaphrodite?). They also "grow" accessories such as glasses for the Brain Gremlin, and a long coat for the "flasher" Gremlin. The bat-gremlin is also injected with genetic sunblock and is the only gremlin who ventures outside of the building in the movie. He actually buzzes Mr. Fudderman who is in New York visiting Billy. Mr. Fudderman takes his revenge on the gremlins by pushing this one into a pit of wet concrete. The bat-gremlin then flies to near-by Cathedral of Saint Eva Marie, and rests on an outcropping like a gargoyle.

stargate over the Twin Towers from a Gargoyle cartoon
image from The Blob

Hermaphrodite, Hermes/Thoth resonating?

Hermes-gremlin, left eye, hexagon.
The planet mercury draws a hexagram in it's orbit.

Gremlins2=9 TheNewBatch=11, 9-11. The title is shown over the Twin Towers in the movies opening credits, already pictured (Thanks Adam). In one of the first shots inside Clamp tower, we see a bank of televisions inside the Clamp Cable Network studio, and above this is a clock with it's hands very near the 9 and 11. After people flee the building, the other news networks start to flock to the building to see what's up. Two news crews show up from channels 9 and 11.

Inside the Clamp building, late night movie host "Grandpa Fred," Dracula, (played by "Grandpa" from TV's The Munsters) see's the chaos as his oppertunity to live out his dream as a news correspondant and grabs a Japanese tourist to be his cameraman. Earlier in the film we see Dracula filming a part of his show where he introduces "B-movie" sci-fi flick called The Attack of the Octopus People, which is a real movie called, Octaman. Grandpa Fred wears an Octagonal medal around his neck.

As Grandpa Fred broadcasts, and even interviews the Brain Gremlin, Daniel Clamp prepares for the end times. He pops a video tape into a VCR and plays a tape which was pre-made for the end of the world:

Building Announcement: Because of the end of civilization, the Clamp Cable Network now leaves the air. We hope you've enjoyed our programming, but more importantly, we hope you've enjoyed... life.

From imdb.com: "The uplifting end of the world video scene was included by the filmmakers when they find out that one the news networks actually have such a video prepared to run in case of the end of the world. This video apparently still exists and still ready to run at the final hour."(There are also tapes for deaths of presidents, major disasters, etc.)

At some point in the movie, the gremlins "take over the movie projector" so for a live audience watching the movie when it came out, it would seem that something was wrong with the movie. (Similar to Fight Club where Tyler Durder reminds us that we are not our fucking khakis while it appears the movie projector is messed up.) Then you see gremlins doing shadow-puppets in front of the projector light onto the silver screen. One of the puppets is a rabbit (Bug Bunny again?), fitting for the cross-over of the Gremlins through the silver screen and "into reality," and the other shadow puppet is a profile of Abraham Lincoln, complete with top hat. Why Lincoln? Good question. Phoebe Cate's character, "Kate" in Gremlins spoofs her sad Christmas memory from part one with another sad memory about something that happened on Lincoln's Birthday. In both movies she is harassed by the flasher gremlin, and was apparently flashed when she was a little girl by a man who looked a lot like Abraham Lincon. In Fast Time at Ridgemont High, which also stars Phoebe Cates, their rival schools name is Lincoln High. In Fight Club, Tyler Durder says that the famous person he would fight would be Abe Lincoln. In the new Batman sequel, the police have a list of possible people who could be Batman which is just three pictures: one is of Bigfoot and another - Abraham Lincoln! Abe's assasination is part of a fake "Mentos" commercial in Family Guy, the show which also had a Mogwai sketch. What is the deal with Abe Lincoln references? Anybody? Moving on... The gremlins then put on an old black and white movie which has the title screen: "Sunworshipper Films Presents Vollyball Holiday," a movie about semi-nude, or nude women who play vollyball and go swimming. (Other black and white elements are present in Gremlins such as the "referee" style shirts the waitresses wear in a sports bar in the Clamp building. And when Billy is arrested for trying to shut off the buildings water supply, he is bailed out at the same time that a truck load of mimes is getting arrested.)

Anyways, a movie patron and WWF product placement, Hulk Hogan, stands up and rips off his shirt and tells the gremlins to put the movie back on before he has to kick their asses. In the VHS version of this film, it looks like the VCR or tape is broken instead of a movie screen when the gremlins take over, and this time it is John Wayne who convinces the gremlins to continue the film. Wayne had been dead for 11 years when this was made so they impersonated his voice.

Other interesting things happen before the end. Early on, gremlins ransack Microwave Marge's cooking show, probably a reference to the famous scene of the gremlin which was killed by a microwave in part one. Marge has a hexagonal "atomic" symbol on her apron.

She is also one of maybe 3 redheads in the movie. Another redhead is Billy's supervisor, Marla Bloodstone, who has a gold necklace of a left eye (and part of the face); bloodstones are worn to ward off the evil eye, same purpose as her necklace showing an eye.

Marla and left-eye necklace

Marla with Jolt cola (lightning bolt logo)

She gets caught in a spiderweb made by a spider-gremlin, reminding me of yet another redhead: Mary Jane from Spiderman who rests in a spiderweb. Marla and Kate are saved from the spider-gremlin when Gizmo, imitating Rambo (or Sagittarius), fires and exploding arrow at it, blowing up the spider-gremlin. The spider is eight-legged, and resonates with octopuses, octagonal-stargates, and the heart of the Milky Way and holy grail.

note the 8-legged "bug"
"bugs" in the system, or "gremlins" in the center of the spiral galaxy?

note the all seeing eye

At the end, the plan is to trick the gremlins into thinking it's nighttime so they gather in the lobby, then drop the curtains and kill them all with sunlight. Some clouds come in at just the wrong time and ruin that plan, so Billy has to soak them all and kill them with a gremlin which had been turned into electricity. The gremlins are a really strange bunch of creatures. They grow/multiply in water, but sunlight kills them. They seem almost virus or bacteria like, and they change when drinking the DNA elixers in a lab headed by a scientist obsessed with germs.

Are gremlins just destructive perfect "killing machines" (or machine killers?), like the aliens in the Alien movies? Do they represent a "ghost in the machine," making a mockery of all things made by Man? At the end of part one, the elderly chinese shop owner takes Gizmo back and tells Billy that he is not yet ready, not responsible enough, to care for a Mogwai. Or is it that Man is not yet in control of his demons, and not yet ready to move to the next level of universal responsibility? Some people think it's silly to find all these "synchs" in movies and shows, and is a waste of time. Playing "devil's advocate" I deliberately tried to put as many synch-links in this post as I could, as a kind of comment on just finding synchs and forgetting to find meaning in them. I believe that when the student is ready - the master will appear; which is to say that one can learn great realizations in any moment or activity, but you must be open to it. So, does it really matter how you come to the realization that all things and people are connected, whether it's via synchromystic investigations, LSD, deep meditation, volunteering in your community or whatever? Every-thing could be a teacher if you're willing to be the student, so don't pass up those "a-ha moments" I sometimes get while writing my "waste of time" blog posts!

Pan's Labyrinth

and the 9-11 Stargate Mega Ritual.

The direction of this article is heavily influenced by the work of Jake Kotze at The Brave New World Order and The Blob. If you are not already familiar with the "9-11 Mega Ritual," then please view some of Jake's videos here. (I advise starting with the older videos first) In his videos, Jake uses the ego-free, expanded consciousness method of reasearch called Synchromysticism. From The Cryptic Cosmology of Synchromysticism:

Jake Kotze in August of 2006 for an article posted on his website Brave New World Order, who defined it as: "The art of realizing meaningful coincidence in the seemingly mundane with mystical or esoteric significance."

"My idea about the significance of meaningful coincidences in movies with mystical connotation is not that it points towards real truths, but that they point towards possible realities that might emerge from the collective psyche into consensus reality."

Many threads of reality have been connected in Jake's work, all centered around the World Trade Center and 9-11. This is not a "conspiracy theory" about whodunit, it's an excercise in peeking behind the veil of Maya. This event was the most consciousness-impacting event in world history. At no time in history had there been so many conscious individuals, with so many ways to communicate and connect, during a mega event which shaped the future for every person on the planet. Previous mega-ritual or consciousness focusing events may have been the sinking of Atlantis, the fall of the Tower of Babel, the Great Flood, and the destruction of Solomons Temple. More recent events include the World Wars, the first detonation of an atomic bomb in a populated region, and the assassination of J.F.K. But at no time had there been such a connection, a meta-mind of people, than when the World Trade towers collapsed. If you suscribe to theories of the universe involving non-locality, such as the holographic model, then you can accept that such an event would have reverberations into the past as well as the future.

The Twin Towers of the World Trade complex, as well as surrounding architecture, are the nexus of Jakes synchromystic investigations. The towers themselves have been linked, synchromystically, to other man-made wonders such as: The Pillars of Hermes, Pillars of Hercules, Pillars of Solomon's Temple, the Pyramids of Egypt, and the Tower of Babel. The creation and eventual destruction of these wonders seems to be an inevitable part of a repeating cycle on our planet. The ruin of each results in a shift of global consciousness.

1984 ad for the World Trade Center

Jake Kotze:
[Manhattan] was the setting of the 911 Mega Ritual the most vivid planetary consciousness focusing catalyst of all time and the metaphorical opening of the collective Stargate of mankind.

The "stargate" theme comes up in synchromysticism as a metaphor for an evolution of consciousness. The Stargate does actually manifest as an array of physical objects, or sometimes as representations of portals appearing in various media such as comic books and movies. These could be "water doors" such as the Stargate from the film and television show of the same name, or other objects with spiral or concentric patterns, as well as targets and cross-hairs and 6 or 8-sided geometry (double cubes and 'cuboids,' octagons, hexagons (these videos should clarify the connection). Water is an important element in the Stargate theme such as in the movie Constantine where it is described as a "universal-conduit" and is used by the main character to travel to the underworld/hell.

Another important element in the 9-11 Stargate theme is the connection with Aleister Crowley and the god Pan. Crowley is the great initiator of the coming new age and has served as the source of inspiration for countless occult practicioners and even musicians. Has has spawned or heavily influenced many occult orders and secret societies. Crowley also designed his own Tarot card's called the Thoth tarot deck, along with an explanatory text called The Book of Thoth. Additionaly, crowley wrote the laws of his Ordo Templi Orientis society in the book Oz: Liber 77. Crowley also wrote a "Hymn to Pan." In the videos I linked to, you can see that Crowley's sigil "Oz:77" for the goat god Pan appears in a remake of the Wizard of Oz, called The Whiz, and it is found directly between the Twin Towers where the Sphere sculpture and fountain used to be located. This resonates with the events of 9-11 as the President was reading about a pet goat at the same time that the location of the now Pan resonating World Trade Center was being attacked.

The Sphere sculpture at the WTC complex.

The Pan-Oz:77 sigil in place of the Sphere

I believe that the ancient Labyrinth can also be seen as a Stargate, and can be connected to the 9-11 Stargate through the movie Pan's Labyrinth. Pan, the goat or faun, has already been linked to the WTC via Crowley's Oz:77 symbol which replaces the Sphere in The Whiz; as well as being the subject of the children's book which President Bush "fiddled with" while "Rome burned."

The Labyrinth is a winding, maze-like path, often resembling a spiral. Labyrinths are found in many ancient cultures, and almost always have spiritual significance. Nearly identical labrynth patterns are found in neolithic art, on native American petroglyphs, and even in ancient Vedic sites. Ancient Minoan labyrinths were associated with the cult of the mother Goddess, and were possibly used in intiatory rituals.

Labyrinth is a word of pre-Greek origin absorbed by classical Greek, and is apparently related to labrys, a word for the archaic iconic "double axe", with inthos connoting "place" (as in "Corinth"). The complex palace of Knossos in Crete is usually implicated, though the actual dancing-ground, depicted in frescoed patterns at Knossos, has not been found. Something was being shown to visitors as a labyrinth at Knossos in the 1st century AD.
Greek mythology did not recall, however, that in Crete there was a Lady who presided over the Labyrinth. A tablet inscribed in Linear B found at Knossos records a gift "to all the gods honey; to the mistress of the labyrinth honey." All the gods together receive as much honey as the Mistress of the Labyrinth alone. "She must have been a Creational Goddess."

The Palace of Knossos,
the possible inspiration for the Labyrinth

The Labrys double-axe is a feminine lunar symbol, the word comes from Labus, or lips. And maze is related to mas meaning "exhausting labor." The Labyrinth is a Mother Earth symbol to the Hopi indians. The square form represents a spiritual re-birth into the next world, symbolized by The Emergence. The circular labyrinth represents the universal plan of the Creator which man must follow on his Road of Life. The four points/bends represent the four cardinal directions embraced within the universal plan of life.

The Labyrinth of Crete was often depicted as circular as seen here in this picture and Cretan coin:

The above Cretan coin design is the very same ancient labyrinth design found all over the world. The same classic labyrinth design is found in the movie Pan's Labyrinth. The second picture below is of "the Faun" and "Ofelia." Ofelia plays the ever popular "virgin princess," which is very appropriate considering she is befriended by the ever horny god Pan in the form of a Faun. The same interaction between Pan and a young and therefor virgin princess can be seen in The Chronicles of Narnia where Mr. Tumlus befriends young Lucy. Pan is a notorious rapist, and most of his lady friends had to be turned into inanimate objects just to escape his advances. In Pan's Labyrinth, there exists a small version of the typical Labyrinth at the bottom of a spiral staircase in the center of a larger labyrinth or maze. In the center of the small circular and water-filled labyrinth is a stone pillar with a carving of the princess of the underworld holding a baby, with the Faun in the position of the apparent father of the child. The carving scares Ofelia, especially when the Faun tells her that she is the princess. The reason why I bring this up, or think it's worth mentioning, is that sex is an initiation for young girls into womanhood. It really begins a whole new life, while men usually have a separate initiatory ceremony before they are married. This only occurs today in more traditional societies, usually deep in the rainforest. While women today still wear viginal white to their wedding, it's usually not the case that they are still virgins. Reguardless, sex creates a profound change in the physiology and psychology of a child. Perhaps this is why so many sugar-loving lolitas are found both on initatory checkered-floors as well as sucking on spiral lollipops. (See these articles from The Blob: 1, 2, 3)

Here's some pic's of the Glastonbury Maze, which should help support the "fertility" theme, check out this site for more info.

Madonna - Like a virgin-whore,
sharing the name "Hard Candy" with recent lolita movie.

This idea was cemented recently when I saw the movie Dick on tv. It's a comedy about the Watergate coverup featuring Kirsten Dunst and Michelle Williams as the secret source "Deepthroat." At the end of the movie they lick circular lollipops with the word "DICK" on the front. It doesn't take much of an imagination there... Here is Kirsten Dunst in a Stargate resonating spiderweb:

Ofelia is supposed to be the reincarnation of the daughter of the king of the Underworld. As a sign, she has a crescent moon birthmark on her left shoulder, and the moon is an important part of the movie. Ofelia retreats to her fantasy books, and it is possible that the fantastical parts of the movie are really just Ofelia's imagination. At the end of the movie, Ofelia is killed, and as she lay dying she pictures herself appearing in a great hall (with ruby red shoes) where her dead mother, her brother, and the king of the Underworld - her real father, wait for her. She crosses a sprial patterned floor to take her place as princess of the underworld. Her seat is atop one of three pillars:

Ofelia in the Underworld

The Pillars have been connected with the Pyramids, as already mentioned, and the resulting "Pillarmid" is an interchangable motif. Most of the time only two pillars shown, representing the two pillars of Boaz and Jachin which were placed around the door the the Temple of Solomon. Manly P. Hall: "These two pillars respectively connote also the active and the passive expressions of Divine Energy, the Sun and the Moon, sulphur and salt, good and bad, light and darkness." The represent duality/opposites, but come together in a central third pillar. The Twin Towers are no longer standing, but soon they will be replaced with a single tower, combining the two into one, and having an octagonal base - the Freedom Tower.

Pillarmids

Above we can see that the Goddess is also associated with the Pillarmids, she holds a torch like the Statue of Liberty, lighting the way with knowledge. The pillarmid which Ofelia sits atop is the water pillar of Boaz connected to Capricorn, the sea-goat. The pillar is associated with the Hebrew letter mem which means water, and has a gematria value of 40, or of 600 when used as as final letter in a word. M-40 M-600. MM would be the millenial 2000 or 2K, another important synch with the 9-11 Stargate (see The Blob for clarification), but the two mem values also combine in gematria as 640. 64 is 8 times 8, 8 being the ever present octagonal-stargate and connected closely with Egyptian deity Thoth.

In an ironic twist, the Sphere sculpture at ground zero of an apparent islamic terrorist attack was intended by the architect to represent the Kaaba shrine in Mecca, the holiest place in Islam. The cubic Kaaba protects a Black Stone which fell to earth from heaven, and is supported internally by Three Pillars. Tradition holds that the black stone was originally white, but turned black from the sins of people. If you take look at the Sphere sculpture at the WTC, it looks to be a black-something with golden panels around it. It also appears to be rising out of the fountain, a excellent representation of the water-door or Stargate, and a possible representation of the Black Stone coming from heaven.

In his blog Willaim Henry, author of Revelation 2012, decodes the enigmatic architecture of the Bicentennial Capitol Mall of Nashville Tennesse. An interesting and relevant feature of the Mall layout is the World War II memorial featuring a Black sphere foating on a fountain.

Black globe from William Henry's blog.

The eerie WW II Memorial temple at the Mall features an 18,161-pound black granite globe spinning on 1/8 inch of water. With the Sun shining upon its black mirror-like surface it becomes a ‘Night Sun’ or a ‘Black Sun,’ the symbol for the innermost occult circle of the Nazis.

Note that the weight of the globe, 18161 is the reverse of the Golden or Divine Ratio, 1.618, a possible emphasis on the reverse or anti-sun and anti-life properties of this object. A large black stone altar even rests in the 'meditation room' at the United Nations.

The Sphere from the World Trade complex has already been linked to the water-door-stargate theme, but if you look closely, it has 9-sided geometry. In this birds-eye-view picture, we can see the 9 trees planted along it's circumferance. This seems slightly out of place as stargate resonators usually have 6 or 8 sided geometry:

There is however, an excellent stargate example which also has 9-sided geometry; the Stargate and water-door par-excellance from the movie Stargate:

While only 7 "chevrons" are used in the movie to dial another stargate, there is room for two more to be "locked in place." In the movie Stargate, it is explained that 6-points determine the exact location of an object in space (using the 6-sides of a cube), and a 7th point charts the course. Well, in order to travel in higher dimensions, it would be necessary to have additional points, and this may be why the hyperdimensional, consciousness expanding metephor, has more than 7 locks on it.

Octagonal geometry can also be equated with 9-point geometry such as in the ennegram. It has 8 points along the edge with a 9th point in the center. A cube has eight corners around a ninth central point. Using the picture below, we can relate all 8-point geometry to the 9-point ennead and the stargate from the movie Stargate.

Interestingly, I've already mention The Nine in my article New Religion Ch.7 where Andreja Puharich helped Uri Gellar channel the Grand Ennead, or 9 creation gods of Egypt, which told of a yet to occur mass landing of spaceships. Puharich has been connected to the 9-11 Stargate ritual by his theory that the priests of Egypt used sacred mushrooms in the Great Pyramid to realize another level of consciousness. If that's true, then the pyramid and now pillarmids have a long history of consciousness expanding stargate themes.

Take a look back at the birds-eye shot of the Sphere fountain. Around it is a spiral of pairs of benches which spiral inward towards the fountain, crossed with many lines radiating away from the center. Together these create a nice stargate theme centered on the already heavily stargate resonating fountain. The lines radiating from the center remind me of the circular grid with a holographic twist from Star Wars:

The Black and White and checkered theme also heavily informs the 9-11 Stargate Mega Ritual. Black and white images appear on the High Priestess and Chariot cards of the Tarot, as well as the checkered floor patter on Masonic tracing boards and main hall of Masonic lodges. The checkered pattern usually appears in movies with heavy synchromystic themes as checkered floor tiles or on checkered taxi cabs (checkered chariots).

Albert Pike stated in Morals and Dogma: "The Ancients adored the Sun under the form of a black stone, called Elagabalus, or Heliogabulua. The faithful are promised, in the Apocalypse, a white stone."

The "sixty-four dispersed stones" which form a "perfect cube" must be a crucial part of this mystery. There are sixty-four squares on a chessboard, and a perfect sixty-four-square chessboard is formed by the black and white tiles on the floor of the church at Rennes-le-Chateau, facing both the statue of the demon Asmodeus, and the statue of Saint Germain as if they were opposing players in a game of chess. 64 squares = 8x8
That there are sixty-four possibilities is fitting, since there are sixty-four six-part "codons", or "genetic words" in human DNA. There are also, notably, sixty-four hexagrams in the Chinese divination system known as I-Ching (which is often displayed as a octagon).

In traditional, non-holographic chess:

"The king, the most important piece, represents the Sun of this solar system... traveling only one step at a time, along both square and triangular lines, in any of eight directions. The king is virtually hidden from the action, yet the entire game revolves around it...The queen is the most powerful piece on the board, having unlimited movement in any of eight directions of manifestation... In another sense she is Regina Coeli, Queen of the Heavens, the widely traveling moon which always reflects the light of the Sun, the king."

The relationships between the pieces on the chessboard form "...lines of force composing an energy web", like the web of the spider goddess Arachne, whose eight legs can be likened to the eight directions on a chessboard, as well as the eight squares that are on each side of the chessboard’s outer ring. (Quoted from Le Serpent Rouge Interpreted, by Tracy Twyman)

I want to draw your attention to the unaired trailer for Spiderman which featured a helecopter caught in a web. Both items are heavy on the synchro-scale, the web being a stargate stand in, but also connected to the spiral labyrinth as I hope to show. This picture is from one of Jake Kotze's videos, the web is directly above the radial pattern around the Sphere sculpture and connects the two towers in the same way:

Below is pictured a depiction of the labyrinth with the hero Theseus battling the Minotaur. On the right is Ariadne who helped Theseus find his way out with a thread she provided. She was then abondoned by him on the island Dia/Naxos, the sacred "Island of the Goddess." (But that's ok, she eventually became the consort of Dionysus.)

In Greek mythology, the Labyrinth was an elaborate structure designed and built by the legendary artificer Daedalus for King Minos of Crete at Knossos. Its function was to hold the Minotaur, a creature that was half man and half bull and which was eventually killed by the Athenian hero Theseus. Daedalus had made the Labyrinth so cunningly that he himself could barely escape it after he built it. Theseus was aided by Ariadne, who provided him with a fateful thread, literally the "clew," or "clue," to wind his way back again.

According to one version of the legend, Minos attacked Athens after his son was killed there. The Athenians asked for terms, and were required to sacrifice seven young men and seven maidens every nine years to the Minotaur. One year, the sacrificial party included Theseus, a young man who volunteered to come and kill the Minotaur. Ariadne fell in love at the first sight of him, and helped him by giving him a sword and a ball of the red fleece thread she was spinning, so that he could find his way out of the Minotaur's labyrinth.

That the Cretan labyrinth had been a dancing-ground and was made for Ariadne rather than for Minos was remembered by Homer in Iliad xviii.590-593 where, in the pattern that Hephaestus inscribed on Achilles' shield, one incident pictured was a dancing-ground "like the one that Daedalus designed in the spacious town of Knossos for Ariadne of the lovely locks". Even the labyrinth dance was depicted on the shield, where "youths and marriageable maidens (young virgin/lolitas?) were dancing on it with their hands on one another's wrists... circling as smoothly on their accomplished feet as the wheel of a potter...and there they ran in lines to meet each other."

Before moving on, notice the top-down view of the labyrinth could also be a top-down view of a 13 story pyramid with a missing capstone.

At one level, the labyrinth symbolizes the female womb, only penetrable if one is pure and perfect. The male figure outside, representing the human seed, can penetrate the womb, fertilize the ovum, produce new life, which then emerges as a new birth or a reincarnated existence. Entry into the labyrinth gives new life... thus achieving reincarnation and eternal life.

Prehistoric labyrinths are believed to have served either as traps for malevolent spirits or as defined paths for ritual dances. During Medieval times the labyrinth symbolized a hard path to the God with a clearly defined center (God) and one entrance (birth). The new Cathedral labyrinth patterns were all laid out according to the same basic pattern twelve rings that enclose a meandering path which slowly leads to a center rosette. (12 around 1 theme) The labyrinth is located in the nave of the Cathedral. Aleister Crowley insisted that his student magicians construct their altars with two perfect cubes stacked atop one another, “symbolizing the Great Work... The height of the altar is equal to the height above the ground of the navel of the magician. The altar is connected with the Ark of the Covenant, Noah’s Ark, the nave (navis, a ship) of the Church, and many other symbols of antiquity.”

The thread of Ariadne and her practice of spinning thread is an ancient motif associated with weaving baskets and creating textiles and using a spinning wheel. The word spider comes from a word which means to spin as in to weave fibers. The Rockefeller Center in New York has a freaky giant spider sculpture:

Speaking of spiders, I was reminded of the Nazca lines while watching Indian Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull today, where one of the geoglyphs is a spider. The gigantic drawings are made by scraping away the rusty top layer of dirt and rock to expose the lighter colored soil underneath. Most designs seem to have an entrance and exit, making them uniquely shaped labyrinths, probably used as a form of worship much like the labyrinths in gothic cathedrals.

The most recognizable black spider in real life is the Black Widow. The Widow theme is quite important in Freemasonry (Widow's Son) and in movies where many many characters have a widowed mother. The Black Widow has on it's abdomen a Saturnian symbol of the Hourglass. Push the two triangular ends together and you get the saturnian symbol of the hexagram.

The Siddir in Danish society were witches who practiced the art of knot tying and loosening. These Siddir were directly related to the mythic Norns, the Mori or Fates who were said to be responsible for the fate of mankind by the patterns that they wove in the way that they tied and loosened the knots of the Web of Wyrd. The six pointed Gallic rune, similar to the Norse rune Haegl would originally have been eight spoked, like the Buddhist Wheel of Life or the Tarot’s Wheel of Fortune. In this guise it is the Web of Arachne, the Web of Fate and the plan view of the ribbons of the Maypole dance. The Goddesses of death and the underworld are again prominent here (in the transcendent sense, as with Persephone, but one also remembers Mithras and the World Bull or Minotaur of Theseus). The tomb of Marie de Blanchefort, which in its inscription reveals the coded words “Et in Arcadia Ego”, also has the figure of an octopus etched down at the bottom. The octopus is, according to Priory of Sion member Paul Le Cour, a solar symbol used in Atlantis. It also contains the same symbolism as Arachne, the spider goddess, in regards to the number eight and the chessboard. Arachne was a very skilled weaver who shamed herself in a contest and hung herself, then was later resurrected as a spider and her rope turned into a spiderweb. In Ancient Egypt, the spider was associated with the goddess Neith in her aspect as spinner and weaver of destiny, this link continuing later though the Babylonian Ishtar and Greek Athena. Fates Spinning yarn of fate on spinning wheel. Terrance McKenna (click for short video) notes how we say one is "weaving" a tale, or that there's a "web of lies." The language of weaving is used as a metephor for human cognitive activity. He calls hemp the LSD of the past, like when hash societies got together in Paris. This makes hemp and weaving a stargate resonator with other 'consciousness expanding' activities/events.

In the movie Labyrinth, David Bowie plays the Goblin King, "Jareth," whose castle is located in the Goblin City in the center of the labyrinth. He steals Jennifer Connelly's ("Sarah's") baby brother when she wishes him away, and he gives Sarah a time within which she could save her brother if she can successfully navigate the labyrinth. In one scene Jareth tries to distract Sarah with a magical dance which is now clearly associated with labyrinths. Also, the gate to the goblin city is guarded by a goblin weilding a large labrys or double-bladed axe. Sarah also frees a kind of hairy Minotaur-looking creature who was hung upside down in the labyrinth.

I think in this movie Bowie plays the part of Pan, the seducer of the virgin princess, and also the minotaur as Bowie seems to be the prisoner of the labyrinth as well. He is human, despite being the goblin king, and he kidnaps a human child who would presumably become his heir; another prisoner/king in the center of the labyrinth. And its no suprise a young girl is suckered into the labyrinth as it traditionally required virgin sacrifice to appease the beast in the center. Puppeteer Frank Oz also worked on the movie, as well as on Dark Crystal which was the basis for the world of Labyrinth. In Dark Crystal in a world with 3 suns, a crystal is broken resulting in the splitting of a race into 2 races, one good and one bad. Typical black vs. white, good vs. evil stuff. M.C. Esher's multidimensional Relativity makes an appearance as a poster in Sarah's room as well as a location in the Goblin King's castle.

As the name suggests, the Minotaur is a Bull-like creature, the result of intercourse between the wife of King Minos and a bull (Mino-Taurus). The island of Manhattan, ground zero for the 9-11 Stargate, actually has a giant bull located in the oldest park in the city:

The "Charging Bull" sculpture which faces up Broadway in NYC's financial district has become the unofficial symbol of Wall Street and may be the most photographed work of public art in the city. The 7,000 pound bronze sculpture by Arturo Di Modica began life as "guerrilla art".

Arturo Di Modica created the piece with no commission or permission and installed it in front of the New York Stock Exchange on December 15, 1989. The illegal sculpture was seized and imponded till public outcry encouraged the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation to re-install it in the Plaza at Bowling Green. The sculpture is said to provide good financial luck to both stock traiders and tourists who keep parts of the artwork well polished with constant rubbing.

Michael, in the comments, suggested a possible link between Minos-Taur and Minas-Tirith (from Lord of the Rings). Here's a picture of Minas Tirith looking quite labyrinth like from a birds eye view:

Another sculpture which is much more visible also relates to the labyrinth theme I think. Like Ariadne abondoned to an island, the Statue of Liberty stands alone on her island, holding a guiding light possibly related to the idea of Ariadne's thread which reveals the path through the labyrinth.

The statue is made of copper, a metal with an atomic weight of 64 (8 x 8). In alchemy, copper is related to the element Earth, and to conjunction, the marriage of opposites: the King and Queen, Sol and Luna, white and black. There's an interesting article at Red Ice Creations which mentions copper, here's an excerpt:

The word for 'snake' in Hebrew is 'nakhash', whose root has multiple definitions. ; As noted by Zecharia Sitchin in 'The Cosmic Code' (1998) , 'the term has not just the two meanings that we have already mentioned ('Serpent,' and 'knower of Secrets') but also a third one - 'He of Copper,' for the Hebrew word for copper, Nechoshet, stems from the same root. One of Enki's epithets in Sumerian, BUZUR, also has the double meaning 'He who knows/solves secrets' and 'He of the copper mines.' It is widely believed that Enki became known as Thoth in Ancient Egypt, and later as Hermes in Greece and Mercury in Rome

Not sure what it means... In one theory of the life of Jesus, his adopted father Joseph is a copper salseman, not a carptenter, and travels to Britain where there were rich copper mines. The serpent worshipping druids would have influenced Jesus at a young age. Anyways it's interesting that Enki/Thoth could be known as "He of the copper mines." Moses set up a brazen serpent (copper+zinc) which healed all who looked upon it.

"And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life." - John 3:14.

The Statue of Liberty has an odd base consisting of eleven corners. Combined with the stargate/spiderweb/circular labyrinth resonator and it's nine points, we get 9-11:

The Island of Manhattan has been linked to ancient Egypt, especially the area of the Sphinx and large Pyramids. It should then be no suprise that this same area was also host to a impressive labyrinth complex which was both above and below ground, and used in initiatory rituals and for religious purposes.

Pliny's Natural History mentions four ancient labyrinths: the Cretan labyrinth, an "Egyptian labyrinth", a "Lemnian labyrinth" and an "Italian labyrinth".

Pliny's "Egyptian labyrinth" -- Even more generally, "labyrinth" might be applied to any extremely complicated maze-like structure. Herodotus, in Book II of his Histories, describes as a "labyrinth" a building complex in Egypt, "near the place called the City of Crocodiles," that he considered to surpass the pyramids in its astonishing ambition:

It has twelve covered courts - six in a row facing north, six south - the gates of the one range exactly fronting the gates of the other. Inside, the building is of two stories and contains three thousand rooms, of which half are underground, and the other half directly above them. I was taken through the rooms in the upper storey, so what I shall say of them is from my own observation, but the underground ones I can speak of only from report, because the Egyptians in charge refused to let me see them, as they contain the tombs of the kings who built the labyrinth, and also the tombs of the sacred crocodiles. The upper rooms, on the contrary, I did actually see, and it is hard to believe that they are the work of men; the baffling and intricate passages from room to room and from court to court were an endless wonder to me, as we passed from a courtyard into rooms, from rooms into galleries, from galleries into more rooms and thence into yet more courtyards. The roof of every chamber, courtyard, and gallery is, like the walls, of stone. The walls are covered with carved figures, and each court is exquisitely built of white marble and surrounded by a colonnade. Near the corner where the labyrinth ends, there is a pyramid, two hundred and forty feet in height, with great carved figures of animals on it and an underground passage by which it can be entered. I was told very credibly that underground chambers and passages connected this pyramid with the pyramids at Memphis (Giza).

The Island of Manhattan and the World Trade Center continue to reaffirm their connections to Egypt, this time through the mystical labyrinth. The site for the Twin Towers is being redone with a single tower, dubbed the Freedom Tower, and two reflecting pools in place of the Twin Towers. These three spots form an inexact, but slightly reminiscent overhead view of the Pyramid layout: