Twin Peaks - Under The Sycamore Tree

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I'll take you for a walk...Under The Sycamore Tree

Series Finale

 Twin Peaks...Glaston-bury Grove...Groves are sacred to druids.

Lets not forget Mark Frost's massive contribution...a lot of esoteric ideas likely came from his pen.

The Egyptian & Druid...'one and the same' (essentially) and they both revered Thoth/Hermes and to both of them, trees were sacred.  David Lynch has 'shoe-horned' in so many 'tree-like' references within Twin Peaks...that to call him 'Druid-like', wood be a massive understatement. (pun intended).

Palm-er
Sycamore
Douglas Firs
Logging Trucks
Saw-Mill
'Great Northern' decor is almost like living inside a tree.
The Log Lady (& husband soul absorbed into the log)
Josie's death (absorbed into a wooden knob)
Ghostwood
The Woods (general, an evil presence etc)
Glastonbury Grove
Chopping Wood (literally)
Log cabin(s)
Pine Weasel/Pine Float

etc...you get the idea.

Not that it was 'only trees' that were being constantly referenced, you understand...amongst others were 'circles' 'birds' and 'fire' etc.

12 Sycamore Trees (Glastonbury Grove)...12 Zodiacal signs, 12 Knights of the Round Table (Zodiac).

The petroglyph

The entrance
The Doorway (above mid-left) to The Red Room (Waiting Room/White/Black Lodges) Can Be
Entered Physically When Jupiter and Saturn are Aligned.

2001:ASO...Jupiter & Saturn, both feature as a monolith reference point, Jupiter (film) and Saturn (the book).  Book/Film...The most notable differences are a change in the destination planet from Saturn to Jupiter, and the nature of the sequence of events leading to HAL's demise.

Finale...Beyond Life and Death (last 20 minutes)

Good luck trying to make sense out of all that...lol. 
(Sorry, now deleted. You'll have to search youtube for the series 2 finale.)

Here is some of my take on the 'sycamore' and how it relates to mythology...particularly Egyptian.

 "In the meantime, the body of Osiris in its coffin floats out to sea and comes ashore in Byblos, where a sycamore tree (see Plutarch) sprouts and encases the coffin. Isis hears of this and goes to reclaim her husband's body, which -- after some trouble -- she succeeds in doing. She hides his remains and goes to find their son, Horus, but in the meantime Set finds the body and, fearing the new healing powers of Isis, cuts it up into 14 pieces and scatters them far and wide."   (note, sometimes this tree is referenced as a tamarisk).

(a tradition kept alive in masonry...'lodges'...the intitiate is encased in a coffin to re-enact this symbolic  death/rebirth 'The 3rd Degree' etc...the legend of hiram abiff/osiris/the sun)

Note...that the tree here is Acacia and relates to Horus, who is born out of Osiris symbolically. Isis impregnates (using the magic of Thoth)...and bares Horus.

Leland's multiple symbolic death and rebirth. Leland "rising up an down" on Laura's coffin at the burial.

Eventually, Isis is able to recover 13 of the pieces, leaving a shrine at every place she found one. The 14th piece -- his genitals --(symbolised by the obelisk, there is a big one in DC, its a symbolic penis) was, however, eaten by fish.  Still, Isis manages to reassemble Osiris and, with the help of Thoth, Anubis and Nephythys, they manage to resurrect him, at which point he becomes the God of the Underworld, or God of the Dead, and takes his place in the heavens as the constellation Orion. At the time, Orion set at sunrise on the winter solstice, thereby symbolically entering the Underworld, to be reborn as he rises heliacally on the summer solstice. 

According to the Book of Dead, twin sycamores stood at the eastern gate of heaven from which the sun god Re emerged each morning. The sycamore was also regarded as a manifestation of the goddesses Nut (Sky), Isis, and especially of Hathor, who was given the epithet Lady of the Sycamore. (Miss Twin Peaks/Annie/Hathor Graham) Sycamores were often planted near tombs, and burial (Glaston-bury) in coffins made of sycamore wood returned the dead person to the womb of the mother tree goddess. 

Stanley Kubrick requested to be buried under his favourite tree...probably because he WAS a DRUID.

Hathor is commonly depicted as a cow goddess with head horns in which is set a sun disk with Uraeus(serpent).

Lady of the Sycamore...Hathor/Isis

 "Since Isis was paired with Horus, and Horus was identified with Ra, Isis began to be merged with Hathor as Isis-Hathor. By merging with Hathor, Isis became the mother of Horus, as well as his wife. Eventually the mother role displaced the role of spouse. Thus, the role of spouse to Isis was open and in the Heliopolis pantheon, Isis became the wife of Osiris and the mother of Horus/Ra. This reconciliation of themes led to the evolution of the myth of Isis and Osiris."

Annie (Miss Twin Peaks/Queen) could be a 'lady of the sycamore' (for obvious reasons, she gets taken into the grove and pulled through the doorway/wormhole) played by Hathor Graham.  As a Queen, she could also symbolically represent the queen of the underworld aka Isis.

Windom Earle parks the truck in the woods at Glastonberry Grove. He introduces himself to Annie and pulls her from the truck. She recites prayers to herself as he leads her to the grove. He tells her they have an appointment at the end of the world; he pulls her in to the circle of trees, then leads her past the white circle. She walks in an apparent trance. Earle leads her through red curtains that appear behind the trees. They vanish.

Miss Twin Peaks - Annie - Heather/Hathor Graham - Isis

Major Garland Briggs...The 'Heywood Floyd' of Twin Peaks.

The Egyptian’s Holy Sycamore stood on the threshold of life and death, connecting the worlds.

Obviously...In Twin Peaks the 'grove' is a portal/gateway/wormwhole to another world...the white lodge and the black lodge.  So all this is making perfect sense.

 "One chants out between two worlds" (connecting the worlds, as outlined above)

The earth plane & the etheric plane...two worlds.
This chant seems just like a 'call' (vibrational) and in the magickal sense.

The Twin Peaks 'lodges' dealt with a 'white lodge' (good/heaven) and a 'black lodge' (evil/hell).

 A duality, and one that is also reflected in the doppelganger (good/evil, self/shadow self, higher spiritual self/lower bestial self etc). The 'Bob/Mike, Convenience Store people' likely represented black lodge inhabitants, feeding off of evil (pain and suffering etc). I believe that we ultimately see Laura (and Cooper) in the 'white lodge' at the close of the film...a scene which actually occurs a few months after her death (see missing pieces), and perhaps even occurs after the the timeline of the ending of the TV series.  The series also implies (imo) that Major Briggs made it to the white lodge

Lodge waiting room. (So we're told, but it could actually be the Black Lodge.)

In fact, it IS the Black Lodge...Windom (via Sarah) notifies Briggs that he is in the Black Lodge with Cooper and as we already know (via) Hawk...every 'soul' on it's way to perfection, must first pass through the Black Lodge!  Therefore the Black Lodge is the starting point for ALL who attempt to make it to the White Lodge (cross the abyss to spiritual perfection).

Why would Bob and his gang be there if this was the White Lodge?
The Black Lodge dwarf...was lying about it being a 'waiting room'...imo.

We only get to see Cooper in the Black Lodge (in this episode).  He seemingly fails the test and his fear (running away from his doppelganger, instead of confronting him) likely prevents him from accessing the 'White Lodge' - which could only be mastered by using 'love' to open the door.

Seeing as though the Sycamore is a tree, it could be taken as yet another reference to the 'tree of life' and therefore conversely, death!  (life/death...white lodge/black lodge...good/evil)

Tree of life = sephiroth   tree of death = qliphoth....qabala/kabbala folks.

The diagram to the right and the middle point between the 2 trees...'malkuth/lilith' could be the portal/gateway starting point.  This 'gateway' is mentioned in the final episode.

 In the final episdoe...Cooper hears an owl, sees the circle of trees and the white circle of rocks, looks down at the oil and says, “an opening to a gateway.”

The sycamore can also be viewed as a rendition of Isis...and in art she was sometimes portrayed this way.

 Horus 'suckling' Isis who is manifested as a Sycamore.

Mural...Isis, who appears in the holy sycamore tree. Workmen's Tombs (13th BCE), Deir el-Medina, Egypt. 

DREAM A LITTLE DREAM OF ME

Stars shining bright above you
Night breezes seem to whisper "I love you"
Birds singing in the sycamore trees
Dream a little dream of me

Say nighty-night and kiss me
Just hold me tight and tell me you'll miss me
While I'm alone and blue as can be
Dream a little dream of me

Stars fading but I linger on dear
Still craving your kiss
I'm longing to linger till dawn dear
Just saying this

Sweet dreams till sunbeams find you
Sweet dreams that leave all worries behind you
But in your dreams whatever they be
Dream a little dream of me

Stars shining up above you
Night breezes seem to whisper "I love you"
Birds singing in the sycamore trees
Dream a little dream of me

Sweet dreams till sunbeams find you
Sweet dreams that leave all worries behind you
But in your dreams whatever they be
Dream a little dream of me

Yes, dream a little dream of me.

'The Sycamore' and the 'bright shining star' (Sirius) of Isis/Hermes/Thoth.

 Sirius is the brightest star in the night sky.

Sirius A (Giant) & B (the dwarf)...B is the 'speck' lower left...One & the same. (binary)

"The Sirius double stars (binary system) orbit in ellipses about one another"

 A 'ring like' ellipse...and Peaks is full of circular references.

The Giant and the Dwarf...ok so admittedly the Dwarf is a 'red dwarf' (which alternatively, is a type of star) but I reckon this can cut the other way.  Also note, this is just one interpretation, of a multiple of layers...the Giant aspect also relates to the Great Northern waiter 'Droolcup'...one and the same, the waiter is also a vessel for the Giant to communicate with Cooper.

Sirius, Canis Major/Minor...the dog star, perhaps even 'the black dog star' seeing as though it is a sign of portent, historically.

The Black Dog (Sirius) Runs At Night.

Which obviously it does, through the night sky.

Mamas and Dugpas...

Stars shining bright above you. Night breezes seem to whisper "I love you"
Birds singing in the sycamore trees. Dream a little dream of me

 Cooper's Dream:  "Where we're from, the birds sing a pretty song and there's always music in the air."   

 MFAP/Dwarf - Twin Peaks series   "Birds singing in the sycamore trees"
(I know in the series, that this in a literal sense, is referenced to the phonograph at Jacques cabin, but this piece is attempting to unpick layers of meaning, just so you know.)

All this talk of 'stars' and 'planets' is completely within the remit of the programme...the first thing you notice when Cooper enters the 'Black Lodge' is a statue depicting 'Venus' and then we get an actual representation of Saturn in the room....add in Jupiter and that is 3 planets that have been referenced, in the space of a few mninutes!!!

Saturn Lamp - Black Lodge

Dreams

 "A dream...we live inside a DREAM."

   Philip Jeffries/David Bowie - Fire Walk With Me

"In dreams I walk with you, In dreams I talk to you,

In dreams you're mine all of the time, We're together in dreams, in dreams."

Frank - Orbison's In Dreams, Blue Velvet

"A place beyond your dreams."  Also Paul's multiple 'dream sequences' related to the moon/spice etc

Dune

 "I had a dream about this place."(plus the 'Winkies' OZ connection)

Dan (Diane) @ the Diner, Mulholland Drive

"I mean I just came here from Deep River, Ontario, and now I'm in this dream place."

Betty Elms (for the wood connection) Mulholland Drive

 

Dream sequence that begins the film...The Elephant Man

 Fred: "I had a dream last night."

Lost Highway

 'Henry's dream sequence'

Eraserhead

This dream stuff is turning into a bit of a nightmare...lol. Ok...so you get the point, I could go on, but won't. Lynch talks to us in 'Dreams'...that is what his work does (in part, at least) it communicates with our 'dream logic centre' our 'subconscious'...I think so, at least.

Glastonbury Grove

The King Arthur connection is interesting....Avalon, according to a certain scholar could be a phonic echo of Afalon...deriving from welsh for the apple.  This puts it into the realms of Eden, for obvious reasons and we're back again to the tree...the 'tree of knowledge' Genesis...or Gene of Isis, if you prefer. 

Geoffrey of Monmouth called it in Latin Insula Avallonis in the Historia. In the later Vita Merlini he called it Insula Pomorum the "isle of apples". The name is generally considered to be of Welsh origin (though an Old Cornish or Old Breton origin is also possible), derived from Old Welsh abal, "apple", or aball, "apple tree" (in later Middle Welsh spelled aval, avall; now Modern Welsh afal, afall).

Re: Arthur....have a look at this from Comyns Beaumont, found in his brilliant work -
'The Riddle of Pre-Historic Britain'...relating Arthur to Osiris.

Grove as in Druid's Grove, tree worshippers etc.

Now you know why there is a pyramid stage at the yearly Glastonbury Festival.

It all makes symbolic sense.

Briggs being depicted as King Arthur/Osiris

Hence Briggs exclaiming...“which way to the castle!?” (Camelot)
The bones of "Arthur" were said to be extremely large in size and the skull they found had, among many wounds, a large "gash," suggesting death by a blow to the head. (hence Briggs' wounded head).

"Through the darkness of future past, the magician longs to see. One chants out between two worlds: 'Fire Walk With Me.  We lived among the people - I think you say convenience store? We lived above it. I mean it like it is, as it sounds. My name is Mike. His name is BOB." 

Note....This above quote...was from the first series. The 'convenience store scene' was from the movie FWWM.
Living 'above it' (above, below) perhaps meaning not of this physical world (the ether?), but who knows?

See the full "Convenience Store" scene here...


 I like how Lynch used David Bowie in this particular scene...his persona being charged with the ideas of 'fallen gods' (The Man Who Fell to Earth, Ziggy Stardust from Mars etc). I don't think this was just a random choice of actor.


The Convenience Store Scene - 7-11 or Circle K?

"This is a Formica table, green is its color"...

This is a for-mica (rock/stone) table(t). A green rock based table/tablet.

"Emerald is it's color" - and there is a small circular section of table top - which is cut out.

 "With this (magickal) ring I thee wed"

The 'ring' that likely denotes a life due to be sacrificed...and a 'ring' that ensures that the Garmonbozia (the victims pain & suffering in food form) will be collected and delivered to the appropriate 'magickian/entity' for consumption in a psychic manner.  The bowls and pans on the table in the first pic above contain Garmonbozia (like creamed corn).

So maybe the table(t) is referring to the 'green rock' of the Emerald Tablet.

But it's a table, not a tablet you decry...
The Emerald Tablet is frequently referred to as the Emerald Table...by the likes of Manly P Hall etc.

"Among the fragmentary writings believed to have come from the stylus of Hermes are two famous works. The first is the Emerald Table, and the second is the Divine Pymander, or, as it is more commonly called, The Shepherd of Men, a discussion of which follows. One outstanding point in connection with Hermes is that he was one of the few philosopher-priests of pagandom upon whom the early Christians did not vent their spleen. Some Church Fathers went so far as to declare that Hermes exhibited many symptoms of intelligence, and that if he had only been born in a more enlightened age so that he might have benefited by their instructions he would have been a really great man!"
Manly P Hall, The Secret Teaching of All Ages

"The name Hermes is derived from "Herm," a form of CHiram (CRM), the Personified Universal Life Principle, generally represented by fire. The Scandinavians worshiped Hermes under the name of Odin; the Teutons as Wotan, and certain of the Oriental peoples as Buddha, or Fo. There are two theories concerning his demise. The first declares that Hermes was translated like Enoch and carried without death into the presence of God, the second states that he was buried in the Valley of Ebron and a great treasure placed in his tomb--not a treasure of gold but of books and sacred learning."
Manly P Hall, The Secret Teaching of All Ages

Hence... 

This picture with the car...seen when Cooper visits the trailer park to investigate what happened to Agent Desmond (Chris Isaac), who himself has been transported to another place after picking up the magickal ring there and then he is on the missing list.  Well they find his car left like this (after he vanishes into the ether) and with the 'Let's Rock' tag written on it.

This connects the ring and the car (with tag) together...the 'rock ring' made from the missing chunk of the formica table(t)/emerald tablet.

Rock as in (For)Mica...Rock.
In fact, just the sheer 'nerdy-ness' of mentioning that it's made of Formica, seems to suggest that mind should perhaps be paid to it. The mineral mica was commonly used at that time for electrical insulation. Because the new product acted as a substitute “for mica”, Faber coined the name “Formica”.

The Emerald Table(t) of Twin Peaks.

The mica group of sheet silicate (phyllosilicate) minerals includes several closely related materials having close to perfect basal cleavage. All are monoclinic, with a tendency towards pseudohexagonal crystals, and are similar in chemical composition. The nearly perfect cleavage, which is the most prominent characteristic of mica, is explained by the hexagonal sheet-like arrangement of its atoms.
The word "mica" is derived from the Latin word mica, meaning "a crumb", and probably influenced by micare, "to glitter". Muscovite, the principal mica used by the electrical industry, is used in capacitors that are ideal for high frequency and radio frequency...you get the idea, I'm sure.

(perhaps a transmitter & a receiver!)

"Electricity"....and an 'opening of the mouth' moment.
There is an aspect where these 'lodge inhabitants' perhaps travel (astral/etheric) via electricity.

Pyramid of the Sun (Mexico City)
The pyramid contained considerable amounts of mica in layers up to 30 cm (12 in) thick.

An epsiode in season 2 directly related to the above 'convenience store' scene and a few of the same protagonists also feature, as does reference to 'magick' and 'the garmonbozia'.

COMA -Season 2 Episode 2 (directed by David Lynch)

David Lynch's own son sychronistically plays a 'magickian'!!! 

Mmmm...yum, yum Garmonbozia, psychic 'pain & suffering' to be consumed.
Lynch's own son...playing the magickian, note this 'magickian'role is played by someone else in the 'convenience store' scene in the film.


Before the episode begins proper...we get the following:
Check out this 'log lady' intro from this episode...I can't say I was at all surprised to find it!!!
Relevant due to the fact that it heavily relates to the mysterious 'convenience store' scene we just mentioned.

 Log Lady(intro):
"As above, so below."The human being finds himself, or herself, in the middle. There is as much space outside the human, proportionately, as inside. Stars, moons and planets remind us of protons, neutrons and electrons. Is there a bigger being walking with all the stars within? Does our thinking affect what goes on outside us and what goes on inside us? I think it does. Where does creamed corn figure into the workings of the universe? What really is creamed corn? Is it a symbol for something else?

The first maxim on the Emerald Tablet of Thoth/Hermes...As above, so below.
Microcosm & Macrocosm, as explained in the intro above.

It cannot get anymore BLATANT than that.

The Dialogue from the Conveience Store...TP:FWWM.

 FIRST WOODSMAN (subtitled) We have desended from pure air.

 (the ether..is probably the reference!)

MAN FROM ANOTHER PLACE (subtitled) Going up and down. Intercourse between the two worlds. (as above, so below)

BOB (subtitled) Light of new discoveries.  (we're about to make one!)

MRS. TREMOND (subtitled) Why not be composed of materials and combinations of atoms?   

(probably meaning the table, perhaps and it's about to get mentioned and also we're told that IT is no accident, seeing this table...they're showing it to US!)

MRS. TREMOND'S GRANDSON (subtitled) This is no accident.

(of course not, or why bother to film it)

MAN FROM ANOTHER PLACE (subtitled) This is a formica table. Green is its color.  He touches the table.
(we've done that one!)

FIRST WOODSMAN (subtitled) Our world.  (the table/tablet is their world)

MAN FROM ANOTHER PLACE (subtitled) With chrome. And everything will proceed cyclically. 

(perhaps the metallic aspect of the ring, which they've fashioned from the table/tablet?)

SECOND WOODSMAN (subtitled) Boneless.

(perhaps a reference to an etheric body, boneless)

MIKE (subtitled) Yes, find the middle place. Bob begins to scream with anger.

(between heaven & earth...our plane of existance)

BOB (subtitled) I HAVE THE FURY OF MY OWN MOMENTUM.

(he's a pissed entity!)

TREMOND'S GRANDSON (subtitled) Fell a victim.

(request for a new kill victim...for harvesting garmonbozia/pain & suffering)

The Man From Another Place raises his hand. 

MAN FROM ANOTHER PLACE (subtitled)  With this ring, I thee wed.

(a contract, using the ring to bind the parties)

Bob claps his hand and a circle of fire appears in the room.

BOB (subtitled) Fire Walk With Me. 

THROUGH THE CIRCLE We see the RED ROOM. 

ON THE SCENE Bob crawls into the Red Room and MFAP starts to yell and leaps in after him.

(a couple of bits in there are from the shooting script and were left out of the finished (cut) film, but they are relevant.)

 Red Rum (The Shining) - Red Room (Twin Peaks). The phonetics of rum, could be room, as in rumour.

There is 'backwards writing' in The Shining (REDRUM) and 'backwards talking' in the RED-ROOM.

The Navajo (The Shining) inspired American Indian...Hawk (wasn't Horus a Hawk?)

Dweller on the Threshold

Deputy Tommy 'Hawk' Hill: My people believe that the White Lodge is a place where the spirits that rule man and nature reside. There is also a legend of a place called the Black Lodge. The shadow self of the White Lodge. Legend says that every spirit must pass through there on the way to perfection. There, you will meet your own shadow self. My people call it The Dweller on the Threshold.(TDOTT)

Special Agent Dale Cooper: Dweller on the Threshold.

Deputy Tommy 'Hawk' Hill: But it is said that if you confront the Black Lodge with imperfect courage, it will utterly annihilate your soul.

Earle & Hawk both mention 'the lodges' (as does Briggs) and it seems to contain the essence of some of what I've been talking about on this blog.

Episode Season 2. Eps 20 (1991)

 Windom Earle: These evil sorcerers, dugpas, they call them, cultivate evil for the sake of evil and nothing else. They express themselves in darkness for darkness, without leavening motive. This ardent purity has allowed them to access a secret place of great power, where the cultivation of evil proceeds in exponential fashion. And with it, the furtherance of evil's resulting power. These are not fairy tales, or myths. This place of power is tangible, and as such, can be found, entered, and perhaps, utilized in some fashion. The dugpas have many names for it, but chief among them is the Black Lodge... But you don't believe me, do you? You think I'm mad. Overworked. Go away.

 Windom Earle: The planets (Jupiter & Saturn) our babbling major spoke of are more than distant orbs. They are, in fact, a clock. A clock that tells the time. And the time... Time draws nearer with each ticking tock! Dale wasn't far wrong. The cave painting is an invitation of sorts, telling us when the revels begin. But what Dale doesn't know is where to find it. For you see, the cave painting is not only an invitation, it is also a map... a map to the Black Lodge!



 Earle ahas a fascination with the Black Lodge, whose secrets he is trying to unlock, as well as black magic.  Major Garland Briggs states that Earle was involved in Project Blue Book, as was Briggs; however, their investigation in which Earle was involved was directly related to Twin Peaks and not the usual UFO investigations.

Earle mentions the 'black lodge' in this episode and says...

 [Windom Earle has Major Briggs tide up to a target mat with a crossbow aimed at him]
The arrow of Windom (Apollo) attempting to slay the cyclops (bulls-eye).
Briggs posed as Osiris/Arthur slain.

Windom Earle: When did you first see the symbol in Owl Cave?
Major Briggs: I'm not at liberty to divulge that information.
Windom Earle: Cheater!
[Windom fires an arrow at Briggs, missing his head by inches]
Windom Earle: What does the cave painting mean?
Major Briggs: [more firm tone] I'm not at liberty to divulge that information.
Windom Earle: Damn, but I love the military mind. 

The sephiroth/qliphoth does seem comparable to the dual white/black lodge concept (in the spiritual sense)...the 'entropic' nature of the 'qliphoth' lending itself quite nicely to the domain of Bob & friends...their purpose seemingly being...feeding off the cultivation of suffering.

Briggs: "I was night fishing with...Agent Cooper. There was a light...a guardian beyond it.
I was taken...but my mind...still I recognised the signs."

 Briggs disappears and/or is abducted.

This sudden abduction is highly reminiscent of the reports of alien abductions throughout recent history, and that resemblance might help to explain why it is that the Major studies deep space communications as a part of his classified Intelligence work.

I talked earlier about the 'Heywood Floyd' of Twin Peaks - Major Garland (Judy) Briggs, well after he gets seemingly abducted or goes through a portal...he finally comes back a few days later and is totally bewildered etc. It's here that this tattoo is then discovered on his neck, but with no explanation.

Briggs Neck Tattoo...Mark of Choronzon

I have yet to see anyone reference the 3 triangle symbol on Briggs' neck as the symbol of the 'Demon/Guardian of the Abyss'/'Dweller on the Threshold'...generally known as Choronzon.  Briggs' tattoo is identical to the symbol of Choronzon.  Choronzon is mentioned in the workings of Elizabethan John Dee (007) & Kelley with repsect to Enochian magick.

briefly...

On the 'tree of life' Choronzon represents the Guardian of the the 2nd veil, who resides in the sphere of Daath.  (I think comparisons can be made with 'the tree of life'/'tree of death' or 'sephiroth/qliphoth' and the 'White Lodge'/'Black Lodge' of Twin Peaks.)

Crowley states:

This doctrine is extremely difficult to explain; but it corresponds more or less to the gap in thought between the Real, which is ideal, and the Unreal, which is actual. In the Abyss all things exist, indeed, at least in posse, but are without any possible meaning; for they lack the substratum of spiritual Reality. They are appearances without Law. They are thus Insane Delusions. (like Brigg's probably during his experience and he certainly displays himself like this, after the event!)

Just wanted to point out that Briggs is marked with the symbol of Choronzon...well that is one possible interpretation at least. The fact that Briggs is heavily connected to 'Project Bluebook' dealing with ufo/extra-terrestrial (demonic?) contact is a key point imo...especially when connected with 'magick' and 'demons'..for if you look into Crowley's contact with the entity 'Lam' (Tibetan for 'way' or 'path' and Twin Peaks is stuffed with Tibetan mysticism).  It is 'Lam' the 'praeter-human' entity that bears more than just a glancing similarity to the classic UFO occupant...AKA 'the alien grey'.

 Crowley's Lam (or shadow self) and The Great Wizard 'entity from OZ'.

We have Hawk, waxing lyrical about 'TDOTT' and meeting your shadow self (arguably Choronzon could be the shadow self) which bears many similarities to the Qabalistic apsects of 'crossing the abyss'...something that can be thought of as akin to a form of 'ego death'.

Aleister Crowley further altered and popularized the term in certain occult circles, referring to a "Brother of the Left-Hand Path," or a "Black Brother," as one who failed to attain the grade of Magister Templi in Crowley's system of ceremonial magic.  Crowley also referred to the Left-Hand Path when describing the point at which the Adeptus Exemptus (such as his old Christian mentor, Macgregor Mathers) chooses to cross the Abyss, which is the location of Choronzon and the illusory eleventh Sephira, which is Da'ath or Knowledge. In this example, the adept must surrender all, including the guidance of his Holy Guardian Angel, and leap into the Abyss. If his accumulated Karma is sufficient, and if he has been utterly thorough in his own self-destruction, he becomes a "babe of the abyss," arising as a Star in the Crowleyan system. On the other hand, if he retains some fragment of ego, or if he fears to cross, he then becomes encysted. The layers of his self, which he could have shed in the Abyss, ossify around him. He is then titled a "Brother of the Left-Hand Path," who will eventually be broken up and disintegrated against his will, since he failed to choose voluntary disintegration.  Crowley associated all this with "Mary, a blasphemy against BABALON," and with the celibacy of Christian clergy.

 A brief aside and an easy example to understand...

 Darth Vader = Da'ath Evader (a play on words)

 A 'Black Brother' (literally) and 'Brother of the Left-Hand path'.

  In some definitions, the 'Left-Hand Path' is equated with malicious Black Magic.

On the other hand, if he retains some fragment of ego, or if he fears to cross, he then becomes encysted. The layers of his self, which he could have shed in the Abyss, ossify around him. He is then titled a "Brother of the Left-Hand Path," who will eventually be broken up and disintegrated against his will, since he failed to choose voluntary disintegration.

Back on track now...

This is important due to the nature of the story at this point, and the obvious allusion that Briggs went on some sort of metaphysical journey...perhaps 'The White Lodge' but who knows? Perhaps Briggs met his shadow self and defeated it, because he has to travel through the black lodge to get to the white lodge, in order attain perfection (as outlined by Hawk).  This is unlike what happens with Cooper who fails, I like to think that Briggs passed his test and defeated the black lodge.  Briggs greatest fear in the world was the 'possibility that love wasn't enough'...which imo singled him out as a particularly special character...at least to me anyway. When considering Choronzon...we are in the realm of Qabala and its various alternative spellings, no pun intended.

Cooper: "Two 'symbols' combined into a larger whole." 

The other mysterious symbol/glyph...also seen inside 'Owl Cave' and Cooper's drawing, made up of Tattoo's from Briggs (although it also relates to the abyss, as seen earlier) & The Log Lady.

 This is also part referenced in 'the emerald ring'...as you can see and also inside 'owl cave'

All this Qabala, brings me nicely...to a familiar & seemingly potent 'qabalistic number' and 'magick number of the sun'.

We're still in the same episode...Coma.

666
We also learn that the messages that the Major shared with Cooper (“The owls are not what they seem” and “CooperCooperCooper” written over and over) originated from the woods around Twin Peaks – the very location that’s been the focal point of the figurative and literal 'heart of darkness' in this town. The suggestion is that these signals came from earth and were sent up into space – a reversal of the sorts of “extraterrestrial transmission” into earth that we typically see in films and TV.

(The 3 Cooper's could be 'The Typical Dale', 'The Doppelganger Dale' and finally the 'Bob, Possessed Dale'.) Three incarnations of Dale...Cooper/Cooper/Cooper, the message probably came from the Black Lodge in the woods (as Briggs states, from the wood and into space) and possibly a 'message' from the 'lodge inhabitants' to their masters/helpers in the ether.  The main prize being the possession of FBI Agent Dale Cooper...a plan being designed all along etc.

 666

 After his 'abduction/portal crossing' return (Season 2 Eps#9)....Cooper and Truman (Sheriff) try to communicate with the Major, even calling him by his first name, Garland, though Briggs mistakes that as a reference to Judy Garland...a nice tie-in to The Wizard of Oz, that Oz theme is 'done to death' in Lynch's Wild at Heart and I'm sure you're aware of the 'emerald' elements involved with the Oz mythos.

 In his navajo/The Shining inspired wrap..."Judy Garland?"

 The 'Real' Project Blue Book and William Garland: 
"Another important change came when General William Garland joined Cabell's staff; Garland thought the UFO question deserved serious scrutiny because he had witnessed a UFO."  Perhaps this is one of the reasons that Lynch (or whoever) chose that name...the other being the 'Oz' connection.

Briggs jibbers...."Protect the queen" and "Fear and love open the doors." 

Cooper figures it out: Two lodges, two doors. Fear opens the Black Lodge, love opens the White Lodge. He also realizes that protect the queen means Windom Earle probably is planning to abduct whoever wins the pageant.

The 'earth to space' message (dialogue) between Cooper & Briggs...which is suggestive of communication between the 'earth plane' and the 'etheric plane'.


Look how close the following dialogue is between Twin Peaks and 2001:ASO...below.

"I’m not at liberty to reveal the nature of my work."  

Major Briggs...Blue Book 'extraterrestrial/ufo' phenomena etc 

below - "I'm really not at liberty to discuss this..." 

 Dr Heywood Floyd...overseer of the 'extraterrestrial/space monolith' etc 

Star-gate of 2001 : ASO

 'Stargater' Don S Davis/Major Briggs

The eye/sun over the pyramid... 

Mason-gate (Square & Compass)...first pic has the central G.

Episode 2 - Zen, or the Skill to Catch a Killer

"All work and no play make Ben and Jerry dull boys." (Horne Brothers)

"All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy"  (The Shining)

talking of Horne's...

 "Here's Johnny."  

"Talking of Jack" 

"All work and no play make Ben and Jerry dull boys."

Who happen to own One Eyed Jacks...the whore store, where plenty of 'one eyed Jacks' get serviced by the ladies..even the Horne's horns get serviced.

 

One Eyed Jacks...One Eyed Jacob...The missing phallus of Osiris and/or a reference to Horus' torn out left eye. And obviously a hat tip to Kubrick/Brando...the same profile head shot in both pics.

 If it's revenge...then perhaps, the torn out eye of horus is more appropriate!

  It was originally planned to be directed by Stanley Kubrick from a screenplay by Sam Peckinpah, but studio disputes led to their replacement by Brando and Guy Trosper.

The same Brando from Apocalypse Now who played Colonel 'Osiris' Kurtz...the God King at the end of the Nile river...I mean the Nung river.

Oh and talking of 'one eye'

 Nadine/Cyclops...missing left eye (of Horus). The curtain (veil) rail, the cotton buds, and the oil dripping from Ed...a foreshadowing of the final episode and the 'curtains and the pool of oil' at the gateway/portal of Glastonbury Grove.



Oil and Curtains @ the Grove.

Twin Pyramids

Mount Si (the mountain from Twin Peaks) is a remnant of an oceanic plate volcano and the rocks are highly metamorphosed.

Mount Si figures prominently in a Prometheus story from the Snoqualmie tribe. According to the story it is the dead body of Snoqualm, the moon. Snoqualm had ordered that a rope of cedar bark be stretched between the earth and the sky. (sounds very similar to jacob's ladder imo).

But Fox and Blue Jay went up the rope and stole the sun from Snoqualm. Snoqualm chased them down the cedar rope, but it broke and he fell to his death. Fox then let the sun free in the sky and gave fire to the people (exactly as prometheus had, my emphasis!). A face like Snoqualm's is visible on the rocks near the summit.

The capstone/peaks could be a 'subliminal reference' to the creationist 'benben stone'?

Ben + Ben = Ben-ben.
The painted design behind (with 2 saturns for eyes) 'the mouth'...resembles a capped pyramid/benben.

The Benben stone, named after the mound, was a sacred stone in the solar temple of Heliopolis.
It was the location on which the first rays of the sun fell. It is thought to have been the prototype for later obelisks (Phallus of Osiris) and the capstones of the great pyramids were based on its design.

Just to reference a little 'cross-pollenation' between Lynch & Kubrick.

The Bed Masks

More Masks

Johnny 'Calumet' Horne...left with navajo print wrap.

Chris Isaak

 Judy Garland + Navajo...'Over The Rainbow' (Song & Costume Store) and Leelee shares the same birthdate as Judy Garland...June 10th.

Zig & Zag

 Painted Toes 

Uncle's & Paedophilia

The Hanged Men...Negroes.

Lobby Sets - Eraserhead & The Shining

Corridors

Spermo/Spinal Gnosis....2001 & Eraserhead

Space Food - Hospital Food

Rebirth Babies...2001 & Eraserhead

Chess

The Hotels...The Overlook (The Shining) & The Great Northern (Twin Peaks)

Twinning

Twin Peaks & The Shining

Twin Peaks & The Shining. Some other similarities -

Laura's Abuse

Of course Twin Peaks, in the main...is all about the 'systematic abuse cycle' of a young girl (since age of 12, I think?) Laura Palmer, via her father......a cycle that Leland also went through (See Leland's death scene), the abused becoming the abuser, the inter-generational cycle.

Leland (death scene)

 "I was just a boy. I saw him in my dreams. He said he - he wanted to play. He opened me and I invited him and he came inside me. When he was inside, I didn’t know and when he was gone I couldn’t remember. He made me do things, terrible things. He said he wanted lives, he wanted others. Others that they could use, like they used me."

I sure you'll appreciate the potential sexual abuse allusions being made in the dialogue. 

Danny's Abuse

Of course The Shining, in the main (subliminally)...is all about the systematic abuse of a young boy (since he started school) Danny Torrance, via his father.......a cycle that Jack could also have gone through (although we don't know) and would be a similar inter-generational cycle, as above.
See The Shining & 2001 Endings post for more on Danny's abuse. 

 Danny (about Tony/Jack)
"It's like I go to sleep and he shows me things, but when I wake up, I can't remember everything."  (compare that with Leland's dialogue above!)

Jack (Maze chase)
"I'm coming (climax) Dan...I'm right behind you." (Jack's body position relative to Danny's during the sex act).

Twin Peaks Leland: "He said he wanted to play"
        Twins The Shining: "Come and play with us Danny"

A 'cycle of abuse'...the motorcycle (hog) in Laura's 'all seeing eye'.
A 'cycle' until she sacrifices herself at the hands of Leland/Bob. 

Danny's cycle of abuse and 'all seeing eye'....a 'forever cycle' until he stops it, by outwitting 'the source' in the maze...Jack/Tony.

Fire Walk With Me & The Shining - Scripted Hospital Endings (filmed , but deleted scenes)

FWWM
INT. HOSPITAL ROOM - NIGHT 

A NURSE mops the sweat from Annie's forehead. Annie tries to get thru to her.
ANNIE My name is Annie. I've been with Laura and Dale. The good Dale is in the lodge and he can't leave. Write it in your diary.
(The nurse pats Annie's forehead and takes her hand.)
(We see  TERESA/LAURA'S RING on Annie's ring finger. The nurse gently slides the ring off Annie's finger.)
ANOTHER ROOM IN THE HOSPITAL The nurse enters. With an anticipatory smile, then a selfish laugh, she puts the ring on her finger.

THE SHINING

Removed scene...about 2 weeks after initial release.

 Shelley Duvall:

The manager visits her (Wendy), apologizes for what happened, and invites her to live with him. She doesn't say yes or no. Then he goes into the hallway of the hospital, passes in front of Danny, who is playing on the ground with some toys. When he gets near the exit, he stops and says, 'I almost forgot, I have something for you.' And he pulls from his pocket the yellow ball that the twins had thrown at Danny. It bounces twice (we spent a whole day filming so it would bounce the right way), Danny catches it, looks at it, then lifts his eyes towards the hotel manager, stupefied, realizing that throughout the story he was aware of the mystery of the hotel.

At that point...the film would've gone onto the lobby zoom shot and the pictures on the wall...fade out.

Phew...and for now, we'll leave it at that.
God help you if you've not seen Twin Peaks. (as none of this will make any sense)

Update 2016

If you're looking for more on Twin Peaks (the deeper mythos), and Lynch's work (similar to this), I did an expanded piece in 2016. There's plenty on the wider mythology of the TV show, and a more stuff about the film (see below). Thanks.

Elysium aka The Elysian Fields lay on the western margin of the Earth, by the encircling stream of Oceanus (Odyssey), and there the mortal relatives of the king of the gods were transported, without tasting death, to enjoy an immortality of bliss (Odyssey book iv: 563). (Evoking Enoch, my emphasis.)

  In Greek mythology, Elysium (Greek: Ἠλύσια πεδία) was a section of the Underworld . The Elysian Fields, or the Elysian Plains, were the final resting places of the souls of the heroic and the virtuous. Elysium is an obscure name that evolved from a designation of a place or person struck by lightning, enelysion, enelysios.  This could be a reference to Zeus, the god of lightning/Jupiter, so "lightning-struck" could be saying that the person was blessed (struck) by Zeus (lightning/fortune).

Elysium/Underworld/Under The Lightning Sycamore...Zeus aka Jupiter...where Jupiter and Saturn meet.

 Zeus threw his lightning/thunder bolts from Mount Olympus..with 2 (Twin) Peaks

There is even a direct reference in Utah... see pics

However it is the central, almost vertical, rocky peaks, that impress the visitor, over Litochoro, where the relief of the mountain displays on the horizon an apparent V, between two peaks (twin peaks) of almost equal height. In the left limb is Mytikas (or Pantheon - 2,918 metres (9,573 ft), Greece's highest peak, and on the right one Stefani (or Thronos Dios, Throne of Zeus - 2,902 metres, 9,521 ft), that presents the most impressive and steep peak of Olympus. I wonder if the given population size (51,201) is related (in some way) to the height (9,521) of the 'relevant' Stefani/Zeus Olympus peak?

In most modern tarot decks, Temperance stands between Death and The Devil.

Both aspects (above) are very much 'on point' for Twin Peaks and its narrative scope/plot

The V between the Peaks, Temperance, he or she guides the souls of the dead to judgment.

In some traditions, Temperance does the judging. In those schools, the cups in Temperance’s hands are the functional equivalent of scales, and Temperance, like Maat, an Egyptian goddess of wisdom, judges the soul’s worth before passing it on to the beasts of the underworld. (under the sycamore)

Laura's Angel...she, who guides her into the afterlife, FWWM ending.

(erm, she is already dead at this point, clearly it's 'otherworldly'...what else can it be!?)

 Donna’s father, Dr. Will Hayward, tells Laura her fate, which is ultimately shown in the final moments of Fire Walk With Me. Hayward tells Laura that her prescription is actually a secret message: “The angels will return, and when you see the one that’s meant to help you, you will weep with joy.” (Missing Pieces)

Anyway - Elysium is an obscure name that evolved from a designation of a place or person struck by lightning, enelysion, enelysios.  This could be a reference to Zeus, the god of lightning/Jupiter.

Donnie 'Gyllenhaal' Darko...connects to Twin Peaks, via his father, who was involved with the series!

Fear & Love (opens the doors, Twin Peaks), see Fear & Love, Donnie Darko

The Torus & The Wormhole...Donnie Darko and Twin Peaks

The Darko family drive a Taurus (Torus) car in the film.

Glastonberry Grove (portal)...Arthur's 'round-table' and 12 knights (zodiac). The 12 sycamores (that stood between worlds, sacred to Isis/Hathor) as the (12 houses) zodiacal wheel of fortune...to the lightning struck lodges.  Heather/Hathor (Cow) Graham...as the card-based crowned tree queen (Isis, the veil).

A 'literal' wheel of fortune (roulette) was spun in the final episode of season 1, One Eyed Jacks

Where Jupiter & Saturn meet...they straddle the 777 tree of life wormhole/da'ath/abyss

Cooper in the 12 tree zodiac circle...'Rending The Veil' of The Abyss/Da'ath...via the tree(s)

"The Dweller on the threshold" (see Bulwer-Lytton's - Zanoni) of Daa'th.  Beyond Life & D(e)ath.

'Lightning Struck' Ziggy (Zaggy) from Mars aka David 'Space Oddity' Bowie-man, he also visited this location and via 'the ring'.

“We live inside a dream” - Twin Peaks FWWM (film) 

- says Agent Jeffries (aka Ziggy-Zaggy, Bowie/lightning-struck crown) to Agents Cole (Lynch), and Cooper (MacLachlan). 

Lightning-struck Tesla (Bowie) - The Prestige (2006). 
Doppelgangers appearing in another separate "time/space" was an aspect of The Prestige!

Bowie is directly connected to "the ring" (Twin Peaks) - Watts, played the lead in - The Ring (2002)

The Lightning Struck 'Crown' Tower...Mulholland Drive 

"16 Reasons, why I love you" (Card 16) -- to The Star (I Told Every Little Star) Card 17

Mulholland Drive's Silencio - is the real 'ACTUAL' Tower Theatre in LA. Diane (name relates to 'moon' card 18) and Selwyn (name relates to castle - like The Tower card). The exact same theatre is also used in The Prestige!

The Prestige - which is all about stage magicians...like the Tower based "Silencio Magician" in Mulholland Drive.

  The Magician (Card 1) aka wizard and inside the 'literal' Lightning Struck Tower!

"It is all an illusion/dream" a la Oz, Mulholland has a huge 'Oz' thematic...see other posts.

The 'Gemini' Twins (Card 6) in The Tower. 16-12 Havenhurst (16 The Tower/12 The Hanged Man). 

Rebekah (Hebrew) means tied/knotted. Rebekah Del Rio will sing 'Crying' in the above scene.

Jack 'Eraserhead/Tree of Life' Fisk would be the production designer for Mulholland Drive.

The Tower Crown Lightning & the Tree of Life Crown (kether) are symbolically related.

The crown being struck by lightning...in both.

 The final shot of Lynch's Twin Peaks series is...'the struck Cooper lightning crown/head' 

 The Twin Peaks 'film'...Missing Pieces, hammers this 'struck' point home even further (with an extended version of the same TV scene). COOPER (smiling strangely): "I slipped and hit my head on the mirror. The glass broke as it struck my head. (laughs) It struck me as funny, Harry. Do you understand me, Harry, it struck me as funny."

More "struck crown" foreshadowing via "oil and curtains" Nadine.

Foreshadowing the 'struck crown' and 'zig-zag' lightning...bell and Laura's heart

There is even a picture of the 'cracked' Liberty Bell (that strikes) on the pillar behind Cooper.

'Phila-delphi-a'....The Greek Oracle @ Delphi.

Cooper's prior dream...FWWM (Twin Peaks film)

Delphi - Greek Oracle  (Twin Peaks uses elements of both Delphi & Dodona).
An oracle was a person or agency considered to provide wise counsel or prophetic predictions or precognition of the future, inspired by the gods. As such it is a form of divination. The important oracles of Greece were Pythia, at Delphi, and the oracle of Dione and Zeus at Dodona. In Greece the old oracles were devoted to the Mother Goddess. Dione is translated as "Goddess", and given the same etymological derivation as the names (lightning bolt)  Zeus, Diana, et al. 

Diana, her major pilgrimage centres were Ephesus and Nemi, the Sacred Grove (Glastonberry, my emphasis). She was Dione, Diana Nemorensis, or Nemetona, Goddess of the Moon-grove.

 Delphi, Oracle, Dreams, Future Pre-cognition and The Ear.

Phila-DELPHI-a...the oracle and dreams.  The whole scene makes references to dreams, Cooper's initial dialogue telling Cole about the dream he had mentioned. This infers that Cooper had dreamed that this 'event' would happen (previous details he must've mentioned to Cole), that Bowie would show up (note how Cole, says "I know"), hence why Cooper looks for him via the CCTV etc, and it unfolds. Not forgetting Bowie's dialogue "A dream, we live inside a dream!". That's the basic set-up, although it is much more detailed a 'scene', overall (with the convenience store people and Bowie's inter-dimensional travel), but it takes a long time to explain. 'Phila', from Philae, Egypt, site of a venerated Ancient Egyptian Temple, said to be one of the burying-places of Osiris.

 "...the earth-deity might acquire an oracular function (oracle), especially through the process of incubation, in which the consultant slept in a holy shrine with his ear upon the ground."

Not Jeffries, but Jeffrey (MacLachlan, Agent 'Dream' Cooper) in Lynch's Blue Velvet - 'ear upon the ground'. As mentioned, Jeffrey means district, traveler or peaceful. This was about 3 years before Twin Peaks...so it's the incubation period.  He is the oracular function aka 'dream oracle' (via Delphi) of Twin Peaks, he has several pre-cognitive dreams/episodes in the show. Blue Velvet also famously features 'In Dreams' by Orbison and has similar Peaks-like settings and motifs.

The finding of the 'ear' in Blue Velvet & the dream (that starts with the ear) in Twin Peaks ("break the code/dream, solve the crime"), are both instrumental in unraveling the larger mystery. Kyle (Jeffrey/Cooper) seems to be Lynch's main 'dream oracle' he has similar experiences in Dune.

"In dreams I walk with you. In dreams I talk to you."
Twin Peaks - Pilot/Episode 2 (Cooper's dream, it features the exact same ear!)

Twin Peaks series filming: Suddenly, Lynch exclaims, "I know what we need"! Lynch then proceeds to carefully pull from his pocket, the prop severed ear from Blue Velvet. The ear was apparently in his pocket the entire time. With no explanation as to it's meaning or significance, Lynch very carefully partially submerges the ear into the center of the pile of dirt (ear, ear-th and earth-deity geddit, my emphasis) and the closeup is filmed. (I think we know the meaning and significance now, my emphasis).

We see the ear in the dirt/earth (at start) and Cooper's dream...it will be 'the ear' (of Cooper) that gets whispered into (by Laura) giving him the name of the killer. Start/Finish is book-ended with an ear.

Missing Pieces - Convenience Store and Bowie. (see video clip, again).

Bowie - transported via the ether...Twin Peaks FWWM (Missing Pieces expanded film).

Bowie is instantly transported from Palm Deluxe Hotel, Buenos Aires (Argentina) to the FBI offices in Philadelphia (US). During the return transition of this transportation, we're shown the inside of Bob's gaping mouth (which the camera zooms out from) and Bowie is magically appears back in Buenos Aires.

He reappears through a fiery portal and seemingly via Bob, and the ether and electricity, note the Red Room type drapes (left), the room that gives access to the lodge(s) via Jupiter/Saturn conjunction.

Convenience Store scene - the exact time (10:10) and date are very specific for this sequence. He clearly refers to the fact that Gordon is previously aware of the details of Cooper's prior dream. Cooper dreamed this would happen (Bowie turning up at the FBI office, hence Cooper looking for him via the CCTV) and then the dream plays out in real 'film' life, and at the exact time that he was given in his dream. A total WTF scene! Lodge inhabitants (it is implied) are able to travel via electricity, which explains Bowie's sudden disappearance.

16th February @ 10:10 

"X (10) the wheel of fortune"

Pete 'Eraserhead' Martell's 12 rainbow trout & truck...at the 12 Sycamores (12 Knights/Glastonberry/bury)

Below - "Where the rainbow ends" - Eyes Wide Shut (magic circle, clothes/clotho and fate)

The Fates, The Spinning Wheel (of Fortune) and another link to 'wheel-based' Hermes

Disney's Spinning Wheel(s)...

Thanks to Alan Abbadessa-Green (via John Fell Ryan).  I don't tend to watch these Disney things!

 As one of the 'three fates' her (Clotho) contribution to mythology was immense. 

Clotho, along with her sisters, and Hermes (hermanubis, on the wheel), was given credit for creating the alphabet for their people. (see Bob's letters/alphabet, below).

Although Clotho and her sisters were real goddesses, their representation of fate is more focused upon in Greek mythology.
Thread represented human life and her decisions represented the fate of all men in society.

Black Lodge Bob - as a composite "Clotho"

A cloth (clotho) "death bag" 

Leland and Windom were both possessed by Bob - they ALL referenced the (cloth) death bag.

Windom has spiders in the bag - creatures that spin webs using silk threads.

The 3 Fates...spinning via the wheel

Clotho (/ˈkloʊθoʊ/; Greek: Κλωθώ), whose name literally means 'spinner' is the youngest of the Three Fates or Moirai – including her sisters Lachesis and Atropos, in ancient Greek mythology. Lakhesis, whose name means "Apportioner of Lots"--being derived from a word meaning to receive by lot (lottery)--, measured the thread of life. Atropos (or Aisa), whose name means "She who cannot be turned," (turning) cut the thread of life. Clotho was responsible for spinning the thread of human life. She also made major decisions, such as when a person was born, thus in effect controlling people's lives. This power enabled her not only to choose who was born, but also to decide when gods or mortals were to be saved or put to death. For example, when Pelops was killed and boiled by his father, it was Clotho who brought him back to life.

Ariadne labyrinth/maze, The Shining (vision/dream based) labyrinth/maze & 'dream based' Inception labyrinth/maze via character Ariadne (who else!). Circular maze/wheel, also evokes the brain.

 Ariadne, the Greek goddess of fertility, is similar to Clotho in that she carries a ball of thread, much like Clotho’s spindle.  This is a potential link to Kubrick's The Shining and 'the maze' (minotaur) and the trail of breadcrumbs (thread), as referenced by Wendy. “This place is such an enormous maze, I feel like I’ll have to leave a trail of bread crumbs every time I come in”.  The Shining, the fate of 3 characters, who live in apartment 3 and connected to dreams/visions (like Inception).

The Moirai (aka Three Fates) were independent, at the helm of necessity, directed fate, and watched that the fate assigned to every being by eternal laws might take its course without obstruction; and Zeus, as well as the other gods and man, had to submit to them.

 Fate(s)/Moirai/Erinyes (Furies) and Zeus...Mulholland Drive

 The Tower, shows lightning strikes attributed to Zeus

The Light Struck Tower...Zeus

The 3 Fates, they assigned to the Erinyes - who inflicted the punishment for evil deeds, their proper functions; and with them they 'directed fate' according to the laws of necessity. 

Zeus, as well as the other gods and man, had to submit to them. (3 Fates, Moirai, leading to Erinyes.)

Irene (Bates) 'appropriately' played Mrs X, Eraser-head...the zig-zag bolt floor pattern, 1977. 

The lightning bolt...Zeus/Jupiter

  Parents...Rhea and Cronos (aka Saturn). Erase-RHEA-d and the lightning struck crown

 Henry raises a 'baby' (yet destroys it) this is yet another aspect associated with Saturn (cronos) and Ops (Rhea), that relates to Jupiter aka (lightning) Zeus.

 The struck 'Erase-rhea-d' crown...image (above) follows after 'another baby' usurps Henry.

Jupiter (Zeus) was the son of Saturn (Cronos). Saturn, the previous king of the gods, began to swallow the children that he had with his wife, Ops (Greek equivalent - Rhea), when they were born. This was because he had been warned that one of his children would overthrow him. 

Saturn swallowed the children Neptune, Pluto, Ceres, Juno and Vesta. When Ops (Rhea) realised that she was pregnant again, she had the baby secretly moved to Crete, giving a stone wrapped in swaddling-clothes (see baby, left) to Saturn for him to eat. Saturn believed he had eaten Jupiter (Zeus), therefore Jupiter (Zeus) was saved. Henry is clearly an avatar for Saturn, hence his 'baby mashing' activities...but the 'other baby' (Zeus) that followed, ultimately usurps him!  Mary X (the mother) is the Rhea character, she moves away and he's left with the baby.

 The opening titles heavy relate to celestial phenomena, Jack 'Tree of Life/Mulholland Dr' Fisk, as 'God-like' composite, pulling 'sparking levers' that seem to influence Henry. We see (superimposed) a planet pass over Henry's face/head and strange sperm-like creatures (a visual metaphor for babies) pass over his mouth, which opens/closes, effectively providing the 'swallowing' resonance...babies, swallowing and planets, geddit?

Where 'lightning' Jupiter (Zeus) and Saturn (Cronos) meet, Saturn 'flyby' in Red 'lightning' Room.

Aeschylus, Eumenides 334 ff (trans. Weir Smyth) (Greek tragedy C5th B.C.) :

"This revenge (Diane's suicide) upon the murderer (Diane, the murderer of Camilla) is our (the Erinyes/Irene) right, spun for us by the Moirai (Fates), the ones who bind the world."

Laura is 'tied and bound' (at the cabin) before her death, as is Ronette.

 

Moirai (origin of Moira, name) relate to the '3 fates'...Twin 'Lightning' Peaks was about the fate of Laura (Palm-er, palm/kaph, the wheel & the world cards, sycamore wheel)...

...her closest friend was Donna, who was played by Moira Kelly in the Twin Peaks film!

The Moira-i watched that the fate assigned to every being by eternal laws, might take its course without obstruction. Donna (Moira) will (generally) oversee Laura and her last 7 days.

 3 Fates (Moirai) of The Wheel, who measured, spun and cut, the thread of life:

 Lakhesis, whose name means "Apportioner of Lots" measured the thread of life. Atropos (or Aisa), whose name means "She who cannot be turned," (turning) cut the thread of life. Clotho was responsible for spinning the thread of human life. 

 

 Atropos 'cut' the thread of life...Atropos, root of atrophy, to wither/decay etc

Thread represented human life and her (Clotho) decisions represented the fate of all men in society.

 "The 'thread' will be 'torn' (cut) Mr Palmer, the thread will be torn." 

The one-armed man, is (precognitively) telling Leland/Bob (and Laura) that she will be killed (her thread will be torn).

 This is why he (precognitively) mentions her literal 'death mask'.

The stillness of her face, as her visage is revealed at the river's edge (see pilot), this occuring in the future.

The dispute between Bob (Leland is his current host) and Mike....

Leland/Bob is ultimately trying to possess Laura, this is his aim, he wants to taste through her mouth etc. This was never the arrangement though, Bob is acting outside his remit. The one-armed Man (aka Mike) wants Laura's (accumulated) pain and suffering (represented by the garmonbozia/creamed corn), which he receives upon her death (as per their original contract). Bob, however, has been "stealing" this garmonbozia (corn) from his superior (Mike), that is why there is a dispute between them. In the shot below, Mike makes his demand - and he receives what was deemed his.

The 'garmonbozia' is consumed by the Lodge dwelling Mike (one-armed man and dwarf combined = the full Mike), it is a form of consumable 'pain and suffering' that they exist on, likely evoking Ambrosia (food of the Gods).

Laura's accumulated "pain and suffering" - it is initially shown as "blood". 

It will be consumed as creamed corn (garmonbozia), see the pic - situated just below.

Twin Greeks...

 The 'Mount Olympus' comparison...'lightning and twin peaks'

Garmonbozia vs Ambrosia

Food of the Twin 'Mt' Peaks, black lodge and Food of the Greek 'Twin Peaked Mt' God, Zeus 

Garmonbozia...creamed (small cube-like, nectar/yellow) corn

 Calypso (music/dance, dancing man). The Ambrosia (Garmonbozia) Table, Green/Hermes Table(t). 
Rosy-red (a la the Rosi-crucians, rose cross, Bulwer-Lytton, again etc) & Hermes!

[19] Odyssey xii.62: "the trembling doves that carry ambrosia to Father Zeus."

 Yup...it all fits, Greek mythology, again!  Garmon-ambrosia...and lightning-bolt 'ambrosia scoffing' Zeus. 

 Hermes,  the 'as above, so below' green table(t) and Garmonbozia..."For-mica" (mica, rock: "let's rock"). 
'Spread a (green) table with ambrosia' (garmonbozia) 'set it by Hermes'.

The Log Lady makes an 'As above, so below' (from Hermes/tablet) speech in the 2nd series.

 

The 'Doves' (white angel wings) and 'the table' (the formica table) and via Mount 'Twin Peaks' (Olympus).  
This is one of Lynch's most positive and upbeat endings, in any of his work!

This is Laura's 'afterlife' redemption...her angel returned to save her. 

The ending musical (Requiem) piece that accompanies Laura's angel was performed by The 'Ambrosian' Singers. Cherubini's (Cherub) Requiem, part of a 7 movement death mass, for Laura and her last 7 days, we hear movement #7, 'Agnus Dei'. (Lamb of God, Lightning Struck Christ, the angels attending to Christ after the passion, death and resurrection). The Shining's 'Dies Irae' is part 3 of this mass. Remember, Kubrick used Lynch's Eraserhead, to 'set the mood' for his Shining film.

Cherubini's work is included in two short sequences,the first during the actual murder of Laura at the hands of her demon-possesed incestuous father, and the second as the end credits roll.

Calypso dancing...

MFAP (dwarf) is a composite 'ambrosia, table laying' Calypso (which is connected to red, rosy red and ambrosia) and a music/dance (dancing man). From Greek (Kalypso) which probably meant "she that conceals",  (kalypto) "to cover, to conceal". Note the 'concealing/covering' Venus statue, below.Yes, Calypso was female, but her 'aspects' directly apply to MFAP (dwarf) and his activity, other Calypso aspects, seem to connect to Laura. In Greek myth this was the name (Calypso) of the nymph who fell in love with Odysseus after he was shipwrecked on her island of Ogygia. When he refused to stay with her she detained him (Cooper trapped in lodge and recall the dialogue, "the good Dale is in the lodge and cannot leave") for seven years until Zeus ordered her to release him.

Sexually active (nymph) Laura, she that conceals (she's filled with secrets/sexual secret-ions, to secret: to conceal).
Calypso is also one of Saturn's small moons...note Saturn statue and fly-by via MFAP/dwarf.
Perhaps we should now also view Cooper (in one aspect) as being a composite type of Odysseus! 

The Glastonberry Grove 'portal' acts as a multiple reference to 'the wheel' (zodiac), the tree of life (and death) and the concept of the 'underworld' (under the sycamore).  The Twin Peaks 'river' likely acts (in one aspect) as the river Styx.  

The river that formed the boundary between 'earth' and the 'underworld'.  The bodies (of Laura, Theresa Banks) are both deposited in the river.  Laura's body floats in the river and washes up next to a large log (stick).

The new Twin Peaks (season 3), will supposedly air in 2017, mention should be made for Mark Frost's contribution too, something I tend to overlook.

 Erinyes (Moirai/Fates)...Mulholland drive, ending

 

 

In Greek mythology the Erinyes  "pursue, persecute"--sometimes referred to as "infernal goddesses" (Greek χθόνιαι θεαί)-- were female chthonic deities of vengeance. A formulaic oath in the Iliad invokes them as "those who beneath the earth punish whosoever has sworn a false oath". Burkert suggests they are "an embodiment of the act of self-cursing contained in the oath".

 The same concept, may well have been used at the climax of the Twin Peaks film.

  Leland (Bob), chasing down Laura & Ronette and in a similar manner.

Leland (Bob) will enter the underworld (under the sycamores) immediately after Laura's murder.

   Chthonic ( "in, under, or beneath the earth" pertaining to the Earth; earthy; subterranean) designates, or pertains to, deities or spirits of the underworld, especially in relation to Greek religion. The Greek word khthon is one of several for "earth"; it typically refers to the interior of the soil, rather than the living surface of the land (as Gaia or Ge does) or the land as territory (as khora (χώρα) does). It evokes at once abundance and the grave.

Diane haunted by 'demons' of the past, present and future (the key to Pandora's box)

We hear maniacal laughing (from the male) and we hear a young girl screaming, all at the same time...combined with the hammering at the door...this pushes her over the edge. The heavy knocking that comes from the door...is a sound that we're now very familiar with and throughout.

 Diane's death/suicide...the grave

 We close in on the bag and see the 'old jitterbug couple' (in miniature) escape from the box/bag.

Notice the 'can' ring-pull and brown paper bag containing the box. Something has been 'opened' (ring-pull). There is a small piece of meat there too.

The Erinyes are crones and, depending upon authors, described as having snakes for hair, dog's heads, coal black bodies, bat's wings, and blood-shot eyes. In their hands they carry brass-studded scourges, and their victims die in torment. 

Diane and the 'infernal goddesses' Erinyes (Irene) assigned by the 3 fates of the spinning wheel

We're not told the name of the old man, perhaps to emphasize the 'irene/erinyes' aspect

 

Infernal Goddesses...'infernal', of or relating to 'hell'.

 To the 'grave' (ending)

"This revenge (Diane's suicide) upon the murderer (Diane, the murderer of Camilla) is our (the Erinyes/Irene) right, spun for us by the Moirai (Fates), the ones who bind the world."

Suicide is described as a breech of fate by at least one Roman writer. 

Statius, Thebaid 10. 810 ff (trans. Mozley) (Roman epic C1st A.D.) :

"Of thy own will and pleasure slain [of one who committed suicide], ay, even against the will of Fata [Moira, Fate], thou hast forcest an entrance to the gloomy Manes (Shades)."

Infernal 'Erinyes' Goddesses...'infernal', of or relating to 'hell'.

The road to hell...the journey to Club 'revelation' Silencio

 Compare the ending of Mulholland Drive (vagrant/box) with Barker's Hellraiser. (vagrant/box)

The Winkies (Oz) vagrant...begins the process (via the bag) that leads to Diane's death.

Literally, raising Hell. 

So where is the 'Mulholland' Wheel?  (save the aspect 'spun' by the fates/moirai/erinyes)

Who dwelt under the sycamore (12 tree, zodiac wheel of fortune) in Twin Peaks?

Michael J (X) Anderson...Let's Rock/Roq-ue.

A little man who MOVES, to the music of the spheres (via the palms/kaph & palm-er), epileptic and spasmodic, to the rhythm of your fears.  Py/Pi...thagoras, music of the spheres, circles, planets. Cherry Pi/Py/Pie. Jupiter/Saturn meet, Saturn (sphere) will fly past when he rubs his palms.

 He gets more 'circular and hand/kaph' resonance from the 'Ring' (circles, rings etc)

Anderson as 'black lodge' MFAP (red dwarf/gnome), and Anderson as Mr Roque (Roquat the Red)
Mulholland Drive's "Winkie's/Winkies" - also being heavily tied to the Oz mythos.

He plays a very influential (yet short, no pun intended!) part in Mulholland Drive, not under the sycamore, but under Ryan Entertainment...and via the 'wheel-chair'.  

 He is key in tracking and following Diane and her story, almost like he is directing things from the beyond.  There he is in Carnivale (series) next to 'the ferris wheel' as (Carnivale co-owner) Samson Leo-nhardt (a double reference, Samson relates to the lion, Leonhardt means lion-heart) his right-hand man Jonesy, operates the Ferris Wheel, it is clearly one of the shows iconic images. Carnivale seems to have most of the 'wheel' elements that we've been discussing...from a blind man (blindfold) to a snake charmer (on the wheel), a tarot reader etc.  Some of the show's mythos relates to 'Masonic' lore.

Carnivale...and The Tarot (title sequence).  Note, click link to view via youtube.

It initially centres on 'The World' (card 21), which is symbolically very similar to the wheel card, both refer to 'cycles' and each has the 4 fixed signs in the corners of the card.

'Thoth Tarot' Crowley...may well be referenced in the series.  The title sequence (through the cards) @ 11-12 seconds, shows a sign marked with the word Crowley.  There is a Justin Crowe in the series (the antagonist) who has set-up a church and who seemingly has abilities via his 'will' (love under will, Crowley). Justin Crowe is from a 'Methodist' background, as Crowley, himself was. Justin Crowe also heavily connects to a Wilfred Talbot Smith...a likely reference to Wilfred Talbot Smith, a former high ranking member of Crowley's OTO.  OTO Smith was actually married to Helen Parsons, she joined him after John 'OTO' Whiteside Parsons left her.

The Sphinx & The Wheel...

Note, in the below clip...we clearly see the 'sphinx' that accompanies the wheel. Soon to be vanquished Crowe, is first 'deliberately' shown at the summit of the wheel, where the 'sphinx' rests, also this likely acts as a foreshadowing of his coming downfall, as he descends to the bottom. Also note that hands (palms) and clapping (from Ben), that exerts influence, while Crowe experiences difficulties on the wheel. Kaph and the wheel of fortune...the hand/palm.

The climax, via The Sphinx, The Wheel, The 'Chest' Tree, Saturn (sickle), Sacrifice...Carnivale

 Some of you were probably expecting this, but note also Subliminal Synchro Sphere's regular feature...The Lightning Struck Tree! Crowley/Crowe has even got a rendering of 'a tree' on his chest. You'll have to click the link...to watch via youtube!  

So, little Micky J Anderson, featured in 2 TV series (Carnivale/Twin Peaks), that both reference 'the tarot', particularly 'the wheel' and both series each ended with 'wheel' and 'lightning struck tree' scenes!  Admittedly, this is shown more directly in Carnivale, and in a more subliminal (Lynchian) way, in Twin Peaks.

 Thing is...Carnivale's Justin 'Clancy Brown' Crowley/Crowe, was in The Shawshank Redemption and we all know where that leads, don't we?

The lightning-struck tree...

 The 3(0)3 Shawshank 'Tree' was stuck by 'lightning' in 2011. 

 Clancy also featured in Lost...which featured the stricken 777 (lightning tree pathway)

Clancy 'The Wheel' Brown...even the Dharma logo is an 8-sided wheel-like symbol.

  Not forgetting the 'frozen wheel' from earlier

 Dharma-cakra or Dharma-chakra? (spine)

Wheels (not unlike circles) represent cosmic forces, power, creation and destruction, fate, time, eternity. And obviously, the most important item in this episode (Lost, There's No Place Like Home 2) is the frozen donkey wheel. The frozen donkey wheel, not surprisingly, bears a certain resemblance to the dharmacakra, also known as the Wheel of Dharma (33, the spine) or the Wheel of Law. It’s an ancient Buddhist symbol and it represents the 8-fold path to enlightenment.

 

Lost, 8-fold path via a wheel of (karmic law), just like the 'karmic' law (rising up and down, ascending/descending via fate) of the 8-spoked wheel of fortune!  Recall, the island is also Jacob's 'spinal' (ladder to heaven) Island (see previous posts)  and 'Dharma' relates to the spine and ascension/enlightenment.  Jacob, aka Mark 'Mulholland Drive' Pellegrino.

We saw Clancy's 'lightning tree' climax in Carnivale...and the Shawshank connection:

 Clancy, also 'memorably' featured in Highlander as Kurgan, the lightning struck tower man!

Probably his greatest performance. Highlander 'memorably' featured music from Queen.

Deactivate the lightning shield...Queen & (Lightning) Flash

 Flash...aaaahhhhaaa!!!  Ends with the Flash 'struck crown' :-)