It's what happens when someone loses a letter along the way but doesn't even care, much less bother to look around. The missing 23rd letter, found:
APATHY + W = PATHWAY
ש
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(The W key is the apostrophe when switched over to the Hebrew keyboard setting; among other things a single apostrophe represents a missing letter)
All things holy are certain and absolute... Amalek is doubt; baseless, irrational doubt that cools the fervor of holiness with nothing more than a cynical shrug." LINK
Last night I was thinking about the "Memory Lane" that your chessboard inspiration sent me down over in post 126:
As I had described in that post, etymologies of "neck" and "checkmate" had corresponded neatly with the old Boston map and the round board image, even down to the stone on the street named for the ferryman that cut across the neck back and forth.
The well is deep. Living waters...
The waymarking site has a good overview of the lore, and a few photos of the location from 2011, before the renovations that changed doors into windows. But at least the disembodied hand is obvious. If the perspective were a bit different, the writing on the wall could be read. The writing on the wall is Y'S.
I was reminded of the time when this pair of rejected and separated stones were reunited when they were placed in the foundation as the head of the corner of the Blackstone building that stands to this day. The date was April 13th, 1836, meaning that 2022 marks 186 years in its place of "The Hub". The descriptions on the waymarking link emphazes the location as "The Hub".
That reminds me of the pattern for transliterating English to Hebrew: a "u" pronounced as "uh" becomes an alef; thus "hub" is [האב], the same spelling as ha-av,"the father", even like in names followed by "Sr."
That's no stray fact because the very nickname and origin of the metaphorical meaning was taken from Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr's description of the activity in the state ("medina") house:
Meaning "center of interest or activity or importance" first recorded 1858 in writings of Oliver W. Holmes, and originally especially of Boston.
Boston State-House is the hub of the solar system. [Holmes, "Autocrat of the Breakfast Table"]
[E]verybody knows that Boston used to be called the Hub, meaning the hub of the universe. It may still be the hub, because the center of a wheel moves slowly. [J.P. Marquand, Life magazine, March 24, 1941]
As they say, "X" marks the spot" (but so does Y). Boy, René Decartes really knew how to roll.
186 years in its present address (9, aka WXYZ) as the supposed center zero point of the city known also as "New Jerusalem"; the "Old" Jerusalem having its foundation stone center of the world with that little entry hole into the Well of Souls.
186 would be a familiar numeric value to those who have studied the word for place, "makom" [מקום]. It's not just any old word or place:
Jewish sources often refer to God as "Place" (Makom); a usage which was prevalent before Philo's time. Several Greek writers who preceded Philo, in referring to the God of the Jews, used the term makkif ("containing"), which appears in Philo's third definition. Later midrashic texts (e.g., Gen. R. 8:10) state explicitly that God is "the place of the world and His world is not His place."
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/space-and-place-in-jewish-philosophy
On that point I got the idea (last night) to check the Hebrew date of 4/13/22 because I just never know..
I hadn't realized or recalled that there was a traditional date for the [sun]dial of "Aha!"s event, but there it is. The little vignette at Chabad jumped right out:
Hezekiah asked the prophet to pray on his behalf, but he refused, insisting that the Heavenly decree was final. The king asked the prophet to leave, saying that he had a tradition from his ancestors that one should never despair, even if a sharp sword is drawn across one's throat. The king prayed to G-d, and his prayer was accepted. G-d sent Isaiah to tell him that he would recover and that his life would be extended for fifteen years.
~ as depicted on the map and in those seemingly random, diverse etymologies. Not to mention the flood of "Mars" puns:
1. the name of the street, named for the ferryman who owned the property and let folks use the pathway
2. the place of first light on CONUS at Mars Hill, named for Hezekiah Mars (it's the location of the "Big Rock" at 37 Graves)
3. of the degrees on a dial involving time, because 10 degrees' rotation of the Earth is 40 minutes out of a 24-hour day, and a Mars-Day ("Sol") is also divided into 24 hours. But a day on Mars is 40 minutes longer than on Earth. That dial of "Ahas" keeps good time. It goes back 10 degrees (40 min) every day in order to keep time with man ♂. Amazing.
"Checkmate" -- somehow the meaning that "the king is amazed" got confused with "the king is dead."
And it just goes on, what with Hezekiah being famous for his water projects, as mentioned in 20 20 2:
2 Kings 20:20 And the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his might, and how he made a pool, and a conduit, and brought water into the city, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
"Big digs" involving the ponds, reservoirs, and aqueducts:
The origin of Boston is tied to water. Puritan settlers chose to settle in this area over others they considered like Salem and Charlestown because of its access to fresh water, acquiring the land from English settler William Blackstone.
Local Native Americans called the area the land with living fountains and the original settlers built their lives around the spring at todays Boston Common.
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It wasnt until Rev. William Blackstone persuaded pilgrims settled in Charlestownof which there were no wells and springsto move to the Shawmut Peninsula (now Boston) where people could get quality water from a spring that bubbled out of the ground. The Great Spring was located on current day Spring Lane near Government Center.
It wasnt until Rev. William Blackstone persuaded pilgrims settled in Charlestownof which there were no wells and springsto move to the Shawmut Peninsula (now Boston) where people could get quality water from a spring that bubbled out of the ground. The Great Spring was located on current day Spring Lane near Government Center.
Who could doubt that in those very days, ferryman Thomas Marshall would have kept busy going back and forth, back and forth.
Based on available photos which are dated 1965 and 1975, sometime between the two the Blackstone building had some major renovation work done on the foundation. It was at this time that the base was recarved, and for some unknown reason (union job?) the muller was set backwards such that the hole for the securing pin faced outward. As such it then looked like the ancient sun symbol, or a ball with its axis marked.
Just look at the time. Today is a Mars-Day on a number of levels. It's the day of the week named for Mars, and 11 is the ALT code for Mars (♂); i.e. every man, every male (XY).
Tuesday, January 11, 2022
9 Shevat, 5782Jewish History
"Moshiach's Torah Scroll" completed (1970)https://www.chabad.org/calendar/view/day.asp?tdate=1/11/2022
Presently awaiting word about Ingenuity's 19th flight.
Tomorrow's another day because as with those photos from 2011 compared to the present:
>>>The wheels of justice turn slowly, but grind exceedingly fine.<<<I understand he has had a difficult time keeping a governess there.
Why difficult, Reverend Mother?
The Lord will show you in His own good time.
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When the Lord closes a door. . .
. . .somewhere He opens a window.What will this day be like?
Paint. You no rush Michelangelo. You no rush Leonardo. You no rush Thomas Childs, or Thomas Marshall.
When in doubt, look it up.