So ... what was the real purpose of 'It's intervention in the assassination of King Eglon ... well ... we are just going to have to wait on that for a bit ...
Yesterday I went into the Maze District of Canyonlands National Park ... if you remember this is the epi-centre of continental movement .. an area that all for all intents and purposes remains unchanged ...
The area I traveled to was in Horseshoe Canyon ... it's open and accessible ... for the adventurous ... the trail is marked ... and it leads to three panels of rock art ... everyone traveling in here would stop at the last panel ... and then turn around and re-trace their steps ...leaving before dark... and that's a damn good thing ...
If you draw a straight line between Moab and the Upheaval Dome and then extend that line SW it hits Horseshoe Canyon where the location of the great gallery is ... the gallery is the greatest collection of pictographs in the world ...
People have mused over this rock art since it was discovered ... the figures are life size and the entities portrayed are limbless having insect like eyes and form ... there is one panel separated from the others that seems to have a regal figure in the company of others ... it has been named, 'Great Ghost and Attendants' ...
The 'Great Ghost' is 7 feet tall ... 4 of the attendants are very close .. 2 are removed and shorter ... as if they are more distant and coming to the Great Ghost ... well ... that is probably the key to the whole thing ... if I am wrong I will freeze to death ... I'll never find my way out of the canyon ... at 5:30 the sunlight has just about gone ,,, by 6:00 PM it is dusk ... by 6:30 PM it is dark and the Milky Way is clearly visible it is so bloody dark ...
I take the flashlight out of my pack ... I pull down the rebar-rope barrier and scramble up to the 'Great Ghost' panel ... I shine the flashlight on the Great Ghost ... I flick the light off and on ... and then I start painting with my flashlight ... I paint 2x2=4 ... then 4x4=16 ... just using the flashlight like a paintbrush ... then 16x16=256 ... then 256x256 =65536 ... I then start to paint the word Moab ... not as a M-O-A-B ... but in Canaanite hieroglyphs ... 3 squiggly lines ... a feather .. a foot ...
I get halfway through the spelling ... the canyon wall shimmers and then 2D becomes 3D ... 'It' is standing there ... with 4 attendants close at hand ... and I recognize them all ... John Lennon reaches out his hand and grabs me by the shoulder ... 'How's Paul ....'
To quote from verse 65536 of the Krome Koan,
' ... how can you tell when you are out of invisible ink ...'
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