Subject: Re: (urth) Yesod's Scarab Machine

From: Jim Jordan <jbjordan at gnt.net>
Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2000 15:44:20 +0000

At 10:32 PM 4/30/98 EDT, you wrote:
>
>Friends,
>
>Could someone tell me what the scarab machine in Yesod does? Thanks,
>
>Christopher R. Culver <crculver at aol.com>

Did this ever get answered? In ancient Egypt, the scarab or dung-beetle
pushes along a ball of dung, which symbolizes the sun. The Great Scarab
pushes the sun along. Thus, in the great machine, the scarabs are moving
the stars in their courses.

Nutria

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