Yesod's Scarab Machine
The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 09 Jan 2000
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Jim Jordan — 09 Jan 2000, 15:44

> 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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