The twilight language explores hidden meanings and synchromystic connections via onomatology (study of names) and toponymy (study of place names). This blog further investigates "name games" and "number coincidences" found in news and history. Examinations are also found in my book The Copycat Effect (NY: Simon and Schuster, 2004).
The news of an assassination in Japan must not be viewed in a void. It is part of our violent times.
As St. John's Day was passing into June 25, 2022, a gay bar in Oslo, Norway was the site of a shooting. Two people were killed and twenty-one people were wounded in a mass shooting in Oslo, Norway. Police are treating the incident as an "act of Islamistterrorism" targeting the Oslo LGBTQ pride event. The suspect is identified as 42-year-old Norwegian Iranian Zaniar Matapour, who moved from Iran to Norway in 1991 when he was 12.
Then on the 4th of July 2022, in Highland Park, Illinois, a mass sniper incident occurred. Highland Park formerly was known as St. John's. St. John's Avenue is a major thoroughfare.
On July 4, 2022, a mass shooting took place during an Independence Day parade in Highland Park, Illinois, United States. The shooting occurred at 10:14a.m. CDT (UTC−05:00), roughly 15 minutes after the parade had started. Seven people were fatally shot, and 46 others were wounded by gunfire or injured in the ensuing panic. Authorities apprehended Robert Eugene Crimo III eight hours after the shooting and charged him the next day with seven counts of first-degree murder.
Seven people were killed and 46 others were injured during the attack. Five of the victims—all adults—died at the scene and two died at the hospital.
Crimo left an extensive social media trail of numerological signs, symbols, and clippings related to his Trump rally appearances, neo-Nazi leanings, and obsession with Jack Ruby, Lee Harvey Oswald, and the assassination of John F. Kennedy ("St. John" to some).
Crimo: 4 (Fourth of) 7 (July)
Name Game: Uvaldo/Uvale
HighlandPark/Parkland High/Parkland Hospital
Crimo was obsessed with Jack Ruby killing LHO. Both JFK and LHO taken to Parkland Hospital. To die.
On January 3, 1967, Lee Harvey Oswald assassin Jack Ruby died at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, Texas, the same hospital where Oswald died and where President John F. Kennedy had been pronounced dead following his assassination in 1963.
Georgia Guidestones bombed on July 6, 2022. They are 7 miles down Georgia 77. Destroyed and then down.
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Crimo was a Trump supporter and was photographed at Trump rallies. Was he also stalking Trump?
Next up, political assassinations? The wait was short.
Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe
Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe dies at 67 after assassination in Nara, Japan.
An assassination of an Abe in Japan.
On Friday, July 8, 2022, Japan time.
Police said that the suspect Tetsuya Yamagami, 41, admitted he thought the ex-prime minister was connected to a religious organization he has a grudge with.
The alleged killer was a Nara resident and had worked at Japan’s Maritime Self-Defence Forces for three years, but now appeared to be unemployed, cops said.
Best wishes to Loren Coleman for a speedy recovery. Loren, our good friend here in the synchromystic community, suffered a bout of aphasia from a stroke a few days ago on 9/11 and it triggered me to post this. Here.
Kyle McLeod, 15
Angelique Ramirez
Chris Stone, 17,
Jared Conard Black, 17
Kimberly Jessica Vaughan
Sabika Sheikh, 17, a Pakistan exchange student
Cynthia Tisdale, substitute teacher at Santa Fe High School; her husband is a police detective in League City, Texas.
Ann Perkins, substitute teacher at Santa Fe High School.
Shana Fisher, 16, reportedly the first person killed; the shooter stalked her and she refused his romantic advances.
Christian “Riley” Garcia, 15
Thirteen are wounded.
Seventeen-year-old Dimitrios Pagourtzis has been identified as the suspected shooter.
Were any of the killed or wounded at the 4.20.2018 #NeverAgain walkout at Santa Fe High School?
On May 18, 2018, 5.18.18, a new film opened, Deadpool 2.
Picture of Santa Fe Shooter and Russell from Deadpool 2. Russell wants to burn down an orphanage where he was abused in the movie. ~ S. L.
On the 5.18.18 posting, I mentioned the Bath School disaster, sometimes known as the Bath School massacre, which happened on May 18, 1927, in Bath Township, Michigan. That event killed 38 elementary schoolchildren and six adults and injured at least 58 other people.
Other past events:
May 18th is a day associated with rock'n roll suicides. Ian Curtis of Joy Division hanged himself on May 18th 1980. And Chris Cornell of Soundgarden hanged himself on this day last year. ~ L.
The following from T. M. was also sent to me:
As I type this comment, the royal wedding is taking place and leads to my first observation about the latest HS massacre compared to the previous one at Parkland.
The Parkland shooting took place on Feb 14, St. Valentine’s Day, when innocent young love is celebrated. The Santa Fe shooting took place less than a full day before the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, another celebration of young innocent love.
The day before the Santa Fe shooting, I had prepared a comment about the synchro-mystical history of David Hogg’s name, looking back to its origin 7 or 8 centuries ago in the Scottish clan called Hog, also spelled Hogg. I wasn’t sure where exactly to place it as a comment so I let it sit. Now I realize it is to go right here.
A webspage shows the Hog/Hogg crest.
Notice the Hog clan motto in Latin: Dat Gloria Vires = “Fame gives strength”
In Church Latin, Gloria is usually translated as “glory” a positive attribute given to God. But in secular classical Latin, besides the positive meanings of “glory, fame, renown”, Gloria can also go negative and mean “ambition, vainglory, boasting.”
So today, David Hogg, whose fame — be it positive renown or negative narcissism — was based entirely on being a Parkland shooting survivor, faces another HS shooting. How will his “glory” now give strength to a new group of student survivors? Or must his glory fade according to another Latin motto that drops like the proverbial “other shoe” here: Sic Transit Gloria Mundi = “So passes the glory of the world” or more tersely: “Fame is fleeting.”
By "coincidence," on Thursday, May 17, 2018, miles from the Santa Fe High School, a UH-60A, a variant of a Black Hawk helicopter dropped an ammo box accidentally through the roof of the Parkland Elementary School of El Paso, Texas. The Parkland HS, Florida, of course, was the location of the school shooting of February 14, 2018.
Thanassis Vembos writes:
I read with much interest your thoughts about the recent Santa Fe shooting in Twilight Language.
Here are some thoughts of mine regarding the surname of the killer.
The surname of the shooter is Pagourtzis, meaning “he of the pagouri”. Pagouri means “flask” or “canteen”, a vessel containing (usually) water.
The modern Greek word pagouri most possibly comes from the ancient Greek word pagouros (=crab) + oura (=tail), possibly because of the initial shape of the canteen.
Interestingly the ancient Greek word survives in zoology: The Paguridae are a family of hermit crabs of the order Decapoda.
This is the specific building of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School that came under attack. The community has decided to tear down the building.
"Sometimes, in order to see the light, you have to risk the dark." ~ Minority Report
Seventeen fatalities.
Alyssa Alhadeff, 14
Scott Beigel, 35
Martin Duque, 14
Nicholas Dworet, 17
Aaron Feis, 37
Jaime Guttenberg, 14
Chris Hixon, 49
Luke Hoyer, 15
Cara Loughran, 14
Gina Montalto, 14
Joaquin Oliver, 17
Alaina Petty, 14
Meadow Pollack, 18
Helena Ramsay, 17
Alex Schachter, 14
Carmen Schentrup, 16
Peter Wang, 15
Victims/Names
Guttenberg German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): habitational name from any of various places, for example in Bavaria, called Guttenberg, from the weak dative case (originally used after a preposition and article) of Old High German guot ‘good’ + berg ‘mountain’, ‘hill’. The shortening of the vowel in the first syllable is a feature found in various dialects of German. Jewish (Ashkenazic): ornamental name composed of German gut ‘good’ + Berg ‘mountain’, ‘hill’.
Hixon
English surname Hixon means "son of Hick". Hick was a pet name for Richard. The Germanic first or given name Richard derives from German, French, and English "ric" (ruler, leader, king, powerful) and "hard" (strong, brave, hardy), and it therefore means "strong in rule."
Nicholas = English and Dutch: from the personal name (Greek Nikolaos, from nikān "to conquer" + laos "people"). Forms with -ch- are due to hypercorrection.
Comment maker M.R. passes this along (with additions by me):
- Hixon, the surname of one of the victims, has another association with death: It's the name of a town in England famous for a rail crash [January 6, 1968] with 11 deaths and 45 people injured. - Schachter [from Yiddish (Ashkenazic) shochet, "to slaughter"],the surname of another victim, is the same as the surname of psychologist Stanley Schachter, whose most famous book is When Prophecy Fails*... intriguing.
*When Prophecy Fails, 1964, was a study of a small UFO religion in Chicago called the Seekers that believed in an imminent apocalypse and its coping mechanisms after the event did not occur.
- The names of the victims also seem to point to the movie Jeremiah Johnson [1972]. It was directed by Sydney Pollack**, and Pollack*** is the surname of a victim, and the name of the actor that played the main Indian character was Joaquin Martinez, and both Joaquin and Martin are first names of victims.
**Sydney Pollack was born in Lafayette, Indiana (see Fayette Factor), to a family of Russian Jewish immigrants. As an Ashkenazic name, the reference is to a person of Hebrew origin from Poland or from some other Slavonic speaking region.
***Meadow Pollack was buried at the Star of David Memorial Gardens on Friday, February 16, 2018.
Five of the seventeen victims were Jewish - Jamie Guttenberg, Alyssa Alhadeff, Alex Schachter, Meadow Pollack — and teacher Scott Beigel.
In one anti-Semitic tirade, Cruz referenced his biological mother, saying: “My real mom was a Jew. I am glad I never met her,” CNN said.
Dollar Store, Uber, Walmart, Subway, and McDonalds.
Nikolas Cruz's journey on Valentine's Day, to and from the Parkland high school killing of 17 individuals, sounds like someone was connecting the dots to a bunch of Super Bowl commercials. But it merely is as commonplace as the nature of school shootings in 2018.
Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel told reporters that the suspected shooter, 19-year-old (former Parkland student and Dollar Store employee) Nikolas Cruz, arrived at Marjory (Stoneman) Douglas High School via Uber at 2:19pm local time (Eastern) on Wednesday (February 14, 2018). The Uber driver is not implicated at this time, the sheriff said.
From there, the former Marjory Douglas student entered the building, carrying a legally purchased AR-15 rifle and multiple magazines. He began spraying bullets into nearby classrooms, occasionally returning to certain rooms to hit them again.
In total, police say Mr Cruz killed 17 students and staff and injured 14.
Less than 40 minutes after he began his rampage, Mr Israel said, Mr Cruz dropped his rifle and backpack and fled the school on foot, blending in with the students running for their lives from the building.
The suspect entered a Subway inside a Walmart nearby and purchased a drink, Mr Israel said. He then went to a McDonalds and sat for several minutes. He was eventually detained in a residential area two miles from the school at 3:41pm (Eastern). Source.
As it happens, the logo of the Philadelphia Eagles, who won the Super Bowl LII, is a mirror of the Eagles logo of the Parkland high school.
"The falling eagle snych is uncanny, not just the eagle logo of the school with the Philly Eagles, but the fact that it is in both cases a diving/falling eagle. Also the synch can be taken further, with the whole 'lost Israel' thing [see below]. Israel lost an f-16 eagle fighter jet returning from a mission over Syria (in response to an Iranian drone sent over Israel via Syria). This happened just last week (Feb 10, 2018). It is the first time Israel has lost a fighter jet in nearly 36 years! (Last time was in 1982 during the Lebanon War.) In other words Israel lost an eagle 'that fell out of the sky,' so to speak, (it crashed in Israel, and the pilots survived, they ejected). A falling eagle. A very very rare military incident for Israel, that has changed the strategic dynamics between Israel and the Syria-Iran-Hezbollah axis, as tensions continue to mount and with it fears of war." - From comment maker Lawrence.
"Synchromysticism: The art of realizing meaningful coincidence in the seemingly mundane with mystical or esoteric significance." ~ Jake Kotze, The Brave New World Order, August 18, 2006.
There are so many syncs with this event, it appears to be filled with Jungian coincidences on steroids.
Parkland Syncs
The location of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School is Parkland, Florida.
The immediate stream-of-consciousness association of Parkland is to Parkland Hospital in Dallas, Texas, where John F. Kennedy was taken after he was assassinated on November 22, 1963.
The JFK assassination surfaces again as another sync due to the name of the Parkland shooter, Nikolas Cruz. This one was about Ted Cruz and JFK.
The National Enquirer, a tabloid with a tabloid mentality, published on May 2, 2016, a "World Exclusive Investigation," in which they tied a famed incident running up to the John F. Kennedy assassination to Ted Cruz. The claim is that Ted Cruz's father, Rafael Cruz, was photographed with Lee Harvey Oswald in New Orleans, handing out "Fair Play for Cuba" leaflets. The Trump campaign repeated the claim, as if it was true. (See more here.)
“It's a mystery! It's a mystery wrapped in a riddle inside an enigma! The fuckin' shooters don't even know! Don't you get it?” ~ David Ferrie (character) in JFK, 1991, Oliver Stone, Director.
More Cruz Syncs
On February 14, 2018, the day that Nikolas Cruz shot and killed 17 people at the Stoneman Douglas High School, a regularly scheduled rerun of NYPD Blue occurred. It was called "Lost Israel."
The Parkland, Florida, shooting involved an outspoken Jewish law enforcement individual, Sheriff Scott Israel, as the spokesperson concerning the deaths and arrest of Cruz.
"The Parkland shooting itself has a further Israel connection, aside from the police chief Scott Israel. That is Parkland has a sizeable Jewish population. Five of the seventeen dead in this Valentine Day massacre are Jewish (four students and one teacher), which as far as a I know is the highest number of Jewish people killed in a mass shooting tragedy in the USA." ~ Lawrence.
As mentioned in my earlier essay, Cruz means "cross."
Parkland, Florida. February 14, 2018.
This year's Valentine's Day, February 14, 2018, fell on Ash Wednesday. Several eyewitnesses interviewed on television appeared with an ash cross on their forehead.
Nikolas de Jesus Cruz's Instragram profile photo.
For information on the Parkland shooting (including more name game and NIU anniversary info), see here.
Stoneman = Mason
"David Bowie's last song Valentine's Day was meant to be from the perspective of a school shooter. So days after the 'Star Man' was put into orbit by Tesla we have the 'Stone Man' massacre." ~ Daniel Sale.
"Valentine's Day" is a song by English rock musician David Bowie, the fourth single from his 24th studio album The Next Day. The single was released on August 19, 2013. This was to be David Bowie's last 7 inch single issued from a new album in his lifetime. The lyrics are based on the psychology of a shooter.
h/t Jason Barrera.
Valentine's Day ~ David Bowie
Valentine told me who's to go
Feelings he treasured most of all
The teachers and the football stars
It's in his tiny face
It's in his scrawny hands
Valentine sold his soul
He's got something to say
It's Valentine's day
The rhythm of the crowd
Benny and Judy down
Valentine sees it all
He's got something to say
It's Valentine's day
Valentine told me how he feels
If all the world were under his heels
Or stumbling through the mall
It's in his tiny face
It's in his scrawny hands
Valentine knows it all
He's got something to say
It's Valentine's day
Valentine, Valentine
Valentine, Valentine
It's in his scrawny hands
It's in his icy heart
It's happening today
Valentine, Valentine
It's in his scrawny hands
It's in his icy heart
It's happening today
Valentine, Valentine
Songwriters: Peter Robert Jones / Caroline Frances Kennedy-Mccracken / Barry John Joseph Palmer
