Kao tao

 A man in Chengdu (Sichuan Province) pulled over his car to urinate and in doing so accidentally unearthed a Song Dynasty (960-1279) funerary statue. Usually found in male/female pairs by tombs, they are depicted kowtowing (from the Cantonese kao tao, a bow showing deep respect) to ward of evil spirits.


http://shanghaiist.com/2014/04/28/mans-roadside-pee-unearths-ancient-chinese-artifact.php

If There Was Ever an Omen...

Man crushed to death by falling crucifix dedicated to recently canonized John Paul II

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/new-saints/pope-john-paul-ii-crucifix-falls-crushes-man-death-n89546
Kind of reminds me of the lightning striking the Vatican after the abdication of the Pope last year.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21630874http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21630874

Ghost Jet

Second Sedna

Deeper than the orbit of demoted ex planet Pluto. 
Deeper than Eris, dwarf planet of chaos, strife and discord, dark daughter of Night and the son of Time.
But not as deep as Sedna. Iniut daughter thrown into the sea by her father. She held vainly to the side of the kayak but her father cuts off her fingers with an axe and down she goes, into the deep. 
She becomes the Sea Goddess. Ruler of the monsters of the deep.
2012 VP113 isnt as deep as that.
But its still deep.
2012 VP113 is anounced as a new dwarf planet on the 26th March 2014.

2nd April 2014 sand from sand storms in the Sahara fall on Southern England. I can taste sand when I breathe. I thought it was all the building sites. My back aches. My knees ache.
There's been a big earthquake in Chile.

http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2014/03261345-a-second-sedna-what-does-it-mean.html

Fire Tornado 14 March 2014

 Is there something there? In the smoke? Can you see it?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcUnE0tHcaI

Wormwood

It was in the first half of 2012 that I had been working an extremely early shift in a low paid job in Wormwood Street. The streets name had aroused my curiosity, being familiar as I was with the Book of Revelations, and this combined with the apocalyptic count down that seemed to be playing out on the calendar made the above find even more prophetic. A faded chalk spiral on the wall of 'All Hallows on the Wall'. This church was built on the old London Wall and had replaced a previous church that resided on the Roman city wall. It survived the apocalyptic fire of 1666 and was renown for it's many hermits.

Wormwood Street is called as such not after the biblical prophesy but after the Wormwood plant that used to grow on the London Wall. Wormwood (Artemisia absinthium) is one of the ingredients that is used to make Absinth and contains thujone which is psychoactive and can cause convulsions and hallucinations (as well as kidney failure) if taken in large enough amounts.

Nicholas Culpeper (1616 –  1654), a kind of proto New Age anti-establishment astrologer/healer, insisted that Wormwood was the ingredient that was vital in understanding his work The English Physitian, a guide to herbs as medicine. His entry on this plant was described as reading like a stream of consciousness, suggesting that he had taken it when writing. Culpeper set up a phamacy in a halfway house (liminal?) in Spitalfields, just down the road from Wormwood Street and outside of the wall that marked the extent of the City of London's authority. He treated patient for free, gathering herbs from the nearby countryside.

Culpeper  appears as the major protagonist of 'Doctor of Medicine', one of the stories in Rudyard Kipling's 'Puck of Pook's Hill'. (Puck being the king of the faeries, as featured in Shakespeare's A Midsummer's Night's Dream)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemisia_absinthium

Wormwood, αψίνθιον (apsinthion) or άψινθος (apsinthos) in Greek, is a star or angel.

"The third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star, blazing like a torch, fell from the sky on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water— the name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters turned bitter, and many people died from the waters that had become bitter." (Rev 8:10–11)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wormwood_%28Bible%29

Wormwood also links with the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster. 

The city name is the same as a local Ukrainian name for Artemisia vulgaris (mugwort or common wormwood), which is also чорнобиль "chornobyl"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_%28city%29#Name_origin

Wand, Wend, Wind

A 9000 year old 'magic wand' found in Tell Qarassa, Southern Syria (2007-2009). The site is from the Neolithic period and may have been some of the earliest farmers. Along with the 'wand', carved with human faces, were 30 headless skeletons.

"Earlier traditions of figurative art had avoided the detailed and naturalistic representation of the human face."

http://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/1.580267


wand (n.) c.1200, from Old Norse vondr "rod, switch," (cf. Gothic wandus "rod," Middle Swedish vander), from Proto-Germanic *wend- "to turn," see wind (v.)). The notion is of a bending, flexible stick. Cf. cognate Old Norse veggr, Old English wag "wall," Old Saxon, Dutch wand, Old High German want, German Wand "wall," originally "wickerwork for making walls," or "wall made of wattle-work" (an insight into early Germanic domestic architecture). Magic wand is attested from c.1400 and shows the etymological sense of "suppleness" already had been lost.


http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=wand&searchmode=none



Wand - Wind (as in 'to wind a watch', a spinning motion) - Wind (as in a winding wind, a tornado?)



switch (n.) 
1590s, "slender riding whip," probably from a Flemish or Low German word akin to Middle Dutch swijch "bough, twig," or swutsche, variant of Low German zwukse "long thin stick, switch," from Germanic base *swih- (cf. Old High German zwec "wooden peg," German Zweck "aim, design," originally "peg as a target," Zwick "wooden peg"), perhaps connected with PIE root *swei- (2) "to swing, bend, to turn." 



http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=switch&allowed_in_frame=0

Wand - Switch (as in to switch 'on' or 'off'')


A stick that switches 'on' and 'off' the wind?