Golinda and Gallopatrot find the answer to 'Who are you?'

It had been years since Bob’s death. He had been part of the Great Turning of the 1960s, riding the peak of cultural change post WWII. Bob was one of those individuals who were capable of opening the intellectual doors of perception, and exploring what it meant to be a functionally responsible human. He deeply respected the structure of past traditions without becoming imprisoned by them. As a man of some renown in the world of physics, he had freely shared his knowledge and ideas with his colleagues, and with Kat. Moreover, he had offered Kat experiences beyond her imagination.

Kat remembered just such an instance, an outing the pair had enjoyed.

He was in the early stages of brain cancer, and both were committed to enjoying the present instead of worrying about the future. As chance would have it, they had planned a trip to England where they visited the Bodleian Libraries in Oxford to see the Illuminated manuscripts from the Renaissance.

Afterwards, they reflected on some of the hidden satirical gems contained in the books.

“I loved the half-dragon males and females, and the cat that played a lute,” said Kat.

“And I liked the Owl,” Bob indicated. “It was thanks to the 300 years of Medici rule during the Renaissance that artists could express their political perceptions through depictions of owls wearing the bishops' mitre, or attentively listening to a magpie, or having absurd, grotesque interactions with the monkeys.” Bob had a memory like a sponge.

Kat mused. “We each like our familiar character! The Owl and the Pussycat see eye to eye." Kat’s knowledge in biology spewed forth as she added, "They are both silent hunters who navigate in the dark. Both are basically colour-blind, and have a sixth sense, the ability to see ultraviolet light.”

Bob nodded, “Interesting. In myth, cats and owls are associated with periods of change associated with death, mourning and renewal. They were both loved and abhorred.”

He looked up at Kat over his spectacles, looking a bit like Santa Claus. With the accent of a man from the continent, mixed with a little of the irony of Jack Daniels, distilled in a dry county, he said, “There are many things we will not understand in our lifetime. We are destined to die. Mortality is the ultimate tragedy, yet we always try to understand truth that redefines itself in reappearing patterns. The story of the owl and the pussycat is as old as Horus.

“Egyptians had wonderful myths that explain the astronomical changes of the seasons. Horus dies at the ecliptic of winter and becomes Osiris the bull, who is then resurrected into the sun god Ra, the hawk-headed owl. Ra stands beside his great Mau cat, Bastet, who defeated the serpent of chaos Apopis, in the underworld. Bastet was the goddess of ointment, who worked with Anubis the jackal god of embalming. They put Osiris together after he had been cut to pieces and preserved his viscera in a canopic jar for the afterlife.”

Kat added, “Owls and cats are spirit animals in the “Harry Potter” series, too. Harry had a snowy owl, then inherited the Barn Owl of Sirius Black. Hermione’s cat, Crookshanks held a genius spirit that could see suspicious spirit characters.”

Bob was laughing as he went to make tea.

Kat continued, “Cats and owls communicate in similar ways. The cat can meow, hiss, purr, trill, spit, yowl and howl, snarl and growl, grunt, screech or chatter. Owls have species-specific calls. The Barred Owl can cluck like a chicken. The Boreal and Burrowing Owl chime and squeal. Elf Owls have a tremulous staccato call and the Ferruginous Pygmy Owls whoop. The Flammulated Owl has penetrating fiery whispers. The Great Grey and Great Horned and Long Ears call out a resounding ‘Who’ that the Short Ears say with a squeal, screech and bark; and which the Spotted Owls growl. The Snowy Owl chuckles ‘Who’ through the winter winds. The Northern Hawk has a shrill whistle that instills fear. The Barn Owl, who wears a heart on its face, can hiss or purr, and often screeches the Banshee’s mournful wail as an omen of death."

“Do tell, oh Pussy my love, what kind of Owl am I?” chuckled Bob.

Kat smiled. The memory of this other life now drew her into her 'other world' of magical realism where she had found a way to try to understand the philosophy of physics that examines the theory of everything. Her fairy tale world connected science to the foundations that run through myths.

Golinda and Gallopatrot were one of the possibilities that follow the zero-one-infinity rule. In a world of all-or-none possibilities, once you accept there is a placeholder value that follows from a point of origin, you have to accept all values.

Kat set off on a journey of the pilgrim soul, determined to find how Golinda and Gallopatrot evolved from the Owl and the Pussycat.

Once upon a time, Golinda and Gallopatrot were on the Sea mouse, Aphrodite. The evening was calm and clear. With the noise subdued, Gallopatrot upped the quality of the Songs of the Universe. As he sang to a small guitar by the light of the moon, the message carried through the soundscape beyond consciousness. The song was a by-product of what he had learned from the Wizard, a wise old Owl if ever there was one.

‘Who are you?” the song began. “Spawn of giant reptilian ancestors who have left their mark in the minds of men, myth and memory, follow the path of the lightening flash along fractal coastal shores through sea and sky. Prepare to flow during seasons of flood foretold by stars that regulate time. As fresh waters marry the salts of drought, the force of nature will regenerate the who that you were, are and will be.”

Golinda had been taught by the Fairy Godmother who had learned the songs of the Wizard as an adult that had taught her lessons that she had missed in her youth. She, in turn, had taught the songs to the child, who was to create the world longed-for and predicted as possible.

Gallopatrot continued singing, “The wise old owl sat in the oak, the more he saw the less he spoke, the less he spoke the more he heard. Why can't we be like that wise old bird.”

Golinda listened to the song that resonated from the heart and belly of the dragon, but her mind was elsewhere.

Princess Golinda was trained as the river-keeper for the Institute for Change. Her initiation required that she obtain and get under the skin of the dragon. The thought disturbed and alarmed her. She knew the stories of those who slay the dragon.Golinda looked for the message of the song in the silent images of her map.

They were sailing along the coasts where Tamarisk grew. Tamarisk, known as salt cedar, is often rendered as Oak in English translations. The Wizard had shared the story of Gilgamesh, the first myth ever written. In order to obtain fame, Gilgamesh went to the Tamarisk cedar forests to slay the monster Humbaba, who protected the cedars. He was warned against the adventure. His goddess mother Ninsun, saddened by his quest, bathed in the hardy feathery, pale pink Tamarisk flowers. Gilgamesh lost his dear friend Enkidu because of that adventure but did, eventually, learn the meaning of love and compassion and what it means to be human.

The map showed the caves in the ‘Valley of Tamarisks’. Here, at the junction where the ocean and the Orantes River meet, Khadir had placed his mark. The Orantes is a sacred perennial water source used for irrigation.

El’Khadir, the Vedic sage, met with the prophets Elias and Moses at the fountain of life in the desert. On the equinox, they saw the head of the Hindu dragon Rahu, the northern pole of the Moon’s nodal axis devour the Sun; while Ketu, the tail of the dragon, devoured the Moon as it sets at the southern node. The nodes change Zodiac locations every 18 months, completing the transit of all 12 Zodiac signs after 18 years, thus creating the serpent Oroborus that bites its tail when heaven and Earth intersect at the same point.

On the tenth day after the first lunar month, under the sign of Pisces, flowers and herbs sprang up in Khadir’s footsteps. The waxing crescent moon and the sun on the same side of earth created harmonics that resulted in extreme low tides and wind surges that cleared the water at the spring equinox. This knowledge allowed Noah to leave the Ark, and Moses to cross the Red Sea.

Moses first saw a salted fish come back to life when it was touched by the waters of life. To this day, when it rains, the salt water African lung fish and the bowfin mudfish, living fossils that have remained unchanged for 400 million years, come alive after surviving periods of drought in a state of estivation for up to five years

Salt cedar has lateral stem shoots, called rudders, growing from its base. They submerge and produce roots and flowers, making Tamarisk a dangerous invasive species because it depletes ground water. Tamarisk populations are under the biological control of the Tamarisk beetle, a type of Scarab, respected in Egyptian myth as a symbol of transformation, immortality and resurrection.

The beetle eggs develop into weevil worm larvae of the mealy bug beetle then an adult. The Scarab transmutes the nano-particulates from Tamarisk by interacting with bacteria and fungi. Illustrations in the Dead Sea Scrolls suggest the beetles were slain by Egyptians to protect against devastation of the crops.

The Tamarisk larva is called a serpent, crocodile or the dragon. Osiris is associated with a green-horned heron-like crocodile/bird/dragon named Bennu. It was in the valley of salt cedar that Osiris was born in the desert at the entrance to the underworld in soil blackened by alluvial silt that moved to the great Tamarisk tree. It is in this valley that Osiris’ coffin rests.

Bennu, the firebird considered the Phoenix, symbolizes harmony and rebirth and the colour red. The phoenix or vermilion firebird is said to arise after the phoenix burns and returns as a worm from the ashes. In Greek myth, the worm can become the phoenix that is either mortal enemy or blissful lover of the dragon.

Many heroes have a karmic errand to slay the dragon. Daniel fought Bel the storm dragon whose chaos brought floods. Vritra, the serpent who personifies drought, was killed by Indra of the Rig Veda. The dragon was slain by Perseus when he rescued Andromeda; and by Hercules who rescued Hesione; as well as the Iranian magician Sorush; the Armenian St. Sarkis the Warrior; and St. George who slayed the dragon who demanded the daily sacrifice of a beautiful maiden. St. George is associated with El’Khadir, the Vedic sage.

Khadir wore green as do the farmers - often known as Green men - who re-enact the battle of Gilles de Chine, with a legendary dragon in Mons, Belgium. De Chin, a knight who wore the red cross of the first crusades, became a hermit in Scotland. He is associated with the Freemasons and Rosicrucians, established by Valentin Andrea, who wrote “The Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz” (1616) with the haunting threat, “Arcana Publicata Vilescunt”, roughly translated as “secret knowledge when published is made profane.”

The Rosicrucians founded the first Freemason lodge in 1721 in Mons, Belgium. The wild ones, called Chin chin or Gilles chase the dragon demon called Doudou that terrorizes children and delights crowds, then is killed. Doudou is translated as anything from a beloved stuffed animal to the dragon that protects the qi, or life force energy. The dragon that guards treasures is considered to be a scapegoat blamed for problems associated with change.

Dragons are called Wyrmes, Worms, orms, snakes, or serpents. In Daoist lore, worm spirits can enter the belly, heart and head at birth, feed on the host and alter consciousness. Stone, water and blood worms are thought to wander as ghosts that hold the soul of a person trying to get home, hungry to complete unfinished business, and driven by worldly attachments.

Golinda was to reprogram the script, so the hungry ghost could be nourished. Dragons are often considered evil. Their slow, gradual, spiralling chthonic behaviour deeply embeds, going undercover by secret insidious means. It is an unhealthy parasite that removes treasures. Spies are trained to dangle some sought- after characteristic, like a worm on a hook to obtain trust. They capture secrets and exert their influence in the direction of change. A worm in a computer system is a form of malware that exploits vulnerabilities and spreads.

Golinda had been trained to use her third eye to alter the pattern of any response to a life trauma that replays and recreates the fear that drives a dismal reality. In a mystical commentary of successive images, seen in rapid motion of light in her mind’s eye, Golinda accepted being Queen of the Buckyball hive. She was the ungreen. She held the priestly magenta Star Fire that brought fertility. The colour magenta is perceived but does not exist on the colour spectrum. Known as the Greek Hierodulai, the Sacred Women were highly venerated beloved ones, known to wear red, who ferociously protect the seeds and predict when to plant them. Golinda accepted the responsibility of nurturing the maggot in her hive mind.

She applied her magnetic charm to co-ordinate the stabilization energy needed to protect the dragon. She was to balance the message inscribed in the primal lizard limbic brain. Golinda was a molecular emitter, tethered to optical storage memory. Capable of forming WORM (write once read many) files with a lag that results in residual magnetism, she could induce change as a super-conductor, in ways that defy logic.

Worms have many useful functions. The Tamarisk beetle larvae accelerate the removal of anthracene toxins that accumulate in the Tamarisk tree. Tamarisk contains Alizarin, the red dye used on the cross of the crusaders. Dye from the Tamarisk of the salt regions combined with an unknown plant, creates the warm green fabrics known to those who live in the area.

Meetings in the town of Worms Germany - originally named as a settlement in a watery area where trade routes intersected - hosted meetings to settle power struggles. The Concordat and the Diet of Worms were important in reducing power struggles between the Holy Roman Emperor and the Pope. The Song of the Nibelungenlied, that warned of obtaining treasures tainted with greed and corruption, was set in Worms. From the vineyards of Worms comes the Beloved Lady's milk, Liebfraumilch wine.

Golinda had been taught to look for the connections called love, by the Fairy Godmother, who was born on the Pascal worm moon. Golinda herself had seen the eclipse of the rare blue blood Pascal Super-worm moon that happens once every 150 years and marks global shifts. It occurred in 2018, when snow fell in the Sahara desert literally marking the path of the sands of time. That year the 570 million year old ‘Dickinsonia’, the oldest animal ancestor known to man, was discovered by a miner, who knew the treasures found by digging. Dickinsonia had affinities to mushroom, lichenized-fungi and actinobacterium with mycelia, capable of quorum sensing and inducing simultaneous changes in the entire population.

Golinda was the navigator of an evolved version of the Dickinsonia, the Sea Mouse Aphrodite moved by stiff bristle-like setae. She was the sacred feminine in charge of navigating the Sea Mouse using the stiff bristle-like setae. She needed Gallopatrot to uniquely respond to unfamiliar environments. Gallopatrot was designed as a tiller, able to negotiate fractal waves that repeat as often as in a painting of Kanagawa Japan. The dragon was essential for steering.

Golinda depended on Gallopatrot who was instinctively wired to use the senses to recognize sights and smells that were dangerous in the past. She saw through Gallopatrot’s eyes, an Owl telescope, as powerful as that used in the Search for Extraterrestrial intelligence -SETI- to look at stars in the past. Seti was once the pharaoh of the New Kingdom of Egypt who went through the Nubian desert wastelands, riding on both celestial and river dragons. He was a follower of Set, the god of storms and chaos and a totem for the natural animal or ‘sha’ intelligence. Golinda belonged to a family of sha man. Some called her a sham man and others a She Aman or a Sheman, known to the Jewish as an oil.

As one of the masterless unique ones who belong to no order and have no human guide, Golinda needed Gallopatrot, her dragon, to navigate outside of the two dimensional matrix of her map. Gallopatrot held instincts, with senses able to uniquely react to danger from past environments that originated from the saurian ancestors.

Golinda needed to balance the mind, heart and gut communication with her dragon. Gallopatrot was not a monster that must be overcome, but a force of beauty. The fire-breathing dragon transformed through interactions of quantum entanglement between electron clouds of nucleic acids in DNA, bacteria, light and other life forms derived from primitive forces that date back 3.8 billion years when the universe began and was able harness their power.

Thomas Huxley suggests humans are automatons, a mechanical machine. Aldous, his grandson, in writing ”The Devils of Loudum” described the hysteria of demonic possession in a convent in the 17th century. Golinda was the super-ego who consciously weights the wheels to balance the individual consciousness in the primal lizard limbic brain to control such hysteria.

She looked at the Tamarisk trees. They had been planted by Abraham, to provide shade and food for the court of Saul. The Tamarisk beetle larvae emerge during the time of the worm moon and feed on the Tamarisk tree. The tree produces a plant-protection protein that is consumed by larva and adult, then produces an exudate as a by-product of digestion. Manna, the edible white honey-like exudate, kept the people of Exodus alive. The worm that controls populations of Tamarisk also produces an exudate called the Gaz of Khunsar, the sweetener used in nougat.

While not overstepping laws of possibility, she was to access a super-consciousness and create an epiphenomenon, a by-product that could coordinate intention with genetic predispositions of hormonal and epigenetic factors that influence adaptive and behavioural functions.

Golinda had some influence over actions at a quantum level that control the variation afforded by mendelian genetics. Homozygous dominant or recessive traits are not necessarily good or bad, but optimize conditions for existence. Using the same mechanisms that can alter the light and dark pelage of an owl, she could alter the micro-biome of the gut that controls 80% of the body’s immune system and affects brain heart and the mitochondria health.

Golinda, queen of the Golden Hive, channeled her forces to provide the conditions to create the chemical alchemy that controls the production of the golden elixir needed to nurture the dragon. Her specialty was the production of semiochemicals, that act like pheromones with what Einstein called, ‘spooky action at a distance’.

By adjusting weak interactions, Golinda could induce a feeling in the gut, that often, but not always, could direct a choice to produce what she called love. Focusing on integrity, honour, compassion with kindness, empathy and understanding she could generate Oxytocin that affects inter- and intra-specific behaviour through positive emotional interactions that maintain social attachments and promote calm, relaxation, growth and restoration. She nourished the worm with the distillate of her essence, breath and spirit, known as the jing, qi and shen. The dragon grew.

She nourished Gallopatrot more and more, until the moment arrived. Gallopatrot had outgrown its vessel and needed to shed its skin. Golinda stood by and protected Gallopatrot when it was naked, exposed and at its most vulnerable. Once the new skin had hardened she picked up the discarded dragon’s skin and went under it.

Golinda had gone through the initiation. She had obtained and got under the skin of the dragon without having to slay it. Golinda, the primordial essence of the Great Mother did not need to slay the dragon in some search for glory, but nurtured it with love. This opened into the realm of super-consciousness, where forces communicate with the whole and manifest order out of chaos,

In a flash, they entered into the flow along a path. The kundalini life force energy and centre of vitality, called the Qi moved first to the green heart chakra, that holds the warmth and brightness of the spirit of Shu, the Egyptian god of Air and Wind, who holds the bright yang active aspects that come from the light of the cosmos.

They then followed the road of the divine spirit along the Lu Shu magic square, to the gate of life. This is the point of origin in which the human embryo begins to develop soon after fertilization, when a small group of cells bursts open from the inside out, making a tiny opening from which the rest of the body develops. At the opening to the gate of life, known as the Mingmen, the qing long green Azure dragon holds the thunder-fire that transforms and cycles the kundalini life force energy.

The Mingmen control a nexus of nerves and tissues providing strength of body and balance of the mind and lead to a wormhole, where space time folds into a tunnel that instantaneously connected two places and other worlds, separated by time and distance. The qi moves between the inner and outer organs of the body, to the cosmos and through time and then back to the heart. One turning of the qi causes a thousand things to appear.

Golinda used worm algorithms to navigate the six-sided staggered hexagonal hive of the mathematical labyrinth of a Buckyball world. She followed the Markov Chain of possible transitions in a natural symbiosis with Gallopatrot. They could twist and turn in the six modes of vibration in the world of physical chemistry. Knowing when to heave, sway, yaw, roll, surge and pitch, they could alter form, to protect the treasures of the inner kingdom.

With unique variations of the same components, they could transform an open chain glucose molecule into maple syrup or an exudate of honey or the energy needed to return to the path when intersecting forces knocked them off track and bounced them into trajectories of physical realities within the matrix of space time.

Golinda moved with the fierce creature of the waves under the protection of its skin. She used the extraterrestrial reptile supernatural serpent god, Nachash - that had been thrown into the heavens and stood frozen in position - to guide her. She followed the immortal Nagas that resonate with imperial power and authority in the curve of nature’s lines, over mountains, under seas and through her body in the kundalini, testing limits of confidence in a balance as delicate as any peacock strutting its tail.

Thanks to her dragon brain, she was able to see and predict possibilities of when and where to find herds, schools of fish and could establish how to minimize the risks of destructive forces. Her adventures took her far from the Institute of Change but soon enough it was time to return and present the report. Golinda and Gallopatrot were pleased to present the method they had established to complete a search of the pilgrim soul.

Kat looked at the finished story, chuckling at her attempts to continue the reflections of her life with Bob. She had entered into the world of magical realism, not expecting the bizarre unexpected connections that unfolded from science that followed Myth. It had helped her make sense of the past and the rapidly-changing world.

Her myth of Golinda and Gallopatrot held the spirit of the Owl and the Pussycat. She had learned the answer to the Wizard’s song that Gallopatrot had sung. “Who are you?” She was the Cat with nine lives; Schrodinger’s cat, an absurd character of a thought experiment who exists in a simultaneous superposition of states, which collapses down to a single state, thus rendering the cat simultaneously dead and alive. She rode alongside her dragon, who held the wisdom and instinct of the Owl.

Using her love for Bob as an ever-fixed mark, she had ventured into the theory of everything and had tapped into a super-consciousness beyond her expectations. It had let the phoenix rise from the ashes and pass through a wormhole that connected to the origin of many points.

Kat thought back to Bob’s asking what kind of Owl he was. At first she thought he was a chimera; he held aspects of a Barn Owl and Flammulated owl, both who wear a heart on their face. Then she realized that Bob moved without a big swooshing sound and he did not screech. He had passed on the clear distinct message of the Flammulated Owl's fiery whisper.