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From: Art Neuendorffer
Date: Monday, March 03, 2008 11:45 PM
Subject: NGC 6334: The Cat's Paw Nebula
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Last book dedicated to the 17th Earl of Oxford:
F.D.'s [(F)rancis (D)avison?/(F)rancis (D)rake?]
Anagrammata in Nomina Illustrissimorum Heroum (1603)
http://www.philological.bham.ac.uk/anagrams/
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One wonders why Davison thought this necessary.>>
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*EDOUARUS VEIERUS*
per anagramma
*AURE SURDUS VIDEO*
('DEAF IN MY EAR, I SEE')
[A]uribus hisce licet studio, FORTUNA, susurros
[P]erfidiae et technas efficis esse procul,
[A]ttamen accipio (quae mens horrescit et auris)
[R]ebus facta malis corpora surda tenus.
[I]mo etiam cerno Catilinae=B0 fraude propinquos
[F]unere solventes *FATA* aliena suo.
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{anagram}
*APARIF*
*PIAFAR* or *PATA* : *PAW* (Spanish)
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=B0 CATiline was the rabble-rouser suppressed by Cicero.
His name became a watchword for incendiary troublemakers.
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NGC 6334: The Cat's Paw Nebula
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap080304.html
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cat could have created the vast Cat's Paw Nebula visible in Scorpius.
At 5,500 light years distant, Cat's Paw is an emission nebula with a
red color that originates from an abundance of ionized hydrogen atoms.
Alternatively known as the Bear Claw Nebula or NGC 6334, stars nearly
ten times the mass of our Sun have been born there in only the past
few million years.>>
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The *CATS* in the Tower
http://www.fortunecity.com/greenfield/dreams/383/towercat.htm
*CAT* Trixie was included in a portrait of [H]enry [W]riothesley
around 1603, and painted by John de Critz the Elder.
Trixie is shown as a black cat with white markings to her face,
a snowy white bib, and white *fore*PAW*s* , sitting by the
right arm of the Earl with a quizzical look upon her face.
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_The Hunting of the Snark_ by Lewis Carroll
[H]e would joke with hyaenas, returning their stare,
[W]ith an impudent wag of the head:
And he once went a walk, *PAW* -in- *PAW*, with a bear,
"Just to keep up its spirits", he said.
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http://www.philological.bham.ac.uk/anagrams/
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of treason on false testimony inspired by envy.>>
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HENRICUS URIOTHESLEUS
per anagramma
*THESEUS* NIL REUS HIC RUO
_[I]ure quidem poteras hanc fundere ab ore querelam,
_[S]ors tibi dum ficto crimine dura fuit:
"[N]il reus en *THESEUS* censura sortis iniquae
_[H]ic ruo, livoris traditus arbitrio."
_[A]t nunc mutanda ob mutata pericla querela est.
_[I]nclite, an innocuo pectore teste rues?
_[N]on sane. Hac haeres vacuo dat *VIVERE* cura,
_[C]ollati imperii sub Iove sceptra gerens.
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*ISNHAINC*
*IN CHAINS*
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*UNCIVIL SIN*
*IN VINCULIS* : "in chains/bonds/fetters"
*NIL VICINUS* : "no neighbor"
("Victorious though in chains") *IN VINCULIS INVICTUS*
Motto in Tower Painting: http://www.gorki.net/Art/fa12.html
http://ladysarafina.home.att.net/wriothesley.JPG
*NUNC CIVILIS INVITUS* : "Now civil unwilling(ly)"
*IN VINCULIS INVICTUS* : "Victorious though in chains"
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<<*INVICTUS* is a poem by the British poet William Ernest Henley,
which is the source of a number of familiar clich=E9s & quotations.
The title is Latin for "unconquered." It was first published in 1875.
The poem goes: *INVICTUS*
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
In this poem, Henley gave the world the familiar lines my head is
bloody, but unbowed & I am the master of my fate...These lines have
been quoted many times by people who may not realize their source.
They seem a hyperbolic epitome of the "stiff upper lip" that
popular culture has made a traditional British virtue, and
a handy image of stoicism in the face of disaster.
The poem recently gained further notoriety by being quoted by
the American domestic terrorist Timothy McVeigh, who quoted it
in a communiqu=E9 released shortly before his execution
for murder committed in the Oklahoma City bombing.>>
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Giordano Bruno: *DE VINCULIS in Genere*
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little-known works whose importance in the history of ideas far
outstrips that of more famous ones." (E&M p. 89) It explains how
the masses can be manipulated with psychological & magical bonds,
and how one can escape these snares. Bruno wrote this book
around 1588, during a two-year stay in Helmstedt.>>
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Antony and Cleopatra Act 5, Scene 2
CLEOPATRA: Shall they hoist me up
And show me to the shouting varletry
Of censuring Rome? Rather a ditch in Egypt
Be gentle grave unto me! rather on Nilus' mud
Lay me stark naked, and let the water-flies
Blow me into abhorring! rather make
My country's high PYRAMIDES my GIBBET,
And hang me up *IN CHAINS* !
GIBBET, n. [OE. gibet, F. gibet, in OF. also club, fr. LL. gibetum;
cf. OF. gibe sort of sickle or hook, It. giubbetto gibbet, and
giubbetta, dim. of giubba mane, also, an under waistcoat, doublet,
Prov. It. gibba); so that it perhaps originally signified a halter,
a rope round the neck of malefactors; or it is,
perhaps, derived fr. L. gibbus HUNCHED, HUMPED,
E. gibbous; or cf. E. jib a sail.] 1. A kind of gallows;
an upright post with an arm projecting from the top,
on which, formerly, malefactors were hanged *IN CHAINS* ,
and their bodies allowed to remain as a warning.
The projecting arm of a crane, the jib.
Gibbet, v. t., 1. To hang and expose on a gibbet.
2. To expose to infamy; to blacken.
_____ I'll gibbet up his name. --Oldham.
__ T O T H E o n
_____ {r}o [H] e
_____ {o} n[E] (M)
_____ {p} [N]e (A)
_____ {e[R]n (R)o
_____ [Y]o_____ l(I)
_____ O.E._____ (H)
_____ [W]
_____ [R]
_____ [E|
_____ [S|
_____ [L|H]
_____ [E|T]
_____ [Y|O]
_____ |I]
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EGEUS: Happy be *THESEUS* , our renowned duke!
PHILOSTRATE: *HERE* , mighty *THESEUS*
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HENRY WRIOTHESLEY by an anagram
*THESEUS* NIL REUS HIC RUO
[ *HERE* I FALL,*THESEUS* , GUILTY OF NOTHING ]
Justly you were able to POUR FORTH this complaint from
your mouth, your lot was harsh while a false accusation
prevailed. 'L.O. , *THESEUS* is guilty of nothing, *HERE*
I fall by an unfair lot's censure, betrayed by ENVY's whim.'
But now the complaint is to be altered, because of
altered perils. Great man, do you take a fall
with an innocent heart bearing witness? Not at all.
The HEIR, wielding the scepter of rule conferred
under Jove's auspices, grants you to live FREE of this
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http://www.philological.bham.ac.uk/anagrams/text.html
*THESEUS* was only GUILTY OF 'acts of omission' :
1) not marrying Ariadne as promised
2) forgetting to take down the black sail
3) forgetting Antiope/HIPPOLYTA & marrying Phaedra.
Ariadne ended up marrying Dionysius (god of theatre).
[H]ENRY [W]RIOTHESLEY would not marry Elizabeth Vere who
ended up marrying Derby. The 1595 Derby/Vere nuptuals
were honored in Oxford's _A Midsummer Night's Dream_.
October 8, 1600 _A Midsummer Night's Dream_ (starring *THESEUS* )
entered on Stationers' Register.
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Hyperoptic wrote:
<< Read North's version (try www.stoics.com) and tell me again
that "the only date North gives is 8 October." Go ahead:
"The greatest & most solemne sacrifice they doe unto him, is on the
*eight daye of October* in which he returned from CRETA, with the
other younge children of ATHENS. Howbeit they doe not leave to honour
him every eight daye of all other moneths, either bicause he arrived
from TROEZEN at ATHENS *the eight daye of June* , as Diodorus the
Cosmographer writeth: or for that they thought that number to the
meetest for him, bicause the bruite ranne he was begotten of Neptune."
Yep, October 8 is there. Plus *June 8* ... >>
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[W]ILLIAM [H]ERBERT would not marry Bridget Vere.
October 8 Feast of St Bridget, widow, patron of Sweden
October 8 Theseia: Festival honoring the hero Theseus.
__ *June 8* Theseus arrives from TROEZEN at ATHENS
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William Fitzherbert (Feastday *June 8* )
(also known as William of York or William of Thwayt)
Died at York, June 8, 1154; canonized 1226 or 1227.
http://users.erols.com/saintpat/ss/0608.htm
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http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/va11/sandmeier.html
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religious beliefs. The cat's success can be seen as a result of its
protective qualities. In the minds of many people the cat became
connected with the sun-god Ra and his important journey into the
underworld every night, and back from the underworld in the morning.
The earliest representation of the cat in art associated with
religion, was in the magic knives. The magic knives were given
to the dead as a way to defend themselves in the underworld.
The tradition of magic knives with representations of cats
on them were was started during the Middle Kingdom.
The representations on the knives were not the characters of the
official religion, but instead they were those of popular believe.
On these magical knives a cat was depicted in its hieroglyphical
form with one *PAW* in the air holding a large knife.>>
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http://www.cumulo-nimbus.ca/ch23.htm
J. P. Elven: The Book of Family Crests (1856). Volume 2:
Bolbeck Crest:
A lion sejant (supporting with his dexter *PAW*) a broken lance,
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King John Act 3, Scene 1
CARDINAL PANDULPH : A chafed Lion by the mortal *PAW*,
Lion's *PAW* =3D> Freemasonry 'grip'.
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William Shakespeare (1564-1623):
Crest: a falcon rising argent,
holding in its dexter claw a spear in pale or.
http://www.heraldica.org/topics/famous/writers.htm
Table of the Annotations in Edward de Vere's Geneva Bible
Book |Chap|Verse|Verse Marks |
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1 Sam | 17 |34-35| U(R) |
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KJV 1 Samuel Chapter 17, Verse 33-38
17:33 And Saul said to David, Thou art not able to go against this
Philistine to fight with him: for thou art a boy, and he is a man of
war from his youth. And David answered unto Saul, Thy servant kept his
father?s sheep, and there came a lion, and likewise a bear, and took a
sheep out of the flock, And I went out after him and smote him, and
took it out of his mouth: and when he arose against me, I caught him
by the beard, and smote him, and slew him. So thy servant slew both
the lion, and the bear: therefore this uncircumcised Philistine shall
be as one of them, seeing he hath railed on the host of the living
God. Moreover David said, The Lord that DEliVEREd me out of
the *PAW* of the lion, and out of the *PAW* of the bear,
he will DEliVER me out of the hand of this Philistine.
Then Saul said unto David, Go, and the Lord be with thee. And
Saul put his raiment upon David, and put an *helmet of brass*
upon his head, and put a brigandine upon him.
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_The Hunting of the Snark_ by Lewis Carroll
[H]e would joke with hyaenas, returning their stare,
[W]ith an impudent wag of the head:
And he once went a walk, *PAW* -in- *PAW*, with a bear,
"Just to keep up its spirits", he said.
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Grapes of Wrath: He put out his hand, but the cat leaped away out
of reach and sat down and licked the pads of its lifted *PAW*.
Gulliver's Travels: I have good to believe that he took me
for a young one of his own species, by his often
stroking my face VERy gently with his other *PAW*.
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of the slave and began licking them. The circumstance naturally
excited the curiosity of the consul: and the slave, being brought
before him, told him the following tale: 'I was compelled by cruel
treatment to run away from your service while in Africa, and one day
I took refuge in a cave from the heat of the sun. While I was in the
cave a lion entered, limping, and evidently in great pain. Seeing me,
he held up his *PAW*, from which I extracted a large thorn. We lived
together in the cave for some time, the lion catering for both of us.
At length I left the cave, was apprehended, brought to Rome,
and condemned to encounter a lion in the amphitheatre.
My enemy was my old friend, and he recognised me instantly.'>>
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seeing that the *PAW* was wounded, drew out of it a thorn and dressed
the wound. The lion, out of gratitude, showed a wish to stay with its
benefactor. Hence Jerome is typified as a lion, or as accompanied by
a lion. A very similar tale is told of ST. GERASIMUS (A.D. 475). One
day, being on the banks of the Jordan, he saw a lion coming to him,
limping on three feet. When it reached the saint, it held up to him
the right *PAW*, from which Gerasimus extracted a large thorn.
The grateful beast attached itself to the saint,
and followed him about as a dog.>>
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Lion's *PAW* =3D> Freemasonry 'grip'.
Cat's Foot =3D> To live under the cat's foot. To be under
petticoat government; to be henpecked. A mouse under the *PAW*
of a cat lives but by sufferance and at the cat's pleasure.
Cat's *PAW* =3D> To be made a cat's *PAW* of, i.e. the tool of another,
the medium of doing another's dirty work. The allusion is to the
fable of the monkey who wanted to get from the fire some roasted
chestnuts, and took the *PAW* of the cat to get them from the
hot ashes. -- To play second fiddle.
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http://www.coldwater.k12.mi.us/lms/planetarium/myth/coronaborealis.html
http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/constellations/coronaborealis.html
http://www.seds.org/Maps/Stars_en/Fig/coronaborealis.html
In his "Metamorphoses", book VIII, the roman poet Ovid (Publius
Ovidius Naso, 43 BC to 17 AC) mentions the story of Theseus and the
Minotaurus and how Theseus was able to overcome that monster with the
help of the princess of Crete, Ariadne. Leaded by the string she gave
Theseus he was able to escape the dark caves of the labyrinth where
the Minotaurus had lived. After this success he took Ariadne with
him to Naxos. But once they reached the coast Theseus left her.
Her cries & lamentations were heard by Bacchus, who gave her
his love & protection. To make glorify her forever between
the stars he took her crown and lift it up to the skies.
Theseus and the others escaped the island with Ariadne. As they
sail back to Athens, they stopped to take on fresh water and rest.
As Theseus slept he received a message from a goddess telling him
that Ariadne had been promised to a god and that no mortal should
interfere. So he silently crept back to the ship
leaving Ariadne on the island.
When Ariadne awoke see found herself abandoned & wept. The god
Bacchus came upon her and seeing her great beauty begged her to
marry him. Ariadne did not believe he was a god and refused to marry
him. To prove he was a god, Bacchus produced the most beautiful
golden crown she had ever seen. Ariadne did marry Bacchus and they
had a long life of happiness together. When his beloved wife died,
Bacchus placed the golden crown high in the heavens to honor
her for her kindness to Theseus and to him as her husband.
The early Arabs knew the constellation as the Dish.
[ "And the Dish ran away with the Spoon" ]
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High diddle diddle,
The CAT and the fiddle,
the cow jumped over the moon
The little dog laughed
to see such Craft (Craft =3D> Freemasonry)
and the dish ran away with the spoon.
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Elizabeth I <=3D> "The Cat"
http://roundtable.iwarp.com/photo6.html
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with her Cabinet ministers (as if they were mice). Elizabeth's
"lap-dog" was Robert Dudley. The "dish" was Elizabeth's golden dish
carrier [Edward, Earl of Hertford] and the "spoon" was Elizabeth's
royal taster [(Lady Jane's sister) Katherine Grey =3D> "At night all
cats are grey" - _Don Quixote_] When the 'dish & spoon' secretly
eloped, Elizabeth had them captured and confined to the Tower
of London for seven years.>> -- _The Annotated Mother Goose_
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Art Neuendorffer
