In search of meaning: Ginkei

[Bluegazer]

Well, I don't know if this is really a personal question, because it's partly related to a project of mine. I have doubts about it, because I'm not sure if the line I'm following leads anywhere. I honestly don't intend to ask personal questions, unless it really helps the group.

I'll tell you the story: I simply built/designed a model, a toy and wrote a story about it. This mechanical "mech" model/design (a.k.a giant piloted robot) I gave the nickname Ginkei. Okay, I know what it means because it stands for Silver Bird = FlyCatcher = Interceptor.

But what's going on? I was reading the Wave -Chapter 25 of Book 3: The Bacchantes Meet Apollo At Stonehenge And Play The Third Man Theme- and the comments about the birds, the stones etc. It caught my attention a lot. I got this idea into my head and started looking on the internet. I always had the idea of "silverbird" symbolism as merely an Interceptor, i.e. imagine a fighter jet, an interceptor. But hey! Something mystical? Yes, it's true that the story I wrote has elements, but when I researched further I found things that at first sight seem to be unrelated, maybe there is something. For example, I was reading in the Wave about the technological instruments used for the levitation of stones and their description and in the search I found a drawing, a fictional design that resembles the description of the C's. I found it under the name of the Sword of Acala

See the image and read the description of the C's:

Q: When you say that it was built using sound wave technology, were
these sound waves produced by human voices or by instruments or
mechanical devices of some sort?
A: Mostly latter.
Q: What kind of a device would this be? What would you call it?
A: Something like tuning fork.
Q: It would be something that could be struck and would produce a sound
that could then be directed in some way?
A: A sound enhancing collector/focuser.
Q: Can we build such a thing?
A: Must be like a two-way antenna, solidly brass or bronze.
Q: Other than a solid piece of metal, were there any other internal parts
such as a mechanism of some sort?
A: Silicon arterial wand.

After all these comings and goings I continued to research the subject of birds and found out about the Simurg:

Simurgh - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

The simurgh is depicted in Iranian art as a winged creature in the shape of a bird, gigantic enough to carry off an elephant or a whale. It appears as a peacock with the head of a dog and the claws of a lion – sometimes, however, also with a human face. The simurgh is inherently benevolent and unambiguously female. Being part mammal, she suckles her young. The simurgh has teeth. It has an enmity towards snakes, and its natural habitat is a place with plenty of water*. Its feathers are said to be the colour of copper, and though it was originally described as being a dog-bird, later it was shown with either the head of a man or a dog.

"Si-", the first element in the name, has been connected in folk etymology to Modern Persian si ("thirty"). Although this prefix is not historically related to the origin of the name simurgh, "thirty" has nonetheless been the basis for legends incorporating that number – for instance, that the simurgh was as large as thirty birds or had thirty colours (siræng). Other suggested etymologies include Pahlavi sin murgh ("eagle bird") and Avestan saeno merego ("eagle").

Iranian legends consider the bird so old that it had seen the destruction of the world three times over. The simurgh learned so much by living so long that it is thought to possess the knowledge of all the ages. In one legend, the simurgh was said to live 1,700 years before plunging itself into flames (much like the phoenix).

The simurgh was considered to purify the land and waters and hence bestow fertility. The creature represented the union between the Earth and the sky, serving as mediator and messenger between the two.** The simurgh roosted in Gaokerena, the Hōm (Avestan: Haoma) Tree of Life, which stands in the middle of the world sea (Vourukasha). The plant is potent medicine and is called all-healing, and the seeds of all plants are deposited on it. When the simurgh took flight, the leaves of the tree of life shook, making all the seeds of every plant fall out. These seeds floated around the world on the winds of Vayu-Vata and the rains of Tishtrya, in cosmology taking root to become every type of plant that ever lived and curing all the illnesses of mankind.

*Source of abundance/life?
**I can interpret it as the thing that unites the material and the ethereal, as well as what mediates between the right and left hemispheres of the brain.

The thing is, this is something that has led me here. I'll tell you the truth, until a few years ago my life was one of those who could not find the motivation to go on. When I started this project, with the good and the bad on the way, that's when the changes inside me started gradually. And that's when I started to participate more and more in the forum. And lately an explosion of ideas, in a way that I am finding the things that later are confirmed by the works of Laura.

However, I have these doubts. I know that there is something, but I'm afraid of giving myself an answer and that in the end it's just a banal and meaningless thing, another illusion...

Thank you.