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nmeofthestate 5 hours ago

"Black Cube" - wonder what they're going for there. Maybe "Sinister Obelisk" was taken.

TinyRick 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Black cube is a common form of symbolism in occult/Kabbalah traditions

gunapologist99 3 hours ago | parent [-]

As well as Islam (the Kaaba).

cr125rider 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

They wanted everyone to know they are the bad guys, just like Black Rock.

nmeofthestate 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It works, to be honest - I would never let Beige Rock manage my money.

p0w3n3d 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Black Rock Black Stone... Maybe even Black Dodecahedron someday

underlipton 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Just more cultural appropriation. Black Cube, Blackrock, Blackstone... And not a black person in sight. Someone even took Blackstreet which was already ours. /s

tinfoilhatter 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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rdevilla 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> The god El is commonly associated with Saturn and commonly referred to as Saturn El.

This is demonstrably false; see Liber 777 cols. I, II, V, and VII. Saturn is assigned key scale 3 (col I) and is associated with the Name of God "Tetragrammaton Elohim," while "El" is traditionally reserved for the fourth sephira, representing Jupiter.

Six is a solar number, attributed to Christ and Ra (though also Osiris; but see the associated key scale and its myriad attributions). Jupiter, again, is ascribed number three, not six.

Black is indeed the Queen scale color associated to Saturn, though just as commonly attributed to Earth, as the final receptacle of all the other "colors" of creation (see key scales 3 and 10 in cols XV, XVI, XVIII).

Yes, I am an occultist.

https://ia802906.us.archive.org/22/items/Liber777Revised/Lib...

BigTTYGothGF 39 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

> This is demonstrably false

Only if you consider Crowley to be the alpha and omega.

Wikipedia cites Brill's New Pauly, which I found a copy of online, and that in turn just cites a German article from the early 20th century. I don't read German and have to stop there, but I do have to wonder how well the assertion is actually supported.

tinfoilhatter 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Or you could just reference Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_(deity) which claims numerous associations between Saturn and El. Or you could conduct an internet search for Saturn El and find a plethora of additional resources that confirm the association between the two.

selimthegrim 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Isn't Islam the one with the Black Cube?

rtkwe 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Judaism also has important black cubes in the form of tefillin worn by adult male jews during one of their daily prayers on weekdays.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tefillin

throw7 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Also NeXT.

tinfoilhatter 2 hours ago | parent [-]

And Steve Jobs priced the first Apple computer at - $666.66

The influence of the Kabbalah and the occult sciences on Silicon Valley and the world at large is quite obvious if one is looking and doesn't brush these subjects off as woohoo / conspiratorial (which most people do).

tinfoilhatter 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Yes, the kabba is also a nod to Saturn (which is why I said all Abrahamic religions incorporate some Saturn worship into them), and the people walking around the kabba make the rings of Saturn (if you employ some time-lapse photography of them walking around, it's quite obvious). Saturn has a hexagonal shaped storm on its north pole (and the all-seeing eye on its south pole). If you collapse a cube into two dimensions, you get a hexagon.

actionfromafar 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Ok, maybe put the hat back on. At least the abrahamic religions hardly knew about the hexagonally shaped storm.

BigTTYGothGF 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> rings of Saturn

Not observed until 1610

> Saturn has a hexagonal shaped storm on its north pole

Not observed until 1981/1987

> and the all-seeing eye on its south pole

Not immediately clear when first observed, I'll bet it wasn't until Cassini got there in 2004.

I appreciate the creativity in a new-to-me conspiracy theory, but be a little more careful about the historical record.

tinfoilhatter 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Not observed and yet depicted in symbolism by different cultures dating back to Babylon. Quite the mystery indeed... I'm sure you have an explanation for how the Dogon tribe knew more about the Sirius star system than we did until relatively recently as well.

It's quite egotistical and foolish to assume we're more advanced and know more than our ancient ancestors, or that what is written in our history books is objective truth.

In fact, even scholars have suggested that Babylonians could and did observe at least one of Saturn's rings - https://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-iarticle_que...

BigTTYGothGF an hour ago | parent [-]

> I'm sure you have an explanation for how the Dogon tribe knew more about the Sirius star system than we did until relatively recently as well.

I have a hypothesis, which incorporates the fact that the Dogon were not reported to have such knowledge until the 1930s, well after the discovery of Sirius B.

> depicted in symbolism by different cultures dating back to Babylon

A bit of searching is coming up short, beyond a claim about shackles on the ankles of a Roman statue of Saturn (the god) symbolizing the rings; I find this less convincing than the idea that they symbolize shackles (the ones with which he was bound in Tartaros).

tinfoilhatter 21 minutes ago | parent [-]

> I have a hypothesis, which incorporates the fact that the Dogon were not reported to have such knowledge until the 1930s, well after the discovery of Sirius B.

That's not a fact, because there are several sources / individuals that dispute this claim.

> A bit of searching is coming up short, beyond a claim about shackles on the ankles of a Roman statue of Saturn (the god) symbolizing the rings; I find this less convincing than the idea that they symbolize shackles (the ones with which he was bound in Tartaros).

Well you're pretty terrible at searching the internet then, considering I can type Sumerian saturn symbolism into any image search engine and find a plethora of examples.