'Sesame' In Sanskrit

Now pretty much no one is going to like what I am about to say here...

'Sesame' in Sanskrit is 'Benne' but the thing that rises into the air when the oil volatiles off, is 'El.'

Modern Tamil - the language spoken where the treasure cave of Travancore is - uses both the 'El' part (IE in Tamil - 'Til' or 'Tel' meaning the seed and the oil from the seed) as well as the 'Benne' part to mean the whole plant itself.

When the Tamils want to say 'something from nothing' they say 'onrumilla;' which contains the 'el/il' element to describe the smallest possible ('some') thing. It is the 'onru' part which means 'not any'(thing). The whole integrated accurate sense of the phrase-word is: 'Not anything but creates some little thing.'

And in the Sanskrit it is similar to something that by modern folklore was also said by the Egyptian priest-regents:

'Ant-sunyanta.'

In Arabic: 'Shay-on min la-shayon.'

...Now when the world goes a bit nuts, and people forget their roots and what makes them survive disasters, and their spirituality loses its meaning to them and they see no power in it, then only the clever and wise maintain a little oil left for their own lamps.

It is nothing for a great sorcerer to create something from nothing.

Words And Special Meanings

I guess if you asked a hundred people what color 'amber' is they will predominantly say 'yellow' or a translucent yellow or yellow-orange.'

Now we have seen in the recent prior articles here that even in the case of the 'mythological' 'cave of wonders' in actual reality such a thing truly exists. And, the real version that is located in Travancore has all the same elements contained in the basic fairy-tale: magic words of opening, curse, immense treasure within, even the aspect of a guileless youth who could be sent inside to obtain some of the treasure.

Dominican blue amber is very rare - only about 100g a year
are mined

In a world today in which it seems that you can get anything and everything quite readily by using money to buy it, I'll give you an example (of which there are quite a few) of something that you cannot get commercially - and which is quite surprising given that the kinds of people behind these markets and ventures you would suppose 'already know it all...'

Amber - real stone resin amber, not ambergris from whales - when burned, gives off this churchy, sort-of medicinal frankincense-y odor which is used extensively in modern Oriental-classified perfumes. The obvious examples are the Guerlain suite which includes Shalimar, and Encens Mythique D'Orient, and say also Opium by YSL, and Tabu by Dana, and maybe Dior's Poison. All of these have amber in varying degrees of prominence.

But they are all standard 'yellow' amber.

There is another amber - Dominican amber - and it is incredibly rare, and it is blue. It also renders an amazing scent when burned or rubbed... 'Blue amber' is mostly from the Dominican Islands, but it is also available in tiny quantities from other places around the world where there had been ancient prehistoric forests - now fossilized - of a kind of a gigantic pea flower tree, or a giant prehistoric bean tree.

Now it doesn't matter to me that Clive Christian claims to make the world's most expensive cologne or aftershave or perfume...

LOL.

So far then, you know the key ingredients are: Sesame oil, and amber. Because I have told you.

But you need to know what to do with the Sesame oil, same as I have just discussed that it is the 'blue' type of amber which is used. You can't put the Sesame oil into the fragrance. That is not the point of it.

The Major Problem With 'Translations'

There are a lot of problems trying to ascertain the exact precise meaning of something recorded in most ancient times.

One of these problems, and in my own view, the single biggest problem, is that the knowledge base people were operating from during the specific time in question of the record being actually made, is usually completely different or substantially lacking, from what we can employ today. 

A gold 'Mohur' of the East India Company

And so, a simple casual or colloquial statement, turns out to be anything but simple when viewed in context of the obtaining knowledge base.

There are no people who are academically-learned in the subject itself either as folklore or narrative fiction, who do not 'believe' that the story of Aladdin relates to 'China,' even though the tale itself appears to have come from a Syrian or Persian storyteller or group of them.

The essential fact is, however, that the phrase in the original source texts we have, taken to imply 'China,' actually says 'utter East.'

And... ...that would in fact be in keeping with the actual location of the Travancore cavern of almost countless amounts of gold and jewels with its 'magical door' able to be opened by the saying of a mantra, albeit only able to be safely entered into by a guileless youth. ...Which actual real location is in the deepest end-point of INDIA, in Kerala State.

It is the essence of the door itself - the subjects depicted thereupon, and their meaning - which we will consider next, and you will see that the true 'priceless treasure' is out there on the visible surface; but it too, is subject to complete misunderstandings that have made their way into various commonplace interpretations and 'translations' of whatever is written and drawn there.

'Open!' 'Sez Who?!'

Okay so this was a line in one of my favorite Eddie Cantor films about a young film-set and stage-hand called 'Al Babson' who fell asleep on the studio lot one time and then... ...had a dream.

And in the dream of course, there was this talking door, see, and Al Babson sez to it: 'Open!'

And the magic talking door sez back: 'Sez-a 'oo?'

And Al sez: 'Sez-a me!'

And the door opens.

Aladdin in the current Broadway production

Here, a little bit down the page, is the famous door in modern Kerala State in South-Western India, behind which is housed the world's largest horde of treasure of all time - the door is known as the Padmanabhaswamy Temple Door.

And those are not cobras depicted there, so the story that the treasure is protected by cobras is rubbish. 

No one has ever been inside those doors. And there have been age-old court cases between the family that ruled the region in ancient times, and the priests of the temple itself, and all the many 'scientists' and archaeologists, and researchers and so on over the years, especially in recent times - including local state politicians and even the government itself, all of the latter of whom who wanted to use the gold and jewels inside to fund the rising government budgetary needs.

As with so many items of Hindu culture and folklore, the temple doors hold a curse for the individual who even has the 'magical words' that will cause the doors to spring open and grant access to the treasure - namely, that that person will suffer some great calamity leading to their death.

The Padmanabhaswamy 'Forbidden Door'

It's theoretically plausible that behind the doors there might be a treasure of significance, since the rest of the temple is unquestionably the most covered and stocked with gold and jewels of any place anywhere on Earth - it has been authentically valued at trillions of dollars!

We will not be opening those doors physically today. But we do know how to get in, how to have them be magically opened, and how to gain access safely to the treasures within...

And we will be exploring all of that soon...

Murdering The Top Brands

I have relayed to you all, that the numbers of official exhibitors at this year's recently ended 'Basel World' Watch Trade Fair were down by more than half.

And following closely behind this item of business and marketing data is the news this week that Burberry - the London-based English brand that came from Basingstoke originally in 1856 - has burned, as in literally destroyed over fifty million US dollars of product (clothes, bags, perfumes, other accessory items), with the objective of decreasing supply and thus I suppose presumably making the branded articles lower in supply than perceived demand in order to buoy up prices.

I guess.

This thing is a real thing, and it exists and it works -
and it is made by Aston Martin

Now in the case of Burberry there are other factors than 'ordinary' and typical current-era market economics as taught by these industrial manufacturers of idiots and professional stupid people. Liz Claiborne, the CEO, passed away not that long ago altering much of the dynamics of how the place was even able to be run, between the creative department and the financial management area.

However, when you also look at other London brands such as Aquascutum, and its extremely dodgy 'bankruptcy' and subsequent 'sale' to a holding company for not much more than ten million bucks, to be re-sold again very quickly for upwards of 150 million... ...then you can stick on your paranoid skeptic hat and think about the effect of the silly 'China-money' and the ethics of your average London 'businessman' and what happens when those two things get together.

Another brand which in my view is rapidly moving towards its demise is, wait for it, don't gasp - Bentley.

Oh yes, unlike the German Rolls owners, the present owners of Bentley are hardly what you could readily call 'good custodians of the brand.' In fact, right from day one of their buy-out arranged by the criminal-minded fool Margaret Thatcher (that last bit was written by John Lydon, by the way, not me...), they completely moved straight-away, towards contemporary Germanic design concepts and AWAY from the traditional Bentley shapes and ideas, except that they claimed Bentley was always already doing this 'vorsprung durch technik' design philosophy, so that's what 'allowed' them to do it... Yeah, right, except that it was from an English point-of-view what original Bentley were doing, ya idiots, not the fractured optic nerve perspectives of German 'masterminds.' (LOL). 

And this is a real Savile Row jacket - can you tell?
Not that many left doing it for real in London now...

When it comes time for you to spend your big bucks now, think ten times first now - remember you are living in a world of mixed virtues: highly advanced technologies that indeed definitely have their place, even though they are being used or exploited by people from completely different parent brand ideologies - all mixed up with for the most part falsified, spurious representations of previously genuine authentic luxury or expensive functional things.

I totally agree with Aston Martin over their unveiling this week at the Farnborough Airshow which is still on for a couple of days - of their flying car. This is where carbon fiber and composites and F-B-W and computers and drone technology was always legitimately heading.

But if you want a real authentic sports car (carriage which goes on wheels and tyres on a road), call me up and I'll privately introduce you to the people who still actually make them in England; same goes for shoes, suits, shirts, watches and just about everything else you can think of.

Even Mysore sandalwood - the authentic stuff - is literally no longer actually available even in Mysore. The best of that thing comes from here in Western Australia where the Maharajah of Mysore started some official plantations out in literally the semi-desert wilderness here. So there ya go!