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!

Why Don't 'They' Say?

The internet is nothing if not a vast receptacle of 'things you were never told...' People make such claims all the time, it seems, nowadays.

And some of these 'things' indeed seem to me quite legitimate in the sense that they have been 'suppressed' as information down through the years, for what reasons no one will ever really know, I suppose.

What aftershave, for the well-heeled?

But if we are smart modern minds, we simply have to take into consideration the effects of sophisticated Western marketing, and the way this tends to skew popular beliefs, or to grab the focus away from actual hard facts and onto the media 'message.'

I'll give you an example of something that is part of my standard family background 'knowledge base,' I guess you could call it, but which would not occupy too many people's attentions unless they were in a particular industry.

Here's the example: regardless of the fact that people do know about the 'spice trail/s,' and its history, they still are unable to apply common sense to for example, the eventual outcome of the spice trail on French perfumes... ...for instance. No one ever, not even Luca Turin or Roja Dove in any of their books will say that clearly, the traditional methods and ingredients in perfumes manufactured in the Orient or in India, found their way into what was MARKETED as 'French-invented/created' fragrances.

You see, the fact is, even now, if you purchased a 'big brand house' name French perfume, you will pay a substantial amount of money - for what is essentially a re-packaged, re-branded, stock standard traditional Indian-made essential oil which has been added to an alcohol solution.

You might pay ten dollars in India, or via an on-line purchase direct from the traditional India manufacturer, and pay literally a thousand dollars for the actual exact same thing, albeit the latter diluted in alcohol solution and held in a neat glass bottle.

Russian Leather - totally unisex

Things like Muguet, or Russian Leather - are formulations that have been made by several big names - Chanel, Guerlain, Floris (the English house), Coty; all have made the same thing at different times, since originally, the creators would sell their formula to several manufacturers.

And so, even in the most authoritative reference books, the list of ingredients and the way of formulation is in fact wrong. You see, the belief exists and no one even inside the industry will challenge it because they just lack a lot of common sense and are stuck in the hubris of their positions - that various ingredients now known by certain nomenclature (for one example, take cypriol...) were 'invented' at a certain place, at a certain time, by a certain person or persons...

And even when they tell you, what they think is the truth, when you examine it, it is just plain silly.

'Nagarmotha' fragrance extract- which is called 'cypriol' (extract from the nagarmotha plant) was created by the M. L. Ramnarain perfume house of Kanauj, in India. According to the experts. And that is partly quite correct.

Cyperus or Nagarmotha plant - common nutgrass 

Except that it was 'invented' a lot earlier than supposed.

Cuir de Russie (Russian Leather) by Chanel (original Chanel version, invented by Ernest Beaux in 1921) contains nagarmotha extract - and that is because those people knew about the spice trail, they knew people from the actual authentic spice trail, and they got their ingredients from the actual authentic spice trail. That's what 'secrets' were all about back then; they were genuinely exotic things and real 'secrets.'

Nagarmotha is a very common ornamental plant you can find in any suburb. Almost everywhere in the West it goes by the name of 'nutgrass.' It is neither the tiny hard nutty seeds nor the small short-lived flowers which produce the essential oil or 'fragrance,' but the roots.

Nagarmotha from M.L. Ramnarain is harvested wild from the lower sections of the Himalayas, so yeah, that is pretty exotic... But otherwise, you can get the same stuff from more or less anyone's back yard here in the suburbs.

So cypriol they will make you believe is a few decades old. It is, in Western perfumery at least as old as a hundred years. And in ancient traditional Indian perfumery, many many thousands of years...

And I tell you all that to tell you this: if you believe the Russia collusion narrative began with Peter Strzok or someone like that, or in the FBI or something like that, and that the actual Russians (be they Russian government or just 'Russians') hacked computers to 'meddle with elections' you have no memory, and you are - like most of the modern media, and the common population as well, totally nuts.

Soon, my lad, soon my gal, we will be looking at what really happened, and knowing that, then, we will be able to know what is happening, next. Or now, as in fact it is happening now. Right now. Oh yes; exciting days.

So why don't 'they' say? Because 'they' don't know.