the reclamation of the biblical femme fatale and the classical tragic hero : the mothers, herodias and jocasta : the evil mother usurping the beauty and innocence of daughter in order to exact revenge against the truthful and innocent johannes : jocasta is another noir archetype, the defenseless victim : noir punishes the femme fatale for being more potent than her station as woman allows, whereas herodias is rewarded : and jocasta, who only ever was a mother and wife, is shamed and kills herself : the tragic hero shames and condemns his innocent mother, the femme fatale is manipulated by her mother into committing evil : collapse theta and achieve a resounding collection of conjectures that comprise the way of affirmation, that echo the music of the spheres : when yggdrasil was a fledgling sprout, the harmony that filled the garden in which it grew, the nutrients of its soil, the color of its blossoms, the creatures that flew and crawled about, and the tall grass behind whose blades the roots lurked and the primeval insects engaged in the process of logos : place names and people names : each point is approximated by a mirror-like object : each point has a name : the name is a placeholder, a reference to a location in memory : if the content stored in the memory location is no longer associated with the name, then the name is an empty label with no meaning, but if the content in the memory location is still there, the only link back to it is in the name : place names and people names : eco: stat rosa pristina nomine, nomina nuda tenemus, yesterday's rose endures in its name, we hold empty names : sounds that are names are evidently empty : goethe: der erlkönig : examine this image as one mirror-like point within the fearful sphere : name, location in memory : der erlkönig, the false contention regarding this title : a false door [stelae] through which there is meaning evident only to those who can pass through : the discord surrounds the contention that goethe mistranslated or borrowed a mistranslation : unlikely that goethe meant to say elf king and rather said alder king : the casualty is the loss of richness of meaning when both elf and alder are considered equally meaningful : the question becomes whether elf and alder, at their roots, are isomorphic, and the answer, given the axiom of sweet imagination [meta132], is that they are accepted a priori as isomorphic and all that is needed are the missing layers [isomorphisms] connecting the two conjectures : the layers are not known, but consider this conjecture: the layers relate to the indo european root albh meaning 'white' which also spawned the middle high german elbe and old english elf : elf king and alder king might be masculine and feminine emanations of the root alb which describe an isomorphic god or goddess of various forms, consider: alberich, dwarf god of the underworld; alphito, arcadian goddess of barley; eller kong, danish king of the alders : whether elf king or alder king, a version of the same transformed deity is likely involved : the name is a marker, a place holder for a location in memory : guido von list relates a similar runic sound 'embla' to 'alder' through a description of yggdrasil: '... the designation "World-Ash" is also meaningful, for "ash" is "Ask"—the first man, the primal-father of humanity who bore the same name ("the primal mother was called Embla, i.e., "Alder")' : alder and elf share a relationship with 'alb' so erlkönig is the resonance of unseen layers : name, iohannis : 'ich will den kopf johannes' rings out in singularly destructive potency : why is her shrill call so potent : why does one suddenly feel a chord of empathy with the unsympathetic herod when she makes her uncompromising claim : her demand is incomprehensible, even given the back story provided by herodias' circumstance : why does herodias care what john thinks about her marriage when john is imprisoned and presumably helpless against her : salome's call is baffling and gruesome, a finality and humiliation in the act increases the dramatic import : augustine: john's father, zacharias, is struck dumb in disbelief of john's birth, then 'finally, he is born, he receives a name and his father's tongue is loosed' : john declares: 'i am the voice of one crying in the wilderness' : ... 'john is the voice, but the Lord in the beginning was the Word' [logos] : st john's gospel characterizes the word which had been 'with God from the beginning' : 'he receives a name and his father's tongue is loosed' : iohannis, the person name, is woven into the word, plan, language [logos] : the name is an interwoven prologue (john the baptist) and epilogue (st john) to the fundament of the logos, the sound before the sound and after the sound : john's father zachary loses his voice until john is named, salome terminates john's voice, in cutting his throat, she attacks exactly the anatomy of his voice : name, virgil : a strangely circular and metalinguistic virgilius grammaticus reaffirms the 'ontological status' of naming names : his teacher is aeneas, a character created by another virgil, and several other virgils apparently appear in his grammars : vivien law explains that medieval readers were naturally accustomed to looking for meaning and significance in proper names : law describes the virgilius chapter titled propria nomina as containing underlying layers of discoverable significance : she quotes virgilius: 'Proper nouns are not to be read as mere noises, but as having some subtler interpretation.' : she also cites Isidore of Sevile, who 'points out in his Etymologiae ... many names are motivated by their own causes' : what is the nature of the causes that motivate names, which are not mere noises : if names are motivated by their own causes, what is the role of name giver, if it is the will of the name giver which bestows the name, but yet names are motivated by their own causes : 'a man can do as he wills, but not determine what it is that he wills', schopenhauer : the nomothete gives the name that he wills, but does not determine the name that he gives : zachary, father of john the baptist, luke: zechariah's dumbness is very intertwined with the usurpation by the angel of his role as name giver : he is told by the angel that elizabeth will have a son and that his name will be john, he doubts and so the angel takes away his voice : he remains dumb until exactly the moment when he must declare the child's name : john was about to be named zechariah, but elizabeth claimed his name was to be john, the crowd did not believe her and asked zechariah, who asked for a writing table and wrote that the child's name was to be john, at this moment he was again able to speak : isaiah's foretelling of john: 'the voice of one crying in the desert' and 'the mouth of the Lord hath spoken' : john the baptist's death: the literal severing of his voice box : an axiom upon which the elastic proof rests: in an appropriate paradoxical structure each point is a metaphor for each other point, all points having in common that they are some aspect of the center point : virgilius maro: virgilius grammaticus was fond of meaningful names: 'maro' anagrammatically is 'roma', which is one character removed from 'rosa' and also 'rota' : 'roma', 'rosa' and 'rota' being the isomorphic points at hand : the name meanings of 'rosa' and 'roma' are encoded together, eco: stat pristina rosa: variously translated as 'yesterday's rome' and 'yesterday's rose' : and the name meanings of 'rosa' and 'rota' are encoded together at the cathedral at amiens: emile mâle: the upper half of the exterior of the rose window on the south porch is surrounded by a depiction of the rota fortunae with seventeen figures, eight ascending, eight descending and fortune herself at the top in the middle : description of the rota fortunae by boethius : georges poulet, in a footnote in an essay regarding dante and the fearful sphere, mentions that in De Consolatione 'Boethius compares the peripheral mobility of Fate with the central fixity of Providence' (schopenhauer: 'a man can do as he wills, but not determine what it is that he wills') : boethius' description of the rota fortunae is also synchronous with dante's metaphors on currency [meta122] : a threefold arboreal metaphor : i) overtone: the music of the spheres, a tree of sounds emanating from a fundamental; this pythagorean meta map depicts the ptolomaic system of the sphere, requiring the imaginative collapse of theta, a leap of acceptance of unscientific knowledge, i.e., a hidden aspect [lacuna] of physics, meta da physika : ii) option: the tree of choice (decision tree), providing the real time experiment to quantify a metaphor involving the expounded colloquial truth of time's equivalence to money, the nodes of the decision tree representing alternate future choices of the path of the underlying, which are statistically (using t (theta), volatility, and r (the time value of money)) discounted to a single present value (the elimination of theta) : iii) yggdrasil: the tree of life which links all lacunae by an elusive thread, beginning with the evidently primal utterance ('ask') and spreading isomorphically to all points (embla, alba, elves & alders (all manner of woodland (selva oscura, sacred grove) metaphor (also consider 'mori', the japanese for forest, another phonetic isomorphism of rosa, roma, rota)) : the old celtic name for virgil, 'pheryllt' is etymologically related to the greek 'pherein' -to carry (also the 'phor' of metaphor) and if that is in turn related to von list's 'carry' which is the 'horse' of 'drasill' so that the ancient celtic name for virgil (read by cerridwen) is encoded in the name yggdrasil by an indo european or celtic connection : jung: 'trees in particular were mysterious, and seemed to me direct embodiments of the incomprehensible meaning of life.' : flowers, flowers, flowers : charles williams describes the way of rejection (center) as best depicted by dionysius the areopagite, and the way of affirmation (circumference) as best depicted by dante through beatrice : in canto 02 virgil is approached by beatrice who is approached by lucia, who is in turn approached by 'a lady in heaven, with grace enough to prevent the judgment' of dante, this unnamed woman thrice removed from dante is evidently Mary : mâle discusses st. bernard, who 'wrote at length on the Song of Songs applied all its metaphors to Mary' : regarding thirteenth century depictions of the annunciation, mâle: the appearance in this period of 'a symbolic detail ... a flower with a long stalk is placed in a vase between the Virgin and the angel' ... '... the mediæval doctors taught that the Annunciation took place in the springtime, "at the time of flowers," and they thought to find support for this in the name Nazareth, which signifies a "flower." So that St. Bernard could say : "The flower willed to be born of a flower, in a flower, at the time of flowers"