This building called "The Orbit" has been unveiled in advance of the London Olympics. (Remember the olympic games are an act of worship to the "gods" of ancient Greece) - Opening "Ceremony" !!!
The Finished design, built next to the main new stadium, starts as an abstract, tower, with red (snake-like) steelworks spiralling up around it.
Here's an early sketch by the "artist"
The 'artist', Anish Kapoor, got inspiration from "The tower of Babel" (Like the EC building in Strasbourg)
"...You need to journey round the object, and through it. Like a Tower of Babel, it requires real participation from the public” — Anish Kapoor
You can verify the link between this construction and the Tower of Babel (symbol of global rebellion though humanist/occult "unity") on Mr Kapoor's own web page here: http://www.anishkapoor.com/332/Orbit.html
“There is a kind of medieval sense to it of reaching up to the sky, building the impossible. A procession, if you like. It's a long winding spiral: a folly that aspires to go even above the clouds and has something mythic about it.” — Anish Kapoor
Some dictionary definitions of the word ORBIT (Emphasis in Bold, is mine)
1. the curved path, usually elliptical, described by a planet, satellite, spaceship, etc., around a celestial body, as the sun.
2. the usual course of one's life or range of one's activities.
3. the sphere of power or influence, as of a nation or person: a small nation in the Russian orbit.
4. Physics.(in Bohr theory) the path traced by an electron revolving around the nucleus of an atom.
5. Anat. - an ancient semitic war goddesss - cohort of Baal (Wikilink)
6. the bony cavity of the skull that contains the eye; eye socket. the eye.
7. Zool.the part surrounding the eye of a bird or insect.
Here's the creepy Mascots for the games...
The one on the left (with the pyramid and eye on it’s head) is called “Wenlock” after the Shropshire town of Wenlock in the UK; where in 1850, a Dr William Penny Brookes founded the Wenlock Olympian Society Annual Games. This inspired the revival of the “Olympic” games in Athens in 1896
The word mascot is used to describe anything which brought luck to a household. The word is derived from masqu - meaning "masked" or "concealed" as in Masquerade. ("for Satan himself, masquerades as an angel of light etc?")
It is slang among gamblers, derived from the Occitan word masco, meaning “witch” (perhaps from Portuguese mascotto, meaning "witchcraft"), and also mascoto, meaning “spell”
It is slang among gamblers, derived from the Occitan word masco, meaning “witch” (perhaps from Portuguese mascotto, meaning "witchcraft"), and also mascoto, meaning “spell”
Do the 'Nimrod stance' anyone?
Oh and here's a picture of "The Shard" - another building going up in London at the moment...
Sleep well tonight...
