Friday, December 7, 2018

Pete Shelley died yesterday

He formed the Buzzcocks with Howard Devoto. He put out a lot of other songs you might like better than this one, Homosapiens, but I like the Wepwawet he chose to put in this video. It brings me closer. It's a good one too.

Know what wepwawet means? The syllables mean "opener of the ways" Here, I'll break it down for you.


The bull horns mean the word "wep" meaning "open" like Trump singing "I wouldn't go to France." See how the horns spread? The parallel bars with the three bells on them is the word "wA", a pathway with three bushes on the sides meaning "pathway."  The three vertical lines is the phoneme "w," the sound they add to words for pluralization like we use "s." And the semicircle is the phoneme "t" with lots of meanings such as "bread" and it feminizes phrases and it adds the sound "t." They stick it all over the place to make phrase segments agree in gender. Thus wep-wA-w-t. The coyote is determinative for the whole thing meaning the god, also known as Anubis. It can be a human figure with the head of a coyote. And it can be on a box, a sarcophagus. 

Come on. Who else is going to tell you this?

So that's what Pete Shelley has placed prominently in his video. And that's why I like this song. It's a catchy tune. When you consider Pete Shelley played punk, new wave and power pop.

See what he's doing there symbolically? Anubis to desktop computer. Spinning to astronomy. Along with other symbols signifying history of humans.

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