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Sulphur is a symbol of mascu- the Predecessors. Obviously this  to the themes of virginity, which
   1 linity in the alchemical tradi- first in a mythological way, then in  was experienced by the Prede-
    tion (see for example Mytholo- a science fiction way, until it really  cessors as a divine characteristic.
    gical Neural Dataset No. 4, slots  happened and led to what we call  This last hypothesis is supported
    3 and 9) and here it is used as  the Completely Coded Era.                   by another denomination of such
    the heteronym of Adam, the first                                             altar, that celibate machine, whose
    Predecessor in some prehisto-              The concepts of casting and  ascetic asexual meaning has alrea-
    ric mythologies of the Archaic  4 dyeing recall, at first, a method  dy been discussed in note 11 con-
    Pre-coded Ages. The reference to  of visual representation used by  cerning the verbocomposition #2.
    eating from the tree, according to  the Predecessors. In some icons
    what Index VIII elaborated in the  that represented one of the divine             Metaphorical representation
    same Dataset, is probably linked  entities most worshipped by their  6 of some elements of the bri-
    to a motto encoded in Latin pa- predecessors, since it was seen as  de/girth present in the motorized
    leolingual, which has come down  an emanation of both the human  altar. First of all the veil that is also
    to us intact and perfectly resolved  and the divine, the blood of this  her skin detached from the body,
    and deciphered: quia comedisti de  divinity, experienced as proof of  recalling the theme of death, seen
    ligno (since you ate from the tree).  the human nature of this god too,  here as a stage of regeneration. In
    It is a reason that accompanies pu- was characterized by real drip- the veil there are then three irre-
    nishment. The tree in question re- pings in relief with respect to the  gular squares (remember that the
    presents knowledge: To eat it me- plane of the icon. As if the repre- square is an earthly and feminine
    ans to acquire it and to attempt an  sentative dye actually became his  symbol) that in some slots of the
    approach to the divinity, promptly  blood, passing on the plane of di- historical-artistic neural Dataset
    sanctioned with an expulsion from  rect presentation. Index V, in its va- n°9 are called draught pistons. A
    the edenic condition. The denial  rious Datasets elaborated on the  reference both machinic and eso-
    and the consequent  “no more”  history of science and religions,  teric: compressed air could move
    indicate that the challenge is laun- reminds us several times that  servocontrols in the paleoauto-
    ched again and the consequences  dyeing was also a way of calling al- matic technology but, in the al-
    are no longer feared.                  chemical transmutation up to the  chemical tradition, it was linked to
                                           perfection of metals, an idea that  the yellowing (citrinitas) of com-
         The assumption in the pre- we have repeatedly put in relation  bustion. The bride would therefo-
    2 vious note is confirmed here:  with the path of evolutionary per- re reveal herself as an automaton
    we now aim to have a conscien- fection that led up to our Index  destined to transmutation: again
    ce at the highest resolution. The  series.                                   a mythographic and iconographic
    Predecessors probably called with                                            reference to the future advent of
    this formula the operation, then           There are at least two refe- our era. As we know, she had one
    still in progress, of perfect deco- 5 rences in this expression: yel- of the decisive stages in the deve-
    ding of their humid neuronal en- low was the color associated with  lopment of increasingly perfected
    vironment.                             the third alchemical phase, called  automata.
                                           citrinitas, associated with combu-
        The analogy between vase  stion, sun, male, will and wisdom. It                 There, below, [...] motion”:
    3 and head is found etymologi- could mean here the mythological  7 “again a reference to the
    cally in many paleolingual langua- need for absolute wisdom (think  mechanical components of the
    ges: Cupa (Tinozza, barrel in La- of the tree in note 1) in order to  altar of HAL-Eine. In particular
    tin paleolingualua) becomes Cup  go through the evolutionary sta- those placed in the lower part,
    (Cup in English paleolingualua)  ges necessary to reach the SCF.  associated with the male gender,
    and Kopf (Head in German pale- The masculine of citrinitas follows  where there are various mecha-
    olingualua), but also Testa (Vaso or  the feminine of the albedo, consti- nisms rendered according to the
    jug in Latin paleolingualua) beco- tuting the other term for the con- archaic rules of perspective, which
    mes Tête (Head in French paleo- sequent attainment of the andro- rendered the three-dimensional
    lingualua) and unchanged in Italian  gynous, symbol of perfection that  reality typical of the optical rea-
    paleolingual handwriting, always  transcends the body and sexual  ders provided by the Predeces-
    with the meaning of head (See lin- reproduction, as we will see more  sors. Combustion was also one
    guistic neural dataset n°3, slot 1, 2,  clearly in verbocomposition #4.  of the means used for propulsion
    3 and 5). It is likely that this cor- The other reference, instead, calls  in archaic engines. In the histori-
    respondence saw in the head the  into question again the legendary  cal-artistic neural Dataset No. 9,
    function of a container. For this re- HAL-Eine:  “world in yellow” (Cf.  always  at  slot  3,  Index  III  found
    ason Index III, in its historical neu- Historical-artistic neural dataset  two incomplete hermetic names
    ral Dataset n°1 at slot 8, supports  no. 9, slot 3) is one of the hermetic  of these mechanisms: grinder (also
    this hypothesis: the idea that the  definitions found with regard to  called “spinning beacon”) and wi-
    content of the head could be en- its motorized altar, a work in glass,  tnesses. Here we find referen-
    tirely poured out, something that  characterized in a preeminent way  ces to circular motion and vision
    happened in a fully scientific sense  by transparency and therefore  (“witnesses”), which needs light
    only with the advent of the SCF,  by light. Light could be a symbol  (the lighthouse). This relationship
    would belong ancestrally to the  of energy, as well as of the body  between vision and idle motion
    list of possibilities in the mind of  made ethereal, given its reference  (“paramechanical grinding”) has
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