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Tuesday, March 17, 2009 - post date

At the Golden Inn, South Austin

I left resonating with Tahlequah, and this time first seen in dreams.

I left loving the 'quah!!!

A brief stop in Dallas. A night stroll in Dealy Square, and the Grassy
Knoll, the place of the intensification of our on-going national
derangement, our on-going national defining/revealing, our on-going
national apocalypse.

And then my tent was pitched in the front yard of the Temple of the
Goddesses, South Austin's equivalent of Lima, Peru's Golden Inn as
described by the Prophet Herman Melville in 'Moby Dick', the home of
Megan, and Kaila, and Krista, and Megan's sister Bailey Kate who is
visiting with their friends Lacy and Bobby, and this beautiful world
of South Austin women.

The Golden Inn chapter of 'Moby Dick' is the only part of the novel
that takes place after the apocalypse, after the Pequod has been
staved in and has gone down with all - except the one who will tell
the truest word, the greatest, whitest American Myth.

The Golden Inn chapter is the key to the Sacred American Literature.
This chapter is the key to the book (see The Mutiny at
www.libbyhome.blogspot.com ).

There are clues for those who can read.

The Golden Inn is the chiche (corn beer) house of the surviving,
underground Incan Nobility of Peru in the 1850's, the last resistance
to the Inquisition.

Chiche means spit in Spanish. Only women's spit would do the divine
alchemy of fermenting the corn to make the corn beer.

And yet Incan Nobility would not drink the chiche of any woman. They
only drank the chiche fermented by the saliva of the Ahkalona, the
chosen women, the Goddesses.

The Golden Inn is the Temple of the Goddesses. It is where Ishmael is
delivered from the Ocean, from not human realms, from Oceanic Mystery,
from a relentlessly masculine world (the whale fishery).

Here at the Golden Inn he sets his feet on land again. And what a
landfall. He is immediately immersed in a totally female context, a
place of the Beauty and Mystery of the Goddesses.

When the Goddesses order him to explain hisSelf, he must comply.

And in the explaining is the interpreting.

Here he gives interpretation.

And in this interpretation is post-apocalyptic awareness, a narrative
of the experiencing of transcendence, a growing in the resonation with
the other.