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Zone Two
The Numeral 2
The figure two (2) is quasisymmetric with the figure five (5). This pairing is
echoed in the alphabet by the letters ‘Z' and ‘S' (whose shared consistency
across case and phonetic coherence has been taken by figural grammarians
as indicative of a zygophidian - or ‘forked-tongue' - cultural source).
The figure ‘2' designates the number two, the first and definitive even
number, and the first prime (second prime = 3).
The encounter with the irrationality of the square-root of two has special
importance in the disturbance of Hellenic (‘rationalistic') arithmetic. It is
rumoured that the Pythagoreans resorted to assassination in their attempt to
suppress this discovery.
Two digitally cumulates to three.
Numeric Keypad direction: South
The mechanical importance of bi-stable (on/off) micro-states within
contemporary electronic data-systems has resulted in a vast and diffuse
cultural investment in modulus-2 numeracy (pure place-value semiotics).
‘Digital' and ‘binary-coded' have now become almost synonymous in their
colloquial usage.
Perhaps the supreme exemplar of a binary-numeric system is that of the
ancient Chinese I Ching (or ‘book of changes'), which involves both binary
numeracy (of broken and unbroken lines) and double-numbering (of numeric
hexagrams tagged by a series of ordinal numbers). It is Leibniz' study of this
text which elaborates the first Western example of modern binary arithmetic.
The syzygetic (or zygonomous) power of two is a productive of an entire
series of subtly differentiated binary concepts, which include: coupling,
twinning, doubling, polarity, schism, contrast, balance, opposition, and
reflection.
Binarity is multiply ambivalent. It conspires with both the certainties of
analytical reason in general, by way of two-value logics (governed by the
principle of the ‘excluded middle'), and also the uncertainties of dialogue, or
‘two-way' communication. It is associated - equally or unequally - with both
justice (even-handedness, seeing both sides of a ‘dilemma'), and deceit (twofaced, two-timing, double-dealing ...).
Duality is particularly widespread within biological order, from the ‘basepairs' of (RNA and) DNA code, through the binary fission of bacterial
propagation, the (binary) sexual difference of meiotic reproduction, to the
bilateral symmetry of the typical vertebrate organism with consequent pairing
of limbs (arms, legs), sense-organs (eyes, ears), lungs, brain-hemispheres,
etc. ‘Dual-organization' provides a basic model for primordial human kinship
structure.
Many aspects of binarity are prominent within religious systems, whether
gods with two heads or faces (such as the Roman Janus, and the DeleuzeGuattari gods of the State), twin gods (the Dogon Nommo, or the Zoroastrian
couple Ahriman/Ormuzd), divine couples (god-goddess pairings being
widespread throughout many religions), and twice-born gods (both Zeus and
Dionysos amongst the Greek pantheon, for instance). Hindu culture describes
Brahmins as ‘twice-born.'
The Second Planet: Venus
Venus (or Sol-2) has a mean orbital distance from sun of 108.2 million km.
The Venusian year is approx. 224.4 Earth days in length. Since the rotation of
Venus is very slow (and also retrograde) a Venusian day (lasting 243 Earthdays) is longer than its year.
In recent times Venus has become the exemplary victim of a ‘runaway
greenhouse effect' which has rendered it infernal (with a uniform surface
temperature of +462 degrees celsius).
Venus has no magnetic field.
Venus has been historically identified by two different names, known as the
morning star (Phosphorous or Lucifer) when seen in the East at sunrise, and
the evening star (Hesperus) when seen in the West at sunset. The Roman
goddess Venus (a latinization of the greek Aphrodite) was the deity
associated with female beauty and love (accounting in part, perhaps, for
Burroughs' hatred of Venusians).
In Lemurian Planetwork Venus is astrozygonomously paired with Uranus.
System Notes
Zone-2 is the second of the six Torque-region Zones of the Numogram. Its
Syzygetic-twin is Zone-7. This 7+2 Syzygy is carried by the demon Oddubb
(see Zone-7).
Zone-2 both initiates and envelops the Second-Phase of Pandemonium
(including 4 impulse-entities). With cryptic rigor Horovitz thus describes
Zone-2 as "reduplicating its double-twinness though its multitude." As
initiator it functions as the Second Door, invoked by K-goth cults as the "Main
Lo-Way" into the Crypt. Muvian sorcery identifies this door with the
amphidemon (and imp of the first degree) Duoddod (2::0).
The Second Gate (Gt-3) connects Zone-2 to Zone-3, and its corresponding
channel draws an intense line of escape from the Torque to the Warp. This
passage is especially compelling, since it is multiply consolidated by
cumulation, prime-ordination, and mesh-tagging. Tzikvik shamanism both
honours and fears the Second Gate as the opening to the "way of the StormWorm."
Zone-2 is allotted the Sarkonian Mesh-Tag 0003.
Lemurian subcultures associate Zone-2 with crypt-navigation, occulted
cyberspace and the spectral / liminal populations of hallucination and time
fragmentation (greys, ghosts and zombies). Zone-2 mirrors Zone-5 and
shares in its ‘Hyperborean’ themes of time-lapse and abduction.
Centauri subdecadence maps Zone-2 onto the eclipsed side of the Second (or
Right) Pylon on the Atlantean Cross. As the dark aspect of Genesis (‘creative
influences’) it corresponds to epidemic fertility (bacterial fission, clones,
replicants, vampiric contagion).
Stillwell links Zone-2 to the Munumese quasiphonic particle ‘dt’ (the
Horowitzean ‘imploded fricative/fractured plosive’).
Stillwell’s ethno-topography of the Nma allocates Zone-2 to the interior
marshlands of the Dib Nma, and through the Mu Nma hydrocycle mythos to
mist, vaporization and hazing.
Zone-2 totem animals are modelled on metamorphic insects, principally
lepidoptera (moths and butterflies) but also dragonflies and dibboma
flashbugs.
Phase-2 Lemurs
[M#01] 2::0 Duoddod
[M#02] 2::1 Doogu