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Zone Five
The Numeral 5
The figure five (5) - echoed by the (upper-case) letter ‘S' - is of the ophidiansymmetric type (see ‘two').
The still widely used Roman numeral V (upper-case letter ‘V') - despite
appearing as a quasi-alphabetical numeral - is actually a numerical figure of a
far older type, exhibiting a vestigial link to pre-symbolic tallying systems
(such as the ‘five-bar gate' (see ‘one')).
The figure ‘5' designates the number five, the third odd number (with
odditude of 2), and the third prime (fifth prime = 11).
Five is one of the two prime factors of the decimal module (with two), a fact
that is usually attributed to the number of fingers on one hand. It is on this
basis that five serves as modulus or submodulus in many counting (and
currency) systems.
Five digitally cumulates to fifteen.
Numeric Keypad direction: Centre.
The number five has particularly strong anthropomorphic associations, due to
its multiple connections with human biological organization. These are not
restricted to the five digits per limb (so crucial to the social history of
numeracy), but extend also to structural dimensions as varied as the five
senses (sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch), and the five spinal-levels
(coccygeal, sacral, lumbar, dorsal, cervical). These anthropomorphic
resonances are disturbed, however, by instances of fundamentally pentagonal
body-plans - pre-eminently that of the star-fish - which is intrinsic to the
aberrancy of the Lovecraftean Old Ones.
In monotheistic traditions the number five is associated with doctrinal
authority, as evidenced in the Pentateuch (or five books of Moses), and in the
five pillars of Islam (the ‘arkan,' or five ritual duties).
In occult circles the importance of the number five is even more emphatic, as
indicated by the five elements of Chinese alchemy, and by the designs of the
pentagram, the pentazygon, and the the Atlantean Cross (with its five
‘stations').
Secular relics of the authoritative sense of five can be found in the ‘Five-year
plans' of command economies, in the geopolitical symbolism of The Pentagon,
and perhaps in the near-universal prestige invested in Intel's ‘Pentium'
processor.
The Fifth Planet: Jupiter
Jupiter (or Sol-5) has a mean orbital distance from the sun of approx. 778 330
000 km. The Jovian year is roughly 11.9 Earth years in length, and its day
about 9.9 hours long.
Jupiter is the innermost gas-giant, and by far the largest planet in the Solarsystem, accounting on its own for more than two-thirds of total planetary
mass. It has an extremely powerful magnetic field (its magnetosphere
extends beyond the orbit of Saturn).
Jupiter has sixteen moons. The four largest (or Galilean) moons are Callisto,
Europa, Ganymede, Io. Galileo's observations of these bodies provided crucial
evidence for the Copernican revolution. The oceans of Europa have been
frequently identified as potential habitations for alien life (a neomyth shared
by Arthur C Clarke, who also populated Jupiter with his alien ‘Monoliths').
The most distinctive feature on the Jovian surface is the Great Red Spot, a
vast self-sustaining storm.
The size, position, and orbital regularity of Jupiter has led to it being credited
with a crucial role in protecting the inner solar-system from meteoritic and
cometary bombardment.
Jupiter (or Jove, latinizing the Greek Zeus) is the sovereign of the Gods. As
god of the sky, and of storms, he has been systematically cross-identified
with the Abrahamic Jehovah.
In Lemurian Planetwork Jupiter is astrozygonomously paired with Mars.
(Between Mars and Jupiter lies the asteroid belt, widely hypothesized to be
the fragments from a destroyed intermediate planet).
System Notes
Zone-5 is the sixth of the six Torque-region Zones of the Numogram, and
Tractor-Zone of the 7-2 (or 'Hold') Current. Its Syzygetic-twin is Zone-4. This
5+4 Syzygy (carried by the demon Katak) draws the innermost curve of the
Barker-spiral, with Zone-5 itself marking its central and terminal node (or
'inner-eye').
Zone-5 both initiates and envelops the Fifth-Phase of Pandemonium
(including 32 impulse-entities). Horovitz remarks specifically upon the
qabbalistic resonance of these values. In its initiatory aspect Zone-5 functions
as the Fifth (or Hyperborean) Door, attributed by Muvian sorcery to the
amphidemon (and imp of the first degree) Tokhatto (5::0). In the inner
esoteric circles of the AOE this demon is reverenced as the Angel of the
Decadence Pack, and even identified with the Archangel Meteka (associations
reinforced by numerous qabbalistic peculiarities).
The Fifth Gate (Gt-15) connects Zone-5 to Zone-6, and its corresponding
channel tracks the path of abductions into the Warp.
Zone-5 is allotted the Sarkonian Mesh-Tag 0031.
Lemurian subcultures associate Zone-5 with Hyperborean or Wendigo
mythology. Zone-5 mirrors Zone-2 and shares in its Crypt-linked themes of
missing time and alien abduction.
Centauri subdecadence maps Zone-5 onto the active side of the Third (or Left)
Pylon on the Atlantean Cross. As the light aspect of Apocalypse (‘destructive
influences’) it corresponds to decision, judgement, and war.
Stillwell links Zone-5 to the Munumese quasiphonic particle ‘ktt’ (the
Horowitzean ‘paravocal tic’).
Stillwell’s ethno-topography of the Nma allocates Zone-5 to the upland rain
forests of the Tak Nma, and through the Mu Nma hydrocycle mythos to the
monsoon.
Zone-5 totem animals are predominantly hybrid bird-reptile forms (with the
art of the Highland Tak described by Cecil Curtis as ‘a flapping howling chaos
of flying worms, bat-monsters and barking snakes’).
Phase-5 Lemurs
[M#10] 5::0 Tokhatto
[M#11] 5::1 Tukkamu
[M#12] 5::2 Kuttadid
[M#13] 5::3 Tikkitix
[M#14] 5::4 Katak