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Black Sabbath – The Sign Of The Southern Cross Lyrics 9 years ago
Oh, yeah, and one more thing related to summer --> falls, and some of the "demonic" stuff in the song. Manson was arrested on October 12, 1969, Alister Crowley's birthday. It's not a coincidence. Also, there is good widespread info that Crowley's "Satanism" was a cover for his British intelligence work in the 19th century.

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Black Sabbath – The Sign Of The Southern Cross Lyrics 9 years ago
Oh, yeah, and one more thing related to summer --> falls, and some of the "demonic" stuff in the song. Manson was arrested on October 12, 1969, Alister Crowley's birthday. It's not a mistake. Also, there is good widespread info that Crowley's "Satanism" was a cover for his British intelligence work in the 19th century.

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Black Sabbath – The Sign Of The Southern Cross Lyrics 9 years ago
@[TheMagnificentVoid:15486]
I'm inclined to agree with you regarding the knife. But I'm not sure the southern cross IS a religious symbol.

I've come back to this song after doing much research on the happenings in Laurel Canyon in the 60's and 70's (Manson-Tate murders-Bands of non-musicians hitting super stardom weeks after forming-Jim Morrison son of Real Admiral Morrison, fleet commander during Gulf of Tonkin-etc.) Th Byrds, the first band out of the weird Laurel Canyon factory, had their first hit song "Eight Miles High". I'd always wondered where that came from, even though I'm 50 now, I was unfamiliar with the Byrds work, except very casually. That is an important clue here.
Dio had for a long time LOATHED the Hollywood machine. Check out his album Strange Highways for more.
Anyway, suffice it to say that the Official History of events are fiction. Likely many of the "dead" from that era headed south of the equator where they could see the "Sign of the Southern Cross" in the sky (it's a constellation). Since these supposedly dead people are traitors they would have no problem giving a knife to those that DID actually die.
One more:
"On a real world, west of wonder
Somewhere, nowhere all
There's a rainbow, see it shimmer
When the summer falls"
The Tate murders occured August 8, 1969 (and are considered the end of the peace/hippie movement by the movements' biggest REAL players) which is when summer --> falls. And the events and news frenzy went well into the fall.
Also, a large number of events in Laurel Canyon happened in and around Worderland Ranch. Tate was "murdered" in a house of Benedict Canyon, a small canyon west of WONDERland ranch.

EDIT: Oh and I'm not the only one to note the use of the "8 Miles High" refetence to the Byrds and that era. From American Pie, which chronicled that era as well
"Helter skelter in a summer swelter
The birds flew off with a fallout shelter
Eight miles high and falling fast"
http://www.lyricsfreak.com/d/don+mclean/american+pie_20042099.html

Tinfoil hat firmly on head.

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Black Sabbath – The Sign Of The Southern Cross Lyrics 9 years ago
@[TheMagnificentVoid:15484]
I'm inclined to agree with you regarding the knife. But I'm not sure the southern cross IS a religious symbol.

I've come back to this song after doing much research on the happenings in Laurel Canyon in the 60's and 70's (Manson-Tate murders-Bands of non-musicians hitting super stardom weeks after forming-Jim Morrison son of Real Admiral Morrison, fleet commander during Gulf of Tonkin-etc.) Th Byrds, the first band out of the weird Laurel Canyon factory, had their first hit song "Eight Miles High". I'd always wondered where that came from, even though I'm 50 now, I was unfamiliar with the Byrds work, except very casually. That is an important clue here.
Dio had for a long time LOATHED the Hollywood machine. Check out his album Strange Highways for more.
Anyway, suffice it to say that the Official History of events are fiction. Likely many of the "dead" from that era headed south of the equator where they could see the "Sign of the Southern Cross" in the sky (it's a constellation). Since these supposedly dead people are traitors they would have no problem giving a knife to those that DID actually die.
One more:
"On a real world, west of wonder
Somewhere, nowhere all
There's a rainbow, see it shimmer
When the summer falls"
The Tate murders occured August 8, 1969 (and are considered the end of the peace/hippie movement by the movements' biggest REAL players) which is when summer --> falls. And the events and news frenzy went well into the fall.
Also, a large number of events in Laurel Canyon happened in and around Worderland Ranch. Tate was "murdered" in a house of Benedict Canyon, a small canyon west of WONDERland ranch.

Tinfoil hat firmly on head.

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