The Nexus (Narcissus) Event & The Devil, Kronos: Loki S1 Ep4 | Marvelous DeMystifiers Ep. 19
Forging ahead into episode 4 of Marvel's Loki TV series with cohost Slick Dissident, "The Nexus Event" installment is once again dripping with syncromystic clues and symbols. Themes include the myth of Narcissus, the Devil (card) and Kronos, sacred mountains, the Word of God, and the civil war in heaven. Sure to be educational and fun even if you're not up to speed on the show we're examining, but for maximum comprehension, catch up on our whole series!
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In this episode
Core themes
Narcissus and Echo in the Nexus Event
The hosts read the episode through the myth of Narcissus. Chance said the pool in a forest, and Sylvie's name meaning of the woods, tied the scene to the myth, and one of the hosts added that an older telling made Narcissus a young man mourning a twin sister. The hosts read Sif's repeated strikes and half repeated line in Loki's time loop as Echo, who could only finish the end of a sentence. Chance noted that Mobius called Loki the ultimate narcissist, and that Loki was freed from the loop once he voiced real remorse.
The Devil Card and the Number Seventy
Chance pointed to the Hebrew letter Ayin on the Thoth devil card, which he said meant eye and spring and carried the value 70. He then traced words he said also added up to 70, among them a word for ring or circle, the phrase Adam and Eve, a word for howling, the word for wine and a word for a secret council. Gabe, who tipped Chance off to the devil card theme, described the Thoth card flipped upside down as a mosquito and tied cards six and fifteen to his Enneagram map.
Crown Chakra, Cronos and the Timekeepers
Chance connected the chandelier crown over Renslayer to the crown chakra, saying the word sounded like Cron, as in Cronos, and that the topmost level of the biofield was where a person's relationship to time sat. He described a master and slave pattern in which anyone ruling others also answered to someone above, and said government had replaced God for many people. He compared that to Renslayer serving the timekeepers. Later he read the runes behind the timekeepers, including Ingwaz and Kenaz, as symbols of a cycle.
Constellation Toys and Twin Mountains
Gabe shared a star map that placed the toys in young Sylvie's scene where the Argo Navis and the Antlia cluster sat in the night sky, and he suggested the placement was deliberate. Chance, citing John McHugh, said the Gemini twins were twin mountains to the Mesopotamians and read the opening view of Asgard as Mount Ararat after the ark. Chance also called Loki the Ship of Theseus in reverse, with the body unchanged and the personality replaced, and Gabe replied that redemption meant replacing everything on the interior.
Mobius, Seven Cards and Abstinence
Gabe placed the chariot and tower cards side by side to describe Mobius as an Enneagram seven, an epicure with a shadow of gluttony, and said Mobius practiced abstinence when he skipped his second drink. One of the hosts suggested alcohol played the role of soma, keeping people pacified, so that refusing it gave Mobius a clear view of the lies around him. Chance said Mobius took the advice of the devil card when he chose to go after what he wanted despite the discomfort. Gabe also noted that Mobius and B-15 entered scenes from the left once they had a change of heart.
Quotes
“I like to bring things back to the bio field anatomy. The crown actually sounds a lot like Cron, as in Cronos. And the topmost level of your bio field is where your relationship to time sits.”
“So Gabe is the one that tipped me off tonight that the episode four has a lot to do with the devil card. I think he was absolutely on the money. The themes of that are woven throughout the context of this episode, especially in that Old Testament Hebrew gematria way.”
“One discovery I've made with this devil card on the Thoth deck is that when you flip it upside down, it's actually a mosquito. It's a brilliant mosquito. I'm constantly shocked at how well it depicts a mosquito.”
“And this is him beginning to recapitulate and integrate his past, which is to heal. It's actually necessary for healing. If you want to change and become better, you have to recapitulate and integrate your past.”
“Escaping from time or Cronos means knowing that time has a circle. And I think that it has something to do with no longer using artificial speech or language, reverting to some kind of knowing instead of symbolizing, or at the very least for our words to become impeccable and no longer have any lag between what we feel, what we think, what we know and what we say.”
“I think, Chance, a lot of these hidden anagrams in our language, I think those are the real gears in the springs, the spring-loaded mechanisms that cause us to make choices and maybe tip us into mandatory decision-making more than we thought. I think there are certain mechanisms hidden inside of our language that perpetuate the machine, that keep the mechanics going.”
“I thought it's a funny paradox, because they say there's no magic at the TVA, but they're listening to theremin music, which, of all instruments, might be the most seemingly magical, because you don't touch it. You're just waving your hands around and making ghostly sound coming out of the air.”
“The part of the universe that is all one is the life force energy. Like your life force, my life force, the spark that animates all our vessels and containers, it's why we can do stuff like biofield tuning from a distance over a Zoom call, because the cues I get from the thing that animates my body is the same thing that's animating your body.”
“That term spoilers, it really is taking on interesting light in this film because they don't want to spoil the sacred timeline. And if they do spoil the sacred timeline, then they have to be pruned. And so the idea of spoiling and pruning, these are agricultural terms.”
“What I would say about this is how humans don't remember the cycle that binds everything. She's talking about her nexus event, nexus means bind. So religion is the replacement for the true nexus. Religion, relegare, means bind, and it's a means to remembering the cycle or the circle.”
“Our boy Mobius is an enthusiast of jet skis, and jet skis are ideal for a floating city. Venice is sometimes referred to as the floating city, and now all of this is fascinating to me because I happen to believe, and I have a lot more learning to do about this, but I believe that Utopia is a free-floating concept that is evoked a thousand different ways.”
“I like the fact that the artist didn't miss the opportunity to take it beyond what is sexual, to take it into the animalistic, to the truly bestial insect, into the insect kingdom. I think the insects get forgotten in totem magic. So that's why I like this devil card, because it includes the insect kingdom as well.”


















