Ouroboros, the Divine Wind & Spaghetti in Loki S2 Ep1 (Pt. 2) | Marvelous DeMystifiers 24
Tonight we continue our decode of Marvel's Loki series, with the rest of Season 2, Episode 1: Ouroboros. It's a doozy with more to say about 111 and the Fool card, the divine spirit & breath of God, the ancient motif of the crucified savior, the fiction of Black Holes and spaghettification, the mystery of the letter A (Aleph, Alpha, etc.), and a whole lot more. This content will be fascinating and educational even for those who never watched the TV series that we're decoding, so don't miss out!
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In this episode
Core themes
Gematria and the Number 111
One of the hosts explained that the Hebrew word aleph spelled out equals 111, and traced that number through the episode: the young girl in the elevator, Ouroboros as a priest of the Lord, the hallway numbers 11 through 99, and the word for ohm. The same host said the 11 through 99 sequence added up to 495 and that 495 matched a Hebrew phrase for dust of the ground in Genesis. A viewer in the chat noted that 495 divided by 11 gives 45, the value of Adam, and the hosts tied that to the Enneagram. They treated these as patterns they noticed in the episode.
The Divine Wind and the Windbag Fool
One of the hosts argued that the Fool card carried a bag of wind, and linked Loki's landing in a mail truck, the pneumatic tubes and the name Ouroboros to words for spirit and breath such as aura, pneuma, psyche, spiritus and ruach. That host read passages from the author Nimrod and listed Bible verses about wind and breath. He also described Loki's time slipping as metempsychosis, a soul cycling through ages, and said the season followed Loki breaking out of that wheel.
Wheels, Crucifixion and the Phoenix
Chance described the Iynx wheel, Hecate's wheel and Ixion on the wheel as symbols he read as crucifixion, a sacrifice by oneself to oneself, and tied them to the Hunger Games mockingjay and the word jinx, asking Gabe about the jinx game. Later, as Loki pruned himself with the time stick, one of the hosts called it a phoenix moment, and Gabe noticed that the ringing phone and the word phoenix share a sound, which Chance thanked him for. The hosts framed all of this as their own symbolic reading of the series.
Gabe's Enneagram and Tarot Weaves
Gabe tied the episode to his Enneagram work throughout. He said the villain looked like Machiavelli, whom he called his number three Empress card on the Slick Dissident channel, and he described Ouroboros's cauldron table as a chef's workstation with the onion as a key ingredient. He said Robert Sapolsky's talk of hormones fit his view that the Enneagram was the endocrine system, and he pointed out that the code number 1127 read like Y2K in reverse and like 911. Other parts of the show added Hebrew letter and tarot correspondences.
Spaghettification, Black Holes and Fiction
One of the hosts described spaghettification as a fictional idea and argued that black holes moved from science fiction to accepted belief, saying the photographs shown were not proof to him. The same host linked the Latin spaga, meaning string, to space, and mentioned the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Gabe said that if the linchpin of the black hole story were pulled out, the whole industry behind it would fall. Chance tied the temple as an open space for observing time to Einstein's ideas about space and time.
Quotes
“You know, inspire, respire, filled with the breath of God, you're inspired, enthusiasm. When you're inspired, you have enthusiasm, entheos, right? The fool has a lot of that enthusiasm. He's inspired, he's going out on a journey, right? He's got his windbag, he's carrying the bag of wind over his shoulder.”
“When I'm tuning somebody's biofield I know how old they were when something happened that is stuck in the back of their mind and their subconscious causing programming. It's literally in a time chronological order the way it shows up in people's aura.”
“So Godfrey Higgins, Anacalyptus, he says, the wheel denotes the world of which she is the spirit and the cross, the sacrifice made for that world. Iynx is used for love, desire, appetition and thence the Latin word, jungo, meaning I unite. So what's Jung all about? He's about uniting the anima and animus, the masculine and feminine within, jungo.”
“The templum is an open space for augural observation. So it's a space, but they're dealing with time in that space. So in terms of Einstein, he's in relativity theories, just professing the ancient mystery tradition.”
“This bird in the Hunger Games is a mockingjay. There's the echo repeating what others say. What do you, Gabe, what do you say when two people say the same thing and echo each other at the same moment?”
“So Loki, he's the eternal aspect of being. So he's always in the present. He's not temporal. Regardless of where he's showing up, he's not in the past or the future. He's always in the present for himself.”
“Well, I'm also talking about hiding the profound under the profane. And this is what the stoic lens will give to you. And so as soon as it smells like poop, you should dig deeper. Because there's something hiding underneath all that.”
“The word hormones comes from the mother of the muses, Hermione. Our boy Robert Sapolsky wants all causality in the universe to thread through your hormones. Well, little does he know that that is the mother of the nine muses who are also the enneagram. And the enneagram is the endocrine system.”
“I can't look at you in the eye, Chance. I try to, but you're just a guy over here on the side. If I wanted to look you in the eye, I'd have to look at this weird thing in my screen, and now I'm not looking at you. I'm looking at myself. So we're not looking eye to eye anymore. Nobody is.”
“Chance, it's Y2K in reverse. Y is a seven, two, K is 11. It's Y2K in reverse, which is totally the 911 in code just packed out the other way.”
“Imagine the art card is a chef preparing a meal in this cauldron. The cauldron is also Ouroboros' table, the cauldron. And the onion is a key ingredient to any chef's masterpiece.”
“Notice we're talking about the black hole, this great big lie that has a whole industry built up behind it. And if you pull the linchpin out of that, then all the confetti in the hall, the realization of reality comes tumbling down.”
Gabriel, known on air as Slick Dissident, co-hosts InnerVerse's Vibe Rant show and is a longtime recurring guest on the podcast. He teaches occult symbolism and tarot on his YouTube channel, ranging across the Major Arcana, the esoteric Enneagram, mythology and archetype, mystic linguistics, and the symbolism hidden in popular film. He is best known for Tarot-tories, his own system mapping the 22 Major Arcana and zodiac archetypes onto the geography of the United States.
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