: Finally, the FIFTEEN cans of Pepsi-Cola evokes the FIFTEEN
: members of Skull & Bones selected each year, the black
: funeral bunting of the munus evokes the knowledge that
: Skull & Bones is part of the mysterious Brotherhood of
: Death,
In Scripture, the number 15 is a multiple of 5 (Grace or Favour), in fact it is 5 x 3 (3 being the number of divine perfection). Therefore, 15 refers to acts brought about by the energy of divine grace.
In the beginning of the Pepsi commercial, there are 15 cans in the possession of the king - hence this king is usurping that which belongs to all and the choice of 15 foreshadows an act from a higher authority that can be identified by the 15 of Gematria... That number is composed of the Hebrew letters Yod (10) and Heh (5) - these are the letters in the name YAH (as in Hallelu-YAH) - The Higher authority is therefore clear.
15 is also a combination of 7 (completion) + 8 (Resurrection), hence the certainty of a resurrection of Divine Perfection.
There is a fair bit on the significance of F2's seeming'resurrection' in my earlier post:
JANET'S HERALDIC SYMBOL? - Lazarus Artifex Estoile (views: 895)
Mammonator -- Sunday, 8 February 2004, 2:30 a.m.
http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=44164
The King takes the 1st of 15 cans for himself, and the number 1, as an ordinal, denotes primacy. This king's 'primacy' serves himself, not his people (unlike the LION of the tribe of Judah who "made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a servant" Phil. 5:7).
Hence, it is little surprise that 14 would fall into the arena, for more on that, see:
SYMBOLIC MEANINGS BEHIND 14 + a LION (views: 539)
Mammonator -- Sunday, 15 February 2004, 7:09 p.m.
http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=44560
: At the conclusion of the video, the three gladiatrix -- the
: two fair-skinned Catervarii and the Retarii -- grab cans of
: Pepsi to quench their own thirsty voices
All things that are specially complete are stamped with the number 3.
And these three
: gladiatrix, [who] are "expected to fight each
: other", but instead, "they band together, as they
: should, to overthrow the King."
Clearly, this is seen as a benefit to the people in the enthuisiastically cheering crowd.
We now have 11 cans and...
: The victorious vixens then scoop up the
: "treasure" held so selfishly by the King, and
: they each participate in offering this bounty to the people
: at large.
11 is one more than 10 (the perfection of Divine order) and is therefore the undoing of that order, but 11 is also one less than 12 (the perfection of Divine government) and therefore falls short of that mark.
: [the Pepsi can] "treasure chest," so like pirates' booty, are
: given away at the end of the drama, tells its own
: miraculous tale. That is, "the treasure which has been
: stolen by those who style themselves the Kings of
: Death" has been reclaimed, so drink Pepsi , and get
: your own [rightful] share of the treasure .
So, either way, 11 marks disorder, disorganization, imperfection and disintegration. But, if we recognize that an act of Divine favour is being symbolized to identify a governmental usurper (the king), then the former order must be first 'dis-ordered' and disintegrated in order for the new order that serves the people.
Blessings,
Mammonator
: HERE IS A CLOSE ANALYSIS OF THE NEW PEPSI-COLA ADVERTISEMENT,
: RECENTLY RELEASED IN GREAT BRITAIN --
: Firstly, for our valued readers who have not yet viewed this
: new video advertisement from Pepsi, here is the link, which
: will allow the ad to be played as a streaming file (
: broadband ), or downloaded to a Windows-viewable file via
: dial-up connection --
:
: http://www.pepsi.co.uk/music/videomusic.asp?artist_id=12
:
: The production values of this music video-style advertisement
: are strictly first-class, and the three singers selected to
: play female gladiators are among the most popular and
: successful pop entertainers in the world: Britney Spears
: has, of course, represented Pepsi-Cola for some time, but
: her recent "publicity" binge appears to have been
: a stunt of some kind. Savvy readers will recall her recent
: "binge", wherein she ran off to Las Vegas with an
: young man from her home town, and enjoyed about fifty-five
: hours of being married to him. It was then annulled in a
: very public way and quickly forgotten.
: THE GLADIATRIX
: Although she is not the first one to appear in the video,
: Aelicia Moore of Doylestown, Pennsylvania is the first
: female gladiator to enter the arena of the amphitheater.
: She is also the first one to begin singing. Raised in
: Philadelphia and known by her stage name of Pink , she
: appears without her shocking pink hair. Rather her hair is
: silky, long and nearly platinum blonde, suggesting that she
: was taken captive from the Suevi ( ancestors of the Swiss
: ), or from a Teutonic tribe from across the Rhine. By
: tradition, gladiators were usually recruited from captives
: taken in battle, from slave families, and occasionally from
: 'freeborn' persons who hired out to fight.
: She wears the metal shoulder piece called a galerus and what
: appears to be a chain-mail bikini top, and the short apron
: or subligaculum which is also armored. Appearing without
: a partner, "Pink" would thus be a Teutonic or
: German Catervarii, the specific Roman term for gladiators
: who appeared in groups, unpaired. Her weapon is the Mace,
: rounded with barbs and she carries the small Thracian
: shield.
: First to appear in the video, but third to enter the arena,
: Beyonce Giselle Knowles was born in Houston, Texas and is
: now twenty-two years old. Her appearance suggests that this
: gladiator was taken captive in either southern Egypt or
: another part of northern Africa, for her skin is dark but
: her hair is auburn with golden highlights. In modern terms
: she might appear to be a Berber or an inhabitant of
: Ethiopia. She wears no helmet or armor but has a tiara-like
: band of gold on her head.
: As a gladiator she is outfitted in the style of the Retiarii,
: carrying the three-pronged Fuscina or Trident harpoon,
: and the net called a rete. In Roman times the Retiarii
: would usually also have a dagger but no sword. Knowles is
: photographed in a posed position before entering the arena,
: enveloped in a soft blue haze or light, suggesting she is a
: Mermaid or a supernatural woman of the Mediterranean sea.
: She does not wear the galerus but stylized golden
: shoulder-pieces.
: Appearing third in the video, entering the arena second, is
: the gladiator played by Britney Jean Spears of Kentwood,
: Louisiana. Aptly named Britney, she appears as a kind of
: captive Briton and evokes the legendary Queen Boudicca, who
: led a revolt against Roman occupation in 61 A.D. She wears
: the galerus and carries the short Thracian sword. Her
: attire definitely evokes royalty or a royal origin, as her
: breastplate-top bears two eight-pointed stars [
: geometrical, not specifically like the eight-pointed
: medallion which graced the bared breast of Janet Jackson at
: the recent Super Bowl show ]. So, too, her stylized
: headband evokes the status of a princess or a Queen of a
: Britannic tribe.
: Strutting out in order, and surveying the cheering throngs,
: after tossing their weapons to the dirt floor of the arena,
: Pink begins the "we will, we will rock you"
: chant, and then Britney, Beyonce and Pink sing the lyrics
: in sequence. Their voices are precisely modulated and each
: one has its own characteristics accentuated. Pink is raspy
: and rough, Britney is melodious and vixenish, Beyonce is
: daring and dramatic, sensual and graceful.
: THE ARENA AND THE MUNERATOR OR DOMINUS
: The way the amphitheater or colosseum is shot for this video,
: it appears stylized from any of a number of similar places
: where gladiatorial combats were held. Defined as a munus ,
: the presentation of gladiatorial combats evolved from
: Etruscan times, and was adopted by Romans originally for
: the purpose of completed a funeral procession ( including a
: pyre ). The suggestion of a funeral celebration is made in
: the video by the prominence of black bunting, draped
: conspicuously in "M" shapes. Thus, too, the host
: of the munus is called an "editor," munerator or
: dominus. The person presenting a gladiatorial combat could
: be a public official, which usually meant the fighting was
: a part of a celebration or festival, or a private person.
: Under the Republic, when a private person hosted the munus,
: they were allowed to display emblems or insignia of a
: magistrate. Women were included in gladiatorial combats
: after the end of the republic and the beginning of the
: Empire.
: In the video for this Pepsi ad, the munerator is played by
: Enrique Iglesias ( or 'Henry Church' ), who is also a
: popular young singer. In the first part of the video he
: takes a Pepsi from a large bronze chest, which appears to
: contain fifteen cans of the soft-drink, and as the
: vibrations of the crowd chanting and beating drums grows in
: volume, the bronze chest slides off the pedestal on which
: it rests and falls into the arena. The reaction of the
: pedestal springing back propels the munerator, who appears
: dressed as a Roman consul or noble, into the arena as well.
: At the conclusion of the video, the three gladiatrix -- the
: two fair-skinned Catervarii and the Retarii -- grab cans of
: Pepsi to quench their own thirsty voices, and then proceed
: to toss Pepis-Cola into the wildly-cheering crowd. It is at
: this point that the Lion appears behind the shocked
: munerator ( Iglesias ).
: A MOST MEANINGFUL COMMENT
: Captured for all interested viewers, Pink makes a comment on
: the production of the video for the Pepsi advertisement.
: She notes that the three girls come out into the arena as
: gladiatrix, where they are "expected to fight each
: other", but instead, "they band together, as they
: should, to overthrow the King." Given that Rome was
: not ruled by a regular king, after the collapse of the
: Republic, but by an Emperor, this strongly suggests that
: the munerator -- 'Henry Church' or Enrique Iglesias -- is a
: King of some notability who is hosting the munus as a
: funeral celebration !!! The fact that he is young and
: handsome appears to be irrelevant to the sentiment of the
: crowd in attendance. He is a singular character, he sits
: alone in the box, with his "treasure trove" of
: Pepsi, and even his advisors ( pictured standing well
: behind him ), appear to be laughing at him.
: Thus, the inescapable conclusion of this presentation, made
: with great skill and at considerable expense, is that these
: three are captives of this King, each wearing a headband
: which suggests some royal standing of their own (
: individual sovereignty ), each representing an ethnic
: strain or bloodline.
: Spears represents the rebel queen of the Roman occupation of
: Brittania, and thus rebellious British-Americans of 1776,
: and their Anglo-Celtic origins. Moore represents the
: Teutonic bloodline of immigration to the United States both
: in the colonial era and afterwards, and she comes out of
: the modern Philadelphia music scene. Knowles represents
: what has to be called 'the Creole strain' of the American
: population, being so obviously a combination of both
: African and French Creole characteristics, and all baked to
: a beautiful golden brown in the Texas sun. Nor can the
: video be viewed without noticing that these three young
: singers are physically beautiful and artistically talented.
: The associations to be made here are also inescapable. Musical
: ability trumps their skill with weapons, the three young
: gladiatrix refuse to fight each other in the arena, and the
: "King" is literally thrown over and to the Lions.
: The victorious vixens then scoop up the
: "treasure" held so selfishly by the King, and
: they each participate in offering this bounty to the people
: at large.
:
: Finally, the FIFTEEN cans of Pepsi-Cola evokes the FIFTEEN
: members of Skull & Bones selected each year, the black
: funeral bunting of the munus evokes the knowledge that
: Skull & Bones is part of the mysterious Brotherhood of
: Death, and the fact that fourteen cans in the
: "treasure chest," so like pirates' booty, are
: given away at the end of the drama, tells its own
: miraculous tale. That is, "the treasure which has been
: stolen by those who style themselves the Kings of
: Death" has been reclaimed, so drink Pepsi , and get
: your own share of the treasure .
: Pictured below: Aelicia "Pink" Moore rocks out --
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