6+6+6 coronation

http://www.boston.com/sports/other_sports/olympics/articles/2012/08/05/phelps_collects_18th_gold_medal_in_final_race/

18th gold medal (6+6+6)

Somerset is the home of Glastonbury Tor!

The Babylon angle

Glastonbury Tor made a surprisingly strong Babylon "scene" - we are so used to having Babylon towers in almost all Olympics.

The hill is really worth noting for the fact that the castle is missing...

...as was mentioned by Bob Schlenker a few days back.

The tree on the Olympic version represents the underworld as proven by the fact (at least to me, anyway) the coal miners (who work in the mines underground, obviously) came up magically from under the uplifted tree...

The underworld (also the name of the musical producers for the evening by no coincidence) is one of the big 2012 themes; doesn't that make you just a bit squeamish?  What lives in the underworld that you want to be a part of?  Chained nephilim?  people in hell?

When the miners came out at first, I honestly thought they were going to be zombies and would immediately pounce on the pagan kids playing on the maypole and the Celtic villagers picking vegetables.

But I digress.  Glastonbury Tor is kind of a Babylon.  For one thing, it looks like the tower of Babylon:

Moreover, Glastonbury Tor used to have a tower atop of it that crashed to the ground when an earthquake struck in the 1200's on a 9/11 date!

Wow factor

The Newspaceman alerted me in his recent blog post that he thinks perhaps William of Wales could be the cauldron lighter in the Opening Ceremony:

http://newspaceman.blogspot.com/2012/07/the-wow-moment.html

Add that to this, the wow signal, a strong signal heard by SETI in August 15, 1977:

William may not be the final torch bearer -- but these things are worth keeping in mind, especially since the "Green and pleasant land" part of the Opening Ceremonies may center around Glastonbury Tor and King Arthur.

The tree

http://theopenscroll.blogspot.com/2012/07/part-28-2012-london-olympics-ripples.html