IVIV (1) Shasta

[János Székely]

So maybe it's time for another connection:
As one theory goes, the mountain was sighted and named by sailors from
the Russian  Empire. "Shasta" is Ukrainian for happiness.

János

2009/8/24 Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>:
>   "'That you, Shasta?'" (IV, Ch. 1, p. 1)
>
> http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/PENGN-EMS/InherentVice._V218759443_.pdf
>
>
> "Tonight she was all in flatland gear"
>
> As in straight?  Square?  Cf. ...
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatland
> http://www.ibiblio.org/eldritch/eaa/FL.HTM
> http://www.geom.uiuc.edu/~banchoff/Flatland/
> http://books.google.com/books?id=R6E0AAAAMAAJ
>
>
> Shasta
>
> Shasta is a soft drink brand that reached the peak of its popularity
> in the 1980s. Wikipedia. Note that Pynchon has named characters after
> soda before, e.g. Wicks Cherrycoke in Mason & Dixon.
>
> However, more to the point, "Shasta" is name-connected to Mt. Shasta,
> long believed by some to be where the Lemurians came after Lemuria
> sunk into the sea. They also believe in the presence of Bigfoot here,
> as well as wolfmen. See Mt. Shasta and the Lemurian Connection.
> Located near the northern end of California, Pynchon would likely have
> been familiar with this mythology.
>
> "Shasta McNasty" was also the name of a fictional band, the subject of
> a short-lived UPN sitcom. The members of the band were three slackers
> who lived in Venice Beach
>
> http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_1#Page_1
>
> Mount Shasta can be considered as one of the most sacred places on
> this planet. The mountain is a mystic power source for this planet;
> actually, this sacred mountain is an incarnation of the Great Central
> Sun of this universe. It is a focus for angels, spirit-guides,
> spaceships, masters from the Light Realm, and the home of the
> survivors of Ancient Lemuria, which sank under the waves of the
> Pacific Ocean a little over 12,000 years ago ...
>
> http://www.lemurianconnection.com/en/about-mount-shasta.htm
>
> Frederick Spencer Oliver's 1894 fantasy novel, A Dweller on Two
> Planets, is about the Lemurian race. In the novel, Lemurians who
> traveled to Mount Shasta when their continent sank beneath the Pacific
> Ocean, are now said to live inside the mountain in a series of
> tunnels. Several other authors have since expanded on these ideas.
> People still claim to have encountered Lemurians on Shasta.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Shasta#Cultural_references
>
> In a detailed personal history of Atlantis and 19th century North
> America, Phylos draws the threads of both lifetimes together in
> familiar and initiatic terms revealing equally their triumphs and
> failures and exposing the cause and effects of karma from one lifetime
> to another. His life story is written in personal testimony of the
> law: "whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap" and as a
> warning to this technological age to not repeat the mistakes of the
> past which lead to the cataclysmic destruction of "Poseid, queen of
> the waves".
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Dweller_on_Two_Planets
>
> Frederick S. Oliver, A Dweller on Two Planets (1905)
>
> http://www.sacred-texts.com/atl/dtp/index.htm
>
>
> Shasta
>
> http://www.shastapop.com/
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shasta_(soft_drink)
>
> With apologies to R. Fiero ...
>