The cosmic dance

Monday, May 26, 2008

The mystery of "ZoSo"

The love for Beelzebub, The lord of the Lepidosaurias was rushing through his blood as a sickly satisfying pain as he ran his fingers down the fretboard of his Gibson dualneck guitar only to play a solo for his fellow metalheads. Solos which have become rhymes to the wide metalhead society. Yes, It's none other than Jimmy Page from the famous English rock group Led Zeppelin. Page was a follower of the serpents, an assumed diabolist , an adherent of Alister Crowley. Page invariably abnegated the press, his love for the Anti-Christ. No one else on this cursed yet beautiful planet could write music to Robert Plant's lyrics the way Page did. He could paint a picture of Behemoth in mind of the priest with his music. Late 1971 when the band came out with a new album "Led Zeppelin IV", the band decided that each band member would have a symbol of his own. Symbols which represents or rather rede their lifestyle and individual auditory perception to the world. All band members culled out symbols for themselves which beseemed them well. One symbol, an eldritch one, enigmatically drew my attention towards it. It read "ZoSo".I later determined that it was Page's symbol. I couldn't afford to waste a moment, I rushed thirstily to where ever I could rush to, to learn more about "ZoSo". The vast internet was the key. I couldn't find a better place for this orphic research. So, here it is, this is what the internet reded me about "ZoSo".

Page designed his own symbol, that is "ZoSo". According to my thesis after a long search into the unpopular or rather less-travelled sites. The thesis bewrayed that Zoso symbolizes a near-death or Tantric sex experience to unify the worlds of the living and the dead, and thus to reveal the secrets of the universe.But, I wasn't much convinced with this answer, cause deep down I knew it was too irrelevant or rather beside the point. Later I found out that Z in Zoso was the symbol used by astrologers for Capricorn, Jimmy's sun sign. So, I loaded my self again and wandered off in the cyberspace to find "ZoSo". While exploring the cyberspace for months and months, I drifted from my bone of contention. I did come back to it. I sighted the symbol ZoSo in 2 engrossing books. First in a Jimmy page fan sub which had beconed the link to Le Triple Vocabulaire Infernal Manuel du Demonoman, by Frinellan (a pseudonym for Simon Blocquel). This was in french. The whole book isn't available. But some parts of it are. Later I found the symbol in Fred Gettings dictionary of occult symbols. Accodring to Fred Gettings dictionary, the "oSo" part is the alchemical sign for Mercury. "Z" is the sign of Capricon, Jimmy's sun sign. As per Crowley's book "Equinox", The two 0's with dots in "oSo"represent 6, and the middle S also stands for 6. This makes it 666, the number of the beast. Also as per Cardan's Ars Magica Arteficii(1557) "oSo" pertains to Saturn, and could also have related to the rings which gave Saturn the appearance of changing shape to antediluvian astronomers.As per the same book, single circle with a dot in the center is a well known symbol for the Sun. The S could represent Saturn revolving around the sun. I also learnt that ZoSo is also considered as Depiction of Cerberus(Cerberos, Kerberos), the three-headed dog that guards the entrance to Hades.

After all this, ZoSo still persists as a mindbugging mystery to me. I guess it'll always be until I find an answer that meets my conception about ZoSo.