The Gilded Cage and The Death of a Butterfly

Some old-school MK/psychological 'bird cage' symbolism/allegory I've focused on a lot (the deceased artist here illustrates perfectly what all the bird cage symbolism is largely about when used today by the media in modern times [on people like Dita Von Teese, Scientology slaves like Leah Remini ((below)) and countless others]), shown in early 20th Century British fine art here: "The Gilded Cage is an oil painting by Evelyn De Morgan, her final work before her death in 1919 [perhaps autobiographical?]. It is essentially an allegory for female captivity... Soaring free about the dancing group is a bird, which contrasts sharply to the captive bird in the gilded cage that hangs beside the woman's older husband. The husband seems oblivious to his wife's state of mind. On the floor and disregarded is jewelry and an open book, which signifies her rejection of tradition, convention, and old ideas [seems a bit interpretative that; more likely she is rejecting/doesn't care about some of the tools her husband used to control her/keep her with him (i.e. buying her jewelry, the man is facing this way as if he has just dropped the book due to her disinterest in his attempted 'entertaining' ((reading to her)) of his 'much younger' 'caged bird'; she'd much rather be out with the 'free as birds' gypsies who do not have these "luxuries" of 'elite' literature ((in the time it is depicting books were not overly common for poor people like gypsies)) and tempting her with jewels/diamonds)]. De Morgan includes art in her condemnation, as the books on the husband's desk are clearly labeled, "Poetry," "Music," and "Art.""

Leah Remini Photo Shoot - The funniest home videos are here
Leah played an aspiring model in 'Living Dolls' [something about watching these type of E videos is depressingly hilarious], with it's debut episode titled 'It's all Done With Mirrors' (i.e. the creation/programming of these 'living dolls' [most models]). I've watched a lot of King of Queens and remember the odd kitty cat shirt as I recall, but Kings/Queens are standard monarch suggestions anyway.

Another pertinent oil-painting of Eve's is 'The Death of a Butterfly', for obvious reasons. (again this is the same kind of symbolism/allegory they use in modern day media [also note the rainbow]) Evelyn was heavily into spiritualism and was a symbolist so I do not consider this to be anything sinister on her part (in fact I think she's revealing a lot of 'their' [i.e. the misogynistic society she grew up/existed in, which is now more underground but is certainly evident if you can view their controlled media with a critical eye] mentality).

The above Monarch Model is Natalia Vodianova, she was the model featured in the 'Alice in Wonderland' fashion shoot I posted a while back (images here, copied one below + added a new flamingo one). She is this blue-blooded asshole's kitten, the two images below (angel/bridge + masked/hood) come from the same set as the Monarch butterfly wings one.


Control your flamingo Alice!

Evelyn's 'The Prisoner' is above, note the peacock feather (more caged bird symbolism [note the window bars] + the peacock feather is a symbolic eye).


'The Love Potion' (note the black cat [gone into witches and why they have black cats in the past]; sex-kitten programming is the real 'potion'), this painting gives me a good excuse to post these images with model kitten Masha Novoselova with her black kitty cat + leopard print + chain, usual sex-kitten programming themes (also I've added above the Love Potion painting an image of Masha illustrating the peacock feather symbolism modern day usage [obviously tonnes more]).

Note her half face covered on the magazine's cover (+reptile/serpent skin).



Note the snake/serpent skin top also.





Are we all laughing at these gilded butterflies yet?

I wanted to paste this Hans Christian Andersen's (I posted on Hans' upbringing [the Danish king took a "personal interest" in him as a child, hence his writings like 'The Red Shoes' and others I've posted on] at the 'In Shattered Dreams' post) short story 'The Butterfly' (probable trigger warning [all of the symbols/themes and such I post are potential triggers by the way; triggering is one aspect of this symbolism which I made clear in my Red Ice interview and such though I don't feel the need to state it every time I post a symbol as virtually everything can be made into a trigger]) as it fits in with the below flower (girl effectively turns into a sunflower), and the butterfly (except a slightly different take on the butterfly to the usual) MK symbolism (hopefully you can pick up on things as you go along) and others [source for below short fairy tale, alternative translation here]:

The butterfly wanted a sweetheart, and naturally he wanted one of the prettiest of the dear little flowers. He looked at each of them; there they all sat on their stalks as quiet and modest as little maidens ought to sit before they are engaged; but there were so many to choose from that it would be quite difficult to decide. So the Butterfly flew down to the Daisy, whom the French call "Marguerite." They know she can tell fortunes. This is the way it's done: the lovers pluck off the little petals one by one, asking questions about each other, "Does he love me from the heart? A little? A lot? Or loves he not at all?" - or something like that; everyone asks in his own language. So the Butterfly also came to ask, but he wouldn't bite off the leaves; instead he kissed each one in turn, thinking that kindness is the best policy.

"Sweet Miss Marguerite Daisy," he said, "you're the wisest woman of all the flowers - you can tell fortunes! Tell me, should I choose this one or that one? Which one am I to have? When you have told me, I can fly straight to her and propose."

But Marguerite answered not a word. She resented his calling her "a woman," for she was unmarried and quite young. He put his question a second time, and then a third time, and when he still get a word out of her he gave up and flew away to begin his wooing.

It was early spring; the snowdrops and crocuses were growing in abundance. "They're really very charming," said the Butterfly. "Neat little schoolgirls, but a bit too sweet." For, like all very young men, he preferred older girls. So he flew to the anemones, but they were a bit too bitter for his taste. The violets were a little too sentimental, the tulips much too gay. The lilies too middle class, the linden blossoms too small, and, besides, there were too many in their family. He admitted the apple blossoms looked like roses, but if they opened one day and the wind blew they fell to pieces the very next; surely such a marriage would be far too brief. He liked the sweet pea best of all; she was red and white, dainty and delicate, and belonged to that class of domestic girl who is pretty yet useful in the kitchen. He was about to propose to her when he noticed a pea pod hanging near by, with a withered flower clinging to it. "Who's that?" he asked.

"It's my sister," said the pea flower.

"Oh, so that's how you'll look later on!" This frightened the Butterfly, and away he flew.

Honeysuckles hung over the hedges; there were plenty of those girls, long-faced and with yellow complexions. No, he didn't like that kind at all. Yes, but what did he like? You ask him!

Spring passed and summer passed; then autumn came, and he was still no nearer making up his mind. Now the flowers wore beautiful, colorful dresses, but what good did that do? The fresh, fragrant youth had passed, and it is fragrance the heart needs as one grows older; and of course dahlias and hollysocks have no particular fragrance. So the Butterfly went to see the mint.

"It's not exactly a flower - or rather it's all flower, fragrant from root to top, with sweet scent in every leaf. Yes, she's the one I want!" So at last he proposed to her.

But the mint stood stiff and silent, and at last said, "Friendship, if you like, but nothing else. I'm old, and you're old, too. It would be all right to live for each other, but marriage - no! Don't let's make fools of ourselves in our old age!"

And so the Butterfly did not find a sweetheart at all. He had hesitated too long, and one shouldn't do that! The Butterfly became an old bachelor, as we call it.

Now it was a windy and wet late autumn; the wind blew cold down the backs of the poor trembling old willows. And that made them creak all over. When the weather is like that it isn't pleasant to fly about in summer clothing, outside. But the Butterfly was not flying out-of-doors; he had happened to fly into a room where there was a fire in the stove and the air was as warm as summer. Here he could at least keep alive. "But just to keep alive isn't enough," he said. "To live you must have sunshine and freedom and a little flower to love!"

And he flew against the windowpane, was noticed by people, admired, and set on a needle to be stored in a butterfly collection. This was the most they could do for him.

"Now I'm sitting on a stalk, just like the flowers," said the Butterfly. "It isn't very much fun; it's just like being married, you're bound up so tightly!" He comforted himself with this reflection.

"A poor consolation, after all," said the pot plants in the room.

"But you can't take the opinion of pot plants," thought the Butterfly. "They converse too much with human beings!"

Sunflowers is another theme I've picked up a lot on (standard sun symbolism, flowers are also MK symbolic; the myth of Clytie [a water nymph who transforms into a sunflower; like other symbolic mythological figures ((i.e. Diana, a species of butterfly)) she is also a moth/butterfly as it is a genus of moth], Clytia "is based on the Greek myth, probably as told in Ovid's Metamorphoses IV, wherein the jealous Clytie, in love with Helios, tells her father of his new mistress. In her sadness she stays outside day and night only watching the sun (Helios) and her limbs take root, transforming her into a plant. She is depicted with her legs rooted among sunflowers and, with the setting of the sun, her head droops with the flowers." [source]

Her 'Cadmus and Harmonia' painting also contains MK with the snake wrapped around Harmonia, the MK emphasized by the quote that accompanied it from Ovid's mystical/MK work 'Metamorphosis' (it is loaded with tails of transformation and such):

With lambent tongue he kissed her patient face, Crept in her bosom as his dwelling place. Entwined her neck, and shared the loved embrace.

Cadmus had pissed off those misogynistic rapists (there is a reason why Western society is so obsessed with Greek/Roman ancient culture [I think the 'elite' view themelves as these kinds of "gods" who can get away with anything]) up on Mount Olympus (seriously, who hasn't Zeus raped in some bestial form?!) known as the 'gods', specifically Ares by killing a 'sacred snake' (according to DeMorgan's site, it was a dragon [serpent/snake symbolism either way]) so they eventually transform Cadmus into a snake, freaking the shit (snake/phallic symbolism) out of poor little Harmonia who asks to share her fate and the gods oblige. Harmonia was herself essentially a slave as she was given to Cadmus (as property) by the Gods (there's so much of this kind of thing in Greek Mythology though).

This one 'The Little Sea Maid' was based on Hans Christian Andersen's 'The Little Mermaid' (turned into a Disney subliminal sex-orgy basically), it's sequel below depicts the little mermaid's sisters.

"For S.O.S. [below] De Morgan takes her title from the Morse Code cry for help that is telegraphed from those who are in imminent danger to those who they hope can rescue them. Such a title lends a dramatic sense of urgency to a work that shows a female figure standing upon a solitary rock of refuge as she is besieged by thundering waves and a myriad of sea serpents. The literal translation of the message ("save our souls") also conveys a sense of what really is at stake when the forces of evil threaten to overcome the innocent and the good." [source]

Below is "The Captives" (again more serpent/dragon symbolism forcing the women into submission in their lair/cave).

Here is one example of this kind of rape in Greek myth (I recall there being one in particular story of rape which had themes including altered states of consciousness type symbolism but it's escaped my mind for now [I've posted about this kind of ancient Greece MK like the 'Mystery Kults' ((I know it's spelt with a c)) on Dionysus here]), celebrated outside the European Parliament in Strasbourg (itself based on the Tower of Babel). Europa (sister of Cadmus, he was trying to save her by killing the sacred serpent), "The mythographers tell that Zeus was enamored of Europa and decided to seduce or ravish her, the two being near-equivalent in Greek myth. He transformed himself into a tame white bull and mixed in with her father's herds. While Europa and her female attendants were gathering flowers, she saw the bull, caressed his flanks, and eventually got onto his back. Zeus took that opportunity and ran to the sea and swam, with her on his back, to the island of Crete. He then revealed his true identity, and Europa became the first queen of Crete." There are obviously many more examples of this kind of thing, Persephone (played by Monica Bellucci in The Matrix films) ties into the pomegranate MK symbolism (eating some pomegranate seeds forces her to return to her rapist Hades every year [an example of this sexual-slavery pomegranate MK symbolism in modern times is here, "Sex Kittens don't drink milk!"]), Zeus' bestial rape of Leto (interesting name meaning [Lotus] and the rape resulted in the birth of twins Artemis and Apollo) and many others (Greek mythology is largely all euphamism/sexual suggestive use of horns/snakes/etc, which obviously gives you more of an idea into the minds of the writers of our 'Classical Literature' our Universities are so obsessed with).

Found this article from the Daily Mail, cute if slightly twisted (if you get the dual meaning anyway, I taut I taw a Puddy Tat; see the 'Kittens Breaking into the Bird Cage' post), and to finish off this post [btw I did see all the blatant bird alter symbolism in Americas Next Top Model which would have been worth posting here but I think I'll leave it till the season finale see what that throws in the mix before I post on it] I wanted to show this nightclub called 'The Electric Bird Cage' (opened in 2007; sounds exactly like the kind of thing you'd use to program bird alters [an electrified human sized bird cage]), note all the expected symbolism (bird cages, duality, checkerboards, tigers, mirrors etc the carousel bar being it's focal point [designed by Shaun Clarkson]); the club has been used by Simon Cowell (always +1 kitten) and others no doubt. Another 'Bird Cage' nightclub was the target of MI5's usual psyop they do every once in a while (arrest some random, innocent Muslims; make a huge organized media show of it to have the intended psychological effect on the masses ["Grrrr, Muslims!!!! BLOODY IMMIGRANTS IF THEY DON'T LIKE IT WHY DON'T THEY LEAVE!!! I need my 'The Sun' paper for comfort."]) so people don't forget who the enemy is and who will be responsible for the next terror attack (Islamic extremists originating from Pakistan).

Robyn and Goldfrapp Handled and Dionysus' Leopards

Note grid (cage also), the little bird [victims often feel like a little bird trapped in a cage inside their heads], yellow eye mask.

Robin [bird] Miriam [mirror/mirrage/etc] Carlsson is someone I've been meaning to do a quick post on for a while showing her blatant video suggesting that she could be MK'd. First of all, I've talked previously how these victims' hair are sometimes specifically cut to cover one eye, this couldn't be more true of Robyn whose hair is always like that [view this fan-site to illustrate this clearly]. The above video for 'Handle Me' is pretty self-explanatory (Robin [and at one point her head] trapped in a box, checkerboard stockings, purple/black checkerboard dress, all the varying sized boxes (compartments). Some of her other videos are symbolic also ["And it hurts with every heartbeat" the video has Robyn walking (backwards to begin with) on a small blue cube with a reflective floor, and her symbolic handler shown at 2:05 in reality as the DJ doing some spinning, then the camera cuts back to Robyn, this time she's changed to red (shoes too) and walks forward and then runs from the chaos that follows her, then back in reality the handler violently pushes all the blocks off the table (where she was in her mind).

She has others like 'Cobrastyle', I like (the music) her new one 'Dream On' too with its lyrics (paraphrased): "You won't be strip-searched torn up tonight... You won't be cut up bleeding tonight... (more traumas) Wishing you were anywhere else but right here, so DREAM ON" (dissociation; note the traumatized girl whose mirror image changes to Robyn's at 2:28), at 2:32 she replaces another dude wearing black/white stockings. 'Be Mine' is also shockingly blatant MK (she goes bald, tries various wigs, there's even a shattered mirror, checkerboards, note her eyes, etc). I have not watched all her videos, I'm assuming they all have similar themes though.] I do like this spacey kind of repetitive soft-electropop stuff (same with Goldfrapp below) to be honest. There's obviously something symbolic about the I of Robin (a bird) being replaced by a Y, probably because both letters have the eye sound in it or something. They've had plans for her since she was a kid, see her wiki.

I'd also like to do a quick Alison Goldfrapp update as she recently appeared at the BBC's Electric Proms, typically with a (diamond) checkerboard behind her and her backing singers all masked and horned. Please view my previous post on Alice-on which I thought was pretty convincing overall (with all the Oz-witch imagery, MK themes, checkerboard [also at this live performance and at end of post] 'Human' blatant MK [sex-slaves] video, owls etc), by the way it looks like she wears an owl-eyes ring in this performance. I've embedded one ('Little Bird' [Edit: video broken]) for closer views of Alison's owl-eyes ring (also click below image) and the masked/horned backing singers.

And a couple of her older videos; Strict Machine [as in the programming; specifically electroshocks here], the lyrics are worth posting (no point putting it all in bold):

I get high on a buzz
Then a rush when I'm plugged in you
I connect
When I'm flush
You get love when told what to do

Wonderful electric
Wonderful electric
Wonderful electric
Cover me in you

I'm in love, I'm in love
I'm in love with a strict machine

I'm in love, I'm in love
I'm in love with a strict machine

When you send me a pulse
Feel a wave of new love
Through me
I'm dressed in white noise
You know just what I want
So please

Wonderful electric
Wonderful electric
Wonderful electric
Cover me in you

I'm in love, I'm in love
I'm in love with a strict machine

I'm in love, I'm in love
I'm in love with a strict machine

The video featuring standard MK with mirror/fractal symbolism, Alison dressed as Little Red Riding Hood (as she is in a photo shoot on my post on her), then they present her almost as a machine with a zebra being mechanically built ^^ (0:26), then butterflies (0:31) portrayed in the same way as the zebra, WONDERFUL ELECTRIC, rainbow mirrored + others (dude with dog-head, recurring theme in Goldfrapp's career; animal-human hybrids), loads of butterflies (so OTT, they even come fluttering out of her belly at one point [the trauma giving her 'butterflies in her stomach', as the saying goes]), Hand of Fatima (all seeing eye in a hand; with 3 hands as one, in this case), it's pretty much total MK from start to finish. This live video from the Eden Project is interesting, note the strobe lights, Alison's mask etc.

And to further illustrate the animal-headed humans (this 'dehumanization' [viewing yourself as an animal (doesn't even have to be an animal though)] has been a big part of entering altered-states for thousands of years; and is hugely important in MK), her video for 'Number 1' where she is posed like a dog and all the dog-headed people obviously (probably an Anubis thing going on here also), this dehumanization theme (including a kitten) is extremely prevalent in her 'Train' video, see previous post on Goldfrapp

Some good ol' classical history/mythology (mainstream 'history' is complete fabrication/myth; most of it propoganda written by the winners [i.e whose in charge today doing all this shit], I personally see more truth in mythology and modern-day fiction than in the day-to-day mainstream news and history text books) now, Bacchus/Dionysus' [God of wine, theatre; inspirer of ritual madness and ecstasy] worshippers included animal-human hybrids; like the Satyrs [probably symbolic of the animalistic/primalter state]. And the Maenads often wore leopard-skin (see below) to bring it back to my recent focus; these Maenads were known as "insane women" [like today these MK'd slaves' bizarre behavior is usually put down to 'mental illness' or something], "raving ones" and such. 'The mysteries of Dionysus' (i.e his programming involving drugs, drugs, illusion/theatre etc) puts them into an ecstatic (sexual) frenzy... does this not sound a lot like MK'd sex-kittens who themselves are often shown wearing leopard skin? And, the nymphs were another group of his followers (and of many other 'gods') who were used by the aforementioned satyrs for sex (so in effect, a form of bestiality); many MK'd modern day programmed sex-kittens (most usually put in careers such as prostition and stripping etc) are no doubt viewed merely as nymphomaniacs [Dionysian induced ecstatic sex-mania] rather than their personality being the result of some serious 'moulding'. These types of frenzied/shut off from society/entranced worshippers suggest in my opinion, that Dionysus' cult (the 'cult followers' written about above and below anyway) can be considered one of the earliest 'mind control cults', somewhat similar to the ones we hear of in modern times. The Cult of Dionysus is very interesting and obviously has more than just drugged up, entranced followers; Manly P Hall's 'The Dionysian Artificiers' is worth a look (they built some of Greek's famous buildings allegedly; so naturally the Masons love to put their own little spin on things claiming them as part of their history/mythology). Interesting that; like today, these MK'd cult members (britney, actors on tv/movies, porn stars/prostitutes etc in modern times; I do think the comparison isn't too 'out there') were used in entertaining the masses at the Festival Dionysia (naturally involving a heavy use of masks) he even became the god of theatre, music, general entertainment [the things that 100% shape our way of thinking through the unavoidable media today, over any other period of history by far; the 'Dionysian cult' (symbolically) rules today with it's entranced puppets used to mould the minds of the masses]. Edit: Dionysus "has a dual nature. On the one hand bringing joy and divine ecstasy. On the other brutal, unthinking, rage." Link.

Mask of Dionysus + Dionysus on a leopard with a disembodied head [headless/loosing your head/etc big part of MK, as is the aforementioned duality and his 'programming techniques'] of one of his victims (Maenads [below image + note the snake headpiece thing on this entranced victim] and his other followers are as much victims as those killed by them [i.e Pentheus in the Bacchae, who was ripped apart by the frenzied Maenads; his own mother ripping his head off in her alter-state hallucinating/viewing him as a lion] in their frenzied/primal altered state).

The Maenads (and other types of Bacchic worshippers; all in animalistic/Dionysiac/primal altered states) were entranced by music and dancing. From wiki: "Dionysus is often shown riding a leopard, wearing a leopard skin, or in a chariot drawn by panthers, and may also be recognized by the thyrsus he carries." I wonder what all that big-cat imagery (Dionysus dominating over the cats) is about ;p, as he turns (remember he is also supposed to be another Jesus; John the Baptist also has some Dionysus connection? Osiris is also Dionysus) all his subjects into basically entranced (so MK'd), sexually frenzied sex-kittens (obviously not with those modern implications ["MK", "sex-kitten"]; and much less controlled, though this altered state is still a result of Dionysus' "programming" [and again, obviously not called that back then; but drugs, repetitive beats, sex, traumatic experiences (read The Bacchae) etc, all programming methods that are used in triggering this type of trance-state]).

Leopard skins were also worn by and associated with Osiris [remember Oz is short for Osiris; and Dionysus is Osiris, obviously the leopard skin is not coincidental then] and he himself had even been depicted as a crouching leopard (with an all seeing eye above him); various Egyptian priests also wear (below, with Osiris) leopard-skin which signifies the person's initiation into the mysteries of Osiris. From IF: "Some slaves have the 'golden penis of Osiris' placed upon them", he is often depicted as being green... In Tibet mythology the leopard was associated with female wisdom, similar use with Seshat, which I'm just mentioning as obviously the meaning of leopard-skin symbolism isn't one dimensional by any means. [Edit: I'm avoiding the cat-god Bast (naturally a goddess associated with sex) because I already mentioned it here in relation to Rose McGowan.]

Left image of a Sem (funerary) Priest opening the mouth of Osiris (about to), right is of Osiris (leopard spotsish; I can't find the more blatant ones).

Dionysus with leopard skin; he has stolen the minds (hence looking mischievous running away) of his worshippers and is rushing to give them their new skin. Feel free to give your more knowledgable insight into some of this mythology in the comments.

Finish with another Goldfrapp MK video for 'Utopia (Genetically Enriched)'. "I forget who I am when I'm with you" (all lyrics MK symbolic as usual), mirror images (another recurring theme, see previous post on Goldfrapp), loads of one eye/half face shots, an entranced Alice-on (and multiple Aliceons at the end as it fades to white) etc. She lives alone with her Russian Blue Cat, more info on Alison and her typically slightly troubled past here [she won't talk about her 'unconventional' careers after leaving school early, religious school + Madonna etc].

From one of her concerts (went into the dehumanization 'tail' and such in the main post on her).

Old image from years ago of her, note her zebra top and leopard skin bag.

Random scan to finish for a Selfridges, "Make-up for your alter-ego." Doesn't take a genius to figure out what this is really about, and the name illu(a)minisim/mask 'ILLAMASQUA' [masquarade], the death looking MCM, and note the symbol a sword (?) with a crosshair [kind of like Investec's symbol in this post].