Boggling the Mind: The Mysteries of Alchemical Horse Dung (NS001)
⁘ Created: 2025-07-19 ⁘ Updated: 2025-10-01
🝖 Were you aware that boggling the mind is good for you? 🍲 Stimulates the fermentation of your accumulated substances. 🤯 Helps the essence rise to the surface for subsequent processes.
🍆 In our Nightshade Legendarium pilot episode — 💩 Headlong into the Mysteries of Alchemical Horse Dung!
🝖 Nigredo, Albedo, Fimus Equinus, Magnum Opus? Dive into the Great Work of the Ancient Wizards. Master every symbol of the Unicode planetarium. 🝖 Filter. Funnel. Extract your composting data.
Is your mind boggled yet? Good. Boggling the mind is good for you. Churning, an essence rises to the surface.
So here's a good one. I was looking for an icon for filtering, funneling, extracting data. And some genius at Stack Overflow came up with a symbol I had not come across before. This one.
So, it turns out that the symbol, as I traced it to its meaning, is actually for Fimus Equinus — the ancient alchemical symbol for horse dung. So, on the whole of the Unicode plane, we don't have filter, funnel — but we have the ancient alchemical symbol for horse dung. And I do appreciate that on a level.
Now, you may be wondering, what on earth were the alchemists doing with the horse dung? They used it as a medium for ripening materials. Nigredo, the blackening, melanosis, the first phase of the transformation process. You need to collect the critical mass and process it. Only then, albedo, a certain brightening happens. After that, catalysis and culmination.
So — engage your boggling mind. Churn the horse dung, bring out your essence. Culminate the Magnum Opus. That's the story for tonight.