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title: "Boggling the Mind: The Mysteries of Alchemical Horse Dung (NS001)"
heading: "Boggling the Mind: The Mysteries of Alchemical Horse Dung (NS001)"
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updated: "2025-10-01T12:32:00+00:00"
words: 281
url: https://ananda.icu/talks/nightshade-legendarium/ns001-boggling-the-mind-alchemical-horse-dung
description: "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?"
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 🝖 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.

#NightShadeLegendarium #Alchemy #HorseDung #MagnumOpus #MindBoggling #Extraction #Integration #AnandaICU



**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.