Totem
No one in their right mind should use the expression Spirit Being without a tongue in their cheek and a smile on their face. We give the past too little credit, pour woo-woo on it and reckon they were all not much better than extra old people closer to moron than the current crop of living old people. Totems are not occupied by Spirit Beings, they are symbols of shared understandings. This whole Spirit Being nonsense is for the con artist, the dubious character at the bus stop, chamois and coffee salesmen, any one under sixty, the hick that has the nerve to suggest it's the Real McCoy, may his own Spirit Being rot in hell. This simple pole in the ground pictured above is an as yet an unshared understanding. It's a totem to the inventor of the modern Spirit Level and its French inventor, author, scientist, traveller, cartographer, orientalist, and diplomat with the impossible name of Melchisedech Thévenot, or Melshid Seveno. Benjamin Franklin, who was interested in a lot of things, read Seveno's book on Swimming, so there! Prior to the February of 1661, when the Spirit Level was invented, the best the world had been able to manage for determining level was a bowl of water. The Bowl of Water Level time frame would have included the Great Wall Of China, Stonehenge, the Pyramids, Ancient Athens, Uruk, Machu Picchu and it goes on.
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