Secret_History

672 The Secret History of the World
Q: Kites?! What do kites have to do with it? What the heck... you guys are
driving me NUTS! Do you mean kites as in paper and string or kites as in the
bird?
A: Yes, paper wood and string.
Q: ... (C) This is implying that such people know they have the bloodline and
keep in touch with each other? (L) Or, is this something for the future when
those of the bloodline wake up?
A: Yes. [to the] Latter.
Q: So, we need to go fly a kite... (C) With a particular shape and symbol...
A: Research kites.
Q: (C) The Japanese fly kites... and there are a lot of people who hang banners
outside their houses all the time...
A: Want revelations? Prepare for “Treasure” Hunt.
Q: Thanks a lot!
A: These quests energize you, Laura!
Q: Yes, they do. When I start finding things that connect, it is like having little
explosions of energy in the brain... (A) Well, I don’t understand these kites.
They don’t fly by themselves, they are on a string. You cannot see them at great
distances... only a few miles... what is the point of communicating this way with
someone who is only a few miles away?
A: Kites can be released, or left behind too!
Q: (A) When you release a kite, it falls down! Well, maybe we ought to wait
and see where this clue goes before we get stuck on the technical aspects.
Maybe it is just sort of a marker... We don’t know if it will relate to a literal
kite, or a reference to a kite, a drawing of a kite... a carving... something will
appear that will connect, I am sure. It always does.
Indeed, it did. Leonardo da Vinci’s The Kite and the Treatise upon the Flight of
Birds includes the following:
“This writing distinctly about the kite seems to be my destiny, because among the
first recollections of my infancy, it seemed to me that, as I was in my cradle, a kite
came to me and opened my mouth with its tail, and struck me several times with its
tail inside my lips.” (Codex Atlanticus)
The kite is a bird with a large wingspan, which uses air currents to stay aloft while
gliding. He studied the kite and other birds, trying to learn how they flew so that he
could successfully imitate nature. Little is known about da Vinci’s private life,
because he usually never wrote about it in his journal. However, this is an
interesting exception because we see that Leonardo wrote that it was his destiny to
write about and study the kite, and also means that he thought it was his destiny to
build flying machines, and enable men to fly.
When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes
turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.
[Leonardo]
Now, having assembled so many interesting clues, let’s go in a slightly different
direction. In 1483, Leonardo da Vinci painted The Madonna of the Rocks. (Full
title: The Virgin of the Rocks (The Virgin with the Infant Saint John adoring the
Infant Christ accompanied by an Angel)) (Louvre) [See Plate 21.]. Between 1506