elephants, and the many euphemisms of equinox, perhaps

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This post is a continuation from the previous post at precession of the equinoxes wherein I ask why Moffat and/or his writers inserted an irrelevant snippet of Sherlock's backstory having to do with Mycroft taunting him in his mind palace about the precession of the equinoxes. In one scene, Sherlock brings up teddy bears only in relation to that subject and never again, so it was easy to free associate in internet search right into The Teddy Bear's Picnic, Rudyard Kipling's quote about precession of the equinoxes, and then Rudyard Kipling's poem The Truce of the Bear. It's up to you, Reader, to look into these things and find the ultimate connections, although I'll hint that dots to connect can be implied both at the end of the song and the end of the poem, which are linked in that last post.

So after I finished that post, I grew even more curious about Kipling's quote about the equinox coming out of an elephant's mouth. Of course, there is a Sherlock eposide in which John writes up a case that he titled Elephant in the Room, and after someone asked what that might mean and why in Stack Exchange, a reader commented, 

"It's an english expression for an obvious problem or risk no one wants to discuss. I don't remember the actual episode or what the problem was, so I'll just comment this. 

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BlueMoon93 Mar 15 2017 at 9:28"

And this is where we begin, O Best Beloved. I simply wondered whether the word "equinox" might mean something else that no one ever talks about, and started wandering through connected search items piecing things together. Naturally, equinox will lead everyone to Great Year sooner or later.

I always inevitably run into a movie title in the middle of free associating, which is annoying. I honestly think google floods searches with entertainment items just to throw deeper searching off. However, in this case, it really raised my eyebrows once I looked into it.

As unrelated as this seems at the moment, it's very worth noting. It becomes relevant later. The plot summary is as follows- 

"The Great Year is a compelling documentary that explores the possibility that the fall of ancient civilizations around the globe, and the rise of modern civilization, might be related to our Sun's motion around a companion star. The film examines evidence that ancient civilizations may have known of this celestial cycle and that our Sun may indeed display the characteristics of binary motion. —Geoff Patino" For now we can put this on back burner.

In the meantime, the free associating somehow took equinoxes into a royal direction.

And suddenly a news item. Given that some of us have been waiting for the London Bridge announcement (Queen's Death) public announcement for a few years, this seemed a bit dramatic.

And then I wound up in the royal family tree. Funny how starting off with an equinox search so quickly steered me into royal family history. I know from others' researches that this is completely relevant, but it's a very long dot connection trail that has been pretty buried in google hell.

This next had me going Seriously? And then I just laughed. Is this an elephant in a room? A 50 year old documentary seeks to "humanize" the queen...

So I'm going to stop this post right there because it has become it's own really deep dive that I wasn't intending, so again, back burner. Next post I get back on track and find more surprising things that you'd never think was connected to equinox. Remember, though, that Mycroft actually scooped Sherlock up and dragged him into the palace wrapped in a sheet. I'll be getting back to Mycroft later.