Rekords
Skeletons and fossils are histories/memories/records of lifetimes.
Heaping up or collecting the days, weeks, months and years in this way is
typical of the sense of memory and history
common to both Plb-met and Calc.
And the keeping of records requires writing: with chalk on a board or
slate/with a piece of lead (Plb-met.). Similar to the remark about
Calc patients: `sits and thinks about little affairs
that amount to nothing'. Intense clarity of memories, dreams and
visions! As if their recordings are so perfect.
We might also see fossils as collected memories, records and histories
that the Calc rocks have accumulated and retained in incredible wealth and
detail. They are recorded with great
faithfulness. This magpie (= Elster) or squirrel tendency to absorb and collect,
record and store in detail for very long periods might be seen as a feature of
the Calc
mentality.
[Peter Morell]
Cognate (= verwandt mit) animals are those that are sessile/have reduced
motility, which put down roots or attachments to rocks or which have large
shells, calcareous deposits around
them or which leave a hard skeleton. They leave these hardened or
sclerotized parts behind them after their death as evidence of their strong
plant-like urge (incl. molluscae/some marine
worms/barnacles/crinoids/sea-urchins/tortoises/turtles/foraminiferans/crustaceans/bryozoans).
Here we find the most plant-like animals (those that must keep records/build up
traces of
their life). Keeping a record/leaving deposits/shells/bones/traces of
one's existence is a plant-like drive (tree-rings: an expression in the
lignified cellulose as a record of the passing years/
represent the life record of that tree) that is much more diminished
within the animal world.
Wal (American Indians)