Rango - Severing the Umbilical Cord

The Open Scroll Blog

Part 8
31 Aug 2011

In Part 7 of this series on the animated feature Rango I highlighted the scene where Rango was in the vending machine. The red licorice was an important symbol, representing the DNA of Adamic man. In this post you'll see how it is further leveraged to illustrate the plan to sever Adam-kind's genetic connection to his Creator. This is what the Beast and his mark are actually appointed to fulfill with a high rate of success.

I've been writing for some time now about this plot to hijack Adam-kind, breaking him off the Creator's family tree at the genetic level by grafting him into the Serpent's tree. That describes much of the Beast and mark of the Beast plan. This will come as a counter-flood (Olympic Ceremony Symbolism - Part Seven), the Serpent's answer to that great flood of Noah's day that purged his offspring from the face of the earth. The Devil will hijack Yahweh's offspring by converting them into hybrid beasts, recreated in his own image. These undead will become soldiers in the army that will war against the Sovereign God in a time now not far off.

The scene I described in the previous post ended with the hawk dispensing Rango from the vending machine. Rango had escaped by tying pieces of the licorice together to make a rope, which we learn from seeing him running away with a licorice loop around his body and trailing the rope behind. The hawk chases him and catches the end of the licorice in his beak, pulling Rango until he grabs hold of a water tower. Rango realizes the hawk is going to pull him from relative safety so, to free himself, he fires his six-shooter at the licorice, breaking it. The bullet ricochets off a horseshoe (how "lucky") and off the hawk's metal beak and severs a rope that supports the water tower. The tower falls over, killing the bird. This is how Rango first comes to be considered a hero and subsequently appointed Sheriff. The drama seems pretty innocuous until you grasp the symbolic meaning.

Rango is the Antichrist Beast. The licorice is Adamic DNA. Who does the hawk represent? Yahweh Elohim, the Creator and sovereign God (I'll expand on this shortly). When Rango shoots the licorice he severs the link between himself and the hawk, which presents us with a picture of the Beast severing the genetic link to the Creator! He does this with a bullet from his gun, a figure of seed and sexual reproduction. This is the mark of the Beast scheme, is it not? The plan is to sever Adam-kind's genetic connection to his Creator by firing his own bullet/seed into Adamic man's "Cherry Pop Licorice," "popping his cherry," to use their slang. When the third strand of DNA is added from the serpent's phallic "gun," Adamic man becomes hybrid beast!

"Woe unto them! For they have gone in the way of Cain ..."

Jude 1:11

Now, you have the context of when the signal transformation number was formed by the licorice strand! (Part 6) It formed a 9 as it dropped from the hawk's beak, when it dawned on the bird that the genetic link had been cut and the end had come. The seed/bullet fired into the Adamic DNA is the 9 transformation, you see.

If any of this seems like coincidence it must be said that you have just not been paying very close attention. This message is being called out from every quarter. Insight comes as the Sovereign God's enemies openly testify of their schemes and the Lord opens them to us, bringing what was darkly hidden in shadow into the bright light. Are you watching as a watchman on the wall? If so, you have a responsibility in this. Are you bearing testimony of the danger you see approaching? The opportunities we enjoy in this present season will shortly pass. Make this season count, my friends.

Evil men want to be freed from the bondage of this flesh without submitting to the Lord's way in humility. They hate the idea of dying and want to be freed from this body that is subject to death, to live forever as gods. They want to be freed from judgment and any relationship with the God in whose image we are made. They hate God and want to be set completely free of Him. This compels men to pursue hard after the devil's promises, deceived, because they are lies.

You see, the DNA licorice around Rango's waist that links him to the hawk should also be recognized as a knotted umbilical cord. When the cord is severed, Rango is born into a world where his life is now independent from the Yahweh-hawk - freed.

The death of the hawk may be inferred as Nietzsche's "death of God" figure ("God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him." - Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science - section 125 {The Madman} ) and beyond that as God's destruction through his heritage, the family created in His own image. As goes the body, so goes the head, in a sense.

So, as the character Wounded Bird declared, "Bird dead. Snake come."

Wounded Bird: You kill bird.
Rango: Yeah. [laughs] Matter of fact I did.
Wounded Bird: Bird dead. Snake come.
Rango: Is it snake?
Priscilla: He means Rattlesnake Jake, Mr Rango. He never comes to town cause he's scared of that hawk, but might come now. May I have your boots when you're dead?

The hawk is presented in Rango as the one animal character everyone fears, even Rattlesnake Jake. The hawk, though feared by all, protected the town from the character who always brought death. Who is the hawk but a symbol of the sovereign God?

2) I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.
3) Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.
4) He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler.

Psalm 91:2-4

Mike Hoggard produced an interesting video on the subject of God having feathers and wings earlier this year that I recommend watching, if you can find it.

37) “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, the way a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were unwilling.

Matthew 23:37

The Lord is like a hen with chicks. The children of this Jerusalem who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, as the chicks of the hen, are still unwilling. And so, we see the Yahweh-hawk die as in childbirth, triggered by the action of Antichrist-Rango in the deed responsible for his appointment as Sheriff of Dirt. He will be the apparent hero who is freed and frees these "chicks" from the "evil" God, exalted as their savior.

The hen of Matthew 23 and the feathers and wings of Psalm 91 explain why it is that the Creator is presented as a red-tailed hawk in Rango. Consider the image of the hawk and the quarter in the vending machine's coin return and meditate on the similarity of the representations. Compare the hawk with the image of the phoenix. There are no counterfeit 3 dollar bills, right? There are very profound elements in this featured animation!

While you're thinking profound thoughts, consider how the huge water tower that struck and killed the hawk was filled with gravel, crushed stone. Luke 20:18 / Daniel 2:34-35 and 45 / Matthew 23:37

Who is Rattlesnake Jake? His biblical identity is a little ambiguous, but He seems to play the role of the Serpent Dragon Lucifer as something of a feathered serpent dragon. He wears around the crown of his hat some barbed wire that speaks to me of a crown of thorns, a messianic symbol. He wears for rattles a Gatling gun. A belt winds around his body that holds many bullets, presenting helical DNA supported male seed symbolism. He is the big bad stud because he can fire bullets like nobody else.

With all that, this already long post is going to include one symbolic vignette that relates to the umbilical cord and heritage.

Here's the dialogue around a campfire when Rango is asked what he's going to do about Rattlesnake Jake:

Rango: Ooh! Yeah! Jake! You mean, my brother.
Sergeant Turley: Your brother?
Rango: That's what I said!
Buford: But he's a snake and you're a lizard.
Rango: Well, momma had an active uh...social life.
Furgus: Did he ever bite you?
Rango: Sure enough did. Look at that baby! Go ahead, you can touch it.
Doc: Oh, that's interesting. That there is a belly button.
Rango: Luckily, I'm immune to his venom. Put some in my coffee just to give it a little tang.

Rango tells us Rattlesnake Jake is his half-brother. Then he presents his bellybutton as a snake bite scar, as evidence that he was bitten by Jake. The bellybutton is a snake bite scar? Really? Rango appears comically non sequitur but it's really a cryptic signaling. Let's read between the lines to discover what's being implied.

The bellybutton, navel or umbilicus is a "scar on the abdomen caused when the umbilical cord is removed from a newborn baby." The attention given Rango's navel in the context of his family relationship with the snake hearkens back to the umbilical licorice scene at the water tower! When the umbilical cord connected to the hawk Yahweh Elohim was cut, Rango was a newborn delivered into the world, and that new baby was related to the serpent because of the bullet from his six shooter. But that's not all there is to that!

When the Doc presses his finger into Rango's bellybutton, what comes to mind is this passage about an interaction the true messiah had in the presence of those who were skeptical about the reality of the body of his new nature. A bite from Rattlesnake Jake would surely kill someone, right? Rango offered the evidence showing where he was pierced. Doc put his finger where Rango indicated.

26) After eight days His disciples were again inside, and Thomas with them. Jesus came, the doors having been shut, and stood in their midst and said, “Peace be with you.”
27) Then He said to Thomas, “Reach here with your finger, and see My hands; and reach here your hand and put it into My side; and do not be unbelieving, but believing.”
28) Thomas answered and said to Him, “My Lord and my God!”

John 20:26-28

The lawless one after whom Rango the lawman is patterned will have an impressive posthuman body and life!

That's remarkable, isn't it? But even that is not yet all there is to it.

There is no macho campfire bravado at the heart of this scene. It plays like a baby shower! "Look at that baby!" Rango says, lifting up his shirt to present his round belly. "Go ahead, you can touch it." Rango is pregnant! In a figure, Antichrist Beast Rango is going to bring forth offspring fathered by the serpent! This condition is due to a snake bite, and the venom is male seed. The crude "tang" slang (female genitalia) should clue you in that serpent seed as venom is being implied.

"A poisonous fluid secreted by such animals as certain snakes and scorpions and usually transmitted by a bite or sting
[C13: from Old French venim, from Latin venenum poison, love potion; related to venus - sexual love]"
(World English Dictionary - Collins)

If we follow this reasoning, the kind of snake venom that impregnated Rango was a love potion that came as by a snake bite, injected! Microchip implant? I believe so, with associated magick that is a form of sex magick.

In the word origin section for venom at Dictionary.com it expands slightly on the Latin venenum: "magical herb or potion, poison < venes-nom, equivalent to venes- desire ( see venerate, Venus)"

So, Rango, serpent hybrid with a belly button, gives birth to or brings forth offspring that are also snake hybrids. The Antichrist Beast brings forth a new race of serpent hybrids by way of a kind of sex magick and something injected as by a bite or sting. Hmmmmmmm. This all just seems so familiar.