Though Eset fibble it to the zephiroth and Artsa zoom it round her heavens for ever.
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- eset: (Hebrew) construct form of ’isha, "woman"
- Aset: a form of ‘Isis’ more accurate to original. The Egyptian name was recorded as ỉs.t and meant "(She of the) Throne".
- Yesod: 9th emanation of Ain Soph in the Jewish Kabbala
- East
- fiddle
- Sephiroth: the 10 emanations of Ain Soph in the Jewish Kabbala
- zephyr: the West Wind in classical mythology
- Arctic → the North
- a star an anagram of Artsa
- astra: (Latin) a star → an anagram of Artsa
- erets: (Hebrew) earth
- artsa: (Hebrew) to the earth (form of erets)
- zoom: zoo → zodiac?
- for ever and ever: the translation of sæcula sæculorum from the Catholic doxology
- Eset ... Artsa: Swift's Vanessa and Stella: "the two are evoked merely by the words east and west" (Mackie J Farrell, Swiftiana in Finnegans Wake, ELH, Volume 26, Number 2, p 279, The John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore (1959))
