{"id":265,"date":"2004-11-14T11:22:26","date_gmt":"2004-11-14T19:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephan-zielinski.com\/dwa\/?p=265"},"modified":"2008-12-29T11:25:48","modified_gmt":"2008-12-29T19:25:48","slug":"any-occult-significance-to-the-transamerica-pyramid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stephan-zielinski.com\/dwa\/2004\/11\/14\/any-occult-significance-to-the-transamerica-pyramid\/","title":{"rendered":"Any occult significance to the Transamerica Pyramid?"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the searches that led\u2026 someone\u2026 to the sample of\u00a0Bad Magic<\/em>\u00a0was \u201cOccult Transamerica Pyramid.\u201d<\/p>\n

To the best of my knowledge, there is no occult significance to the structure. It\u2019s a front\u2014so big and obviously weirdly shaped, it serves to distract people from the\u00a0real<\/em>\u00a0locations of occult significance in San Francisco. Obviously, I can\u2019t go into great detail about these\u2014I\u2019d hate for anyone to have their eyeballs burned out of their skull as the result of walking into something they read about here\u2014but there are two that are fairly safe.<\/p>\n

As you may know, it\u2019s illegal to operate a cemetery in San Francisco. The usual explanation is there just plain isn\u2019t room\u2014SF is bound on three sides by water, and had to resort to landfilling to reach even its present size. The City\u2019s dead were moved en masse to Colma after 1900. (Did they get everybody? We don\u2019t know\u2014most of the records went up in flames after the 1906 earthquake. [And if you believe THAT one, I have some swamp land in Florida you might be interested in.]) Oddly enough, BART\u2014one of the local light rail systems\u2014has a stop in Colma. Almost nobody lives in Colma\u2014the last reported population figure was 1911 people. And\u00a0one point five million graves<\/em>. Makes you wonder just who or what gets on and off the trains there, eh?<\/p>\n

There are, however, two graveyards left within the City proper. First, the 28 acre San Francisco National Cemetery, AKA the War Memorial Cemetery. Dating back to 1884, it holds veterans of the various regional forts and camps.<\/p>\n

The oldest is the Mission Dolores Church Cemetery\u2014established 1776. (And a relative newcomer at that\u2014recall that the Spanish had missions and colonies all through the New World when the first English were still puking their guts out just off Plymouth Rock.) Most of the graves were moved to Colma, but not all. In particular, there still remains a mass grave of various Native Americans\u2014don\u2019t worry, the locals, like the French, waited for a while and then packed bones into a smaller space\u2014and the grave of Will Leidesdorff, the first recorded African-American San Franciscan. Yes, the site\u2019s open to the public; it\u2019s at 16th and Dolores. Just be respectful\u2014for your own sake. Presumably, even dumb people should know better than to fool around at the gravesite of Native Americans and Catholic priests, but just in case: we\u2019re not talking about picking up a poltergeist that writes amusing messages in the mirror while you take a shower. We\u2019re talking about full-blown mind-cracking save-the-last-bullet-for-yourself stuff, here.<\/p>\n

But the Transamerica Pyramid\u2026 no, nothing occult about it. Nope, nope, nope. Particularly not the 13th floor\u2014nothing there at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the searches that led\u2026 someone\u2026 to the sample of\u00a0Bad Magic\u00a0was \u201cOccult Transamerica Pyramid.\u201d To the best of my knowledge, there is no occult significance to the structure. It\u2019s a front\u2014so big and obviously weirdly shaped, it serves to distract people from the\u00a0real\u00a0locations of occult significance in San Francisco. Obviously, I can\u2019t go into […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephan-zielinski.com\/dwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephan-zielinski.com\/dwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephan-zielinski.com\/dwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephan-zielinski.com\/dwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephan-zielinski.com\/dwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/stephan-zielinski.com\/dwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":269,"href":"http:\/\/stephan-zielinski.com\/dwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions\/269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephan-zielinski.com\/dwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephan-zielinski.com\/dwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephan-zielinski.com\/dwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}