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34  https://imgur.com/a/WQlTi3a
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On re-reading it:

Chapter 1:

* The storm is weird. Weather forecast said sunny for two days and it's storming and cell & GPS aren't working.

* Hyung is laid-back with no worries & doesn't blame Doyoung.

* Hotel pops up out of nowhere after Doyoung got Hyung the blanket & thinking of confessing & the restaurant.

* Hotel Phryne, name means Toad but also refers to a Courtesan born 371 B.C.E. who went on trial for capital offense (seems to be impiety) and was defended by one of her lovers, the Orator of Hypereides.

Https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phryne?wprov=sfla1

According to a myth: when it looked like she would be found guilty he removed her clothes and had her bear her breasts to earn their pity.

'Her beauty instilled the judges with a superstitious fear, who could not bring themselves to condemn "a prophetess and priestess of Aphrodite" to death. They decided to acquit her out of pity.'

'However, Athenaeus also provides a different account of the trial given in the Ephesia of Posidippus of Cassandreia. He simply describes Phryne as clasping the hand of each juror, pleading for her life with tears, without her disrobing being mentioned. Craig Cooper argues that the account of Posidippus is the authentic version and that Phryne never bared her breasts before the court during her trial.'

* The place smells of flowers and we see varieties of them and roses and meet Mr. Rose.
Roses are distinctly associated with Aphrodite/Venus, the Goddess of Love and whom Phryne pledged herself to as a priestess.

https://www.charentonmacerations.com/2014/10/29/mythological-rose/

White Rose for birth of Aphrodite and Red Rose for blood/death of her lover Adonis caused by Ares of jealousy & whom told Aphrodite of his plans but she was too late as he died from a gash to his thigh (femoral artery) from a boar.

Mr. Rose is a red rose, blood/death.

In addition to roses, Aphrodite's major symbols include myrtles, doves, sparrows, and swans.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphrodite?wprov=sfla1

[Myrtles seem to be the other flowers with the roses? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myrtus?wprov=sfla1]

* 13 rooms are being used in total, 12 for Hyung. There are 12 main God's in the Greek Pantheon.

https://www.theoi.com/greek-mythology/olympian-gods.html

* Aphrodite (love, beauty, pleasure, & procreation)
* Apollo (prophecy and oracles, music, song and poetry, archery, healing, plague and disease, and the protection of the young.
* Ares (war, battlelust, courage and civil order)
* Artemis (hunting, the wilderness and wild animals)
* Athena (wisdom and good counsel, war, the defence of towns, heroic endeavour, weaving, pottery and various other crafts)
* Demeter (agriculture, grain and bread who sustained mankind with the earth's rich bounty)
* Dionysus (wine, vegetation, pleasure, festivity, madness and wild frenzy)
* Hephaestus (fire, smiths, craftsmen, metalworking, stonemasonry and sculpture)
* Hera (Queen of the gods, wife of Zeus, Goddess of marriage, women, the sky and the stars of heavens)
* Hermes (god of herds and flocks, travellers and hospitality, roads and trade, thievery and cunning, heralds and diplomacy, language and writing, athletic contests and gymnasiums, astronomy and astrology. He was the herald and personal messenger of Zeus, King of the Gods, and also the guide of the dead who led souls down into the underworld.)
* Poseidon (brother of Zeus God of the sea, earthquakes, floods, drought and horses)
* Zeus (philandering husband to Hera, pervert, King of the Gods and the god of the sky, weather, law and order, destiny and fate, and kingship.)

And there was Zeus' other brother, Hades/Haides/Pluto/Dis (king of the underworld and god of the dead. He presided over funeral rites and defended the right of the dead to due burial. Haides was also the god of the hidden wealth of the earth, from the fertile soil with nourished the seed-grain, to the mined wealth of gold, silver and other metals.)


[I'm starting to think with the 11/12 Hyung's left that we might see them emulate the gods..or at least there will be an Ares we need to watch for homicide tendencies.]

The number 12 also has many other meanings: https://www.learning-mind.com/solving-the-mystery-of-the-number-12/

I also have this idea that Jung might be involved.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jungian_archetypes?wprov=sfla1

'Jung described archetypal events: birth, death, separation from parents, initiation, marriage, the union of opposites; archetypal figures: great mother, father, child, devil, god, wise old man, wise old woman, the trickster, the hero; and archetypal motifs: the apocalypse, the deluge, the creation. Although the number of archetypes is limitless, there are a few particularly notable, recurring archetypal images, "the chief among them being" (according to Jung) "the shadow, the wise old man, the child, the mother ... and her counterpart, the maiden, and lastly the anima in man and the animus in woman". Alternatively he would speak of "the emergence of certain definite archetypes ... the shadow, the animal, the wise old man, the anima, the animus, the mother, the child".

The Self designates the whole range of psychic phenomena in man. It expresses the unity of the personality as a whole.

The shadow is a representation of the personal unconscious as a whole and usually embodies the compensating values to those held by the conscious personality. Thus, the shadow often represents one's dark side, those aspects of oneself that exist, but which one does not acknowledge or with which one does not identify.

The anima archetype appears in men and is his primordial image of woman. It represents the man's sexual expectation of women, but also is a symbol of a man's possibilities, his contrasexual tendencies. The animus archetype is the analogous image of the masculine that occurs in women.'



[There is a LOT more to this story than we think & I believe it lies in Phryne, her trial, her lover who defended her, and Aphrodite.]