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{{Infobox Song|
| name=Alpha And Omega
| runtime=7:02
| appearson=[[Geogaddi]]}}  

'''Alpha And Omega''' is track number 14 on the [[Geogaddi]] album.  As well as constituting the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet, alpha and omega is also an appellation of God in the book of Revelation.

==Samples/Lyrics==

* A large group of people conversing in a room. A young woman's laugh is heard prominently at the very beginning of the track and is repeatedly throughout the track in the background.

* A voice is thought to be saying "Alpha and Omega" over a loudspeaker at the beginning and end of the track. The pitch slows down sharply. (0:07)

* Vocals over a telephone or walkie talkie which have been sliced and rearranged in the style of [[Telephasic Workshop]] (2:30, 5:38)
**[Reversed, 01:21] The radio banter seems to say "Retract... [incoherent], or possibly "buy corporate, napster (reversed)"... we have two divers" followed by a British voice (1:32): "Yeah... California... You can do what you want... [incoherent; if you don't want two labels?]" followed by two children: "one forty, nine hundred and nine pounds (£ 140909)... okay, is that cash?" (reversed, 1:48)

* A shrill sound reminiscent of a pig squeal, followed by very faint children's voices (3:33)

* A young woman gasping (4:15, 4:25, 4:35, 4:45, 4:55, 5:05, 5:43)

* A woman's voice is heard saying "Yellow!" (4:17)

* Panned slightly to the right, a thin, whispery sound existing in the high treble frequencies seems to be saying "that's the one" (repeatedly from 4:44 until 5:43)<ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1581</ref>

* Indistinct speech (5:10)

* Ascending metallophone-like notes, allegedly sampled from the video 'Spider Engineers' (6:03, 6:17; not confirmed)<ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4382</ref>

* A man's back masked voice saying "I'm a God-darned Satanist, and, if I wanted, I'd be in this business too." (6:30)

* Reversed male vocals with room ambience (6:39)

== Comments ==
* [[Alpha And Omega]] are the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet. 
* The following Bible refs, by [DC]:
** ''"I am the Alpha and the Omega," says the Lord God, "who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty."'' - Rev 1:8
** ''"He who was seated on the throne said, "I am making everything new!" Then he said, "Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true." He said to me: "It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End."'' - Rev 21:6
** ''"I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End - Rev 22:13."'' 
*** Alpha and Omega, as applied in Revelation, may be John the Prophet's symbolism with the two oncoming Astrological ages following the Age of [[Aquarius]] (Aquarius = Revelation 22:17: Let the one who is thirsty come; and let the one who wishes take the free gift of the water of life<ref>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5zGRzz_5YA‎</ref>). As seen in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ΑΩwindow.jpg this] window, the Ω appears like a goat's ears with two long horns jutting out, corresponding with the Age of Capricorn 4300 - 6450 CE. The alpha looks like an archer's crossbow, corresponding with the Age of Sagittarius 6450 - 8600 CE. In Revelation 22:17, the call-and-response is "Come!" "Come!", which looks like "Caw! Caw!", often the words expressed as being spoken by crows in Northern Renaissance is gibberish ("Bar Bar" = Barbarian), aligning foreign languages to babble in the Greek's unlearned ear. Geogaddi's 17th track is something corresponding with "B:a::b:ble." Also in painting, the vehicle for the crow's words are banderoles, upon which is written "barbar"ic babble. After Revelation ends (22:21), Geogaddi's 22nd track is "Corsair," or "Coarse Air," symbolising "Cawf! Cawf!" (cough cough), or possibly a bird's flight. Geogaddi:23rd track could be misread as "Magpie Window," symbolising the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deneb Deneb Pole Star] which Lodestars two Astrological Ages away in 10000 CE (Age of Scorpio 8600 - 10750 CE, Age of Libra/scales 10750 - 12900 CE).<ref>(In the Chinese love story of Qi Xi, Deneb marks the magpie bridge across the Milky Way, which allows the separated lovers Niu Lang (Altair) and Zhi Nü (Vega) to be reunited on one special night of the year in late summer. In other versions of the story Deneb is a fairy who acts as chaperone when the lovers meet.)</ref> Deneb is Alpha Cygni in the swan (= magpie) constellation Cygnus. Revelation 22:18-19 references neither adding to nor removing (= equally balanced scales) from the scroll (the bird's mouth), symbolically corresponding with the oncoming Pole Star/Stargate of Daneb in 10000 CE at the beginning of the Age of Libra. Deneb/Alpha Cygni is also known, in Chinese Astrology, as the 天津 star (Celestial Ford), Tiān = gate, hence magic window's celestial "fnord." The Jīn pictogram 津 also looks like the Niǎo pictogram (鸟/鳥) = bird. (Bird Bird would be 大鳥 vs. 天津, possibly a visual pun. Why Big Bird? Linking the "Yellow" sample in track 14 to the bird-focused final tracks 22-24) 
* The super-bomb in the film [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065462/ Beneath the Planet of the Apes]], guarded by a strange cult that worships the bomb, is described as a "doomsday weapon", and it has capital Greek letters Alpha and Omega inscribed on one of its fins (this is specifically mentioned in the film). [DC]


About the woman's voice heard saying "Yellow!" at 4:17. It happens to be roughly at the golden ratio of the entire album (66:06 => 3966 sec x 0,618 = 2451 sec => 40:51 of play time)

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