David Bowie fans in Melbourne, Australia has submitted a suggestion to the Victorian government to name new railway stations according to a reference from the title track to Bowie’s 1976 album ‘Station To Station’.
In the song ‘Station To Station’ Bowie names ‘Kether to Malkuth’. Adam Dean from bowiedownunder.com has applied to the Victorian government to name at least two and possibly five of the new stations in the Metro Tunnel, according to the Bowie reference.
The Kether to Malkuth reference is a Jewish reference from the Tree of Life. Kether is the top of the tree, Malkuth the bottom of the tree. The suggestion is to name the first and last stations in Melbourne’s new rail link Kether and Malkuth. The line will also have three stations in between so the Bowie fans also suggest continuing the reference, according to the Tree of Life, with Da’at, Tiferet and Yesod stations.
The Victorian government received over 50,000 suggestions for the new stations when it invited locals to submit suggestions. Amongst those suggestions were a Kanye station and a Beyonce station.
It is unlikely any of the above names will make the shortlist. A specific rule of suggestion was “names should reflect the history of the local area and iconic locations nearby.”
Suggestions for station names closed on 22 October 2017 and are now being considered.
