© Gunnar Tómasson

22 January 2015.

Synthesis – Ending what the Ides of March begun

Introduction

 The so-called Uppsala manuscript of Snorri Sturluson‘s Edda is unique in many respects, not least because it is the only Edda manuscript where Snorri is identified as Edda‘s author. On a visit to the national library in Reykjavik many years ago, I read its photographic copy of Uppsala Edda and wrote down certain passages in it which I found especially notewothy.

One of these was the following: “Munnrinn ok tungan er leikvöllr orðanna. Á þeim velli eru reistir stafir þeir, er mál allt gera, ok hendir málit ýmsa svá til at jafna sem hörpu strengir eða eru læstir lyklar í simphonie.“ (In my loose translation: The mouth and the tongue are the playfield of the words. On that field are raised the letters that make up all language, and some liken the language to the strings of a harp or keys that are locked in a symphony.“

Over the past forty years, I have come to appreciate what Snorri Sturluson appears to have meant to convey through analogy between playful ‟letters“ and harp strings, namely, that just as harp strings generate musical notes in a piece of music, so do letters have numerical values as evidenced by the so-called gematria of the ancient Hebrews and Greeks whereby individual letters, words, sentences and paragraphs may be arranged in a verbal/numerical manner akin to a musical symphony.

This view of the playfulness of letters as possible constituent parts of a verbal symphony is especially pertinent in a synthesis such as the present one where literary creations by successive authors based on the constant key concepts/symbols of ancient creation myth enable each successive generation to build on past literary creations on specific themes whereby past and present interacts to bring forth what may be likened to a precisely structured verbal composition.

The synthesis set forth below is a verbal symphony in this sense – its outward cohesion is evident in the various cipher sums but appreciation of the underlying creation myth requires reflection on the whole.

I. Now most noble Brutus, the gods stand friendly

(Julius Cæsar, Act V, Sc. i, First folio.)

                Cassius

12879 = Now most Noble Brutus,

17568 = The gods today stand friendly, that we may,

15686 = Louers in peace, leade on our dayes to age!

23178 = But since the affayres of men rests still incertaine,

21190 = Let’s reason with the worst that may befall.

17931 = If we do lose this Battaile, then is this

19984 = The very last time we shall speake together:

15404 = What are you then determined to do?

Brutus

15472 = Euen by the rule of that Philosophy,

14051 = By which I did blame Cato, for the death

19501 = Which he did giue himselfe, I know not how:

14406 = But I do finde it Cowardly, and vile,

19113 = For feare of what might fall, so to preuent

19095 = The time of life, arming my selfe with patience,

20623 = To stay the prouidence of some high Powers,

11326 = That gouerne vs below.

Cassius

13765 = Then, if we loose this battaile,

16527 = You are contented to be led in Triumph

14976 = Thorow the streets of Rome.

Brutus

7042 = No, Cassius, no:

13000 = Thinke not thou Noble Romane,

19844 = That euer Brutus will go bound to Rome,

16711 = He beares too great a minde.  But this same day

19149 = Must end that work the Ides of March begun.

20191 = And whether we shall meete againe, I know not:

19155 = Therefore our euerlasting farewell take:

17976 = For euer, and for euer, farewell Cassius,

17336 = If we do meete againe, why we shall smile;

21165 = If not, why then, this parting was well made.

Cassius

18046 = For euer, and for euer, farewell, Brutus:

14916 = If we do meete againe, wee’l smile indeed;

21535 = If not, ’tis true, this parting was well made.

Brutus

17661 = Why then leade on.  O that a man might know

17668 = The end of this dayes businesse, ere it come:

17050 = But it sufficeth, that the day will end,

20505 = And then the end is knowne.  Come ho, away.   Exeunt.

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II. Ending what the Ides of March begun.

Linking Los Caprichos to Fall of Great Cæsar

i. But this same day

  7070 = But this same day

19149 = Must end that work the Ides of March begun.

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ii. What the Ides of March begun

                ALPHA – Soothsayer

9871 = Beware the Ides of March

The Mightiest Julius

9356 = Gaius Julius Cæsar

OMEGA – Ending what the Ides of March begun

6892 = Los Caprichos

100 = The End

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iii. In the interim, Reason sleeps

         7 = Reason – Man of Seventh Day

                The sleep of reason creates monsters – Man-Beasts

19212 = El sueno de la razón produce monstruos.

                But it sufficeth, that the day will end – Monsters vanish

7000 = Microcosmos – Man in Creator’s Image – Reason awakened

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III. Ending what the Ides of March begun.

Linking Los Caprichos to Saga Myth

         1 = Monad

1000 = Light of the World – Soothsayer

9871 = Beware the Ides of March!

                End of Los Caprichos

3552 = Ya es hora! – Time has come

                On anniversary of Snorri Sturluson´s death

13159 = Ártíð Snorra fólgsnarjarl

                When Spiritual wisdom unseats

5596 = Andlig spekðin – Spiritual wisdom

                Earthly understanding of Monsters

-6960 = Jarðlig skilning – Earthly understanding

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IV. Ending what the Ides of March begun.

Linking Los Caprichos to Hebrew Myth

         1 = Monad

                Awakened Man…

14017 = Fran co Goya y Lucientes, Pintor.

                …Abiding his time in…

-1000 = Darkness

                …for Monad/Cosmic Creative Power to become…

4000 = …Flaming Sword

              …of Spiritual wisdom…

5596 = Andlig spekðin – Spiritual wisdom

                …that shatters…

-6960 = Jarðlig skilning – Earthly understanding

…to ‘heal’ the ‘wounded’ Holy Name of…

10565 = JHWH – [10-5-6-5 in Hebrew gematria]

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V. Ending what the Ides of March begun.

The Meaning of it All

i. Metamorphosis

                It is Monad within…

4654 = Brutus

…that is transformed into…

4000 = Flaming Sword…

…triggering Metamorphosis of Brutus into …

7000 = Microcosmos – Man in the Image of his Creator…

…thus ‘healing’ the ‘wounded’ Holy Name of…

10565 = JHWH – [10-5-6-5 in Hebrew gematria]

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ii. Brute Man-Beast as Grave of Christ

                Holy Sepulchre of Saga-Shakespeare Myth

5979 = Girth House – Circular Stone Church in the Orkney Islands

                Ya es hora!

4000 = Flaming Sword…

                …transforms Brute Man-Beast into Man…

16240 = For Brutus onely ouercame himselfe. – From final scene.¹

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VI. Ending what the Ides of March begun.

Stratfordian Man-Beast as Archetypal Capricho

                Come ho, away

583353 = Los Caprichos – Cipher Value of all 80 titles of Goya’s work²

                Alpha – Archetypal Capricho’s baptismal name

17252 = Gulielmus, filius Johannes Shakspere

                Archetypal Caprichio at Saga Armageddon

6994 = Örlygsstaðir

                Ya es hora!

4000 = Flaming Sword

                Omega – Archetypal Capricho’s burial name      

10026 = Will Shakspere, gent.

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                                                           Exeunt.

¹

Octauius

What man is that?

Messala

My Masters man.  Strato, where is thy Master?

Strato

Free from the Bondage you are in Messala,

The Conquerors can but make a fire of him:

For Brutus onely ouercame himselfe,

And no man else hath Honor by his death.

² See http://blog.pressan.is/gunnart/2015/01/05/francisco-goya-los-caprichos-saga-myth-ii/

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A calculator for converting letters to cipher values is on the Internet at:

http://www.light-of-truth.com/ciphersaga.htm