© Gunnar Tómasson

16. febrúar 2015.

Introduction

The Augustan-Saga-Shakespeare philosophical and literary tradition is based on ancient creation myth whose roots extend thousands of years into pre-history. As preserved in the tradition, the mathematical structure of the myth is commonly referred to as Pythagorean, but salient aspects of that structure are more properly identified with Plato (World Soul and Platonic Great Year) and the Roman astronomers who named the Houses of the Zodiac in the middle of the first millennium before Christ.

The ancient concept of Gematria, whereby letters of the alphabet are identified with specific fixed numerical values, was viewed by thinkers in antiquity as a medium and vehicle for Divine revelation at the level of Man. For, as indicated by the Pythagorean maxim All is Number, the structure of Divine Wisdom was held to be mathematical in nature.

Thus, the overtly revelatory section of the Edda of Snorri Sturluson (Gylfaginning), while expressed in written text, must have a mathematical sub-text or else be mere fabulation by its author. Or so it seemed to me when I set out some forty years ago to see if I could find some indication in the writings of Snorri Sturluson of what I assumed to be such mathematical sub-text of Gylfaginning.

I refer to previous postings on this blog site for further background information on my discovery of the Saga Cipher in Reykholtsmáldagi (The Reykholt Covenant). Below I use the Saga Cipher to set forth the mathematical structure of (a) the radical philosophical/religious sub-text of Saga-Shakespeare Myth, and (b) the closely interwoven symbolic imagery of the seemingly unrelated bodies of work that are the Saga and Edda literature of 13th century Iceland and the Shakespeare literature of Elizabethan and Jacobean England.

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I. Táknmál Njálsbrennu I – Trúarskipti

                Kristnitaka

         1 = Monad/Guð

10773 = Spiritus sanctus

3074 = Sann Ara

13848

                Afnám heiðni

-10467 = Osiris-Isis-Horus

-2604 = Páfinn

-13071

II. Táknmál Njálsbrennu II – Ragnarök

100 = Ragnarök/Kvæðislok/Sögulok

677 = EK – Höfundur Brennu-Njálssögu

777

Sbr. I. 13848 – 13071 = 777.

III. Boðorð Höfundar Íslendingabókar

            Stafréttur texti

16998 = En hvatki es nusagt es I froþo þesom

21675 = þa er scyllt at hava þat helldur er sann ara reynisc.

100 = Ragnarök/Kvæðislok/Sögulok

38773

IV. Egill sigrar sjálfan sig – Nýtt land

                Sköpunarmáttur Alheims

4000 = Logandi Sverð/Skarpr brandr

                Alfa Kristniþáttar Njálu – 100. k.

12685 = Höfðingjaskipti varð í Nóregi.

                Omega Kristniþáttar Njálu – 105. k.

11274 = Fara menn við þat heim af þingi.

               Egill Skalla-Grímsson í Ísl. sögu, 16. k.

10814 = Skarpr brandr fekk mér landa

38773

V. Sköpunarmáttur Alheims

          Höfundur Brennu-Njálssögu

677 = EK

                Kristr

8753 = Jesus Kristus

                Sverð Krists

4000 = Logandi Sverð/Skarpr brandr

                Sögulok

100 = Ragnarök/Kvæðislok

13530 = Ok lýk EK þar Brennu-Njálssögu.

Sbr. III + V = 38773 + 13530 + 10 = 52313, þar sem 10 = Tíu-Mælandi Egilshaus.

VI. Kvæðislok Snorra Sturlusonar

                Armageddon – sbr. fyrri færslur

6994 = Örlygsstaðir

45319 = Kvæðislok*

52313

VII. The Mysterious William Shakespeare

8753 = Jesus Kristus

677 = EK

3321 = Dies Irae – Dagur reiði/Ragnarök

-7 = Vegin Mann-Skepna Sjöunda Dags

39569 = William Shakespeare – In memoriam**

52313

VIII. Tandem divulganda I – Finally these things must be revealed.

                Minerva Britanna, Henry Peacham, 1612.

6877 = Tandem Divulganda:

19292 = The waightie counsels, and affaires of state,

21324 = The wiser mannadge, with such cunning skill,

17779 = Though long lockt up, at last abide the fate,

16292 = Of common censure, either good or ill:

18491 = And greatest secrets, though they hidden lie,

22067 = Abroad at last, with swiftest wing they flie.

122122

IX. Tandem divulganda II – Unity of Saga-Shakespeare Myth

                Summary

1 = Monad/Guð

52313 = Snorri Sturluson/William Shakespeare – VI and VII.

3321 = Dies Irae – Dagur reiði/Ragnarök

2692 = Ísland – Iceland, symbol of Brave New World

63795 = The Workes of William Shakespeare ***

122122

X. Tandem divulganda III – Saga Foundation of Shakespeare Myth

                Snorri Sturluson “hidden earl/Shake-Speare”

10148 = Snorri fólgsnarjarl

                Spiritual Wisdom

5596 = Andlig spekðin

                Creation/Man in God’s Image

7000 = Microcosmos

                God‘s Covenant

60167 = Reykholtsmáldagi – Covenant of Reykholt ****

11931 = Saga Cipher – Embedded in Covenant of Reykholt

                Alfa Kristniþáttar Njálu – 100. k.

12685 = Höfðingjaskipti varð í Nóregi.

                Omega Kristniþáttar Njálu – 105. k.

11274 = Fara menn við þat heim af þingi.

                Ragnarök/Götterdämmerung

3321 = Dies Irae – Day of Wrath

122122

* Kvæðislok Snorra Sturlusonar

(Edda, Háttatal, Omega kvæði)

5521 = Njóti aldrs

3902 = ok auðsala

7274 = konungr ok jarl,

7826 = þat er kvæðis lok.

4143 = Falli fyrr

3150 = fold í ægi,

6684 = steini studd,

6819 = en stillis lof.

45319

** William Shakespeare – In memoriam

19365 = IUDICIO PYLIUM, GENIO SOCRATEM, ARTE MARONEM

20204 = TERRA TEGIT, POPULUS MÆRET, OLYMPUS HABET

39569

With the judgment of Nestor, the genius of Socrates, the art of Virgil,

Earth covers him, the people mourn him, Olympus has him.

*** The Workes of William Shakespeare – First folio, 1623.

16746 = The Workes of William Shakespeare,

22079 = Containing all his Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies;

24970 = Truely set forth, according to their first Originall.

63795

**** Reykholtsmáldagi – Covenant of Reykholt

18278 = Skrin þat es stendr a altara meþ helgo domo

19936 = gefa þeir Magn oc Snorre at helfninge huar þeirra

21953 = oc es þetta kirkio fe umb fram of þat es aþr es talet.

60167

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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