© Gunnar Tómasson

28 October 2016

I. Holy Trinity Church Monument

(Stratford-upon-Avon)

129308

  19949 = STAY PASSENGER WHY GOEST THOU BY SO FAST

22679 = READ IF THOU CANST WHOM ENVIOUS DEATH HATH PLAST

24267 = WITH IN THIS MONUMENT SHAKSPEARE: WITH WHOME

20503 = QUICK NATURE DIDE WHOSE NAME DOTH DECK YS TOMBE

20150 = FAR MORE THEN COST: SIEH ALL YT HE HATH WRITT

  21760 = LEAVES LIVING ART BUT PAGE TO SERVE HIS WITT

129308

II. The Shugborough Inscription

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The Shugborough Inscription is a sequence of letters – O U O S V A V V, between the letters D M – carved on the 18th-century Shepherd’s Monument in the grounds of Shugborough Hall in Staffordshire, England, below a mirror image of Nicolas Poussin’s painting, the Shepherds of Arcadia. It has never been satisfactorily explained, and has been called one of the world’s top uncracked ciphertexts.¹

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19931

A

  7582 = Les Bergers d‘Arcadie

6852 = D. O U O S V A V V  M.

  5497 = Et in Arcadia Ego

19931

B

   1000 = Light of the World

11931 = Saga Cipher – Reason‘s finger (V below)

  7000 = Microcosmos – Man in God‘s Image

19931

III. Stratford Monument and Shugborough Tomb

(Construction)

129308

  19931 = Shugborough Inscription

The Coming of Christ

(Matt. 10:34, KJB 1611)

  19148 = Thinke not that I am come to send peace on earth:

Jesus Crucified

(KJB 1611)

  16777 = THIS IS IESVS THE KING OF THE IEWES – (Matt. 27:37)
9442 = THE KING OF THE IEWES – (Mark 15:26)
13383 = THIS IS THE KING OF THE IEWES – (Luke 23:38)
17938 = IESVS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE IEWES – (John 19:19)

Jesus Gives Up The Ghost

(John 19:30, KJB 1611)

    6098 = It is finished.

I came not to send peace…

(Matt. 10:34, KJB 1611)

  15592 = I came not to send peace, but a sword.

Sword of Christ – Resurrection

(Creation myth)

    4000 = Flaming Sword – Cosmic Creative Power

Stratfordian‘s

Metamorphosis

    7000 = Microcosmos – Man in God‘s Image

Easter Morning – The Empty Tomb

(Matt. 28:6, KJB)

         -1 = He is risen.

129308

IV. Shugborough Poem Read Aloud in Parliament

(1762 A.D.)

179294

  17361 = Upon that storied marble cast thine eye.

15188 = The scene commands a moralising sigh.

14189 = E‘en in Arcadia‘s bless‘d Elysian plains,

22857 = Amidst the laughing nymphs and sportive swains,

18540 = See festal joy subside, with melting grace,

14427 = And pity visit the half-smiling face;

21938 = Where now the dance, the lute, the nuptial feast,

19696 = The passion throbbing in the lover‘s breast,

16971 = Life‘s emblem here, in youth and vernal bloom,

  18127 = But reason‘s finger pointing at the tomb.

179294

V. Saga Cipher – Reason‘s Finger

(Construction)

But reason’s finger pointing at the tomb

= 18127

  7196 = Bergþórshváll

-1000 = Darkness

11931 = Saga Cipher

18127

I/III + VI = 129308 + 49986 = 179294

VI. Prince Hamlet‘s Quest

(Creation myth)

49986

19931 = The Shugborough Inscription

7 = Man-Beast of Seventh Day

Prince Hamlet

(Act III, Sc. i)

  7487 = To be, or not to be;

10563 = that is the Quest ION.

Tis a consummation

Deuoutly to be wish‘d.

(Hamlet, Act III, Sc. i)

  2801 = Penis

2414 = Vagina

  6783 = Mons Veneris

49986

VII. Consummation

(Construction)

20184

A

  9574 = Tis a consummation

10610 = Deuoutly to be wish’d.

20184

B

  7196 = Bergþórshváll

-10 = Dead/Murdered Father

Avenging Son

  1000 = Light of the World/Son

Son‘s Revenge

  7000 = Microcosmos – Man in God‘s Image

20184

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Calculator for converting letters to cipher values is at:

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

¹”This is a language rather than a mathematical code.”

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2004/may/12/arts.artsnews2

For 250 years it has exercised the minds of theologians, historians and scientists. Charles Darwin was observed pondering its meaning, and Josiah Wedgwood spent many an hour attempting to decipher its cryptic inscription. Some hope it may hold the secret of the whereabouts of the Holy Grail.

[The puzzle is found on] a stone monument built around 1748, containing a carved relief of Nicholas Poussin’s Les Bergers d’Arcadie in reverse. The picture shows a female figure watching as three shepherds gather around a tomb and point at letters within an inscription carved upon it, which read: Et in Arcadia Ego! (And I am in Arcadia too.) Beneath it the letters O.U.O.S.V.A.V.V. are carved, and underneath them a D and an M.

[A war-time code breaker], Oliver Lawn, 85, [who was invited to address the puzzle], had no doubt that there was a secret to unravel, contained both in the picture and the inscription beneath, and probably based upon missing letters from classical texts.

{Mr Lawn, who deciphered more than 5,000 German codes during World War II, using the so-called enigma machine] believes the enigma of Shugborough’s monument will not be unravelled easily.

„It is totally different in terms of difficulty to what I used to do during the war,“ he said. „I think you need classical knowledge as well as ingenuity. This is a language rather than a mathematical code.

„Within its genre I would say it’s the most challenging I have ever had to tackle. […].“

² The Shugborough Hall Monument was constructed around 1748, featuring a mirror image of Poussin’s 17th century painting Les Bergers d’Arcadie and the letters D.O.U.O.S.V.A.V.V.M.  On the death of George Anson of Shugborough Hall in 1762, an apparent reference was made to the monument’s imagery in the [above] poem which was read aloud in Parliament: