Foreword.

An Italian researcher, Giancarlo Gianazza, has done extensive research on apparent close intellectual  links between Dante’s Commedia, written in the early 14^th century and certain aspects of Icelandic Saga Myth, as preserved in Snorri Sturluson’s Edda and Brennu-Njálssaga (Saga of Burnt Njall) written in the 13^th century. In Elizabethan England, Edward Oxenford, 17th Earl of Oxford, and Sir Francis Bacon took up the thread where Snorri and Sturla Þórðarson had left off centuries earlier.

In all these and many other works, the Saga Cipher of Snorri Sturluson, which may have been conceived and/or first used by Horace in the 1^st century BC, there is “hidden poetry” on themes in ancient Creation Myth whose basic structural constancy down the centuries have made it possible for those with working command of both the Saga Cipher and such themes, to re-construct the apparent use of it by supremely talented authors in what I have termed the Augustan-Saga-Shakespeare literary tradition.

In their works, authors in the tradition typically signal the presence of “hidden poetry” by enciphering allusions to themes familiar to students of the tradition. In operatic works like Verdi’s Aida and Mozart’s Magic Flute, themes from ancient (Pythagorean) creation myth are apparent. In Aida, Retorna vincitor! is a “logical” place to look for “hidden poetry” of this kind. After my initial analysis thereof today, I carried out two brief checks. The first one involved recorded dates of Aida’s initial performances – the first one in Cairo on Christmas Eve, 24 December 1871 and the European premiere in Milan on 8 February 1872.

Initial Performances and link to Commedia

796 = Aida

2410 = 24 December – tenth month of year old-style

1871 = 1871 A.D.

812 = 8 February – twelfth month of year old-style

1872 = 1872 A.D.

7761

3144 = Commedia

10905, as in:

Return of Sweet Swan of Avon at Ragnarök

10805 = Sweet Swan of Avon

100 = Ragnarök/Twilight of the Gods/The End

10905

Ben Jonson, at the end of his ode to William Shakespeare in the First folio (1623), prays for the return of the Sweet Swan of Avon.  Shakespeare scholars construe this as presumptive proof that Will Shakspere of Stratford is being referred to. Brennu-Njálssaga features a magical character named Svanr á Svanshóli (Swan on Swan‘s Hill) the Cipher Value of whose name, 8729, is suggestive of twin interpretations of the character‘s mythical status. 1) Light of the World, 1000, Jesús Kristr, 7729 as in 1000 + 7729 = 8729, and 2) Light of the World, 1000, in its dual aspects as Macbethian/Platonic Tyrant, 729, and its End-of-Time manifestation as Microcosmos, 7000, as in 1000 + 729 + 7000 = 8729, where Microcosmos symbolizes Shakespeare´s Brave New World or Creation/Man in the Image of God.

In Commedia, the object of Dante’s Quest is Union with Beatrice. In ancient creation myth, this refers to the re-union of Monad/God’s Male and Female aspects. In Hebrew myth JHWH’s Holy Name is held to split into Male and Female parts at Seventh Day’s dawn, it being “the purpose of our world” to re-unite the two parts so that the Holy Name of JHWH may arise anew in Creation. In Hamlet’s To-be-or-not-to-be soliloquy, the Prince speaks of “a consummation devoutly to be wished” whereby he would “shuffle off his mortal coil” – free Father’s Spirit within from the spatio-temporal shackles of its material body.

The Cipher Value of the name of slave-girl Aida, 796, is immediately suggestive of “her” being a symbol for the captive/gnostic Light of the World, 1000 as in 796 + 1000 = 1796, whose “death” in a lover’s embrace is the object of Man’s Quest of the Holy Grail or GRAAL, 1796. The Quest ends where it began: on a Virgin’s Mons Veneris as described in the closing lines of Shakespeare’s Sonnets:

And so the general of hot desire

Was, sleeping, by a virgin hand disarm’d.

This brand she quenched in a cool well by,

Which from Love’s fire took heat perpetual,

Growing a bath and healthful remedy

For men diseas’d. […]

Aida-Commedia-Beatrice link

796 = Aida

3144 = Commedia

4000 = Flaming Sword

3263 = Beatrice

11203 as in

Francis Bacon’s “Mission in Life”

11203 = The Great Instauration

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Ritorna vincitor!

AIDA:
14460 = Ritorna vincitor! E dal mio labbro                              Return victorious! My lips have spoken
13209 =Uscì l’empia parola! Vincitor                                         the traitorous words! Victorious
14126 = Del padre mio, di lui che impugna l’armi                  over my father, who takes up arms
7566 = Per me per ridarmi                                                            for me, to give me again
16783 = Una patria, una reggia e il nome illustre                  a country, a kingdom and a great name,
14196 = Che qui celar m’è forza. Vincitor                                  which here I must hide. Victorious
14939 = De’ miei fratelli…ond’io lo vegga, tinto                     over my brothers – that I may see him,
15911 = Del sangue amato, trionfar nel plauso                       stained with the beloved blood, welcomed
15387 = Dell’egizie coorti! E dietro il carro,                            in triumph by Egypt! And behind
13892 = Un Re, mio padre, di catene avvinto!                       his chariot, a King. my father, in chains!
5923 = L’insana parola,                                                                 My mad word,
7377 = O numi, sperdete!                                                             O gods, efface!
6703 = Al seno d’un padre                                                           Send back this child
5836 = La figlia rendete;                                                               to her father’s heart.
10312 = Struggete le squadre                                                       Destroy the legions
11945 = Dei nostri oppressori.                                                    of our oppressors!
15228 = Ah! Sventurata! che dissi? E l’amor mio?               Wretched girl, what have I said? And my love?
11855 = Dunque scordar poss’io                                                 Can I, then, forget
19805 = Questo fervido amore che oppressa e schiava   this burning love, which, as a wretched slave,
11768 = Come raggio di sol qui mi beava?                              I welcome in rapture like a ray of the sun?
8984 = Imprecherò la morte                                                      Shall I invoke death
12583 = A Radamès, a lui ch’amo pur tanto!                         upon Radamès, him whom I love so much?
8381 = Ah! non fu in terra mai                                                  Ah, never on earth
16521 = Da più crudeli angosce un core affranto!               has a broken heart known such anguish!
10598 = I sacri nomi di padre, d’amante                                 The sacred words father and lover –
15138 = Né profferir poss’io, ne ricordar;                              I can no longer speak them, nor remember.
17387 = Per l’un, per l’altro confusa e tremante,                For each, in my fear and confusion,
15275 = lo piangere vorrei, vorrei pregar.                             I should like to pray, to weep.
13416 = Ma la mia prece in bestemmia si muta…               But my prayer changes to cursing –
16900 = Delitto è il pianto a me, colpa il sospir…               tears, for me, are criminal; so too my sighs.
13648 = In notte cupa la mente è perduta,                           My mind is lost in a bitter night,
14418 = E nell’ansia crudel vorrei morir.                               and in such cruel anguish I wish to die.

410470

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Construction of Aida’s “death” wish

The key to the construction of Aida’s Ritorna vincitor! song resides in the Cipher Sum 401006 + 4000 + 5464 = 410740, where

401006 = Cipher Value of Sturla Þórðarson´s account of Snorri Sturluson‘s “murder” *

4000 = Flaming Sword – see definition in Foreword

5464 = Íslendingabók – Book of Icelanders/Creation as Book Perfected.

410740

* See The Hamlet Myth III – Snorri Sturluson’s Murder and Christ’s Mission, 10 September 2014.

Íslendingabók is said to be the work of the Father of Icelandic Saga Literature, Ari Þorgilsson, of whom little is “known” except that he is said to have “died” 9 November 1148. The name Ari, which means Eagle in Icelandic, means Lion or LEO in Hebrew. Augustan-Saga-Shakespeare Myth associates the constellation Leo with Light of the World – but that story need not be gone into here.

The Cipher Value of Ari’s full name, Ari Þorgilsson, 7998, reveals why he was called the Father of Saga Literature/Books – namely, LEO/Ari‘s association with Light of the World become Flaming Sword, 4000, as in 7998 + 4000 = 11998, in the creative act of Perfecting the Book. For this is the Cipher Sum of the Union of Penis, 2801, and Vagina, 2414, on Mons Veneris, 6783 as in 2801 + 2414 + 6783 = 11998.

Finally, the above construction sheds light on Dante’s baffling statement in Commedia: 13584 = Vergine madre, figlia del tuo figlio – Virgin Mother, Daughter of your Son – as in the Cipher Sum 3262 + 7000 + 3321 = 13584, where

3263 = Beatrice is become Brave New World or

7000 = Microcosmos – Man/Daughter in Creator’s Image on

3321 = Dies Irae/God’s Day of Wrath

13584

A Day when „sleeping“ Man awakens to his Oneness with his Creator.

Not in a literal sense but rather in that  indicated by the phrase:

At the level of Man, God is Consciousness.

In this context, Sturla Þórðarson’s account of Snorri Sturluson’s „murder“  may be read and understood in two different ways:

1. By the dim light of ‘earthly understanding’ (jarðlig skilning) as Snorri calls it in Preface to Edda.

2. By the light of ‘spiritual wisdom“ (andlig spekðin), of which Snorri writes also in the Preface.

As evidenced by the „hidden poetry“ in Ritorna vincitor! above, the underlying meaning of such „poetry“ is never apparent in the surface text.

In the Middle Ages, the Cipher Value of Sturla’s account of Snorri’s „murder“ – read: Snorri´s metamorphosis from Lower to Higher level of understanding – appears to have been taken to represent a „standard“ Cipher Value for such metamorphosis in other works of „hidden poetry“.

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Reiknivél sem umbreytir stöfum í tölugildi er á netinu:

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

NB: The calculator is not designed to deal with the Italian letters ì and ò as in the above lines 1) Uscì l’empia parola! Vincitor, and 2) Imprecherò la morte. In calculating the Cipher Values of these two lines, the letters i and o were used instead of these two.