© Gunnar Tómasson

26 April 2015.

Prologue

This morning, a friend responded to my postings on Ezra Pound with an email, whose subject line read:

Here lies the body of Ezra Pound lost at sea and never found.

I had never seen this seemingly contradictory statement before.

But in the context of Ancient Creation Myth, it can make sense!

How so?

Below is my answer to the question.

 I. Read if thou canst …

(Holy Trinity Church)

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. Flosi Þórðarson, who burned Njáll, is lost at sea.

(Brennu-Njálssaga, Omega Chapter)

  16317 = Þat segja menn, at þau yrði ævilok Flosa,

17694 =at hann færi utan, þá er hann var orðinn gamall,

22025 = at sækja sér húsavið, ok var hann í Nóregi þann vetr.

14746 = En um sumarit varð hann síðbúinn.

15727 = Ræddu menn um, at vánt væri skipit.

20892 = Flosi sagði, at væri ærit gott gömlum ok feigum,

9605 = ok sté á skip ok lét í haf,

20516 = ok hefir til þess skips aldri spurzk síðan.

137522

Translation by Sir George W. DaSent (London, 1861).

Men say that the end of Flosi’s life was, that he fared abroad, when he had grown old, to seek for timber to build him a hall; and he was in Norway that winter, but the next summer he was late „boun“; and men told him that his ship was not seaworthy. Flosi said she was quite good enough for an old and deathdoomed man, and bore his goods on shipboard and put out to sea. But of that ship no tidings were ever heard.

III. Ezra Pound – In Memoriam

(Cipher Puzzle)

12906 = Here lies the body of Ezra Pound

11526 = lost at sea and never found.

24432

IV. Who’s there?

(Puzzle’s Solution I)

  5255 = Pythagoras

5302 = Ezra Pound

8418 = Flosi Þórðarson

6357 = Vas Hermetis

-1000 = Darkness [of Ignorance]

100 = The End/Lost at Sea

24432

V. Who’s there?

(Puzzle’s Solution II)

129308 = Read if thou canst … (See I. above)

17252 = Gulielmus filius Johannes Shakspere – Stratfordian’s baptismal name

6960 = Jarðlig skilning – Earthly understanding

-1000 = Darkness [of Ignorance]

10026 = Will Shakspere gent. – Stratfordian’s burial name

Masking “dead” jealous rival of William Shakespeare…

-4692 = Ben Jonson

… “slain” by…

4000 = Flaming Sword

… at

100 = The End

161954

As in II + III/IV = 137522 + 24432 = 161954.

VI. Grand Puzzle’s Solution

(Ancient Creation Myth)

  345 = Soul‘s Earthly Foundation

666 = Man-Beast

216 = Soul‘s Resurrection

432 = Right Measure of Man

7000 = Microcosmos – Creation/Man in God‘s Image

8659

VII. Snorri Sturluson’s Book Perfected

(Uppsala Edda Manuscript)

The so-called Uppsala Edda manuscript contains the sole extant reference to Snorri Sturluson as author of Edda, with the text thereof written boldly across the top of the first page. The spelling of the text is replete with errors which generally serve two purposes: (1) To signal possible interesting cipher content of the text, and (2) to align the text precisely with the desired Cipher Value.

On a visit to the Icelandic National Library in Reykjavík many years ago, I checked out the library’s photocopy of the manuscript and wrote down the following letter-perfect version of the text:

8542 = Bók þessi heitir Edda.

20156 = Hana hevir saman setta Snorri Sturlo son

15735 = eptir þeim hætti, sem hér er skipat.

10539 = Er fyrst frá ásum ok Ymi

18224 = þar næst skalldskap ok heiti margra hluta.

17723 = Síþaz Hatta tal er Snorri hevir ort

13512 = um Hak Konung ok Skula hertug.

104431

Loose translation: This book is named Edda. It has been put together by Snorri Sturluson in the manner which is here ordered. First is an account of the Aesir and Ymir, thereafter poetry and the names of many things. Last poems which Snorri has composed for King Hakon and Duke Skuli.

As in VI + III/IV + VII = 8659 + 24432 + 104431 = 137522.

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Calculator for converting letters to cipher values is at:

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