© Gunnar Tómasson 20 January 2016 I. Christ Prophecieth of the Destruction of Hierusalem (Matt. Ch. XXIII, King James Bible, 1611) 121250 27487 = Christ admonisheth the people to follow the good doctrine, 22029 = not the euill examples of the Scribes and Pharises. 20553 = His disciples must beware of their ambition. 28935 […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 19 January 2016 I. Sirs, I will practise on this drunken man (The Taming of the Shrew, Opening scene) 417517 6895 = Winde hornes. 19854 = Enter a Lord from hunting with his traine. Lord 19615 = Huntsman I charge thee, tender wel my hounds, 17765 = Brach Meriman, the poore […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 18 January 2016 The Vatican on Freemasonry The leadership of the Roman Catholic Church has long been an outspoken critic of Freemasonry, first prohibiting Catholics from joining the fraternity in 1738. Since then, the Vatican has made several pronouncements forbidding Catholics from becoming Freemasons under threat of excommunication, though since 1983 this […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 17 January 2016 Introduction The librettos of both Mozart’s Zauberflöte and Verdi‘s Aida were clearly written by persons with expert command of the Saga Cipher and its use to underscore the core themes of ancient creation myth in the two operas. The myth‘s mathematical structure is at once Pythagorean and Platonic as […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 16 January 2016 Introduction A close friend of my parents was a very senior member of the Masonic Order in Iceland. I once told him briefly about my work on Creation Myth aspects of the Augustan-Saga-Shakespeare Authors of Rome in the 1st century B.C., 13th century Iceland and Shakespearean England. I noted […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 15 January 2016 Edward de Vere and Yggdrasill („Shakespeare“ By Another Name) For his own tiltyard nom de guerre, de Vere borrowed from the Norse legends of a great golden tree in the center of the universe (Yggdrasill), representing the sun. The earl of Oxford‘s page stood before the queen and recited […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 14 January 2016 I. The Play’s the thing, Wherein ile catch the Conscience of the King (Hamlet, Act II, Sc.ii – First folio, 1623) 327919 Hamlet: 5920 = About, my Braine. 22248 = I haue heard, that guilty Creatures sitting at a Play 15474 = Haue by the very cunning of […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 12 January 2016 I. Creation of Man in God’s Image (Biblical Myth) 33919 1000 = Light of the World -1 = God’s Day of Rest 25920 = Platonic Great Year 7000 = Microcosmos – Man in God’s Image 33919 II. Amlóði/Hamlet as Light of the World Incarnate (Saga-Shakespeare Myth) 78372 […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 11 January 2016 I. The Devil‘s Temptation of Jesus (Matt., Ch. 4:1-11, KJB, 1611) The Devil = 146925 10566 = If thou be the Sonne of God, 15281 = command that these stones bee made bread. 20580 = If thou bee the Sonne of God, cast thy selfe downe: […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 9 January 2016 I. The Genealogie of Christ from Abraham to Ioseph (Summary, Ch. 1, King James Bible, 1611) 103350 Summary 19160 = The genealogie of Christ from Abraham to Ioseph. 15094 = Hee was conceiued by the holy Ghost, 11108 = and borne of the Virgin Mary 17054 = when she […]