© Gunnar Tómasson

2 May 2016

I. Dante – Commedia – Alpha and Omega

(Inferno Canto I og Paradiso Canto XXXIII)

101230

Alpha

15438 = Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita

15885 = mi ritrovai per una selva oscura

12588 = ché la diritta via era smarrita.

Omega

13922 = Io ritornai da la santissima onda

13853 = rifatto si come piante novelle

13223 = rinnovellate di novella fronda,

16321 = puro e disposto a salire alle stelle.

101230

Halfway through the journey we are living

I found myself deep in a darkened forest,

For I had lost all trace of the straight path.

Here powers failed my high imagination:

But by now my desire and will were turned,

Like a balanced wheel rotated evenly,

By the Love that moves the sun and the other stars.

II + III + IV = 16290 + 15322 + 69618 = 101230

II. The Sacred Triangle of Pagan Iceland

Pagan Man’s Path to Christianity

(Einar Pálsson)

16290

7196 = Bergþórshváll

6067 = Miðeyjarhólmr

3027 = Helgafell

16290

III. Four Royal Stars of Persia

Herald the Coming of Christ¹

(Ancient Creation Myth)

15322

2682 = Aldebaran

3583 = Antares

4385 = Fomalhaut

4672 = Regulus

15322

IV. Upp skalt á Kjöl klífa

(Þórir jökull)

69618

9007 = Upp skalt á kjöl klífa,

8028 = köld es sjávar drífa,

10034 = kostaðu hug þinn herða,

10215 – hér muntu lífit verða.

9445 = Skafl beygjattu, skalli,

10205 = þótt skúr á þik falli,

7662 = ást hafðir þú meyja.

11451 = Eitt sinn skal hverr deyja.

End of Pagan Man/Creation

– 6429 = Mesocosmos

69618

V. Victor Hugo – Pagan Man Dead and Buried

(Les Misérables, Omega Chapter)

101230

‘Grass Conceals And Rain Blots Out’

In the Père-Lachaise cemetery, in the neighborhood of the potters’ field, far from the elegant quarter of that city of sepulchers, far from all those fantastic tombs that display in presence of eternity the hideous fashions of death, in a deserted corner, beside an old wall, beneath a great yew on which the bindweed climbs, among the dog-grass and the mosses, there is a stone. This stone is exempt no more than the rest from the leprosy of time, from the mold, the lichen, and the birds’ droppings. The air turns it black, the water green. It is near no path, and people do not like to go in that direction, because the grass is high, and they would wet their feet. All around there is a rustling of wild oats. In spring, the linnets come to sing in the tree.

This stone is entirely blank. The only thought in cutting it was of the essentials of the grave, and there was no other care than to make this stone long enough and narrow enough to cover a man.

No name can be read there.

Only many years ago, a hand wrote on it in pencil these four lines, which have gradually become illegible under the rain and the dust, and are probably gone by now:

23994 = Il dort. Quoique le sort fût pour lui bien étrange.

22982 = Il vivait. Il mourut quand il n’eut plus son ange.

15117 = La chose simplement d’elle-même arriva,

19824 = Comme la nuit se fait lorsque le jour s’en va.

Gone by now²

   2604 = Páfinn/The Pope

7141 = Þórir jökull

New Man/Brave New World

 2568 = Alföðr/Father of All

 7000 = Microcosmos – Creation/Man in Father’s Image

101230

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¹ Each Royal Stars is the brightest star of its quarter of the heavens.

² He is asleep. Though his mettle was sorely tried,

He lived, and when he lost his angel, died.

It happened calmly, on its own,

The way night comes when day is done.