© Gunnar Tómasson

16 September 2017

Introduction

In 1598 an unknown author of considerable talent and great charm wrote a series of satires, which he called Scialetheia, or A Shadow of Truth.  In his snapdragon verses he described the vanity of the times.  Staying late after the play at the Curtain, he had the wit to see that the dark theatre, vast and secret, represented something unfathomably precious. (Robert Payne, By Me, William Shakespeare, 1980, p. 75)

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I. Foreuver O LORD, thy Word is setled in Heauen

(Psalm 119:89, KJB 1611)

33003

19932 = Foreuer, O LORD, thy Word is setled in Heauen.

Tyrant King

Saga Settlement Myth

  6092 = Haraldr hárfagri – (fair-haired)

The Holy Sepulchre

 1000 = Light of the World

 5979 = Girth House – Circular Stone Church in Orkney Islands

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II. The Genius of Antiquity in Shakespeare Myth¹

(Scialetheia, 1598)

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13328 = The City is the map of vanities,

16587 = The mart of fools, the magazin of gulls,

20512 = The painter’s shop of Anticks: walk in Paul’s

18826 = And but observe the sundry kinds of shapes

21682 = Th’ wilt swear that London is as rich in apes

14080 = As Africa Tabraca.  One wries his face.

20587 = This fellow’s wry neck is his better grace.

14586 = He coined in newer mint of fashion,

24232 = With the right Spanish shrug shows passion.

15935 = There comes on in a muffler of Cadiz beard,

19993 = Frowning as he would make the world afeard;

18479 = With him a troop all in gold-daubed suits,

19235 = Looking like Talbots, Percies, Montacutes,

21589 = As if their very countenances would swear

17842 = The Spaniard should conclude a peace for fear:

17567 = But bring them to a charge, then see the luck,

23345 = Though but a false fire, they their plumes will duck.

21733 = What marvel, since life’s sweet?  But see yonder,

14906 = One like the unfrequented Theatre

18199 = Walks in vast silence and dark solitude.

20492 = Suited to those black fancies which intrude

19795 = Upon possession of his troubled breast:

19151 = But for black’s sake he would look like a jest,

15724 = For he’s clean out of fashion: what he?

14513 = I think the Genius of antiquity,

14586 = Come to complain of our variety

  7465 = Of fickle fashions.

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III. Loki Laufeyjarson in Saga Myth

(Gylfaginning, Ch. 33)

200537

  9385 = Sá er enn talðr með ásum,

20632 = er sumir kalla rógbera ásanna ok frumkveða flærðanna

9995 = ok vömm allra goða ok manna.

21153 = Sá er nefndr Loki eða Loftr, sonr Fárbauta jötuns.

11921 = Móðir hans heitir Laufey eða Nál.

17412 = Bræðr hans eru þeir Býleistr ok Helblindi.

18586 = Loki er fríðr ok fagr sýnum, illr í skaplyndi,

12808 = mjök fjölbreytinn at háttum.

12960 = Hann hafði þá speki um fram aðra menn,

16834 = er slægð heitir, ok vélar til allra hluta.

14870 = Hann kom ásum jafnan í fullt vandræði,

14475 = ok oft leysti hann þá með vélræðum.

19506 = Kona hans heitir Sigyn, sonr þeira Nari eða Narfi.*

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*Also numbered among the Æsir is he whom some call the mischief-monger of the Æsir, and the first father of falsehoods, and blemish of all gods and men: he is named Loki or Loptr, son of Fárbauti the giant; his mother was Laufey or Nál; his brothers are Býleistr and Helblindi. Loki is beautiful and comely to look upon, evil in spirit, very fickle in habit. He surpassed other men in that wisdom which is called ‘sleight,’ and had artifices for all occasions; he would ever bring the Æsir into great hardships, and then get them out with crafty counsel. His wife was called Sigyn, their son Nari or Narfi.

IV. Loki Laufeyjarson‘s Other Children

(Gylfaginning, Ch. 34)

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10602 = Enn átti Loki fleiri börn.

13298 = Angrboða hét gýgr í Jötunheimum.

12409 = Við henni gat Loki þrjú börn.

18311 = Eitt var Fenrisúlfr, annat Jörmungandr,

14393 = þat er Miðgarðsormr, þriðja er Hel.

35214 = En er goðin vissu til, at þessi þrjú systkin fæddust upp í Jötunheimum,

11421 = ok goðin rökðu til spádóma,

27037 = at af systkinum þessum myndi þeim mikit mein ok óhapp standa,

31823 = ok þótti öllum mikils ills af væni, fyrst af móðerni ok enn verra af faðerni,

20171 = þá sendi Alföðr til goðin at taka börnin ok færa sér.

26146 = Ok er þau kómu til hans, þá kastaði hann orminum í inn djúpa sæ,

17084 = er liggr um öll lönd, ok óx sá ormr svá,

24271 = at hann liggr í miðju hafinu of öll lönd ok bítr í sporð sér.

22209 = Hel kastaði hann í Niflheim ok gaf henni vald yfir níu heimum,

31423 = at hon skyldi skipta öllum vistum með þeim, er til hennar váru sendir,

18230 = en þat eru sóttdauðir menn ok ellidauðir.

9310 = Hon á þar mikla bólstaði,

24410 = ok eru garðar hennar forkunnarhávir ok grindr stórar.

30044 = Éljúðnir heitir salr hennar, Hungr diskr hennar, Sultr knífr hennar,

26395 = Ganglati þrællinn, Ganglöt ambátt, Fallandaforað þresköldr hennar,

18893 = er inn gengr, Kör sæing, Blíkjandaböl ársali hennar.

13961 = Hon er blá hálf, en hálf með hörundarlit.

21125 = Því er hon auðkennd ok heldr gnúpleit ok grimmlig.*

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* Yet more children had Loki. Angrboda was the name of a certain giantess in Jötunheim, with whom Loki gat three children: one was Fenris-Wolf, the second Jörmungandr–that is the Midgard Serpent,–the third is Hel. But when the gods learned that this kindred was nourished in Jötunheim, and when the gods perceived by prophecy that from this kindred great misfortune should befall them; and since it seemed to all that there was great prospect of ill–(first from the mother’s blood, and yet worse from the father’s)-then Allfather sent gods thither to take the children and bring them to him. When they came to him, straightway he cast the serpent into the deep sea, where he lies about all the land; and this serpent grew so greatly that he lies in the midst of the ocean encompassing all the land, and bites upon his own tail. Hel he cast into Niflheim, and gave to her power over nine worlds, to apportion all abodes among those that were sent to her: that is, men dead of sickness or of old age. She has great possessions there; her walls are exceeding high and her gates great. Her hall is called Sleet-Cold; her dish, Hunger; Famine is her knife; Idler, her thrall; Sloven, her maidservant; Pit of Stumbling, her threshold, by which one enters; Disease, her bed; Gleaming Bale, her bed-hangings. She is half blue-black and half flesh-color (by which she is easily recognized), and very lowering and fierce.

I + II + III + IV + VII = 33003 + 484969 + 200537 + 478180 + 468222 = 1664911

V + VI + VII = 389686 + 807003 + 468222 = 1664911

VIII + IX = 714889 + 950022 = 1664911

V. First Heire of Shakespeare’s Inuention

(Creation Myth. Construction G.T.)

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Inuention

  4000 = Flaming Sword – Cosmic Creative Power

First Heire

  2038 = Loki

Agents of Some Grauer Labour

 2534 = Satan

3394 = Jesus

-1000 = Darkness

-10900 = Kolr Þorsteinsson

11000 = Þorgeirr Tjörvason

Dedication

 9987 = TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE

20084 = Henrie Vvriothesley, Earle of Southampton,

8814 = and Baron of Titchfield.

21943 = Right Honourable, I know not how I shall offend

23463 = in dedicating my vnpolisht lines to your Lordship,

25442 = nor how the worlde vvill censure mee for choosing

25266 = so strong a proppe to support so vveake a burthen,

17161 = onelye if your Honour seeme but pleased,

13387 = I account my selfe highly praised,

18634 = and vowe to take aduantage of all idle houres,

23217 = till I haue honoured you vvith some grauer labour.

23437 = But if the first heire of my inuention proue deformed,

15796 = I shall be sorie it had so noble a god-father:

12970 = and neuer after eare so barren a land,

16690 = for feare it yeeld me still so bad a haruest,

17496 = l leaue it to your Honourable suruey,

18884 = and your Honor to your hearts content,

27199 = vvhich I wish may alvvaies answere your ovvne vvish,

17766 = and the vvorlds hopefull expectation.

11662 = Your Honors in all dutie,

9322 = William Shakespeare                      

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VI. The Slaying of Baldr

(Gylfaginning, Ch. 49)

807003

  6961 = Þá mælti Gangleri:

18192 = „Hafa nökkur meiri tíðendi orðit með ásunum?

20072 = Allmikit þrekvirki vann Þórr í þessi ferð.”

5724 = Hárr svarar:

28348 = „Vera mun at segja frá þeim tíðendum, er meira þótti vert ásunum.

12935 = En þat er upphaf þeirar sögu,

25359 = at Baldr inn góða dreymði drauma stóra ok hættliga um líf sitt.

23194 = En er hann sagði ásunum draumana, þá báru þeir saman ráð sín,

22384 = ok var þat gert, at beiða Baldri grið fyrir alls konar háska,

21707 = ok Frigg tók svardaga til þess, at eira skyldu Baldri

22489 = eldr ok vatn, járn ok alls konar málmr, steinar, jörðin,

26485 = viðirnir, sóttirnar, dýrin, fuglarnir, eitrit, ormarnir.

13458 = En er þetta var gert ok vitat,

15853 = þá var þat skemmtun Baldrs ok ásanna,

14387 = at hann skyldi standa upp á þingum,

17656 = en allir aðrir skyldu sumir skjóta á hann,

17068 = sumir höggva til, sumir berja grjóti,

15199 = en hvat sem at var gert, sakaði hann ekki,

16187 = ok þótti þetta öllum mikill frami.

13831 = En er þetta sá Loki Laufeyjarson,

14179 = þá líkaði honum illa, er Baldr sakaði ekki.

22610 = Hann gekk til Fensalar til Friggjar ok brá sér í konu líki.

28855 = Þá spyrr Frigg, ef sú kona vissi, hvat æsir höfðust at á þinginu.

23501 = Hon sagði, at allir skutu at Baldri ok þat, at hann sakaði ekki.

5872 = Þá mælti Frigg:

14307 = „Eigi munu vápn eða viðir granda Baldri.

11401 = Eiða hefi ek þegit af öllum þeim.”

6962 = Þá spyrr konan:

16225 = „Hafa allir hlutir eiða unnit, at eira Baldri?”

6810 = Þá svarar Frigg:

21273 = „Vex viðarteinungr einn fyrir vestan Valhöll.

11096 = Sá er mistilteinn kallaðr.

16019 = Sá þótti mér ungr at krefja eiðsins.”

12765 = Því næst hvarf konan á braut,

24677 = en Loki tók mistiltein ok sleit upp ok gekk til þings.

26238 = En Höðr stóð útarliga í mannhringinum, því at hann var blindr.

8915 = Þá mælti Loki við hann:

11847 = „Hví skýtr þú ekki at Baldri?”

5220 = Hann svarar:

24774 = „Því, at ek sé eigi, hvar Baldr er, ok þat annat, at ek em vápnlauss.”

5729 = Þá mælti Loki:

25779 = „Gerðu þó í líking annarra manna ok veit Baldri sæmð sem aðrir menn.

16372 = Ek mun vísa þér til, hvar hann stendr.

14275 = Skjót at honum vendi þessum.”

25855 = Höðr tók mistiltein ok skaut at Baldri at tilvísun Loka.

22314 = Flaug skotit í gegnum Baldr, ok fell hann dauðr til jarðar,

  25644 = ok hefir þat mest óhapp verit unnit með goðum ok mönnum.*

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* Then spake Gangleri: „Have any more matters of note befallen among the Æsir? A very great deed of valor did Thor achieve on that journey.“ Hárr made answer: „Now shall be told of those tidings which seemed of more consequence to the Æsir. The beginning of the story is this, that Baldr the Good dreamed great and perilous dreams touching his life. When he told these dreams to the Æsir, then they took counsel together: and this was their decision: to ask safety for Baldr from all kinds of dangers. And Frigg took oaths to this purport, that fire and water should spare Baldr, likewise iron and metal of all kinds, stones, earth, trees, sicknesses, beasts, birds, venom, serpents. And when that was done and made known, then it was a diversion of Baldr’s and the Æsir, that he should stand up in the Thing, and all the others should some shoot at him, some hew at him, some beat him with stones; but whatsoever was done hurt him not at all, and that seemed to them all a very worshipful thing.

„But when Loki Laufeyarson saw this, it pleased him ill that Baldr took no hurt. He went to Fensalir to Frigg, and made himself into the likeness of a woman. Then Frigg asked if that woman knew what the Æsir did at the Thing. She said that all were shooting at Baldr, and moreover, that he took no hurt. Then said Frigg: ‘Neither weapons nor trees may hurt Baldr: I have taken oaths of them all.’ Then the woman asked: ‘Have all things taken oaths to spare Baldr?’ and Frigg answered: ‘There grows a tree-sprout alone westward of Valhall: it is called Mistletoe; I thought it too young to ask the oath of.’ Then straightway the woman turned away; but Loki took Mistletoe and pulled it up and went to the Thing.

„Hödr stood outside the ring of men, because he was blind. Then spake Loki to him: ‘Why dost thou not shoot at Baldr?’ He answered: ‘Because I see not where Baldr is; and for this also, that I am weaponless.’ Then said Loki: ‘Do thou also after the manner of other men, and show Baldr honor as the other men do. I will direct thee where he stands; shoot at him with this wand.’ Hödr took Mistletoe and shot at Baldr, being guided by Loki: the shaft flew through Baldr, and he fell dead to the earth; and that was the greatest mischance that has ever befallen among gods and men.

VII. Abomination of Desolation¹

(Contemporary history)

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Gates of Hell

13031 = International Monetary Fund

9948 = Harvard University

7146 = Seðlabanki Íslands – Central Bank of Iceland = 30125

Right Measure of Man

Persecuted

  8525 = Gunnar Tómasson

12385 = Guðrún Ólafía Jónsdóttir

Modes of Persecution

11587 = Character Assassination

5881 = Níðingsverk – Barbarity

7750 = Psychiatric Rape

6603 = Mannorðsmorð – Vicious Slander

16439 = Criminal Obstruction of Justice

Persecutors – Jesting Pilates

U.S. Government

12867 = William Jefferson Clinton – President

4496 = Janet Reno – Attorney General

International Monetary Fund

8899 = Jacques de Larosière – Managing Director

7678 = Michel Camdessus – Managing Director

5517 = William B. Dale – Deputy Managing Director

2713 = Dick Erb – Deputy Managing Director

6584 = Jacques J. Polak – Economic Counsellor

4734 = Tun Thin – Asian Department Director

9349 = W. John R. Woodley – Asian Department Deputy Director

3542 = Ken Clark – Director of Administration

3339 = Graeme Rea – Director of Administration

3227 = P. N. Kaul – Deputy Director of Administration

5446 = Nick Zumas – Grievance Committee Chairman

Harvard University

3625 = Derek C. Bok – President

8175 = Henry Rosovsky – Dean, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

8566 = James S. Duesenberry – Chairman, Department of Economics

11121 = Paul Anthony Samuelson – Ph. D., Nobel Laureate in Economics

8381 = Walter S. Salant – Ph. D., Brookings Institution Senior Fellow

Iceland Government

10244 = Vigdís Finnbogadóttir – President

11361 = Salóme Þorkelsdóttir – Althing President

6028 = Davíd Oddsson – Prime Minister

10295 = Þorsteinn Pálsson – Minister of Justice

8316 = Jón Sigurdsson – Minister of Commerce

5940 = Jónas H. Haralz – World Bank Executive Director

Other Iceland

6648 = Jóhannes Nordal – Central Bank Governor

8864 = Bjarni Bragi Jónsson – Central Bank Chief Economist

14314 = Benjamín Jón Hafsteinn Eiríksson – Harvard Ph. D.

9720 = Matthías Jóhannessen – Editor, Morgunblaðið

Other

10989 = Orenthal James Simpson

8015 = John & Patsy Ramsey

4953 = Osama bin Laden

Violent Crimes

3586 = Murder

6899 = Nicole Brown

4948 = Ron Goldman

6100 = Brentwood

1204 = 12 June (4th month old-style)

1994 = 1994 A.D.

3718 = Jonbenet

3503 = Boulder

2510 = 25 December (10th month old-style)

1996 = 1996 A.D.

5557 = The Pentagon

9596 = World Trade Center

1107 = 11 September (7th month old-style)

2001 = 2001 A.D.

Other

7920 = Excelsior Hotel

5060 = Paula Jones

803 = 8 May (3rd month old-style)

1991 = 1991 A.D.

4014 = Kiss it!

8486 = The White House

7334 = Kathleen Willey

2909 = 29 November (9th month old-style)

1993 = 1993 A.D.

22091 = I’ve wanted to do this ever since I laid eyes on you.

6045 = The Oval Office

8112 = Monica Lewinsky

1509 = 15 November (9th month old-style)

1995 = 1995 A.D. = 438097¹

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VIII. The Theatre of God’s Judgements

(Thomas Beard, 1593)

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23840 = Not inferior to any of the former in Atheism and Impiety,

16956 = and equal to all in manner of punishment,

14045 = was one of our own nation,

16073 = of fresh and late memory called Marlowe,

10516 = by profession a scholar,

26420 = brought up from his youth in the University of Cambridge,

27057 = but by practice a playwright and a Poet of scurrility, who,

21592 = by giving too large a swing to his own wit,

20536 = and suffering his lust to have the full reins,

30598 = fell (not without just desert) to that outrage and extremity,

14588 = that he denied God and His son Christ,

22968 = and not only in word blasphemed against the Trinity,

27484 = but also (as it is credibly reported) wrote books against it,

18494 = affirming our Saviour to be but a deceiver,

23120 = and Moses to be but a conjurer and seducer of the people,

18777 = and the Holy Bible to be but vain and idle stories

14561 = and all religion but a device of policy.

15120 = But see what a hook the Lord put

15768 = in the nostrils of this barking dog.

18348 = It so fell out, that in London streets

26022 = as he purposed to stab one whom he sought a grudge unto

14776 = with his dagger, the other party,

14947 = perceiving so, avoided the stroke,

19453 = that withal catching hold of his wrist,

15178 = he stabbed his own dagger into his head,

29364 = in such sort, that notwithstanding all the means of surgery

23541 = that could be wrought, he shortly after died thereof.

16081 = The manner of his death being so terrible

20303 = (for he even cursed and blasphemed to his last gasp,

27420 = and together with his breath an oath flew out of his mouth)

24514 = that it was not only a manifest sign of God’s judgement,

24979 = but also an horrible and fearful terror to all that beheld him.

22339 = But herein did the justice of God most notably appear,

13983 = in that he compelled his own hand

18035 = which had written those blasphemies

17123 = to be the instrument to punish him,

18497 = and that in his brain, which had devised the same.

17792 = I would to God (and I pray it from my heart)

28829 = that all atheists in this realm, and in all the world beside, would,

21316 = by the remembrance and consideration of this example,

16788 = either forsake their horrible impiety,

24251 = or that they might in like manner come to destruction;

20363 = and so that abominable sin which so flourished

10282 = among men of greatest name,

22734 = might either be quite extinguished and rooted out,

15942 = or at least smothered, and kept under,

28309 = that it durst not show its head any more in the world’s eye.

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IX. To be or not to be; that is the question.

(Hamlet, Act III, Sc. i, First Folio 1623)

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   5415 = Enter Hamlet.

Hamlet

18050 = To be, or not to be, that is the Question:

19549 = Whether ’tis Nobler in the minde to suffer

23467 = The Slings and Arrowes of outragious Fortune,

17893 = Or to take Armes against a Sea of troubles,

16211 = And by opposing end them: to dye, to sleepe

13853 = No more; and by a sleepe, to say we end

20133 = The Heart-ake, and the thousand Naturall shockes

19800 = That Flesh is heyre too?  ‘Tis a consummation

17421 = Deuoutly to be wish’d. To dye to sleepe,

19236 = To sleepe, perchance to Dreame; I, there’s the rub,

19794 = For in that sleepe of death, what dreames may come,

21218 = When we haue shufflel’d off this mortall coile,

20087 = Must giue vs pawse. There’s the respect

13898 = That makes Calamity of so long life:

24656 = For who would beare the Whips and Scornes of time,

24952 = The Oppressors wrong, the poore mans Contumely,

18734 = The pangs of dispriz’d Loue, the Lawes delay,

16768 = The insolence of Office, and the Spurnes

20720 = That patient merit of the vnworthy takes,

17879 = When he himselfe might his Quietus make

21696 = With a bare Bodkin? Who would these Fardles beare

17807 = To grunt and sweat vnder a weary life,

17426 = But that the dread of something after death,

21935 = The vndiscouered Countrey, from whose Borne

20927 = No Traueller returnes, Puzels the will,

19000 = And makes vs rather beare those illes we haue,

20119 = Then flye to others that we know not of.

20260 = Thus Conscience does make Cowards of vs all,

18787 = And thus the Natiue hew of Resolution

21086 = Is sicklied o’re, with the pale cast of Thought,

17836 = And enterprizes of great pith and moment,

22968 = With this regard their Currants turne away,

18723 = And loose the name of Action.  Soft you now,

16746 = The faire Ophelia? Nimph, in thy Orizons

9726 = Be all my sinnes remembred.

Ophelia

5047 = Good my Lord,

17675 = How does your Honor for this many a day?

Hamlet

17391 = I humbly thanke you: well, well, well.

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¹Abomination of Desolation

Message posted to friends on 26 February 2014:

While in Iceland last August, I met with Pétur Halldórsson at the Cafe Milano in Reykjavík. We discussed matters of mutual interest, including what my Saga Cipher work might “mean“.

I took a napkin and, for emphasis, wrote down the number 438097. This is the Cipher Sum of some three dozen names of persons, institutions, dates and events during the reference period, including two famous murder cases, a sex scandal in high places, and presumptive lies told in connection therewith.

I told Pétur (what I had long surmised) that I believed that this number was associated with a watershed event in human history whose final phase was upon our world.

An earth-shaking culmination of human and spiritual evolution.