© Gunnar Tómasson 25. janúar 2016 I. Hjá Fjölnismönnum 9214 = Jónas Hallgrímsson 7145 = Konráð Gíslason 12625 = Brynjólfur Pjetursson 9597 = Tómas Sæmundsson 38581 Sbr. 10622 = Hann heitir Vígsterkr. – Fæddur Sturla SIghvatsson 12685 = Höfðingjaskipti varð í Nóregi. 4000 = Logandi Sverð 11274 = Fara menn við þat heim af […]
Here is a brief comment on the subject matter from my reply to a friend’s email today: In Augustan-Saga-Shakespeare Myth, Light of the World is linked (by Romans in mid-millennium B.C., when the Houses of the Zodiac were named) with LEO. Later I came across a booklet by MIT astronomer Owen Gingerich on “The Astronomy of […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 24 January 2016 I. How does the Queene? (Act V, Sc. ii – First folio, 1623) 690168 Hamlet 9442 = How does the Queene? King 12228 = She sounds to see them bleede. Queen 10946 = No, no, the drinke, the drinke. 6379 = Oh my deere Hamlet, 8488 = the […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 23 January 2016 I. To the Reader – Alpha Page (Ben Jonson) 164001 5506 = To the Reader. 18235 = This Figure, that thou here seest put, 16030 = It was for gentle Shakespeare cut; 13614 = Wherein the Grauer had a strife 15814 = with Nature, to out-doo the […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 21 January 2016 I. Horace’s Monument (Odes, III.30, 23 B.C.) 262982 15415 = Exegi monumentum aere perennius 15971 = regalique situ pyramidum altius, 18183 = quod non imber edax, non Aquilo impotens 16667 = possit diruere aut innumerabilis 15808 = annorum series et fuga temporum. 16838 = Non omnis moriar multaque […]
© 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 […]
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