[UA] Culture of The OU

[Brian Nisbet]

On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 04:33:35PM +0200, Will wrote:
> Brian Nisbet <lir at lspace.org> a écrit :
> > 
> > Ok, I'm definitely missing something here, but it's interesting none the
> > less.  I've come across that particular group of words twice before.  One
> > version is 4th century Christian (you can form a cruciform Pater Noster
> > with the letters and have an a and o over for alpha and omega) and the
> > other is a pre-celtic lust/love charm.
> 
> I'm not sure I understand you here. Does it make more sense if I write it
> down like that or are we at a terminal stage of incommunicability?
> 
> SATOR
> AREPO
> TENET
> OPERA
> ROTAS

Yes, if you look at it it reads the same way left to right & top to bottom
(starting in the upper left corner) and right to left & bottom to top
(starting in the lower right corner).  If you can pronouce it properly
then anyone who hears it will be instantly in lust with you.  It's a
bugger to pronouce though.  It crops up in one of the 2000AD Slaine
stories.

The other version is much harder to draw, but lets try:
       a     
  
       p
       a
       t
       e
       r 
a paternoster o
       o
       s
       t
       e
       r
 
       o

Does that make more sense?

B.

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