ROTASOPERATENETAREPOSATOR

[Chewing Grass 17,944]

ROTAS
OPERA
TENET
AREPO
SATOR

Discus, solve, educate.
 

[Shamone 2,355]

1 minute ago, Chewing Grass said:

ROTAS
OPERA
TENET
AREPO
SATOR

Discus, solve, educate.
 

Palindrome?

[Chewing Grass 17,944]

Just now, Shamone said:

Palindrome?

But a special one, with supposed magical properties, oldest one found in Pompeii IIRC.

[Chewing Grass 17,944]

5 minutes ago, Chewing Grass said:

But a special one, with supposed magical properties, oldest one found in Pompeii IIRC.

Edit: first saw one on TV when I was a kid at Axum Lalibela in Ethiopia and supposedly carved by Templars.

Edited October 4 by Chewing Grass

[Wahoo 2,782]

Looks the same to me.....in both directions.

[Chewing Grass 17,944]

2 minutes ago, Wahoo said:

Looks the same to me.....in both directions.

Try this

[sarahbell 15,429]

Like magic squares

[Wahoo 2,782]

7 minutes ago, Chewing Grass said:

Try this

It's the early Roman periodic table.

[dgul 15,209]

I presume that someone important will be found dead in the morning after suffering a 'bizarre accident'.

[Wahoo 2,782]

You can reverse the order:

ROTAS

OPERA

TENET

AREPO

SATOR

[Chewing Grass 17,944]

The wikipedia page is quite unexcitable in it's purveying of a general interpretation but vague as to its origins or meaning.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sator_Square

[Lightly Toasted 2,863]

Interesting stuff

By repositioning the letters around the central letter Ν (en), a Greek cross can be made that reads Pater Noster (Latin for "Our Father", the first two words of the "Lord's Prayer") both vertically and horizontally. The remaining letters – two each of A and O – can be taken to represent the concept of Alpha and Omega, a reference in Christianity to the omnipresence of God. Thus the square might have been used as a covert symbol for early Christians to express their presence to each other.^[10]

and...

If you put the palindrome in Google Translate, from Latin to English, you get “The father holds the wheels of AREPO.” The word “arepo” is a “hapax legomenon,” a word which appears once in the entire body of literature of a language. Because “arepo” occurs only once in all of Latin literature, and because there is no context for ciphering out the meaning, nobody knows what the word means. Therefore nobody knows what the palindrome means. For all we know, “arepo” might be a nonsense word made up to make the palindrome work, like the verse from Lewis Carroll’s nonsense poem “Jabberwocky:”

 

[Wahoo 2,782]

Being ancient...it must relate to the Planets in some way.....is my two satoshi worth.

[stokiescum 9,614]

Who gives a fuck it’s like hearding cats 

[MrPin 17,058]

8 hours ago, Chewing Grass said:

But a special one, with supposed magical properties, oldest one found in Pompeii IIRC.

If you say it three times, does a volcano go off?

[unregistered_guest 6,911]

I learned it as: Arepo the sower grasps the plough firmly. 

Popular at a time when confessing your faith openly could lead to death.

[Wahoo 2,782]

1 hour ago, unregistered_guest said:

I learned it as: Arepo the sower grasps the plough firmly. 

Popular at a time when confessing your faith openly could lead to death.

As in Chi and Rho ?

[Tiremola 57]

10 hours ago, Chewing Grass said:

ROTAS
OPERA
TENET
AREPO
SATOR

Discus, solve, educate.
 

Speaking of Sator, it reminded me of this - a line from the Carmen Arvale - a much more interesting piece of ancient Latin, whose meaning  is disputed: -

Satur fu, fere Mars, limen sali, sta berber

Any offers?

 

 

 

[The XYY Man 19,751]

NOONE

GIVES

ASHIT

 

XYY

[Democorruptcy 7,578]

14 hours ago, Chewing Grass said:

ROTAS
OPERA
TENET
AREPO
SATOR

Discus, solve, educate.
 

Solve this one next:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phaistos_Disc

[The XYY Man 19,751]

Just now, Democorruptcy said:

Solve this one next:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phaistos_Disc

No. I'm currently having a shit and need to concentrate on that...

 

XYY

[Hail the Tripod 9,897]

1 hour ago, Democorruptcy said:

Solve this one next:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phaistos_Disc

Doomsday book equivalent. An early tax code, representing what each estate will owe in taxes.

[unregistered_guest 6,911]

4 hours ago, The XYY Man said:

NOONE

GIVES

ASHIT

GIs Save The Onion - obviously a reference to the shadowy links between US political satire and the military who are sworn to uphold their First Amendment rights.

I reckon you've spent so long in the Q thread, you're obviously subconsciously channeling its content through riddles.

[Chewing Grass 17,944]

Right, I will derail my own thread with this question.

Look into the eyes and tell me what you, see, know or remember.

[Shamone 2,355]

3 minutes ago, Chewing Grass said:

Right, I will derail my own thread with this question.

Look into the eyes and tell me what you, see, know or remember.

Who is that freak of nature?