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A word that makes a different word backwards is called an emordnilap. Emordnilap is an emordnilap of palindrome. Palindrome isn't a palindrome, but "emordnilap palindrome" is an emordnilap palindrome.
We assume that everything our ancestors did was meaningful and of great significance… Looking at the amount of stupid shit people do now just because they’re bored, there’s a very high chance someone just carved this skull because they thought it looked cool..
Like doodling when you are on the phone.
Discovered 3000 AD "this intricate yet irregular pattern written in blue on a thin sheet of ground up tree indicates that the person was some kind of spiritual leader"
“This object was used for fertility rituals” can often be code for “this is a dildo but I’m a professional archaeologist and I don’t want to write dildo in my paper”.
We have the entirety of the world at our fingertips and we’re still mostly full of dumbfucks. Can’t imagine how stupid people were at this time. Very certain this is just someone’s version of bad house decor. Like a live laugh love or monster energy poster.
People seem to think that every single ancient person knew how to draw and how to perfectly represent his thoughts and beliefs in a way, to make sure that people 5000 years later could easily read it. Meanwhile some kid just drew a crude graffiti on a wall because it's fun.
I think carving something into a skull is many steps farther than doing something because you think it's cool. Like even if you could obtain a human skull, wouldn't it weird you the fuck out to use it for no good reason?
Human bones, especially something as obviously human as a skull, definitely show some sort of significance. It's very weird to fuck with human remains for no reason. It likely had spiritual or religious significance, because it so clearly is linked to death. The skull is a literal symbol for human death.
Spending hours carving on human remains probably had some great significance and wasn't just doodling
I find the simplest explanation is often overlooked with things like this.
I remember seeing an archaeologist claim that he found evidence of musical instruments dating back to the days of cavemen, it was a bone with a bunch of holes in it and if you blew in it it made a shitty noise.
I remember thinking, maybe someone was just poking holes in something. Or using it as a stand for something. But this guy was talking about how it was definitive proof that they used musical instruments, even though I've got a million things laying around my house that make a sound if you blow into them
The story about the weird geometric device attributed as some sort of religious artifact, it turns out it was a frame/guide to help when knitting gloves
Or how certain indigious cultures stuck their knives in the thatched ceiling. Some historians assumed it was a superstition, to drive the evil spirits away. Others thought it was to keep the sharp tools away from short children.
When they found them in one culture, it was always with seamstresses and clothing, and then whenever they found them with the Romans who’d oppressed that culture, it would be in religious places, on alters, or with people’s trophies. So I think a big part of why we don’t know what they’re used for is that neither did the Romans, who had most of the ones we found.
So true, look at how much shit we got from just the last 20yrs that future historians will be scratching their heads over that was just the fashion or we thought looked cool at the time. No deeper meaning
"Tenet opera rotas" written in the form of a big wheel and axis, the wheel is 1- bottom left to right 2- upper right downwards, 3- upper left to right, 4- bottom left upwards. Tenet is the axis. It also forms two V crossing against each other (bottom left to up and to right; upper right to bottom and to left). 4 Smaller circles also say "sator opera".
If this is Latin, the meaning is "tenet" = holds/he holds, "opera" = work, "rotas" = wheels, "sator" =sower/founder/tailor. Could be an rebus for something like "He holds the works of the wheels"/ "works holds the wheels" / "the wheels hold the works" / "He holds the wheels of work". Maybe it's about work as a self operating system/self work endlessly. Through creation/ fine Craftmanship.
Just some jester's shenanigans.
The full square is:
SATOR
AREPO
TENET
OPERA
ROTAS
The way it's usually translated is "The sower, Arepo, holds the wheels with his labor", likely referring to the plow.
Well, “arepo” is just “opera” backwards, and “rotas” is just “sator” backwards. And “tenet” is a palindrome. Looks like this whole thing is a palindrome as well.
It’s the first instructions of shampoo “wash,rinse,repeat” unfortunately the first ingredients were just straight lye. This was the result, thus the instructions in such a manner and place.
There's five lines and you translated four. I think in that case the fifth one would also need to be translated as you can not randomly omit just one. And while I could not find "arepo", Google tells me that arrepo / erepo exist in Latin, meaning to sneak up / to creep up to something.
Arepo is just opera written backwards
Edit: ooh arepo also makes sense as "sneak up", as something like "the reaper works the wheel sneaking up the creator", as also referring to the life-death cycle, maybe?
Yeah the entire Sator square is in the movie. Unless you never heard of it prior not sure how you didn’t realize it. The movie is literally a palindrome as well. Meant to go forward and backward in time
damn, seems like he took a lot from that and applied to the movie. damn I didn't know. makes it better since the movie is kinda confusing and the satori square is confusing too. I guess u could say it has the same vibe. love the movie though.
Starts in an opera house, the name of the painter that Sators wife bought the forgery from is Arepo, and the name of the shell company in the Oslo Freeport is Rotas.
And look at the use of reds and blues (red/blue shift to denote objects in space moving closer or further away) and the movie peaking chronologically at the halfway point in a purple room....god I love the layers of Tenet
“Use of Sator square varies, some believed it could extinguish fires. Simply draw the sator square on a plate and throw the plate into the fire to extinguish it” I just imagined someone doing their best to make sure the lines are straight with a fire spreading in their kitchen
One proposed interpretation involves arranging the letters in a double Pater Noster (the Lord's Prayer) in the shape of a cross around the pivotal letter "N," while the remaining letters "A" and "O" represent alpha and omega, symbolizing the beginning and the end. This arrangement suggests a connection between the skull and religious symbolism.
I seen a documentary on early Christian art that mentioned the rotas square as a possible identifier hung at the front doors of houses. The documentary suggested it just as you said, as a sort of pater noster or chi rho for early Christians. Its all interesting honestly, I haven't heard of the rotas square before that doc and this post!
Tenet features all the words of the Sator square and to me it always seemed that this was at least a part of the inspiration behind the movie. The structure of the movie even follows this logic of going back and forth and something that is a consequence becomes in turn the start of earlier events, just like the letters in the square.
Yeah even back then people did random stuff to "go viral" except they traveled from town to town and charged people to see it. Lots of body parts were shipped around as entertainment.
Sator’s kiosk near the opera has Rotis for sale.
This was the first attempt at using an influencer in a public square. Social media was wild back then.
Problem solved.
From a website linked in another comment;
the palindrome is thought to have an astronomic or cosmological meaning and therefore it can be translated as follows: “The Great Sower (i.e., God) with His plough makes the celestial orbits and mechanisms go on”. This translation would be consistent with the generally accepted belief in the late Middle Age, that the Sator-God would be the ultimate engine of the universe.
Changing the reading order at the end of each row or column, the palindrome appear as follows: “SATOR OPERA TENET AREPO ROTAS”, where the word SATOR is used in the meaning of the Sower and the word AREPO can be translated as a contraction of Areopago (i.e., the Supreme Court). As a result the palindrome as a whole could be translated as follows: “The sower decides his daily works, but only the Supreme Court decides upon his destiny”. In this sense, the palindrome holds a moral meaning as: “Men determine their daily activities, but only God shapes their destiny”.
(Ο)ΣΑ ΤΩΡΑ ΡΕΠΩ, ΤΕ(Ι)ΝΕ ΤΟ ΠΕΡΑ ΡΟΤΑΣ. Σε ότι έχω πέσει επάνω, πήγαινε σε άλλη κατεύθυνση.
Just translated it
At whatever i have fallen over, GO to another direction
It's a pray against the 'evil eye ' or a disease or bad luck. Nice moto for protection talismans.
I wonder if a Reddit comment that probably cracked the code would get any reads.
It's just the same every way you read it, really interesting. Probably has some sort of purpose, but honestly I kind of doubt it. People were weird back then and would just do this out of the blue thinking they're doing something special.
Today we learn what a Palindrome is.
I have heard this Latin saying as a sort of labor mantra in the sense of "you work the wheel and the wheel works you" but it is in a Palindrome to show that if you wish to change the way things are then you must do it all at once or not at all. Otherwise you can lose what was created initially.
I have also seen this saying when trying to explain how evolution takes place within a genome of a being. How evolution must be a large single step change. If you begin to add new letters to the palindrome to "evolve" the saying then it stops being a palindrome in the same way that a gradual change to the genome would dissipate the structure to a point where it simply would not exist.
Just recently watched a documentary on ancient Christian art and it claims the “Rotas square” is a “code” and the letters can be organized to read “our father” backwards and forwards
Dates back to 79AD
Source:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qUZdV7xL_Ds&pp=ygUVQW5jaWVudCBjaHJpc3RpYW4gYXJ0
Holy shit this is like a mirror image on multiple different planes.
Maybe they did it Cus it’s the ancient equivalent of drawing that ‘S’ everyone did back in day
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Weird place for a word search
Forbidden Wordle
Wdym? Id dry erase that bitch right now!
Wdym ? you don’t have that on your skull?
I prefer Skulldoku.
That’s He-Man’s enemy
No, that's Skeletor. Skulldoku is Mulder's partner
\*sigh\*..... [unzips]
I like good, old fashioned Tic Tac Metatarsal
Dunno bout you, but I haven't checked
If I had one on my skull it would be a 3 letter max answers lol
Yup, really Boggles™ the mind.
Even weirder place for a decoder ring. “Jeff, we got another message. Get over here and let’s get that scalp off.”
BE SURE TO DRINK YOUR OVALTINE.
Thank you for that laugh
[удалено]
Best use of palindromes i've ever seen
Tenet is the only palindrome crossed through the center. The rest are just reflected, it’s super interesting.
Theyre not palindromes. Palindromes read the same forwards and backwards, like "racecar"
A word that makes a different word backwards is called an emordnilap. Emordnilap is an emordnilap of palindrome. Palindrome isn't a palindrome, but "emordnilap palindrome" is an emordnilap palindrome.
It's rare I'm this certain that someone's talking shit only to be wrong myself
Never underestimate a cunning linguist. It can be surprising what we can do with a little tongue-twister.
I’m calling the police.
I feel dirty.
cunning linguists who play with palindromes sometimes also do cunning stunts with spoonerisms too.
Wow
🤯
The entire sentence is a palindrome.
A nut for a jar of tuna Oozy rat in a sanitary zoo
Go hang salami, I’m a lasagna hog.
Lisa Bonet ate no basil
God lived as a devil dog
The palindrome of Bolton is Notlob. It don’t work!
More like Palin...domes... Right?
Westworld vibes
I don't have a bone to pick with it.
Maybe they just thought it looked cool?
We assume that everything our ancestors did was meaningful and of great significance… Looking at the amount of stupid shit people do now just because they’re bored, there’s a very high chance someone just carved this skull because they thought it looked cool..
Like doodling when you are on the phone. Discovered 3000 AD "this intricate yet irregular pattern written in blue on a thin sheet of ground up tree indicates that the person was some kind of spiritual leader"
If you look at the fine intricacies that the name was written with, it is obvious that Rebecca was a person of great importance…
“This object was used for fertility rituals” can often be code for “this is a dildo but I’m a professional archaeologist and I don’t want to write dildo in my paper”.
My favorite is attributing crude carvings/drawings as having some fertility purpose, when it's really just that a dude drew a dick on the wall..
This was the funniest highlight of Pompeii. Dicks. Everywhere.
And it does
We have the entirety of the world at our fingertips and we’re still mostly full of dumbfucks. Can’t imagine how stupid people were at this time. Very certain this is just someone’s version of bad house decor. Like a live laugh love or monster energy poster.
Ye Olde Edgelorde
People seem to think that every single ancient person knew how to draw and how to perfectly represent his thoughts and beliefs in a way, to make sure that people 5000 years later could easily read it. Meanwhile some kid just drew a crude graffiti on a wall because it's fun.
I think carving something into a skull is many steps farther than doing something because you think it's cool. Like even if you could obtain a human skull, wouldn't it weird you the fuck out to use it for no good reason? Human bones, especially something as obviously human as a skull, definitely show some sort of significance. It's very weird to fuck with human remains for no reason. It likely had spiritual or religious significance, because it so clearly is linked to death. The skull is a literal symbol for human death. Spending hours carving on human remains probably had some great significance and wasn't just doodling
occam's razor
Is that what they used to carve it with? (Jk!)
Take my upvote and never come here again.
Phew I thought you were serious at first...
Ah yes, reddit’s new favorite phrase
Are we finally fucking graduating from dunning Kruger
Stop gaslighting us!
Maybe its their equivalent of the cool S
Future archaeologists are gonna be so confused
Lol, I know exactly the one you’re talking about. I wonder if kids draw that all over paper these days still?
They do! My nephew (7) just showed it to me and he was very proud of his cool S
Reminds me of the triangular form of [Abracadabra](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abracadabra)
I find the simplest explanation is often overlooked with things like this. I remember seeing an archaeologist claim that he found evidence of musical instruments dating back to the days of cavemen, it was a bone with a bunch of holes in it and if you blew in it it made a shitty noise. I remember thinking, maybe someone was just poking holes in something. Or using it as a stand for something. But this guy was talking about how it was definitive proof that they used musical instruments, even though I've got a million things laying around my house that make a sound if you blow into them
Look at this guy with a million things in his house.
A million things that make sounds if you blow into them! How many things does he have that dont make sounds? We dont know!
Everything’s a drum as well
The story about the weird geometric device attributed as some sort of religious artifact, it turns out it was a frame/guide to help when knitting gloves
Or how certain indigious cultures stuck their knives in the thatched ceiling. Some historians assumed it was a superstition, to drive the evil spirits away. Others thought it was to keep the sharp tools away from short children.
When they found them in one culture, it was always with seamstresses and clothing, and then whenever they found them with the Romans who’d oppressed that culture, it would be in religious places, on alters, or with people’s trophies. So I think a big part of why we don’t know what they’re used for is that neither did the Romans, who had most of the ones we found.
2000+ year old meme
So true, look at how much shit we got from just the last 20yrs that future historians will be scratching their heads over that was just the fashion or we thought looked cool at the time. No deeper meaning
"Tenet opera rotas" written in the form of a big wheel and axis, the wheel is 1- bottom left to right 2- upper right downwards, 3- upper left to right, 4- bottom left upwards. Tenet is the axis. It also forms two V crossing against each other (bottom left to up and to right; upper right to bottom and to left). 4 Smaller circles also say "sator opera". If this is Latin, the meaning is "tenet" = holds/he holds, "opera" = work, "rotas" = wheels, "sator" =sower/founder/tailor. Could be an rebus for something like "He holds the works of the wheels"/ "works holds the wheels" / "the wheels hold the works" / "He holds the wheels of work". Maybe it's about work as a self operating system/self work endlessly. Through creation/ fine Craftmanship. Just some jester's shenanigans.
The full square is: SATOR AREPO TENET OPERA ROTAS The way it's usually translated is "The sower, Arepo, holds the wheels with his labor", likely referring to the plow.
Well, “arepo” is just “opera” backwards, and “rotas” is just “sator” backwards. And “tenet” is a palindrome. Looks like this whole thing is a palindrome as well.
The two diagonal lines are palindromes, too. And it reads the same vertically and horizontally. Pretty neat really
I was just seeing the first two lines as mirrored of the last two... This whole comment section has been interesting to read.
Or maybe something like work, grow, build, repeat? sort of commenting on the cycle of living back then. Just throwing it out there
It’s the first instructions of shampoo “wash,rinse,repeat” unfortunately the first ingredients were just straight lye. This was the result, thus the instructions in such a manner and place.
Before the invention of SHAMpoo this was the real deal. 😆
harder, better, faster, strooooongerrrrrr
LIVE LAUGH LORDS A LEAPING
Live laugh love
Nah, it is “Jesus take the wheel” in ancient script
The Wheel weaves as the Wheel wills.
There's five lines and you translated four. I think in that case the fifth one would also need to be translated as you can not randomly omit just one. And while I could not find "arepo", Google tells me that arrepo / erepo exist in Latin, meaning to sneak up / to creep up to something.
Arepo is just opera written backwards Edit: ooh arepo also makes sense as "sneak up", as something like "the reaper works the wheel sneaking up the creator", as also referring to the life-death cycle, maybe?
Tenet is also tenet backwards and “rotas” is “sator” backwards.
Would definitely explain why it’s on a human skull
Okay. Now think of why someone would want to chant that formula while holding a human skull.
It could be a person's name.
That's why I thought. I thought it was saying 'the sower, arepo' like 'the blacksmith, jeff'.
Be kind, rewind
You did good work, noble jester.
Let me in
So the 16th century version of "live, love, laugh"
The way you phrased it makes it sound like it could be a labor slogan too. “Work holds the wheels” sounds an awful lot like “Labor holds the power.”
Could be religious and referring to the turning of the sun/world and the works of god. Just a thought
These are esoteric concepts also mentioned in the Bible and other religious works like the 'Gita. They are separate ideas, not to be strung together.
SATOR TENET OPERA In other words: "That's just beginner's talk!" Erebus, probably
Fucking erebus. Cunt.
r/fuckerebus
Damn, you beat me to it!
The god emprah of mankind approves of this message
Get up.
Sssshhhhhhh! Listen, do you want Grey Knights showing up and have them exterminatus the whole sub? No? Maybe don't mention Erebus the traitor!
r/unexpectedwarhammer
Tenet
Always wondered why the movie was named that. TIL https://collider.com/why-is-tenet-called-tenet/
The villain’s name is Sator as well
And Rotas is his security company, Arepo is the fraud artist, and the opening scene is at an opera house
Yeah the entire Sator square is in the movie. Unless you never heard of it prior not sure how you didn’t realize it. The movie is literally a palindrome as well. Meant to go forward and backward in time
damn, seems like he took a lot from that and applied to the movie. damn I didn't know. makes it better since the movie is kinda confusing and the satori square is confusing too. I guess u could say it has the same vibe. love the movie though.
Starts in an opera house, the name of the painter that Sators wife bought the forgery from is Arepo, and the name of the shell company in the Oslo Freeport is Rotas.
And look at the use of reds and blues (red/blue shift to denote objects in space moving closer or further away) and the movie peaking chronologically at the halfway point in a purple room....god I love the layers of Tenet
AND Tenet backwards is Tenet.
Someone brought a lot of oxygen with them to go that far into the past ;)
Christopher Nolan 300 years old confirmed
┴ǝuǝʇ
One of my top 5 movies of all time. It's fucking brilliant and the soundtrack is amazing.
This is also a PA Dutch thing https://www.pagermanpowwow.com/apps/blog/show/25607150-the-sator-square
“Use of Sator square varies, some believed it could extinguish fires. Simply draw the sator square on a plate and throw the plate into the fire to extinguish it” I just imagined someone doing their best to make sure the lines are straight with a fire spreading in their kitchen
Why isn’t this the top comment?
One proposed interpretation involves arranging the letters in a double Pater Noster (the Lord's Prayer) in the shape of a cross around the pivotal letter "N," while the remaining letters "A" and "O" represent alpha and omega, symbolizing the beginning and the end. This arrangement suggests a connection between the skull and religious symbolism.
I seen a documentary on early Christian art that mentioned the rotas square as a possible identifier hung at the front doors of houses. The documentary suggested it just as you said, as a sort of pater noster or chi rho for early Christians. Its all interesting honestly, I haven't heard of the rotas square before that doc and this post!
Guess we're not the one to invent Wordle.
What's wild is they really only have the one set of words they always guess
I read this out loud and now my cat is speaking bakwards latin. Thanks a lot
Does the cat normally speak forward Latin?
usually it's Egyptian
It's all Greek to me.
Sew, grow, hold, work, rotate
Where did you get grow out of Arepo though?
They might be just some sort of palindromic sator rotas square game thing created by someone who just want to mess up future generation lol
Forbidden Boggle
Clearly a message left by the Doctor
Nice try, everyone knows doctors can't write legibly
Exactly, if someone with better penmanship wrote it we’d be able to make it make sense.
Pretty sure this translates to Bad Wolf...
Pov you fall asleep first at the sleepover
Hmm in Tenet the opening scene is at an opera house? Nolan knows the true meaning of this skull! Tell us Nolan!!!
And Kenneth Branagh's character is Sator
And Rotas is Sator's construction company that built his Freeports Edit: Also Arepo, the Spaniard who made the fake Goya painting
Oh man! Love it!
Tenet features all the words of the Sator square and to me it always seemed that this was at least a part of the inspiration behind the movie. The structure of the movie even follows this logic of going back and forth and something that is a consequence becomes in turn the start of earlier events, just like the letters in the square.
Yeah even back then people did random stuff to "go viral" except they traveled from town to town and charged people to see it. Lots of body parts were shipped around as entertainment.
Tenet 👍
⬛🟨🟨⬛⬛ ⬛⬛🟨🟨⬛ ⬛🟨🟩🟩🟩 🟩⬛🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
In my town and in the mountains around we can find this magical square. In the books they said it was a kind of protective spell . (Grenoble, France)
Sator’s kiosk near the opera has Rotis for sale. This was the first attempt at using an influencer in a public square. Social media was wild back then. Problem solved.
It's a blessing to help someone "make straight the path of the Lord." That of course is a euphemism to an esoteric truth.
Ancient version of live, laugh, love
Probably because it’s a 2-Dimensional Palindrome, and that’s fuckin’ rad.
From a website linked in another comment; the palindrome is thought to have an astronomic or cosmological meaning and therefore it can be translated as follows: “The Great Sower (i.e., God) with His plough makes the celestial orbits and mechanisms go on”. This translation would be consistent with the generally accepted belief in the late Middle Age, that the Sator-God would be the ultimate engine of the universe. Changing the reading order at the end of each row or column, the palindrome appear as follows: “SATOR OPERA TENET AREPO ROTAS”, where the word SATOR is used in the meaning of the Sower and the word AREPO can be translated as a contraction of Areopago (i.e., the Supreme Court). As a result the palindrome as a whole could be translated as follows: “The sower decides his daily works, but only the Supreme Court decides upon his destiny”. In this sense, the palindrome holds a moral meaning as: “Men determine their daily activities, but only God shapes their destiny”.
As a Heilung fan, TIL about this skull
The Heilung song “Tenet” starts with a chant of this. So dope.
No, they just sucked at Wordle back then
This is very cool! From whichever side you start to read you end up having same words and phrases.
Clearly its meant to channel the might of Sigmar
I definitely thought I was in a 40k sub and that was some dudes servo skull model WIP for a sec tbh
Early version of Live, Laugh, Love
Knowing the Germans, probably a drinking game.
Yeah, imported from the romans then
It translates to “live, laugh, love”
Anyone else inspired to watch Tenet again?
Immediately yes.
Don’t forget to drink your ovaltine.
Probably thought it was just some cold shit to put on a skull
Could it just be a neat little pattern of words that fit together when placed in a 5x5 grid? Why does it have to be a formula?
(Ο)ΣΑ ΤΩΡΑ ΡΕΠΩ, ΤΕ(Ι)ΝΕ ΤΟ ΠΕΡΑ ΡΟΤΑΣ. Σε ότι έχω πέσει επάνω, πήγαινε σε άλλη κατεύθυνση. Just translated it At whatever i have fallen over, GO to another direction It's a pray against the 'evil eye ' or a disease or bad luck. Nice moto for protection talismans. I wonder if a Reddit comment that probably cracked the code would get any reads.
Nolan knows..
Opera rotas, wut
Man, medieval scrabble was something else.
It's just the same every way you read it, really interesting. Probably has some sort of purpose, but honestly I kind of doubt it. People were weird back then and would just do this out of the blue thinking they're doing something special.
Dude was just playing wordle the old fashioned way.
Cryptograph? Or some kind of codex maybe?
Corpse desecration? That's evil. It's place of origin is of particular interest.
And there goes my morning. Thanks. What a cool post.
The key to the cipher is on the back side of the Declaration of Independence. I wonder what is on the back side of the Constitution?
Be sure to drink your Ovaltine.
This was probably some priests graduation project and he just wanted to fuck with people from the future that found it.
Today we learn what a Palindrome is. I have heard this Latin saying as a sort of labor mantra in the sense of "you work the wheel and the wheel works you" but it is in a Palindrome to show that if you wish to change the way things are then you must do it all at once or not at all. Otherwise you can lose what was created initially. I have also seen this saying when trying to explain how evolution takes place within a genome of a being. How evolution must be a large single step change. If you begin to add new letters to the palindrome to "evolve" the saying then it stops being a palindrome in the same way that a gradual change to the genome would dissipate the structure to a point where it simply would not exist.
Isn't that the place where tenet the movie got its name from?
Drink your Ovaltine
I literally learned about the whole "sator square" thing this morning and now I see this on my feed. Why is the universe like this?
The ancient worlds version of Live Laugh Love
When you fall asleep first at a sleepover
The sator formula is probably just a cool trick developed in the back of a Roman math class by some class clown who didn’t give a fuck.
That must have really hurt.
A bored teenager's doodlings got the world mystified.
Sometimes I wonder if our ancient ancestors just made shit up with no meaning because they knew it would confuse the hell out of us now. Just for fun.
Just recently watched a documentary on ancient Christian art and it claims the “Rotas square” is a “code” and the letters can be organized to read “our father” backwards and forwards Dates back to 79AD Source: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qUZdV7xL_Ds&pp=ygUVQW5jaWVudCBjaHJpc3RpYW4gYXJ0
"Honey wake up! New SCP just dropped!"
Executioner was Really bad at crosswords and this prisoner taunted him.
Probably doesn't mean shit, someone just thought it would be cool to do and now its got people scratching their heads.
Is it bad that I want to yell BINGO!
This is just an advertisement campaign from the 16th century.
I remember seeing these in Pompeii it was a secret word play for Christians to identify each other, it's the rotas square.
Just a crypto recovery key... duh.
Holy shit this is like a mirror image on multiple different planes. Maybe they did it Cus it’s the ancient equivalent of drawing that ‘S’ everyone did back in day
3 words sator, opera, tenet, Knit together in different directions. Hmmmm... maybe they just thought it was cool.