teacupx Posted May 9, 2009 Report Posted May 9, 2009 five latin words used: sator, arepo, tenet, opera, rotas. put together translate roughly to 'The sower Arepo holds the wheels with effort' and 'The sower Arepo leads with his hand (work) the plough (wheels). you can read it::: left to right. right to left. up to down. down to up. anagram formed by the letters from palidrome. "pater noster" means lord's prayer. A for alpha, O for omega. The earliest known appearance of the square was found in the ruins of Herculaneum which was buried in the ash of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 AD. S A T O R 73 A R E P O 55 T E N E T 64 O P E R A 55 R O T A S 73 arrange the letters of the alphabet pertaining to a number like, A- 1 B- 2 C- 3 etc. add up the letters in each row and you'll get the numbers above in red. add the two digits together and they all equal 10. dunno... I'm sleep-deprived and was reading about freemasonry for hours and then stumbled upon this and everything's freaking me out
teacupx Posted May 9, 2009 Author Report Posted May 9, 2009 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sator_Square
