Ogygos Wrote:
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> The question has popped up as to how was the
> alphabet created - what relation did it have to
> Egypt if any,

Greek Isopsephia has an unknown history. The general consensis is that both Isopsephia and Gematria are gobbledegook, the language of inventive numerologists who have nothing better to do than promote a steady stream of deception for their audiences. Those who insist that both have a solid foundation or who claim to know how they were used by the ancients only play into the hands of authodoxy, who although in a position to acknowledge that the systems exist, have no desire to take up any rounded off decimal points and strange numbers which seem to validate the orbital idiosyncrasies of distant planets.

Isopsephia and gematria however have both been acknowledged for some time
[www.cs.utk.edu]

Opsopaus mentions measure, perimeters and temples. Is he wrong?

Isopsephia may be as old as perimeters and temples and the alphabets that influenced the Greeks. Do we mention Egypt or do we wait for more evidence that the Egyptians actually had a numerical alphabet that applied to perimeters and temples? Nothing has so far been found.

[www.archaeology.org]
[www.jhu.edu]

We need more alphabets, earlier alphabets.

I must admit though that Isopsephia has caught my imagination, especially the arithmetic that seems to be so prevelent. Two of most common numbers totaled from Greek phrases are 1080 and 666, the first thrice the circumference number 360 and the other, being a multiple of 37, the making of the triples. 111, 222, 333, etc. These are just the number you might expect for perimeters and temples. I doubt there is any planetary knowledge attached but if the evidence does come forward then so be it.

It hasn't yet.

Graham









Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/02/2008 05:30AM by fmetrol.