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23 and Me
When I wrote about recurring numbers in the works of certain authors eleven years ago, I received a comment about how twenty-three was significant in The Illuminatus! Trilogy, by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson. I hadn’t yet read the … Continue reading →
Posted in Christianity, Conspiracy Theories, Games, History, Humor, Judaism, Language, Magic, Mathematics, Music, Plays, Poetry, Religion, Roman Empire, Sports | Tagged 23, 23 skidoo, a tale of two cities, aleister crowley, bishop james ussher, charles dickens, creation, dear 23, discordianism, george m. cohan, jon auer, julius caesar, ken stringfellow, knights templar, little johnny jones, michael jordan, numbers, numerology, posies, principia discordia, psalms, psalsm, robert anton wilson, robert shea, the big lebowski, the illuminatus trilogy, the only way |
Millions Upon Millions
I was reminded recently of how I used to like to look at the Table of Numbers in the dictionary, which probably sounds boring. I was fascinated by all the names for really large numbers, quadrillions, quintillions, and all that. … Continue reading →
Your Letters Are Numbered
Since I wrote a post about the development of the alphabet, I thought I’d also do one on numerals. For some cultures, they’re actually the same thing. Both Hebrew and Greek letters each had a numerical value, starting with the … Continue reading →
Posted in History, Mathematics | Tagged alphabet, arabic numerals, attic numerals, bible, gematria, Greek letters, Hebrew alphabet, leonardo fibonacci, numbers, revelation, roman numerals, zero |
We’ve Got Your Number
Picture by John Vernon Lord I mentioned on Twitter last night that, when I hear the number forty-two, I don’t think of Jackie Robinson, but rather of Douglas Adams or Lewis Carroll. I guess that’s largely because I’m just not … Continue reading →
Posted in Authors, Douglas Adams, L. Frank Baum, Lewis Carroll, Music, Oz, Oz Authors, Weird Al Yankovic | Tagged 27, 42, 47, alice's adventures in wonderland, jackie robinson, kurt vonnegut, numbers, player piano, queen zixi of ix, sky island, the hunting of the snark, the magical monarch of mo, through the looking-glass |
The Man with the Talking Ass
No, not Jim Carrey, but Balaam, a character who appears in the Biblical book of Numbers. Basically, the story has it that Balaam, who was essentially a curse-speaker for hire, was ordered by King Balak of Moab to curse the … Continue reading →
Posted in Judaism, Mythology, Religion | Tagged balaam, bible, donkeys, jannes and jambres, jethro, job, king balak of moab, moses, numbers, pharaoh |
Better Go See Elijah
I’ve written about the prophet Elijah a few times, but I’ve only just become aware of a rabbinical tradition that identifies him as the same person as Phinehas. So who was Phinehas? He was the son of Eleazar, who in … Continue reading →
Posted in Christianity, Judaism, Religion | Tagged aaron, baal, baal-peor, bible, cozbi, eleazar, elijah, enoch, genesis, joshua, lilith, metatron, moses, numbers, phinehas, prophets, sadducees, sandalphon, shittim, zadok, zimri |
Down with Dogma
In this post, I paraphrased Mark 2:27: “And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath.” This got me thinking about the original passage, and how it’s a case of Jesus flatly … Continue reading →