while you can (very fruitfully) draw parallels in both, ideas are for example not commutative (https://twitter.com/allgebrah/status/1005571591349194752 … + what remains of that thread)
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Replying to @allgebrah @prathyvsh
super cool rabbithole actually, though you've probably already seen http://www.alpha60.de/research/scrambling_truth/ … since it's linked from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zairja ?
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specifically, these look a lot like peg systems (http://www.ludism.org/mentat/PegSystem …) which, along with other arts of memory, we've mostly forgotten about but back then they were vibrant, greek numerals for example (the arabic version of which seems to be used here) were used in gematria
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Replying to @allgebrah @prathyvsh
a peg system that rhymes is a fairly natural extension and would attract much the same people as those who already serve as astrologers, clerks etc
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that is acknowledged in the document but only as a kind of aside, I suspect it's way more central (I'm halfway through, it may still come)pic.twitter.com/QO8Arv4BsN
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this thing uses error correction!pic.twitter.com/1PD6sI79np
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the most tantalizing bit is there appears to have been a way to dance thispic.twitter.com/NmToX0611n
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Is this some sort of precedent to whirling dervishes? In which case are they like disks of the enigma or something?
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Prathyush Retweeted Tom MacWright
Hope you have come across: https://twitter.com/tmcw/status/1167574798303543296?s=21 … ?
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I have, and while we're at itpic.twitter.com/h0mzYCSmWz
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Replying to @allgebrah @prathyvsh
it probably did encrypt one thing, namely the court astrologer's jobpic.twitter.com/GiK0vJSK06
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