Palindrom in the monastery of Petschenga

Come with me, and let us take a trip far away to the North Country, to the coast of the White Sea, to the land of the midnight sun, to the shores of Russian Lapland... Not many persons are acquainted with the fact that in Finmark, far away to the North, and on the very shores of the Arctic Ocean, there once stood a large monastery, which was famed, in its day, throughout the Greek Church for its sanctity,...

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The Queer, the Quaint and the Quizzical

Palindromes One of the most remarkable palindromes is the following: SATOR AREPO TENET OPERA ROTAS. Its distinguishing peculiarity is that the first letter of each successive word writes to spell the first word; the second letter of each the second word, and so on throughout; and the same will be found as precisely true upon reversal. But the neatest and prettiest that has yet appeared comes from a...

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A curious Sator charm

A curious charm which was extensively used as an amulet in medieval times consists of five Latin words so arranged that they can be read backwards or forwards and also upwards or downwards.The disposition of the letters is as follows:s a t o ra r e p ot e n e to p e r ar o t a sThis charm has been preserved for us in Greek and Coptic as well as in Roman characters, and examples of it have been found cut in...

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