mleku on Nostr: fun fact about the greek alphabet's first and last letters α is alpha Ω is omega ...
fun fact about the greek alphabet's first and last letters
α is alpha
Ω is omega
they are the same, practically, except rotated, to the left and then vertical
well, it's not how they are always drawn, and that is the modern form, the old forms the A was more like it's rotated down 60 degrees, but still similar structure
particularly looking at the old byzantine greek miniscule
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_minuscule
the small omega looks like a W but it's actually based on a spiral upright as is the alpha written like the modern lower case greek alpha
also, this all is common with some other european scripts as well, like the runic scripts, in fact the Hristo Rei symbol used by the Catholics, the P with the X crossed through the stem of the X...
i am fascinated by these symbols and some of them seem very pretty to me.. like the cyrillic miniscule of the small letter G, it is a backwards S, but then you look at english old fonts like Times New Roman and others, the lower case G is basically like the 8 symbol but the fundamental main strokes are exactly a backwards S
there is magic in these things, i'm sure of it, but for me anyway, fascination
i really enjoyed learning to write lower case cyrillic in particular, it's much prettier than the capital sign case
and there is reasons that gave us the two different letter types that got adopted to indicate nouns in the germanic - one is for carving into stone and wood, the other is for scribing with a pen and ink, so the small letters are round and loopy and can include ligatures so you can form words with a single stroke
i worry sometimes that humans will lose the ability to write, the way things are going, i'm quite equivocal about it because most people can barely type, i can touch type, so ok no big deal but i can also write as well, and people probably notice that i deliberately avoid using capital letters very much in my writing at least my informal stuff in nostr posts
that's because i prefer miniscule text, it is more readable, all the ascenders and descenders are specifically there to make it faster to read
anyway, alpha, and omega, if i understand it correctly, kinda represent the beginning and end of a cycle, and they hint at the cycle change being a 90 degree rotation, which is what exactly happens in the pole shift disaster cycle
and i'm pretty sure this is also why balkans, baltics and central africa, formerly the old equator, and soon to be again... alpha, omega... the symbols tell you the high level phenomena that is the sign of the Return
α is alpha
Ω is omega
they are the same, practically, except rotated, to the left and then vertical
well, it's not how they are always drawn, and that is the modern form, the old forms the A was more like it's rotated down 60 degrees, but still similar structure
particularly looking at the old byzantine greek miniscule
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_minuscule
the small omega looks like a W but it's actually based on a spiral upright as is the alpha written like the modern lower case greek alpha
also, this all is common with some other european scripts as well, like the runic scripts, in fact the Hristo Rei symbol used by the Catholics, the P with the X crossed through the stem of the X...
i am fascinated by these symbols and some of them seem very pretty to me.. like the cyrillic miniscule of the small letter G, it is a backwards S, but then you look at english old fonts like Times New Roman and others, the lower case G is basically like the 8 symbol but the fundamental main strokes are exactly a backwards S
there is magic in these things, i'm sure of it, but for me anyway, fascination
i really enjoyed learning to write lower case cyrillic in particular, it's much prettier than the capital sign case
and there is reasons that gave us the two different letter types that got adopted to indicate nouns in the germanic - one is for carving into stone and wood, the other is for scribing with a pen and ink, so the small letters are round and loopy and can include ligatures so you can form words with a single stroke
i worry sometimes that humans will lose the ability to write, the way things are going, i'm quite equivocal about it because most people can barely type, i can touch type, so ok no big deal but i can also write as well, and people probably notice that i deliberately avoid using capital letters very much in my writing at least my informal stuff in nostr posts
that's because i prefer miniscule text, it is more readable, all the ascenders and descenders are specifically there to make it faster to read
anyway, alpha, and omega, if i understand it correctly, kinda represent the beginning and end of a cycle, and they hint at the cycle change being a 90 degree rotation, which is what exactly happens in the pole shift disaster cycle
and i'm pretty sure this is also why balkans, baltics and central africa, formerly the old equator, and soon to be again... alpha, omega... the symbols tell you the high level phenomena that is the sign of the Return