Number of the Beast

Inspired by a thread on facebook . . .

Now that was a jaunt down memory lane.

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No John eating magick mushrooms in his exile on a lonely island somewhere, no Nero, no Mohamed, no Saddam Hussein or Adolf Hitler, or Bob Dobbs, or that guy who lives down the street, or 616, no 606, no six-hundred-so-many-score-something, no six-hundred-sixty-six . . . just the good ol’ thirty-sixth triangular number based upon Babylonian number squares based upon the number of gods in the Babylonian pantheon and the old sigilla solis and the constellations in the Sumerian sky. After all, why complicate things? Why indeed . . .

All the best,
Brian