(24-07-2016, 06:34 PM)don of tallahassee wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Okay, here is one of the neat parts I've been showing for five years.
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Which refers to the Old Man of The Mountains who protected the ahashishieen (his henchmen, the assassins) and the hashish that he fed to them in mountain castles/strongholds in some of Syria's more treacherous hinterland regions.
I know it is a leap of faith to get this far, but, then, the page does show a Cannabis plant, from which hashish is produced, so maybe not that long of a leap. And I'm not anagramming anything or making up new ways to produce the phonetic text.
Isn't that a fitting end to the page? It produced a whole bunch more of glyph/sounds for the alphabet.
But, finding the first iteration of hshesh on the second line of the page was like finding just the right cartouche, don't you know?
Thank you.
Don of Tallahassee
An interesting perspective on the origin of the word hashish and the Old Man of the Mountain (as described by Marco Polo):
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