Monday, July 9, 2012

La Sagrada Famillia Part III - Cryptogram

One of my friends asked me what a 4 X 4 number board hung outside the Basilica was.  When I bought my admission tickets and walked up to the entrance, I saw it with the geometric statues. I didn't pay much attention, until I visited the Basilica museum.

The museum introduced this cryptogram which was invented by Josep Maria Subirachs.  It is a board with multiple combinations of numbers that always add up to 33.  This is the age of Christ in his death.

If you take a close look, there are two sets of repeated numbers i.e. 10, 14;  When they are added to 48, the same result as the addition of the letters of JNRI [Jesus Nazarenus Rex ludaeorum] according to the numerical order of the Latin alphabet.


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