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Posted By: Angus In Response To: 9+6 and 10+5 in Hebrew... (Steely)
Date: 11 June 2001, 13:52
> Yeah, well, like I said before: iota = 9th letter of the alphabet, but
> 10th numerologically since the digamma/stigma is added. The traditional
> Yud-Hey rendering of 15 by 10+5 in Hebrew is very close to the name of G-D
> in the bible - closer than most Jews are comfortable with so typically,
> 9+6, Theth-vau, is used instead as an equivalent. This is not biblical
> AFAIK, just respectful tradition carried on even today. The problem you
> run into is that when you consider Stigma being 6, iota jumps to 10. If
> the Glyph maker thought that he/she could get away with 9=iota when
> 6=stigma, he/she made a blunder.
I could also just be the letter I in our language, which happens to be the ninth one. so it could very well be 9+6=15=O
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