Comments on: Cult

By: Romer!can

Romer!can — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 07:51:47 +0000

Aha, a typo! I think you have indeed solved the mystery.

By: Bogdan

Bogdan — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 19:18:22 +0000

It seems the tilda over a word means it’s an abbreviation, in this case probably of “Saint”.

And the sign over the second T is “MI”. It seems that guy wrote “DITRÎE” and then he read what he wrote and noticed he spelt it wrongly, so he added the “MI” above it, to spell “DIMITRÎE”. :-)

By: Romer!can

Romer!can — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 10:00:14 +0000

Upon further study, Bogdan, there are some strange and puzzling details, if you zoom in on the detail.

Notice that first “C” character has a cedilla, which I’ve read is only a feature of Turkic varieties of Cyrillic. Next, that “T” has some kind of mark above which I cannot find any information about. Now, both the 3rd and 8th ы characters appear commonly in Turkic varieties of Cyrillic… do we see a taboo pattern here? (Admittedly, they also appear in Rusyn which arguably should have been around at the time.)

I read it as тыдїтрыє. Or ты дїтрыє. Stu (Santu/Sfantu) Ditrue… which approximates Saint Dimitrios.

But then, what’s that little character on top? A reversed Ѩ? Impossible. Something else, then? And what does it mean?

General disclaimer: Cyrillic is not my forte…

By: Romer!can

Romer!can — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 21:53:01 +0000

Bogdan – It would appear to be Saint Dimitrios of Thessaloniki, former military commander credited with saving Christianity from “the pagans” of his day and later to become an inspirational patron saint of the violent Crusades against non-Christians. If we’re right, that is.

xamox – I’d say they could be looking for you to join the party, if you don’t watch out!

By: xamox

xamox — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 14:19:45 +0000

What are those guys in the top picture doing? Hahhaah.

By: Bogdan

Bogdan — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 11:24:40 +0000

What is the name of the saint killing the king? I think I can read it as “STÎ DITRÎE”. Is that Saint Demetrius?