This notebook demonstrates couple of useful data structuring functions from isopsephy module which can be used to examine word and phrase isopsephy values. In the middle of the document there is also a short religio-philosophical speculation, how isopsephy has been used on ancient times.
But for character table, basicly you need to have the isopsephy module loaded and imported on your application.
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import isopsephy
Char_table_data function returns three different Pandas dataframe tables from a given greek phrase:
First example is given with the word δημοκρατία (democrazy). Greek word is preprocessed to transform accents into simple greek letters.
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word = isopsephy.preprocess_greek('δημοκρατία')
print word
charsum, wordsum, phrasesum = isopsephy.char_table_data(word)
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charsum
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Word summary table presents all characters grouped by words. Columns has isopsephy, character, digital sum and digital root values per words.
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wordsum
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Finally phrase summary table aggregates all words and presents summary of the whole phrase with same columns as word summary. In this case, where only one word is given for analysis, phrase summary table is practically same as word summary table.
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phrasesum
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Next example is given with the word ἱεραρχία (hierarchy).
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word = isopsephy.preprocess_greek('ἱεραρχία')
print word
charsum, wordsum, phrasesum = isopsephy.char_table_data(word)
charsum
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wordsum
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Third single word example is given with the word ἐξουσία (authority).
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word = isopsephy.preprocess_greek('ἐξουσία')
print word
charsum, wordsum, phrasesum = isopsephy.char_table_data(word)
charsum
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wordsum
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While above examples had only one word on subject of analysis, real power of char_table_data function comes when analysing phrases containing several words. For religio-philosophical speculation phrase used here κυριοσ Ιησους Χριστος (Lord Jesus Christ).
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phrase = 'κυριοσ Ιησους Χριστος'
charsum, wordsum, phrasesum = isopsephy.char_table_data(phrase)
charsum
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wordsum
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phrasesum
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From the perspective of neo-pythagorean interpretation, this concept of early christianity has an intriguing correspondence to Platonic numbers as well as to Pythagoras himself. We can see that isopsephy value of κυριοσ Ιησους Χριστος (Lord Jesus Christ) is 3168, which is same (just lower magnitude) as the circle perimeter of combined radius of earth (3960) and moon (1080) ie. 5040. 5040 is the optimal number of citizens in a state according to Plato in his writing "Laws". Using ancient whole number approximation of the pi we get:
$5040*2*pi = 5040*2*22/7 = 31680$
31680 is also the perimeter of a square drawn around earth thus combining the myth of squaring the circle on same enigma.
From the data table above (Out[11]) we can also see that digital roots of the words κυριοσ Ιησους Χριστος are 8,6,4. Isopsephy value of Πυθαγόρας (Pythagoras) happens to be 864.
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def print_word(word):
word = isopsephy.preprocess_greek(word)
print isopsephy.isopsephy(word), word, "(%s)" % isopsephy.to_roman(word)
print_word('Πυθαγόρας') # Pythagoras
Few other words giving value 864 from the scriptures are:
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print_word('Ιερουσαλημ') # Jerusalem
print_word('γωνια') # an angle
print_word('αγαθων') # good
print_word('αγιων') # sacred
print_word('διδασκοντεσ') # to teach, see also: mathetes
print_word('περικεκαλυμμενην') # to cover all around
One cannot miss the ancient time table of ages, aion and yugas (sanskrit) where this very same number occurs: 432, 864 (Dwapar Yuga), 1296 and 1728.
But then also Πυθαγόρας ὁ Σάμιος (Pythagoras of Samos) gives the value 1455 and interesting correspondities on the Scriptures:
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# Pythagoras of Samos
print_word('Πυθαγόρας ὁ Σάμιος')
# a small (moderately, slightly, a little, baby and similar expressions were aliases for sages and initiates.
# comes from the word metron, which is a measuring rod, portion of the whole)
print_word('μετριως')
# to draw, drag off, geometrical act and motion
print_word('ελκυσω')
# Moses
print_word('μωυσει')
# Enoch
print_word('ενωχ')
# root
print_word('εκριζωσητε')
Other well-known pythagorean connection comes from the harmonic ratio between the words Ιησους Χριστος which values are 888 and 1480. This can be simplified to a fraction 3/5. On the scriptures κερματιστης (money-broker) and αλυσιτελης (gainless) has a value 1184, which reminds of the furious story of Jesus in the temple (John. 2:14-16). Similarly εγνωκατε is to "know" (absolutely).
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# money-broker
print_word('κερματιστης')
# gainless
print_word('αλυσιτελης')
# to "know" (absolutely)
print_word('εγνωκατε')
Other nice HTML representation of the characters, words and phrase summary is given by a print_char_table function. Output tries to combine all above table in the same one. This is useful especially for short phrases. But longer phrases are taking space in horizontal way and might not be as useful as char_table_data function. Also output is HTML data while char_table_data funciton gives Pandas DataFrame object that can be manipulated easier.
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import isopsephy
isopsephy.char_table(phrase)
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from IPython.core.display import HTML
with open('isopsephy.css') as f:
css = f.read()
HTML('<style>%s</style>' % css)
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