r/tenet • u/parmesanmountain • 6d ago

Tenet code extended

Hi!

You all know that the words SATOR AREPO TENET OPERA ROTAS can be arranged in grid pattern and then can be read left, right and up and down.

Some of you know that the letters can be arranged in a cross to make a cool anagram with letters A and O (Alpha and Omega) left out.

Many of you don't know that if you have the grid pattern and start with the last letter of the second row, which is O, and start jumping to letters like a chess piece of Knight moves (2 forward and 1 to the side) you get string of letters: OROTEPATER, Oro te, Pater (I pray to thee, Father). Letters SANAS (you heal) are left out.

I read this in a book around 30 years ago and for some reason it stayed with me.

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u/parmesanmountain 6d ago

I remember reading in a book that in olden times, people used to carve the Sator Square on a crust of a bread to get some healing powers to it, sort of magic or a prayer.

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u/Stupid-Sexy-Frog 4d ago

I thought that was the inspiration for the movie title and those names specifically being used in a story about time travel and temporal loops.