DANTE'S PYTHAGOREAN SHUFFLE
Inferno (down 3 divine moves):
Canto 3 ("ira di Dio")
Canto 5 ("adorar debitamente a Dio")
Canto 12 ("in grembo a Dio")
Purgatorio (across to the right 4 divine moves):
Canto 7 ("salire a Dio")
Canto 11 ("mi volsi a Dio")
Canto 27 ("presso più a Dio")
Canto 33 ("offende a Dio")
Paradiso (up obliquely leftwards 5 divine moves):
Canto 8 ("rimirando in Dio")
Canto 10 ("rendersi a Dio")
Canto 24 ("Io credo in uno Dio")
Canto 26 ("verso Dio")
Canto 28 ("verso Dio")
invalid rhymes: Paradiso Canto 6 ("uccell di Dio" = the Eagle)
& Canti 7, 27 & 32 ("Figluol di Dio" = "Son of
God")... hmmm...
90°
angle is formed at the corner of Hell and Limbo
36° angle Purgatorio-Paradiso = "terzo del cammin di nostra
vita"
54° Paradiso-Inferno = "mezzo del camin di nostra vita"
- back to "square one" but changed... (90° + 36° +
54° = 180°)
one "life"
is 108° = one inner angle of equilateral pentagon = two Pythagorean
triangles coupled
when thus joined, Hell disappears, leaving two lateral heavenly ascents
and one lower Limbo (108° + 36° + 36° = 180°, actually
360° with "hidden Hell")... the "new" triangle
is True Life and Venusian Love...
3 + 4 +
5 = "Pythagorean" triangle = Dio = reversed Bou Jeloud "Boogaloo"
blues shuffle (Aisha Qandisha structure is 5 + 4 + 3)
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©2003 Mark Baldwin Harris
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