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