Top stories published by Deru Kugi in February of 2017

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Stieg Hedlund in Deru Kugi

Feb 5, 2017

The Sword in the Site

How I deciphered an indecipherable inscription (Solving the Sword, Part 1)

6 responses

Stieg Hedlund in Deru Kugi

Feb 9, 2017

Magical Staves

Old Norse magical symbols, and ones that aren’t (Viking Esoterica, Part 3)

3 responses

Stieg Hedlund in Deru Kugi

Feb 5, 2017

On a Rereading of “Death and the Compass”

The big ideas behind a Borges short story

3 responses

Stieg Hedlund in Deru Kugi

Feb 5, 2017

Bindrunes

How runes were and weren’t used in magic (Viking Esoterica, Part 2)

4 responses

Stieg Hedlund in Deru Kugi

Feb 10, 2017

“Hercules”: Myths and Mistakes

A quick list of Disney’s misses on the Herakles legend (DeDisneyfication, Part 3A)

Much is made of Disney’s Hercules differing from all their other animated films except for Fantasia, because it…

10 responses

Stieg Hedlund in Deru Kugi

Feb 5, 2017

From Count to Emperor

Willem II’s coronation as German anti-king (Solving the Sword, Part 2)

4 responses

Stieg Hedlund in Deru Kugi

Feb 5, 2017

Runes

Old Norse inscriptions, religion, and magic (Viking Esoterica, Part 1)

4 responses

Stieg Hedlund in Deru Kugi

Feb 10, 2017

Trouble with “Tarzan”

Lord of the Jungle: exemplar for Edgar Rice Burroughs’ political views (DeDisneyfication, Part 6)

Although at first blush it might seem like an innocent-though-improbable adventure yarn, Tarzan is a…

4 responses

Stieg Hedlund in Deru Kugi

Feb 20, 2017

And the Rotas Go ’Round

The intricate solution to an ancient enigma (Sator Square, Part 2)

The discovery of the Sator Square in Pompeii set a terminus ante quem of 79 CE, making it pretty clear it wasn’t Christian in origin. Other solutions…

3 responses

Stieg Hedlund in Deru Kugi

Feb 12, 2017

Sator Square Non-Starters

Failed solutions to an ancient rebus (Sator Square, Part 1)

The so-called Sator Square, a palindromic grid of letters which can be read beginning at any of the four corners, has captured people’s imaginations for…

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