The Mystifying ‘Sator Square’: a Combination of Mathematics, Symmetry, and Religions
Dating back to the 1st century AD and somewhat common in archaeological finds in Europe, this magic square’s significance and symbolism are still a mystery
Overview
A ‘palindrome’ is a sequence of numbers or letters, hence actual words too, which reads the same both forward and backwards (the word is from the Greek ‘can be read both ways’). When used appropriately in a grid they can create a ‘word square’, so that you read the same words and those words in the same order either if you read it left to right, right to left, up to down, or down to up. This is the letters’ version of a ‘magic square’, a grid which has only integers and that gives you the same addition results whichever order you follow in a row, column, or two diagonals. In case letters are used, it’s technically not a ‘magic square’ although it’s informally called so for the parallel in principles. Furthermore, a word square is a special type of ‘acrostic’, a case when a form of writing takes form so that the first letter of each line spells a word out.
The Sator Square is a unique ‘word square’.
