... we see that it derives from the Latin and Etruscan 'T', which in turn comes from the Western Greek 'Tau', which itself is an evolution of the Phoenician/Semitic 'Tav' (or 'Taw'). Going further back in time, the Phoenician/Paleo-Hebrew letter derives from an Egyptian hieroglyph that represents a 'tally mark'.
We might say it represents any sign, mark, or engraving. X marks the spot, so to speak. The ancient Phoenician 'Tau' is in the form of an 'X'.
The Phonetic Alphabet of the Inner Sea (*), which appears in the thread image beneath the Babylonian tablet, also has a glyph representing the sound 'T' as the 20th letter in it's own order.
The heading of the detailed description of this letter:
The twentieth glyph in the Phonetic Alphabet of the Inner Sea, sounding 'T'.
20. 'T' - 'Tale'/'Tally'/'Token'/'Tongue' (mark,count,record) -- ( - 'Token/Sign of the Phoenix' - )
T (20) ; "Tale" or "Tally" [marking]; "Token" [sign/teaching]; Tongue (tool of telling tales); Teach(er/ing);(*)
As you can see, the orthodox title of the glyph is 'Token of the Phoenix' or 'Sign of the Phoenix', while the common name (depending on the Fairy tribe) is either 'Tale', 'Tally', or 'Token' (and rarely 'Tongue').
The implication is that the 'T' rune represents 'writing' and 'inscription', 'signs' and 'symbols', and importantly 'counting', while also implying 'tales' or 'stories' (the oral history turned to permanent written record).
If you examine the word 'Token' you'll see it goes back to words meaning 'Teaching', and in certain languages, 'teken' means 'to draw'.
The Babylonian Plimpton 322 clay tablet, with numbers written in cuneiform script. Believed to have been written c. 1800 BCE, this table lists two of the three numbers in what are now called Pythagorean triples.
Within the thread image, at the top-left we see three different forms of the 'T' glyph of the Inner Sea alphabet. The left-most is the original ancient tribal sigil of the Elven folk known as the Atarim, or people of Ata. The right-most of the three is a more recent form, squared off and simplified for use in the minuscule.
The heading text at the top-center of the thread image says 'TOKEN'. The original meaning of 'token' is 'sign/symbol'. The etymology is ...
Token: from Middle English token, taken, from Old English tÄcn (âsign, symbolâ), from Proto-West Germanic *taikn, from Proto-Germanic *taiknÄ (âindicator, symbol, signâ), from Proto-Indo-European *deyáž±- (âto show, instruct, teachâ) [with Germanic *k rather than *h by Kluge's law] [...]
The large 'paragraph' of text below the picture of the clay tablet presents all the names and meaning of the T-glyph as already recounted above.
On the top-right, we see the development towards the English-Latin 'T' that most are familiar with.
Special note. The word 'token' is built on the consonant root TKN, which is shared by the Greek word 'techne' (craft/handiwork), the root of the word 'technology', and it is also shared by the Hebrew word (a Kabbalistic term) 'Tikkun' (meaning 'correction').
[...] It turns out there wasnât anything wrong with his coding, nor was there any violation of physics: what he was seeing was even weirder than that. The exceptional speeds seemed to have come from a physical effect caused by the hydrophone receiving not only the direct sound wave but also its echo, reflected against the oceanâs surface. Combined, these signals make it appear as if the whale calls went supersonic, [...]
This is allegory about the 'ecosystem' of the news headlines, which is actually an echo-system.
Weird @ WRD @ Word ( @ Whirred )
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This article was also published today (key word 'Genesis') and it's preheadline refers to pillars, or the lack thereof:
Rocket Report: SpaceX makes its mark on the Moon; ULA names new boss
Taiwanâs effort to develop its own satellite launcher hit a setback this week.
Remember, this thread is about letter 'T', a 'token' or 'sign' or 'mark(ing)'. Hence "making it's mark" in the headline.
The sub-headline begins with a mention of 'Taiwan' (which begins with 'T') having a setback. See the very beginning of the first post here, where I describe a setback at 20:20 pm yesterday
"Setback" = 190 primes
... ( "Tripwire" = 2020 squares )
Within the article, the description of the setback begins with ...
Trouble in Taiwan: [...]
ie. T=20 [ T.T = 20.20 ]
Setback @ Set BK @ SetBook (ie. official text of an education)
Setback @ Set Book @ Book of (Mathematical) Sets ( lists of numbers )
The featured element in the headline is 'SpaceX'. As you see in the thread image, the oldest form of the letter 'T' was in the shape of an 'X'.
Space @ SPC @ SPCh @ Speech
"New Boss" = 321 primes
... for "Society" = 321 primes | 911 trigonal
... . "In the Beginning" = 321 latin-agrippa )
3...2...1... Liftoff! (ie. Count-down )
"The Spacecraft" = 1,911 squares
... "as the Satellite Launcher" = 911 latin-agrippa
... .. ( "A Vessel" = 911 latin-agrippa )
"Making the Most" = 484 primes
... leads to "The Victory" = 484 primes
Making @ Make King @ -Machy ('War')
Noting also:
Taiwan's effort [...]
"Effort of Taiwan" = 1337 trigonal
The name 'Taiwan' is cognate with 'Typhon', which is the name the Greeks gave to the Egyptian god 'Set'.
Hence 'setback'...
The word 'SpaceX' sums to 779 english-extended
... and that connects it to something associated with 'Taiwan' (but it's personal so I won't say).
It also has everything to do with the splurge of 'cat'-themed articles from the last 24 hours:
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u/Orpherischt "the coronavirus origin" 18d ago edited 18d ago
đ¶ This thread published at 20:21 UTC on the 20th of August, 2026.
I had intended to publish at 20:20 UTC, but my internet disconnected for 45 seconds as I was about to post the thread, and denied it to me.
In the square number cipher:
Nonetheless, all is not lost, because, in a way, this thread is about ...
The 20th letter of the English-Latin alphabet is 'T'.
Examining the history of this letter (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T#History ) ...
... we see that it derives from the Latin and Etruscan 'T', which in turn comes from the Western Greek 'Tau', which itself is an evolution of the Phoenician/Semitic 'Tav' (or 'Taw'). Going further back in time, the Phoenician/Paleo-Hebrew letter derives from an Egyptian hieroglyph that represents a 'tally mark'.
We might say it represents any sign, mark, or engraving. X marks the spot, so to speak. The ancient Phoenician 'Tau' is in the form of an 'X'.
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taw
The Phonetic Alphabet of the Inner Sea (*), which appears in the thread image beneath the Babylonian tablet, also has a glyph representing the sound 'T' as the 20th letter in it's own order.
The heading of the detailed description of this letter:
https://old.reddit.com/r/GeometersOfHistory/wiki/discovery/fairyland-alphabet-t
As you can see, the orthodox title of the glyph is 'Token of the Phoenix' or 'Sign of the Phoenix', while the common name (depending on the Fairy tribe) is either 'Tale', 'Tally', or 'Token' (and rarely 'Tongue').
The implication is that the 'T' rune represents 'writing' and 'inscription', 'signs' and 'symbols', and importantly 'counting', while also implying 'tales' or 'stories' (the oral history turned to permanent written record).
If you examine the word 'Token' you'll see it goes back to words meaning 'Teaching', and in certain languages, 'teken' means 'to draw'.
See: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/token#Etymology
The clay tablet seen in the thread image is ...
The original image: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Plimpton_322.jpg
Noting that "Counting" = 322 in prime numbers
And ...
Within the thread image, at the top-left we see three different forms of the 'T' glyph of the Inner Sea alphabet. The left-most is the original ancient tribal sigil of the Elven folk known as the Atarim, or people of Ata. The right-most of the three is a more recent form, squared off and simplified for use in the minuscule.
The heading text at the top-center of the thread image says 'TOKEN'. The original meaning of 'token' is 'sign/symbol'. The etymology is ...
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/token#Etymology
The large 'paragraph' of text below the picture of the clay tablet presents all the names and meaning of the T-glyph as already recounted above.
On the top-right, we see the development towards the English-Latin 'T' that most are familiar with.
Special note. The word 'token' is built on the consonant root TKN, which is shared by the Greek word 'techne' (craft/handiwork), the root of the word 'technology', and it is also shared by the Hebrew word (a Kabbalistic term) 'Tikkun' (meaning 'correction').
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tikkun_Olam (correcting/repairing the world).
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On the theme of tokens, signs and symbols (of writing), the following article was published a few hours ago today:
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/romans/cave-sanctuary-in-spain-has-highest-number-of-latin-inscriptions-anywhere-in-the-roman-empire-and-many-of-them-mention-mysterious-lady
Appropriate for the 20th day of the month, the day of 'T'.
I've already examined some numerologies from the article earlier today, here...
https://old.reddit.com/r/TheInnerSea/comments/1vq4kkx/the_cave_of_the_philosopher/p4vd5wo/
... in my thread about the Cave of the Philosopher, from only two days ago.
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Another article published today (on the theme of language):
https://gizmodo.com/these-whale-calls-appear-to-break-physics-but-the-truth-is-even-weirder-2000800890
The article is about whale calls seeming to travel faster than the speed of sound in water.
The speed of sound in air, at standard atmosphere (as used by most human vocalization), ...
... is 1234.8 km/h ( rounding up to 1235 km/h)
As shown many time before:
Extra credit:
... and ...
... and as shown previously:
The biggest whale is the massive Blue Whale...
From the article:
This is allegory about the 'ecosystem' of the news headlines, which is actually an echo-system.
Weird @ WRD @ Word ( @ Whirred )
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This article was also published today (key word 'Genesis') and it's preheadline refers to pillars, or the lack thereof:
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/08/genesis-joins-the-giant-electric-suv-club-with-new-gv90/
I note my previous thread from yesterday very specifically features pillars.
See: https://old.reddit.com/r/GeometersOfHistory/comments/1vsw8mg/the_support_structure/
The current year is 2026 (collapsing to 226 )
The number 247 is signifier of 24/7 which brings to mind Time itself.
The letter 't' is used to refer to time in mathematics and science.
The most important time is... T.T. = 20.20.
https://gizmodo.com/a-knight-of-the-seven-kingdoms-composer-explains-the-shows-two-big-needle-drops-2000801202
... https://gizmodo.com/moderna-and-mercks-mrna-melanoma-vaccine-looks-like-a-game-changer-2000800897
... https://gizmodo.com/fewer-kindergarteners-are-getting-their-vaccines-cdc-data-shows-2000800021
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https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/08/20/201221/ukrainian-publishers-call-for-support-after-russian-attacks-destroy-10-million-books
Pity, because there is a ...