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Reflections and research around La Livrée d'Hermès, translated from the French.
The axes are nodal lines
Published September 24, 2026
Three two-colour patterns, verified triangle by triangle, coincide exactly with eigenmodes of a square plate — and the formula that assigns them a frequency is a law, not a convention.
The encoder: hiding is not protecting
Published September 16, 2026
An encrypted message concealed in a grid of symbols, at positions designated by the ansate cross and the Jacquard loom — and why the geometry protects nothing in it.
Cymatics: what the spectrum of a pattern reveals
Published September 16, 2026
From the Chladni plate to the tiling: what the spectral analysis of the fifteen scales really shows — and why the values that appeared here before did not describe the patterns.
Reminiscence: from the Pythagorean pebble to the constructed square
Published September 6, 2026
From the Pythagorean pebbles to the slave boy of the Meno, down to a contemporary construction of magic squares: one and the same epistemic structure, in which construction makes visible a truth that no statement had formulated in advance.
Thrice-great Harlequin: the livery of Mercury
Published September 3, 2026
Why does Apollinaire close a poem on "the thrice-great harlequin"? Hermes, Niklaus, Crowley, and the gesture Baphomet shares with the Magician.
Verticality, chequerboard, mosaic and chessboard
Published September 3, 2026
One and the same vertical axis runs through the Yi King, Harlequin and Baphomet, from the chessboard of the 64 to the mosaic pavement, from the number of the beast to the measure of the angel.
Foliage, or the origin of the court jester
Published September 2, 2026
From Momus, banished from Olympus, to the Fool of the tarot: why the jester has always been the prince's mirror — origin, symbolism and iconography.
The tashbetz, the high priest's hidden square
Published September 2, 2026
Why does the tunic of the biblical high priest bear a name that means “chequer”? Exodus 28:39, the breastplate and the square as sacred geometry.
Hanuman and Harlequin, two messengers
Published August 31, 2026
Hanuman the messenger (Thai Khon theatre) and Harlequin-Hermes: the staff, the motley costume, the change of size — a striking analogy, with no historical link.
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