Man, you've got me hooked now.

I just got finished my reveries on the letter "e". Now you hand us this little bit of chicanery.

The relationship of "N" to 10.

Well, 10 is represented by the letter yod, the hand. N is represented by nun, the sign of a fish.

Nun is actually an elongated letter yod once you see it in perspective.

The sign of the fish has resonance for Christians and Piscians in general; the number 10 stands for completion in the physical world; i.e., 10 commandments, ten plagues on egypt, Jerusalem conquered 10 times etc.

Now, the hebrew word for ten, eser, doesn't contain the sound of "n."


When you mention Superman, to you mean the Cartoon hero with a gem on his chest? Or do you mean Nietzsche's "Oebermann."

Because, see Nietzsche's Superman ends with an extra "n." Because in German, "man" means somebody, a person. "Mann" (with two n's) signifies the male human.

Nietzsche's Oebermann has "an extra n." Is he more studly than the American Clark Kent, that foppish dandy who lacks the vir of his Teutonic counterpart? Is there veritas in vir - itas? In vino, veritas.

Now the value of nun is 50, which is 40 more than 10. So the connection betweeen N and 10 is . . . 40. The number of purgation, of cleansing, as the world was cleansed of its wickedness by forty days and forty nights of rainfall. As the Son of Man/n was cleansed by fasting in the wilderness slowly, for 40 days.

Man is represented in hebrew by a variety of words. Adam, ruddy, refers to man as virile and newly created. 'Ish refers to man as a tough and ready warrior. Enosh on the other hand, typifies man as a feeble weakling, who makes errors and lacks strength--he who runs and grows weary.

So, Enosh is man, but 'Ish is Mann.

Superman himself is juxtaposed against the legion of doom, 10 of whom are of terrestrial origin. His own Justice League of America, the original seven, plus the implied "missing Hero" add implies a connection to the 8 immortals of Chinese mythology.


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[edit on 19-8-2007 by spirit7]