Sator: Squares

Why? Because medieval Christians discovered a hidden acrostic. If you take the letters of the square and rearrange them into a cross, you can spell (Our Father) twice—once vertically and once horizontally—with the leftover letters being two A and two O (Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end).

For two millennia, it has occupied a strange space between linguistics, archaeology, and the occult. Is it a secret Christian code, a pagan protection spell, or simply an ancient piece of wordplay? The Anatomy of the Square The square is composed of five Latin words: (Sower, planter, or creator) sator squares

The installation is composed of 25 individual square tiles. For two millennia, it has occupied a strange

The is one of the most enduring and baffling puzzles in history. A five-word Latin palindrome arranged in a 5x5 grid, it has been found scratched into the ruins of Pompeii, etched into the walls of medieval cathedrals, and inked onto the talismans of folk healers. The is one of the most enduring and