I cannot believe that I'm having to research Tarot. (Also, I cannot believe that again I can get so lost so fast.) On the other hand, if I hadn't had to research Tarot, I'd never have encountered this, in Wikipedia: . Um, yeah.
Meanwhile, "the Tetractys isn't the only thing round here that's ineffable."
Trying to summarize the TWIT section, it's becoming clearer to me that this bit really is dense with new characters and new themes and it's all built on stuff I know nothing about--Tarot, development of southeastern Europe prior to World War I.
"[Clive Crouchmas] greeted the Cohen by raising his left hand, then spreading the fingers two and two away from the thumb so as to form the Hebrew letter shin, signifying the initial letter of one of the pre-Mosaic (that is, plural) names of God which may never be spoken.
'Basically wishing long life and prosperity,' explained the Cohen, answering with the same gesture."
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