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This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the Sator Square article. This is not a forum for general discussion of the subject of the article.
Because of the scale of academic papers published on the Sator Square over the last century, several academics have published papers to catalog and review the body of academic research at various times. A noted contemporary version is a paper published in 2003 by American academic Rose Mary Sheldon in the journal Cryptologia and is available to read online: The Sator rebus: An unsolved cryptogram?.
There is a large body of peer-reviewed academic research published by classical scholars over the last century on the Sator Square. Supplementing this are various essays by classical scholars to help non-academic readers and/or clarify their own public position on the square's origin. However, there is also a considerable volume of non-academic work on the Sator Square published in books or blogs that are unsuitable for this article, and particularly non-academic sources that seek to support WP:FRINGE theories on the origin and purpose of the object; these will be removed.
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Latest comment: 10 months ago2 comments2 people in discussion
The article states "Written above the square is the word "ICHTHUS", which directly translates as a term for Christ." While it is a direct reference to Christ, this is poorly worded as it is literally the Greek word for fish. 103.240.228.211 (talk) 12:26, 1 October 2024 (UTC)Reply
The fact that he has a Wikipedia article means that he is notable, and the face that a person independent of TP chronicles TP's use of the square makes the fact even more notable for this article. Unfortunately, there have been a lot of attempts to add non-notable uses of the sator square into the "In popular culture" section. Aszx5000 (talk) 14:40, 30 September 2025 (UTC)Reply
Latest comment: 4 months ago2 comments2 people in discussion
"AREPO" is now theorized (Bob Greenyer, a low energy nuclear reaction researcher) to be an abbreviation for "from Alpha repeat to Omega," meaning "eternity in all things at all times." This roughly translates the square as "The creator eternally keeps and works all things in spirals/vortexes" which supports ancient alchemic processes and serves as a western version of the yin-yang symbol. ~2026-32343 (talk) 15:45, 2 January 2026 (UTC)Reply
That is the "paternoster theory" that is in the article which has been downgraded. The use of the terms Alpha and Omega post-date the earliest dates from which the square was found, and thus would not have featured in the origial design of the square. Aszx5000 (talk) 12:22, 24 March 2026 (UTC)Reply
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