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Dec 10, 2022
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The second glyph/spell/prayer is a simple “X” in a square. In his book “Ácsolt ládák titkai,” Gyenes Tamás calls this a “slanted cross.” So, it could be viewed as a Christian symbol. (Crosses for crucifixion were sometimes made in the shape of an X, an I or a T.)

Tamás also explains that this symbol could be a “soul” or a “person.” Something that happens at the intersection of two lines.

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And that’s the way I explained it to my daughter Katherine. This symbol is on four faces of the legs of her new kitchen table. I said that one line represents her mother, Lucy, and the other represents her father, me. She is the intersection of those two lines.

She liked that.

This week I finished up her table and will deliver it tomorrow. The table is not going to be a project in the final book. There are too many things I would change – actually, too many things t…

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