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islader2 wrote:There seems to be a bat {Chiroptera} emerging from a cave==with a long tongue for lapping blood. Nice ears on this critter!!

• Atbash cipher code

 Plain:  wizard
 Cipher: DRAZIW

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atbash wrote:
<<Atbash is a simple substitution cipher for the Hebrew alphabet.

It consists in substituting aleph (the first letter) for tav (the last),
beth (the second) for shin (one before last), and so on, reversing the alphabet.

In the Book of Jeremiah [written during the oppressive Chaldean Babylonian Captivity],

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ששך Sheshakh (Jeremiah 25:26; 51:41) is Atbash for 
בבל Bavel = "Babylon", and

לב קמי Lev Kamai (Jeremiah 51:1) is Atbash for
 כשדים Kasdim = "Chaldeans" .

Atbash has been associated with the esoteric methodologies of Jewish mysticism's interpretations of Hebrew religious texts as in the Kabbalah.

The Atbash cipher for the modern Hebrew alphabet would be:

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 Plain:  אבגדהוזחטיכלמנסעפצקרשת
 Cipher: תשרקצפעסנמלכיטחזוהדגבא

An Atbash cipher for the Roman alphabet would be as follows:

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 Plain:  abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
 Cipher: ZYXWVUTSRQPONMLKJIHGFEDCBA

An easier, simpler and faster way of doing this is:

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 First 13 letters: A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
 Last 13 Letters:  Z|Y|X|W|V|U|T|S|R|Q|P|O|N

Atbash can also be used to mean the same thing in any other alphabet as well. This is a very simple substitution cipher.

For example, in Atbash, the letters "nlmvb" indicate the word "money".>>

neufer wrote:"grog"="tilt"

NoelC wrote:And even what discussion there IS here in this thread is much about seeing "shapes in the clouds"

Beyond wrote:

neufer wrote:
"grog"="tilt"

Finally! The Great Quotidian Quotationist has said something that i can understand.
You drink too much "grog", You "tilt" and fallover