From: barth@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (barth.richards)
Subject: Re: Ministry Symbols
Organization: AT&T
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 18:04:25 GMT


In article <16128@mindlink.bc.ca> Jay_Daunheimer@mindlink.bc.ca (Jay Daunheimer) writes:

>I've seen the album name interpreted as:
>
>Psalm 69
>
>AKA Psalm 69
>
>K-Psalm 69
>
>Kesalm 69 - "some horrible incident of namericans killing innocents in nam"
>
>head of music - "translated from greek"
>
>
>Kinna like the VIVISECTVI thing isn't it?
>
>Anyone else?


On 10 Aug 92, in article <westling.713411317@starbase>,
westling@zebulon.mitre.org (Mark Westling) wrote:


>In <mallan.02ye@wiz.outb.wimsey.bc.ca> mallan@wiz.outb.wimsey.bc.ca (Matthew Allan) writes:
>
>> What language is the title of Ministry's new album written in?
>> And does it translate to Psalm 69, or is that an accepted name?
>> 
>
>This question came up on bitnet, too. I have no idea if the
>following posting is correct, but it sounds authoritative, eh?
>
>--Mark Westling
>
>---------
>Date:         Thu, 6 Aug 1992 07:41:08 EDT
>From:         Sonia Kovitz <skovitz@MAGNUS.ACS.OHIO-STATE.EDU>
>Subject:      Re: RE:Ministry
>
>Somebody was wondering about the Greek letters on the cover (and thought one
>wasn't Greek)... you heard it first here:
>The title IS Greek (and the letter that they thought wasn't Greek, probably the
>second to last one looking like a box missing parts of the sides, with a dash
>in the middle, is also Greek...all the letters are capitals, which makes them
>look strange because you don't see them too often--I think frat houses stay
>lower case, but I'll have to review Animal House to make sure).
>
>The first six letters spell: K E PH A L AY meaning "head" in Greek, as in "you
>idiot brachiocephalic"  - the last two letters (there is no space because this
>is in antique manuscript style which left no spaces between words and no had no
>punctuation)  refer to "69"-- Greek, like Hebrew, gave each letter of the
>alphabet a numerical equivalent: the funny missing-box letter is a "KSI"
>(sounding like x in taxi) and stands for 60.  the final letter is a theta,
>ninth letter of alphabet, and stands for 9.
>
>Though the word "kephalay" literally means "head," it also can mean a "chapter
>heading," so here the translation is "chapter 69" [i.e. of the Psalms]
>See you guys, if you listened to the blues more often you'd know this stuff.


In other words (or letters):


8   8  88888  88888   888     8    8   8  88888   888 
8   8  8        8    8   8   8 8   8   8         8   8
8  8   8      88888  8   8   8 8   8   8         8   8
888    8888   8 8 8  88888   8 8   88888   888   88888
8  8   8      88888  8   8  8   8  8   8         8   8
8   8  8        8    8   8  8   8  8   8         8   8
8   8  88888  88888  8   8  8   8  8   8  88888   888 

kappa epsilon  phi   alpha  lambda  eta    ksi   theta

  K      E      PH     A      L      AY    60      9 
                                           (X)    (TH)

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88  Barth Richards                   "Language is a virus from outer space."  88
88  att!ihlpf!barth                            - William S. Burroughs         88
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