Dante

At the gates of Hell, in Dante’s Inferno, there is an inscrip­tion which is typ­i­cally trans­lated as “Abandon Hope, All Ye Who Enter Here”

For some rea­son, I always recall that par­tic­u­lar cliché as “Abandon Hope, Ye Who Enter Here” instead. When acronymized, as one would do for short­hand tech-support slang — such as PEBKAC — to indi­cate the “fourth-hand walk­through” sce­nario, it becomes AHYWEH, which is barely an ana­gram for YAHWEH.

All just coin­ci­dence, I’m sure.

2 Responses

  1. The Future Rev. E. L. says:

    Without want­ing to step on your lit­tle coin­ci­dence parade, I have to point out that the Name you refer to is not actu­ally spelled yah­weh.
    The names of divin­ity are lim­it­less; I think the human ten­dency to find them any­where and every­where is more an arti­fact of who we are, than what it might be.
    The other thing I noticed is that the name YHWH, in your neat lit­tle dan­tean alpha­bet is You Hope Who Here. Or pos­si­bly You Here Who Hope. Either way…

    We keep seek­ing mes­sages, an order in the chaos around us, as if the order gives us mean­ing… but the research seems to indi­cate that this is just some­thing humans do with ambigu­ous information.

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