Meaning
Ordinal x 6 is the English Ordinal with every value multiplied by six: A is 6, B is 12, Z is 156. Every total is therefore a multiple of six and exactly six times the ordinal total. The cipher adds nothing to the ordinal but size, and its totals are common in the videos that look for 666 and its relatives because a multiple of six is more likely to land on them.
The trick is older than its name. In 1985 the American preacher Charles Swindoll described it in a book of devotions: count A as 1, B as 2, multiply by six, and words and names that mean nothing in particular come out at 666; his point was that the number can be found in almost anyone's name by someone who works at it. When the Wayback Machine first captured gematrix.org in February 2010 the same values were there as one of its three ciphers, called simply "English".
The borrowed name
The sites now call it Sumerian. The community explains the name by the counting in sixties of ancient Mesopotamia, and it stops there: Sumerian was written in cuneiform signs for words and syllables, with no alphabet whose letters could be given values, and nothing in the cipher comes from Sumer. We keep the name the calculators use so that people can recognise the cipher, always as Ordinal x 6 (Sumerian), and say each time that the name is a borrowing.
How it is counted
GEMATRIA: G 42 + E 30 + M 78 + A 6 + T 120 + R 108 + I 54 + A 6 = 444; reduced to 12, then to 3. ALPHABET: A 6 + L 72 + P 96 + H 48 + A 6 + B 12 + E 30 + T 120 = 390; reduced to 12, then to 3.
Since the total is six times the ordinal, its digital root is fixed by the ordinal's: it is always 3, 6 or 9.
Correspondences
Each item with how it stands: “sourced” is in the work cited, “our construction” is EsoTerrier’s own, and “disputed” means the sources disagree.
- Names on the popular sites
- "English" on gematrix.org, "Sumerian" on Gematrinator sourced
- Why six
- The community links it to the counting in sixties of ancient Mesopotamia; the cipher has nothing else from there disputed
- Earlier use
- A 1985 devotional shows the ordinal times six turning several words and names into 666, to warn how easily it is done sourced
- Totals
- Always a multiple of six, and six times the English Ordinal total our construction
How the schools read it
- Swindoll (1985)
- Uses the ordinal times six to show that 666 can be found in almost any name with enough effort.
- gematrix.org
- One of its three values, called "English".
- Gematrinator and the community
- Calls it "Sumerian", after the sexagesimal numbers of Mesopotamia.
- EsoTerrier
- Named Ordinal x 6 (Sumerian), with a note that the name is a borrowing.
Claims about it
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This cipher comes from Sumer, or from its counting in sixties.
falseWhat the record shows: It is the English alphabet count multiplied by six. Sumerian cuneiform has no alphabet to give values to; the name is a modern borrowing.
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This cipher goes back to antiquity or to a source older than the gematria websites.
falseWhat the record shows: The multiplying trick was in print by 1985 in an American devotional book; the named cipher appears on gematrix.org by 2010 and the name "Sumerian" on Gematrinator. Nothing older was found.
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Two words or names with the same value under this cipher are connected.
falseWhat the record shows: Equal values are what any table of this kind produces in quantity; the tradition reads them together as a way of interpreting a text.
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Totals under this cipher show that news events are planned by their numbers.
falseWhat the record shows: A search with dozens of ciphers and millions of phrases always finds a match; fact-checkers have shown it. Nothing on this site reads events, dates or news by number.
