Ring of Andvari

Another interesting ring can be found in Eddas. “…Odin sent Loki into the Land of the Black Elves, and he came to the dwarf who is called Andvari, who was as a fish in the water. Loki caught him in his hands and required of him in ransom of his life all the gold that he had in his rock; and when they came within the rock, the dwarf brought forth all the gold he had, and it was very much wealth. Then the dwarf quickly swept under his hand one little gold ring, but Loki saw it and commanded him to give over the ring. The dwarf prayed him not to take the ring from him, saying that from this ring he could multiply wealth for himself if he might keep it. Loki answered that be should not have one penny left, and took the ring from him and went out; but the dwarf declared that that ring should be the ruin of every one who should come into possession of it.” Before it was cursed the ring could multiply the wealth of its bearer. I assume that wealth can be the major characteristic of the dwarf. Than what this ring does is characteristic multiplication. If this assumption is wrong, it doesn’t really matter – replication of the dwarfs characteristic is just an example. There’re many ways to reproduce this multiplication, the simplest is through the rings shape. Any ring multiplies its functions through its shape, just because it runs energy for many cycles. But this can be improved. Simplest improvement is making ring of several loops. But much more effective is to create loops in different directions. This is what “Celtic design” does. The only condition for such a “Celtic ring” is everyone of its loops must go all the way around the finger.

Another example of multiloop design is a “Greek key pattern”

This too shall pass

“This too shall pass” (Persian: این نیز بگذرد‎, Arabic: كله ماشي‎, Hebrew: גם זה יעבור‎, Turkish: Bu da geçer) is a proverb indicating that all material conditions, positive or negative, are temporary. The phrase seems to have originated in the writings of the medieval Persian Sufi poets, and is often attached to a fable of a great king who is humbled by the simple words. Some versions of the fable, beginning with that of Attar of Nishapur, add the detail that the phrase is inscribed on a ring, which therefore has the ability to make the happy man sad and the sad man happy. Jewish folklore often describes Solomon as giving or receiving the phrase. The proverb and associated fable were popular in the first half of the 19th century, appearing in a collection of tales by the English poet Edward Fitzgerald and being employed in a speech by Abraham Lincoln before he became president. I took this from Wikipedia. The interesting thing here is a ring. Inscribing the phrase “This too shall pass” is almost meaningless for the author of “Ecclesiastes”. The phrase was different. The well known fact about King Solomon is that he was magician. Another fact is that he had a ring giving him some superpower signed with the “Seal of Solomon”. Let’s try to connect these rings. The “Seal of Solomon” looks like that

This is definitely a symbol of the Arcanum XI – The Law. The phrase should be the same. It can be found in the “Ecclesiastes”. The phrase is, “What has been will be again”. But in Hebrew it looks slightly different, there is no “again” in Hebrew version. “מה שהיה הוא שיהיה”. It can be translated as “What has been is what shall be” and this is the right one. Now the ring, it should work like this: 1. It must legitimate the action 2. It must define the action First is done by the “מה שהיה” and it should be inscribed on the outer side of the ring. Second is done by the “הוא שיהיה” on the inner side. This way the ring will determine the action as the outcome of the past. Just like the “Seal of Solomon” or one of the ways