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When looking into the tatoo symbol in the Architect, I came across some Freemason symbols that may (or may not) be expressed in the Blacklist.
I know that someone previously wrote about this (Colleen, Tuxie400?) but I could not find that thread, sorry.
And I know it was mentioned that one of the symbols is a sort of checkerboard, and I think Tatiana may have shared a screen cap of the black and white checkered floor on the restaurant that Red and Liz go to in Montreal in the second episode of Season 1. And there have been loads of checks and checkerboard references (which could also be chess board )
So while I was researching the tattoo symbol that the Architect had, I came across this on the kind of checkerboard symbolism in the series. I looked at a whole bunch of information sources about the checkerboard and found this:
The symbol, which is three boxes, with a checkered pattern in each, comes from Euclid's 47th Problem:Euclid wrote a set of thirteen books, which were called “Elements”. Each book contained geometric problems and theories. The “47th problem” was set out in Book 1, which is also known as “The Pythagorean Theorem”. The theorem states that, in right triangles, the square of the hypotenuse (the side opposite the right angle) is equal to the sum of the squares of the other tow sides: A2 + B2 = C2 The theorem is important in various disciplines, which we have seen represented in The Blacklist:
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Fascinating stuff Lara1!
I've always been interested in the Masons because there is a beautiful Masonic Temple here in Scranton that is our city's cultural center. Folks can tour the building and see secret doors, unusual rooms - its a mysterious castle the local Masons share with the community.
I looked up #47 and had flashbacks to high school geometry. Then saw that there is an Agent 47 - a character from a video game and later a movie titled Hitman. In the game #47 was the result of cloning research. In the movie #47 was created using orphaned children.
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Very interesting stuff, lara1 (checkerboard) and Colleen. I noticed Ulrich Thomsen played the president of Russia in the movie, Hitman (Agent 47). Cloning and orphaned children!
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Wow, this is intriguiing... rl getting in the way, but maybe tomorrow I'll be able to touch base.