A bit more on those SKR necklaces...
Another meaning of thosre SKR necklaces has to do with the practice of Obeah. Sicktanick says that he is an occultist rather than a Satanist, which means that he employs/enjoys multiple magical traditions in his workings. One area of occult knowledge that SickTanick claims is the practice of voodoo and in particular the practice of Obi; Obi is the voodoo god (lwa) which is essentially the embodiment of evl, although Obi/Obeah also refers to the entire practice of magic
As part of voodoo ceremonies, patterns known as a veve or vévé are drawn the ground. Several of these include triple crosses or double angled inverted cross patterns. As one example:
Maman Brigitte is one of the Guede lwa, the voodoo gods of the dead.
In one of his blog postings SickTanick mentions a line from a song that encodes voodoo knowledge. Specifically he references the "crossroads". If you examine the veve above, you can see that it is drawn around a central cross. This cross is drawn a the beginning of a ceremony and oriented to the cardinal directions (NSEW) and is known as the crossroads. The crossroads symbolizes the boundary between the spirit world of the lwa and the earth (that is the waking world of humans). SickTanick also mentions 23 coins, but I will leave the meaning of this symbology and the number 23 for a subsequent posting.
Gematria: Initial Clues
Gematria is an occult method of giving hidden meanings to words and texts via a numerical assignment to the letters in the text. Special significance is given to words that compute to the same values or specially meaningful values.
SickTanick says that he uses the "Hebrew" system of gematria to encode hidden knowledge into his music. Unfortunately there are in fact a number of systems of gematria that might be called "Hebrew" and his texts are written in English so the procedure for the encoding was unclear to me. Some have joked about SickTanick's lack of spelling abilities, something I can relate to since I am also a terrible speller, but then I started to wonder...
Some of these misspellings are consistent in all of his writings. For example, he always spells "disciples" incorrectly as "desciples". I've even seen some other people here starting to use this misspelling. Think about the import of this apparently innocent phenomenon as you read the following.
I have concluded that this use is not because he can't spell the word, it is because he is trying to imbue the words with hidden symbolism and (in theory) magical power. I did some calculations using various gematria methods and approaches, and I believe I have found the answer.
Using a specific English encoding and the basic Hebrew system of gematria, the phrase "DISCIPLES OF THE WATCH" encodes to 739. However with the purposeful misspelling "DESCIPLES OF THE WATCH" it converts to 729. I am sure many of you are saying "so f-ing what", and I did too at first, at least until I realized that 729 = 3^6. Three sixes get it?
And this is just the tip of the gematria iceberg...
Horrorcore Witch Hunt?
In the previous thread, I pointed out the real dangers of a possible horrorcore witch hunt. A the time a number of posters vilified me for this, and claimed that it was a preposterous suggestion. But now we've see none person lose custody of the children due to the mere mention of horrorcore (and I am sure other factors but still). There now is
another murder which is tied to horrorcore in the media although the connection is much more tenuous than in this case, and the case of the murdered census worker has also been
attributed horrorcore.
While I reveal to you some (but not all) of the hidden mesages in this material, I also caution against the initiation of a witch hunt which will inevitably end in harming more innocent people than guilty.