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[JoeCanada42]

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[Jim McDougall]

This is most interesting Joe, and I wanted to try to enter some possibilities which hopefully will be recognized for simply identification purposes.

The reference to 'Nogent' mentioned is to the city in France known for production of cutlery and various bladed implements. There is a Musee de la Coutellerie there which might have information. In Levines 4th edition (1997,) I found no useful example in the comprehensive examples of knives.

It seems to be this is a considerably old knife, the blade seems to be reprofiled from a sword, and IMO it is more in the shape of a hunting knife. The 'fish tail' is unusual, and have not found any similar.

It does seem there is a potential for being the 'athame' type knife of occult practices, as these are notably with black hilt as seen here. As far as I know there are no prescribed forms for these, but the unusual pommel and the equally unusual symbols on the grip seem to augment to notion.

While the gold color device seems more a baroque aesthetic it could very well be an interpretation of an esoteric sigil. The circular cartouche seems to represent some type of bird in a fylfot configuration, representing circular or repetitive motion dynamically, which does relate to certain alchemical type symbolism. This seems to be an innocuous example, while of course there are other types of this device more sinister.

I do not see any reason to read any of those connotations into this and see this as an intriguing example of a repurposed old sword blade, quite long ago fashioned into this mysterious knife probably in France.

I would bring into view the author Gerald Gardner who became well known in modern occult in the 1950s, and whose interest in vintage edged weapons was focused on the keris. His knowledge and understanding of these kinds of properties were instrumental it would seem in those of these kinds of knives.
The numeric 999 is indeed supposed to be an angelic number, which no doubt certain proponents might see as the obverse number.

I hope this example can remain observed objectively as it is an aspect of edged weaponry seldom ever touched on. It is well known that many swords of antiquity and with noted use in historic campaigns often ended up in Masonic context in lodges, and other fraternal groups. I would consider perhaps this blade might have had similar circumstance.

[JoeCanada42]

thanks Jim for Your interest and research it means a lot
I guess part of the magic could be people interpret the symbols differently
now when I look at what I called the kolovrat, I can see some other stuff..
it could be and earth symbol, but also I see spiraling wind gusts, flames of fire, and rain or waves, it could be an abstract representing all the elements...

[Jim McDougall]

My pleasure Joe, its an intriguing knife and unusual so looking into the many possibilities is much of the fun of learning with the knife as a focal point.
As with much of edged weaponry, markings and symbolism are with arcane meanings, and we can usually only speculate.

We could write pages here on what these symbols and the knife itself might be, but until we find some distinct corroboration, it remains a fascinating mystery.

[Raf]

To have any significance in terms of its Gematria the number would have to be 666 not 999. 666 together with 1080 added together equals 1746. Sometimes called the number of fusion. The most important number in the hierarchy of significant numbers , translating as it does into ' the spirit of the universe' or 'grain of mustard seed'. The negative connotations of 666 are believed to an attempt by the early church to distance itself from ideas that were certainly pre Christian in origin. An angel number can be any number with 3 repeated digits so I can't see this as having any esoteric meaning.

[JoeCanada42]

Hi Raf thanks for some insight

well depending on perception and orientation that number 666 is present

honestly my grasp of gematria is very limited, I don't know why those other numbers have come into play. in a quick research I do find a lot significance with 999 in gematria among Hebrew, Greek and English...
as far as angel numbers go I know even less,
I didn't exactly say its an angel number I said I think it was used to speak with angels, only one of my more light hearted hypothesis.

excluding gematria 999 is significant in other systems like the IChing and other religions.. even in simple math 9 is amusing, for example 6+6+6=18 1+8=9
or 9+9+9 +27, 2+7=9

I think the ____999_____ could represent 9999999999 ad infinitum... a representation of the infinite,, or the marco and micro
I am Shure there are numerous other ways to interpret the numbers using various systems.
the numerous interpretations again , could be part of the magic? and part of the way of occulting the esoteric

for example, the handle looks damaged? eaten by bugs?
could it have been previously buried....

[JoeCanada42]

this thought just occured to me.....
9+9+9+9=36, 3+6=9
9+9+9+9+9=45, 4+5=9
9+9+9+9+9+9= 54, 5+4=9

9x13=117 , 1+1+7=9
9x25=225 , 2+2+5=9
9x367 3303, 3+3+0+3=9

ad finitum