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Y - symbolism

Elze10-09-14

Just like the X, the Y stands for multiple meanings. In the first place it is the 25th letter from the current Latin alphabet, the 20th letter from the Greek and the 6th letter from the Canaanite [usually called Phoenician] and Semitic alphabet. Thus the Y has made a whole journey from the 6th place in the Semitic alphabet - the source where the Canaanite, Greek and Latin alphabet are embroidered on - to the 25th and second to last place in the Latin alphabet.

 
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