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Literature | Oracle of the Holy Bottle, Bacbuc near Cathay, in Upper Egypt. Books iv. and v. of Rabelais are occupied by the search for this oracle. The ostensible object was to obtain an answer to a question which had been put to sibyl and poet, monk and fool, philosopher and witch, judge and "sort," viz. "whether Panurge should marry or not?" The whole affair is a disguised satire on the Church. The celibacy of the clergy was for a long time a moot point of great difficulty, and the "Holy Bottle" or cup to the laity was one of the moving causes of the "great schisms" from the Roman Catholic Church. The crew setting sail for the Bottle refers to Anthony, Duke of Vendôme, afterwards king of Navarre, setting out in search of religious truth. Bacbuc is the Hebrew for a bottle. The anthem sung before the fleet set sail was When Israel went out of bondage, and all the emblems of the ships bore upon the proverb "In vino veritas." Bacbuc is both the Bottle and the priestess of the Bottle. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4F 52 41 43 4C 45 4F 46 54 48 45 48 4F 4C 59 42 4F 54 54 4C 45 2C 42 41 43 42 55 43 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001111 01010010 01000001 01000011 01001100 01000101 00100000 01001111 01000110 00100000 01010100 01001000 01000101 00100000 01001000 01001111 01001100 01011001 00100000 01000010 01001111 01010100 01010100 01001100 01000101 00101100 00100000 01000010 01000001 01000011 01000010 01010101 01000011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)O R A C L E   O F   T H E   H O L Y   B O T T L E ,   B A C B U C |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004F 0052 0041 0043 004C 0045 004F 0046 0054 0048 0045 0048 004F 004C 0059 0042 004F 0054 0054 004C 0045 002C 0042 0041 0043 0042 0055 0043 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4952353746392494025442392424946592364954544639142363537365537 |
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