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So the text at that point literally talks about ‘many-eyes seraphims’. The eyes symbol is a pure gag—seems to be spliced in place of the letter ‘о’ in the word

by aasasd 4y ago

So the text at that point literally talks about ‘many-eyes seraphims’. The eyes symbol is a pure gag—seems to be spliced in place of the letter ‘о’ in the word ‘eye’ just a little down the line. (However, Old Slavonic is a tough read due to no spaces, so I'm not sure about that word. But at least it's not the Glagolitic script, which was just ridiculous and actually had multi-circle letters.)

chickenimprint 4y ago
As far as I can tell it swallows up the preceding го. It seems to be preceded by other jocular glyphs among scribes. A regular o received a central dot when writing the word "eye": ꙩ Words containing "two" or "both" had an o replaced by two conjoined os: ꚙ It is only natural to carry on the in-joke for the dual and plural "eyes" like this: ꙭ Our scribe simply got a little excited, following the pattern to it's logical end point in the term "many-eyed"