Crypt: a tomb or underground room where dead bodies are, particularly under a church.
The Cask of Amontillado is a poem by Edgar Allen Poe. If you read it you will never forget the root Crypt. Just a taste: "My heart grew sick; it was the dampness of the catacombs that made it so. I hastened to make an end of my labour. I forced the last stone into its position; I plastered it up. Against the new masonry I re-erected the old rampart of bones. For the half of a century no mortal has disturbed them."
The Cask of Amontillado is a poem by Edgar Allen Poe. If you read it you will never forget the root Crypt. Just a taste: "My heart grew sick; it was the dampness of the catacombs that made it so. I hastened to make an end of my labour. I forced the last stone into its position; I plastered it up. Against the new masonry I re-erected the old rampart of bones. For the half of a century no mortal has disturbed them."
Medical words with "Crypto-" in them always means there is something hidden about the condition. Example: Cryptosporidiosis, a parasitic disease of the mammalian intestinal tract. Symptoms may include anorexia, nausea/vomiting, abdominal pain, or diarrhea. The parasite C. parvum is considered to be the most important waterborne pathogen in developed countries. It is resistant to all practical levels of chlorination.
Cryptic: 1.) Mysterious; puzzlingly short. 2.) Acting to hide or conceal. Use example: "I can't imagine why that would be frustrating at all, just because someone refuses to tell you what they're thinking, even all the while there making cryptic little remarks specifically designed to keep you up at night wondering what they could possibly mean...now why would that be frustrating?" Bella (from the Twighlight saga). I find this quote frustrating because in the Twighlight movies I find Bella to be frustratingly cryptic about her various boy interests. I grew up socially awkward; I have always found women cryptic and a little scary. Looking back through the years I have often found they were doing everything but hitting me over the head with a message and I never got it.
Encrypt - to encode a message. Cryptography: 1.Secret writing. 2.) The encoding and decoding of messages.
The movie War Games
is about a young man (played by Matthew Broderick) who who unwittingly accesses a U.S. Military supercomputer and starts a game of Global Thermonuclear War, playing as the Soviet Union. As the story goes, with his brand new modem, he dialed every number in Sunnyvale, CA to find computer games. A computer that does not identify itself intrigues him. On this computer, Lightman finds a list of games but cannot proceed further. Two older hackers explain the concept of a backdoor password and suggest tracking down the "Falken" referenced in Falken's Maze, the first game listed. Lightman discovers that Stephen Falken is an early artificial intelligence researcher, and guesses correctly that his dead son's name "Joshua" is the backdoor password he was seeking.Some scholars believe that the Book of Revelation in the bible was not actually a prediction of the future of the world but actually an encrypted messages between Christians at a time when Christians were being killed for being Christians.
Apocryphal: of doubtful genuineness or authenticity. Usually this applied to Christian writings the Catholic councils either excluded from the Bible or included with a sort of question mark or asterisk. Here are some apocryphal subjects that I think are interesting.
- Devotion to Mary, esp. the Assumption of Mary’s perpetual virginity.
- Veneration of relics: Acts of Thomas; esp. Veronica’s handkerchief.
- The so-called “harrowing of hell” per 1 Peter 3:19: see the Gospel of Nicodemus, medieval mystery plays.
- Apocryphal ideas displayed in Art: Peter crucified upside down, Thecla, the female apostle, thrown to the lions (Acts of Paul); Veronica; the Arabic Infancy Gospel (a palm tree bending low); John and the poisoned chalice (Acts of John); the ox and the donkey at the Nativity (Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew; already on sarcophagus lid two centuries earlier); the Mary Cycle in Chartres Cathedral (Protevangelium of James); Dante’s Inferno (Apocalypse of Paul); Milton’s Paradise Lost (scenes in hell); Herder’s poem “St. John” (Acts of John).
Gates of Hell, by Auguste Rodin
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