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This is your occasional reminder that there is a character in Unicode that exists solely to encode the one time a monk doodled a little cluster of eyes in the middle of the phrase "manyꙮeyed seraphim".

let its septocular gaze fall upon you, and pray

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiocu

@anthracite Psalms and the entire Ketuvim kicks! As for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had almost slipped. Then I remembered about these fantastic Ghost Characters: https://www.dampfkraft.com/ghost-characters.html

@anthracite the monk didn't just doodle it in the middle of a phrase. He used it instead of a regular "o" in the slavic word for "-eyed" which is "-oki"

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