For early Christians, this was not an accident. A cross formed by a word meaning "he holds" or "he maintains" was a powerful visual metaphor for Christ holding the universe together. Furthermore, the letters around the cross—the remaining 16 letters—can be rearranged into two Pater Nosters (Our Fathers) forming a cross shape, which we will explore later. The Sator Square is not a medieval invention. Its earliest known appearance is shockingly ancient. The Pompeii Graffiti (Pre-79 AD) The most famous example was discovered in the ruins of Pompeii, the Roman city destroyed by Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. Archaeologists found a Sator Square scratched into a column in the Basilica (a public building for law and commerce). This proves the square was in circulation during the early Roman Empire, before Christianity became legal or widespread.
The Sator Square contains all the letters needed to write twice, forming a cross, with leftover A and O. sator square
A R E P O T E N E T O P E R A R O T A S
In short: The entire Sator Square is an elaborate anagram of two "Our Fathers" and an Alpha-Omega. For early Christians, this was not an accident
The classic arrangement is as follows:
Write the word (Father) vertically. Then write NOSTER (Our) horizontally crossing it. You get a plus sign. Now, if you arrange the remaining letters from the square (the As and Os), they spell A and O (Alpha and Omega – the beginning and the end, a title for Christ). The Sator Square is not a medieval invention