COMENIUS UND DIE KATECHISMUSLIEDER
COMENIUS AND THE CATECHISM SONGS

Summary/Abstract: Scholars have shown great concern about the “number listening text” called Catechism song and its versions for more than half a century. Johannes Bolte’s achievements are especially appreciated in Hungary. Firstly, János Berze collected narrative material of a considerable quantity for the Catechism song of the Christian tradition. Furthermore Bernard Heller expounded and analysed this problem in connection with the Echod mi jaudea. In addition, Alexander Scheiber, in the light of the above results, added numerous data to the history of motifs. Doing so, he enriched the literature of this far-reaching issue. As I have observed Comenius’ textbook entitled Januae linguarum vestibulum, especially one of its chapters Numeralia, has been left out from the researches so far. Consequently I am trying to analyse this version thoroughly, comparing it with the Jewish-Christian tradition. At the same time the Egyptian hieroglyphs depicting numbers have given the opportunity to clarify some fractal geometrical connections, to present hidden units of pyramids and to explain the inner consistence of the numbers through the esoteric meanings. In addition to the quantitative side of the numbers Comenius’ autopsy plays an important role as the evaluation of an associative means in the phenomenology of the living folklore.

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