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[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It is most likely that Multiocular O was a result of a writer’s attempt at depicting how many eyes the seraphim they were describing had.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrillic_o_variants#Multiocular_O

[–] interolivary@beehaw.org 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

It's funny that a character that was in exactly one manuscript in the 1400s got included in Unicode

Edit: and it was done wrong. I found that pretty hilarious