" . . . three Greeks – a former physics student, a hat maker and a bankrupt olive oil trader – founded a secret fraternity they called the Filiki Etaireia, the Friendly Society, the aims of which were to disarm Muslims and liberate the Greeks. Its rituals were deemed preposterous by some contemporaries: initiates, known as ‘priests’, swore a blood oath to the Etaireia and used language – the uprising was the ‘great fair’; money was ‘footwear’ – filtered through a cryptographic code. . . ."
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/n11/alexander-clapp/talking-about-leonidas Cold beer - strong crypto - and bounty-law. Viva la revolution.
