Seven years of great abundance are coming throughout the land of Egypt, but seven years of famine will follow them. (Genesis 41:29-30)
The book of Genesis provides a good description of the ‘second dimension’ that I have been using to analyze words in the New Year addresses. This dimension distinguishes between years of abundance and years of famine – in other words, it separates the economically robust years and the economically challenging years. In Figure 1 (which repeats Figure 1 from the previous post ), the second dimension is the vertical dimension of the map. The years shown nearer the top are years of abundance and the years shown
Figure 1. New Year addresses by year: Soviet period (red), Perestroika (purple), and post-Soviet period (blue).