  We introduce and consider the notion of stable degeneracies of translation
invariant energy functions for finite Ising models. By this term we mean the
lack of injectivity that cannot be lifted by changing the interaction.
  We show that besides the symmetry-induced degeneracies, related to spin flip,
translation and reflection, there exist additional stable degeneracies, due to
more subtle symmetries. One such symmetry is the one of the Singer group of a
finite projective plane. Others are described by combinatorial relations akin
to trace identities.
  Our results resemble traits of the length spectrum for closed geodesics on a
Riemannian surface of constant negative curvature. There stable degeneracy is
defined w.r.t. Teichm\"uller space as parameter space.
