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It may be the wish of a Wiccan to learn the Theban Alphabet also known as Honorian Alphabet, Runes of Honorius, Wiccan Circles, Witch's Alphabet. Ive seen much debate on the internet as to its actual origins, Apparantly Wiccans exaggerate its roots saying it is ancient whereas other sources suggest that the first mention of this alphabet (that does actually correspond to Germanic Olde English 450-1100AD) can be found in Johannes Trithemius' (1462-1516) Polygraphia Libri VI published in 1518 2 years after his death. I have studied this work in hope to understand his source and can tell you the alphabet can be found on page 597.
Now his work is written in Latin and Latin being an elaborate modern English is fairly simple to speak but sometimes harder to understand but I could translate 2 significant words, Occultist and Alchemy/ist.
I have also studied Alchemical encoding and have found no relation to the Theban alphabet which fairly resembles the Greek Alphabet in the written form however as Ive said it corresponded even to the earliest of English languages. One point that I think is often overlooked is the century which we have the earlist survivng document showing this alphabet which is known for being used to protect the writings of occultists in code.
The 1500's where the burning times of course indicating the inquisition of the Roman Catholic church where much evidence of the occult wouldve been destroyed most likely by occultists themselves. To summarize there is no reason why this language could not have been devised at a much earlier date and think it is essencial that the true roots of this language are found so that it can be fully appreciated. The facts are in this text and remember it resembles Greek and it corresponds to english even as late as 400 years before the evidence suggests to this date.
Tim
Now his work is written in Latin and Latin being an elaborate modern English is fairly simple to speak but sometimes harder to understand but I could translate 2 significant words, Occultist and Alchemy/ist.
I have also studied Alchemical encoding and have found no relation to the Theban alphabet which fairly resembles the Greek Alphabet in the written form however as Ive said it corresponded even to the earliest of English languages. One point that I think is often overlooked is the century which we have the earlist survivng document showing this alphabet which is known for being used to protect the writings of occultists in code.
The 1500's where the burning times of course indicating the inquisition of the Roman Catholic church where much evidence of the occult wouldve been destroyed most likely by occultists themselves. To summarize there is no reason why this language could not have been devised at a much earlier date and think it is essencial that the true roots of this language are found so that it can be fully appreciated. The facts are in this text and remember it resembles Greek and it corresponds to english even as late as 400 years before the evidence suggests to this date.
Tim