Glasses letters

Malachim alphabet

Passage du fleuve alphabet

Example of a modern sigil with the word Wikipedia

As glasses letters or sigils (from the Latin Sigillum "seal"; also angels font or angel alphabet ., Eng Loops ) letters are used in antique or ancient oriental magic inscriptions that are usually represented by circles connected with lines (see. Sigil ). Sometimes they are based on the letters of the Hebrew square script and can be assigned to the Hebrew alphabet , e.g. B. the forms mentioned by Agrippa von Nettesheim (Céleste, Malachim and Passage du fleuve). Eyeglass letters of various shapes appear in text documents for the first time in ancient Greek and Latin and later in the most varied of periods and cultures (e.g. in late antique magic bowls and amulets , on Ethiopian , demotic and Mandaean amulets) and are supposed to, like the Theban alphabet serve to represent magic spells. Even if the letters can be deciphered, the content remains incomprehensible. Hans Alexander Winkler coined the term .

Eyeglass letters can also be found in the Sefer Raziel .

Web links

• Agrippa von Nettesheim's glasses letters on Omniglot (English):
  • Angelic
  • Malachim
  • Passing the river

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1. ↑ Katja Sündermann: Spiritual healers in modern Syria: Job description and self-understanding , Schiler Verlag, 2005, p. 391
2. ^ Gustav Davidson: A Dictionary of Angels Including the Fallen Angels , New York, 1971, p. 335
3. ↑ Robert Ambelain, La Kabbale Pratique , Paris: Editions Nicolaus, 1951
4. ↑ R.Kotansky: Greek Magical Amulets. The Inscribed Gold, Silver, Copper, and Bronze Lamellae , Part I, Published Text of Known Provenance , Opladen, 1994
5. ↑ R.Kotanksy / J.Naveh / S.Shaked: "A Greek-Aramaic silver amulet from Egypt in the Ashmolean Museum," Le Museon 105 , pp 5-25, 1994
6. ↑ Joseph Navel / Shaul Shaked: Amulets and Magic Bowls. Aramaic Incantations of Late Antiquity , / Jerusalem / Leiden, 1985, plates 2,4
7. ↑ Joseph Naveh / Shaul Shaked: Magic Spells and Formulas , Jerusalem, 1993, plate 7
8. ↑ Hans Alexander Winkler, Seal and Characters in the Muslim Sorcery , Berlin, 1930, p. 159
9. ^ Joshua Trachtenberg, Jewish Magic and Superstition. A Study in Folk Religion , New York, 1974, pp. 140f.