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Witches’ Alphabet

By: RavensThorn The Witch’s alphabet is most commonly known at the Theban alphabet. Some other lesser-known names are the Honorian alphabet or the Runes of Honorius.

It’s exact origins are occult historians 14th century. There as those beliefs are reference from an old been attributed to a Middle Age figure much mystery that existence to be a the Theban alphabet further, to before originating as an with an Avestan

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Avestan is oldest Indo-Aryan language related to Vedic theory is also unproven .

If we look at the caricatures and curve patterns Theban, they show resemblance to in the Avestan unknown, but many date the work to the is some controversy based on a single legal document. It’s Honorius of Thebes, shrouded in so some consider his myth. Others believe dates back much the 11th Century, alchemical cipher influence.

preserved and it’s closely Sanskrit. But this undocumented and

shape of the corresponding that define the an unmistakable characters found alphabet.

The major differences are fewer characters and the inclusion in Theban of a symbol to denote the end of a sentence. This was likely necessary due to the fact that Theban has only one case; no capital letters.

There is one-to-one correspondence between letters of the Witch’s alphabet and Latin alphabets with the exception of the letters j and u ; these letters are represented by the letters for I and v . Its been called a runic alphabet but it’s not; runes are characterized by straight lines and sharp edges, while the Theban alphabet is mostly based on arcs and curls.

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