Magic Monday

[ecosophia]

It's getting on for midnight, so we can proceed with a new Magic Monday. Let's start things out with a bit of alchemical text from the Splendor Solis, the most gorgeously illustrated of all the old alchemical texts: 

 

"They further saw the King of the Earth sink, and heard him cry out in an eager voice, 'Whoever saves me shall live and reign with me forever in my brightness on my royal throne,'  and night enveloped all things. [...] Meaning, in this masterly art:  'Deprive the thing of its destructive moisture, and renew it with its own essential one which will become its perfection and life.'" 

 

The image is the seventh illustration from Splendor Solis. It shows, in the distance, an old king in the water, struggling and crying out to be saved. In the foreground stands a young king in a golden robe bathed in the light of the sun and a brilliant star. 

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Please note also that this is the last Magic Monday until February 1, 2021, as I will be taking the month of January off as usual. 

With that said, have at it!

***This Magic Monday is now closed. See you in February!***

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Comments

Ogham alphabet

[ecosophian]

Dear JMG,

firstly, I'd like to thank you for all the work you've done for us this year. It is highly appreciated.

Secondly, the question - it has recently come to my attention that the order of the Ogham fews in the first aicme is subject of some controversy. Mainstream researchers say its BLFSN and that competing theories that it was originally BLNFS are disproven (so says Wikipedia). The DMH gives the BLNFS order, because of Belinus, the sun god.

Its not a big deal for me, I personally like the DMH version. But do you know how letter order in an alphabet became a controversy among researchers? It's just such a strange topic to disagree on, there got to be direct evidence one way or another.

And it can create some problems down the line if somebody decides to use Ogham letters to encode numbers or the other way around.

Re: Ogham alphabet

[ecosophia]

There is nothing so minor that people can't get in fights about it. It's a controversy because (despite what Wikipedantry says) the evidence isn't conclusive: the oldest surviving inscriptions are from early Christian times, when the change (if it happened) had already been made.

Re: Ogham alphabet

[(Anonymous)]

If the book says BLNFS, then BLNFS it is? Independent of the historicity, what's in the book must be used. The system was probably designed to suit that order. Or so I think, of course. John?