This is a self-published web reference maintained by Simon Ager on Omniglot, a long running catalogue of writing systems, and this record holds it at the tier for a working reference rather than an outside scholarly authority: it documents the Theban alphabet's one to one Latin correspondence, its treatment of j and u, its left to right direction and its modern witchcraft use as a practical, checkable description of the script's current form and use, not as historical scholarship on the script's own origin. Use it to establish the alphabet's modern letter correspondences and current occult use; a claim about the script's documented historical origin and its ascription to Honorius of Thebes needs the primary and critical sources on that specific question, Trithemius's Polygraphiae and Peterson's edition of the Sworn Book, addressed directly.
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Reliability Tier2
Simon Ager's maintained online reference on world writing systems; cited for the Theban alphabet's Latin letter correspondence and modern witchcraft use, a general-purpose linguistic reference rather than a specialist scholarly history of the alphabet's occult origin. NotesUsed for the one-to-one Latin correspondence, the treatment of j and u, left-to-right direction, and modern witchcraft use.
Citation
AuthorSimon Ager
PublisherOmniglot
URLhttps://www.omniglot.com/conscripts/theban.htm
Source Typereference
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Thebes, Cities This source names Thebes directly: "and its ascription to Honorius of Thebes needs the primary and critical sources on that specific question, Trithemius's Polygraphiae and Peterson's edition of the Sworn Book, addressed directly."
Source Theban alphabet (Omniglot writing-systems reference)Simon Ager
Claims Backed By This Source (113 claims)
This source backs 113 claims across the atlas. As facts: 85 well-attested. As cited relationships: 1 holds. Plus 27 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
Disposition By Topic
- Alphabet Letters, 103 claims: 77 well-attested, 26 general references.
- Sources, 8 claims: 7 well-attested, 1 holds.
- Scripts & Magical Alphabets, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.
Well-attested
85Scripts & Magical Alphabets
General References
27Scripts & Magical Alphabets
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