This page groups letters by how each one actually represents sound, whether as a consonant-only abjad character or a full vowel-marking letter. Wikipedia notes that "originally, the alphabet was an abjad consisting only of consonants, but is now considered an impure abjad," since scribes later added vowel points. Browsing by script-type lets a visitor tell a consonant-only letter from a vowel-marked one.
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Origins
Origin PeriodSourced to the subject's own account Whose Classification This IsSourced to the subject's own accountFirst known from Johannes Trithemius's Polygraphiae of 1518, where Trithemius ascribes it to Honorius of Thebes. It reached later occultism through Agrippa, who studied under Trithemius and reprinted it in the Three Books of Occult Philosophy in 1533. 2 Overview
What Defines This GroupingSourced to the subject's own accountA substitution cipher for the Latin alphabet, sign for sign. It has no words, no grammar and no sounds of its own, so a Theban text is ordinary language in disguise rather than a language. 2 Learn More
The Theban letters
This group gathers the letters of the Theban alphabet, a cipher script first published in the sixteenth century and attributed to the legendary Honorius of Thebes, used as a magical substitution alphabet to conceal writing. It was later adopted by modern Wiccans and Pagans, for whom it is sometimes called the witches' alphabet.
The browser will find the individual letters, each a one-to-one substitute for a Latin letter. The atlas describes the script's history and its modern esoteric use.
Sources
1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category Tree
2. Polygraphiae libri sex
Divinity Atlas Directory Prose, First Edition Category Descriptions
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