Theban Alphabet aka Runes of Honorius

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By damaho

Theban characters are not actually Runes, they have only been referred to as the Runes of Honorius and have also been called the Witches Alphabet due to Wiccans and Witches using this alphabet to hide their spells and rituals usually in their book of shadows.  The magical realm have also used these characters, carved in stone or wood, for talismans and charms.

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The Theban Alphabet is of unknown origins and was first published in Polygraphiae (1518) written by Johanne Trithemius whom attributed the alphabet to Honorius of Thebes, hence the reference to Runes of Honorius.  The student of Honorius, Agrippa (1486-1535), attributed the alphabet to Pietro d'Abano (1250-1316).  The Theban Alphabet was also published in Magnus by Francis Barrett in London 1801 and Cornelius Agrippa's Three Books of Occult Philosophy in Antwerp 1531.

Unlike most typefaces or fonts, the Theban Alphabet has only one case, no upper/lower case.  This suggests a cipher calqued on the Latin language of the 11th century.

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anna_marie 21 months ago

What is the use of Theban Script

drea 9 months ago

If you read the begaining of the artical you would notice that the use of the theban script is now a days used by wiccans/withces as a secret code to write spells and rituals and sometimes their experances while practiceing the craft into there BOS ( book of shadows )

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