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By Lolita Perdurabo
The Beginnings
Nerja Caves in Spain
Seals, possibly 43.000 years
old.
It might be an example of
Neanderthal Cave Art.
13.000 years older than
Chauvet Cave Paintings,
France, thought to be the
oldest Palaeolithic cave art.
Cave Art in Crimea
Central Oregon Cave Art
Namaroto spirits and the Rainbow Serpent, Burlung, Australia
Aboriginal rock art Spectacle Island, Hawkesbury River
El Castillo at least 40.000 years old
symbolic forms preceding formulation of ,or
first forms of written language, (possibly 70 000 years old)
Spells, Symbols and Language
Casting a spell focuses on use of words either verbally or in a written form.
The written form uses symbols to communicate the message.
'story, speech'
and from Proto-Germanic spellan
'to tell'.
In Proto-Indo-European language the verb spel means
Alphabet of Desire
Sigil creation based on
Agrippa
Symbols across the world
Cosmology
Mythology
Religion
Art
Culture
Daoist Qingyanggong Chengdu
Aum or Om
Hindu and Buddhist divine symbol
Koomir- Slavic symbol of life cycles and time and neo-pagan
wheel of the year.
Eye of Horus
Voudon
Veve Damballah
Gods and Goddesses
Hermes, Eros and
Aphrodite
Gods represent
universal principles.
Archetypal Figures
Religious Icons
Erzulie Dantor
Black Madonna of
Czstochowa
Cross cultural
influences
Divination Symbols as Spells
Qabalah Automatic Drawing.
Tarot Scrying.
Runes Dream interpretation.
I Ching Ouija Board.
Tree of Life
and Qabalah
Tarot and Qabalah
Tarot and Alchemy
Emblemata Nova
Runes
Sowilo
The sun, success
Surreal Automatism
Practiced by Picasso,
Dali, Breton and Spare
Fascism
Swastika
Sexism
Great Rite and Leroi-
Gourhan's cave art
interpretation:
male/horse/arrow
and
female/bison/wound
sword and cup
Workshop Plan
How to cast a spell Finding meanings of the
name in NAEQ and
True Will
gematria.
Creating personal symbolic Creating a sigil for the
language
magickal name.
Cleromancy using seeds. Creating a sigil using
Creating magickal name magick squares.
using cypher. Creating a mojo -group
Using automatic drawing or individual.
to obtain a vision of the
name.
Symbols Sigils and Spells
"a symbol, like everything else, shows a double aspect. We must distinguish,
therefore between the 'sense' and the 'meaning' of the symbol.
It seems to me perfectly clear that all the great and little symbolical systems of
the past functioned simultaneously on three levels: the corporeal of waking
consciousness, the spiritual of dream, and the ineffable of the absolutely
unknowable.
The term 'meaning' can refer only to the first two but these, today, are in the
charge of science which is the province as we have said, not of symbols but of
signs. The ineffable, the absolutely unknowable, can be only sensed.
It is the province of art which is not 'expression' merely, or even primarily, but a
quest for, and formulation of, experience evoking, energy-waking images:
yielding what Sir Herbert Read has aptly termed a 'sensuous apprehension of
being.
Slide 03: Cave art in Crimea By Konstantin Malanchev from Moscow, Russia
Slide 17: Aum Bangalore parade float by Matthew Logelin from Los Angeles, CA, USA
Slide 32: John Dee's Aztec Scrying Mirror by <[:isPlaceholder:]>
Slide 36: Runestone by Marieke Kuijjer, Ogham alphabet by Rico38
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