Everything about The Theban Alphabet totally explained
The
Theban alphabet is a
writing system with unknown origins. It was first published in
Johannes Trithemius'
Polygraphia (
1518), in which it was attributed to
Honorius of Thebes. Trithemius' student
Agrippa (
1486-
1535) attributed it to
Pietro d'Abano (
1250-
1316). It is also known as the
Honorian Alphabet or the
Runes of Honorius after the legendary
magus (Theban is not, however, a
runic alphabet), or the
Witches' Alphabet due to its use in modern
Wicca and other forms of
witchcraft as one of many
substitution ciphers to hide magical writings such as the contents of a
Book of Shadows from prying eyes. The Theban alphabet bears little resemblance to other
alphabets, and hasn't been found in any previous publications prior to Trithemius'.
There is one-to-one correspondence between Theban and the letters in the old
Latin alphabet. The modern characters J, U and W are not represented, and in modern usage these are transliterated using the Theban characters for I, V and V V. Theban letters only exist in a single
case. This suggests an origin for Theban as a
cipher calqued on Latin, along with the various
alphabets described by Trithemius and Agrippa, based on either
Latin or
Hebrew.
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| A |
B |
C |
D |
E |
F |
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| G |
H |
I / J |
K |
L |
M |
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| N |
O |
P |
Q |
R |
S |
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U / V |
X |
Y |
Z |
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In most modern uses of the Theban alphabet the full stop is used the replace the letter 'J' and all modern punctuation is used.
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