In Norse stories, the Ægishjálmr helmet could make its wearer invisible, as well as make it transform into any monster to frighten its enemies, but it instilled greed and envy in their hearts. The best known design of this type is the Ægishjálmr, or Helm of Terror, a rune symbol representing the helmet of the same name that is cited in the Eddas, used for the protection of homes and people. These Rune Magic practices consisted in the elaboration of designs that were used as talismans or carved in the wood of houses, seeking protection or luck in battles. Sigilization is also present in Nordic culture, with the use of Bandrunar (union of runes) and Insigils (runic sigils). In the magical and spiritual field, one of the best known practices of African sigils is the Pemba Trace, used both to anchor entities on the physical plane and to attract their qualities or encode intentions and desires. The idea of drawing stories and messages in the sand, in elaborate plots, was widely used by the Tchokwe people of Angola (and called the Sona drawing). In sub-Saharan Africa, sigils were also used extensively, for example to encode stories, and to evoke ancestral energies. Furthermore, in the Jewish practices of the Merkabah, entry into the celestial levels was aided by the corresponding seals, which were to be designed by the magician. The suras of the Qur'an, for example (with the exception of the 9th), start with Bismillah, which forms a “clasp” and allows the sentence to be tied around itself with easy location of its beginning and end.
Thus, in temple decorations and heraldry it was common to find designs that encoded phrases or names. Arabic words are connected by a continuous line, a common thread that allows them to be twisted and arranged in elaborate arrangements. The Egyptians used hieroglyphics, and in Japan the Kanji writing still has in its strokes great similarity with the elements it seeks to represent.Īs for the construction of drawings from messages and phrases, Arabic writing has always allowed this practice. A buffalo head, for example, was styled and modified over the years until it became the letter "A". Generally speaking, the alphabets used today are derived from symbols, modified over time.
More recently, around 1910, Austin Osman Spare took up this knowledge and published new works on the subject, and around 1987 Peter Carroll did the same, further improving the art. However, this practice was already known, indirectly, in the five books of Lemegeton, whose content is attributed to King Solomon (who reigned around 970 to 920 BC).
Among these magicians can be cited Agrippa and Trithemius, who in their Steganographia presented the first great known work on the use of sigils specifically for magical purposes. Symbols were also used to encrypt messages, making sure that only those familiar with the translation structure would have access to the content of the messages.Īround 1500, magicians began to record in writing a magical system based on encoding intentions in the form of drawings composed of symbols and lines, serving as a general method. Since time immemorial, human beings have expressed ideas through symbols and glyphs.įrom African Adinkra symbols to modern mathematical notation, these symbols express ideas that could not be described in a few words, because they are conceptual and archetypal - and sometimes unfold in more than one interpretation.
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