Connecting Dots: On the Stellar Origin of the Alphabet
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Hidden within the recesses of astral knowledge scholarship were a series of thinkers who posited stellar origins for our familiar alphabet. These origins tend to focus around the stations of the Moon, or the lunar mansions, as the first formulation or standardized list of letter-signs. Semitic mystics and magicians persist in these connections between the stars and their letter correspondences as a ‘divine language,’ capable of being used towards magical ends. Using their texts as well as an imago-speculative chronology from cave paintings to today, this lecture will explore the possibilities of language as it is connected to our earliest stargazing and beyond.