Mogg said..
>>given how contruing of the phrases from the grimoires and magical papyri
>>is quite a tricky process - would be nice if someone compiled a glossary
>>of those already done so far from various new books?<<
I don't know if anyone has compiled a definitive list of what they think the
voces magicae in the PGM are, but my lecturer in ancient magic said that
such things are one of the areas where scholars spend a lot of time
speculating on whether such words are gibberish, badly interpreted foreign
words, possibly names of deities or actual secret names of deities. Some of
the voces magicae in the PGM can be traced back to deity names, others are
possibly composite deities - divine figures made up of the seemingly
effective parts of other deites into one tailored power source for the
particular spell, the composite deities are usually made up of gods foreign
to the user, but from around the Mediterranean.
~Caroline.
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