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Demon Sigils #13

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EffinMaggie opened this issue Jan 15, 2014 · 1 comment
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Demon Sigils #13

EffinMaggie opened this issue Jan 15, 2014 · 1 comment

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@EffinMaggie
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Not sure if this is some eso rubbish or an actual qabalistic thing, but it'd be kinda cute if we could get a mesh template for these old-school-ish demon sigils.

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Heh, it shows up in 16th century texts (specifically Agrippa's De Occulta Philosophia), so at least it's eso rubbish with a historical background I think? IANAQabalist (or a Jew for that matter) so I'm not sure how much of this shows up in Jewish lore, really, but we could do it for the pretties anyway, unless it'd offend any actual Jews.

Anyway, we need

  • magic squares (I think they used a specific magic square for each order in the text I read)
  • transcription to Hebrew letters (that could be hard to do well for arbitary strings)
  • a lookup table for Hebrew letters -> numbers (their letters double as numerals, too)
  • the algorithm to do the actual drawing which should be simple, SVG output would work nicely; I'll implement that one since I already know how to do it

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