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[Adeodatus]

As I research antiquity I am more and more drawn to the Phoenicians as a starting point for the Western Mystery Traditions. Everyone uses Hebrew, but the names and letters of Phoenicia predate them and use the same names and virtually the same symbols. (Aleph=Ox, beth= house, etc. Nun=serpent and not fish [both of which are included in Crowley's Trump XIII]). I'm even finding Pheonician alphabet to be one of the most magickally resonant alphabet's I've used (esp. when compared to to so-called magickal Alphabets like Theban and Passing by the River.)

Here is a list of God's I've found for Phoenicia/Canaan:

Adon(is), Handsome Young God
Anath, goddess of Love and War, the Maiden
Asherah or Baalat Gubl, Goddess of Byblos
Astarte (or Ashtarte), Queen of Heaven
Baal, El, Ruler of the Universe, Son of Dagan, Rider of the Clouds, Almighty, Lord of the Earth
Baal-Hammon, God of Fertility and Renewer of all Energies in the Phoenician colonies of the Western Mediterranean
Eshmun or Baalat Asclepius, God of Healing
Kathirat, Goddesses of marriage and pregnancy
Kothar, Hasis, the Skilled, God of Craftsmanship
Melqart, King of the Underworld and Cycle of Vegetation
Mot, God of Death
Resheph and Shamash, Gods of (?)
Shahar, God of Dawn
Shalim*, God of Dusk
Shapash, Sun Goddess
Tanit, Chief Goddess of Carthage
Yamm, God of the Sea (?)
Yarikh, Moon God

Anyone have any experience with incorporating Phoenician into their magick? I imagine their indigenous magick would have focused on safe passage over water, but still.

[nytek]

Intriguing. I don't have your literal answer as you requested, but I have this to offer instead. I answered the question from my own point of view as to what to do next after feeling the kind of calling you obviously must be feeling. It's something I can relate to, always having been attracted to this kind of magick myself...

The first thing I'd do is to go through their names and say them aloud and calibrate myself to them; see if I have an affinity with any God/dess, basically. Either way, next I'd find or make sigils for all of them mentioned in your first posting. I would memorize their names, their images, and then the tree of mythology behind them as my next step after that. Implant their world of the Gods in your mind in certain words; "share their reality", from another view.

Chances are they'll be better teachers for you than anything else. I wonder what kinds of things they will steer into your life and the lessons you'll learn. Gods don't often move for our wishes, my various friends and writing friends and I have found. Not unless they're amused or impressed by us, or should you call in dire need. It's like calling the national guard because your neighbor threatened you, despite the close relationship you may come to feel with any one of them. Well, you know what I'm talking about.

In terms of assumption of god forms though, which you're probably mostly referring to in all fairness, then I think it'd be best for you to read the associated myths and to meditate on them even for a time. Then, at the "worst", you could invoke those deities after learning more about what incense it prefers, and what nature it's of, or other similar "getting to know you", questions I like to ask in a quick invocation during, say, a walking meditation around the city.

Look at the sign of the enterer and the sign of silence and cross-deduce or reverse engineer the principle. You will know well enough how to do it if by then if you've meditated on them above and below, within and without. I can almost guarantee you will find your own answers.

Good luck.

Br. Parzival
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[Izabael DaJinn]

Hmm interesting....

That X and Circle with X makes me wonder if there is a connection between this alphabet and Liber Al. The "circle squared in its failure" could be the Pheonician "T".