Path: typhoon.sonic.net!pants.skycache.com!newsfeed.skycache.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!colt.net!dispose.news.demon.net!demon!news.demon.co.uk!demon!kiblah.demon.co.uk!jake From: jake Newsgroups: alt.magick.tyagi,alt.mythology,alt.necronomicon,alt.horror.cthulhu,sci.skeptic,alt.paranet.skeptic Subject: Re: The Book of Power: Evaluating the Necronomicon (was ...) Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2000 12:06:17 +0000 Organization: kiblah Message-ID: References: <89hbe4$hg3@bolt.sonic.net> <570v4.2765$4c1.128866@newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net> <89klgl$8dg@bolt.sonic.net> <89nlsc$99t@bolt.sonic.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: kiblah.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: kiblah.demon.co.uk:194.222.62.222 X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 952177180 nnrp-11:1219 NO-IDENT kiblah.demon.co.uk:194.222.62.222 X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Newsreader: Turnpike (32) Version 4.01 Lines: 26 Xref: typhoon.sonic.net alt.magick.tyagi:21835 alt.mythology:57636 alt.necronomicon:10325 alt.horror.cthulhu:53836 sci.skeptic:397454 alt.paranet.skeptic:21069 In article <89nlsc$99t@bolt.sonic.net>, ny'rl'thot'p writes >what kind of culture is "Sanaa, Yemen"? what type of magic and rite >is likely to have been practiced there circa 700 C.E.? very likely an allusion to 'Sabean' astrological magick and late Hermeticism (endemic in Arab culture until Islam, Mohammed removed 365 star cult images from Mecca). Also the Yemen was a major centre for this form of cultus. Such traditions were easily sufficiently known and widespread to be collated in the scholarly phase of Islamic culture - the Arabic version of Picatrix (an Islamic compilation) includes lots of Arabic astrological magic and Hermetic philosophy etc.. The Picatrix is also a very fat and imposing volume compared to most medieval European manuals. The idea (in the Turner Nec') that the Picatrix inspired the Nec' isn't too outlandish -IMO - true or not. Note also use of precise astrological configurations and Lunar Node symbols in 'Charles Dexter Ward'. More akin to Picatrix than GD, despite the fire pentagram. ALways JSK. All events and institutions other than those portrayed in this Journal are fictitious