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the best, and is replete with strange words rich in music and primitive
excitations, sonorous to the utmost degree. Many of the rituals
and invocations utilized by the Elizabethan astrologer, Dr. Dee,
working in collaboration with his colleague Sir Edward Kelly, are
also remarkably good specimens of such language. In fact, the
rituals of Dee may be assumed to be unique ; they are written almost
entirely, with the exception of a few Hebrew words, in a curious
language called Angelic or Enochian, which he claims was dictated to
him by the Angels. Regardless of their origin, the invocations
couched in this language have been found to work with a peculiarity
and a force found in no other language.
Typical of the barbarous words, citations from several rituals
may be given. The following is one from the Dee conjurations :
" Eca, zodocare, Iad, goho. Torzodu odo kikale qaa ! Zodacare
od zodameranu ! Zodorje, lape zodiredo 01 Noco Mada, das Iadapiel !
Ilas ! hoatahe Iaida !"
Occurring in Chapter CLXV of the Saite Kecension of the Book
of the Dead, there is a petition to Amen-Ra, wherein the most
powerful of the magical names of the God are recited : " Hail thou
Bekhennu, Bekhennu ! Hail Prince, Prince ! Hail, Amen. Hail,
Amen I
Hail Par, Hail Iukasa ! Hail God, Prince of the Gods of
the eastern parts of Heaven, Amen-Nathekerethi-Amen. Hail thou
whose skin is hidden, whose form is secret, thou lord of the two
horns born of Nut, thy name is Na-ari-k, and Kasaika is thy name.
Thy name is Arethi-kasatha-ka, and thy name is Amen-naiu-ankaentek-share
or Thekshare-Amen Rerethi ! Hail ! Amen, and let
me mike supplication unto thee for I know thy name. . . . Hidden
is thy speech, 0 Letasashaka, and I have made for thee a skin. Thy
name is Ba-ire-qai, thy name is Marqatha, thy name is Rerei, thy
name is Nasa-qebu-bu, thy name is Thanasa-Thanasa ; thy name is
Sharshathakatha."
Another very fine example, perhaps one of the best, so far as the
apparent unintelligibility of the names are concerned, occurs in the
Harris Magical Papyrus, an English translation of which may
be found in the Facsimiles of Hieratic Papyri in the British
Museum.
" Adiro-Adisana ! Adirogaha-Adisana. Samoui-Matemou-Adisana
!
" Samou - Akemoui - Adisana ! Samou - deka ! Arina - Adisana !
Samou - dekabana - adisana ! Samou - tsakarouza - Adisana ! Dou-