Enochian Writing system Enochian script This article is about the reputed angelic language recorded in the journals of John Dee. For Dees overall system of angel magic, see Enochian magic. For other examples of divine or angelic languages, see Divine language. Enochian is a name often applied to an occult or angelic language recorded in the private journals of John Dee and his colleague Edward Kelley in late 16th-century England. Kelley was a spirit medium who worked with Dee in his magical investigations. The men claimed that the language was revealed to them by angels. The language is integral to the practice of Enochian magic. The language found in Dee and Kelleys journals encompasses a limited textual corpus, only some of it with English translations. Several linguists, notably Donald Laycock, have studied Enochian, and argue against any extraordinary features in the language. Dees journals did not describe the language as Enochian, instead preferring descriptors like Angelical, the Celestial Speech, the Language of Angels, the First Language of God-Christ, the Holy Language or Adamical because, according to Dees Angels, it was used by Adam in Paradise to name all things. The term Enochian comes from Dees assertion that the Biblical Patriarch Enoch had been the last human (before Dee and Kelley) to know the language. Dees Angelic language Alphabet The Enochian script is written from right to left, and may include accents. Different documents have slightly different forms of the script. Some of the letter names are pronounced as they would be in English, but many are pronounced differently. The Enochian letters have English letter equivalents.A number of different fonts for the Enochian alphabet are available, which use the English letter equivalents to access the Enochian glyphs. The Enochian alphabet with letter forms, letter names, English equivalents, and pronunciation of the letter names (pronunciation in quotes if different than English).[7][12] The Enochian letters in this chart are read from right to left, as written in John Dees diary. Skeptical and linguistic evaluations Skeptics have pointed to this discrepancy[clarification needed] between the two revealed sets of Enochian texts as an indication that Enochian is not a consistent language.For instance, it has been noted, especially by the Australian linguist Donald Laycock, that the texts in the Loagaeth material show phonetic features that do not generally appear in natural languages. Rather, the features shown are commonly found in instances of glossolalia, suggesting that Kelley actually produced at least this set of writings via speaking in tongues. Building on Laycocks linguistic analysis, skeptics also point out that there are even problems with holding that the texts of the Enochian keys represent a genuine natural language. It is observed that the syntax of the Enochian calls is almost identical with that of English. Also, the very scant evidence of Enochian verb conjugation seems quite reminiscent of English, more so than with Semitic languages as Hebrew or Arabic, which Dee claimed were debased versions of the original Angelic language. There are only two known verbs with conjugations, one of which, to be, is highly irregular. While some phonetic features of Enochian show a connection to glossolalia, others show similarities to the English language. Both languages have soft and hard consonants such as c and g, and combine s and h to make the sh sound. As for the semantics of Enochian, additional similarities to English have been found. For example, luciftias, a term meaning brightness, may very possibly have a connection to Lucifer, whose name means light bringer. Londoh, a word meaning kingdom, may have come from Dees admiration for the Queen of England. These and other examples have led skeptics to believe that many of these terms are derived from notions that would have been contemporary in Dee and Kelleys time.
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