Dave's Angel
Happy Saturday everyone
I'm fascinated by the way that certain alphabets of the world have more meaning than just the sound they make.
For example in our alphabet, "M" is just the sound /mm/, but in Hebrew and Greek it was also the number 40, in lots of systems it denotes the sea, in Egyptian hieroglyphs it was represented by an owl, in the runes it's "Man", and so on. In these alphabets there's so much more in the letter than just the sound it makes.
I'm trying to study all this and especially find something (website or book) that tells me more about the correspondences of each letter in any alphabet that had this extra dimension. I'm not so interested about learning the history of the alphabets outside of any esoteric meaning (if that's possible). I'd like to focus as far as is reasonable on each letter: ie in any alphabet, what is "wrapped up" in the idea of the letter "M" for example?
So far I've come across these alphabets that have (or may have) esoteric connections:
- Greek (I'd be particularly interested in this)
- Runic
- Ogham
- Hebrew (obviously a wealth here, but please don't swamp me in Qabalah)
- Egyptian hieroglyphs
- Sanskrit (? - does it?)
- Arabic (? - does it?)
Can anyone give me directions? I'm looking for reliable resources that can tell me more on the correspondences of each letter, be that for alphabets already listed, or for any I don't know about. I'm a comparative beginner, but not shy of something that I need to get my teeth into.
Thankyou!
I'm fascinated by the way that certain alphabets of the world have more meaning than just the sound they make.
For example in our alphabet, "M" is just the sound /mm/, but in Hebrew and Greek it was also the number 40, in lots of systems it denotes the sea, in Egyptian hieroglyphs it was represented by an owl, in the runes it's "Man", and so on. In these alphabets there's so much more in the letter than just the sound it makes.
I'm trying to study all this and especially find something (website or book) that tells me more about the correspondences of each letter in any alphabet that had this extra dimension. I'm not so interested about learning the history of the alphabets outside of any esoteric meaning (if that's possible). I'd like to focus as far as is reasonable on each letter: ie in any alphabet, what is "wrapped up" in the idea of the letter "M" for example?
So far I've come across these alphabets that have (or may have) esoteric connections:
- Greek (I'd be particularly interested in this)
- Runic
- Ogham
- Hebrew (obviously a wealth here, but please don't swamp me in Qabalah)
- Egyptian hieroglyphs
- Sanskrit (? - does it?)
- Arabic (? - does it?)
Can anyone give me directions? I'm looking for reliable resources that can tell me more on the correspondences of each letter, be that for alphabets already listed, or for any I don't know about. I'm a comparative beginner, but not shy of something that I need to get my teeth into.
Thankyou!