Liber Loagaeth

To my knowledge, this is the first publishing of the Liber Loagaeth on the internet. I am currently being given these tables from a hand-written copy of the originals straight from the British Library. So I cannot guarantee their ABSOLUTE accuracy, but to the best of our knowledge, they are very faithful to the original manuscripts. Many problems arise here, since there are problems that arise with handwriting, and documents that have been physically compromised due to age, deterioration, etc. But, I can guarantee the utmost care on the behalf of myself and my "partner in crime" in England. They are coming in dribs and drabs, and I still don't have a complete set yet, but we are working on that. The fact that they are coming so sporadically is a testament to the care being taken on our behalf, not any slackness!

Due to the dodgy nature of the internet today, and the "sampling" that occurs, I have elected to convert these tables into .gif images. I can only really ask, but if you do wish to use these tables for anything other than personal use, please contact me (xeroiii@yahoo.com) since there are some issues with copyright- which is currently being held by my companion. I have copies of the tables given here, in .doc format, which is how I have been receiving them, which may, or may not, be able to be passed on.

I have spent quite some time flicking through these, and have a pile of notes that is about knee high at the moment, ranging from A4 pages to napkins! But, since I have no time on my hands at the moment, I thought it best to upload these images now, and follow through with the notes at a later date.

The Liber Loagaeth is 48 Leafs, with one 49x49 (generally) table per side, so a total of 96 tables. These tables range from the first two that have a word in each of the cells, to later tables that seem to have more than one table squeezed into them by using differently tilted letters (this is most easily explained by actually looking at them, but I do not have one of these yet)- these appear from 'Harodan Lempric Dohoh' to ' Larvh Gohonp Babbabor', and also tables such as 'Famfax Ler Axax', that has a letter in every other cell, and for 7x7 squares where these other cells are filled with capitalised letters. Some carry with them a definite structure, such as 'Famfax Ler Axax', as stated before, and 'Pagesgem', that uses numbers, and capitalised letters in a circle and central section. Others, on the other hand, carry no legible geometric structure, and appear to only be structures of letters. Curiously- but not for anyone who has read Dee's Diaries (available from the John Dee Publishing Project by C Holden here)- the first few tables have grammatical punctuation (.'s for the breaks in letters, ,'s and ?'s to denote a linguistic structure to the tables), but as you proceed through the tables, these are slowly either phased out or not cared about. This appears again in the dictation of the Enochian Keys where great care is made to note everything about the appearance of each word or letter, but this detail is slowly phased out- possibly because of a lack of time!

Deeper analysis of the tables themselves however, shows that there is some sort of underlying linguistic structure. Frequency spreads of the letter distribution of the tables I have, have been made, and interestingly enough, similar spreads have been found across almost all of the tables. What they have in common is a high count of the letter A. It is always the most popular letter, and usually by quite a number. The other letters generally fall within a set sequence, similar to (but not exactly):

Avallacax: A, N, O, H, D, L, R, E, G, C, V, X, P, Z, T, M, S, I, F, B, Y, Q, U

Pagesgem : A, N, O, H, D, L, G, E, R, C, P, V, Z, X, T, M, S, B, I, F, Y, Q, U

These two fall quite close to each other, but others have aberrant letters that appear far outside of this general trend. In all of the tables, j, k and w do not appear, but in some, q, u, and the odd other letter (generally those at the lower end of the frequency, such as y) do not appear either. This suggests that a 23 letter alphabet is being used- possibly the Latin alphabet, that Dee was familiar with, which has the same amount of letters- rather than the 21 letter alphabet of the Enochian script. Here is where the fun of these tables begin. This may be suggestive of a code of some sort! I have done some general substitutions on the current English spread of letters next to the existing Loagaeth spreads, and produced no coherent plain text. Without the general spread of the Latin language, I am at a loss to be able to do the same for that. Anyway, I am not that skilled in Latin that I could understand anything that came out of such a pursuit anyway!

What also leads to the idea that the Liber Loagaeth is in fact a language-based product (i.e. a code or a new language all together) is the rules that appear. So far, I have managed to pull out a few general rules, with allowance for copying errors on the behalf of us and or Dee and Kelley. Q is nearly always followed by v, as in the English q-u combination. In the few other instances, it is either at the end of a word in the first few tables, or there is the possibility of a confused letter, for example v and r in some scripts are easily confused. Having not actually received a facsimile of the originals yet, I am unaware as to whether this may have been done. X is almost always preceded by a vowel (a, e, i, o, u/v. The use of v as a vowel also points to a Latin-esque language). There is also common strings of vowel that seem to be akin to languages already established. This could also be a trick of glossolalia (take Dr Suess' The Cat Sat On The Mat as an example). If this is indeed glossolalia, I would think that the specific rules such as q-v would not exist. Also, some strings appear nearly always in isolation. Where v precedes x (i.e. in a vx way) the two preceding letters are almost always d and r, forming the word drvx This is quite suggestive of a complex set of rules that one would not go into if simply creating glossolalia, for the fact that one wouldn't really need to! This needs far more investigation, and as I receive the whole text, I will be able to make better judgements on how this goes.

Tables and Leafs:

Leaf 1a [Zuresk od adaph mal zez geno au marlan oh muzpa]
Leaf 1b [Oxar varmol pan sampas os al pans orney andsu]
Leaf 2a
Alla opnay qviemmah. (19 April 2002)
Leaf 2b
Zvrebth aho dan lanfal cramza (19 April 2002)
Leaf 3a
Pandobna ox adroh azimcholdrux.
Leaf 3b Dlod Alged zvrem. ["dlod allged zvram"]
Leaf 4a Zvbla ox arnogan Algers aclo.
Leaf 4b
Danfal gest Axamph acrosta. (19 April 2002)
Leaf 5a
Gonzahoh alch arge oho Adanch.
Leaf 5b Zvchastors plohodmax argednon acho
Leaf 6a Sancgonfal aldex, Ave goh adatqvan,
Leaf 6b Pvrcha ges maxgem adroth vaxox ahó
Leaf 7a Dam lethgath onzar avoxalgeth
Leaf 7b Chvmaxchaberexmapha
Leaf 8a
Algebadreth (19 April 2002)
Leaf 8b
Oylzongs (19 April 2002)
Leaf 9a
Pagesgem (19 April 2002)
Leaf 9b
Avallacax (19 April 2002)
Leaf 10a
Gorvemgemps
Leaf 10b Bacap Laffos
Leaf 11a
Ozimba londorh New (15 June 2002)
Leaf 11b
Ylchvzzapg New (15 June 2002)
Leaf 12a Nopham
Leaf 12b Signeh gax
Leaf 13a T-lallaah gethnoh
Leaf 13b Iaialgh lercol zinrox
Leaf 14a Pincal vexlan
Leaf 14b Phin potagar giron
Leaf 15a Se ger pcopalph
Leaf 15b Oroh Zvn.compvxoh
Leaf 16a Dadavar gedrong
Leaf 16b Varahhatraglax pligeo
Leaf 17a Hidrahah glazipvagel
Leaf 17b Engidexol; neolchiph
Leaf 18a Polacax cvbagod
Leaf 18b Zad, ron anchal
Leaf 19a
Gedmarg alpon New (15 June 2002)
Leaf 19b
Bvzalg long arnap New (15 June 2002)
Leaf 20a Zicha lezach.
Leaf 20b
Drem phingel oxah oho New (15 June 2002)
Leaf 21a Algonzib virbalox
Leaf 21b Avriz ommaphily geld
Leaf 22a Cehergol naoal
Leaf 22b Fál mexicamps vrom
Leaf 23a Conar vomfagal
Leaf 23b
Toxarxh nerhoh gel podnon New (15 June 2002)
Leaf 24a Zichidpha lvziph
Leaf 24b Nervag pranclan
Leaf 25a Demphoz prang oho
Leaf 25b Harodan lempric dohoh
Leaf 26a Chy pled sagnaronph
Leaf 26b Draxph intayfalg
Leaf 27a Vlnen razo vilcomb
Leaf 27b Vincal leorna rvh
Leaf 28a Dababel gel zozaah
Leaf 28b Larvh gohonp babbabor
Leaf 29a
Famfax ler axax. ("The first of the leaves") (19 April 2002)
Leaf 29b
Zirzach bvmazon.
Leaf 30a Tar, vin gabax orho.
Leaf 30b Glonz alnoptd.
Leaf 31a Gemnarv Hvncol.
Leaf 31b Rynh zichzor chalan.
Leaf 32a Yayger balpaoeh.
Leaf 32b Car vanal geldons.
Leaf 33a Vio nilg onpho.
Leaf 33b Toxhencol ylnorox ziborh.
Leaf 34a Balvomph chiphan.
Leaf 34b Vingelg laxih parcan.
Leaf 35a Zvda vig pancar.
Leaf 35b Dexvlng chirony gavv.
Leaf 36a Qnabazeb vil pvdar.
Leaf 36b Xanpa phaphingeth.
Leaf 37a Ronlox bapvabap orh.
Leaf 37b Calbahhah genrox.
Leaf 38a Dohvnam gethgol axah.
Leaf 38b Vantavong nargax.
Leaf 39a Pvlgaao ner gisch.
Leaf 39b Archi septh lorox.
Leaf 40a Damponpha nexo gel.
Leaf 40b Dexph geld onchen.
Leaf 41a Ellaxor Natoglan
Leaf 41b Fam filgisch larvouch
Leaf 42a Cemgealg ralphos
Leaf 42b Zodagrap zilpob
Leaf 43a Necprilga lvpvarn
Leaf 43b Depsah onge phialox
Leaf 44a Nelziar pol dolgon
Leaf 44b Parni volchemph
Leaf 45a Acvirzilg chiparal
Leaf 45b Alged on chipráxal
Leaf 46a Clarn nancal
Leaf 46b Lexrox pingh lardol
Leaf 47a Zvrzvh genvox
Leaf 47b Chiromonph zarchan olinorg
Leaf 48a Calgs sedph panglox
Leaf 48b Bapporgel bvrioldepnay

 

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