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This script is known from carved graffiti in Canaan (Palestine) and the Sinai peninsula, most famously from a turquoise-mining area of the Sinai called Serabit el-Khadim (serābîţ el-xâdem). These mines were worked by prisoners of war from southwest Asia who presumably spoke a West Semitic language, such as the Canaanite that was ancestral to Phoenician and Hebrew. The Serabit el-Khadim inscriptions we ...

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R - Letter R . - The eighteenth letter of the alphabet; "the canine", as its sound reminds one of a snarl. In the Hebrew alphabet it is the twentieth, and its numeral is 200. It is equivalent as Resh to the divine name Rahim (clemency); and its symbols are, a sphere, a head, or a circle.

 
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Ulphilas (Scandianvian Norse). A schoolman who made a new alphabet for the Goths in the fourth century - a union of Greek letters with the form of the runic alphabet, since which time the runes began to die out and their secret was gradually lost. (See " Runes".) He translated the Bible into Gothic, preserved in the Codex Argenteus.

 
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Thumi Sambhota (Sanskrit). An Indian mystic and man of erudition, the inventor of the Tibetan alphabet.

 
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Q - Letter Q._The seventeenth letter of the English Alphabet. It is the obsolete Eolian Qoppa and the Hebrew Koph. As a numeral it is 100, and its symbol is the back of the head from the ears to the neck. With the Eolian Occultists it stood for the symbol of differentiation.

 
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Vau waw (Hebrew) Sixth letter of the Hebrew alphabet, , variously rendered as vav, waw, etc.; third letter of IHVH, referred to as the Tetragrammaton. With vowel points, most often used as a prefix conjunction meaning "and," "also." As a noun, a nail, hook. Its numerical value is 6.

 
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Passing of the River (Kab.). This phrase may be met with in works referring to medieval magic: it is the name given to a cypher alphabet used by Kabbalistic Rabbis at an early date ; the river alluded to is the Chebar - the name will also be found in Latin authors as Litere Transitus.

 
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