Thoth and the Tarot 287

Runes in the Great Pyramid Stan Tenen ("Shadow of Law Tetra-flame", MERU Foundation) and more recently

Tony Bushby (The Secret in the Bible, Joshua Books) theorize that a pyramid shape generates the letters of the Hebrew alphabet. Tenen uses the regular tetrahedron, and Bushby uses the Giza octahedral pyramid. Their esoteric mathematical derivations are interesting, but they have two disadvantages. First, both researchers use the Hebrew letters as they later evolved with serifs. Second, they rely on fairly sophisticated mathematical concepts. I do not deny the plausibility of these approaches. However I think that the original Hebrew letters came from Phoenician symbols primarily derived from Egyptian hieroglyphs, gods, and religious symbols. These letters were drawn with the simplest, most universal mathematical figures: lines, circles, triangles, and squares. All these simple figures appear in the Hebrew word for eternity, OD (��), the eye on the pyramid. The Sun is the Eye of Ra (Horus)

that shines high in the sky over the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt. For Egypt this was the symbol of eternity, a crystal sphere over a half-octahedron stone pyramid. That is all we need to generate the 22 Hebrew letters using the Rune principle. �� � � sun & rays, bull's head �� � � lingam

�� � � earth, world �� � � � � � water, blood

�� � � � camel's hump � � � � � oil, cream

�� � � pyramid yoni � � � � spine, grain

�� � � � � � � � flail �� � � Eye of Ra

�� � � � � � � � crook � � � Mouth of God

�� � � weapon, scythe �� � Lightning strikes cap

�� � � � Jacob's Ladder �� � � � � � � Sun's Tongue

(invert) � � � � � � � (touches Earth)

�� � � � Khnemu's Wheel �� � � � � Dawn of Life� � � � � � � �

�� � � � Hand of God �� � � Dragon's Teeth

� � � Palm of God �� � � � X marks the spot