Kameas and Sigils

The seven squares

Each planet has its square: three by three for Saturn, rising to nine by nine for the Moon. Every row, every column and both diagonals give the same sum, and the whole square gives a number of its own. Choose a planet and the square is drawn below.

The names of the numbers

Beside each square the printing sets the names its numbers answer to, ending with the intelligence and the spirit of the planet. The number in the first column is the one the printing gives; the fourth column is what the Hebrew beside it actually counts. They do not always agree, and both are left as they stand.

Tracing a name

A name written in Hebrew letters becomes a figure by being walked through the square, or through the petals of the Rose. Type the letters, or tap them below, or press Trace beside any of the names above.

On a square, a letter is found by its number. A letter whose number is larger than the square holds is traced at the cell of its own chamber: the letters that share a figure stand together, one, ten and a hundred in the first chamber, two, twenty and two hundred in the second, and so on down. A small circle opens the figure at the first letter, the line runs from number to number, and a bar closes it. On the Rose each of the twenty-two letters has its petal, and the line runs from petal to petal in the same way.

The sources say nothing about the five final letters on a square. The chambers give them their own hundreds, which would place them elsewhere; the ordinary reckoning counts a final as the letter it is. Both are offered above, and the figure changes accordingly.