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    This document compares sigils and seals from grimoires attributed to King Solomon with Veve symbols used in Voodoo rituals to summon Loa spirits. Several examples show striking similarities between specific Loa Veve and sigils from the Goetia and Grimorium Verum. This suggests the grimoire writers may have obtained the sigils from African traditions, or that Voodoo priests incorporated sigils from European grimoires. Further study is needed to explore possible influences or origins of these symbolic connections between European occultism and African Voodoo.

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    This document compares sigils and seals from grimoires attributed to King Solomon with Veve symbols used in Voodoo rituals to summon Loa spirits. Several examples show striking similarities between specific Loa Veve and sigils from the Goetia and Grimorium Verum. This suggests the grimoire writers may have obtained the sigils from African traditions, or that Voodoo priests incorporated sigils from European grimoires. Further study is needed to explore possible influences or origins of these symbolic connections between European occultism and African Voodoo.

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    Sigils and Veve

    While I was studying the religion of Voodoo over the internet I learn the use
    of the Veve to call the Loa or divinities. This Veve are drawn on the floor in a
    ceremony and it is expected that they will make the desire Loa to manifest,
    usually this happens by the Loa possessing one of the practitioners.The
    student of western magick will found this process very similar to the one use
    in ritual magick or cabalistic, salomonic magick were a sigil is drawn on the
    magick triangle to make the spirit appear.My big surprise was to notice the
    similarity of some of this Veves with the Sigils found on the Goetia and the
    Grimoir Verum, both attributed to Solomon. For example, the following
    drawing is a Voodoo Veve to call Loa Ezili-Freda-Dahomey and it was the first
    one to call my attention:

    Loa Ezili-Freda
    compare with the seal of Gomory on the Goetia:

    Gomory
    Striking similar, the only difference is the cross in the middle of the last one,
    but it definetly reveals at least and influence.This inspire me to continue my
    search and I found another seal and Veve, very similar to each other if not
    the same:

    Loa Ibo

    Marbas
    (Goetia)
    They are almost identical but the circles on the left and righ bottom are
    shown as squares in the Veve of Loa Ibo.
    Compare also the following:

    Loa Kalfu

    Goetia Amduscias

    The following two share some similarity:

    Loa Drum

    Goetia Forneus

    Moving now to the Grimorium Verum we find:

    Frucissiere
    With is similar to this Veve:

    Loa Papa Legba


    Here the Cross appears at the apex of the triangle and instead of a circle
    containing a cross we find and hexagon on the botton containing a cross, and
    two arrows on the left hand instead of one.
    Another sigil from the Grimorium Verum:

    Sigil of Khil
    Compare with:

    Loa Onzoncaire
    Conclusion:

    Considering the Myth about King Solomon who got 500 wives, princess from
    different kingdoms, whom allow them to continue worshiping their gods, he
    who had a special interest for woman of color ( it is said that the woman he
    love the most was Shiva Queen of Ethiopia in Africa) and even practice their
    magick, It is indeed very possible that the spirits who Salomon work with to
    build the temple of god where the Loa of Voodoo and Santeria later seems as
    devils perhaps by Solomon itself who imprison them into a bottle (according
    to the Goetia) and throw it to the bottom of the sea. The testimony of many
    Voodoo practitioners should prove then, that this entities or Loa are not evil
    themselves but misunderstood, since in the voodoo religion a Loa will never
    accept to do any wrong doing to anybody, for this purpose the magician will
    have to use the spirit of the dead people. Does the Voodoo priest took this
    sigils from the grimoirs or the grimoirs writer (whetever Solomon or not) took
    them from Africa? This is the real question with I like to raise with these
    exposition. I have a limited amount of Voodoo Veve, but I am sure that many
    other similarities exist between many other Veve uknown to me and sigils
    and seals found in the grimoirs of the Solomonic Cicle. Further comparison
    and study is advise. Other questions to be ask are: Since their sigils are
    similar, what about the domain, characteristics attributes and powers of this
    deities, are they similar to the ones given in the grimoirs?
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    This article is intellectual Property of Frater Alastor.

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