Dictionary of Occult – Hermetic and Alchemical Sigils
NABERIUS
Demon – NABERIUS « lord of cunning »
NANAEL
Génie 53
NANAEL vocale: nanèel
évocation du 20° au 24°59′ du sagittaire,
domine les 22° taureau / 4° lion / 16° balance / 28° sagittaire / 10° poissons
chaque jour durant 20′, 17h20′ aprés le lever du soleil.
Il règne sur le physique et les actes de ceux qui sont né du 13 au 16 décembre.
NATIVITY
Ast. Various abbreviations from the mediaeval Latin nativitas and its grammatical forms, given by CHASSANT 1884 :
But see ASCENDANT.
NATURAL SULPHUR
Alc. BERTHELOT 1885 records a sigil from the Greek alchemical tradition :
NATURE
Occ. KOCH 1930 gives a highly personal sigil :
CHASSANT 1884 gives a mediaeval contraction for natura :
See MOTHER NATURE and VEGETABILIA.
NEBULOSA
Ast. Eighth of the mediaeval lunar mansions, called Al Nathrah in the Arabic astrological system, a sigil for which is given in MANSIONES 14C :
NEGATIVE MARS See PLUTO
NELAH
Mag. Sigil for a spirit (name perhaps a corruption of Nelapa, one of the angels of the Second Heaven), given by HEYDON 1664 to represent the letter N in the secret writing called ‘Alphabet of Angels and Genii’ :
NELCHAEL
Génie 21 – vocale : nelchael
évocation du 10° au 14°59′ du cancer,
domine les 20° bélier / 2° cancer / 14° vierge / 26° scorpion / 8° verseau
chaque jour durant 20′, 6h40′ aprés le lever du soleil.
Il règne sur le physique et les actes de ceux qui sont né du 2 au 7 juillet.
NEMAMIAH
Génie 57
NEMAMIAH vocale: nemamÿah
évocation du 10° au 14°59′ du capricorne,
domine les 26° taureau / 8° lion / 20° balance / 2° capricorne / 14° poissons
chaque jour durant 20′, 18h40′ aprés le lever du soleil.
Il règne sur le physique et les actes de ceux qui sont né du 1er au 5 janvier.
NEPTUNE
Ast. The first sigils Cor this ‘modern’ planet were constructed around the initials LV for the discoverer, Le Verrier, and sometimes (wrongly) L for Leverrier. SHEPHERD 1971 records three such obsolete forms :
Since 1871 various sigils have been invented by astrologers, perhaps based on the trident of Neptune, though WALTHER 1939 explains the form as being ‘really a semicircle over the cross’ :
DAATH 1901 claims that the sigil
is in fact derived from a repetition of the forms for SAGITTARIUS, thus
and draws an unconventional connexion between this zodiacal sign and the planet.
SIMMONITE 1890
PEARCE 1893
MODERN ASTROLOGY 1899
MODERN ASTROLOGY 1906
KOCH 1930
THIERENS 1931
RAPHAEL 1933
RUDRYAR 1936
NEROMAN 1937
JONES 1941
DE VORE 1930
SEMENTOVSKY 1950
FAGAN 1951
SIDEREAL 1951
SPITZ 1959
EBERTIN 1970
McCAFFERY
RUDHYAR 1970
MAYO 1972
OKEN 1973
TOBEY 1973
NESTORATS
Mag. Three sigils have been recorded by SCHEIBLE 1848 for this spirit :
NESTORATS
Demon – NESTORATS « the fire master »
NICCOLUM
Alc. SCHEFFERS 1775 :
NIGHT
Alc. As might be expected, many of the early sigils are merely inverted forms of those given for DAY.
WORLIDGE 1651
VALENTINE 1671
SIGNA 17C
DIDEROT 1763
SOMMERHOFF 1701
GESSMANN 1906
LUEDY 1928
SCHNEIDER 1962
BERTHELOT 1885 records sigils for the plural ‘nights’ from Greek alchemical texts :
OMONT 1894 records a sigil from Greek texts :
NITHAEL
Génie 54
NITHAEL vocale: nith’el
évocation du 25° au 29°59′ du sagittaire,
domine les 23° taureau / 5° lion / 17° balance / 29° sagittaire / 11° poissons
chaque jour durant 20′, 17h40′ aprés le lever du soleil.
Il règne sur le physique et les actes de ceux qui sont né du 17 au 21 décembre.
NITH-HAIAH
Génie 25
vocale : nith’hayah
évocation du 0° au 4° 59′ du lion,
domine les 24° bélier / 6° cancer / 18° vierge / 0° sagittaire / 12° verseau
chaque jour durant 20′, 8h aprés le lever du soleil.
Il règne sur le physique et les actes de ceux qui sont né du 23 au 28 juillet.
NITRE GLOBULES
Alc. GESSMANN 1906 :
NITRE SALT
Alc. GESSMANN 1906 :
NITRIC ACID
Alc. GEOFFROY 1718 :
DIDEROT 1763 :
LUEDY 1928 :
See ACID
NITROUS AIR
Alc. Sigil for Lavoisier’s air nitrcux recorded by CROSLAND 1962 :
NITROUS WATER
Alc. GESSMANN 1906 :
NITRUM See SALTPETRE
NOACHITE SCRIPT
Occ . One of the secret alphabets recorded by RIVIERE 1938 (see SECRET SCRIPTS) :
NODE
Ast. The term node is most frequently used without further designation for the Moon’s Node, which is dealt with in the present context under CAPUT and CAUDA. However, in certain modern schools of astrology, especially in those concerned with heliocentric charts, the particular node of a planet is indicated by enclosing the traditional planetary sigil in the basic form for the caput or caada, thus which is the ‘node of Jupiter’, taken from SUCHER 1970.
NOTA BENE
Occ. Many highly personal sigils have been used by the alchemists, the following being common in early manuscripts, as for example in ISIDORUS 12C :
WORLIDGE 1671 gives the familiar abbreviation :
NUMBER
Alc. BERTHELOT 1985 gives the sigil
from Greek alchemical texts.
NUN
Occ. The 14th letter of the Hebrew alphabet (see HEBRAIC SCRIPT) for which many derivative forms are given within the tradition of secret alphabets, notably those collected by BARTOLOZZI 1675 :
WIRTH 1927 equates Nun with the Tarot arcanum Temperance, and with zodiacal Aquarius, and in his list of derivative forms for the letter
traces the idea of ‘water’; the historic graphic etymology appears in fact to be from the Egyptian hieroglyphic with the pictorial value of (water) snake, as indicated in JENSEN 19 70.
NUTMEG
Alc. GESSMANN 1906
NYSROG
Demon – NYSROG « lord of the house of princes »
Alchemical Iconography 