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hello, if this isn't the right place to post this please let me know, but i'd like to know the history that inspired the creation of the sigils within the Lesser key of Solomon. My friend has a tattoo of one so i've done some research but its probably wrong. From what i could gather the outer border was maybe inspired by first millennium Greek 'ouroboros' style seals as seen in the Greek magical papyri and on Roman gemstones. The internal diagrams seem to be inspired by Aggripa's 'magic square' (kamea) formation of sigils, featuring straight lines with right angles, combined with Ancient Greek 'charaktere' small circles and the letter Tau. But is this at all accurate? I read of Aggripa's square sigils in his 4 books and in the 1949 paper by Karl Anton Nowotny, but I was unable to find any similar sigils in use before the Lesser key of Solomon, other than in what seemed to be repackagings of the same work; what is the relationship between The lesser key of Solomon, the Magical Treatise of Solomon and the Testament of Solomon? I've heard that most of their contents are from the second millennium but parts of it are from the early first? I've looked up kamea magic squares and they seem to originate in the east, so not historically Middle-Eastern/European??? i feel like i'm going crazy, i have to be missing something obvious... i feel like also this might not be the best way to research the occult, but before i go to sleep i may as well ask, is there any evidence of 'circuit-board' sigils with right angles in the Middle-East/Europe before the medieval works attributed to Solomon?
