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I must admit that I'm somewhat surprised that new grimoires that expand with further explanations, rituals, philosophy, cosmology, mythos, etc... - have not been published by those who use the Necronomicon.

Does someone retain the copyright, trademark, and explanations associated with the word Necronomicon that presents legal hurdles for doing so?

Folks:
I really dont know why people keep connecting the Simon Necronomicon with Lovecraft, as he has little or nothing to do with it.. He possible heard about its name and though it was cool and incorporated it into his Horror stories.

I however first got interested in sumerian/babyonian mythology before buying the Nec in the 80's. At that time it was hard to get tablet translations and those that I read were incomplete and broken, hard to keep the flow of the story line going. I found the Necronomicon amusing at the time and did little with it other than use it as reference to look up sumerian gods and demons in the literature. I now take it a lot more seriously.

So far I have found nothing contradictory between the Nec and the actual tablet translations. The gods are the same, the incantations are the same, the ceremonies are the same, the colors of ladder of light seem to agree with the colors of the steps of the zigurraths of Harran, etc.

The points of contention might be the whole idea of a 'watcher' or guardian angel. Well, that is also well attested in incantations as 'may a friendly spirit, a friendly guardian stand at my side'.

The other big point of contention are the sigils of the 50 names. But then the Nec says 'the chaldeans were imperfect in their knowledge' and 'take what I give you here and discover the rest'. So the existence of sigils is not completely inconsistent with the extant tablets. Regarding pentagrams, I have found reproductions of tablets bearing heptagrams (apparently organizing the 7 planets on the tips of the stars, etc) so I dont doubt a pentagram (the Arra) exists in some tablet reproduction. Also, not all has survived the passage of time. Tablet KAR44 (see the tintirbabylon site) lists about 50 texts that a magician should know to be a (babylonian) magician, only a few have survived. A specially tantalizing one was on 'sigils to be made of flour' who knows what it contained..

So it is completely irrelevant if it was a 900 year old greek manuscript written by a well researched greek cleric, or if it was a well researched 1980's New York creation. As long as the incantations are the same as those used for 1000's of years, as long as the gods are those that were worshipped for 1000's of years, as long as the ceremonies are the same used for 1000's of years there is power in them.
(Harran ws destroyed ~1000 AD, the last bastion of sumerian worship, as it had temples of nannar, Ishtar, Shamas etc. The religion started ~ 3000 BC so it pretty much spanned 4000 years)

Now, sumerian magic influenced the babylonians, akkadians, assyrians, and major portions of the bible and hebrew mythology, and by extension christian demonology and names and powers of angels etc. So it stands to reason that there will exist some commonality between sumerian/babylonian religion (the Nec) and the enochian/christian invocations.

I find it interesting that the sumerians were able to keep time (in 'berus' or double hours, 6 hours to the day and 6 hours to the night) by means of 36 different stars rising at different places in the horizon, the points of the compass called 'winds' indicating wind direction. Along the way 12 hours became 24 hours, 36 winds could have become 72 (as the 72 wise men, etc) or it could be that the 36 wids became the 30 winds of the enochian system. Who knows? The point I'm making is that is more likely that the Nec (sumerian mythology) influenced the enochian system and not the other way around.

My two cents.

Traveller

P.S: Has any one have information on the 36 tables of Soyga used by Dee? I have tried to find info on them without much success.

Folks:
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So far I have found nothing contradictory between the Nec and the actual tablet translations. The gods are the same, the incantations are the same, the ceremonies are the same, the colors of ladder of light seem to agree with the colors of the steps of the zigurraths of Harran, etc.

Greetings
One big problem is the identity of NINIB also called ADAR some say it's a misinterpretation of NINURTA but he was listed in M.Jordan's "Encyclopedia of the Gods" as a God of thunderstorms were as NINIB is the Lord of hunters and of strength.
In what tablet dos NINIB appear ?

Nebo