Essential Enochian Grimoire Artwork 4

Greetings Egyptophiles!

So James Clark has finally released some new artwork from the Essential Enochian Grimoire –  and this time he’s drawing from the Neo-Enochian half of the book, where we find the Golden Dawn’s version of Enochian magick.  And, in the Golden Dawn, they used Egyptian godforms as talismatic images to represent the “Truncated Pyramids” formed of the Watchtower squares:

 

Hathor – Goddess of Passion

 

Hathor is the Egyptian Goddess of Fertility and Passion – much like the Goddesses of neighboring countries:  Astarte, Ishtar and Inanna.  Also like these other Goddesses, Hathor is also a Goddess of War.

Egyptian mythos tells us of the time Hathor overheard some humans planning to assassinate her father Ra and overthrow his kingdom.  In her rage, she assumed the form of the Eye of Ra (the disk of the Sun) and flew across the Earth burning and destroying everything in her path.

So complete was her destruction, the other Gods became afraid she would exterminate mankind for good.  So, they quickly chose a valley in Hathor’s path and flooded it with beer dyed red to resemble blood.

Sure enough, when Hathor saw what appeared to be a lake of human blood, she waded in waist-deep and began to drink her fill.  The beer eventually took effect and Hathor, her rage finally spent, fell into a deep sleep.  What was left of mankind rejoiced at being spared, and learned to never again plot against mighty Ra.

In the above picture, we see Hathor as she appears in the Enochian system.  (It’s a shame the Essential Enochian Grimoire couldn’t reproduce these images in full color!)  She represents balanced WATER and EARTH. Two sides of her pyramid are Water (blue with orange characters) and two are Earth (black with white characters). Her image is of a woman wearing a blue and black dress, a blue pectoral collar and a black horned headdress. The headdress is surmounted by a blue disk and blue feathers. She carries a black ankh and blue lotus scepter and stands upon a black and blue base.

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James really outdid himself on these Egyptian images.  When Llewellyn first told me they wanted to have an artist re-draw the traditional GD Godforms, I was skeptical.  I pictured some kind of modern fantasy-style depictions of the gods – which would have been nice, but would not have carried that “Golden Dawn” tone or feeling.  Thankfully, James happens to have Golden Dawn experience, so he knew exactly how these images should look.  I am proud to have these new images in my book – I have no doubt they will be used by practitioners again and again!

Thanks goes to Chic and Tabatha Cicero for lending me the original versions of these Godforms.  🙂