What is the history behind magic(k)al names?
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I think the choice of a magickal name is basically a symbol of a person's new life with their Craft.  Many times people would take the time to discover the name that means the most to them, researching different gods and goddesses, looking into different traditions for names (e.g., Native American tribes).  Or they use numerology to determine if the name they like works with them.  The purpose is along the same lines as what Catholics do before they're confirmed.  Catholics are supposed to research the different saints and choose the one they feel the most connection with, and that becomes the name that is used when they confirm their faith within the Catholic church.\n\nNot everyone chooses a magickal name (I have not as yet.)  It all depends on personal preference and/or tradition.  Some people are only use their magickal name within the Circle and during ritual purposes.  Others legally adopt their magickal name as their own.
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Some websites are : \n\nhttp://130.94.234.233/DM/html-ou/MagicSquares.htm \n\nhttp://www.geocities.com/~harveyh/
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houseofnames.com/xq/asp/s.Pearman/Origin.EN/.../coatofarms_details.htm
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Alright, I looked up the history of the spelling of Aluminum.  We Americans don't, in truth, spell it incorrectly.  There are simply two variant spellings.  See below:\n\n"Etymology/nomenclature history\nThe earliest citation given in the Oxford English Dictionary for any word used as a name for this element is alumium, which Humphry Davy employed in 1808 for the metal he was trying to isolate electrolytically from the mineral alumina. The citation is from his journal Philosophical Transactions: "Had I been so fortunate as..to have procured the metallic substances I was in search of, I should have proposed for them the names of silicium, alumium, zirconium, and glucium." [11]\n\nBy 1812, Davy had settled on aluminum, which, as other sources note, matches its Latin root. He wrote in the journal Chemical Philosophy: "As yet Aluminum has not been obtained in a perfectly free state."[12] But the same year, an anonymous contributor to the Quarterly Review, a British political-literary journal, objected to aluminum and proposed the name aluminium, "for so we shall take the liberty of writing the word, in preference to aluminum, which has a less classical sound." [13]\n\nThe -ium suffix had the advantage of conforming to the precedent set in other newly discovered elements of the period: potassium, sodium, magnesium, calcium, and strontium (all of which Davy had isolated himself). Nevertheless, -um spellings for elements were not unknown at the time, as for example platinum, known to Europeans since the 16th century, molybdenum, discovered in 1778, and tantalum, discovered in 1802.\n\nAmericans adopted -ium for most of the 19th century, with aluminium appearing in Webster's Dictionary of 1828. In 1892, however, Charles Martin Hall used the -um spelling in an advertising handbill for his new electrolytic method of producing the metal, despite his constant use of the -ium spelling in all the patents he filed between 1886 and 1903. Hall's domination of production of the metal ensured that the spelling aluminum became the standard in North America; the Webster Unabridged Dictionary of 1913, though, continued to use the -ium version.\n\nIn 1926, the American Chemical Society officially decided to use aluminum in its publications; American dictionaries typically label the spelling aluminium as a British variant"
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as a muslim i'm telling you that al means (the) in arabic so it is said before a name as to give that name some sort of respect and greatness.but if some men are called al then it must be like short term for their name like abdul for abdullah
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Kiki,Special Kiki,Kiwi,Q,Queen,Key,K,and Yuna(I dunno where that one came from)
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Only ones i know of are the ones placed in a pot on the stove in the kitchen...in France.\n\nAlso be aware that many ingredients associated with Witchcraft (Eye of newt etc) were names of herbs used for medicines or associated with chakras, energies or spirits, very rarely were they exactly what they sounded like, herbal knowledge was considered not only sacred but also secretive and such names helped stop people dabbling in things they didn't understand
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Jorge "Mágico" González is a former football (soccer) player and standout for C.D. FAS (El Salvador), Cádiz CF (Spain) and the Salvadoran national team.\n\nGonzález received his first international cap May 1, 1979 in a friendly match against Mexico. He would go on to receive a total of 48 caps for the El Salvador team, leading them to the 1982 World Cup, and scoring a total of 40 goals for the team.\n\nGonzález was nicknamed El Mágico, the Magic one. The Estadio Jorge "Mágico" González in San Salvador is named after him. He was voted greatest player in the 20th Century for the CONCACAF Region.
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I believe you mean Magic Square. Look it up on the web.
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It's very hard to go back in History to find Wiccans because there were laws against Witchcraft and many people were killed for even mentioning it.  \n\nContrary to popular belief, the Wiccan religion was NOT founded in the 1900's.  It became LEGAL then.  Wicca is a name for a religion that had been made secret for centuries due to Christian oppression.  But its not a new religion\nSo there really aren't many historical Witches to name of.  Here are some Witches of modern day. \n\nFairuza Balk (The Craft, American History x)\n\nSully Erna (Godsmack)\n\nThose are celebrities.  Within the Pagan community there are many we consider icons.  Gerald Gardner, Ray Buckland, etc.
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In the name of Harry's Father, of Harry Potter and of the Dumbledore spirit\n\nA-muggles (get it a-men, a-muggles...)
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the numbdefinitionsix comes from a gematria \nfor the deffintion of gematria look under http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gematria \n\nthe holly name for G-d that is spelled yud hay vav hay has the gematria of 26
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I have heard that "Northern Mysteries and Magic" by Freya Aswinn is good, but I haven't read it. Check out sunnyway.com/runes, there is a lot of good information there.
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There're two kinds of activities people refer to as magic.\n\nOne is the kind put on by those who now prefer to be called illusionists, rather than magicians, like Houdini to David Copperfield, and who put on shows for public entertainment.\n\nThe other kind, are those performed by highly evolved individuals, who, because of their knowledge of, and mastery over nartural laws, can use these laws to perform what's popualrly called 'miracles'.\n\nThe former, as the preferred name implies (illusion) smacks of deceit; whereas the latter has nothing to do with deceit, but on the contrary, it's pure science.
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I don't know.\n\nBut I didn't know Satan's first name was 'Al.' Interesting...
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No the Bible is not magic...\nIt is a historical, prophetic, personal diaries, it has poems, love stories, letters, action adventure.\nSo the 66 books are for us to read about how our creator\nsees things, and how he deals with them or will deal with them soon to come.\nNot magic my dear.....
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There is a brief history at this site:\n\nhttp://www.jordangroup.org/cards/cards/history.html