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3 unusual facts about Oedipus Aegyptiacus


Oedipus Aegyptiacus

The primary source for Kircher's study of hieroglyphs was the Bembine Tablet, so named after its acquisition by Cardinal Bembo, shortly after the sack of Rome in 1527.

In 1999 the University of Geneva exhibited one of the vast tomes of Oedipus Aegyptiacus in an exhibition to celebrate the centenary of Jorge Luis Borges as representative of books associated with the Argentinian author.

Teofil Ociepka

When he returned to Janów, he brought back with him the first works on occultism, including Athanasius Kircher's treatise on the Seventy Two Names of God.


Key of Solomon

The figure is a variant of the Sigillum Aemeth published by Athanasius Kircher in Oedipus Aegyptiacus


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