History of the Greek alphabet consonant letter, rather than seemingly have two exceptions in spelling. Greek, like Phoenician, made a distinction for vowel length; indeed, Greek had five short vowels and seven long vowels, but only five vowel letters. As in Phoenician, the difference in length was not originally made in writing. However, by the 6th century BC the letter eta (not needed for a consonant in eastern dialects of Greek, which lacked ) came to stand for the long vowel , and a new letter, omega, was developed for long . The provenance of omega is not known, but it is generally assumed to
Alphabet of the Magi the prophets used this letter and that they were forbidden to divulge it to mortal man." Thet alphabet is described in the pseudo-Paracelsian "Archidoxis magica", translated into English by R. Turner (1656). S.L. MacGregor Mathers included it in his 1888 edition of the "Key of Solomon" (plate XV) under the name "Alphabet of the Magi." Alphabet of the Magi Alphabet of the Magi is the modern name of a variant of the Hebrew alphabet used for inscriptions in talismans in 17th-century occultism. It is based on a variant of the Semitic alphabet given by Theseus Ambrosius (1469–1540) in his "Introductio