This is the same old shit as they claim Satan is an "archetype." I know where much of the crap about the Necronomicon being a work of fiction comes from. This is what is called "The God Part of the Brain." Being servile and needing direction from others deemed as "authority." We do not know how Dee would have acquired a prized magic mirror from a Spanish colony, so one might as well throw in suggestions of pirates and privateers like Sir Francis Drake.I am writing this in response to the numerous posts in the Joy of Satan e-groups regarding the authenticity of the Necronomicon.įar too many people just believe what they are told or whatever they read and take it as a fact. However, the infamous crystal skulls were likely 19th century hoaxes, and not examples of early transatlantic cultural transfer. Aztec featherwork best survives from royal gifts that ended up in the curiosity cabinets and musems of Europe, and Cortes sent back a ballgame team to entertain the Spanish royal court.
Older mirrors are found in association with Olmec ritual deposits.ĭee's possible Aztec mirror was not the only prized item to come across the Atlantic in the sixteenth century. The Classic Maya analog for Tezcatlipoca, K'awil, regularly has it associated with images of him, to the point that one way to write his name is mostly a hieroglyph of a mirror. Most commonly associated with the dark Aztec sorcerer Tezcatlipoca, the mirror has deeper time depth than the Aztecs.
Not only does the mirror have sorcerous associations in Europe, it was tied to supernaturals in Mesoamerica (the supposed source of the obsidian and the mirror). If it was Dee's, the idea of using it for magic is not that far-fetched. Walpole obtained the mirror in 1771, over 160 years after Dee had died. Brought over from Mexico not long after the initial Spanish Conquest, Dee used the mirror to communicate with spirits.Īll of this information comes from Sir Horace Walpole, 4th Early of Orford and credited as a major originator of the horror tale and the Gothic tradition. John Dee was many things, including court astrologer for Elizabeth I, scholar, bibliophile, possible intelligence agent, and most importantly for our purposes, translator of the Necronomicon, the "book of dead names" or the "book of the dead." Amongst the various items he used to aid his magical research was an obsidian mirror. The parent institution for the item, the British Museum, has images for perusal.ĭr.
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