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Magic word first recorded in a Latin poem of
2nd century AD by the Gnostic poet Serenus
Sammonicus. When written in the form of an
inverted pyramid, so as to be read across the
top and up the right side, it was worn as a
health amulet, to ward off illnesses.
Subject by: Russell Webb