Coptic

[Ivanhoe]

Is this language used during Thelemic rituals?

[Jim Eshelman]

@Ivanhoe said

"Is this language used during Thelemic rituals?"

None that Crowley wrote, if that's what you meant.

[Ivanhoe]

I ask because Coptic was ancient Egyptian in Greek script.

[Edward Mason]

93,

"Coptic was ancient Egyptian in Greek script."

Coptic has its own script, deriving from various eastern Mediterranean sources, though Greek is a primary one. It derives from late Ancient Egyptian, but it isn't the same language. It has a similar relationship to Ancient Egyptian to that of early forms of Italian to late Latin. It has never fallen entirely out of use as a liturgical language, but scholars assume there has been a gradual shift in pronunciation over the centuries.

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Edward