Sigils and Veve

While I was studying the religion of Voodoo over the internet I learn the use of the Veve to call
the Loa or divinities. This Veve are drawn on the floor in a ceremony and it is expected that they
will make the desire Loa to manifest, usually this happens by the Loa possessing one of the
practitioners.The student of western magick will found this process very similar to the one use in
ritual magick or cabalistic, salomonic magick were a sigil is drawn on the magick triangle to make
the spirit appear.My big surprise was to notice the similarity of some of this Veves with the Sigils
found on the Goetia and the Grimoir Verum, both attributed to Solomon. For example, the
following drawing is a Voodoo Veve to call Loa Ezili-Freda-Dahomey and it was the first one to
call my attention:

Loa Ezili-Freda
compare with the seal of Gomory on the Goetia:

Gomory
Striking similar, the only difference is the cross in the middle of the last one, but it definetly
reveals at least and influence.This inspire me to continue my search and I found another seal and
Veve, very similar to each other if not the same:

Loa Ibo

Marbas
(Goetia)
They are almost identical but the circles on the left and righ bottom are shown as squares in the
Veve of Loa Ibo.
Compare also the following:

Loa Kalfu

Goetia Amduscias

The following two share some similarity:

Loa Drum

Goetia Forneus
Moving now to the Grimorium Verum we find:

Frucissiere
With is similar to this Veve:

Loa Papa Legba

Here the Cross appears at the apex of the triangle and instead of a circle containing a cross we
find and hexagon on the botton containing a cross, and two arrows on the left hand instead of
one.
Another sigil from the Grimorium Verum:

Sigil of Khil
Compare with:

Loa Onzoncaire
Conclusion:
Considering the Myth about King Solomon who got 500 wives, princess from different kingdoms,
whom allow them to continue worshiping their gods, he who had a special interest for woman of
color ( it is said that the woman he love the most was Shiva Queen of Ethiopia in Africa) and even
practice their magick, It is indeed very possible that the spirits who Salomon work with to build
the temple of god where the Loa of Voodoo and Santeria later seems as devils perhaps by
Solomon itself who imprison them into a bottle (according to the Goetia) and throw it to the
bottom of the sea. The testimony of many Voodoo practitioners should prove then, that this
entities or Loa are not evil themselves but misunderstood, since in the voodoo religion a Loa will
never accept to do any wrong doing to anybody, for this purpose the magician will have to use
the spirit of the dead people. Does the Voodoo priest took this sigils from the grimoirs or the
grimoirs writer (whetever Solomon or not) took them from Africa? This is the real question with
I like to raise with these exposition. I have a limited amount of Voodoo Veve, but I am sure that
many other similarities exist between many other Veve uknown to me and sigils and seals found
in the grimoirs of the Solomonic Cicle. Further comparison and study is advise. Other questions
to be ask are: Since their sigils are similar, what about the domain, characteristics attributes and
powers of this deities, are they similar to the ones given in the grimoirs?
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