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...COUNT LUNA, by Alexander Lerne/-Holenla (252 pp.; Criferion; $4), cross-pollinates Poe and Kafka to tell two Gothic tales of the occult. The title tale, Count Luna, is set in present-day Vienna. Alexander Jessiersky, frayed scion of a shoddy aristocratic line, fears that a penniless Count Luna whom he has uninten tionally wronged will return from a concentration camp grave to exact revenge. One night he hears footsteps on the floor above his palace study, storms out and plunges a pair of scissors repeatedly into the fleeing, shadowy figure of the intruder -only to discover that...
...ancient Chinese astrological table and the P'u Pan. the necromancer's divining board. Moran did find what he believes to be the key. It was not from the signs of the solar zodiac that he got it; it was from the 28 signs of the Luna (i.e., moon) zodiac, which were invented long before "to fix the calendar and to determine the times of planting and seasons of harvest and the religious ceremonies which accompanied them." From these primitive astrological signs, the Chinese built up many of their own characters. Other civilizations apparently evolved a sort...
...Greece, the first letter of the alphabet was originally written Ψ, a bull's head resting on its side. In Hebrew, it was written Ψ. The astronomical sign for the constellation Taurus is Ψ which resembles the later Greek letter Ψ. The Chinese Luna zodiac sign for the same constellation was six stars Ψ, in the shape of a bull's head, while the sign of the Chinese Luna zodiac was Niu, the "ox" which in primitive form, resembled the head...
...Hebrew, the fourth letter, Daleth is written Ψ. The Assyrian Daltu meant "door," or "jaws," the Greek Delta meant "mouth" of a river; the Hebrew Dal meant "door," "bucket," or "to draw water," the Assyrian Dalu meant "to draw water," and Dilutu meant "a bucket." The Luna constellation consisted of three stars arranged in a triangle, which could easily have taken the shape of both Daleth and Delta...
...letter M apparently goes back to the Chinese Luna constellation Ψwhich in old forms of Hebrew turned into Ψ The Chinese Luna station is San, which is in the solar period Virgo. The astronomical symbol for Virgo: Ψ. To Scholar Moran, all this does more than shed light on the alphabet. Says he: "We are able to trace as never before the golden thread which runs through human history from the barbarity of human sacrifice and the earliest glimmerings of a vengeful God to the highest revelation that we have of ourselves as the children...