A
category) might exist, but none of us exist that simply, animated only as girls
or boys (or any other category)."171
Variations and Incantations:
• Asa Nisi Masa
• Asanisimasa
• Asi Nisi Masa
Aski Kataski
Meanings: "No convincing interpretation of the words has yet been proposed."
172 Aski Kataski begins a larger incantation: Aski-kataski-haix-tetraxdamnameneus-aision, which Athanasius Kircher translated to mean "Darkness,
Light, Sun, and Truth."17
Origins: The mystic words Aski Kataski are part of an ancient Greek magic
spell, perhaps of Ephesian origin. They begin the so-called Ephesia Grammata,
or "Ephesian letters."
Facts: "The most celebrated words of power in the classical world, the
Ephesia grammata were used in a wide range of magical applications and
even gave rise to a slang term for magic itself. . . . The use of the Ephesia
grammata was so widespread that aski kataski, a shortened version of the
first two words, was used as a slang term for magic in the Greek-speaking
world, with much the same connotations that 'hocus pocus' has in modern
English."174
Plutarch said that priests would recite these words over persons pos
sessed by demons.175
Atizoo
(see also oozita)
In Literature: In the BBC Puppet Theatre production Tunnel Trouble (1976)
by Gordon Murray, Atizoo is an Open Sesame-type magic word:
narrator: Weatherspoon took a deep breath of air - and dust!
weatherspoon: Ah. Atizoo!
171 "Shining" (Feb. 16, 2007)
172 John Michael Greer, The New Encyclopedia of the Occult (200 )
17 Scott J. Osterhage, Collation of Theosophical Glossaries (1997)
174 John Michael Greer, The New Encyclopedia of the Occult (200 )
175 Scott J. Osterhage, Collation of Theosophical Glossaries (1997)