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)