THE GOD-LETTERS 
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But the consonants? That is a harder nut to crack. 
Students of language have been accustomed to group the 
consonants exactly as we now happen to require . Here, in 
brief, is the list: Dentals, Labials, Gutturals. 
Various modifications extend them to fifty-nine and there 
are twenty-seven vowels. I shall naturally concern myself 
only with those that matter to the subject : in practice, the 
twenty-two letters of the Hebrew Alphabet will serve for this 
preliminary study, especially as in that case, we have already 
the attributions. I will begin by classing them. 
Gutturals: 
1. G 
Luna. 
2. Ch Cancer, house of Luna; Jupiter here exalted . 
3. K 
Jupiter. 
4. Q Pisces, house of Jupiter. Atu XVII "The Moon." 
You will note that either Jupiter or Luna occurs in every 
case; in two, doubly. Guttur, moreover, is the Latin word for 
'throat'. Both planets emphasize the soft open expansive 
aspects of Nature; they both refer accordingly to the 
feminine throat, the tube either of present or of future life. 
(J upiter, when in Sagittarius, has an aggressive, masterful, 
male side; but his letter when there is Samekh.) Now 
pronounce these letters; observe the motions of opening and 
expulsion of the breath. Well, then, you will no longer 
wonder at that list we had in another letter of the words 
Cwm, coombe, quean, queen, and so on; also (?) quill, queer, 
quaintest, curious, (?) quick , (?) quince: especially with the 
U vowel, which sounds prehensile, ready to suck. Kupris (or 
Cotytto) 
the Greek or Syrian Aphrodite-Venus, is the 
outstanding example in Theogony. 
But, you ask, what has all this to do with the Gods? 
Patience, child; this will develop as we proceed. Let us look 
at the dentals. These, for the profane scholar, include the 
"sibilan ts," and "liquids ."