Onomancy
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Onomancy is divination based on a subject's name. Onomancy gained popularity in Europe during the Late Middle Ages, but is said to have originated with the Pythagoreans in antiquity. Several methods o
Onomantic table from the Russian version of the Secretum Secretorum
Gematria
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In numerology, gematria is the practice of assigning a numerical value to a name, word, or phrase by reading it as a number, or sometimes by using an alphanumeric cipher. The letters of the alphabets
Onomancy
…said to have originated with the Pythagoreans in antiquity. Several methods of analyzing a name are possible, some of which are based on arithmancy or gematria. An early example of onomancy is found in the Secretum Secretorum. The system given there involves adding up the numerical values of the letters in the…
The Agrippa Cipher, pg. 143 of De Occulta Philosophia 1533