>In Snow Crash, a sinister industrialist has obtained and translated ancient nam-shubs and is using them to wreak linguistic havoc in the modern world. [1] >Ye

>In Snow Crash, a sinister industrialist has obtained and translated ancient nam-shubs and is using them to wreak linguistic havoc in the modern world. [1] >Yes. These practical Kabbalists used a so-called 'archangelic alphabet', derived from first-century Greek and Aramaic theurgic alphabets, which resembled cuneiform. The Kabbalists referred to the alphabet as 'eye-writing,' because the letters were composed of lines and small circles, which resembled eyes. [2] 1. http://deoxy.org/aleph/nam-shub.htm http://deoxy.org/aleph/nam-shub.htm 2. http://besser.tsoa.nyu.edu/impact/f93/students/tracy/tracy_midterm.html http://besser.tsoa.nyu.edu/impact/f93/students/tracy/tracy_m...