Who knows what the Shemhamphorae is??????????????

Question

I have heard that they are the 72 forbidden names of God, such as Zagzagiel and Tagtagiel (no, I did not make these up). However, I am not sure as to the actual truth of the matter...what are the Shemhamphorae????

Answer 1

It is not 72 forbidden names... it is THE name of God that is forbidden made up of 72 letters in the Hebrew alphabet.
In Judaism, pronunciation of the Tetragrammaton is a taboo; it is widely considered forbidden to utter it and the pronunciation of the name is generally avoided. Usually, Adonai is used as a substitute in prayers or readings from the Torah. When used in everyday speaking (or according to many) in learning the Tetragrammaton is replaced by HaShem. The difference is marked by the vowelization in printed Bibles—the Tetragrammaton takes on the vowels of the word whose pronunciation it takes. Torah scrolls have no diacritical vowel marks, and therefore the reader must memorize the correct pronunciation for each instance of the Tetragrammaton (as for every word he reads).

According to rabbinic tradition, the name was pronounced by the high priest on Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement as well as the only day when the Holy of Holies of the Temple would be entered. With the destruction of the Second Temple in the year 70, this use also vanished, also explaining the loss of the correct pronunciation. (In one midrashic tradition, only seven Cohanim, or individuals of priestly lineage, know the true name of God, and it is passed down throughout the generations to be ready for invocation during the building of the Third Jewish Temple.)


The letters of the Tetragrammaton in a tetractysThere is a Jewish tradition that the actual name of God, only known to and stated by the high priest, was actually 72 letters long. The name was written out on a long strip of parchment, then folded and slipped inside the fold of the high priest's bejeweled breastplate. When someone would ask the high priest a question of Torah, or Jewish law, the high priest could invoke the Name, wherein the 12 jewels, representing the 12 tribes of the Israelites, would light up in a certain order whose meaning was, too, only known to the high priest. Through the power of the 72-letter name of God, the high priest communed, as it were, with the Almighty.

Why 72 letters? The answer may be found in the medieval rabbinic use of Gematria, that is assigning a number to each letter of the Hebrew alphabet, allowing scholars to attribute numeric sums to words, find equivalencies in certain words, even use sums to try to predict a year and date for the coming of the Messiah. Even today, Jews often attribute mystical significance to the number 18, which has a possible Hebrew letter equivalent in the word "Chai", meaning "Life". Using "Gematria", we find that "Chai" equals 18: it's composed of the letter "chet", which equals 8, and the letter "yod", which equals 10, i.e. 8+10=18; consequently 18x4=72, so, in a sense, each letter of the 4-letter form of the Name represents a metaphoric symbol of the living power of God. Also, when the letters of the Tetragrammaton are arranged in a Kabbalistic tetractys formation, the sum of all the letters is 72 by Gematria (as shown in the diagram). Keeping along these lines, the Tetragrammaton, since it's only an abbreviation of the actual name, is not as powerful by nature (or supernature) as the original full name of God, though it's still not something to use in vain.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

According to the founder of the 'Church of Satan', Anton LaVey, Shemhamforash also means "hail Satan"
Shemhamforash does NOT mean "Hail Satan" in Enochian. It is, however, spoken in rituals (often followed by "Hail Satan") performed by Church Of Satan members, and other Satanists who follow the rituals outlined in The Satanic Bible by Anton Szandor LaVey. The "Hail Satan" that follows "Shemhamforash" in Satanic ritual is not a translation of the previous word. It is a seperate utterance. It has been said (by the german ex-Totenkopf Grotto e.V.) that the origin of Shemhamforash could be found in the ancient Babylonian-Asryian language (possible spelling "Šem-ham-fo-raš"). I symbolizes to become one with the Powers of Darkness (the infamous 72 Infernal Names inscribed in LaVey's Satanic Bible).