Question by Miichael: Magick/Occult/Tarot pronounce HRU & what about IAO?
How do you pronounce HRU? As in the tarot invocation “I invoke Thee, IAO, that thou wilt send HRU, the great Angel that is set over the operations of this secret Wisdom…….” And if anyone uses this invocation when doing the invocation do you say each God (Isis, Apophis, and Osiris or do you just say “I” “A” “O” for short?
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Answer by Dilon J
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Those names are Greek, The real names of Isis and Osiris was Aset and Wizzer. They both had Khemite names. The land of Egypt was never called Egypt (Aeogyptos) that is a Greek name for a land that was called ‘Khem’.
http://www.sacred-texts.com/oto/aba/chap5.htm
Enjoy the article. It’s rather long.
As it says HRU, the “Angel” I would assume it wants you to pronounce it how Enochian is traditionally pronounced in occult circles. That would be Heh, Re, U, as three different letters. This of course can be varied, Ha, Rah, Uo, etc. Iiiiii, Aaaaaah, Oooo is how I say it. If you go to Youtube.com there are a lot of performances of rituals where you can actually see occultists doing these. Many of them are even right. 😉
IAO –co-opted by Aleister Crowley and his magic–was a name of God or superior god of light used in various cultures throughout the Mediterranean and Middle East. It is used as a substitute for the ineffable name of God in Judaism, related to Jao or Jehovah.The Greeks and Romans at the turn of the 1st millennieum revered the deity IAO but associated the deity with the god of the Jews, but it may have had origins in Egyptian gnosis-spirituality. It is related to mysticism related to vowel sounds, with the Egyptian mystics adapting the 7 vowel sounds of the Greeks: Iota, Epsilon, Eta, Alpha, Omicron, Upsilon, Omega, which they considered to be the divine name and chanted in various ways. The Iota is related to the divine light of creation and also the quintessence; the A and O are related to Alpha-Omega–or the totality of existence. In all, it refers to God as the divine light, specifically the light related to the winter solstice. Thus it is associated with Horus as the divine child and other deities related to the renewal of the redemptive light.
It is pronounced EEE-AHHH-Ohhhh. It is said that it was chanted ending with a “ya” sound or in a warbled kind of way.
It depends what you are pronouncing it for. You may want to pronounce it letter by letter as previously suggested. Though, I am not sure if the Enochian source mentioned is correct. In prayer to that entity, I use Heru and would do the same if I was reading it aloud.