Enochian chess
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Enochian chess is a four-player
History
Enochian chess was created by
Description
The game was four-handed because each set of pieces corresponded to one of the four classical elements and their several watchtowers, and the game was used for divination as well as competition. The four sets of pieces were variously colored, and identified with Egyptian deities or "god-forms". The main identifications of the pieces were:
- Osiris, represented by the king;
- Isis, the queen;
- Horus, the knight;
- Aroueris, the bishop; and
- Nephthys, the rook or castle.[2]
The chess board itself was also varicolored, and divided into four sub-boards in which each of one of the four elemental colors predominated.
The game, while complex, was in actual use; Georgie Yeats, wife of poet
References
- ISBN 0-7100-7339-9)
- ISBN 0-87542-663-8)
- ^ Regardie et al., p. 684.
- ^ Regardie et al., p. 691
- ^ a b Joseph Hone, W.B. Yeats, 1865-1939, p. 106
- ISBN 0-19-926921-1).
Further reading
- Chris Zalewski: Enochian Chess of the Golden Dawn: A Four-Handed Chess Game. Llewellyn's Golden Dawn, 1994. ISBN 978-0-87542-895-6.
- Steve Nichols: Rosicrucian Chess of the Golden Dawn. Mandrake Press, 2017. ISBN 978-1-906958-78-7.