Yeah about that the language of the world is not one unique mother of all magic language language is a contradictory medium. A large number of users creates rigid meanings, while few users allow the meaning to become more flexible and increase its power. However, once there are only few or no users left, the language becomes ambiguous and inconsistent.
magic existed before humans even put a name to it. Countless species, from elves who lived for millennia and dragons who considered even elves children to old gods tied to a hollow eternity, all used magic under different names. But each magic system was unique to their species...
ancient language is only a small part of five hundred and twenty ways of using magic(yes I made all 520)
Trust me making up a full history, or even a partial history, of how early magicians progressed from using a shamanistic style of magic; rituals and prayer incantations, into condensed mana imprints: spell circles cast on thin air, especially when there's a thousand years of progress between them, is a Big Project.
What I am trying to do here is similar to coming up with the history of how humanity went from using bows, swords, and horses to conduct warfare, to modern warfare using sub-machine guns, tanks, and helicopters.
To even attempt this, would take massive research.
Just to start with: How much do you know about the History of actual Magic?
-- Not make-believe magic, like what's found in Dungeons and Dragons, but Real, historical Magic as it is currently practiced here on Earth?
Here's a very basic Summery:
-- The earliest form of magic was basic shamanism practiced by the native people of the world. Shintoism for example, is a somewhat advanced form of shamanism.
-- Then you have Judaic ceremonial magic which works with the heavenly powers using prayers and songs recorded in the Torah; the precursor to the common bible, utilizing the Tree of Life as a progression map.
-- From India came the sutras; massive, long, and convoluted prayers that induce a meditative state so strong --and useful-- that the entire far east jumped on their bandwagon, branching out into thousands of different forms of Buddhism. When the native forms of Chinese shamanism were added to Buddhism, Taoism happened. (Keep in mind, I'm being VERY general here.)
-- Meanwhile, the Europeans developed a magic system based on a mix of Judaic ceremonial magic and mathematics. This form of magic used heavenly powers and demonic powers through basic addition and subtraction --called Magic Squares-- that were later made circular and stamped on medallions. You can find a bunch of these in the Ars Goatia, also called the Lesser and Greater Keys of Solomon. THIS is where all those fancy circle spells you see in manga and anime comes from.
-- Speaking of numbers... Geometry --developed in the Middle East, and later snatched by Rome-- was considered Celestial or Sacred Mathematics, and was kept as a secret for over a thousand years by the Masons; the people who designed, and built, all those massive temples and cathedrals. There was an actual reason for this. Because you couldn't build a temple, a cathedral, or a grand mosque, without knowing how geometry worked, and only the very wealthy had the money to build one, this knowledge was a literal goldmine for any archetict that knew it. The 'Order' of the Free Masons had their start here. In fact, if you look at any modern mason ring you'll see the big "G" for Geometry in the middle.
-- The British isles developed two distinct forms of magic. Witchcraft; based on native shamanistic rituals, and Ceremonial Magic, which was pretty much a cleaned up and polished version of what was being practiced in Europe mixed with Masonic rituals. Currently, the witchcraft forms are called Wicca and Paganism respectively, and the ceremonial forms are mostly under the headings: Masonry and/or Golden Dawn with thousands of variations under both types of magic.
-- Then you have the far more modern forms of native African shamanistic magic mixed with prayers and songs from the King James bible, such as Voudun, (voodoo) and Rosicrucianism.
-- Oh, and modern Satanism. This was invented by one man using the common King James bible mixed with Dante's book Infero, and Dante's other book, Divine Comedy, plus European magic squares with a smattering of basic Golden Dawn ceremonal magic to make it pretty -- Anton LeVay in 1969.
And that's just skimming the surface of magic right here on this world.
I seriously don't want to gloss over this since there is so much material to work with my only problem is finding the hidden link Between sharmanic magic to witchcraft
Annoyingly enough I ended up finding I don't know almost a hundred different possibilities of evolution so I am trying to figure out a way on how to show atleast five possible evolution theories on magic circles
