Enochian alphabet translator

Type on the left and the Enochian letters are drawn on the right. Spaces keep the words apart. Digits and punctuation have no Enochian letters, so they're left out, and the notes under the result list them.

Dee wrote the alphabet right to left, so the drawing runs that way too: the first letter is on the right. The Direction option turns it round if you'd rather read it left to right. The letters keep their shapes either way.

Download saves the result as an SVG, which stays sharp at any size. It only runs one way: the letters are drawn, so there's nothing to type back in. Read them off the chart below, which follows Dee's order and gives his name for each letter beside its English letter.

Dee's 21 letters cover the alphabet except J, K, V, W and Y. In 1583 I and J were still one letter, and so were U and V, so J is written with Gon (I) and V with Van (U). When Dee wrote the English letters under the Enochian ones, he put a y under Gon as well as an i, so Y is written with Gon too.

Dee gives no letter for K or W. Here K is written with Veh (C), which is how the later Golden Dawn tables write it, and W as two Vans, a double U.

John Dee, the Elizabethan mathematician and astrologer, recorded the alphabet in 1583 during his sessions with the scryer Edward Kelley, who reported seeing the letters shown by angels. Dee's diaries of those sessions are in the British Library as Sloane MS 3188.

On 26 March 1583 Dee took down the letters and their names, and wrote the angelic letters out with an English letter under each. In the margin he noted, "Thus I deciphred them after a day or two or three." That decipherment is where the English letters on this page come from.

On 6 May 1583 the letters were given again in a corrected form, and Dee drew them neatly on folio 104. The letters on this page are traced from that page, which is public domain. Modern Enochian fonts redraw the shapes, so if a chart you've found disagrees with this one, the font is probably the newer one.

Dee's diaries also record words and whole passages in an angelic language, written in these letters. This page doesn't translate into that language. It writes English letter for letter, so English written in Enochian is still English, and anyone with the chart can read it.