Stars, stones, herbs, images of Quindecim Stellis according La révélation d’Hermès Trismégiste (1944)

1. A longer Latin version from an Arabic text attributed to Mashallah (maybe a synthesis of a Greek text known as Hermes’ Quadripartite because it is divided into 4 chapters: stars, stones, herbs, images.
2. An abridged version divided into 15 chapters, each of them describing a star, a stone, an herb, an image and known as Book of Enoch.
3. A column edited in Evans’ book published in 1922 and translated in English by Greer and Warnock.

In 1944 the Dominican friar, philologist and scholar André-Jean Festugière, author of the French translation of the Corpus Hermeticum, wrote a book about the Hermetic magical texts: La Révélation d’Hermès Trismégiste and one of the texts examined was the Quindecim Stellis. This is the translation of the table given by Festugiere.

Table of correspondences of 15 stars

ALDEBARAN	Ruby	Spurge	God or fighting man
ALCYONE	Crystal	Fennel	Lamp or girl
CAPUT ALGOL	Diamond	Hellebore	Man’s head with blood on neck
CAPELLA	Sapphire	Horehound	Man who takes fun in music
SIRIUS	Beryl	Savine	Hare or beautiful girl
PROCYON	Agate	Primrose	Cock or three girls
COR LEONIS	Garnet	Celandine	Cat or lion or sitting courtier
ALA CORVI	Onyx	Burdock	Raven or dove or black man in black clothes
SPICA	Emerald	Sage	Bird or merchant
ARCTURUS	Jasper	Plantain	Playing man or horse or wolf
URSA MINOR	Magnet	Chicory	Calf or bull or thinking man
ALPHECCA	Topaz	Rosemary	Crowned man or hen
COR SCORPIONIS	Sardonyx & Amethyst	Birthwort	An armed man with a sword in his hand
VEGA	Chrysolite	Savory	Vulture or hen, a traveller
CAUDA CAPRICORNI	Chalcedony	Marjoram	Goat or angry man

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

A. J. Festugière. La revelation d’Hermes Trismegiste. Paris: J. Gabalda, 1944.

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