The four players would form pairs of two, with each player having a partner. The rules of the game were partially derived from shatranj and other historical forms of chess the queen is played like a fers, with a two square diagonal leaping move. The chess board itself was also varicoloured and divided into four sub-boards in which each of one of the four elemental colors predominated.
It also provides insight into both external and. The main identifications of the pieces were: Enochian chess is a strategic four-handed game, requiring tactical game settings, piece movements and rules. The four sets of pieces were variously colored and identified with Egyptian deities or “god-forms”. 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. Meanwhile, the rules of the game were completed by S. Exploring the 64 (8x8) paradigm, it looks at both historical and recent Enochian Chess variants. Isis, an enthroned Goddess with a Throne symbol mounted on the vulture headdress. Khemetic Chess (aka Hypermodern Magick) is a stand-alone book that outlines my theory of magick, and sheds light on ‘active divinatory’ Enochian Chess. It was adapted by Victorian members of the Golden Dawn into “a complete system of training and initiation”.Įnochian Chess was created by William Wynn Westcott, one of the three founders of the Golden Dawn. He is the Knight of Enochian Chess and represents the operation of the tensquared Sephirotic Cross in the Fire Angle of any Tablet or Board, and corresponds to the King in the Tarot, the figure astride a horse. John Dee (magus and astrologer to Queen Elizabeth I). Enochian Chess gives an attribution of elements to the boards and pieces that’s relevant, though the part where it has four boards (each with a different element likewise) because of similarity to the Enochian tablet and can be used for divination will be overlooked as it’s not to do with Homestuck. Its name came from the Enochian system of magic of Dr. Enochian chess is a four-player chess variant that is linked to the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.Įnochian chess is similar to Chaturaji.