Are Icelandic staves rip-offs of Jewish sigils?
If they arose independently, why do runic staves look so similar?
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Compare to some of these.
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It's also a fact that the earliest known use of runic magic in Iceland only dates to the 17th century from grimoires like the Galdrabók, while Abrahamic use of gematria in symbolic chambers has centuries of aggregate mysticism to support it, like the Sephir Raziel, Picatrix, Sworn Book of Honorius, Clavicule, etc.
I think it's more important to compare meanings of symbols becuase I'm sure there have been hundreds of cultures that used simple shapes like those to represent abstracts