I've just added some new functionality to the site: the Sigil Generator.  This is the same functional component that I used to generate the sigils used for the album artwork for the Pegataur album Eternal Flight.  To check it out, just select "Sigil Generator" from the navigation under Esoteric Tools.

The Sigil Generator requires that you input a Hebrew word or phrase.  You can use the Gematria Database page to lookup Hebrew words or transliterate English into Hebrew to use for the Sigil Generator.  I didn't bother with any obvious "export image" functionality, although I might do that later.  For now, if you want your sigil, just right-click (PC) or control-click (MAC, I think?) on the sigil and save from your browser.  If you don't want the colored background/lines, just uncheck the "Use Planetary Color Scales" box.

Enjoy!

We're about to release our first Pegataur album, titled Eternal Flight.  We decided that we wanted to do something a little more special than your standard CD packaging.  Basically, it is a 13.5" diameter circular image, and it folds up into a square to hold the CD inside and fits snugly in a nice vinyl sleeve.  This was a good idea at the time, but pretty difficult to execute due to the custom nature of the project.  Finding vendors who could do the custom die cutting and folding of the print was quite a chore, but well worth the leg work, because we made it happen!  In time for our show this Friday, no less.

When you remove the CD from the sleeve and unfold the artwork, the front panel looks like this:

And the rear or inside panel (with the track listing) looks like this:

So when you open it up and unfold it, you remove the CD and the track list is revealed.  When its folded up and put back in its sleeve, you see the Pegataur seal.

We're very pleased with this design, which was executed flawlessly against our vision for the artwork by our good friend James Kafader.  The design is inspired by a classic Eliphas Levi image that represents the Hermetic axiom "As Above, So Below."  The 12 sigils that you notice placed near the outside of the circle are actual sigils that were created by analyzing the songs qabalistically as mentioned in my other post about analyzing music esoterically.

Update

You can download the artwork from For Once Records, here. 

In the early days of Pegataur, we weren't sure if we were going to have vocals or not.  We came up with the idea that, to stay true to the esoteric conceptual basis of the band, we should come up with a way to analyze the music, on a song-by-song basis, using Qabalistic techniques.  The challenge was to come up with a way to translate musical notes into Hebrew letters, and to let our songs tell their stories by spelling Hebrew "words" and "sentences" which could then be studied using gematria to figure out what the songs were telling us.  We could then use these jumbles of words and numbers to help us write lyrics and choose titles for our songs.  This presented a series of puzzles to solve and questions to answer and decisions to make, let me assure you!  More...