Was this a technical mistake in Hereditary?
In the film Hereditary, Anne finds her grandmother's books and flips through them to read up stuff about Paimon.
We see this:
Now this is an Indian script, possibly Devanagri or Gurmukhi. Paimon is Mesopotamian in origin and has no connection at all with India.
Was this the use of a wrong script in the film? Or is there something I got wrong?
Best Answer
There's no reason her grandmother couldn't have books in other languages referencing Mesopotamian deities. For example, I love vintage matchbook graphics, and I have books in Japanese that reference old European matchbooks.
A person with deep interest in a subject might have books about that subject in many languages; even languages they don't read (sometimes it's the iconography that is important).
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