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and notes them to be like five footprints of a camel.

Alice points to the markings behind her - V.V.V.V.V. The phrase also appears in Alan Moore's Promethea, issue #20, "The Stars Are But Thistles" when Sophie Bangs and Barbara Shelley encounter a woman, Alice, who might be Aleister Crowley, riding a camel on Route 13, gimel of the kabbalistic Tree of Life - the path from Tiphareth to Kether.

The phrase used in the book and film is incorrect, as veniversum is not a word in Latin. In the film adaptation (2005), the same phrase appears instead on a mirror, also inside "V"'s Shadow Gallery, and the character "V" says the quotation is "from Faust". Here, the initialism "V.V.V.V.V." appears embossed in an arch of V's hideout the "Shadow Gallery" - the character of "V" explains that these stand for the phrase Vi veri veniversum vivus vici, attributing the phrase to "a German gentleman named Dr. This deluxe volume also includes Lloyd's and Moore's introductions to the series as well as Moore's extended history of its. This attribution is taken up in V for Vendetta (1982–1988). V for Vendetta 30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition collects DC Comics' original 10-issue series in its entirety, including the 'bridging' pages colored by David Lloyd, which originally ran between the issues' story pages. The phrase is apparently first mentioned as Faust's motto in Robert Nye's novel Faust (1980). In the 1998 revised edition of Crowley's diary, the list of abbreviations describes "V.V.V.V.V" as Crowley's "8°=3° A∴A∴ motto". Since in the Latin alphabet, there is no distinction between U and V, the phrase can be abbreviated V.V.V.V.V., standing for Vi veri vniversvm vivvs vici. Vi veri universum vivus vici is a modern Latin phrase meaning: "By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe".ĭue to the popularity of Alan Moore's graphic novel V for Vendetta, the phrase has been incorrectly though commonly attributed to Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus, but the source of this attribution, as well as the origin of the phrase itself, appears to be Aleister Crowley's "The Herb Dangerous (Part II) : The Psychology of Hashish", published as "Oliver Haddo".