Overview Title: An Anatomy of Tradition: The Case of the Charitêsion Author: Theodore S. de Bruyn Publication Date: 2015 Published in: Archiv für Religionsgeschichte, vol.…
View More An Anatomy of Tradition: The Case of the CharitêsionAuthor: Tari-Milan
Pistis Sophia – English Translation
Overview Title: Pistis Sophia Author: Carl Schmidt, Violet MacDermot Publication Date: Leiden, 1978 Published in the Series: Nag Hammadi Studies IX, edited by R. McL.…
View More Pistis Sophia – English TranslationBainchôôôch in the Coptic-Gnostic Book “Pistis Sophia”
In Gnostic belief Bainchôôôch was a triple-powered deity, not a “vox magica” and not an epithet of a higher power. “Jesus said: If the time…
View More Bainchôôôch in the Coptic-Gnostic Book “Pistis Sophia”The So-called Pantheos – On Polymorphic Deities In Late Egyptian Religion
Overview Author: Joachim Friedrich Quack Publication Date: 2006 Published in: Györi, H. (Hrsg.): Aegyptus et Pannonia III. Acta Symposii Anno 2004. Budapest 2006, S. 175-190…
View More The So-called Pantheos – On Polymorphic Deities In Late Egyptian ReligionThe Crocodile God Sobek
The crocodile was particularly feared because not only did it kill, it ate the body of its victim without which there could be no afterlife.…
View More The Crocodile God SobekGreek and Egyptian Magical Formularies: Text and Translation, Vol. 1
Overview This is the successor of Betz, The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation from 1986. Author: Christopher A Faraone, Sofía Torallas Tovar Publication Date: 2022…
View More Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies: Text and Translation, Vol. 1A Pantheistic Bes Statuette
This bronze statuette shows a composite deity who has the attributes of various different gods: the face of the god Bes, the twin plumes and…
View More A Pantheistic Bes StatuetteA Gold Amulet Against the Evil Eye
This amulet consists of a small disc made of gold. It was stamped with an eye in the centre which is attacked by eleven protectors:…
View More A Gold Amulet Against the Evil EyeSpell Against a Bone Stuck in the Throat
This ritual is against a bone stuck in the throat of a person. It is preserved in the Egyptian-Demotic magical papyrus pdm xiv dated to…
View More Spell Against a Bone Stuck in the ThroatSensing the Fundamentals: An Examination of Scent as Integral to Ancient Egyptian Society
Overview Author: Robyn Sophia Price Publication Date: 2022 PhD Dissertation, University of Los Angeles (USA) Open Access Link to description and Pdf: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2534b3wm Link to…
View More Sensing the Fundamentals: An Examination of Scent as Integral to Ancient Egyptian Society