For a Scorpion Sting On clean papyrus write the charactêres, lay it on the region where the sting is, bind/tighten the papyrus upon it and…
View More Magic Signs Healing a Scorpion Sting – PGM VII, 193-196Category: Translation
Assessing Ritual Efficacy in the Egyptian Magical Papyri
In the ancient Egyptian magical papyri we find multiple references concerning the efficacy of individual ritual instructions. The common expression is a simple “very good”…
View More Assessing Ritual Efficacy in the Egyptian Magical PapyriThe beginning of the famous “Mithras Liturgy” in PGM IV
This is the beginning of the famous “Mithras Liturgy”, a unique ritual instruction for gaining temporary immortality to receive a divination: “Be merciful to me,…
View More The beginning of the famous “Mithras Liturgy” in PGM IVA Tent with the Depictions of 365 Deities for Initiation – From PGM XIII
In the “EIghth Book of Moses” the practitioner has to create a tent with the depictions of 365 deities for the initiation. The insteruction reads:…
View More A Tent with the Depictions of 365 Deities for Initiation – From PGM XIIIThe initial invocation in the “Eighth Book of Moses” (PGM XIII)
A new transaltion of the beginning of the initial invocation in the “Eighth Book of Moses” “I call upon you, who is greater than all,…
View More The initial invocation in the “Eighth Book of Moses” (PGM XIII)„Sky“, Bôel and Tat in the Egyptian magical papyrus pdm xiv / PGM XIV
Left side: How was „Sky“ written in ancient Egyptian Demotic? Right side: Two examples of how a correct pronounciation of ancient secret names of higher…
View More „Sky“, Bôel and Tat in the Egyptian magical papyrus pdm xiv / PGM XIV“Magic” in the Teaching for Merikare
The “Teaching for King Merikare” is incompletely preserved in three different papyri, all of which are dated to the late 18th Dynasty. The Teaching itself…
View More “Magic” in the Teaching for MerikareThe latest attestation of the Egyptian god Heka (“Magic”)
The latest attestation of the Egyptian god Heka (“Magic”) is preserved in an ancient Egyptian ritual instruction for a lamp divination dated to the late…
View More The latest attestation of the Egyptian god Heka (“Magic”)