This unique ancient magical scroll from Egypt comprises the most extensive ritual collection among the Greek magical papyri.
Content
- Overview of PGM VII
- The dice-based Homer oracle
- Good and bad times for ritual practice
- Ritual instructions: Divination, Love, and Healing
- A journey through the networks of the ancient deities in PGM VII
- Who are the dominant deities in PGM VII?
- Different Kinds of Performing Magic
- Summary, Results & Interpretation
- Who was the Magician who owned PGM VII?
Video
Link to the papyrus
http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Papyrus_121
“Demokrit’s Games” experiment
By by Dr. Sean Coughlin: https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2020/1/8/recreating-democritus-party-tricks
On Twitter: Alchemies of Scent @alchemofscent
Reconstruction of the Egyptian calendar and the “Orbit of the Moon”
Raquel Martín Hernández, A New Column in P.Lond. I 121 (Pap.Graec.Mag.VII): Edition and Interpretation. In: Symbolae Osloenses, Norwegian Journal of Greek and Latin Studies 92:1 (2018), 156-170.
Dr. Raquel Martín Hernández on Twitter: @rakimenides
Dr. Gad Barnea on Twitter: @gbarnea
Links to ancient Greek terms
- onoma (“name”) : http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/morph?l=o%29%2Fnoma&la=greek&can=o%29%2Fnoma0#Perseus:text:1999.04.0057:entry=o)/noma-contents
- logos: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3Dlo%2Fgos
Link to the papyrus from the “Coptic Wizard’s Hoard”
P.Mich.inv. 599 / Verso: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-2616/599V.TIF
Link to a discussion about the “Headless Deity”
3 hours+ discussion with Dr. Justin Sledge, host of The Esoterica Channel on YouTube:
Who was the Headles Deity? https://youtu.be/y4iIFDh1puk
Translations
Karl Preisendanz, Papyri Graecae Magicae – Die griechischen Zauberpapyri, Band II (1931), 1-45.
https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/heidhs3763IIA-51bd2Hans Dieter Betz (ed.), The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation (1986), 112-145.
Further Reading
Using Homer for Divination: Homeromanteia in Context By: Raquel Martín Hernández
https://research-bulletin.chs.harvard.edu/2014/03/28/using-homer-for-divination-homeromanteia-in-context/