New posts & Updates on my research

The Archaeology of Ancient Magic - Christian Amulet - Parchment, P.Mich.inv. 1559, University of Michigan Library Digital Collections

Christian Amulet with Gospels

This Amulet was made of parchment and inscribed with the titles and first words of each of the four Gospels “The Holy Gospel according to…

The Archaeology of Ancient Magic - Bainchôôôch in Gnostic belief

Bainchôôôch

In Gnostic belief, Bainchôôôch was a triple-powered deity and neither a “vox magica” nor an epithet of a higher power. Here is a quote from…

The Archaeology of Ancient Magic - Pantheistic Bes - Walters Art Museum, 54.540. CC0 1.0

Pantheistic Bes

This ancient bronze statuette showsa composite deity with the attributesof various individual gods: the face of the god Bes, the twin plumes and the ram…

The Archaeology of Ancient Magic - Egyptian Decans Quote Celsus

The Egyptian Decans

“In his polemical work against Christianity, written in 178, the Greek philosopher Celsus (in Origen C.Cels. 8.58) wrote that according to the Egyptians every part…