The gem is engraved with a depiction of Eros riding on a lion on the front side and with an inscription on the back side.…
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Apotropaic Prayer for Orchards, Vineyards, Fields …
Bronze tablet, second century, 8 × 13.4 cm, found at Avignon, France A small number of spells for protecting various kinds of prepared ground –…
Unique Ancient Egyptian Limestone Dice With Deities
Unique limestone dice incised with the names of six major ancient Egyptian deities: Horus, Osiris, Isis, Nepthys, Hor-Duat, Hathor H: 3.3 cm, 62.99 g, Ptolemaic…
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…
How Dry Myrrh, Pines, Resins and Incense Were Created
Horus cried.The water fell from his eye to the earth and grew.That is how dry myrrh came to be. Geb was sad on account of…
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…
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 Book of Knowing the Creations of Re and of Felling Apep”
From the Bremner-Rhind Papyrus, Egypt, Ptolemaic Period, 305 – 30 B.C. “The Book of knowing the creations of Re and of felling Apep. Recite: Thus…
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…