Category: Deities

An aretology is a list of a deity’s powers, virtues, miraculous deeds, and attributes. Six Isis’ aretologies are known to us today, dating from the…

The name “Arôriphrasis” occurs predominantly on amulets depicting Aphrodite binding her hair. The philologist Maryse Waegeman conducted an analysis of this name, here are her…

Bastet is a major ancient Egyptian goddess commonly depicted as a lioness or with a lion head, but later also as a cat or as…

pBerlin 3048, New Kingdom, Ramesside Period, 19th Dynasty, ca. 1.295 – 1.186 B.C. Worshipping Ptah, father of the gods, Ta-tenen, eldest of the originals, at…

In ancient Egyptian belief, Thoth is an incredibly complex and powerful deity. Here is a brief overview of his main roles: Thoth is the primordial…

Modern scholarship still sticks to the use of the incorrect term “voces magicae” (magic sounds or magic words) for what ancient authors and practitioners referred…

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…

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…