The prayer in this Coptic magic book from Egypt tells us interesting details about how the practitioner understood ancient magic and especially the power of…
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Chronological Order of Ancient Egyptian Funerary Texts: Pyramid Texts, Coffin Texts, Book of the Dead
All of these funerary texts contain spells to protect the deceased in the afterlife. Pyramid Texts: Old Kingdom – First Intermediate Period+ Written on the…
View More Chronological Order of Ancient Egyptian Funerary Texts: Pyramid Texts, Coffin Texts, Book of the DeadScrolling through Imhotep’s Book of the Dead
Overview Phantastic web article describing sections of the ancient Egyptian “Book of the Dead” belonging to the Priest of Horus, Imhotep (Imuthes). The papyrus is…
View More Scrolling through Imhotep’s Book of the DeadInscribed magical brick of Amenemopet
Inscribed magical brick of Amenemopet New Kingdom, Egypt The brick was inscribed with a protective curse in seven lines of Hieratic when the clay was…
View More Inscribed magical brick of AmenemopetBes-Pantheos as Polymorphic Deity and Atum as Serpent Deity
This ancient Egyptian magical papyrus contains spells against snakes and scorpions for the protection of women and children at night. Seen here are Bes-Pantheos as…
View More Bes-Pantheos as Polymorphic Deity and Atum as Serpent DeityHow to Express “Very Good” in the Egyptian-Demotic Magical Papyri
Learning the languages of the ancient magical papyri In the Egyptian-Demotic magical papyri, to express that a ritual is “very” good, you write “good” and…
View More How to Express “Very Good” in the Egyptian-Demotic Magical PapyriFate has a Daughter
In this ancient Egyptian spell against poison we learn that the Egyptian god of fate, who is called Schay, has a daughter named Sarbytha. The…
View More Fate has a DaughterPistis Sophia – English Translation
Overview Title: Pistis Sophia Author: Carl Schmidt, Violet MacDermot Publication Date: Leiden, 1978 Published in the Series: Nag Hammadi Studies IX, edited by R. McL.…
View More Pistis Sophia – English TranslationBainchôôôch in the Coptic-Gnostic Book “Pistis Sophia”
In Gnostic belief Bainchôôôch was a triple-powered deity, not a “vox magica” and not an epithet of a higher power. “Jesus said: If the time…
View More Bainchôôôch in the Coptic-Gnostic Book “Pistis Sophia”The Crocodile God Sobek
The crocodile was particularly feared because not only did it kill, it ate the body of its victim without which there could be no afterlife.…
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