This is the recording of my Thoth & Maat lecture #20: How and Why Does Graeko-Egyptian Magic work? – The ideas underlying Graeko-Egyptian Ritual Practice. I hope you find it useful, enjoy watching 🙂
Links and Resources
The Egyptian word “HkA” in the Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae (TLA)
- The newer version of the TLA and the entry “HkA” can be found here (I used the older version in my lecture):
https://tla.digital/search/lemma?script=hieratic&_script=on&script=demotic&_script=on&transcription.text=%E1%B8%A4k%EA%9C%A3&transcription.enc=unicode&wordClass.type=excl_names&root=&translation.text=&translation.lang=en&bibliography=&revisionState=all-but-inactive - In case the link does not work, go here https://tla.digital/search?lang=en and copy-paste Ḥkꜣ intgo the empty field next to “Transliteration” and click the red search-butto at the top right. Once you get the results displayed you can click on the dark grey button “Translation” to the right and choose your preferred language.
The Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts
- James P. Allen, The Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts, 2005.
- Online (only Unas Pyramid Texts) by Vincent Brown: https://www.pyramidtextsonline.com/
- Kurt Sethe, Die Altaegyptischen Pyramidentexte, Nach den Papierabdrücken und Photographien des Berliner Museums, 1908-1922: https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book//lookupid?key=olbp97474
The Red Crown and the White Crown of Egypt
- Red Crown: Lower Egypt = Northern Egypt / Delta
- White Crown = Upper Egypt = Southern Egypt
The labels “upper” and “lower” in geographical contexts are based on the direction of the main river of a region or country: In Egypt this is the Nile and it flows from the South to the North of Egypt. That is why the southern part of Egypt is called “upper” Egypt and the northern part “lower” Egypt.
Ka, Ba, Akh
Here is some literature about the Ka, the Ba, and the Akh.
- Hiroshi Suita, Ba, Ka, and Akh Concepts in the Old Kingdom, Ancient Egypt, in: Study of Egyptian Monuments, vol. 1 (2022), 25-82
- “Ka: vital force: daily power, durable power, and static power.
- Ba: overwhelming power, non-daily power, non-durable power, and dynamic power.
- Akh: power of enlightenment or inspiration in connection with learning and reciting.”
- Source: Hiroshi Suita, Ba, Ka, and Akh, p. 81.
- Link: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/359758710_Ba_Ka_and_Akh_Concepts_in_the_Old_Kingdom_Ancient_Egypt
A more extensive but older publication focussing on the Ba:
- Louis V. Zabkar, A Study of the Ba Concept in Ancient Egyptian Texts (1968).
Link: https://isac.uchicago.edu/research/publications/saoc/saoc-34-study-ba-concept-ancient-egyptian-texts
The “Cannbial Hymn”
- Christopher Eyre, The Cannibal Hymn. A Cultural and Literary Study, Liverpool Monographs in Archaeology and Oriental Studies 1, Liverpool 2002
- => You need an account at archive.org in order to borrow the book online.
https://archive.org/details/cannibalhymncult0000eyre
- jgp = to become cloudy; to be cloudy => https://tla.digital/lemma/850005
- p.t = Heaven(s) => https://tla.digital/lemma/58710
- jḥy = to darken (?) (of stars) => https://tla.digital/lemma/30540
- sbA.w = stars (singular: sbA = star) => https://tla.digital/lemma/131180
- nmnm = to move to and fro; to quiver => https://tla.digital/lemma/84300
- pḏ.t = bow (also: designation for heaven) => https://tla.digital/lemma/63270
- sdA = tremble => https://tla.digital/lemma/149660
- qs = bone (plural: qs.w) => https://tla.digital/lemma/162200
- Akr = the earth god => https://tla.digital/lemma/307
- grr = to be quiet => https://tla.digital/lemma/855115
- sn = they; them (depen. pron., 3rd per. pl.) => https://tla.digital/lemma/136190
- gnm.w = of movements => https://tla.digital/lemma/852030
James P. Allen, Genesis In Egypt – The Philosophy Of Ancient Egyptian Creation Accounts, 1988.
https://archive.org/details/GenesisInEgyptThePhilosophyOfAncientEgyptianCreationAccountsJamesP.AllenYaleEgyptologicalSeminar1988
The Hymn to Ptah (papyrus Berlin 3048)
Transcription of the entire text, but the publikation is not available online:
- von Walther, Der Berlin Ptah – Hymnus (P. 3048, II-XII), in: ZÄS 64, 1929, 17-43.
The Bremmer-Rhind Papyrus
O. Faulkner, The Bremner-Rhind Papyrus: IV, in: The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, Vol. 24, No. 1 (Jun., 1938), pp. 41-53. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3854676
British Museum EA 10188: