Video: The Ancient Greek Magical Papyrus PGM VII

This unique ancient magical scroll from Egypt comprises the most extensive ritual collection among the Greek magical papyri.

Table of Contents

Content

Overview of PGM VII
The dice-based Homer oracle
Good and bad times for ritual practice
Ritual instructions: Divination, Love, and Healing
A journey through the networks of the ancient deities in PGM VII
Who are the dominant deities in PGM VII?
Different Kinds of Performing Magic
Summary, Results & Interpretation
Who was the Magician who owned PGM VII?

Video

Link to the papyrus

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Papyrus_121

“Demokrit’s Games” experiment

By by Dr. Sean Coughlin: https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2020/1/8/recreating-democritus-party-tricks
On Twitter: Alchemies of Scent @alchemofscent

Reconstruction of the Egyptian calendar and the “Orbit of the Moon”

Raquel Martín Hernández, A New Column in P.Lond. I 121 (Pap.Graec.Mag.VII): Edition and Interpretation. In: Symbolae Osloenses, Norwegian Journal of Greek and Latin Studies 92:1 (2018), 156-170.
Dr. Raquel Martín Hernández on Twitter: @rakimenides

Dr. Gad Barnea on Twitter: @gbarnea

Links to ancient Greek terms

Link to the papyrus from the “Coptic Wizard’s Hoard”

P.Mich.inv. 599 / Verso: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-2616/599V.TIF

Link to a discussion about the “Headless Deity”

3 hours+ discussion with Dr. Justin Sledge, host of The Esoterica Channel on YouTube:
Who was the Headles Deity? https://youtu.be/y4iIFDh1puk

Translations

Karl Preisendanz, Papyri Graecae Magicae – Die griechischen Zauberpapyri, Band II (1931), 1-45.
https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/heidhs3763IIA-51bd2Hans Dieter Betz (ed.), The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation (1986), 112-145.

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