Ancient Egyptian beliefs and mythology are preserved in the so-called funerary texts. These writings were created for the deceased to guide and protect them in…
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Soknopaiou Nesos was the religious center of the god Soknopaios, an oracular and healing god in the shape of a crocodile with a falcon head.…
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The religious centre of the ancient Egyptian deity Soknopaios was in Soknopaiou Nesos, a town in the Fayum oasis. His temple and the cult area…
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All of these funerary texts contain spells to protect the deceased in the afterlife. I made a more detailed video about these three funerary texts,…
View More Chronological Order of Ancient Egyptian Funerary Texts: Pyramid Texts, Coffin Texts, Book of the Dead
Quoted from De Mysteriis, VIII, 6 You claim, then, that the majority of the Egyptians make what is in our power depend upon the movement…
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The correspondence of body parts and their diseases with the influences of certain zodiac signs and planets is called “Melothesia“. This tablet is the earliest…
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I had the great pleasure and honour to be a guest on Douglas Batchelor‘s awesome podcast “What Magic Is This?” Two hours talking about Ancient…
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“Egyptian gods possessed since times of old astral forms and the myth of Osiristoo had a celestial projection. In a papyrus dating from the 4th…
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This elaborate, gilt and silvered brass compendium has two outer leaves around a central box and contains numerous types of dials, time telling devices, tables,…
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From the papyrus of Ani Centrally placed is a balance, holding in its two pans Ani’s heart on the left and a feather on the…
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